New comic book day is quickly approaching and with a number of titles being released it can be hard to pick out which comics you should grab. This week in our featured comic book releases we include Charred Remains #1, Masterpiece #1, Beyond Real #1 and more.
While we are not the official voice of this decision, we want to help guide you in the right direction for comics releasing December 13, 2023.
Charred Remains #1
Writer: Anthony Cleveland
Artist: Andrea Mutti
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
A dark entity made of fire, smoke, and ash-“The Fire Man”-blazes through a young girl’s home, killing her entire family. Amy Durant swears she saw this supernatural creature, but no one ever believed her. Unfortunately, these past fears reignite a decade later as her city goes up in flames. With no one else to rely on, Amy is forced to battle both past trauma and the face of the inferno.
Read our review of Charred Remains #1.
Masterpiece #1
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: Alex Maleev
Publisher: Dark Horse
Emma is a brilliant and driven 16-year-old. She has paid for school with her next level inventions and is well-known for her funny and honest webcomics.
Then, one day, one of the most famous billionaires on the planet confronts her with the truth about her world. Emma discovers she is the only daughter of two of the greatest, most charismatic master criminals of all time. The suavest, most liked criminals ever. The criminal’s criminal. The ones that wrote the rulebook. There are movies about them starring the biggest movie stars. Her parents were the authors of the greatest casino robbery of all time, the greatest museum heist of all time, AND they took the world’s most famous billionaire for a cool billion… before they disappeared never to be seen or heard from again. Ghosts.
Zero Preston is the greedy billionaire her parents brilliantly ripped off before they disappeared. He has been looking for payback for years. He finds Emma . . . who clearly does not have his money. Zero threatens Masterpiece into pulling a grand, impossible job against his corporate enemy. This “Master of the Universe” will have his satisfaction.
Masterpiece fashions a crew of her peers and her parents’ old associates to pull off one of the greatest heists of all time.
Among the cast of characters comes the return of the legendary criminal The Paragon. A Robin Hood for our times. This exquisitely well-dressed, long con master criminal returns to his calling when faced with the truth behind the sinister corporate forces of Zero.
Read our review of Masterpiece #1.
Beyond Real #1
Writer: Zack Kaplan
Artist: Toni Fejzula, Fabiana Mascolo, Jordie Bellaire
Publisher: Vault Comics
An artist’s discovery. When struggling artist June is injured in a severe car accident that leaves her boyfriend in a coma, she begins to experience strange visual phenomena. Soon, she’s able to see that we are all actually living in a computer simulation. June must set out on a journey of possibility and peril into the metaphysical layers of the simulation to reach the world’s creator and save her true love from death.
Read our review of Beyond Real #1.
The Bloody Dozen: A Tale of The Shrouded College #1
Writer: Charles Soule
Artist: Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque
Publisher: Image Comics
In this new installment of The Shrouded College, Charles Soule and Will Sliney‘s supernatural horror-adventure saga, three down-and-out astronauts are tasked with the ultimate heist-breaking a group of deadly vampires out of a space prison orbiting the Sun. Apollo 13 meets Blade in this killer thriller!
Underheist #1
Writer: David Lapham, Maria Lapham
Artist: David Lapham
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
After his gambling addiction brings David to the lowest point in his life and decimates his personal life, he’d do anything for one last chance at setting things right but the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
He may just be in luck-if he can call it that; the grapevine yields illicit fruit as he learns of a heist, one involving a tunnel system that no one knows better than former NYC subway veteran David…
In this brand new hardboiled heist series with a supernatural horror twist perfect for fans of Phantom Road and Newburn, the hit Stray Bullets creative team of David & Maria Lapham explore how seeking atonement can lead people to do desperate and dangerous things.
Quickstops #1
Writer: Kevin Smith
Artist: Ahmed Raafat
Publisher: Dark Horse
Kevin Smith and his Secret Stash Press bring you the seedy, sexy, sensational origin of the Askewniverse’s sacred cow: Mooby the Golden Calf! Learn the udder truth about an American icon when a young podcaster tries to milk Mooby creator Nancy Goldruff for the bovine’s beginnings, only to meat a cow tale so shocking, it turns her brain to hamburger.
Blood Run #1
Writer: Evan K. Pozios
Artist: Stefano Cardoselli
Publisher: Scout Comics
For fans of Twisted Metal and Death Race! Welcome to “The Boneyard,” folks! It’s a racetrack from hell, revving its engines with death and destruction! The most ruthless of race car drivers have come to this unholy superspeedway to test their mettle. There are no limits, and there are no rules. But with each passing lap, the sadistic violence ratchets up another level-like a child burning ants with a flamethrower! Will anyone see the checkered flag? Can anyone survive… the Blood Run?!
You’ve Been Cancelled TP
Writer: Curt Pires
Artist: Kevin Castaniero
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
The Running Man and Squid Game meet the kinetic martial arts action of The Raid: Redemption in this fresh and ambitious graphic novel. In the near future, cancel culture means more than just losing your job…it could mean your life.
CANCELLED is the world’s premier entertainment event – a live-streamed program where elite bounty hunters called “Cancellers” kill individuals who society has voted to “cancel” following heinous actions or offenses.
But CANCELLED is not just a form of violent entertainment. It’s one of the last forms of upward mobility for an increasingly oppressed lower / middle class. Want to escape the gig economy? Pay off your crushing student debt? Cover your sick parents’ medical bills? CANCELLED just might be your way out. But you’re going to have to get your hands dirty.
