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 Subgenre #1, Headless Horseman Annual #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 October 18, 2023.
Subgenre #1
Writer: Matt Kindt
Artist: Wilfredo Torres
Publisher: Dark Horse
From the New York Times bestselling creators of BANG! comes a mind-bending, multi-dimensional murder mystery presented in a pulp magazine-sized format!
A man is living two lives. He is a private detective in a dystopian cyberpunk future trying to solve a triple murder. But when he falls asleep-he wakes up as a wandering adventurer in a barbaric fantasy world where magic exists. Is he two separate people? Or is he a third person that has undergone a psychotic split? He jumps back and forth from sword-wielding barbarian to jaded private eye trying to solve the brutal crime. But the bigger question is, can he merge these realities without losing himself?
Subgenre is the latest release from Flux House Books, a new boutique imprint that will feature the writing (and sometimes) art of acclaimed comics creator Matt Kindt, with crime, science fiction, horror, and humor stories, all told and presented in startling and untraditional ways.
Headless Horseman Annual #1
Writer: Various
Artist: Various
Publisher: Dark Horse
Boils, ghouls, vampires, monsters, and creatures of all kinds, welcome. Take a seat, go on, fill the aisles, relax your fangs, and sit with us for a while. Join us in a macabre and magical journey through all the haunts and spooks that keep you up at night for here we revel in the darkness and present to you a chilling, nay petrifying experience as the Headless Horseman presents a collection of five terrifying tales to warm up your cold soul. Hurry up now, you won’t want to keep them waiting…
Writers David Dastmalchian and Leah Kilpatrick join the Capes and Tights Podcast on Episode 131 to discuss their story in the Headless Horseman Annual.
Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees #1
Writer: Patrick Horvath
Artist: Patrick Horvath
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Don’t. Murder. The locals. This is small-town serial killer, upstanding citizen, and adorable brown bear Samantha Strong’s cardinal rule. After all, there’s a sea of perfectly ripe potential victims in the big city just beyond the forest, and when you’ve worked as hard as Sam to build a cozy life and a thriving business in a community surrounded by friendly fellow animal folk, warm décor, and the aroma of cedar trees and freshly baked apple pie…the last thing you want is to disturb the peace. So you can imagine her indignation when one of Woodbrook’s own meets a grisly, mysterious demise-and you wouldn’t blame her for doing anything it takes to hunt down her rival before the town self-destructs and Sheriff Patterson starts (literally) barking up the wrong tree.
Live, laugh, shed blood. Dexter meets Richard Scarry’s Busy Town in writer-artist Patrick Horvath‘s twisted debut of Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees!
The Man From Maybe #1
Writer: Jordan Thomas
Artist: Shaky Kane
Publisher: Oni Press
In the dry and dead future that’s coming soon, all life belongs to Oppenheimer-obsessed billionaire Harvard Denny and his corporate scavengers from Smile, Inc., who pillage the wastelands in search of atomic contraband.
As the race to acquire the a crashed spacecraft’s cargo begins, our fate will be decided by a masked bandit and the cold iron of his laser rifle. He knows no name, no home, no surrender-only the whispered hush of those in need who dare call him…The Man From Maybe!
Give yourself over to an upside-down world where all mutants eat lead and all dinosaurs speak truth in the double-sized, 48-page debut of a postmodern, post apocalyptic epic of Western-infused action from rising star Jordan Thomas (Weird Work, XINO) and psychedelic warlord Shaky Kane (Bulletproof Coffin, The Beef) as The Man From Maybe sets his sights on THE CRATE OF DEATH!
Hack/Slash: Back To School #1
Writer: Zoe Thorogood
Artist: Zoe Thorogood
Publisher: Image Comics
HACK/SLASH returns with an untold tale and critically acclaimed cartoonist Zoe Thorogood at the bloody helm!
Slasher hunter Cassie Hack is only just getting used to her man-monster partner, Vlad, when she’s drawn into a new case involving a murderous bunny mascot, dead kids, and an entire squad of maladjusted teenage serial-killer hunters!
A completely new chapter in the beloved, long-running series that’s perfect for new readers and old fans alike, just in time for Halloween.
Star Wars: Tales from the Death Star HC
Writer: Cavan Scott
Artist: Ingo Romling, Soo Lee, Juan Samu, Vincenzo Riccardi
Publisher: Dark Horse
“That’s no moon…” Even scattered and destroyed, the ruins of the Death Star are a sinister place. From the destruction of Alderaan to the shadow of the Forest Moon, alien creatures, phantom star ships, deadly artifacts, and vengeful spirits all stalk the halls of the infamous space station, as writer Cavan Scott and an all-star team of artists reveal the hidden evils that lurked within charred remains of the ultimate firepower in the universe.
