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via The Beat: AfterShock Comics has announced The Vineyard, a new series set to debut in August. The mythological horror series comes from writer Brian Hawkins, artist Sami Kivelä, colorist Jason Wordie, and letterer Taylor Esposito. Kivelä & Wordie provide the main cover for the first issue, which also features an incentive variant cover by Francesco Francavilla. Here’s how the publisher describes The Vineyard: THE VINEYARD is a family-owned winery that sows and reaps by the blessing of the great god of wine and revelry, Dionysus. However, the Vines family’s patron god requires complete devotion in the form of four sacrificial killings a year before each harvest. This has...

via The Beat: AfterShock Comics has announced The Brother of All Men, a new historical horror series debuting this summer. The series, which follows a World War I veteran and P.I. as he tries to rescue his brother from a cult, comes from the creative team of writer Zac Thompson, artist Eoin Marron, colorist Mark Englert, and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. Marron & Englert provide the main cover for the series’ first issue, with Hayden Sherman providing an incentive variant cover. Here’s how AfterShock describes The Brother of All Men: It is 1928. Veteran of the Great War and part-time private eye Guy Horn travels to a remote community in Western...

via AIPT: Using the telepathic abilities he’s been hiding all his life, Todd forces the worst of the worst to rob banks… Fifteen-year-old Patrick Todd lives on the run, hiding out in seedy motels, living out of his backpack and making sure that his mom – recently struck down by a mysterious illness of the mind – is well cared for. But doctors cost money. A lot of money. And, so, Patrick turns to a life of crime. Using the telepathic abilities he’s been hiding all his life, he forces the worst of the worst to rob banks, taking the...

Headed to WonderCon this year? AfterShock will be there in full force for the first time ever to meet and greet the fans that have made us the fastest growing independent comics publisher in the business! Hope to see you at Booth #1301! Convention Days/Hours: Friday, April 1: 11:30 AM – 7:00 PM Saturday, April 2: 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM Sunday, April 3: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Booth: 1301 Convention Exclusives (available at our booth): We Live: Age of the Palladions #1 Black (Convention Exclusive Cover by Dan Panosian) We Live: Age of the Palladions #1 White (Convention Exclusive Cover by Dan Panosian) AfterShock Metallic Covers (available at our booth): We Live:...

AfterShock Comics have announced “Astronaut Down,” a sci-fi thriller by writer James Patrick (“The Kaiju Score,” “Campisi: The Dragon Incident”), artist Rubine (“Search for Hu”), colorist Valentina Briški (“Eden”), and letterer Carlos M. Mangual (“Dark Red: Where Roads Lead”). The book follows Douglas Spitzer, a trainee astronaut who, instead of outer space, is being prepared for a mission “into alternate realities, on a desperate mission to save Earth from a horrific crisis that has our world on the brink of extinction.” “Unfortunately,” as the synopsis puts it, “it’s a mission where everything will go wrong, where Douglas’s training and very...