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AfterShock Comics’ hit sci-fi comic book series, We Live, returns with We Live: Age of the Palladions, set six years after the first series. Written by Inaki Miranda and Roy Miranda with art by Inaki, the first issue is due out Wednesday 9th March with each issue coming out with a different trading card as a bonus. But, wait, there’s more. It will release as TWO separate number ones, We Live: Age of the Palladions BLACK#1 and We Live: Age of the Palladions WHITE #1. Check out the two different covers, and different previews too, as well as the slightly different synposes before we get into it a little bit more with the...

AfterShock Comics have announced “Land of the Living Gods,” a fantasy series by South African writer and producer Isaac Mogajane (Matwetwe, Catching Feelings), and Brazilian artist Santtos (“Night Shift”). Set during “the last days of humanity,” the book follows Naledi, a teenage girl living in the deserted city of Johannesburg, who believes in a hidden land where the gods still reside. Hoping the gods may be able to restore the world to life, Naledi “will head out into the unknown with little to hold onto but her faith – and her magical pet plant, Buyo.” Mogajane said, “We’ve seen post-apocalyptic before,...

AfterShock Comics have announced “The Lion and the Eagle,” a prestige format miniseries by writer Garth Ennis, artist P.J. Holden, colorist Matt Milla, and letterer Rob Steen. Set during World War II, the book will tell the story of the Chindits, a British special forces unit that were active in Burma during the Japanese occupation in 1944. It follows Colonel Keith Crosby and Doctor Alistair Whitamore, two veterans of the British retreat in 1942, who are eager to reclaim the colony. “But neither the jungle nor the foe have gotten any less savage, and when the shooting starts and the Japanese...

AfterShock Comics have announced “Bylines in Blood,” a dystopian noir series by writers Erica Schultz & Van Jensen, artist Aneke, and letterer Cardinal Rae. Set in a world where independent newspapers no longer exist, the book will follow Satya Chatterjee (aka “Lady Dick”), a journalist-turned-private investigator, as she investigates the murder of her old editor. “Someone wanted him silenced,” says the synopsis, “and the trail points toward the highest bastions of power. To find justice for her friend, she’ll have to put everything – and everyone – she knows at risk.” Schultz described “Bylines in Blood” as being “about the...

THE SECOND OFFERING FROM AFTERSHOCK’S SEISMIC PRESS IMPRINT IS DUE OUT IN JANUARY 2022. Last month saw the release of Rainbow Bridge, the first young reader graphic novel offering from AfterShock Comics’s new Seismic Press imprint. Now the next title from Seismic Press has been revealed, as AfterShock has announced Fearbook Club, a new middle-grade graphic novel from writer Richard Ashley Hamilton, artist Marco Matrone, and letterer Dave Sharpe. The book follows a middle school yearbook club as they investigate a group of ghosts who are haunting their school. Here’s how AfterShock describes Fearbook Club: When shy 6th-grade shutterbug Whit Garcia starts middle school, he’s forced...