The Death Poem of Sensei Otoro

Initially produced as a Kickstarter campaign, The Death Poem of Sensei Otoro is based on Jonathan Maberry’s prose story. Jonathan is writing the script, Boris Kay is the illustrator (look at his work on this page – magnificent! – the banner is beautifully coloured by Mariam Yasser), and lettering will be Stephen Kok. Christopher Sequeira is the editor and we will be formally announcing the colourist soon.

Otoro is one of the last of the great samurai, now working as a ronin as he enters middle age. He is hired by a local and very powerful daimyo to go to a small island and rescue the daimyo’s family—particularly his infant grandson and heir. An epidemic has swept through Japan, turning the infected into flesh-eating ghouls. Otoro has to fight his way through a legion of the living dead to rescue the child, even if the mission results in his own death. After all, a samurai prays for an honorable death.

Legion of Horrors

A supernatural catastrophe is beginning to crush the world in its grip so, the only thing to do is fight fire with fire.
An assembly of ghastly figures from myth and legend have been summoned; and sanity help us, they are the planet’s final hope.
A modernization of some of the most terrifying creations in classic macabre narratives.
H. P. LOVECRAFT’S ‘FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH’
JOSEPH SHERIDAN LEFANU’S ‘CARMILLA’
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD’S ‘THE WENDIGO’
BANJO PATTERSON’S ‘THE GHOST OF THE JOLLY SWAGMAN’
Created and written by horror maestro of comics and prose, CHRISTOPHER SEQUEIRA (STAR TREK – HOLO-WEEN; CAPED FEAR: SUPERHUMAN HORROR STORIES; X-MEN VS VAMPIRES; CTHULHU DEEP DOWN UNDER; DRACULA UNFANGED; ETC.)
Illustrated by the dark and inspiring hand of KEN BEST (MAD MAGAZINE, FUTUREQUAKE PRESS, REVERIE PUBLICATIONS, etc.).
Colored by seasoned Australian collaborator DAN LYNCH (SUPERAUSTRALIANS, THE HUMAN FLY, DARK DETECTIVE, etc.)

Frankenstein Monstrance

Jason Franks, comments on his (and artist, Tam Nation’s) upcoming comic series, Frankenstein Monstrance: “I’ve loved Mary Shelley’s creation … since I was in primary school, and, while I know there has not been a shortage of adaptations and re-imaginings over the years, I really felt like I could do something interesting and different with the source material by bringing it into the current world. What do Victor and his monsters look like in an age where we have all the information in the world at our fingertips–and our use of that information is tracked, recorded and commodified? Where soldiers can fight wars with drones operated like videogames. Where scientists have cracked the human genome? Where organ transplants are common enough that there is a black market for them plied by international crime syndicates? Where the richest people alive are technologists? How is that world reflected in Mary Shelley’s vision?”

They Call Me Midnight

IPI Comics is very pleased to announce contracts have been signed for a forthcoming comic-book series and graphic novel, They Call Me Midnight, written by Nancy Holder and Alan Philipson, with art by Ben Sullivan. Cover art by John K. Snyder III.

This is the story of a vampire-who-is-not-a-vampire, plagued with all the memories—and bloodlust—of his progenitor, Count Dracula, yet he has never tasted blood. For many decades he has found cover and employment as a hit man for the Mafia, first in Sicily and then across the U.S. Rejecting his vile heritage, but accepting the burden of its guilt, he has become a monster all his own.

Badman

The global order has fallen. History is over. Science has faltered, while the unnatural and the occult thrive. Geography is mutable. Time is inconstant. Hell’s gates are open, and heaven’s been evacuated. Humankind is now blended with mutants and monsters, machines and magicians. Pockets of civilization still exist, but the wilderness is filled with outlaws, savages, and worse.

One man comes out of the blasted wastes, bringing hell and ruination wherever he goes. A one-man army, a five-bell alarm, a ten on the Richter scale. A catastrophe walking in busted-down boots.

There are plenty of good folk in this broken world. Plenty more who are bad. But there is only one Badman.

The Badman is about those who bring catastrophe upon us, and those who survive in its wake, written by Jason Franks and illustrated by Harry Purnell. . Expect monsters wreaking havoc, heroes dying badly, and ordinary people doing whatever they can to survive. For fans of Grendel, Lobo, Grimjack, and Dark City.

Halloween Man

Long-running cult horror-superhero series begins a new chapter with IPI Comics in 2027, while the all-new Halloween Man: Devil’s Night arrives just in time for the Halloween season.

Beginning in 2027, IPI Comics will bring Halloween Man to readers through a new series of physical collections, giving comic-shop customers the opportunity to discover – or rediscover – the long-running webcomic cult favorite on store shelves.

Created and written by Drew Edwards, Halloween Manfollows undead monster hunter Solomon Hitch and brilliant scientist Dr. Lucy Chaplin through a bizarre world where superheroes, horror movies, science fiction, folklore, and Texas weirdness collide.

The move follows Edwards’ collaboration with IPI Comics on the horror series The Matron and represents the beginning of a new era for his signature creation.

Rocket Science

Kayla Watson is a junior engineer at a near-future NASA that’s been stripped of most of its power, all the finance having been channelled to billionaires’ space companies. The billionaires have been offered a prize for getting to Mars: land rights.

She’s disgusted, but helpless. Until she discovers a new drive system.
She puts together a rag-tag team of discarded space jockeys and goes on the run.

It’s a story about fighting for hope, for rationality, for experts in the face of ignorance. It’s for everyone who loved Project Hail Mary, Apollo 13, Interstellar. Kayla’s going to find a way to launch a bolted-together space capsule and beat the bad guys to Mars. For all mankind.