Mad Cave Studios December 2026 Solicitations

The law is closing in on Team Chosen. Secrets have a way of clawing to the surface, and the fallout could shatter loyalties Addy thought she could count on. Across the station, Heff Vulkansson's obsession with legacy pushes the bounds of both medicine and morality. With the championship on the line and the final race at Apfel arena approaching, old enemies return with a devil's bargain. What Team Chosen stands to lose is more than a title.

THE EXPLOSIVE SERIES FINALE! The battle for America reaches its breaking point as the surviving members of our ragtag team launch one last assault against Groves and his army. With the fate of the country hanging in the balance, Harvey finally comes face-to-face with the man who killed his father...and this time, there’s nowhere left to run.

WHO DRIVES THE MELANGE? It's the question the whole underworld of Palm City is asking! Someone has pitted the families of the Three Roses Syndicate against each other in a series of violent murders. And while the vigilante and their criminal targets wreck the city, the police are distracted--hunting for Speed Racer and Racer X! Where will the Melange strike next? And with so many crosshairs flying, can Speed stay on track...or alive?!

In an era between the age of knights and modern life sits Don Quixote, a man whose love of that bygone era sends him on a bloody spree of mayhem across the land of La Mancha to save the world. With a reluctant assistant, Sancho Panza, at his side, the delusional knight leaves a trail of bodies behind him and tilts at windmills in search of an evil enchanter, dedicating it all to the object of his storybook delusion — Dulcinea del Toboso. Dulcinea, a farm girl working to keep her family’s farm alive, is forced to leave her life behind and take up arms to stop this murderous stranger and defend the one thing that she truly owns: her name. Acclaimed creators Christopher Sebela and Ibrahim Moustafa join forces to reimagine one of literature’s most iconic stories as a brutal, darkly funny tale of obsession, identity and the danger of believing your own legend.

HELL TOUPEE A workplace comedy that blends X-Files intrigue with the irreverance of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The son of one of the most respected journalists in history joins the misfits at the notorious tabloid famous for headlines like "Elvis-is-Alive!," "Bigfoot Sex Slave!," and "Florida Mafia Hires Vampire to Kill O.J.!" In this issue: a conspiracy so deep it may have cracked the ceiling of Hell!

IT ISN'T AFRAID, BUT YOU SHOULD BE. IT ISN'T ALONE, BECAUSE IT HAS HER. IT CAME FROM THREE MILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY, BUT ITS HOME IS NOW YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. Piper has a new friend. His fingers are sharp, and he can move very fast, and he has strange eyes. But even a strange friend is better than none at all, and Piper hasn’t had a friend in a long time. Her stepdad, Don, won’t let her play with the other kids, and Mommy has her own scary problems. And now, there are men with suits and guns on every block. They’re hunting for something, a dangerous intruder, so they say. As long as Piper and her friend stay hidden, they’ll be safe. Home is safe. Family is safe. These are things Piper believes. But now her world is changing fast. Benjamin Percy and Raül Fernández break the faith in the gruesome second installment of the sci-fi horror epic of the year!

Victoria Jaguar ventures beyond the waking world to save a man plagued by creatures that feed on his nightmares. But when the hunt becomes a trap and a monstrous Culpavore emerges to feast on guilt, Victoria realizes her client may be hiding a terrible secret.

ALL GREAT ARTISTS STEAL So if someone steals great art, what does that make them? A WIDOW! One woman is determined to run this town, and a handful of priceless paintings is just collateral damage on her rise to the top. An intriguing robbery is now a death trap! Can Kirby outwit the Widow, or will the dark beauty undo him? Christopher Sebela and Tango introduce the first in a new rogue’s gallery for the beloved private investigator!

Jon and Dina barely have time to catch their breath before Big Candy sends a fresh batch of sugar-coated psychos to finish the job. Trapped in a vintage bowling alley with assassins closing in, the pair will have to strike fast, spare no one, and somehow stay alive long enough to uncover who's really pulling the strings. But as Dina digs deeper into Jon's mysterious past, she discovers there may be more connecting him to their enemies than he’s been willing to admit...

With another gruesome murder turning the town against them, Sal, Naz, and Terry realize no one is coming to their rescue. If they want to clear their names and survive, they’ll have to find the killer themselves. But when a trip to the county fair becomes the scene of the killer’s bloodiest attack yet, suspicion begins to fall on someone much closer to home. And as religious hysteria reaches a boiling point, the three friends are about to discover that being blamed for murder might be the least of their problems.

Eliza was supposed to die. She didn’t. Now a monster is loose, children are dead, the family is hiding behind locked doors and loaded guns--and the lawyer has been called in to argue with hell! Meanwhile, Ben Grimaldi thinks this can all be solved with one judicious murder.

Hammer Head’s past is revealed. From a mocked teenager to a sledgehammer-wielding killing machine that refuses to stay dead and buried. As Jules and the remaining prisoners try to survive the night, they realize their only salvation may be to break back into the prison responsible for Hammer Head’s latest killing spree.

Babylon Cove is the story of Heather, a no-nonsense career-gal who returns to her picturesque New England hometown for the first time in a decade to attend a family funeral; Dennis, the all-American dreamboat who broke Heather’s heart in high school; Charlie, the late-blooming shy boy who Heather never gave the time of day, and Karthon, the ancient demon with plans to feast on the flesh of everyone in town.

When a strange stone pillar is discovered at the Hong Kong Observatory, young astronomer Cen and his two assistants are assigned to investigate. Their search through old records and modern instruments uncovers an astonishing truth: the pillar isn’t just a relic—it’s an ancient astronomical device hiding a 150-year-old mystery! Blending science, history, and adventure, CMS Astronomical Explorers launches readers into a cosmic puzzle where curiosity is the key to discovery.

An all-new collector's edition of FLASH GORDON Vol. 3! Flash against Flash! The worlds of Flash Gordon explode in volume 3 of the epic series by writer Jeremy Adams (Green Lantern, Flash, Aquaman) and artists Will Conrad (Wolverine, Flash, Nightwing) and Eder Messias (Sam Wilson: Captain America; Spider-Man: The Last Hunt)! Ming the Merciless is back on the throne of the shattered empire. Now Flash, Dale Arden, Princess Aura, and other allies are wanted everywhere. But there's one man in particular who will stop at nothing to find Flash Gordon... And it's Flash Gordon himself. A Flash from another universe, driven purely by vengeance for the death of his own Dale! A despot whose iron grip would rival only that of his dead wife's! With Ming the Merciless at his side, this world—and the life of the real Flash Gordon—is surely doomed.

Superstar creators blast off to explore Flash Gordon’s legacy! The star-studded anthology series continues with brand-new stories from new and established creators! A classic tale of otherworldly exploration in "Mud in Your Eye" by three-time EMMY, WGA, EDGAR-nominated writer, producer, and showrunner Jim Krieg and veteran artist Matt Horak! An epic of prehistoric Flash and a monstrous Ming by Paul Cornell and Lizbeth Myles and artist Georges Jeanty! And Steve Orlando and Giorgio Pontrelli test the limits of Flash Gordon’s pure American heart in a story of dust bowls and delusions! There’s a Flash here for everyone.

Flash Gordon is grounded! With Mongo now an impossible distance away, and Earth's governments reacting to the potential dangers of alien worlds, space travel is now reserved to the experts...and a former football player-turned-sword-wielding rabble rouser isn't making the cut. But when a huge object—a meteor? a planet?—appears on a collision path with Earth, Flash will leave the 'experts' in the dust. With a bootleg spaceship courtesy of Doctor Zarkov and fiery backup in the form of Dale Arden, Flash blasts off on an intercept course. But the Earth Rocketry Administration isn't far behind—and astronaut Dane "Ditch" Albright is not about to let Flash Gordon steal his spotlight. A rivalry for the ages, a new alien world, and threats deadlier than ever—adventure awaits for fans new and old!

When a broken-down car strands a stressed-out student in the countryside, Pauline’s quiet study retreat turns into something far more dangerous—and magical. Taken in by the reclusive Erwan, Pauline discovers a hidden realm of "little people" living alongside our own world, unseen but deeply entwined with it. As the fragile balance between worlds begins to fracture, Pauline and her friend Gaëlle are drawn into a perilous journey that will test their courage, loyalty, and sense of responsibility. Blending contemporary fantasy with urgent themes of ecological balance and social justice, this spellbinding tale reveals how even the smallest lives can change the fate of two worlds.

When Haring Arts and Design Magnet School royalty Ben Wilcox is assigned to work with maverick and outsider Annie Jacobs, he’s enthralled by her talent and her charms and does whatever it takes to get her to like him, including lying about his dating history. They fall in love while working on their final senior project, but when Annie discovers Ben’s lies, it doesn’t just damage their relationship: it threatens to sink their senior project as well!

When Haring Arts and Design Magnet School royalty Ben Wilcox is assigned to work with maverick and outsider Annie Jacobs, he’s enthralled by her talent and her charms and does whatever it takes to get her to like him, including lying about his dating history. They fall in love while working on their final senior project, but when Annie discovers Ben’s lies, it doesn’t just damage their relationship: it threatens to sink their senior project as well!

A NEW STORY ARC OF HONOR & CURSE: ETERNAL BEGINS HERE. Genshi Sakagura has survived six centuries bound to a mountain spirit—but when the secretive Order of the Nine captures him, they attempt the unthinkable: surgically extracting his Tengu to weaponize ancient power for a modern authoritarian vision. As Genshi is subjected to a nightmarish vivisection that blurs the line between technology and sorcery, the fragile balance between man and spirit finally collapses. Forced to fully surrender to the Tengu within, Genshi unleashes a transformation of devastating power—one that leaves his captors butchered and sets him loose in Exit City, a lawless artificial island where monsters, machines, and hidden rulers thrive. But the escape comes at a cost. The bond between Genshi and his Tengu is forever changed, their enemies are far from finished, and the mastermind behind the operation may be far harder to kill than anyone imagined. A brutal fusion of supernatural horror, mythic fantasy, and modern techno-thriller, Honor & Curse: Eternal expands the Underworld Universe with its most visceral, explosive chapter yet—where ancient gods collide with the machinery of the modern world.

A teenage girl survives a horrible accident that changes her forever and allows her to 'hear' Death. Unable to face life after the horrible car crash that took the life of one of her best friends and caused her significant hearing loss, Xiara Jackson leaves her preparatory school and goes back home to live with her parents as part of her recovery only to begin hearing a strange humming sound. When she learns the sound she’s hearing is being investigated by a former storm chaser curious about cymatics and that the sound is connected to other strange events in town, including some suspicious deaths, Xiara sets out to find the source of the sound, why she’s the only one that can hear it, and how the sound is connected to death to stop it before it happens again.

New hardcover treatment collecting Ray Fawkes and Russell Olson's full run, with exclusive behind-the-scenes material! THE GHOST WALKS AGAIN! The Phantom returns! Created by Lee Falks in 1936, the Phantom is one of the first costumed superheroes in history, with untold influence on pop culture. Now, critically-acclaimed creators Ray Fawkes and Russell Olson revive the character for fans old and new. When a violent gang of smugglers stumbles on an idyllic Bandar village, the peace that the Phantom has brought to the African nation of Bangalla will suddenly shatter. It will take all of the Phantom’s many skills—and allies—to restore it. The most exciting series of the year starts here!

Thomas is in so much pain. As if high school wasn’t hard enough, when his father is killed in a freak accident, and his mother begins to take refuge in the company of his uncle, Thomas is visited by a ghoulish kid named Luther with knives for hands and rows of teeth like an ancient shark who tells Thomas his father was murdered and that anything his mother and uncle tell him is a lie. Thomas doesn’t know who or what to believe. Does he believe his friends, teachers, and mother, who tell him grief isn’t for the faint of heart, but it will pass? Or does he believe the demented Luther who pulls Thomas through a bloody whirlwind of conspiracies, vengeance, and slaughter, showing him the lies and corruption that surround him? Thomas must fight to discover the truth behind his father’s death, while struggling to keep his new friend from leaving a massacre in his wake. But that "truth" might be far more sinister than Thomas is prepared for…