Mad Cave Studios January 2027 Solicitations

Snake and Maya are captured and dragged before the warlord who’s been hunting Maya for her whole life. Years ago, Maya’s parents stole something vital to the control of Chicago. They died for it—betrayed, the rumor goes, by Snake himself. Now their daughter’s about to follow in their blood-soaked footsteps…and she’d love to take Snake down with her. A new day dawns in the Windy City!

Dan DiDio and Tom Derenick reinvent the original spy! In 1934, Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) and Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon) created Secret X-9, starring an unnamed agent who worked for a shadowy anonymous agency. Their genre-defining strip ran for more than 60 years. Now, another legendary team joins forces to explode Secret Agent Phil Corrigan into the modern day! When a failed assassination attempt drags retired super-spy Phil Corrigan back into the shadows, he’s forced into an uneasy alliance with a younger operative to hunt Pendulum—a shadow network manipulating both extremes of the political spectrum to keep the world in perpetual chaos. Featuring old villains and new allies, surprise settings, and classic explosive action, Secret Agent X-9 kicks off the noir comic of the year!

FLY THE DEADLY SKIES Rip and his gal Honey are heading overseas! Pleasure turns to business real fast when a man is MURDERED during their transatlantic flight. Turning back over the ocean is not an option...which leaves the murder conveniently outside US jurisdiction. Unless someone uncovers who, how and why the murder happened, authorities will have no choice but to release all the passengers when the plane lands. Racing against jetplane engines, Rip & Honey must crack this locked-room murder and bring the killer to justice in the Wild West atmosphere of late 1940s air travel!

On the greatest stage ever built, eight pilots face off in the final race of the ExoGP season. Team Chosen enters beset by shadows they can't outrun. A ghost returns to the grid, reengineered and unrecognizable. Jötun's tortured weapon has been pushed past every limit a body can endure. In the arena and beyond it, the world that was is already burning.

IT TAKES A REAL PRINCESS TO KILL A HERO! Flash Gordon must die! It's the only hope he has of infiltrating the Phantombs and saving Fitz Gamble. And only someone who truly loves the space-adventure could deliver the killing blow...Princess Aura! How is an undead Flash going to save the day? Find out in Friends Like These part 2!

HOME IS WHERE THE HORROR IS. Piper and Tina’s suburban neighborhood is in chaos. A body’s been found in the nearby hills, and armed government agents are going door-to-door, looking for someone. For some THING. But guns and badges are useless against the evil inside Piper’s home. An evil that’s been building strength since long before astronauts started falling from the sky…before Piper’s new friend came to comfort her. Before the EGG HUNT began. Now…the screaming starts. The most gut-wrenching issue yet from Benjamin Percy and Raül Fernández!

Jon and Dina have finally reached the rotten center of the Big Candy empire, and waiting for them is the one man Jon has spent his entire life trying to escape. Captured, outnumbered, and running out of options, Jon must confront the horrifying truth about his past while Dina discovers that the formula everyone is willing to kill for may be their only chance to make it out alive! Old wounds are ripped open. Scores are settled. And before the smoke clears, Jon and Dina are going to make damn sure Big Candy gets a taste of its own medicine. Johnson and Palmiotti empty the whole candy jar for the explosive finale, serving up revenge, romance, deliciously twisted villainy, and a sugar crash you won’t soon forget!

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza’s quest to liberate La Mancha puts them into the path of evils real and imagined, big and small, with bloody results. While Dulcinea’s first steps into the world outside her village send her reeling back into her past in search of answers about who the murderous madman who is sullying her name truly is.

Back in the relative safety of the prison, Jules and the remaining prisoners learn of Warden Sullivan’s sick and twisted plan: he’s been feeding Hammer Head for years, allowing him to hunt prisoners all in a misguided attempt to keep him satiated. But the system is failing, and Jules is his last Hail Mary. Meanwhile, Hammer Head has made his way into the prison, leaving a river of blood in his wake.

Andrew wants his father to look at him and see an equal...Theodore wants his mother to look at him and see her son...and the family birds just want to be left alone. But don’t worry, everyone--as blood hits the greenhouse glass, the family attorney arrives to save the day!

The Job that Immane and Mouse enrolled Zeek for doesn’t go as planned and when they return to town, they find that the apothecary has been set on fire. The next day they set for the Dry Valley, looking for the Wizard. However when they get there, it’s not at all what they expected to find. Rather, something else finds them...

THE SPEED OF TERROR! Captain Terror rides again! Dante Ferno is done letting his lackeys fail to deal with the problem of the Racer family and Turnwell Enterprises. It's time for the CEO to take the wheel. But he's a washed-up villain past his prime, right? No way he can beat Speed Racer, the lead driver of Formula X...

A swarm of conspiracy-obsessed fanatics storm Area 51 and suddenly every secret spills out into the world. So yeah... turns out the “nuts” had a point. Superhumans, aliens, experimental weapons, giant robots, interdimensional tech; all of it now in the hands of the angry, the reckless, the power-hungry… and worst of all, the painfully ordinary. Which, let’s be honest, might be the most dangerous group of all.

The trouble with believing things is that they have an annoying habit of turning out not to be true… 18-year-old Autumn Ackerman grew up believing in magic and fairies and happy endings, but now, with her high school graduation on the horizon, she’s not sure what to believe in anymore. Her father walked out on her 13th birthday, leaving her mom to raise Autumn on her own, and she doesn’t know how she could ever afford to go to college if she can even get into one. The only future she sees for herself is spending the rest of her life working behind the counter of her small town’s coffee shop and wishing the world could be as magical as she’d thought it was when she was a little girl. And then, while taking out the garbage at work one night, Autumn suddenly finds herself reunited with her childhood imaginary friend, Barnaby, and her entire life is turned upside down. Drawn into the world of mysterious creatures known as the Night Folk, Autumn will face the terrifying Mr. Balloon, uncover long buried family secrets, and discover the hidden truth about herself and the world. With her friends Robyn and Evan, a tragic young man who inherited the local bookstore, Autumn has to not just navigate this magical new world, but try to survive it. Collecting the first three books in the critically acclaimed graphic novel series by writer and artist Matthew Dow Smith (DC’S Misfits of Magic, Amelia Shadows) with 30 pages of all new material.

Ace and Zora were built for men’s pleasure. Now they’re building a life of their own, one bullet at a time. When sex bot Ace mounts a dangerous rescue mission, she isn’t starting a revolution. She’s trying to save the woman she loves. But Ace and Zora are valuable property, and a corporate kill squad is hot on their trail. Bullets fly. Metal screams. Rivers run red with blood and coolant. From critically-acclaimed writer Paul Allor and artist Ermitis Blanco, Blüdwire is a tender love story surrounded by a hail of bullets. Love is love, but liberation is violent.

A gripping, self-contained adult sci-fi thriller from Jimmy Palmiotti (Pop Kill, Punisher, Harley Quinn), Justin Gray (Jonah Hex, Hawkman), and illustrator Pier Brito (Harley Quinn/Gossamer, The Jetsons), packed with tension, worldbuilding, and sharp social commentary. Perfect for fans of dystopian futures and grounded, sexy, character-driven action. In a near-future world swallowed by rising oceans, the city of Denver survives as one of humanity’s last tightly regulated safe zones. Every resource is rationed. Every meal is counted. Every citizen is tracked. Population limits are enforced with absolute precision, and the rules that keep Denver alive leave no room for compassion. For Max Flynn, enforcing those rules is more than a job; it’s the pressure cooker that defines his life. As a veteran border patrol officer, Max works the surrounding waters at the edge of the city and its checkpoints that control Denver’s fragile ecosystem. At home, he struggles to care for his wife and daughter under the city’s unforgiving restrictions. But when his wife is suddenly kidnapped, Max’s world detonates. A mysterious enemy contacts him with a brutal ultimatum: turn against Denver from the inside… or never see her alive again. Forced into an impossible corner, Max pulls together a trusted crew of border patrol agents and plunges into a dangerous hunt through the city’s underbelly. As they chase shadows and unravel a conspiracy buried deep within Denver’s leadership, Max discovers truths that challenge everything the city claims to protect. What begins as blackmail becomes a personal war, one that could expose the cracks in Denver’s carefully maintained order and ignite a reckoning that threatens the future of the last safe city on Earth.

1891. June Buckley arrives in Kansas City to claim the inheritance of a father she never knew—but she’s not the only heir. Summoned alongside a volatile group of strangers, June is forced to travel by horseback to a remote ranch where the will is to be revealed. Under the watch of executor Temple Houston, they must follow the exact path her father once took into the frontier. But the journey turns deadly when June is assigned Hendido—a massive, violent horse feared by all. After a brutal outburst, the creature mysteriously bonds with her, marking June as something more than just another heir. As the group pushes deeper into the wilderness, paranoia grows, alliances fracture, and it becomes clear the journey is no formality—it’s a test. And not all of them will survive it.

In a medieval world where illness can lead to horrific and monstrous transformation, the Lazarus Order is mankind's final bastion, preventing uncontrollable chaos. Devout plague doctors have sacrificed their freedom in an oath to God in exchange for supernatural abilities. However, their powers come at a great cost; the more they use them, the more it consumes them until they fade to nothing. Despite this sacrifice, they live in servitude and dedication to protecting humanity from vampires, werewolves, Rattusvir (Rat-man disease), the undead, and other variants of “The First Sickness.” Doctor Damien, a meek, middle-aged stickler for protocol, is sent to team up with Edward Talis, an older, opportunistic, charming veteran doctor. They respond to what seems to be a routine call to subdue and cure a Rattusvir, only to discover an omen that “The First Sickness” has set events in motion to destroy the Lazarus Order once and for all. Will they unravel its machinations before their oaths consume them? Or will they continue down their path towards righteous self-destruction, unaware of what foul monsters scheme beneath their feet?

What would you do at the absolute moment of truth in your life? Would you hesitate, or act decisively? What are the consequences of each choice? This is a coming-of-age tale about overcoming anxiety and self- doubt with life lessons and emotional connections that transcend space and time. A Mexican-American farm worker becomes a NASA astronaut and just as his dreams begin to blast off, he gets lost in the middle of a space war, marooned with crushing regret about his life choices. With a foreword by astronaut José M. Hernández, Major Thomás is an inspiring hero’s journey for young people around the world. “It’s La Bamba meets Lost in Space meets Guardians of the Galaxy.”

Mister Nemo follows a brilliant, deeply damaged operative who has erased himself from the world to take on a clandestine war between two ancient forces shaping humanity’s future: the technocratic Unity Ultima and the feudal-minded Order of Nine. Armed with vast resources, a stealth AI-driven submarine, and an expanding crew of outcasts and specialists, Nemo strikes from the shadows to dismantle both powers before their cold war turns global and irreversible. But as his mission escalates, so does the question at its core: is Nemo a hero fighting for freedom… or a man so consumed by revenge that he may become as dangerous as the enemies he seeks to destroy?

When Maple Falls Christian School cancels its drama department, theater-obsessed Sawyer Chase refuses to give up her dreams. She forms New Romantics, a student performing group, but keeping the act “wholesome” proves impossible when secret crushes, hidden identities, and forbidden romances collide with the expectations of their school, parents, and small-town community.

When Maple Falls Christian School cancels its drama department, theater-obsessed Sawyer Chase refuses to give up her dreams. She forms New Romantics, a student performing group, but keeping the act “wholesome” proves impossible when secret crushes, hidden identities, and forbidden romances collide with the expectations of their school, parents, and small-town community.

Finally, a book that highlights the pioneering, yet too often overlooked, comics career of Ruth Roche using the medium she most closely worked in as a writer, editor, and business partner to the legendary Jerry Iger. Following Ruth's journey from a young women with a penchant for storytelling, through the Golden Age of comics, where Ruth worked in the midst of the action--until the fateful Wertham Trials brought all of it to an end.

Finally, a book that highlights the pioneering, yet too often overlooked, comics career of Ruth Roche using the medium she most closely worked in as a writer, editor, and business partner to the legendary Jerry Iger. Following Ruth's journey from a young women with a penchant for storytelling, through the Golden Age of comics, where Ruth worked in the midst of the action--until the fateful Wertham Trials brought all of it to an end.