Bad Idea October 2026 Solicitations

David and Maria Lapham, the Eisner Award-winning creators behind STRAY BULLETS, redefine the noir with THE DETECTIVE. Deftly combining the master worldbuilding of both Ridley Scott's BLADE RUNNER and the Wachowski's THE MATRIX with the intricate storytelling of Roman Polanski's CHINATOWN, and the groundbreaking visuals of Jack Kirby's FOURTH WORLD, the Laphams deliver a seminal neo-noir sci-fi epic. It's a cold morning in The City when Valencia Vallez wakes up in an unfamiliar bed with a revolver in her hand and a dead body at her side. She doesn't remember how she got there. She doesn't remember much of anything. Just the long list of names buzzing around her head--suspects in the brutal gangland execution of her husband. Lucky for her, Val's a homicide detective. The only trouble? In the City, so is everyone else. Val's hunt for answers has painted a target on her back. Caught between the crooked cops hot on her tail and the towering mechanical Judges looming over the City's rain-soaked streets, every lead Val runs down only raises more questions. What secrets lie hidden in Val's missing memories? Who is the Mastermind? In The City, the truth doesn't come easy. And when it does, you’ll wish it hadn't.

IT’S TIME TO GUN UP OR SHUT UP! New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (SUPERMAN ‘78) and superstar artist Robert Gill (X-Force) suit up for the fight of the Tankers lives in the surprise ending to the surprise sequel to the most insane comic book of all time! SURPRISE! Stuck 65 million years in the past, the Tankers thought it was only dinosaurs they had to worry about. They thought wrong. Pinned down by a battalion of ancient alien soldiers wielding weapons lightyears beyond human comprehension, the Tankers have just one move left to make – light these freaks up. Prepare to experience the blaze of unadulterated firepower, Tankers-style.