(Sorry for the delay, things have been busy.)
Here is the second part to the big round-up of crime comics released in 2025.
The Best Crime Comics of 2024 post from last year over at DSD
AS I said in part one, I tried to capture as many of the 2025 crime comics as possible. Included are series debuts, collections, reissues, cross-genre titles. If I missed any, let me know. This is very much a by hand endeavor. For example, I had a couple of titles that I had to take off the 2025 list because they were actually 2024 titles that I missed.
I continue to maintain that a lot of great crime comics get released each year. I’m hoping to do a Favorites list sometime this month.

Title: Last Wardens
Writer: Elliot Sperl, Amit Tishler
Art: Rui Silveira
Publisher: Mad Cave
Release Date: March 2025
Synopsis: With an alcoholic father and a hole in her wallet, Danielle Pryer’s life in the rustic town of Bleakwood goes from bad to worse when her long-lost brother, Bruce, returns from the Vietnam War. While Bruce is being plagued by a mysterious and monstrous mutation he is also being hunted by an incompetent team of paranormal misfits, which leads to Bleakwood quickly becoming ground zero of a supernatural battle that forces Danielle to choose between everything she holds dear and the fate of the world as a whole.

Title: Loose End
Writer: Dave Dwonch
Art: Travis Hymel
Publisher: Titan
Release Date: Feb 2025
Synopsis: Tied up, tortured, and thrown into a world of chaos, get ready for the wildest ride of your life!
With crushing debt, an aimless career, and a thirst for the high life punching down on him, failing screenwriter Steven Hollis is handed a ticket out of his dead-end lifestyle… an offer he can’t refuse from the mob! Now all he has to do is kill the biggest exec in Hollywood.

Title: The Mafia Nanny Vols. 1 & 2
Writer: Violet Matter
Art: sh00
Publisher: Webtoon
Release Date: Feb 2025
Synopsis: Being an Elite Nanny is simple: protect the charge, obey the principle, and don’t get emotionally attached.
This is easier said than done when Davina’s first client is a dangerously compelling Venetian underboss who’s determined to get under her skin. What he wants from her, she can’t imagine, but Gabriel Angelini drags her back into the glittering world of organized crime she thought she’d left behind forever.
Davina might get answers about her past if she digs deep enough, but her challenges will be protecting Mikey from his father’s ambitions and keeping her heart from getting tangled up in their treacherous web.

Title: Manchuria Opium Squad Vols. 4-9
Writer: Tsukasa Monma
Art: Shikako
Publisher: Kodansha
Release Date:
Synopsis: [synopsis for vol 1]
In the corrupt, conflict-ridden Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, the illegal opium trade is a perilous path to quick riches-or a swift death. Desperate to save his doomed family, the young Isamu Higata seizes a dangerous opportunity, using his botanical expertise to make mind-blowing opium in hopes of cashing in. But when sinister gangs and the oppressive state catch wind of his operation, Isamu is thrust deeper and deeper into a treacherous world of deceit and depravity to protect himself and those he loves.

Title: Mine is a Long Lonesome Grave
Writer: Justin Jordan
Art: Chris Shehan
Publisher: Oni Press
Release Date: December 2025
Synopsis: Harley Creed is a bad man. He used to be worse.
A violent ex-con with a string of brutal crimes in his past, he only wanted one thing when he finally walked free from prison: to leave Briar Falls, WV, behind and disappear forever. But Harley’s hometown has a strange way of swallowing people whole—call it a consequence of the low-level folk magic that has permeated its darker corners for generations. And now that Harley has returned, pent-up vengeance for his past crimes is about to come roaring back. Somebody has put a hex on him—and Harley has seven days before he dies in twisted, screaming agony.
To reverse it, Harley must find and kill his unseen enemy before their curse can reap its terrible end. But in Briar Falls, there's no shortage of suspects—and Harley is coming for them all. If can't have peace, at least he can have revenge.

Title: Missing on the Moon
Writer: Cory Crater
Art: Damian Couceiro
Publisher: Mad Cave
Release Date: June 2025
Synopsis: The year is 1997, and crime on the Moon runs rampant...and in the Lunar colony of Buzztown, a billionaire's daughter has just gone missing. Washed-up private investigator Daniel Schwinn is tasked with finding the missing child, but in the process discovers a dark conspiracy stemming back decades...
Schwinn will have to navigate a world of undead drug addicts, mechanized robocops, and blue-skinned Soviets known as Darksiders to discover the truth. In doing so, he'll have to confront his own allegiances, and try to atone for past mistakes since resurfaced.

Title: Model Five Murder: a sci-fi noir
Writer: Tan Juan Gee
Art: Tan Juan Gee
Publisher: Silver Sprocket
Release Date: June 2025
Synopsis: A cyborg solves the murder of a detective who shares his same face in this sci-fi noir graphic novel.
Tansang Loop is a space station with a population of two million, officially speaking. But really, it’s thrice more, including the cyborgs and androids. Io is a Rohm Model Five, a cyborg made with a biomechanical brain and synthetic muscle. While on a routine spacewalk, Io stumbles upon the body of a murdered detective—and improbably, both Io and the detective are Model Fives. Io tries to solve the detective’s last case in order to find out who killed him, but in doing so, may reveal that their lives are more interconnected than meets the eye.

Title: Murder Kingdom
Writer: Fred Van Lente
Art: Chris Panda
Publisher: Mad Cave
Release Date: May 2025
Synopsis: Once upon a time, in a strange land called Florida, a masked psycho starts murdering cast members of the Storybook Kingdom theme park in ways identical to the gory original Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Princess-turned-detective Tanith is the only person who can unmask the killer before she and her friends are all Dying Unhappily Never After!
Toon-themed terror from six-time New York Times bestselling writer Fred (Marvel Zombies) Van Lente, artist Chris Panda (Chocklit Shoppe of Horrors: Night Shift, Rom First Strike), and letterer Becca Carey(Radiant Black, Golden Rage).

Title: Murder Podcast
Writer: Jeremy Haun
Art: Mike Tisserand
Publisher: Ignition Press
Release Date: September 2025
Synopsis: A mysterious podcast has appeared in the feed on your phone. You don’t remember subscribing to it. Do you press play anyway? What could be the harm? Plenty, as it turns out. Listeners of Dead Sounds are going on murderous rampages, and they don’t stop until everyone around them is dead. It begs the question, who will be next?
For Mina and her friends, true crime programs provide them with endless fodder for conversation. They love talking about their favorite series and poring over the clues to solve the killings. They can only hope that all of this listening has prepared them for when they find themselves wrapped up in a deadly plot that could be fodder for a podcast all its own!

Title: Murderous Lewellyn’s Candlelit Dinner Vols 1-3
Writer: Sumnagi
Art: MUK_BU
Publisher: Yen Press
Release Date: May/Aug/November 2025
Synopsis: A string of local homicides has left the residents of Ira Street on edge— everyone but Shavonne. The penniless author is too preoccupied with his next paycheck… well, that and his strange new neighbor Lewellyn, who spends his days peeling onions at Shavonne’s doorstep and has an annoyingly cute smile. But when he stumbles upon a gruesome sight while sharing a candlelit dinner at Lewellyn’s place, he quickly realizes he can no longer dismiss the murders—not when he might be next!

Title: My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files Vols. 2-4
Writer: Natsumi Ito
Art: Natsumi Ito
Publisher: Seven Seas
Release Date: Feb/June/Oct 2025
Synopsis: [Synopsis for vol. 1]
Get ready to solve the case with Japan’s first woman detective and her assistant in this Showa-era manga!
Hoshino Mitsuko is a determined and hard-working woman living in the 1930s, where career women are a rarity and looked down upon. Despite rampant sexism and pressure to “stay home,” she’s determined to prove herself as a successful detective no matter what. One day, she’s approached by the handsome waiter Yoshida Saku, who presents Mitsuko with her very first solo case. Together, the two work closely to solve the mystery, and Mitsuko finds Saku quite capable—but very curious—and takes him on as her new assistant. Can this duo tackle cases and the turbulent atmosphere of the Showa era?

Title: Nezumi’s First Love
Writer: Riku Oseto
Art: Riku Oseto
Publisher: Kodansha
Release Date: October 2025
Synopsis: Here’s the sweet, brutal yakuza love story we’ve all been waiting for!
Nezumi was raised by the mob to be an emotionless killing machine, but a chance encounter in an arcade leads to a romance at total odds with everything she’s known. Equal parts ultraviolence and kawaii, Nezumi’s First Love turns both the hitman and love comedy genres on their heads!

Title: Night Drive
Writer: Richard Sala
Art: Richard Sala
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Release Date: May 2025
Synopsis: Richard Sala’s rare, long out-of-print self-published comic took him to the pages of Raw and from there to MTV, where the creation of “Invisible Hands” for MTV’s Liquid Television secured him a place among our finest creators of idiosyncratic comics and art.
When Richard Sala passed away in 2020, he left behind a uniquely eldritch body of graphic novels and illustrations, fueled by macabre whimsy and a love of dark mysteries and vintage monsters. Like David Lynch, Sala was a painter who turned to a storytelling medium that allowed him to create inventive narratives inspired by such disparate influences as French crime fiction, the grim humor of Charles Addams, the surreal poetry of Jorge Luis Borges, and his own penchant for all things gleefully ghoulish and sinister.
Originally self-published in an edition of 500 copies in 1984, Night Drive signaled the creative emergence of a singular talent finding his footing with the surety of an artist equipped with the innate mastery of his craft and vision. Edited by longtime Sala friend Dana Marie Andra (Web of Horror) and designed by Sala’s friend and fellow cartoonist Daniel Clowes (Monica, Ghost World), this graphic novella is rounded out with rare artwork, interviews with Sala about the book, and an essay by Andra.

Title: Night People
Writer: Barry Gifford & Chris Condon
Art: Brian Level, Alexandre Tefenkgi, Artyom Topilin and Marco Finnegan
Publisher: Oni Press
Release Date: March 2025
Synopsis: From the mind of writer Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart, Lost Highway), adapted by That Texas Blood's Chris Condon and a rotating cast of visionary artists—including Brian Level (Poison Ivy), Alexandre Tefenkgi (The Good Asian), Artyom Topilin (I Hate This Place) and Marco Finnegan (The Keeper)—come four interconnected stories of convicts, lost souls, and human monsters journeying through a labyrinth of perversion, religious dogma, and murder in the Deep South.
A pair of murderous lovers in Florida carrying out a bloody agenda. A perverse political and religious power struggle between a brother and a sister. An easygoing drifter who suddenly finds himself a fugitive on the run. And a bright-eyed young girl discovering her place in the cold dark world. At the end of the twentieth century, chaos and horror were the American dream.

Title: No Man’s Land
Writer: Szymon Kudranski
Art: Szymon Kudranski
Publisher: Image
Release Date: September 2025
Synopsis: Diomede Islands.
For three months each year, you can walk from the USA to Russia across an ice bridge—a frozen path known as the Ice Curtain.
In 1963, when the body of a young woman is discovered on this icy no-man’s land, the already fragile relationship between the superpowers threatens to collapse. With nuclear tensions rising, an FBI agent and a KGB operative must solve the murder—before the ice melts…and war ignites.

Title: Our Brilliant Ruin: Horror at Crane Mansion
Writer: Cullen Bunn
Art: Christopher Mitten
Publisher: Dark Horse
Release Date: November 2025
Synopsis: Upstairs-downstairs drama meets existential horror in this Edwardian-inspired comics tale of high society and creeping dread.
In a world warped by a strange and corrosive force known as the Ruin, nothing is what it seems, and allies may become abominations in the blink of an eye.
In “Horror at Crane Mansion,” investigator for hire Elizabeth Ranseur finds herself in deep when a simple job vetting a wealthy woman’s suitors becomes a death trap. Who is a tragic victim, and who is the ruthless hunter?
Created in collaboration with Studio Hermitage and in association with the TTRPG of the same name, Our Brilliant Ruin explores a gilded Edwardian setting where intricate social ties of allegiance and conflict are threatened by the presence of the Ruin—a mysterious force that turns creatures and people into horrific monsters.

Title: Out of Alcatraz
Writer: Christopher Cantrell
Art: Tyler Crook
Publisher: Oni Press
Release Date: October 2025
Synopsis: Convicts Frank Morris and Clarence Anglin have washed ashore in San Francisco after surviving their infamous escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in June 1962. They soon meet their gruff and disappointed handler, a mysterious young woman who's also running from something, and hope to quickly get their way north to the border-if they can even make it out of Modesto alive. As a dogged federal manhunt and chance encounters threaten the desperate convicts, everyone involved is about to discover the same bloodstained truth: Life on the run is an even more hellish prison than Alcatraz could have ever been . . .

Title: Perfect Crime Party
Writer: Various
Art: Various
Publisher: Iron Circus
Release Date: October 2025
Synopsis: Who's up for some crime? We've drawn up our plans and got all the pieces in place. Dare we say it, we could even get away with muuuurder. So get in, loser! We've got crimes to commit!
Packed with campy whodunits, cozy mysteries, elaborate heists, noble civil disobedience, and plenty of regular old teen high jinks, a thrilling collection of lighthearted criminality awaits in these meticulously plotted pages from a host of the most devious minds in comics.

Title: Plastic: Death & Dolls
Writer: Doug Wagner
Art: Daniel Hillyard
Publisher: Image
Release Date: June 2024
Synopsis: EVERYONE’S FAVORITE SERIAL KILLER HAS RETURNED!
Learn how Edwyn came to his first kill at 10 years old and how that set him on a blood-soaked path of decapitations, sporks, and dolls on his way to finding the one true love of his life…a sex doll named Virginia.

Title: Pop Kill
Writer: Jimmy Palmiotti, Dave Johnson
Art: Juan Santacruz
Publisher: Mad Cave
Release Date: August 2025
Synopsis: Imagine a world where the two dominant and competing Cola companies, each worth billions, are owned by former conjoined twins who are now separated and have grown to hate each other so much they hire assassins, saboteurs, and espionage personnel to meddle with each other on a daily basis. This is the story about brotherly love run afoul, and the people they enlist to do their dirty work.

Title: The Private Eye
Writer: Brian K Vaughn
Art: Marcos Martin
Publisher: Image
Release Date: December 2025
Synopsis: Set in an inevitable future of where everyone has a secret identity, THE PRIVATE EYE is an eerily prescient sci-fi mystery about an unlicensed private investigator who stumbles onto the most important case of his life.
The series is set in 2076, a time after "the cloud has burst", revealing everyone's secrets. As a result, there is no more Internet, and people are excessively guarded about their identity, to the point of appearing only masked in public.

Title: Self Help
Writer: Owen King, Jesse Kellerman
Art: Marianna Ignazzi
Publisher: Image
Release Date: February 2025
Synopsis: A surreal and colorful world populated with two-faced talk-show hosts, cheerful Finnish mobsters, bloodthirsty white supremacists, snide English butlers, and panther-wielding Euro-trash assassins.
Down-on-his-luck rideshare driver Jerry Hauser’s existence is a bleak one…especially because every fare he picks up tells him how much he looks like uber-successful self-help guru Darren Hart. But after a twist of fate, Jerry is given the chance of a lifetime…which, if he’s not careful, may well end his lifetime. So begins this California noir—a rollicking and gleefully lurid pulp crime story for our time.

Title: Shimazaki in the Land of Peace Vols. 2-6
Story: Gouten Hamada
Art: Takeshi Seshimo
Publisher: Kodansha
Release Date: Multiple
Synopsis: [synopsis for vol. 1]
After surviving a terrorist incident as a child, Shingo Shimazaki was forced to join the League for Economic Liberations’ revolutionary army. Now, thirty years later, he’s back in Japan and trying to assimilate to a normal life. His Japanese may be awkward, and his grasp of ordinary tasks a little weak, but he has all the combat and surveillance training of a green beret. There are many kindhearted souls who want to help him—and a few not so kind ones who will do anything to stop him.

Title: Shoot Juliet Down
Writer: Komachi Katsura
Art: Komachi Katsura
Publisher: Vertical
Release Date: November 2025
Synopsis: Amidst the dark glamor of host club Velvet Kiss, Juri—also called Juliet—commands a vice-like grip on the number one position. Impressed by this poker-faced beauty’s supreme reign, newbie and number-two host Akatsuki decides he must learn Juliet’s secrets—and shoot him down from the top of the pack. But Akatsuki’s first up-close taste of Juliet’s intoxicating charm leaves him craving more than he’d expected. And as he may soon learn, some secrets are better left in their bottles, and the bullet that shoots through one heart might take out more than it bargained for…

Title: Sliced
Writer: Rafael Scavone
Art: Guilherme Grandizolli
Publisher: Ablaze
Release Date: July 2025
Synopsis: Powered by passion for the craft and familial obligation, respectively, Silvio Zampini and Pietro Pizzutti are two pizzaiolos who've shared an animosity since childhood, fueled by the long-ago desolation of their families' friendship. They both have their struggles, however, and these are only magnified when a new pizza joint opens right across the street: glitzy, high-tech, and backed by some serious cash. Forced to work together to oust this new competitor, they'll uncover both the underbelly of the corporation in question and the truth of their own pasts.

Title: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Writer: Anais Flogny
Art: Anais Flogny
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date: October 2025
Synopsis: A gripping and lushly illustrated tale of love and lies set between 1930s Chicago and New York’s criminal underworld, perfect for fans of manga like Banana Fish and readers of graphic novels like Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me who are looking for adult LGBTQIA+ fiction
Chicago, 1930. Jules Tivoli is a penniless Italian immigrant doing odd jobs to make ends meet. A twist of fate causes him to cross paths with Adam, a kingpin in Chicago’s criminal underworld who sees something in Jules that nobody else does—something special.
Under Adam’s wing, Jules becomes somebody and falls in love hard with the man who made him. But after an FBI crackdown, Adam and Jules must flee to New York to escape being caught in the ensuing chaos.
In New York, Jules’s Italian heritage gains him access, recognition, and power in the Cosa Nostra crime family. As he becomes more important in a city where Adam can’t seem to catch a break, he meets Eufrasio—his handsome, violent, and ambitious new partner who insists that Adam is holding Jules back. But Jules would be nothing without Adam—wouldn’t he?
Torn between his past and his future, a sudden betrayal forces Jules to find a way to protect his love and prove his loyalty—if he can even manage to make it out alive.

Title: String
Writer: Paul Tobin
Art: Carlos Javier Olivares
Publisher: Mad Cave
Release Date: May 2025
Synopsis: Yoon-Sook Namgung is a 25-year-old Korean-American woman with the remarkable ability to see two types of “strings” connecting various people. The first is blue and stretches between sexual partners. The second—dark black—connects murderers and their victims. If you have a murder that needs solving, Yoon can help. Worried your partner is cheating on you? Yoon can literally SEE the connections. Yoon’s life—for all the drama and constant TMI—is good, at least until the day she notices a string, a BLACK string, connected to… herself! This means she’ll either soon murder someone, or be murdered herself! So…dang. Which one?

Title: This Place Kills Me
Writer: Mariko Tamaki
Art: Nicole Goux
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date: August 2025
Synopsis: At Wilberton Academy, few students are more revered than the members of the elite Wilberton Theatrical Society—a.k.a. the WTS—and no one represents that exclusive club better than Elizabeth Woodward.
Breathtakingly beautiful, beloved by all, and a talented thespian, it’s no surprise she’s starring as Juliet in the WTS’s performance of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy. But when she’s found dead the morning after opening night, the whole school is thrown into chaos.
Transfer student Abby Kita was one of the last people to see Elizabeth alive, and when local authorities deem the it-girl’s death a suicide, Abby’s not convinced. She’s sure there’s more to Wilburton and the WTS than meets the eye. As she gets tangled in prep school intrigues, Abby quickly realizes that Elizabeth was keeping secrets. Was one of those secrets worth killing for?
Told in comics, letters, diary entries, and news articles, This Place Kills Me is a page-turning whodunnit from award-winning writer Mariko Tamaki and acclaimed illustrator Nicole Goux that will have readers on the edge of their seats and begging for an encore.

Title: Those Not Afraid
Writer: Kyle Starks
Art: Patrick Piazzalunga
Publisher: Dark Horse
Release Date: August 2025
Synopsis: Two serial killers discover they are within reach of the state record for kills and enter a terrible competition to see who gets there first. Learn more about our awful killers Mark Andrew Smith and Daniel Dodson and their grotesque activities as we enter a frightening game of cat-and-mouse between killers and police. A great book for fans of true crime and murder fiction.

Title: Tommy Dakota
Writer: Dave Ebersole
Art: Vinnie Rico
Publisher: Self
Release Date: March 2025 (appearance on Global Comix)
Synopsis: An infamous bandit, the man he fell for, and the barrage of bullets in their way. A 70-page original graphic novel from writer Dave Ebersole and artist Vinnie Rico about an infamous robber meeting the love of his life on his final heist.

Title: Trouble is My Business
Writer: Arvind Ethan Davis
Art: Llias Kyriazis
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date: May 2025
Synopsis: In 1940s Los Angeles, a sour-faced millionaire hires Philip Marlowe, a hard-boiled, harder-drinking detective, to scare off a suspected gold digger who has gotten her claws into his even wealthier stepson. Marlowe takes the case but quickly discovers that the woman, Harriett Huntress, isn’t just after gold: she’s playing a long, cold game of revenge…
Marlowe forms an alliance with George, the client’s chauffeur-cum-bodyguard-cum-fixer. George is a Black, Dartmouth-educated veteran with a sniper’s skills and his own agenda, and the two uneasy allies find themselves on the wrong end of a brace of hired killers and an enigmatic casino boss. . . . It quickly becomes clear that Marlowe, sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong, is just asking for trouble. But that’s the thing. Trouble is his business.

Title: Veil Vol. 1: Temperature of Orange
Writer: Kotteri
Art: Kotteri
Publisher: Udon
Release Date: June 2025
Synopsis: A full color manga, featuring charming short vintage chapters. For anyone who loves witty will they/won't they romantic comedies.
"Like a classic film, he and she encountered each other by chance. He was an on-duty police officer in the city. She was a runaway heiress. When he learned that she is looking for work, he decided to welcome her as the police station's telephone operator... This was the beginning of the everyday lives of he and she, and the delicate distance between them. Enjoy witty dialogue and bold illustrations, in this in full-color manga collection by Kotteri!

Title: The Voice Said Kill
Writer: Simon Spurrier
Art: Vanesa R. Del Ray
Publisher: Image
Release Date: July 2025 (series start)
Synopsis: The wet heat of the Louisiana bayou.
Alligator poachers prowl the mudbug mire.
A park ranger, heavily pregnant, raises a hateful mug of moonshine with a criminal matriarch.
And one deadly sonuvabitch, out of his mind on shrooms and retribution, loads his rifle for the Human Hunt and screams down the stars.

Title: Wet Sand
Writer: Doyak
Art: Doyak
Publisher: Inklore
Release Date: May 2025
Synopsis: The must-read BL webtoon by DOYAK is now in print! In this mature-rated drama, three men collide in a tangled web of love, power, and crime. The English paperback edition includes a brand new translation and a fold-out poster featuring character art of Ian.
When a chance encounter brings earnest photographer Jo into the orbit of the aloof and gorgeous Ian, Jo falls hard. An undeniable attraction simmers between them, and Jo is determined to break through Ian’s indifferent façade. But Ian’s life isn’t made for romance. As he works to free himself from his past life as a high-profile member of a dangerous gang—and from TJ, his on-again, off-again lover—a power struggle threatens to erupt within the crime syndicate. If Ian isn’t careful, events might spiral out of control, dragging him back into a world of corruption and murder.
Volume 1 collects episodes 1-13 of the webcomic Wet Sand.

Title: Who Killed Sarah Shaw?
Writer: Frankee White
Art: Adam Markiewicz
Publisher: Dauntless
Release Date: February 2025
Synopsis: WHO KILLED SARAH SHAW? follows Jes & Dave, two struggling true crime content creators who insert themselves into a 40-year-old cold case. But secrets like to stay buried. Can they solve Sarah Shaw’s murder or will they end up in an early grave like her?
In this, 120-page graphic novel, Sarah Shaw, a high schooler, is brutally murdered in January 1986. This heinous crime has haunted the town's memory for decades. Though a neighbor was accused of the crime, fresh revelations surface during the duo's interviews, casting doubt on the case's resolution. With the weight of this being their potential final episode, they dive headfirst into unraveling the chilling mystery, leaving no stone unturned.

Title: You Won’t Feel a Thing
Writer: Scott Snyder
Art: Jock
Publisher: DSTLRY
Release Date: March 2025
Synopsis: Years ago, John Reader was an accomplished homicide detective. So accomplished that it cost him everything else in his life. Now John finds himself alone, trapped in a retirement home with a brain tumor that’s slowly sapping his once-keen mind of all memories. But when an ice cold serial killer case from out of his past rears its head, John must call on all his remaining memories in order to stop a killer that only he still believes really exists!
YOU WON’T FEEL A THING is a sobering murder mystery exploring the anguish of a man whose own body and mind has turned against him, and the desire to find meaning in one’s own life before it unravels.

Title: You’ll Do Bad Things
Writer: Tyler Boss
Art: Adriano Turtulici
Publisher: Image
Release Date: December 2025
Synopsis: It’s been ten years since the release of He Came in With a Smile, the true crime smash hit that chronicled the brutal murders committed by the Nursery Rhyme Killer. But in the decade since its release, its author, Seth Holms, hasn’t produced another title.
Seth wants to write a story with a happy ending, but every time his fingers clack across the keyboard, it always ends in his characters’ deaths. Worse yet? These tales of blood and barbarity that flow so freely from Seth’s imagination are starting to happen in real life…
Turn the page on this mind-bending, giallo-inspired thriller.
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