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Dec. 7, 2025, 7:30 a.m.

Image Comics in the '10s bundle

Nothing humble about this bundle

Bad Karma, Loose Ends & Stray Bullets: Exploring the World of Crime Comics Bad Karma, Loose Ends & Stray Bullets: Exploring the World of Crime Comics

Humble Bundle currently has a huge bundle of Image comics from the ‘10s going. $18 gets you 175 books. Some of which are crime comics or crime comics adjacent. It’s a great deal.


Deadly Class Vols. 1 - 8

It’s 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can’t focus in class. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin’s top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he’s failing is "Dismemberment 101," and his crush has a doubledigit body count. Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world’s top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft. At Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts, the dagger in your back isn’t always metaphorical.


Southern Bastards Vols 1 - 4

Welcome to Craw County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin' Rebs football team...and more bastards than you've ever seen. When you're an angry old man like Earl Tubb, the only way to survive a place like this...is to carry a really big stick.


Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses Vols. 1 - 4 (review)

(note: I believe Stray Bullets: Love & Roses remains fully uncollected. These 4 volumes collect up through issues 32. The series ran for 42 issues. Regardless, we all know I how much I love Stray Bullets.)

Dark and twisted, funny and heartbreaking, intimate and epic—SUNSHINE & ROSES tells the story of a boy and a girl, how they fell in love and hatched a scheme to blow up the Baltimore underworld.


Happy

Meet NICK SAX - a corrupt, intoxicated ex-cop turned hit-man, adrift in a stinking twilight world of casual murder, soulless sex, eczema and betrayal. With a hit gone wrong, a bullet in his side, the cops and the mob on his tail, and a monstrous child killer in a Santa suit on the loose, Nick and his world will be changed forever this Christmas.By a tiny blue horse called Happy


Killadelphia

When small-town beat cop Jimmy Sangster returns to his Philadelphia roots to bury his murdered father, he stumbles into a mystery that will lead him down a path of horrors and shake his beliefs to their core. The city that was once the symbol of liberty and freedom has fallen prey to corruption, poverty, unemployment, brutality…and vampires. There’s a reason they say you can’t go home again. Welcome to Killadelphia.


Revival

For one day in rural central Wisconsin, the dead came back to life. Now, it's up to Officer Dana Cypress to deal with the media scrutiny, religious zealots, and government quarantine that has come with them. In a town where the living have to learn to deal with those who are supposed to be dead, Officer Cypress must solve the brutal murder of her own sister. Now everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect, while Em Cypress, murder victim, keeps getting in Dana's way.


Sex Criminals

Suzie’s just a regular gal with an irregular gift: when she has sex, she stops time. One day she meets Jon and it turns out he has the same ability. And sooner or later they get around to using their gifts to do what we’d ALL do: rob a couple banks. A bawdy and brazen sex comedy for comics begins here!


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