Mad Cave May 2025 Solicitations

EXIT CITY TP

Creators: (W) Mark London (A) Karl Mostert (CA) Raymund Bermudez
Price: $17.99 | ISBN: 9781545816974 | Product Code: 0325MA495

In-Store Date: 5/14/2025

In Exit City, there’s a thin line between good and evil, and Detectives McCormick and Miller are about to find out the hard way. When they come to the scene of a brutal accident, it becomes clear that the Major Crimes division was called in for a reason. With minimal evidence, McCormick and Miller must work together through a web of seedy criminals, genetic experiments, and a crooked government. But that’s not the only thing standing in their way, McCormick is hiding a secret that would make anyone question his capabilities.

INDIGO TP

Creators: (W) Chi Ho Kwong (A/CA) Chi Kit Kwong
Price: $10.99 | ISBN: 9781545819036 | Product Code: 0325MA503

In-Store Date: 5/21/2025

Ella is a reporter for an occult magazine, living what appears to be a normal life. She’s not the best at getting along with people, but she has the special ability to sometimes know what other people are thinking. She also possesses an extreme sensibility which enables her to communicate with plants and animals. One day, Ella learns of the strange death of her college professor and beloved mentor, who seems to have committed suicide by starving to death. Instinct draws Ella to investigate the real cause of the professor’s death, which gradually unfolds a series of mysterious incidents which surpass Ella’s wildest imagination. As she investigates further, Ella encounters people who slowly guide her closer to the truth, which causes alternate forces to try and stop her pursuit. With help, Ella overcomes all odds, and in the process discovers she must fulfill her destiny and decide the fate of humanity, Earth…and the universe.

LONG COLD WINTER TP

Creators: (W) Francesca Perillo (A/CA) Stefano Cardoselli
Price: $17.99 | ISBN: 9781545812563 | Product Code: 0325MA506

In-Store Date: 5/28/2025

In the not-too-distant future, the air on Earth has become unbreathable. However, a multinational company called Air Co. has constructed generators that provide oxygen for those who can afford it. Peace Dog, a desperate ex-soldier, who has been willing to do anything to obtain breathable air is haunted by his past and hunted by bounty hunters, though, he may have found a way out of his current predicament by helping a mysterious robot child escape the dangerous and congested city. But, someone from his past has no intention of letting him leave…alive.

MURDER KINGDOM TP

Creators: (W) Fred Van Lente (A) Chris Panda (CA) Paulina Ganucheau
Price: $17.99 | ISBN: 9781960578785 | Product Code: 0325MA507

In-Store Date: 5/21/2025

You must be this tall…to DIE!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!

PRAIRIE GODS TP (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Shane Connery Volk
Price: $17.99 | ISBN: 9781960578815 | Product Code: 0325MA513

In-Store Date: 5/14/2025

Created by the artist of Nottingham, PRAIRIE GODS is The Twilight Zone meets Sin City with a B-Movie feel, featuring five self-contained stories of supernatural events in the small prairie town of Broadacres: a champion race car driver has a high speed duel with the Devil; a seemingly immortal sheriff hunts a dangerous criminal; a soldier on the battlefield encounters a visitor from out of this world; a tour guide and treasure hunter pursue a deadly myth into an abandoned mine; and a test pilot must escape a fiery crash and a very large, very hungry wolf. Small town life just got a little stranger.

SARAH & DARAH TP

Creators: (W) David Pinckney (A/CA) Pia Prado
Price: $14.99 | ISBN: 9781952303630 | Product Code: 0325MA514

In-Store Date: 5/14/2025

Scandals and heartache are coming to the prestigious Placeside High where only the best of the best attend. As senior year is about to start and the graduates embark on their futures, with some attending college and others focusing on burgeoning careers, Darah has returned for senior year and will start a war against her rival, her former best friend, Sarah. Tempers flare and the truth is revealed in this compelling high school drama.At age 12, Darah, the exiled daughter of Thomas Benson, the butler of The Havenmeyers, returns after five years to seek revenge on Sarah Havenmeyer, the girl who “destroyed” her life. It was Sarah’s misinformation that made her parents exile Darah to Alaska where she had no life whatsoever. Now, Darah has returned, and the school has erupted in a frenzy–isn’t Darah The Placeside Pyro? Why has she returned? Sarah won’t let anyone get between her and her esteemed social standing. But as it turns out, Darah won’t back down from a fight, and she is ready to destroy Sarah by knocking her off her social pedestal…and telling everyone the truth.

STRING TP (MR)

Creators: (W) Paul Tobin (A/CA) Carlos Javier Olivares
Price: $17.99 | ISBN: 9781960578839 | Product Code: 0325MA516

In-Store Date: 5/21/2025

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?

SUNDER TP VOL 01 SMALL BEGINNINGS

Creators: (W/A/CA) Pierre Alexandre Comtois
Price: $19.99 | ISBN: 9781545817919 | Product Code: 0325MA517

In-Store Date: 5/7/2025

When a mysterious book appears in the library of a young monk named Zeek, he must embark on a quest to find its rightful owner. Unbeknownst to him, another dark figure has been searching for this very book for a very long time, sending his minions across the known planets and using dark magic to find it at all costs. When this evil figure realizes the manuscript has finally resurfaced, it sets events in motion that will send Zeek on an adventure unlike anything he could have ever imagined–leading Zeek to discover his true identity and destiny.

BLADE FORGER #1

Creators: (W) Inaki Miranda, Roy Miranda (A/CA) Inaki Miranda
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60196140470000112 | Product Code: 0325MA486

In-Store Date: 5/7/2025

The debut issue of BLADE FORGER, back by popular demand in a Second Printing with a brand new cover! The discovery of CORUM, a never seen before energy source, led to a bloody world war for its control. After years of destruction, the Lords of the Lands agreed to negotiate a ceasefire for lasting peace. The BLADE FORGERS TREATY was born from that meeting. This treaty established that the mining of Corum would be centralized through one government, led by a neutral Emperor. The Emperor would have to be a BLADE FORGER, a mystical swordsman, and claim the title in a tournament called The Tournament of the Five Rings. Every five years Blade Forgers from every corner of the Empire would fight for the possibility of becoming the new Emperor. A young Blade Forger named Owada challenges the Emperor in the name of the forsaken people. This is the story of what happens next.

BLADE FORGER #3

Creators: (W) Inaki Miranda, Roy Miranda (A/CA) Inaki Miranda
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60196140470000311 | Product Code: 0325MA487

In-Store Date: 5/21/2025

How do you change the fate of a world? How do you fulfill an impossible promise? The prophecy speaks of two paths. One ends in the death of Owada and the ascension of Crimson Mask as the new emperor. The other we must discover, for it is the one that Owada’s battle-blade has chosen. One thing is certain…both paths lead to blood and death.

CRUSH DEPTH #3

Creators: (W) Tim Daniel, David DB Andry (A/CA) Alex Sanchez
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60196140472400311 | Product Code: 0325MA488

In-Store Date: 5/28/2025

A shared dream? A mass nightmare? A vision of the future? A newly discovered landmass formed atop the Devil’s Teeth thermal vents offers both new hope and new terrors. Liana Pearson’s Absolution crewmates are experiencing strange neurological phenomena and find themselves conjuring up mutually shared images and finishing each other’s sentences. While Liana wrestles with her growing fear, Kate Barron has gone missing…Breathe Deep!

DARK EMPTY VOID #5

Creators: (W) Zack Kaplan (A/CA) Chris Shehan
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60194704595800511 | Product Code: 0325MA489

In-Store Date: 5/21/2025

The end is here. Now fully committed to helping Art at any costs, Joy charts a daring path through the deadly creature’s hive, past the point of no return, and into the black hole itself, where she will confront the final mysteries of this wonderous phenomenon and find out once and for all, why a human stranger came out of this black hole.

DARK PYRAMID #3

Creators: (W) Paul Tobin (A/CA) PJ Holden
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60196140471700311 | Product Code: 0325MA490

In-Store Date: 5/28/2025

Becca and Shailene are on the run from General Cho and the horrifying monster he controls. What mysteries and monsters of Mt. Denali will start to reveal themselves? Buckle up, our heroines are about to meet some truly strange creatures. But what does The Dark Pyramid have to do with them? And where the heck is Hookie?

DEFENDERS OF THE EARTH #7

Creators: (W) Dan DiDio (A/CA) Jim Calafiore
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60194704596507011 | Product Code: 0325MA491

In-Store Date: 5/7/2025

With Seven Nations on the brink of surrender to the ruthless Kro-Tan, Lothar and his ex-wife race to unite the fractured leaders, while Flash faces an impossible choice: save the world or the woman he loves.

DICK TRACY #10

Creators: (W) Alex Segura, Michael Moreci (A/CA) Geraldo Borges
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60194704612201011 | Product Code: 0325MA493

In-Store Date: 5/14/2025

WHO IS THE BLANK?As the city grapples with a spree killer expanding his reach from two-bit thugs to innocent bystanders, Dick Tracy must use every tool available to figure out the true identity of The Blank–before the unthinkable happens and the killer targets someone within Tracy’s inner circle.The noir-reimagining of DICK TRACY continues to surprise and shock readers new and old, as the second arc of the series reaches its fever pitch.

FAR DOWN BELOW #2

Creators: (W) Christopher Condon (A) Gegê Schall (CA) Jacob Phillips
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60196140473100211 | Product Code: 0325MA496

In-Store Date: 5/7/2025

Forced to descend further beneath the earth as the house fire rages above and blocks their only exit, Brian and Jeff–and a strange, new companion–discover a subterranean wonder. Meanwhile, on the surface, their parents race to find where their sons may have disappeared.

FLASH GORDON #9

Creators: (W) Jeremy Adams (A) Tom Derenick (CA) Will Conrad
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60194704605409011 | Product Code: 0325MA497

In-Store Date: 5/14/2025

The spacefaring and action-packed adventures continue! A long-awaited reunion turns into a deadly trap as someone from Flash’s past reveals their true intent! Can ANYONE be trusted?

GALAXY OF MADNESS #9

Creators: (W) Magdalene Visaggio (A) Victor Santos (CA) Michael Avon Oeming
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60194704602300911 | Product Code: 0325MA499

In-Store Date: 5/7/2025

Vigil seems to have finally been reunited with her long-lost parents! But at what cost?! Will this reunion bring with it the closure she so desperately needs? There are still many questions that she desperately needs answered and only one man who can help her…it’s a journey across a mad galaxy to the man she once thought of as her father, Odysseus Rex.

GATCHAMAN #10

Creators: (W) Cullen Bunn (A) Chris Batista (CA) Inaki Miranda
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60194704601601011 | Product Code: 0325MA500

In-Store Date: 5/28/2025

While Galactor’s murderous robots wage war on the International Science Organization, a much more secret, much more sinister plan unfurls–and the repercussions may very well destroy the Science Ninja Team!

GATCHAMAN ONLY ONE EARTH #4

Creators: (W) Tommy Lee Edwards (A) Nuno Plati (CA) Tommy Lee Edwards
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60196140461804011 | Product Code: 0325MA502

In-Store Date: 5/14/2025

The final battle! Can the ancient teachings of Atrena and the Science Ninja Team’s machinery hold up against Galactor’s cutting-edge technology? A mech battle determines the fate of all!

KILL TRAIN #5

Creators: (W) Olivia Cuartero Briggs (A) Martina Niosi (CA) Skylar Patridge
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60196140459500511 | Product Code: 0325MA504

In-Store Date: 5/28/2025

Trapped between a surviving assassin and the butchers awaiting them at the train yard, Vanessa and an unexpected companion must find a way to get off the final train car before it reaches the end of the line. Don’t miss the gutwrenching last issue of this terrifying thrill ride.

PALE KNIGHT #1

Creators: (W) Peter Milligan (A) Val Rodrigues (CA) Nick Marinkovich
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60194704604700111 | Product Code: 0325MA508

In-Store Date: 5/28/2025

England, 1349. Sir Hugh de Grey, the Pale Knight, returns from war to find a land ravaged by the Black Death, and his son dying of the plague. When he prays to God to save his son’s life, it is not God who answers–but Death himself. And Death is willing to cut a deal.

PAST TIME #2

Creators: (W) Joe Harris (A) Russell Olson (CA) Mark Chiarello
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60196140474800211 | Product Code: 0325MA510

In-Store Date: 5/14/2025

The Monroe County Burners Barnstorming Baseball Club are short a player. Is this Henry Hayes’ big chance… or was it all his fault?

POP KILL #3

Creators: (W) Jimmy Palmiotti, Dave Johnson (A) Juan Santacruz (CA) Dave Johnson
Price: $6.99 | UPC: 60196140463200311 | Product Code: 0325MA511

In-Store Date: 5/7/2025

The beautiful Dina Delux, a scientist in the Fizz division at Popso Cola is on the verge of creating a formula that will make soda 50% fizzier, keeping it carbonated longer than any other brand on the market. A breakthrough like this would put all the competition out of business in a heartbeat. Popso’s main rival Fizz One Cola hears the rumors about the discovery, and they activate their best man, Jon Pyle, to take care of the situation. His orders are to convince Dina to switch sides, and if that fails, to eliminate her. However, after they meet the attraction is undeniable and a third option kicks in, one which triggers repercussions from both sides.

SPECTRUM #6

Creators: (W) Rick Quinn (A/CA) Dave Chisholm
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60196140454000611 | Product Code: 0325MA515

In-Store Date: 5/21/2025

Through the looking-glass, Melody and Ada have found Leon, Ada’s father–memory shattered and aged beyond his years. Simultaneously, Echo descends upon Melody and Ada like some kind of glam-rock kaiju—and she plans on shattering more than their memories. Melody and Ada will need the help of a century’s worth of artists and anarchists if they hope to survive!

VANISHING POINT #1

Creators: (W) Mark Russell (A) Juan Doe (CA) Christian Ward
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60196140478600111 | Product Code: 0325MA518

In-Store Date: 5/7/2025

In “Screams”, the captain of a mining ship goes on a ten year solo mission to the Jupiter Asteroid Belt where he makes a horrifying discovery!The brainchild of Mark Russell, Vanishing Point is an anthology series of short stories that are part science fiction and part existential horror, with an exceptional roster of artists tackling each tale. These are stories with a twist in which the twist is not the point of the story, but a beginning point from which to ask what it means to be alive.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CRIMSON JUSTICE #1

Creators: (W) Frank Tieri (A/CA) Inaki Miranda
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 60196140479300111 | Product Code: 0325MA520

In-Store Date: 5/21/2025

There was a time that when the Red Alert shone in the sky, Empire City’s greatest hero, the Crimson Justice, would answer the call. But now it’s been years and neither he– nor his sidekick Reddy, nor their psychotic arch foe, Dr. Mayhem– have been seen since the Great Empire City Hospital Fire decades ago. What happened that fateful night? Did they all die? But if that’s the case, who or what is this Dr. Mayhem who’s reappeared in the modern day, brutally murdering Commissioner Thomas Kent and challenging the Justice to return? Is that possible? Does the Crimson Justice still live? And if so, what could have made him disappear and abandon his crimson hood in the first place? Join the Eisner nominated team of Frank Tieri and Inaki Miranda (Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons, Harley Quinn, Catwoman) as they unravel the mystery in this 5-issue series of heroes and villains—and the consequences of being either.