April 2025 Solicitations
Mad Cave Studios
24 releases from Mad Cave Studios shipping in April 2025. Pull the issues, track the trades.
Issues
21
Trades
2
Hardcovers
1
Omnibuses
0
Showing 24 of 24 releases
Issues
Inaki Miranda
Cover Artist
Black Forger #2
Creative Team
Description
In the depths of the spiritual realm known as the GARA-GARA hides a forge even more powerful than the one that made Owada emperor. The Forge of Doom is as powerful as it is elusive, capable of changing the fate of the empire. But to get this forge means to walk the traces of a promise impossible to fulfill. Owada has an important decision to make, to be or not to be a true Blade Forger.
Jok
Cover Artist
Body Trade TP #1
Creative Team
Description
"The Body Trade is an unrelenting revenge story set against the backdrop of America's aftermarket for dead bodies. Critically acclaimed writer Zac Thompson (Blow Away, Into The Unbeing) and star artist Jok (In Hell We Fight) team up for this neo-noir crime thriller rife with bloodshed and brutality, in the tradition of Blue Ruin and Hell or High Water! Kim Krilic is a divorced ex-con who's trying to atone. However, his short temper tends to get the best of him. When he returns to Florida to bury his estranged son. He's sickened to find an empty grave. His son's remains were sold into "The Body Trade". Armed with righteous fury, Kim sets out to reclaim his child's corpse. But one act of vengeance causes everything to spiral out of control."
Alex Cormack
Cover Artist
Colleen Doran
Cover Artist
Buried Long Long Ago #1
Creative Team
Description
Based on true events, from 1901-1908 Belle Gunness lured dozens of lonely men to her Indiana farm and savagely murdered them for their money. Because Belle managed to avoid capture and face trial, much of this story remains untold. Until now. This is a fairy-tale retelling of her brutal crimes from the perspective of her three young children...who soon discover there is something far worse, and far more evil, than their mother on the farm. Something Buried Long, Long Ago.
Alex Sanchez
Cover Artist
Crush Depth #2
Creative Team
Description
The Mantawolf drone submersible has returned from its survey of the Devil's Teeth, an oceanic canyon of towering thermal vents teeming with alien life. Within its cargo, a cache of samples, an insidious stowaway lurks: a powerfully transformative organism. Chief Science Officer Liana Pearson along with her crewmate Kate Barron race to study the Mantawolf's alien bounty while the crew grows increasingly restless when the Absolution's nuclear power core begins to behave erratically--Breathe Deep!
P. J. Holden
Cover Artist
Dark Pyramid #2
Creative Team
Description
The monsters of Denali are out tonight! Becca's search for Hooky continues, helped by a conspiracy theorist who might just be right about everything. Meanwhile, a house party is interrupted by a particularly unwelcome guest...
Jim Calafiore
Cover Artist
DJORDJE DJOKOVIC
Cover Artist
Defenders Of The Earth #6
Creative Team
Description
A battle over bits and bytes! Kshin betrays the team to unleash Kro-Tan's deadly serpent, Mongor. Meanwhile, Dynak-X faces off against Octon, only to discover Kro-Tan's shocking secret: her body is still alive in stasis!
Geraldo Borges
Cover Artist
Francesco Francavilla
Cover Artist
Dick Tracy #9
Creative Team
Description
DICK TRACY UNDER FIRE! The City is frozen in place as a brazen killer targets members of the underworld and beyond--with someone Dick Tracy knows pulling the strings! Can Tracy navigate the tangled web of deceit that has enveloped his professional and private lives--and can he ignore the kinetic energy between him and the mysterious Breathless Mahoney? The acclaimed crime series continues with a pulse-pounding thriller that will leave readers guessing!
Will Conrad
Cover Artist
Zach Howard
Cover Artist
Flash Gordon #8
Creative Team
Description
The fearless Flash Gordon must join forces with the fiery Princess Aura-despite their tangled past-to find a way into the Empress's castle. With Prince Barin and the rest of the ragtag group in tow, the motley crew comes face to face with a long-lost ally--but are they friend or foe? The past keeps catching up with Flash's present!
Nik Virella
Cover Artist
Flash Gordon Quarterly #3
Creative Team
Description
An all-new Quarterly special featuring a multiverse of stories! Prince Thun, the Lion Man of Mongo, is featured in an exciting one-shot tale that expands upon his role in Jeremy Adams's ongoing Flash Gordon series. With many of his people missing, he's forced to dive into the darker depths of the underworld--foes and creatures await! In another universe, we see Ming's last moments as he battles Flash and company. Lastly, another exciting "Flash Fiction" horror tale.
Michael Avon Oeming
Cover Artist
Galaxy Of Madness #8
Creative Team
Description
Krios finds herself adrift in the various iterations of the galaxy, searching for her Vigil and teammates. The only constant in all of this madness is Odysseus's hunger for power and his lies. However, lies are only as strong as their liars...
Inaki Miranda
Cover Artist
Chris Batista
Cover Artist
Gatchaman #9
Creative Team
Description
Murder-bots are on a rampage! Galactor unleashes a horde of terrible cybernetic nightmares upon the International Science Organization! Jinpei, who is still recovering from injuries in the line of duty, must fight for survival alongside the Beta Team!
Tommy Lee Edwards
Cover Artist
Gatchaman Only One Earth #3
Creative Team
Description
"In the depths of an ancient temple, Ken, Joe, and the princess uncover a fusion of forgotten teachings and cutting-edge science--a power that could save or destroy the world. As tensions rise between Ken and Joe, Galactor strikes back with devastating force, unleashing a psychic-controlled mech from their high-tech command ship. The ultimate test of trust and ingenuity looms as their love-hate dynamic is pushed to its limits during a battle for Atrena's survival!"
Joe Bocardo
Cover Artist
Hexiles #6
Creative Team
Description
In order to break the curse that looms over them to escape the demons that torment them, The Hexiles must use all of the demonic gifts they possess. For at least one of the children of Jamison Kreel, their plan calls for the ultimate sacrifice.
Skylar Patridge
Cover Artist
Kill Train #4
Creative Team
Description
Vanessa and the remaining survivors make their way to the second-to-last car, where Vanessa will have to face her most dire existential threat yet: the ideal version of herself. But, live or die, Vanessa's best friend Corwin has been keeping a secret from her that carries tragic consequences.
Damian Couceiro
Cover Artist
Missing On The Moon #4
Creative Team
Description
Schwinn and Alina uncover a terrible connection between the missing children and a haunting past. To end the darksiders' plight, they must journey deeper into the heart of a conspiracy-and risk everything to reveal the truth.
Mark Chiarello
Cover Artist
Adam Pollina
Cover Artist
Past Time #1
Creative Team
Description
Henry Hayes could have been the best baseball player anybody ever saw, if only his dark affliction didn't prevent him from playing in the daylight. But when the barnstorming circuit introduces a new novelty to the game-night baseball under the bright lights-will his dreams of playing pro ball finally be realized, or will his bloody past catch up with him before he gets the chance? From the midwest fields of the 1920s to the big city lights of today, Past Time is a small town thriller on a National scale.
Dave Johnson
Cover Artist
Mark Chiarello
Cover Artist
Pop Kill #2
Creative Team
Description
Dina learns more about Jon and deals with her life going up in flames as they both hide out to let things cool down, which unfortunately for them, they do not. With this issue, the excitement and espionage amp up as both sides start to come apart at the seams, trying to control their rivalry as Jon is fooling himself that he has everything under control.
Val Halvorson
Cover Artist
Trevor Henderson
Cover Artist
Slashers Apprentice #1
Creative Team
Description
Riley, a horror-obsessed podcaster with a slasher villain fixation, is seeking a new career path: Helping her favorite legendary slasher, The Hopton Valley Killer, regain their long-lost notoriety while learning the ropes herself.
Dave Chisholm
Cover Artist
Spectrum #5
Creative Team
Description
After the explosive events of last issue, Melody and Ada have been separated. Melody is onboard an alien spaceship piloted by George Parker, her father, who compels her to join him as the ultimate weapon in his fight against Echo. Ada, meanwhile, is not Ada anymore...She's stuck in the body of Gloria Bell, the frontwoman of a band in the 1970s New York punk scene. Both Melody and Ada struggle to find each other again to face off with Echo once and for all, confronting their pasts and risking madness.
Carlos Javier Olivares
Cover Artist
String #5
Creative Team
Description
Being kidnapped is a major problem. Getting taken to a second location is a worse problem. Having the kidnapper be someone who's already killed several other people, and who can easily get away with another murder? Yeah, that's a definite complication. Also, ice cream, and Luke NOT reuniting with an old flame, and an unexpected liaison, and Joon desperately hoping to find the right string to wrap things up nicely, rather than the string that will break! Written by multiple Eisner-award winning Paul Tobin, and drawn by the amazing Carlos Javier Olivares!
Jessica Fong
Cover Artist
Synap #5
Creative Team
Description
All Hell has broken loose with the Chinese Government laying siege to recover the pieces of the Robot, while Ness has seemingly been possessed by the alien entity known only as the Glowing Child. Meanwhile, Shiloh's inability to control the robot sends them into an internal crisis in the Axon Connection where Vivian gives them a glimpse at her past in hopes of connecting the puzzle pieces of who she is and her connection to Synap and Shiloh's entire family.
Collected Editions
Raymund Bermudez
Cover Artist
Hour Of The Wolf Tp
Creative Team
Description
When Owen Blackwood is called across time to a seemingly normal home to destroy a haunted painting, it didn't feel like anything out of the ordinary to this agent of Wolvenheart. Upon arrival, however, Owen finds himself trapped in the very painting he was called to destroy. With only a one hour window of time in which to operate, will Owen be able to save the family from certain death and destroy the painting? Or will he get lost in time and become a cross-dimensional walking ghost?
Greg Broadmore
Cover Artist
One Path Hc Gn (Mr)
Creative Team
Description
Hunted by giant primordial beasts, red in tooth and claw, a tribe of cavegirls scratch out a bleak existence in a brutal uncaring world. They cling onto a life where not many make it beyond the first few months, let alone to adulthood. Governed by ancient laws and arcane rituals - the only constants they have - they follow the old ways on pain of death. But One Path, a hunter and warrior, has a plan to change their lives. To free them from the toll the great predators that stalk them charge, and it will overturn everything they know.
Raymund Bermudez
Cover Artist
Revolution 9 Tp
Creative Team
Description
After years as an assassin for the Order of Nine-an ancient order dating back almost 3,000 years-Velveteen has turned her back on the very organization that saved her. Tasked with the murder of otherwise innocent hacker Jasper Dean, she sets off to save his life and discover the terrible secret that marked him for death. With the entire Order after them, Velveteen and Jasper must escape their grasp and prevent them from toppling society as we know it.





















