Bad Idea December 2026 Solicitations

Creative Team

• A/W/CADavid Lapham
• WMaria Lpaham

Description

Eisner Award-winners David and Maria Lapham (STRAY BULLETS) bring their mind-bending neo-noir to an explosive conclusion that will redefine the sci-fi mystery as we know it. Detective Valencia Vallez is running out of time. Trapped in a City filled with detectives but no answers, every lead in the hunt for her husband's killer has only sent her chasing down another dead end. The City cops are closing in, demanding Val turn over the Mastermind behind the murder, while a gang of armed fugitives stalks her every move. With the walls closing in and nowhere left to turn, Val must do the unthinkable and hijack one of the City’s deadly mechanical Judges. Inside Val might finally find the Mastermind...and unlock the answers buried deep within her missing memories. But Val's learned that in The City, every answer comes with a price. The question is, how much is she willing to pay?

Creative Team

• A/CADavid Lapham
• WRobert Venditti

Description

Pizza justice goes global in the next adrenaline-fueled entry in New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (SUPERMAN ‘78, ORDAINED) and Eisner Award-winning artists David Lapham’s (STRAY BULLETS) striking new vision in the fight against crime! Eyeing a chance to expand into the Japanese market, Big Caligula’s smells dollar signs. The suits at corporate expect their first international location will be rolling in dough, but Big Caligula’s Tokyo is coming up short on bread. Vandalism, stolen supply shipments, threats against employees…someone in town has taken a hit out on pizza and it’s left the shop colder than a day-old slice. Lucky they have Makoto, Big Caligula corporate detective eastern division on the case, personally trained by Hank Howard himself. But when Detective Makoto goes missing, Hank suspects foul play. And he'll do whatever it takes to get to the bottom of things, even if it means burning it all down.

Creative Team

• AJake Baker
• WMike Costa
• CADon Aguilo

Description

New York Times best-selling writer Mike Costa and superstar-in-the-making, Jake Baker deliver a savage, all-too-plausible action thriller set in a near-future where side hustles have become a literal hunt for survival. In the near future, if you need extra cash, you open an app. Accept a hunt. Get paid to exterminate whatever dangerous species is overrunning your part of the world. Coyotes in California. King cobras in Mumbai. Feral camels in Australia. Vampire bats in Brazil. If it threatens people, property, or profit, LANCER puts a bounty on its head. For military vets like Pete Sanborn, it offers something modern life rarely does anymore: a mission, a paycheck, and the hope that one more job might finally be enough. Two years after a wild hog hunt in Texas went catastrophically wrong, Sanborn has sworn he is done with the app. Then an old military buddy shows up with an offer he can’t refuse. Something enormous is living beneath New York City. The payout is life-changing. But the creatures below are not what anyone thinks they are, and by the time Sanborn understands what they are really hunting, it may already be too late. Think Aliens, Predator, Jurassic Park, and RoboCop. The Colonial Marines meet DoorDash. Clock in. Hunt. Survive. Get paid. It's a living.

Creative Team

• AJake Baker
• WMike Costa
• CADon Aguillo

Description

New York Times best-selling writer Mike Costa and superstar-in-the-making Jake Baker unleash a ferocious blood-frenzy in the next must-read chapter of their brutal action horror blockbuster. Pete Sanborn is fresh out of the Marine Corps, out of cash, and running out of ammo. Stuck relying on deadly extermination gigwork through the LANCER app to make ends meet, the only place Sanborn is headed is straight into an early grave. But an old military buddy may have offered him a way out of the rat race, recruiting him into an elite kill crew with bigger guns, better pay, and a new assignment waiting beneath New York City: Descend into the sewers. Kill the horde of mutant alligators. Try to make it out alive.

Creative Team

• AJake Baker
• WMike Costa
• CAEsad Ribic

Description

Critically-acclaimed screenwriter and master storyteller Mike Costa (LUCIFER) joins forces with rising superstar artist Jake Baker and Eisner Award-winning colorist Lee Loughridge (SOMNA) for a pulse-pounding, new sci-fi action-horror blockbuster. Pete Sanborn is a broke former Marine picking up extermination gigs through LANCER – a freelance app connecting veterans with military-grade kill work. Wild hogs. Invasive predators. Things too big, too dangerous for the average person to deal with. Until a routine Texas hog mitigation job goes catastrophically wrong, leaving Sanborn the lone survivor of a grisly massacre. Now Sanborn’s been recruited into an elite crew with bigger guns, better pay, and a new assignment waiting beneath New York City: Descend into the sewers. Kill the horde of mutant alligators. Try to make it out alive.

Creative Team

• AJuan Jose Ryp
• WMatt Kindt
• CAKlaus Janson

Description

New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (BRZRKR) and superstar artist Juan José Ryp (WOLVERINE) combine their powers to unleash a brutal new over-sized blockbuster. Chris Tracey is a highly-trained Soviet sleeper agent embedded deep within the midwestern United States. It's been 40 years since his deployment and with the collapse of the USSR, he's given up on ever receiving activation orders. Just as well. He's focused on other things, like getting his poetry anthology published. But when Russia loses their last undercover agent in the field, sixty-five-year-old Chris Tracey is all they have left. With a deadly mission waiting for him in Austin, it's time for Chris to finally AWAKEN. Waking up is the easy part. The hard part is remembering what comes next. He’s a little rusty…

Creative Team

• A/CAAlex Maleev
• WDerek Kolstad
• WRobert Venditti

Description

IT ALL ENDS HERE! Blockbuster screenwriter Derek Kolstad, creator and writer of the internationally acclaimed, box office dominating motion picture franchise JOHN WICK, New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (SUPERMAN ‘78), and Eisner Award-winning illustrator Alex Maleev (DAREDEVIL), drop the killing blow in the explosive finale to their white-knuckle, globe-spanning action/spy thrill ride. Cole has finally found Valia Petrov, Breck’s mysterious former flame and the key to completing his dead friend’s final mission. But before they can steal one of Russia’s deadly Spearhead jets, Cole is captured by General Kovalev—the man who murdered Breck and the ruthless mastermind behind Russia's next-generation aircraft program. Now Cole is trapped deep inside a Russian military stronghold with the Spearhead fleet just out of reach. And Kovalev has no intention of letting Cole leave alive.

Creative Team

• A/CATomas Giorello
• WJoshua Dysart

Description

The Eisner Award-nominated writer of THE HAB Joshua Dysart (ODINN’S EYE) combines his power with Tomás Giorello (CONAN THE BARBARIAN), the master illustrator behind PLANET DEATH, to unleash an epic of incredible scope and vision. Solveig, a young farm girl of great promise, is haunted by visions from the god-king Odinn himself. In words she cannot understand, and images too violent for a child to comprehend, Odinn tasks Solveig with a brutal mission: retrieve his eye — the one he famously traded for wisdom — and bring it to him. In the real world, the winter season has not left the land of Solveig’s people for several years. As crops fail and livestock perish, fear and panic grow. In their desperation to appease the gods and free the land of this never-ending winter, the tribe turns to the child whose visions are surely a sign from Odinn. A war party is assembled. Solveig and a band of warriors — including an all-seeing witch — are sent north on a great quest — one which will change all that she knows, all who she has known, and all that she will become.