Cave Grave: Wild West Tales HC Spotlight

 

 

For many, the West offered the hope of a better future. They pushed across this land teeming with opportunity, determined to forge a new life amid the wilderness. But as they built farms, towns, and cities, the settlers also brought their demons with them. And, now and then, they were reminded that they were not alone. Who will you meet in this dangerous duo of Wild West yarns? And will they be predators or prey?

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CAVE GRAVE: WILD WEST TALES HC

WRITTEN/ART/COVER BY SHAWN KURUNERU Writer/artist Shawn Kuruneru (The Goddamn Tragedy) explores stories of double-crossing desperation—and hopeless humanity—set against a backdrop of the lawless West in this duology of wild tales. In “Cave Grave,” the art of double-crossing is taken to a new extreme as three struggling thieves attempt to pull off the heist of a lifetime—only to realize they’ve stolen more than they bargained for. In “Poor Moon,” a cowboy searching for purpose turns to bounty hunting. Catch, return, reward—it’s simple, until he picks up a bounty that’ll change his life forever. Until the hunter becomes the hunted . . . $29.99 | 160 PGS. | PC | ON SALE MARCH 4, 2026

 

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Carbon Based: The Art of Lewis Larosa HC Spotlight

 

 

In his introduction, writer and artist Matt Kindt compares Lewis Larosa with Alex Ross. Hunter Gorinson also contributes an extensive introduction to Lewis Larosa's illustrious career. But in many ways, this book is a conversation between Lewis Rosa and Warren Simons, who worked with him for years at Valiant Comics. 

Perhaps, as you pore over the line art, inked drawings, and colored interiors and covers, you will find Lewis speaking to you as well. For as Matt Kindt says, Lewis Larosa has a singular vision, and injects energy into what would otherwise be a static pose. How will his art speak to you? And what stories will Carbon Based prompt you to read and fall in love with again? 

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CARBON BASED: THE ART OF LEWIS LAROSA HC

ART/COVER BY LEWIS LaROSA Since making his professional debut at the dawn of the 21st century, American illustrator Lewis LaRosa has defined himself as one of the most singular masters of the modern comic medium—fusing dynamic reference-based realism, stylized superhero storytelling, and a master's control of shadow and light to produce a wholly unique, jaw-dropping style that could only be called “carbon based.” In this first-ever career retrospective—spanning more than 250+ pages of LaRosa's raw unexpurgated line art in all of its painstakingly rendered intensity, alongside rarely seen character designs, concepts, and more from Marvel Comics, Valiant Entertainment, Epic Games, Hasbro, and more—experience the artist's artistic evolution in all of its stunning detail from series including Bloodshot Reborn, Divinity, Punisher MAX, Savage, Transformers, and more. Featuring an all-new introduction by Oni Press president & publisher Hunter Gorinson with page-by-by commentary by LaRosa and former Valiant editor in chief Warren Simons, and appreciations by some of the artist's most prominent colleagues and collaborators, including Lee Bermejo, Dave Johnson, Matt Kindt, Jeff Lemire, and many more. $49.99 | 256 PGS. | PC | ON SALE MARCH 4, 2026

 

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The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #1 Review

 

Writer: Chris Condon

Artist & Colorist: Jacob Phillips

Letterer: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

Cover Artists: Jacob Phillips, Tula Lotay, Hayden Sherman & Sean Phillips

Connecting Variant Cover Artist: Álvaro Martínez Bueno

Foil Variant Cover Artist: Jacob Phillips

Publisher: DC Comics

Price: $3.99/$4.99 Card Stock

Release Date: February 25, 2026

 

When the gods hurled Hephaestus to Earth, he made a new home on the Greek Island of Lemnos. There, he forged the weapons of the gods. In 1913, an archaeology team discovered a temple buried by time. Inside its ancient confines, they found a treasured object. What is the Anvil of Hephaestus? And centuries after Hephaestus used it, does it still hold the power to make weapons worthy of the gods? Let’s grab our hammers, leap into The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #1, and see!

 

Story

Ezra Cain works as a private detective in New York. While he helps clients obtain their missing property, he’s sufficiently savvy to ensure they pay his invoices. Nor is Ezra averse to a bit of action when necessary. So, when a situation escalates to a shootout, Ezra can protect himself while taking down the aggressor.

 

In November 1941, America had not entered the war in Europe. But the drums were beating. Fascist leaders like Hitler and Mussolini have set their sights on world domination. Time has hardened Ezra Cain. He knows the costs of war. And like Rabbi Jakob Cohen in Gotham, Ezra knows that not everyone welcomes foreigners to American shores. But when a friend from his days in the force asks Ezra to help someone in need, the former police officer agrees to see how he can help an immigrant in The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #1.

 

After a preface showing the 1913 dig in Lemnos, Chris Condon rockets to November 1941. His story immerses readers in this fragile period when people attempt to protect their way of life by shunning outsiders. Ezra is a likeable gentleman who plays his cards close to his chest. His experience prompts clients to seek his services for a variety of reasons. But in The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #1, a client seeks Ezra’s aid because of the archeology expedition on Lemnos, and his connection with the discovery of a priceless artifact connected with the gods.

 

Art

As distant figures gather on a hill, one rappels into the darkness amid a stream of sunlight. Torches illuminate wall carvings, while fire applied to the right place reveals a temple filled with Greek columns and stone soldiers. Twenty-eight years later, birds fly past the Empire State Building. Yellow windows link a nearby apartment building with the glowing Art Deco masterpiece. A hat brim casts a gun-toting man's features in shadow as an older man pounds on a door. But when sudden action hurls the hat from his head, blond strands rebel against the man’s oiled-back hairstyle.

 

Jacob Phillips’ thick lines and limited palette lend The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #1 a film noir feel. Purple, yellow, pink, and beige accompany a fast-paced action scene. Yet red splatters people and nearby objects when the battle turns deadly. Framed photos on his desk greet the private detective when he returns home the next morning. Despite his fierce spirit, age has taken its toll on the former police officer. As yellow light streams into his red bedroom, Ezra pulls off his jacket before an arched window. And instead of staring out at the iconic New York skyscraper, Ezra lies on his bed.

 

Black uppercase letters that grow bold for intonation fill off-white balloons. Raised voices and heightened emotions enlarge words while deforming balloons and arrows. Smaller lowercase letters accompany lowered voices and may appear as off-white letters against a dark background. While giant letters locate us in time and space, sound effects explode across nearly every page as Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou ensures readers “a piece of the action.” Thanks to DC Comics for sharing this story with us.

 

Final Thoughts

War is in the air, but so is magic when a former college professor recommends Ezra for a difficult case. It’s one for which the private detective is well suited. While it seems destined to bring him into contention with world leaders and perhaps the divine, all Ezra knows is that a woman needs his help. And in an era when people distrust anyone associated with the chaos unraveling in Europe, the gumshoe may be the only one who can help her in The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #1.

 

Rating 9.2/10

 

To look inside see my preview of The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #1.

Murder Drones #1 Cover Preview

 

COVER A BY ALESSIO ZONNO

After Human civilization falls, its robot creations survive. But whether biological or cybernetic, people will always vie for power. Some opt to keep their heads down and play cards. Others develop new guns to challenge the world order. Who will live and die? And what is a more effective strategy for survival: following orders or doing your own thing?

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MURDER DRONES #1 (of 6)

WRITTEN BY WYATT KENNEDY ART BY JO MI-GYEONG COVER A BY ALESSIO ZONNO COVER B BY JO MI-GYEONG COVER C BY KROOKED GLASSES COVER D SKETCH COVER FULL ART VARIANT (1:10) BY JO MI-GYEONG FULL ART VARIANT (1:20) BY KROOKED GLASSES VARIANT (1:50) BY PATRICIA MARTÍN VARIANT (1:100) BY LYSANDRA VUONG Based on Glitch Productions' global animation phenomenon created by Liam Vickers and now streaming on Prime Video, it's three cheers for 'destroy all humans' as all-star creators Wyatt Kennedy (Nights, Marvel Voices) and Jo Mi-Gyeong (Eve, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance) unleash the record-setting comics adaptation of the series that you have watched 330 million times: MURDER DRONES! In the far future on the desolate exoplanet designated Copper 9, the humans are long gone but the robotic worker drones they created to mine the planet’s resources are still hard at work. Together, they have managed to forge their own makeshift society . . . or so they thought until a previously unknown kind of robot - the dreaded “Disassembly Drones” - are activated by the mega-corporation JC Jenson to disassemble any worker that deviates from its original programming. But when a rebellious young worker drone named Uzi forms an unlikely alliance with two disassembly drones - Serial Designations N and V-can they, together, uncover the secrets of their origins . . . and stop the spread of the unsettling mechanical virus known as the Absolute Solver? Robots, violence, teen angst, mad science, love, loss, doors, hormones, and chaos! What more could you ask for? A pen, perhaps? It's a clicky pen! (Ask your kids. They'll get it!) $4.99 | 32 PGS. | FULL COLOR | ON SALE FEBRUARY 25, 2026

 

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To look inside see my earlier preview of Murder Drones #1. 

Exorcism Island #5 Preview

 

Father Pyre didn't tell the priests what happened to the excavation crew that found the statue. Nor does he understand why the priests keep vigil over their possessed charges on a deserted island. But Father Pyre makes a frightening discovery when he returns to Rome. And after a demon escapes the statue and climbs inside a demon-possessed patient, the Dancing Priest organizes a prison break. 

 

The priests spent their days in prayer and religious rites. On occasion, they chased down a patient who escaped their bonds. They are not prepared for war. Can Father Gianluca Amato and his more experienced colleagues fight off an organized assault from their demon-possessed patients? Or will the Dancing Priest escape from Exorcism Island, and bring his taste for madness and death to the rest of the world? 

 

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Exorcism Island #5 Preview

Writer: Jordan Thomas

Artist, Colorist & Letterer: Chris Matthews

Publisher: Comixology Originals

Price: $2.99 (Free for Amazon Prime members)

Release Date: February 24, 2026

 

 

As the situation on the island goes full satanic supernova the priests are forced to make some tough choices if they are to have any hope of survival and to ensure the evil of the island does not escape out into the wider world. 

 

 

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Vincent Van Gogh: Sadness Will Last Forever Preview

 

 

His parents named him after his stillborn older brother. They made other plans for him. Vincent had to compromise his ideals to pursue his passion. Still, he knew what he wanted, and tread his own path. What challenges did he face? And what prompted Vincent Van Gogh to create his immortal art?

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Vincent Van Gogh: Sadness Will Last Forever

Written by Francesco Barilli

Art By Sakka

Publisher: Mad Cave Studios

Paperback Price: $19.99

Release Date: February 24, 2026 

A beautiful and stark depiction of Vincent Van Gogh's struggle with depression and the art it produced, told through an emotional dialogue between Vincent and his own madness. For fans of art history and historical fiction.

A gorgeously rendered, emotional exploration of the life and death of one of the most famously tormented painters in human history. Through an emotional dialogue between Vincent and his own madness, the artist revisits the most significant loves and losses of his short life. From his tender and tumultuous relationship with his brother Theo, to the famous quarrel with Gauguin that resulted in the self-mutilation of his ear, to the extreme act of self-harm that led to his death, Vincent Van Gogh channeled an extraordinary light as bright today as it was upon his death in 1890. Now in print for the first time in English, Van Gogh: Sadness is Forever casts its own light onto the darkest shadows of the painter's life and inspirations.

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The Bat-Man: Second Knight #3 Review

      

Writer: Dan Jurgens

Artist: Mike Perkins

Colorist: Mike Spicer

Letterer: Simon Bowland

Cover Artists: Mike Perkins, Marc Aspinall & Stephanie Hans

Publisher: DC Comics

Price: $6.99

Release Date: February 25, 2026

 

In 1939, most people in Gotham struggled to put food on the table. The Great Depression has brought America to its knees, and a war rages overseas. When the Hood uses a series of bizarre and brutal murders to stoke Gotham’s fears, the Scarecrow spots a chance to realize his potential. Aiding the Hood, or Hangman, in killing community leaders, the Scarecrow uses his gas to bring the community’s fears to the boiling point.

 

After bullets rained on Julie Madison's film premiere, a new player bursts into the chaos. Some call him Superman. They claim he can fly. Bruce Wayne can thank him for saving Julie Madison’s life. But can he trust this super-powered do-gooder? And can Superman help him bring the Hood and the Scarecrow’s reign of terror to an end? Let’s grab a gas mask, leap into The Bat-Man: Second Knight #3, and see!

 

Story

Mayor Avril Vincent dislikes people hiding in their homes. He urges calm and community involvement. But Commissioner Gordon knows he cannot protect Gotham from the Hood's horrific slayings and the Scarecrow’s hallucinatory gas. He may have urged the Bat-Man to carry a gun and employed gas weapons recently. But having fought in World War I, Gordon cannot forget how machine guns and chemical weapons transformed battles into soulless slaughter. Still, when villains attack Gotham with a gas that turns neighbors against each other, Gordon must arm his men with Trench Sweepers and Tommy Guns to protect Joe Citizen.

 

After a mass shooting mars the premiere of The Night of a Thousand Cuts, Bruce Wayne is less worried about the movie he funded than what the terrorists will do next. His search for answers leads him to a nearby military base researching chemical weapons. But just as Lois Lane endangered Julie's life when she ran their car off the road, Superman threatens Bruce's attempts to safeguard his city.

 

Dan Jurgens roots his story in the 1930s with period dialogue and the conflicts that dominated people’s thoughts. His cast of characters shares their histories, fears, and what drives them. Jurgens pits the rich against the poor, the criminals against community leaders, and relationships versus careers. Yet The Bat-Man: Second Knight #3 is also about how we face setbacks. As Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent have grasped victory from defeat, a villain has seen his hopes for the future dashed. In an era when governments struggle to provide for their citizens’ needs, he seeks vindication by destroying civilization.

 

Art

Mike Perkins opens with Superman gripping his caped adversary amid fallen soldiers and a demolished concrete wall in an industrial lab. Bat-Man strikes an authority figure next to Lois Lane, while Maxie Cross battles cops in City Hall. Toting two handguns and wearing a gas mask, Commissioner Gordon and his masked squad look more like villains than heroes. Yet demons clad in uniforms and battle helmets loom over the mob, as if ushering the frightened citizens to Hell in The Bat-Man: Second Knight #3.

 

After Bat-Man and Superman's confrontation in a gray and green lab, Mike Spicer paints the traumatizing gas green. Dressed in blues and purple,  the Bat-Man may seem as dangerous to Gotham as the Hood. Yet Bruce Wayne drives a red car and wears a red robe. Wayne Manor's red fabrics and furnishings offer Clark Kent a warm welcome in his blue suit, red tie, and red handkerchief. The Scarecrow's brown attire links him with James Gordon. But unlike the Scarecrow, the Commissioner looks weighed down by his struggle to keep the city safe as another man in brown counsels the traumatized veteran.

 

Amid Mike Perkins detailed period art and Mike Spicer’s loaded palette of colors, Simon Bowland fills white balloons and boxes with black uppercase dialogue. The lettering grows bold for intonation and swells for raised voices, while Scarecrow’s dialogue has a haunted appearance. Sound effects accompany blows, alarms, gas, gunfire, and struggling engines in The Bat-Man: Second Knight #3. Yet they also herald the imposition of people the police might call leeches, and Bruce Wayne once dubbed hyenas and jackals. Thanks to DC Comics for providing a review copy.

 

Final Thoughts

Rabbi Jakob Cohen has always regarded people as inherently good. But he has watched his fellow Germans abandon their principles to commit atrocities in the name of patriotism. After finding haven in America, he saw corrupt and bigoted Americans prey on their neighbors. When the Scarecrow unleashes his gas, Jakob wonders if faith, education, and a system of laws can ever cure Humans of their selfish savagery. As Bruce Wayne races to protect Gotham by apprehending the Hood and the Scarecrow, The Bat-Man: Second Knight #3 ponders what drives us to push past our differences to create something greater than ourselves.

 

Rating 9.8/10

 

To look inside see my preview of The Bat-Man: Second Knight #3.

 

Spirit of the Shadows #2 Cover Preview

 

COVER A BY NICK CAGNETTI

When he dies, Erik awakens in the Sacred Realm with amnesia. But as he reunites with Katrina, Erik remembers he loves her. Then the Clerical drags him down to the Spirit Realm. Before Erik can rejoin his beloved, he must read the book of his life. But doing so will prove an arduous task, and take him on a journey across a strange landscape filled with challenges, monsters, and a fellow adventurer. Will Erik like what he learns about himself? And will the Realmkeepers judge Erik worthy of spending eternity with Katrina?

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SPIRIT OF THE SHADOWS #2 (of 5)

WRITTEN BY NICK CAGNETTI & DANIEL ZIEGLER ART BY NICK CAGNETTI COVER A BY NICK CAGNETTI COVER B BY IAN HIGGINBOTHAM FULL ART VARIANT (1:10) BY NICK CAGNETTI A HERO OUT OF HELL! The new year's most spectacular, eye-popping indie horror hit returns with an all-new chapter from retro-powered cartoonist Nick Cagnetti (Pink Lemonade) and co-creator Daniel Ziegler (Elodie)! As the deceased musician Erik Leroux journeys through an eerie underworld realm alongside the enigmatic Elizabeth, the truth of his forgotten past begins to unfold—one page at a time. But in the land of the living, danger brews as a vengeful witch named Helena and her arcane pet rabbit, Haruspex, mark Erik for destruction. But what dark grudge binds her to a man who no longer walks among the living? And how does it all tie back to Erik's long-lost love—the mysterious Katrina? Ghosts, grief, and grim revelations collide in this twisted tale of love, memory, and the shadows from the past! In the tradition of Jack Kirby's THE DEMON, Mike Allred's MADMAN, and Todd McFarlane's SPAWN, meet the next great addition to the canon of horror heroes as Cagnetti and Ziegler unleash an outrageously otherworldly comic book saga for the ages!  $4.99 | 32 PGS. | FULL COLOR | ON SALE FEBRUARY 25, 2026

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Detective Comics #1106 Preview

 

Batman never intended to blow up Leo Kingsford's life. He just wanted to get a dangerous criminal off the streets. But the way he took down his father left Leo frightened of everything and everyone. Recognizing his mistake, Bruce Wayne did everything he could to rebuild Leo's life, and set him on a better path than his father. And when, even as a teen, Leo still feared going outside, Bruce urged him, "If you don't like what's outside, maybe someday you can find your way out, and work to fix it."

The Lion, or the King of the Beast, has found his way to fix his world. Can Batman protect Gotham from the chemical weapon that steals their fear? Or like the migrants on the boat in Gotham Harbor, will everyone die because Batman traumatized a child? 

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Detective Comics #1106 Preview

Writer: Tom Taylor

Artist: Mikel Janín

Cover Artists: Mikel Janín, Greg Smallwood & Steve Skroce

Publisher: DC Comics

Issue Length: 32 Pages

Price: $4.99/$5.99 Card Stock

Release Date: February 25, 2026

 

“The Courage That Kills” Concludes!

 

What started as a mysterious infection on a boat in Gotham Harbor has grown into one of the most formidable threats Gotham has ever faced! Now, with mere hours to go before Batman’s system is entirely overtaken by his infection, the Dark Knight must attempt to save his city—and himself—before it’s too late!

 

Tom Taylor and Mikel Janín’s exhilarating exploration of the terror of a world without fear ends here!

 

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