Gun Honey: Heat Seeker Exposed Preview

REGULAR EDITION COVER ARTIST: LUCIO PARRILLO

 

When Dahlia Racers rescued Evie Parker and Rosaline Priess from Dr. Livonia Cutler, she got more than a CGC copy of The Incredible Hulk #1. The woman who designs acts for magicians and helps people disappear has become part of a family.

 

Their domestic situation isn't ideal. Evie can't feel anything without Dr Bessemer Preiss’ magic formula. Rosaline’s dad made her into a bomb. Dahlia dislikes discussing her past. Will Dahlia and Rosaline get along when Evie visits the man who experimented on her? 

 

Here's all the info from Titan Comics & Hard Case Crime:

 

 

Gun Honey: Heat Seeker: Exposed

Writer: Charles Ardai 

Artist: Ace Continuado

Inker: Juan Castro

Colorist: Asifur Rahman

Letterer: David Leach

Cover Artists: Lucio Parrillo & Artgerm

Publisher: Titan Comics

Book Length: 112 Pages

Price: $17.99

Release Date: May 13, 2026 
ISBN: 9781787747678

Fiery heroine Dahlia Racers is on the run in this latest volume of the acclaimed Gun Honey comics spin-off that fans of crime noir and pulp fiction will love.

The incredible creative team of this hot series is back, written by award-winning co-founder of Hard Case Crime Charles Ardai, with slick and sultry art by Ace Continuado.

Award-winning writer and co-founder of Hard Case Crime Charles Ardai returns to the Gun Honey universe in the next action-packed volume of the spin-off featuring the sultry and explosive artwork of Ace Continuado!

Dahlia Racers, the ex-girlfriend of Gun Honey Joanna Tan, is a fiery redhead who, when someone’s gunning for you, will take the heat on herself – for a price. As a master of disguise and deception, she uses every trick to dupe those who want you captured or dead.

When a relentless investigative reporter threatens to expose her criminal activities, mistress of misdirection Dahlia Racers needs to disappear - from the reporter, the police, and her own former clients who want to silence her…permanently!

If you’re a fan of classic pulp fiction and crime noir, and love a strong sexy heroine, this is the book for you!

 

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Thanks to Titan Comics for sharing this preview with us.

 

For how the previous series started, see my review of Heat Seeker Combustion #1. 

For how the Heat Seeker series began, see my review of Heat Seeker: A Gun Honey Series Vol 1. 

 

X-Men: Age of Revelation Overture #1 Review

 

Writer: Jed MacKay

Penciler: Ryan Stegman

Inker: JP Mayer

Colorist: Edgar Delgado

Letterer: Clayton Cowles

Cover Artists: Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer & Marte Gracia; Aaron Kuder & Marte Gracia; Stanley “Artgerm” Lau; Cory Smith & Carlos Lopez; Rickie Yagawa & Tamra Bonvillain; Mark Bagley & Alex Sinclair

Design: Jay Bowen

Editors: Lindsey Cohick, Annalise Bissa, Tom Brevoort & CB Cebulski

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Price: $5.99

Release Date: October 1, 2025

 

When voices awaken him, Scott Summers peers through his visor. Although he recognizes the people around him, they look different. Older. As he rises from the hospital bed and yanks the contact pads off his forehead, Scott asks what's going on. His “friends” tell him they’ve transported his consciousness from his era and supplanted him in his older body. Worse than the abduction, they destroyed his present consciousness to bring him here. Why did his older colleagues summon him to the future? And can he trust them? Let’s grab our visors, leap into X-Men: Age of Revelation Overture #1, and see!

 

Story

Magneto, so often Scott's adversary, wears an X on his belt. He leads Scott out of the cave and shows him a foreign land. It used to be the United States. Below him, nature has encroached upon cities. Foliage-crowned, crumbling towers poke above the forest. Magneto tells him that a mutative virus is sweeping across the United States. Like the Terrigen Bomb that activated Kamala Khan's Inhuman genes, this virus turns Humans into Mutants. This virus has also changed the landscape, destroying the roads and cities that helped Humanity thrive.

 

 

As Scott realizes that civilization lies in ruins, he learns that Doug Ramsey rules the isolated pockets of survivors in this vast, expanding landscape. His choristers assist those villages loyal to him. Seraphim kill the dissenters. Millions may have died. But the Revelation Territories have taken on the vitality of the Mutant nation of Krakoa that Doug helped create. As Cipher, Doug helped people communicate and grow in harmony with nature. Now, as Revelation, Doug takes inspiration from the Biblical story of Humanity's first attempt to build a skyscraper. He turns dissenters into Babels stripped of any ability to communicate in X-Men: Age of Revelation Overture #1.

 

 

 

After providing a glimpse of village life, Jed MacKay's story follows Scott, Revelation, and his seraphim, Psylocke. But the spotlight shines brightest on Scott Summers as he navigates unfamiliar surroundings. He doesn't know this world or who he can trust. And in their desperate struggle to survive, the X-Men employ harsher methods than Scott approves of. While they value his abilities, some aren't ready to follow him. He may not like what his X-Men have done. Still, Scott Summers fights to meet the demands facing him without relinquishing his principles in X-Men: Age of Revelation Overture #1. 

 

 

 

Art

Ryan Stegman and JP Mayer fill traditional page layouts with natural beauty, drama, and action. Scott's muscular body, long hair, beard, and clothing show how time has forced his older self to adapt. His new allies mutter to each other about him. Most regard him with frowns. After cloaking his features in shadow, Magneto's face appears within his mask as he explains the world they inhabit. Then a hairy Mutant leaps from above the cave mouth to confront them. 

 

 

 

Edgar Delgado applies a loaded palette of nuanced colors to X-Men: Age of Revelation Overture #1. Like the fire that accompanies his choristers' appearances, Revelation adorns himself in yellow and orange. As he plucks blue fruit from a tree, the purple foliage forms a link with our first glimpse of his wife. But Bei's predominant red outfit links her with Magneto's costume and Scott's cape. Still, no color reinforces the harshness of this Brave New World like pink. It colors Glob Herman's translucent body, Psylocke's sword, and the energy whirling around Quentin Quire's goggles.

 

 

 

Clayton Cowles fills panels with black uppercase letters in white dialogue balloons and narrative balloons. When he bends others to his will, Revelation speaks white letters into black boxes. White block letters introduce settings and characters. Telepathic communication occurs in cloudy balloons. Sound effects enhance weapon fire and clashing blades, while giant letters overtake the background when Revelation sends his Angel of Death to dispatch his enemies. Thanks to Marvel Comics for providing a review copy.

 

 

 

Final Thoughts

As Cipher, Doug Ramsey helped the Mutants thrive. Now, as Revelation, he isolates people into small pockets of civilization that he can control. While ruling with an iron fist, the truth becomes whatever Revelation wishes it to be. And anyone who disagrees with him never does so again. Jed MacKay, Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer, Edgar Delgado, and Clayton Cowles deliver a far-reaching meditation on what happens when the abilities that help us achieve greatness outweigh our respect for others in X-Men: Age of Revelation Overture #1.

 

Rating 9.8/10

 

To look inside see my review at Comic Book Dispatch. 

Heat Seeker: Exposed #1 Review

 

Writer: Charles Ardai

Penciller: Ace Continuado

Inker: Juan Castro

Colorist: Asifur Rahman

Letterer: David Leach

Cover Artist: Artgerm, Lucio Parillo, Bräo, Des Taylor, Photo, Yasmine, Ace Continuado, Tehani Farr & Sozomaika

Publisher: Titan Comics

Price: $3.99

Release Date: June 4, 2025

 

When Dahlia Racers rescued Evie Parker and Rosaline Priess from Dr. Livonia Cutler, she got more than a CGC copy of The Incredible Hulk #1. The woman who designs acts for magicians and helps people disappear has become part of a family.

 

Their domestic situation isn't ideal. Evie can't feel anything without Dr Bessemer Preiss’ magic formula. Rosaline’s dad made her into a bomb. Dahlia dislikes discussing her past. Will Dahlia and Rosaline get along when Evie visits the man who experimented on her? Let’s slip on our disguises, leap into Heat Seeker: Exposed #1, and find out!

 

Story

Dahlia and her assistant Cesar were supposed to help Rosaline disappear. Evie and her fellow mercenaries were supposed to kidnap Rosaline from Dahlia’s clutches. But when the bullets fly, things get complicated fast. Now, Dahlia is navigating a conventional life. She waves goodbye to Rosaline and hopes her adoptive daughter has a good first day at her new school. Then Dahlia gets a call from Joanna Tan. The Gun Honey she helped disappear has a message for Dahlia. “You know how all the secrets stored in the Yamato vault got put online? Your name is in them.”

 

Some of the people Dahlia has helped disappear, like Joanna, are good people trying to escape the people who want to kill them. But internet reporter Jacqueline McGee doesn’t care. In Heat Seeker: Exposed #1, Jacqueline calls herself the Bitch with a Bone and gets her kicks by making headlines. Nothing gets her more excited than exposing other people’s secrets to her million followers. Dahlia may not turn into a monster like Bruce Banner in Charles Ardai’s story. But even if she did, Jacqueline wouldn’t worry about the Hulk hurting her or smashing up her apartment. All she would care about was getting great footage.

 

Dahlia enjoys helping people disappear. Her clients pay her handsomely. She gets to employ her phenomenal artistry. Then, she plants false evidence to convince their pursuers and the public that her clients died. Heat Seeker: Exposed #1 forces Dahlia to confront her past. Perhaps she helped some of her clients escape justice. Others feared for their lives. None of them want anyone unearthing their past lives. Dahlia was supposed to protect their secrets. Her clients won’t be happy Dahlia let them down.

 

Art

Dahlia hides her appearance beneath a mop of red hair. But when Jacqueline appears with a megaphone outside her apartment, the wig is the first to go. Ace Continuado and Juan Castro demonstrate that Dahlia’s makeover artistry is worthy of Sherlock Holmes or Slippery Jim diGriz. When Dahlia reaches the subway, a colored circle in her palm reminds her that the clock is ticking. As the city's computer did to Logan, Jacqueline's actions could consign Dahlia to Carousel.

 

Joanna Tan stands in a square of yellow light in an abandoned building. The graffiti-marked walls glow green and purple from the sparse light pouring through the glass skylights. Asifur Rahman lavishes a loaded palette on Dahlia's high-flying action and dramatic encounters in Heat Seeker: Exposed #1. Jacqueline's red skirt echoes Dahlia's wig. And when the purple-haired reporter meets with Dahlia later, her green shorts echo Dahlia's trademark jumpsuit.

 

David Leach fires black uppercase words into white dialogue balloons. Joanna Tan’s off-camera dialogue inhabits yellow boxes, while Dahlia’s thoughts dwell in their blue narrative cousins. Sound effects amplify buzzing phones and silenced handguns while a rain of bullets and exploding glass shake the action-packed panels. Thanks to Titan Comics and Hard Case Crime for providing a review copy.

 

Final Thoughts

Dahlia's new family implodes as her partner abandons her and a ruthless reporter sets her clients against her. Pulse-pounding action leads to an explosive finish in Heat Seeker: Exposed #1.

 

Rating 9.6/10

 

To look inside see my preview of Heat Seeker: Exposed #1. 

Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor: Everyone Must Go TP Review

 

Writer: Dan Watters

Artist: Kelsey Ramsay

Colorist: Valentina Bianconi

Letterer: Tyler Smith

Cover Artists: Artgerm

Publisher: Titan Comics

Price: $17.99

Release Date: March 19, 2025

 

After causing a scandal in the bohemian town of Bath, the Doctor leaves Earth to pursue a sound. As in Attack Of The Cybermen, the Doctor and Ruby follow the sound to a relay point. Then another. The places they visit form the Greatest Hits of the Doctor's worst nightmares.

 

Finally, they return to England. Not in 1985 or 1813, but to York Castle in 1739. Why did the strange sound bring them to witness the execution of the dreaded highwayman, Dick Turpin? Let’s grab our sonic screwdrivers, leap into Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor: Everyone Must Go TP, and find out!

 

Story

The Doctor befriended Rogue, but now the bounty hunter inhabits an unknown alternate dimension. So, the Doctor throws himself into another mystery. When he meets Dick Turpin, the fastest Human on horseback wields a Cyber-gauntlet. Like Ashildr, the highway robber has an execution in his future. (If only, like Dennis Moore, he had demanded lupins instead of money and jewels!) Still, his god has promised to save him if Dick can make the Doctor scream.

 

In Dan Watter’s story, the Doctor realizes that the sound bouncing across the Space-Time Vortex is a scream. He tracks it to Earth in the 29^th Century. Solar storms are eroding the atmosphere and boiling the oceans. The last residents of Earth inhabit Sanctum Shopping And Dining. The residents have everything they need. Unfortunately, they also have someone they don't.

 

In Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor: Everyone Must Go TP, a new villain wants something from the Doctor. He is a collector, and he loves to scare people. The more he can frighten them, the better. Because then they will give him what he values most: their screams.

 

Art

As Ruby admits to a childhood nightmare about getting lost in a shopping center, a little girl clutches her teddy bear and wanders through dark corridors filled with pipes, conduits, and machinery. When the Doctor finds her in the lower levels of the shopping mall, he discovers that Cybermen lurk in Sanctum Shopping and Dining.

 

As in most Doctor Who stories, the Doctor gets separated from his companion in Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor: Everyone Must Go TP. The Doctor tries to protect the little lost girl from the monsters she fears the most. Ruby discovers that more than Humans, Cybermen and robot security guards inhabit the shopping mall.

 

Valentina Bianconi lavishes a loaded palette on Kelsey Ramsay's whimsical art in Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor: Everyone Must Go TP. Vibrant colors lend a cheery atmosphere to this last homely shopping mall filled with striking architecture, floating plants, and abundant food and drink. The Scream Sommelier keeps his treasures in glowing yellow bottles, and the god tries to trap the Doctor in his yellow realm of fear. When the Doctor studies a Cyberman, he spies a purple nebula filled with whirls of yellow, green, red, pink, orange, and blue.

 

Tyler Smith conjures large black uppercase letters into white dialogue balloons, casts off-camera dialogue into white narrative boxes bordered by character-specific colors, and programs a computerized font into octagonal dialogue balloons. Words embolden for emphasis and italicize for strong emotion, while enlarged colorful dialogue threatens to burst dialogue balloons. Giant rounded Vrooops accompany the TARDIS’ activation. A sign for John & Smith adorns an act of unthinking cruelty, while another welcomes shoppers with the words Everyone Must Go.

 

Extras

Concept sketches enliven a five-page interview with the British author and artist. The fifteen-page cover gallery showcases most full-size without titles, logos, and credits. A guide to more Doctor Who trades rounds out this first volume of the fifteenth Doctor's comic adventures. Thanks to Titan Comics for providing a copy for review.

 

Final Thoughts

Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor: Everyone Must Go TP evokes adventures from earlier eras of the wandering Time Lord's life. Dan Watters' story shows how fear can turn us into monsters. Yet, it also points out that fear expresses hope. When all you can do is scream, that's not all bad.

 

Rating 9.6/10 

 

To look inside see my preview of Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor: Everyone Must Go.

Heat Seeker: A Gun Honey Series #1 Review

 

Writer: Charles Ardai

Penciller: Ace Continuado

Inker: Jose Zapata

Colorist: Asifur Rahman

Letterer: David Leach

Cover Artists: Argerm; Bill Sienkiewicz; Ace Continuado; Claudia Caranfa; Ang Hor Kheng;

Publisher: Titan

Price: $3.99

Release Date: July 5, 2023

 

Marked for death, Joanna Tan and Brook Barrow travel to New York. They hope her friend Dahlia Racers can help shake intelligence agents off their trail. But can a former magician's assistant make them disappear? Let’s burn into Heat Seeker #1 and find out!

 

Story

Dahlia deals with lies and deception. The hotter people are, the more they need her help. Deceiving power brokers and paid assassins isn't easy. The high prices Dahlia commands give her the tools she needs to fool the most jaded killers.

 

 

 

While this is a humdinger of a story, I initially found events hard to follow. A beautiful redhead saves a magician. Joanna and Brook visit Dahlia. She gives them extreme makeovers. Then she and her assistant dress up as them. The people who want Joanna and Brook dead hire a woman to kill them. The identity swaps and inadequate introductions confused me. I still don't understand how the magician's rescue relates to the rest of the issue. Still, something kept drawing me back to Heat Seeker #1. Thus, three days—and several attempts later—I finally wrote this review.

 

It would have been easier to review another comic. Yet it reminds me of stories I love, such as the Mission Impossible movies and the TV series Bosch. While I've never read Gun Honey, Heat Seeker #1 feels like a natural successor to Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero's Modesty Blaise comics, which I discovered through Titan Books' oversize trade paperbacks.

 

 

Art

Heat Seeker #1 boasts strong portrayals of characters, and page layouts are dynamic. I especially like the page when Dahlia confronts assassins in Vicente Boracchio’s theater, chats with the hired killers, shoots Vinnie, and blows up the theater. Amid these panels, a stylish Dahlia pops into the foreground, pointing her gun at the reader. Vehicles and buildings invoke realism, with equal attention paid to interiors. The Mature art reveals a woman unashamed of her body without portraying sex, excessive swearing, or glorifying violence.

 

Full spectrum color gives Heat Seeker #1 a cinematic appeal. Skin tones, clothing, and interiors have richness and depth. New York City's bustling streets shine with vitality. The Las Vegas Strip glows with color while quiet solemnity bespells the surrounding desert. The first page could have been less steeped in gray as Dahlia prepares to save Vincente. Her motorcycle scenes look hyper-real. But while the story and art confounded me, the coloring only made me applaud.

 

 

Heat Seeker #1 uses small uppercase letters and an appealing font style. The narrative appears in colored boxes, while dialogue materializes in white balloons. Sound effects explode like Vicente's theater hurtling colored words toward you. Had the creators conjured up better time/space markers, I wouldn't have been so mystified by how all the moving pieces fit together.

 

Final Thoughts

Heat Seeker #1 may confuse Gun Honey virgins, but this appealing, high-octane espionage thriller will pull a rabbit out of the hat for Mission Impossible and Modesty Blaise fans.

 

Rating 7.8/10

 

To preview interior art see my review at Comic Book Dispatch.