TOP TEN: New Indie Comics for October 20, 2021

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This is another great week for indie comics, especially from Image Comics. We've included four titles from Image this week but could have chosen more. There's plenty more to choose from including another stellar title from Scott Snyder as part of his deal with Comixology as he joins artist Francesco Francavilla on 'Night of the Ghoul.' Check out all of these recommendations and also see your local comic shop for even more indie options. 

BLACK'S MYTH #4 

Writer: Eric Palicki

Artist: Wendell Cavalcanti

Publisher: Ahoy Comics

Release Date: October 20, 2021

Cover Price: $3.99

The werewolf crime story barrels toward a shocking conclusion! When Strummer disappears, we learn that Grim is a very good boy. But can he and Ben save Strummer from her kidnappers? Will they accept the help from a sad vamp? And how good are mythological creatures at handling a crisis, anyway?

NIGHT OF THE GHOUL #1 

Writer: Scott Snyder

Artist: Francesco Francavilla

Publisher: ComiXology Originals

Release Date: October 20, 2021

Cover Price: $3.99

A dazzling work of horror, intercutting between the present-day narrative and the story of a lost horror film.

The writer and artist behind Batman: The Black Mirror reunite to shed light on a celluloid artifact once thought forever missing, perhaps with good reason...

Part of the comiXology Originals line of exclusive digital content only available on comiXology and Kindle. Read for free as part of your subscription to comiXology Unlimited, Kindle Unlimited or Amazon Prime. Also available for purchase via comiXology, Kindle and collected in print via Dark Horse Books.

RED SONJA: BLACK, WHITE, RED #4 

Writer: Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Chuck Brown

Artist: Sanya Anwar, Steve Beach, Sanya Anwar, Drew Moss

Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment

Release Date: October 20, 2021

Cover Price: $4.99

The greatest tales! The most amazing storytellers! Red Sonja, like you've NEVER seen before...all presented in beautiful black, white, and red! In this issue...

-PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON (Action Comics) and STEVE BEACH (The Last God) show a bloody life in full. A white-haired Queen Sonja prepares to lead her armies into what could be her final battle, the touch of now-unfamiliar steel brings back a flood of bloody memories, and returns to her the bloodlust that carried her to so many victories.

-In SANYA ANWAR's (Wonder Woman) tale, Sonja seeks shelter after a brutal battle in a foreign land. She will try to help someone in need, but discover that not everyone needs saving...

-CHUCK BROWN (Bitter Root) and DREW MOSS (Vampirella/Red Sonja) present a Sonja bathed in fire, imbued with a purpose most glorious... 

 

SHADOWMAN VOL. 1 COLLECTED

Writer: Cullen Bunn

Artist: Jon Davis-Hunt

Publisher: Valiant Comics

Trade Paperback: October 20, 2021, $14.99

"Horrifyingly good." - CBR

The forces of darkness are awakening and they are hungry for life.

Jack Boniface, a.k.a. Shadowman, faces the terrors that tear at the fabric of humanity's world. As the forces of darkness pry open doorways across the nation, the Shadowman will make a cross-country descent into horror... as something far more sinister emerges from the shadows.

From the bestselling master of horror Cullen Bunn (Venom) and bone-chilling artist Jon Davis-Hunt (Clean Room) comes a shocking supernatural odyssey!

Collecting SHADOWMAN (2020) #1-4.

GUNSLINGER SPAWN #1

Writer: Todd McFarlane, Ales Kot

Artist: Brett Booth

Publisher: Image Comics

Release Date: October 20, 2021

Cover Price: $5.99

Introducing the launch of the second new monthly title spinning out of the SPAWN UNIVERSE, with one of the most popular characters in the entire SPAWN mythology! This book contains three

separate GUNSLINGER stories, each taking a look at his journey through time - from the wild, wild west to the 21st century.

Will his 200-year-old past come back to haunt him as he navigates the strange world of 2021? Get ready for the past and present to collide in this new ongoing title!

MADE IN KOREA #5  

Writer: Jeremy Holt

Artist: George Schall, Adam Wollet

Publisher: Image Comics

Release Date: October 20, 2021

Cover Price: $3.99

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NITA HAWES' NIGHTMARE BLOG #1 

Writer: Rodney Barnes

Artist: Jason Shawn Alexander, Patric Reynolds

Publisher: Image Comics

Release Date: October 20, 2021

Cover Price: $3.99

    "THE FIRE NEXT TIME," Part One

From the universe of Eisner-nominated series KILLADELPHIA comes a terrifying new tie-in horror series by acclaimed Marvel writer RODNEY BARNES and fan-favorite SPAWN artist JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER.

Jimmy Sangster might have left Maryland for the vampire-infested city of "Killadelphia," but there is still untold evil lurking the streets of Baltimore. The demon Corson has surfaced from the underworld to possess a once-wronged man, and his vengeance will come at the cost of humanity's despair! But Jimmy's former lover Nita Hawes - a woman with demons of her own - has begun a quest to root the evil out of her city. Guided by the ghost of her dead brother, she must come to terms with her own past, lest she join her brother in a state worse than death!

EAT THE RICH #3 

Writer: Sarah Gailey

Artist: Pius Bak

Publisher: Boom! Studios

Release Date: October 20, 2021

Cover Price: $3.99

Still uncertain about what she saw in Pip's office, Joey confides in Kitty...but Kitty's response only confuses her more, leaving Joey with no choice but to play along with the family.

Until Fourth of July, when at a party Joey suspects what she thought she saw then is happening again.

Can Joey come to terms with what is really happening in Crestfall Bluffs... and can she still walk away alive?

THE UNFINISHED CORNER OGN 

Writer: Dani Colman

Artist: Rachel Tuna Petrovicz

Publisher: Vault Comics

Release Date: October 20, 2021

Cover Price: $12.99

Jewish mythology has it that when God created the universe, He left one corner of it unfinished. Opinion is divided on why, but everyone agrees that the Unfinished Corner is a dangerous place full of monsters. Twelve-year-old Miriam neither knows nor cares about the Unfinished Corner. She's too busy preparing for her Bat Mitzvah, wrestling with whether she even wants to be Jewish--until a peculiar angel appears, whisking her, her two best friends, and her worst frenemy off to this monstrous land with one mission: finish the Unfinished Corner.

RECKLESS: DESTROY ALL MONSTERS OGN 

Writer: Ed Brubaker

Artist: Sean Phillips

Publisher: Image Comics

Release Date: October 20, 2021

Cover Price: $24.99

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The next book in the red-hot RECKLESS series is here!

Bestselling crime noir masters ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS bring us a new original graphic novel starring troublemaker-for-hire Ethan Reckless.

It's 1988, and Ethan has been hired for his strangest case yet: finding the secrets of a Los Angeles real estate mogul. How hard could that be, right? But what starts as a deep dive into the life of a stranger will soon take a deadly turn, and Ethan will risk everything that still matters to him.

Another smash hit from the award-winning creators of RECKLESS, PULP, MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES, CRIMINAL, and KILL OR BE KILLED-and a must-have for all BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS fans!