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Death Ratio''d, the latest one-shot comic by Mark Russell, Laci, and Marko Lesko presents a gripping, satirical vision of the future. When Arnold awakens from his coma into a dystopian future ruled by the merciless hand of social media, he quickly learns that in this new world, popularity isn''t everything, it''s the only thing. Garnering likes and upvotes can lead to unparalleled heights of fame and fortune. However, the stakes are lethally high - if your social approval ratio gets too low, one ''thumbs down'' could mean death, and trigger the bomb collar locked around each citizen''s neck. Arnold, bewildered and running on his last ''Like,'' must learn to navigate this perilous social landscape, or escape it. ''Death Ratio''d'' is a darkly comedic exploration of our social media-obsessed society, where the line between virtual approval and real-world survival blurs.

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SHE SWIMS THROUGH A SEA OF FIRE AND RAGE AND BLOOD! There is something ancient and terrible loose in the world of men. Something that hates them with burning passion, that bears a grudge born of ten thousand years. Something that wants its revenge. Detective Amy Sun has a problem - a problem called the NYPD. Three years ago, a young woman was rescued from a serial killer by a police tactical unit. Now she''s dead - and Amy has a bad feeling one of her fellow officers is responsible. Is there a conspiracy deep inside the department, intent on covering up the foulest of crimes? And if there is, what does one officer do about it? But Amy is looking in the wrong direction. A far more dangerous, far more terrible threat than anything in the affairs of mortal men is suddenly at hand. A force of vengeance older than the human race itself has awoken, invoked by the tormented murder victim in the weeks before she died, and out for the blood of the guilty - who soon find themselves suffering a f

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Schrunk is one of these ubiquitous, social media-engaged, uber-wealthy entrepreneurs who''s using his power, influence, and privilege to turn the rest of us against each other - you know the type! But Schrunk sometimes prefers the... hands-on approach: He pits his antagonists against each other in a horrific torture chamber he calls The Rumpus Room, where your ultimate fate is to be crushed and turned into skin cream. But what happens when a cop with an agenda infiltrates Bob''s deadly game room? Learn all about it in this horror-satire from Eisner and Ringo Award-winning writer Mark Russell (Not All Robots) and artist Ramon Rosanas (Year Zero: Volume One)! A new-agey technocrat billionaire keeps an assortment of random people imprisoned in his ''rumpus room'' so that he may kill them, one by one, in order to make the unavailable-over-the-counter facial cream that hides his morbid skin condition that gives his face a scaly, reptilian appearance. His one concession to his prisoners: the

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