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LOS ANGELES 05/09/2025 — Today Skybound and Image Comics announced that Blood & Thunder #1, the critically-acclaimed series from all-star creative team of writer Benito Cereno (Invincible Presents: Atom Eve), artist E.J. Su (Tech Jacket), colorist MsassyK (Gotham Academy), letterer Rus Wooton (TRANSFORMERS), and co-creator Robert Kirkman (Invincible, The Walking Dead, Void Rivals), has sold out at the distributor level immediately after its debut and will return with a new printing.
The second printing will feature two all-new covers, cover A by comics legend Arthur Adams and Tanya Lehoux and cover B by superstar series artist E.J. Su and colorist Msassyk.
“Benito and E.J. really knocked this book out of the park and I’m thrilled to know people are clamoring for the great taste of Blood & Thunder!” Said Robert Kirkman. “I’m very proud of Skybound’s commitment to keeping in-demand books available to our retail partners. Hopefully we’ll see this book reach Skybound Gold status with a 10th printing by next year!”
Set in a far future where Earth has integrated alien species into a new society, Blood & Thunder plays by a whole new set of rules...and a whole load of new crimes to solve.
Bounty hunter Akeldama “Blood” Bledsoe and her cantankerous talking gun, Thunder, are the best there is at bringing in the bad guys. However, when the galaxy’s most dangerous criminal breaks out of prison, Blood’s hunt delivers her down a path that will unlock secrets about her past, present, and future... and that’s when things get REALLY BAD.
Blood & Thunder #1 Second Printing (Lunar Codes Below | SRP: $3.99) will be available at comic book shops and digital platforms including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.
The full list of covers is below:
- Blood & Thunder #1 Second Printing Cover A by Arthur Adams & Tanya Lehoux (Lunar Code: 0325IM880)
- Blood & Thunder #1 Second Printing Cover B by E.J. Su & Msassyk (Lunar Code: 0325IM881)
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