Dead Kings (2018 AfterShock) comic books
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Issue #1A
Published Oct 2018 by AfterShock Comics.$20.00
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- Label #19-0AA1E1C-009
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- Label #19-0AA1E1C-007
$2.50
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Written by Steve Orlando. Art and Cover by Matthew Dow Smith. NEW SERIES! Sasha never saw his younger brother...until the secret police made him disappear. Sasha Vasnetsov left Thrice-Nine-the dirty folklore world that limps along in the wreckage of a Technomagic War-thirty years ago and never looked back. But word that the secret police have sent his brother Gena to a work camp for the socially degenerate drags him back, with a promise to free Gena and return him to their mother before her fiftieth birthday. The only problem? Sasha isn't a fraction of the tough guy he tries to be, so if he's going to break back into Thrice-Nine...he'll need help. Sasha's only hope is Maria Kamenaya, a former Technomagic Warrior with hundreds of enemy kills to her name, betrayed by the country that made her when her honor conflicted with their agenda. Thrice-Nine took Sasha's brother, and it took Maria's heart. This quest is how they get both of those things back, in the steaming, lawless land of decapitated states...the land of DEAD KINGS. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
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Issue #1B
Published Oct 2018 by AfterShock Comics.$26.00
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- Michael Gaydos Variant
- Label #19-093342A-015
$26.00
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- Michael Gaydos Variant
- Label #19-093342A-007
$2.50
$2.50
Written by Steve Orlando. Art by Matthew Dow Smith. Cover by Michael Gaydos. NEW SERIES! Sasha never saw his younger brother...until the secret police made him disappear. Sasha Vasnetsov left Thrice-Nine-the dirty folklore world that limps along in the wreckage of a Technomagic War-thirty years ago and never looked back. But word that the secret police have sent his brother Gena to a work camp for the socially degenerate drags him back, with a promise to free Gena and return him to their mother before her fiftieth birthday. The only problem? Sasha isn't a fraction of the tough guy he tries to be, so if he's going to break back into Thrice-Nine...he'll need help. Sasha's only hope is Maria Kamenaya, a former Technomagic Warrior with hundreds of enemy kills to her name, betrayed by the country that made her when her honor conflicted with their agenda. Thrice-Nine took Sasha's brother, and it took Maria's heart. This quest is how they get both of those things back, in the steaming, lawless land of decapitated states...the land of DEAD KINGS. Like True Grit set in the world of Final Fantasy, DEAD KINGS is unrelenting with its passion and thrills, massive in scale and unflinching as it peers into the underside of the obligations that drive us all: to family and country. It's a classic Wild West revenge cast against a haunting, awe-inspiring vision of a future where we've mortally wounded the world, and the prisoners are the only ones left to run the penitentiary. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
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Issue #2
Published Dec 2018 by AfterShock Comics.$2.50
$2.50
Written by Steve Orlando. Art and Cover by Matthew Dow Smith. FOLKLORE...WRITTEN IN OIL AND IRON! Sasha Vasnetsov would do anything to free his brother Gena from a work camp for the socially degenerate, including using a suicide bomb hidden in the last place any man would look. Sasha didn't want to use it. He wanted to use Maria Kamenaya, a warrior from a bygone apocalypse. Too bad she's more interested in flesh: eating it or laying with it, depending on the source. Sasha's on his own, out of luck, on a one-way trip...to the wrong detention camp. ????. Am I right? From Steve Orlando (Batman/Shadow, Crude, Midnighter, Virgil) and Matthew Dow Smith (October Girl, Suicide Squad, X-Files) comes a vision of humanity after a disastrous World War of Mechs and Magic. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
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Issue #3
Published Feb 2018 by AfterShock Comics.$2.50
$2.50
Written by Steve Orlando. Art and Cover by Matthew Dow Smith. OUR POST-APOCALYPTIC FUTURE'S... FUTURE! The Post-Post-Apocalypse rockets along in the electroconductive form of hypermodern folklore! This is beyond mythpunk... it's nuclearpunk! When you're Sasha Vasnetsov, trying to save your twin brother from a work camp for the socially malformed, the world and your brother's life are the same heart-wrenching thing.The next world-saving step? Sasha and Maria, the Super Soldier, have to break into an impossible train that teleports every few seconds and spring her warsuit from cold storage. To liberate his brother, Sasha is going to help Maria regain the power she once had during the Great Iron War, the power that's been a cursed legacy for her for a decade. But if they survive, and Sasha has to choose between the warsuit and Maria...does he save the woman that saved his life, or take the next step in saving his brother? Cover price $3.99.
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Issue #4
Published Apr 2019 by AfterShock Comics.$2.50
$2.50
Written by Steve Orlando. Art and Cover by Matthew Dow Smith. THE POST-POST-APOCALYPSE REACHES ITS BOILING POINT! In the forests of hypermodern folklore, a rusted-out warrior raises her fists and beckons to her enemy...is this the final fight for Maria Kamenaya? Sasha Vasnetsov finally has the tools for his brother's liberation: will, drive, and a stolen warsuit capable of decimating legions. The only problem is, he had to abandon the suit's owner, Maria, to get it. After weeks on the road together, is that betrayal something his soul can handle? Or will he put a pin in his vengeance and turn his guns backward to help a friend...? From Steve Orlando (Batman/Shadow, Crude, Midnighter, Virgil) and Matthew Dow Smith (Oc-tober Girl, Suicide Squad, X-Files) comes a vision of humanity after a disastrous World War of Mechs and Magic. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
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Issue #5
Published May 2019 by AfterShock Comics.$2.50
$2.50
Written by Steve Orlando. Art and Cover by Matthew Dow Smith. AN EXPLOSIVE FINALE IN THE ASHES OF A FALLEN EMPIRE! The wreck of the Rus Empire is a violent, rusted sprawl cut across an aging continent. The Oprichnik Secret Police hold a fragile order in place by removing all the socially dissident from society...these are the Chorts, the scapegoated devils of the new word...and they deserve freedom. DEAD KINGS brings it to them. On the border of a dried up Black Sea, Sasha Vasnetsov and Maria Kamenaya have brought war to Barracks 33 to free Sasha's brother Gena. As the barbed wire fences fall, a family reunites in the furnace of rebellion - they may free thousands, but is it too late to save their brotherhood? Steve Orlando (Wonder Woman, Shadow/Batman, Midnighter, CRUDE) and Matthew Dow Smith (October Girl, Suicide Squad, X-Files) keep punching with captured hearts and torn fists in this post-POST apocalyptic tale. 'Russian folklore meets Blade Runner…' - Darryn Bonthuys, Critical Hit 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
