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The Matrix meets The Wizard of Oz in BEYOND REAL: The Complete Series, a mind-bending psychedelic journey through the nature of reality – and who we really are.QUESTION REALITY. When struggling artist June is injured in a severe car accident that leaves her boyfriend in a coma, she begins to experience strange visual phenomena. When June discovers that the world she considers “reality” may be a computer simulation, she must set out on a journey of possibility and peril into the metaphysical layers of the simulation to reach the world’s creator and save her true love from death. Beyond Real explores simulation theory, the creative spirit, the nature of reality, and the struggle for self-determination. Are we real – or are we living in a computer simulation?What is reality? Is death an illusion?Enter the world that is … Beyond Real. Beyond Real, written by Zack Kaplan (MINDSET from Vault Comics) is joined by a slate of spectacular artists including Fabiana Mascolo, Toni Fejzula, Jordie Bellaire, Vincenzo Riccardi, Dennis Menheere, Jorge Corona, and Liana Kangas. Collects the entire six-issue mind-altering and acclaimed series! For fans of: Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Matrix, Alice In Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, What Dreams May Come (Richard Matheson), Promethea (Alan Moore & J.H. Williams III), The Invisibles (Grant Morrison), Flex Mentallo (Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely), Ghost in the Shell, Nonplayer (Nate Simpson),Permutation City (Greg Egan), Sea of Tranquility (Emily St. John Mandel), The Restoration Game (Kevin MacLeod), The Peripheral , Agency,and Neuromancer (William Gibson) ,Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin), and Neil Gaiman, "Visually arresting. Unlike anything ... seen before. 10/10" - Kabooooom! "As close to perfect as my be possible. 10/10" - The Pullbox "A visual feast. 9.5/10" - AIPT "Mind-blowing and visually stunning. 9/10" - Capes and Tights "A sci-fi mindf*uck in the best possible way. 9/10" - Derry Comics

Author Zack Kaplan and artist Stephen Thompson team up again to create an enigmatic comics thriller tangled in a secret society.When an ambitious and troubled video game programmer dares to audition for a secret society in the gaming/tech industry, composed of cutthroat, genius masterminds that promise to help their members achieve their wildest dreams, he and his rebellious co-worker find themselves in a gauntlet of real-life puzzles that quickly turn deadly. But in order to win, they must solve the dangerous challenges, unlock the group’s true motives and unveil the real architect of this ordeal. Are they truly smart enough to survive the mysterious game of the Masterminds?Author Zack Kaplan (Kill All Immortals, Port of Earth) and illustrator Stephen Thomson (Aliens: Definace, Black Panther and the Crew), the creative team behind The Midnight: Shadows, join forces with colorist Thiago Rocha and Eisner award-winning letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou to bring you an enigmatic thriller for the age of tech industry omniscience.Collects Masterminds #1–#5.

Succession meets John Wick…with immortal Vikings. Get ready for a bloodthirsty immortal fight like no other, with comics creator Zack Kaplan (Mindset, Break Out, Port of Earth), artist Fico Ossio (Action Comics, Star Wars, No One Left To Fight), colorist Thiago Rocha, and Eisner-nominated letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.A thousand years ago, Viking explorer Erik the Red and his four adult children discovered a mysterious source of immortality. Now, in our modern world, they are an enigmatic billionaire family with a powerful banking empire.But when Erik’s only daughter, Frey Asvald, seeks to finally be free from her family’s influence, she must be prepared to reveal their supernatural secrets and confront her well-trained siblings in a deadly and epic struggle for power.Collects Kill All Immortals #1–#5.

A crew of high school teenagers plan a near impossible heist-style prison break to rescue their friends and siblings captured by the sci-fi Cube Spaceships from another dimension, before it's too late.Mysterious and massive Cube spaceships from another dimension materialize over our cities around the globe. They routinely abduct teenagers to be held inside their floating prison ships. And the world accepts it as inevitable. But not Liam Watts. His younger brother has been taken. And Liam is tired of "thoughts and prayers". Now, in a “take back our future” anthem, Liam must assemble a skilled team of ordinary high school students and in just a few weeks, they must plan a heist to infiltrate the hi-tech spaceship a mile in the sky. But what they’ll find there will throw their plans into turmoil and challenge their resolve. How do you break out of a prison that’s not even from this world?  Written by rising comics star, Zack Kaplan (Port of Earth, Join The Future), with kinetic art—buzzing with life—drawn by Wilton Santos (Excalibur, Dawn of X) and colored by Jason Wordie (God Country, Wasted Space), this volume collects Break Out comic issues #1–#4. 

Join THE MIDNIGHT, one of the world’s top synthwave bands, comprised of Tyler Lyle and Tim McEwan, on an electrifying and original sci-fi graphic novel adventure inspired by the poetic storytelling and the neon-soaked aesthetics of their music.Jason has spent his life running from his problems, but now he and his childhood sweetheart are on the precipice of parenthood, and he’s struggling with the loss of his adolescence. Then he re-discovers his favorite old video game, THE MIDNIGHT, a nostalgic 1980s fantasy adventure about a helmeted hero who travels to a cyberpunk world to save the people from eternal darkness. Seeking to repair his broken game, Jason ends up at a mysterious arcade in an abandoned 1980s mall, where he plays the old arcade game of The Midnight and suddenly he’s transported to… …a post-apocalyptic Neverland in the year 2085. A world of perpetual night where time stands still. A final bastion of humanity in a glistening futuristic city. And a shocking reveal – they know him as the hero who once vanquished the shadow monsters, and they believe he’s returned to his true reality to do it again. More surprising, his wife is here, but only with a memory of Jason as this world’s hero. As this lost boy tries to embrace his new hero powers, with the help of his true love and her cyberpunk warriors, he must face the responsibility of protecting an entire world from danger and discover which world he truly belongs to.For The Midnight fans and newcomers, created by rising comics writer, Zack Kaplan (Break Out, Mindset), artist Stephen Thompson (Star Trek, Batman Beyond), artist Jahnoy Lindsay (Superboy) and The Midnight, follow your dreams to a visually stunning cyberpunk metropolis, find love in the darkness, defeat shadow monsters and explore what happens when we hide in our fantasies. Are we escaping life’s monsters or simply escaping ourselves? The answers lie in the Midnight Graphic Novel.

Succession meets John Wick…with immortal Vikings. Zack Kaplan and Fico Ossio return with part two of their high-action, high-fashion Viking saga, collected in this sleek graphic novel!The Asvalds were once a powerful billionaire Viking family with a source of secret immortality, until the family’s only daughter, Frey Asvald, led her brothers in a principled rebellion to overthrow their barbaric father and end their eternal powers.But when an ancient and supernatural adversary threatens to destroy their precarious empire and kill them one by one, they must band together as a family, survive another deadly war—and dare to test their new mortality.Our modern Viking struggle lives on with the next exciting chapter from comic creator Zack Kaplan (Masterminds, Dark Empty Void, Port of Earth), artists Fico Ossio (No One Left to Fight, Black Lightning) and Elisabetta D’Amico (Spider-Gwen: Smash, Star Wars: The Bad Batch—Ghost Agents), colorist Thiago Rocha and Eisner-winning letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.Collects Kill All Immortals II #1–#5.

Imagine if sunlight burned you alive. In the near future, a mysterious solar event has transformed the sun ''s light into deadly immolating rays. The world ''s few survivors now live in nocturnal cities. But a killer who uses sunlight to burn his victims emerges, and when he targets the daughter of a solar power mogul, it falls to a disillusioned solar engineer to protect her. Collects ECLIPSE #1-4.

In a world where sunlight burns people alive, Cielo Brandt, heiress of the city ''s most powerful company, and her savior David Baxter, have both survived a killer who didn ''t burn in the sunlight. Now, both want answers about his origins; Cielo investigates the city ''s underground and her father ''s company, while Bax braves the postapocalyptic wasteland and the discovery of another who is immune to the sun ''s rays. Collects ECLIPSE #5-8

PORT OF EARTH writer ZACK KAPLAN teams up with hot artist newcomer GUILHERME BALBI in a new dramatic sci-fi MINISERIES BLADE RUNNER meets ROCKY. In an inverted future evolved robots have resurrected humans for manual labor but when a tribalistic cultural clash breaks out a fearless human fighter and a frustrated displaced robot will square off in a public MMA-style sport fight of epic stakes to finally prove which is supreme: man or machine? Collects: Metal Society #1-5

An alien arrival saga like you’ve never seen. What if aliens came to Earth, not in war or peace, but with a business deal: open a spaceport here on Earth in exchange for advanced technology. But when rogue alien visitors wreak havoc in our cities and strange alien threats emerge, the newly formed Earth Security Agency must answer the call to keep Earth and the Port safe. Now, facing a deadly alien outbreak, a growing human resistance to the Port, and a delicate relationship with our alien Port partners, the ESA’s leaders and agents must balance between protecting humans and alien visitors alike, or risk planetary occupation. An exciting, gritty, and politically charged action thriller from ZACK KAPLAN (Mindset, METAL SOCIETY, Break Out, and ECLIPSE) and ANDREA MUTTI (Maniac of New York, Bunny Mask, Star Wars, Batman Eternal).

Scientists have created a stable, microscopic black hole in a secret underground compound, but when they lose control, the black hole spews out a cosmic maelstrom, strange dangerous creatures, and most surprisingly... a mysterious human teenage girl. Now, a depressed but brilliant psychologist must help her estranged husband and the other scientists solve the mystery and close the black hole before it consumes all of Earth. Dare to witness a cosmic horror series that will amaze and terrify you, with hit comic creator Zack Kaplan (Kill All Immortals, Beyond Real, Mindset), fan-favorite artist Chris Shehan (The Autumnal, House of Slaughter), rising star colorist Francesco Segala (Nights, House of Slaughter) and Ringo-nominated letterer Justin Birch (Road of Bones, House of Slaughter).

A gritty sci-fi action thriller from new comic book writer Zack Kaplan (ECLIPSE) and Andrea Mutti (REBELS, STAR WARS, BATMAN ETERNAL, PROMETHEUS).Imagine if aliens came to Earth not in war or peace, but with a business deal: open up a spaceport here on Earth in exchange for advanced technology. But when our alien visitors break Port restrictions and wreak havoc in our cities, it falls to the newly formed Earth Security agents to hunt down and safely deport the dangerous rogue aliens back to the Port of Earth.

In a deal with an alien business Consortium, humanity has opened a Port of Earth for galactic travelers. After countless violent, deadly incidents between aliens and humans, alien soldiers have been stationed here to help bring peace. Now the leaders and agents of our Earth Security Agency must stop deadly alien outbreak, contain a growing human resistance and navigate a delicate relationship with our alien partners - or sacrifice humanity's authority over our own security and risk planetary occupation.Collects PORT OF EARTH #9-12