Image Comics August 2021 Collection Solicitations

Image’s August 2021 solicitations are out and we’re here to look at the collected editions!

This month’s solicitations contain plenty of solid material. The most notable may be the Gideon Falls Deluxe Edition, which packages a fantastic comic in a deluxe format. However, this month is also notable for containing the first collections from several different comic series. Plus, there are new original graphic novels and even a narrative art book.

• Deep Beyond Vol. 1 TP
  • Collects Deep Beyond #1-6.
  • Release Date: September 8, 2021
  • Solicitation Details:
    • In an underpopulated future Earth, devastated by the dire consequences of the millennium bug, the survival of mankind—and, maybe, of the planet itself—is handled by a small number of people. These are talented scientists who, despite the adverse situation and the stupid feuds that continue to divide the small number of people still alive, try to understand and study what is hidden in the depths of the abyss—something mysterious and dangerous, which could eventually cause an even worse and more destructive catastrophe! 
• Gideon Falls Deluxe Edition Book One
  • Collects issues #1-16.
  • Release Date: September 21, 2021
  • Solicitation Details:
    • The first book of the Eisner Award-winning horror series from writer JEFF LEMIRE (Sweet Tooth, Black Hammer) and artist ANDREA SORRENTINO (Old Man Logan, Joker: Killer Smile) collected in a deluxe edition hardcover!
    • The lives of a washed-up Catholic priest arriving in a small town full of dark secrets and a reclusive young man obsessed with a conspiracy in the city’s trash become intertwined around the mysterious legend of the Black Barn―an otherworldly building alleged to have appeared in both the city and the small town throughout history, bringing death and madness in its wake.
    • Rural mystery and urban horror collide in this character-driven meditation on obsession, mental illness, and faith from the creators that writer BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS said “will go down as one of the greatest comic teams of all time!” This edition features plenty of extras including a variant cover gallery from some of comics’ best artists, like CLIFF CHIANG, JOCK, TULA LOTAY, SKOTTIE YOUNG, and many more! 
• Helm Greycastle Book One TP
  • Collects Helm Greycastle #1-4.
  • Release Date: August 31, 2021
  • Solicitation Details:
    • New Latinx fantasy by HENRY BARAJAS, author of the critically acclaimed (LA VOZ DE M.A.Y.O.: TATA RAMBO). The last dragon prince has been abducted—kept prisoner by an unknown threat: AZTEC MEXICA! Helm Greycastle and his outsider comrades are here to save the prince—but are recruited by a resistance plotting to overthrow Montezuma. Will Greycastle help save the people of MEXICA or save the dragon prince and flee? BONUS! HELM GREYCASTLE includes role-playing games (5E compatible) written by TRISTAN J. TARWATER (Rolled & Told), GEOFFREY GOLDEN (Wet Hot American Summer: Fantasy Camp), MATT HAWKINS (THINK TANK), and art by JEN VAUGHN (Goosebumps: Download and Die)! 
• The Labyrinth HC
  • Collects the full narrative art book.
  • Release Date: November 9, 2021
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Visionary illustrator and author SIMON STÅLENHAG (THE ELECTRIC STATE, TALES FROM THE LOOP) presents a tense, dark tale of ruin and vengeance set among a stunning sci-fi apocalypse like you’ve never seen before.
    • An eight-wheeled vehicle trundles across a barren landscape of ash and ruined buildings toward a lone bunker deep in the wilderness. Inside the vehicle are three passengers: two scientists—who plan to use the outpost as a home base for the study of world-ending phenomena—and a boy named Charlie.
    • As the work unfolds, the isolation and claustrophobia of the compound threatens each member of the expedition with madness. Forced to confront their own dark history and the struggles of the haves and have-nots, the members of the expedition find themselves hurtling toward ruin. 
• Lady Mechanika Vol. 1 TP
  • Collects Lady Mechanika #0-5.
  • Release Date: August 17, 2021
  • Solicitation Details:
    • A newly remastered edition of the steampunk adventure series’ first volume, featuring a revised script and updated lettering. In a Victorian world filled with flying dirigibles and clockwork automatons, a young woman searches desperately for the secrets to her past—a past that left her with extraordinary, but unnatural, mechanical limbs. 
• Lady Mechanika Vol. 1 HC
  • Collects Lady Mechanika #0-5.
  • Release Date: August 17, 2021
  • Solicitation Details:
    • A newly remastered edition of the steampunk adventure series’ first volume, featuring a revised script and updated lettering, in an oversized hardcover format. In a Victorian world filled with flying dirigibles and clockwork automatons, a young woman searches desperately for the secrets to her past—a past that left her with extraordinary, but unnatural, mechanical limbs. 
• Old Head OGN
  • Collects the original graphic novel. 
  • Release Date: August 31, 2021
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Space Jam meets Fright Night in this hilarious action-horror as a former basketball star returns home to bury his mother only to learn of her mysterious past, his destiny, and to find himself embroiled in a decades-long blood feud with actual Dracula. 

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• Punderworld Vol. 1 OGN
  • Collects the original graphic novel. 
  • Release Date: August 31, 2021
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Hades and Persephone’s love-struck misadventures.
    • The classic tale of Greek mythology, but 100 percent more awkwardly relatable. Hades is the officious, antisocial ruler of the Underworld. Persephone, daughter of Demeter, is an earth goddess of growth and renewal—they’ve been crushing on each other for the past two centuries. But when a festival (and a little liquid courage) present an opportunity to put an end to their olympian will-they-won’t-they, a meddlesome pantheon and several titanic misassumptions threaten to give every god in the sky the wrong impression…and leave their romance dead before it can bloom.
• Radiant Black Vol. 1 TP
  • Collects Radiant Black #1-6.
  • Release Date: August 24, 2021
  • Solicitation Details:
    • Visionary writer KYLE HIGGINS (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Ultraman) and artist MARCELO COSTA reinvent super heroes for a new generation! Nathan Burnett has just turned 30, and things aren’t great—he’s working (and failing) at two jobs, his credit card debt is piling up, and his only move…is moving back home with his parents.
    • But when Nathan discovers the ethereal, cosmic RADIANT, he’s given the power to radically change his fortunes…unless the Cosmic Beings who created them succeed in taking them back by any means necessary. Oh, and did we mention there’s a RED RADIANT who wants Nathan dead? The next must-read comic book series STARTS HERE. 
• Two Moons Vol. 1: The Iron Noose TP
  • Collects Two Moons #1-5.
  • Release Date: August 24, 2021
  • Solicitation Details:
    • RUMBLE and B.P.R.D. writer JOHN ARCUDI is back at Image with rising star VALERIO GIANGIORDANO for an all-new horror series set in the midst of the Civil War.
    • In the middle of the horrors of the American Civil War, young soldier Virgil Morris discovers that he can’t leave his Pawnee origins behind him. Visited by ghosts and visions, he learns that the war is not the worst evil he and his new friend, nurse Frances Shaw, face. Together—and apart—Frances and Virgil combat madness and hell itself. 
• Birthright Vol. 10 TP
  • Collects Birthright #46-50.
  • Release Date: August 17, 2021
  • Solicitation Details:
    • When he was a child, Mikey Rhodes disappeared. Lost in the land of Terrenos, he grew into a warrior of legend and waged war against the God King Lore—a war that even ravaged Earth. Now, that war is over, and Mikey is victorious. But no victory is without sacrifice…
    • Since 2014, JOSHUA WILLIAMSON and ANDREI BRESSAN’s fantasy epic BIRTHRIGHT has enthralled readers, and now it is time for the Rhodes family to embark on one last thrilling adventure in this final volume. 
• Kill Six Billion Demons Vol. 4: King Of Swords TP
  • Collects the fourth chapter of the popular webcomic.
  • Release Date: August 10, 2021
  • Solicitation Details:
    • In the fourth chapter of the popular webcomic KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS, heir to the multiverse Allison Ruth must grapple with the limits to her own strength as she enters the world’s deadliest multiversal fighting tournament in a desperate struggle against the god-king Solomon David.

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