New Exclusive Vertical Titles from the Acclaimed Horror & Sci-Fi Publisher Releasing on GlobalComix to Include The Autumnal, Deadbox, Friendo, and more
All summer long, GlobalComix, the digital home for the top independent publishers and emerging creators, is bringing readers more new titles from acclaimed indie publisher Vault Comics as vertical scroll episodes. Last month, GlobalComix debuted the first six Vault titles translated into vertical episodes, including Michael Moreci’s action-fantasy Barbaric, Justin Richards’ YA coming-of-age epic Finger Guns, Christopher Cantwell’s sci-fi superhero series The Blue Flame, Tim Seeley and Sarah Beattie’s sexy space adventure Money Shot, David Andry’s sci-fi epic Resonant, and Si Spurrier’s horror western The Rush, marking the first time that Vault’s biggest titles were made available as vertical scroll episodes.
New Vault exclusive vertical editions releasing this summer include:
- May 18 | The Autumnal
Updates every Saturday
Welcome to Comfort Notch! Home of America’s prettiest autumn. You’ll never leave.
Her estranged mother’s death brings Kat Somerville back to Comfort Notch, New Hampshire, a hometown she can barely remember. As she and her daughter Sybil try to settle into a new life, Kat discovers that sometimes home is best forgotten.
Following the death of her estranged mother, Kat Somerville and her daughter Sybil flee a difficult life in Chicago for the quaint—and possibly deadly—town of Comfort Notch, New Hampshire. From NY Times best-selling author, Daniel Kraus (The Shape of Water, Trollhunters, The Living Dead), and rising star Chris Shehan, comes a haunting vision of America’s prettiest autumn.
- May 26 | Witchblood
Updates every Sunday
Magic is in the blood. A modern, Wild West road trip about a witch named Yonna cruising the Southwest as a band of bloodthirsty biker vampires, The Hounds of Love, hunt her scattered coven for the source of all magic: witch blood.
From the critically-acclaimed creators writer Matthew Erman (Bonding: A Love Story About People and Their Parasites) and artist Lisa Sterle of Long Lost and Sterle’s #1 bestselling The Modern Witch Tarot Deck, comes Witchblood: The Hounds of Love, a blend of action, lore, and Americana.
- June 10 | Engineward
Updates every Monday
Earth is an ancient myth. A post-apocalyptic, zodiac-inspired science fiction mystery with a take-no-prisoners female lead who blazes a trail to correct the past.
Earth is long forgotten. Now, on humanity’s new homeworld of Hellen, the god-like Celestials rule with brutal efficiency. When Joss, an Engineward, discovers and reactivates the head of an ancient ghoulem, she finds all is not as intended. Her destiny lies somewhere far beyond the borders of her shantytown, where an abandoned seed of hope waits.
- June 26 | The Last Book You’ll Ever Read
Updates every Wednesday
Read this book at your own peril. A supernatural horror thriller for readers of Chuck Palahniuk (Lullaby and Haunted: A Novel), Marisha Pessl (Night Film), and Scarlett Thomas (The End of Mr. Y), The Last Book You’ll Ever Read tells the terrifying story of a woman who knows the horrific truth about the past — and future — of humankind, and, when captured in her book SATYR, it becomes the catalyst for worldwide, mind-numbing violence.
- July 11 | Wasted Space
Updates every Thursday
The galaxy is wrecked—a cocktail of warlords, pirates, and tinpot dictators, stirred to a frenzy by an alcoholic former prophet. Take a sip and get wasted.
Billy used to hear the voice of the Creator, and that didn’t work out so great. OK. If we’re being honest, he led the galaxy to total ruin. When a new prophet comes calling, Billy and his Fuq Bot pal Dust, set out to save what’s left of the galaxy. Michael Moreci (Roche Limit, Wonder Woman, Black Star Renegades) and Hayden Sherman (The Few, Cold War, John Carter: The End) have thrown Philip K. Dick in a blender with Preacher. Take a sip and get wasted.
- July 22 | Deadbox
Updates every Monday
A town where the main source of entertainment is a cursed DVD machine that seems to know more about the fate of its citizens than they do.
Trapped in the box of horrors that makes up everyday existence, Penny and the other residents of Lost Turkey find escape in the only entertainment in town: a DVD rental box that seems to know their darkest secrets. Their fates are framed within the films they choose, and every movie they watch nudges them closer to the very worst decisions.
- Aug 9 | These Savage Shores
Updates every Friday
Along these savage shores, where the days are scorched and the nights are full of teeth.
In 1766 an insatiable vampire sails from London to the Malabar Coast, aboard an East India Company ship. But along the shores of the Indus lurk darker and more ancient powers, and a war is brewing in the night.
- Aug 20 | Relics of Youth
Updates every Tuesday
A group of kids wake from vivid dreams about a mysterious island. One day, they wake up with inexplicably matching tattoos that no one but them can see. After coming together to travel to the island, the kids find out the island is the home of the fabled “fountain of youth”, which in reality, is actually a fountain that serves as the source of all magic on earth. Unfortunately, the fountain has almost run dry, and if it stops flowing all magic will be lost on earth. The kids learn they are the descendants of the island’s original guardians, and each of them has their own unique power meant to help them defend the island. They were beckoned to the island in order to defend the fountain from mysterious forces who have come to siphon the last of it’s magic. - Sept 2 | Friendo
Updates every Monday
Meet Jerry. Your new personalized VR marketing buddy. He wants you to spend…steal…kill to get what you want.
Leo didn’t have much as a kid. But now he has his best friend, Jerry, who wants Leo to have all his heart’s desires, no matter what it takes. Except Jerry isn’t real. He’s augmented reality marketing software, and he’s completely insane. Unhinged ultraviolence from Alex Paknadel (ARCADIA) and Martin Simmonds (PUNKS NOT DEAD).
Vault Comics is an acclaimed publisher of bold science fiction, fantasy, and horror comics known for its hit titles including Barbaric, Money Shot, and Heathen. Vault’s full comics library joined GlobalComix’s robust roster of independent publishers in April 2024. The new vertical scroll releases from Vault continue a larger initiative by GlobalComix to reformat comics from their original standard print format to the more mobile-friendly style to revitalize classic titles and reintroduce them to digitally native readers.
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