AFTERSHOCK UPDATE: Check Out SHADOW DOCTOR This Week

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Dovetailing with the nationwide celebration of Black History Month, AfterShock Comics is honored to reteam with writer Peter Calloway (THE LAST SPACE RACE, Gotham City Sirens) to tell the story of SHADOW DOCTOR, one of the most profoundly fascinating and important stories we’ve ever published. Years in the making, this is the true story of Peter’s grandfather, Nathaniel Calloway, a Black man who graduated from medical school in the early 1930s. Making his way to Prohibition-era Chicago, he was turned away from every hospital in Chicago and unable to start a practice of his own. Eventually, he secured employment with the one outfit that valued the quality of his skills over the color of his skin: Al Capone’s Mafia. As Peter himself has said, “On the one hand, his story represents the promise of America. On the other hand, it shows the worst of it.” Debuting tomorrow, February 17, at comic shops everywhere, SHADOW DOCTOR features the art of Eisner Award-winner Georges Jeanty (The American Way, X-Tremists) plus covers illustrated by the inimitable Mark Chiarello (oh, yass!) HERE’S WHAT’S SHAKING THIS WEEK AT YOUR COMIC SHOP

SHADOW DOCTOR #1 New Series! Writer: Peter Calloway Artist: Georges Jeanty This is the true story of writer Peter Calloway’s grandfather, Nathaniel Calloway, a Black man who graduated from medical school in the early 1930’s. Unable to get work at any Chicago hospitals because he was Black, and unable to secure a loan from a bank to start his own practice because he was Black, he turned to another source of money in Prohibition-era Chicago: the Mafia, run by none other than Al Capone. AT SHOPS: FEBRUARY 17th CLICK HERE FOR THE MONKEYS FIGHTING ROBOTS PREVIEW

MISKATONIC #4 Writer: Mark Sable Artist: Giorgio Pontrelli J. Edgar Hoover has tasked skeptical Bureau Agent Miranda Keller and true believer detective Tom Malone to investigate a rash of deadly bombings. Hoover wants them to pin the bombings on radicals, but the evidence is pointing to something more supernatural and sinister: The Great Old One known as “The Dunwich Horror”...and the white supremacist cult that summoned it. Can our heroes stop one, let alone both? AT SHOPS: FEBRUARY 17th CLICK HERE FOR THE PREVIEW AT THE BEAT

WE LIVE #5 Writers: Roy Miranda & Inaki Miranda Artist: Inaki Miranda Extinction day hits humanity like a thunder of death. The countdown to extraction hits zero. The beacons activate and destiny speaks. Nothing will be like before. Not for Hototo. Not for Tala. Not for anyone. AT SHOPS: FEBRUARY 17th CLICK HERE FOR THE CBR.COM PREVIEW

DISASTER INC.: THE COMPLETE SERIES Discover Why the Road Less Traveled Remains That Way. In 2011, the worst earthquake in Japan’s history breached the coastal Fukushima Daiichi power plant, causing three of its four nuclear reactors to melt down. Officials were forced to set up an “Exclusion Zone,” effectively sealing off the land for what may well be the rest of human history. But that’s only if you don’t have the right connections and the desire to experience catastrophe, failure and misery as it really is! Enter DISASTER INC., an underground tourism outfit that explores the off-map attractions typical tour groups aren’t usually allowed. Writer Joe Harris (Great Pacific, Rockstars, The X-Files) and artist Sebastián Piriz begin a disaster tour checking out the worst places on earth while digging up more trouble than they can probably handle. This volume contains issues #1-5. “...a fascinating collection of travelers and one hell of an intriguing world.” – Darryll Robson, Monkeys Fighting Robots AT SHOPS: February 24th CLICK COVER FOR THE AIPT PREVIEW FAST APPROACHING! Reserve Now at your Local Comic Shop. Click Covers for Previews! BEQUEST #1 IN SHOPS: March 17th Writer: Tim Seeley Artist: Freddie E. Williams II A grand fantasy adventure, stuck in traffic on Wacker Drive. Order Deadline: February 22nd Order Code: JAN211042 RED ATLANTIS #5 IN SHOPS: March 17th Writer: Stephanie Phillips Artist: Robert Carey Cast your vote for chaos. Order Deadline: February 22nd Order Code: JAN211053 JUST ANNOUNCED It’s official! WE LIVE lives! Though tomorrow’s WE LIVE #5 brings to a close the harrowing adventures of young Hototo, his sister Tala and all their friends (and foes), the sun will rise on a new day and a new age for Roy Miranda and Inaki Miranda’s hit science fiction series – made possible by overwhelming fan and retailer support! Make way for WE LIVE: ERA OF THE PALLADIONS, coming soon sooner than you might think. AIPT has the news and a Q&A with the Miranda Brothers here, including some teaser artwork. We cheer!