Big News From AfterShock: Pick Up MOTHER F. GOOSE Tomorrow!

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Just in time to ruin childhoods everywhere, writer Frank Tieri, artist Joe Eisma, colorist Matt Herms and letterer Carlos M. Mangual reunite for TALES OF MOTHER F. GOOSE, a 48-page Prestige Format “One-Shock” that picks up after SHOCK’s “Little Red Hood” and AFTERDARK’s “Along Came a Spider.” “Basically both this project and the story in AFTERDARK expand on the world we set up in ‘Little Red Hood,’” said Tieri, “and they do it through the mob boss who is essentially the glue that holds all this shit together, Don Francesco Orca, our Mother F. Goose. (Orca means Goose in Italian. And yeah, his name is Francesco. What did ya think the F stood for? ;))” “Orca was introduced in ‘Little Red Hood’ where we saw he was the major player in this world and has his fingers in everything. This plays into TALES OF MOTHER F. GOOSE where there’s a murder – local pimp Georgie Porgie – who was apparently going to drop a dime on Orca. Detective Jack Horner and his partner, a certain Miss Muffet, have nabbed a number of suspects and through their interrogation we get our MFG versions of the tales of Puss-in-Boots, The Three Little Pigs, and Three Blind Mice. It’s actually a bit of a murder mystery as we find all these suspects have ties to Orca and it’s a question of who actually has the deepest ties of all and did the deed,” he said. TALES OF MOTHER F. GOOSE takes up residence in comic shops everywhere TOMORROW, December 8th. HERE’S WHAT’S SHAKING THIS WEEK AT YOUR COMIC SHOP

TALES OF MOTHER F. GOOSE 48-Page Prestige Format One-Shock Writer: Frank Tieri Artist: Joe Eisma The Three Little Pigs are gluttonous casino owners. Little Miss Muffet is a hard-nosed cop with arachnophobia. The Three Blind Mice are ocularly impaired assassins. Puss-in-Boots is a feline-faced scumbag. Welcome to MOTHER F. GOOSE, where your favorite fairy tales are turned into twisted characters right out of a Tarantino movie. Just in time to ruin childhoods everywhere, writer Frank Tieri, artist Joe Eisma, colorist Matt Herms and letterer Carlos M. Mangual reunite for TALES OF MOTHER F. GOOSE, a 48-page Prestige Format One-Shock that picks up after SHOCK’s “Little Red Hood” and AFTERDARK’s “Along Came a Spider.” AT SHOPS: DECEMBER 8th CLICK HERE FOR THE GRAPHIC POLICY PREVIEW

JOIN US LIVE NEXT THURSDAY! Thursday, December 16 – 5pm Eastern/2pm Pacific RuthAnn Thompson chats with PESTILENCE and TALES OF MOTHER F. GOOSE creator Frank Tieri! PLUS THE WORLD-FAMOUS AFTERSHOCK LIVE SALE! PHANTOM ON THE SCAN: THE COMPLETE SERIES The comet brought Matt a gift. He’d like to give it back. Twenty years ago, a comet fell to earth. Since that night, Matthew has been haunted by a spirit that gives him incredible psychic abilities. Every time Matthew uses his gifts, he draws closer to death, and other psychics – all of whom gained their powers on the night the comet fell – are dying in horrible ways. To save himself, Matthew gathers a group of psychics to solve the mystery of their powers before it’s too late. A new dimension of horror brought to light by master storyteller Cullen Bunn (DARK ARK, UNHOLY GRAIL, BROTHERS DRACUL, PIECEMEAL) and illustrated by Mark Torres(Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Judge Dredd, The Shrinking Man), the team responsible for the psychological terror thriller, Cold Spots, this volume contains the complete series, issues #1-5. “Cullen Bunn and Mark Torres team up to kick you good and hard, right in the gut. It's a whole twisted ball of heavy, ominous and bloody.” – Brendan M. Allen, COMICON.com AT SHOPS: DECEMBER 29th – NEW DATE! CLICK COVER FOR THE AIPT PREVIEW FAST APPROACHING! Reserve Now at your Local Comic Shop. Click Covers for Previews! MANIAC OF NEW YORK: THE BRONX IS BURNING #2 IN SHOPS: January 12th Writer: Elliott Kalan Artist: Andrea Mutti He’s back for another slice! Order Deadline: December 20th Order Code: NOV211071 ALMOST AMERICAN #4 IN SHOPS: January 19th Writer: Ron Marz Artist: Marco Castiello They came from Russia with love...and secrets. Order Deadline: December 27th Order Code: NOV211108 Chicago is Still Our Kinda Town! Chicago in December? There’s no place hotter as AfterShock Comics blows into the Windy City for our last official fan convention of 2021 – the 12th annual Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, better known to friends and fans alike as C2E2! We always look forward to this show because we get to meet, chat and hang out with some of the most loyal, passionate and knowledgeable fans out there – and the South Building at McCormick Place is where they’ll be from December 10-12! Come visit us at Booth #319 for LIMITED EDITION convention exclusives including C2E2 variants of CHICKEN DEVIL #1, MANIAC OF NEW YORK: THE BRONX IS BURNING #1 and 4 different Mask Variants of WE LIVE #1 – not to mention the extremely rare Metallic Cover Variants of some of most sought-after key issues! Signings? Yeah, we’ll have signings. How do exclusive booth signings by none other than Garth Ennis and Andrea Mutti sound? Just check our website here for updated schedules. And don’t even get us started on our AfterShock Mystery Boxes! See you there! JUST ANNOUNCED We didn’t think it was possible to have too much story to pack into a single issue, but leave it to the best-selling Miranda Brothers to prove us wrong! As announced this morning, the eagerly anticipated and much heralded return of AfterShock’s top selling title of all time – WE LIVE – picks up six years after the first arc left off and features so many events, perspectives and stunning visions that we just had to create TWO Issue #1’s! Yes, WE LIVE: AGE OF THE PALLADIONS starts off with a DOUBLE dose of dynamite! Comic news site Comicon.com has all the details here on the March 2022 kickoff to AfterShock’s biggest launch event ever!