LOS ANGELES - November 4, 2024 – Critical Entertainment returns this winter with our new line up of independent comic books being offered in Diamond’s PREVIEWSworld and Lunar Distribution! Back by popular demand, The First Americans Issues 1 and 2 are being offered in November & January Solicitations with two brand new Variant Covers. Follow the exciting prehistoric survival series about a tribe of Paleo Indians as they travel from Siberia into North America 14,000 years ago.
Fans can also find new issues of the science fiction series Planetary Expansion! Planetary Expansion Issue 5 will be offered in the December solicitations and issues 1-4 can all be ordered now through Diamond and Lunar. Our latest graphic novel Space Dragon will be releasing in local comic book stores this winter along with the comic short The Quarrel. Both offer visually stunning stories to round out the year. Finally, in 2025 we are debuting our newest comic book series, Minion, about the henchmen of a super villain as they fight for control over futuristic New Manhattan. Thank you all for bringing us a successful year in independent comics and we hope you enjoy what we have in store for Critical Entertainment!

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The First Americans Issue 1
Chapter 1: The Bering Strait
Rereleasing Early 2025
44 Pages
Full Color
$4.99
UPC #855794008028: 00111
Cover A: Diamond Code: NOV241483
Cover B: Diamond Code: NOV241484
Cover A: Lunar Code: 1124CX417
Cover B: Lunar Code: 1124CX418
At the end of the Ice Age 14,000 years ago and on the verge of starvation, a Tribe of Paleo-Indians travel across from Siberia into North America to hunt an elusive pack of Mammoths; but when they fail to hunt down the beasts, the tribe members must adapt to their new surroundings before becoming extinct.
 

The First Americans Issue 2

Chapter 2: Wolf Pack

Rereleasing Early 2025

Written by: Christopher Reda

Illustrated by: Tadd Galusha

Lettered by: Travis Lanham

56 Pages

Full Color - $6.99

UPC #855794008028: 00211

Cover A: Diamond Code: APR241402

Cover B: Diamond Code: Coming in January

Cover A: Lunar Code: Coming in January

Cover B: Lunar Code: Coming in January

At the end of the Ice Age 14,000 years ago and on the verge of starvation, a Tribe of Paleo-Indians travel across from Siberia into North America to hunt an elusive pack of Mammoths; but when they fail to hunt down the beasts, the tribe members must adapt to their new surroundings before becoming extinct.

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Space Dragon

Releasing in Winter
Preorder Now
Written by: Christopher Reda
Illustrated by: Alonso Molina Gonzales
Lettered by: Travis Lanham
115 Pages - 7.5" x 12" Extra Large Trade
Full Color - $14.99
ISBN: 978-0-692-08903-3
Diamond Code: AUG241612
Lunar Code: 0824CX493
Cover B by Devin Kurtz
Diamond Code: AUG241613
Lunar Code: 0824CX494
After his habitat planet runs dry, a gigantic Dragon travels through space in search of a new water source with an Alien Bird passenger; but when he fails to find any drinkable water, the Dragon must learn to push on through the unknown to avoid dying of thirst.                                                         
 

​Minion
Chapter 1 Part 1
Releasing in 2025
Written by: Mason Mendoza & Christopher Reda
Illustrated by: Leandro Rizzo
Lettered by: Travis Lanham
26 Pages - Full Color - $3.99
UPC #855794008059: 00111
In the not-too-distant future, the fate of New Manhattan hangs in a delicate balance between long-time, legendary superhero, Captain Cool, and a new underground crime syndicate threatening to take over the city. Forces of good and evil intertwine in this futuristic society where scientific innovation has created super individuals, but even they are still subject to corrupt politicians and a culture where the wealth gap between rich and poor will leave an everyday citizen starving. New recruit Double Zero joins a team of minions who have been put to the demanding task of collecting parts of a doomsday device capable of defeating Captain Cool.

 

Planetary Expansion Issue 5

Chapter 5: Space Part 1

Releasing Early 2025

26 Pages

Full Color - $4.99

UPC #855794008011: 00511

Diamond Code: Coming in December

Lunar Code: Coming in December

Abandoning their lives on earth, 1,000 hand selected passengers aboard a Starship head to repopulate a new habitable planet. In another Solar System exists a planet just like Earth with fresh air, clean water, and sustainable life. They will brave the dangers of space and push past the limit to get there

The Quarrel
One Shot
Preorder Now
Releasing Soon
Written by: Mason Mendoza
Illustrated by: Alonso Molina Gonzales
14 Pages
Full Color
$2.99
UPC #855794008127: 00111
Diamond Code: JUN241555
Lunar Code: 1024CX475
A Red-Tailed Hawk hunts an Orchard Oriole through New York’s Central Park in this hand-painted watercolor short story.

Life is an Open Door

One Shot

Releasing Early 2025

36 Pages

Full Color

$4.99

UPC #855794008080: 00111

Diamond Code: DEC231387

Lunar Code: Coming in December

Have you ever worked in a cramped office, looked at the exit door, and felt that urge to get up from your desk and make a break for it? Al, the working class Dalmatian, channels his animal impulses in this fun comic book short story about giving into instinct and going remote.

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The Cowboy with Many Hats

16 Full Color Pages

$3.99

UPC #855794008035: 00111

Diamond Code: JUN241557

Lunar Code: Coming January

A sheriff framed for murder and now on the run.

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Reda and Mendoza founded Critical Entertainment LLC in Los Angeles, California, 2017, and can be found every year at San Diego’s Comic Con International, Anaheim’s WonderCon, and Los Angeles Comic Con.