LOS ANGELES - July 22, 2024 – Critical Entertainment is pleased to announce our partnership with CEX Publishing where we will be making our comic book library available through Lunar Distribution. Starting in Lunar’s August Next Phase Issue #32 you will be able to preorder our comics through CEX’s solicitation offerings. We are debuting our brand new graphic novel Space Dragon Covers A & B and our popular comic series Planetary Expansion #1 Covers A & B. In the coming months we will also be offering two comic book short stories, Lifeboat and The Cowboy with Many Hats, along with Planetary Expansion Issues #2 & #3. Retailers and Customers will be able to order these books through their local comic book store using Lunar Distribution. Please keep an eye out for more updates as we continue to work with CEX Publishing and their exciting team!

“CEX Is driven to support comics creators, fans and retailers. Critical Entertainment has proven that they are making books for fans and to support retailers,” CEX’s publisher Andy Schmidt said. “And they’ve got some really great talent on those books, too. Partnering with them to help get their books in the hands of more fans was a no brainer for us.”

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Space Dragon

Releasing November 27th

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

Cover A

Lunar Code: 0824CX493

Cover B by Devin Kurtz

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.

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​Planetary Expansion - Issue 1
Chapter 1: Earth
Releasing November 27th
40 Pages
Full Color
$4.99
UPC #855794008011: 00111

Cover A
Lunar Code: 0824CX488

Cover B

Lunar Code: 0824CX489

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.

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​Planetary Expansion - Issue 2 Coming to Next Phase #33

​Planetary Expansion - Issue 3 Coming to Next Phase #34

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​Lifeboat
Releasing December
12 Pages
Full Color
$2.99
UPC #855794008073: 00111
Coming to Next Phase #33

In the Dark Era of space time, moments before particle decay unwinds the atomic fabric of spacetime as we know it, Mae, Jacob, and Dove carry the faint, flickering torch of life through an endless void. This short story is about loss, fate, and the hope that we must hold dearly on our journey toward the ultimate unknown.

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The Cowboy with Many Hats
Releasing February
16 Pages
Full Color
$3.99
UPC #855794008035: 00111
Coming to Next Phase #35

When the Sheriff of an old western town is framed for murder by the State Marshall, he must realize that all things pass before he loses hope to move on.

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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.