After an eight year hiatus, David Lapham’s independent cult classic Stray Bullets will return via Image Comics, which will publish a final issue of the old series, launch a new story arc, and collect the complete original series, in March.
 
Three big print releases will all debut on March 12, 2014:  Stray Bullets #41, carrying on the numbering from the original series (which left off at #4 in November of 2005, see "Top 300 Comics Actual--November 2005"); Stray Bullets: The Killers #1, the first issue of a new ongoing monthly series; and Stray Bullets: The Uber Alles Editionk, a complete 1,200-page collection of issues #1 – 41. 
 
Image has released issues #1-#40 digitally, and all forthcoming issues will be released digitally at the same time as the print release.  As a promotion, Image is offering the first four digital issues for free.
 
"I couldn't be more excited to be back," Lapham said.  "Stray Bullets is home to me.  To the fans who have been asking, and asking about it for years... I finally have good news for you."
 
First published in 1995, Stray Bullets won the 1996 Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist, and the trade paperback collection Stray Bullets: Innocence of Nihilism won the 1997 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album-Reprint.  The comic was published erratically until issue #40 in 2005, and Lapham announced the comic was on hold indefinitely in 2007, although there was a ten-page original story published in Dark Horse’s Noir: A Collection of Crime Comics in 2009 (see "Dark Horse Launching 'Noir'").