New publisher Ignition Press has announced its first four titles: Deluge, a psychological horror thriller by Cullen Bunn and Marika Cresta; Roots of Madness, a supernatural alternate history story by writer Stephanie Williams and artist Letizia Cadonici; Voyeur, an erotic heist comic by Leah Williams and David Baldéon; and Murder Podcast, by Ignition co-founder Jeremy Haun and artist Mike Tisserand.

Ignition has also announced it will do Cold Open issues, standalone comics that provide an entry point to their series.  Each one will contain an original, self-contained story that introduces the world and characters of the series, as well as bonus material and information on how to get the series through retail stores.

In Deluge, a hard rain causes the river near a women’s prison to overflow its banks, but as the water breaches the walls of the prison, it brings something else with it, a menace that threatens the prisoners and guards alike.  “For decades, I've been driving by this old, crumbling, overgrown ruin of a building along a highway in Missouri,” Bunn said in a statement accompanying the announcement.  “It's a place of mystery that I started researching.  The ruins are all that remain of a correctional facility that flooded in the 90s. Over the years, a story started to form—a story of guilt and innocence, regret and anger, sin and redemption, and an awful lot of horrific happenings.”

Deluge: The Cold Open will be released at Comic-Con International in San Diego with two covers, by Cresta and Somnaartist Becky Cloonan.  Ignition will also have an array of Deluge merch, including a T-shirt, face mask, stickers, and collectible enamel pin.

Ignition Press will also be offering previews and merch for its other three launch titles at Comic-Com.

Inspired by the career of Madame CJ Waler, Roots of Madness tells the story of a young Black woman living at the turn of the 20th century who creates natural medicines based on a book left to her by her late mother but finds she is experimenting with supernatural forces beyond her understanding.  “After spending years pursuing security and stability, I left my ‘stable career’ to transform the survival lessons my family taught me into creative dreams," Williams in a statement accompanying the announcement "Roots of Madness emerged from this blend of survival and ambition.  Etta Knight embodies this transformation: a brilliant 1905 chemist who takes her ancestors' healing knowledge—and pushes it beyond what they ever imagined.”  This is the first original print comic for Williams, the writer of Nubia and the adapter of Maggie Stiefevater’s The Raven Boys. Cadonici is the artist for House of Slaughter. Cover art is by Juliet Nneka.

Voyeur is set at a Thai resort, where one of the guests realizes that the head of security is spying on her; when she confronts him, she realizes he’s also an art thief who is planning to steal all the resort’s valuable art.  Williams and Baldeón previously collaborated on Power Girl, and this is their first creator-owned series.  “I’ve spent nearly eight years writing cape comics for Marvel and DC.  Before that, I spent years anonymously writing fan fiction on AO3 and Wattpad,” Williams said in a statement accompanying the announcement.  “Before that I was in film school. Voyeur unifies these skillsets.”  The five-issue series will launch on September 10, 2025, and the first issue will have open-to-order covers by Paulina Ganucheau and Emanuela Lupacchino and a limited-edition variant by Yanick Paquette.

Murder Podcast is an eight-issue series set in the world of true-crime podcasts and features a podcast that creates murderous urges in its listeners.  The first issue will be released on September 4, 2025, with open-to-order covers by Haun and Tisserand and a limited-edition variant by Ebrahel Lurci.  Tisserand’s covers will connect to form a larger image.

Ignition Press comics are distributed by Penguin Random House Publisher Services (see “PRHPS Signs New Publisher”).

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