Exquisite Corpses #1—from James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh—just played another perfect round and sold out again at the distributor level. Image Comics has fast-tracked a reprint this week to keep pace with the runaway demand.
Exquisite Corpses is on track to become one of the most successful Image Comics launches of 2025 with year-to-date orders for the series projected to break 150K total with this latest reprint. It’s Tynion’s third massive victory lap with Image and Walsh’s second horror anthology win after his breakout The Silver Coin.
In Exquisite Corpses, every five years on Halloween, the wealthiest families in America play a game. Twelve of the deadliest people in the world are dropped into a small town with just one goal: last killer standing wins. For the citizens of Oak Valley, Maine—this year’s unlucky arena—the goal is much simpler. They must survive the night.
The series came together in a writers’ room led by Tynion IV and Walsh and made up of “Corpse Crew” comics superstars Adam Gorham, Becca Carey, Che Grayson, Claire Roe, Gavin Fullerton, Jordie Bellaire, Marianna Ignazzi, Pornsak Pichetshote, Tyler Boss, and Valentine De Landro . Each issue of the series builds upon the last in a true ‘exquisite corpse’ game style, with a passing of the storytelling baton from creator-to-creator in a collaborative and competitive fashion.
Exquisite Corpses #1 fourth printing arrives at comic book shops on Wednesday, October 1.
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