Hammerfist #1
Publisher: Image Comics
Release Date: August 26, 2026
Cover Price: $5.99
Writer: Rick Remender
Artist: Steve Epting
Cover(s): Steve Epting (A), Jerome Opeña (B), Nic Klein (C), Blank Sketch (D), Dan Panosian (E), Andrew Robinson (F)
Format: N/A pgs., Full-Color
Rating: N/A
Publisher Description. Reservoir Dogs collides with Evil Dead in a filthy crime story that mutates into a savage splatter-horror nightmare from New York Times bestselling author Rick Remender (Escape, Captain America) and acclaimed artist Steve Epting (Velvet, Captain America), in the upcoming Hammerfist. This all-new ongoing series was announced exclusively at IGN this week and is set to launch this August from Image Comics.
Hammerfist will launch with a lineup of variant covers by such artists as Jerome Opeña, Nic Klein, Dan Panosian, Daniel Acuña, Andrew Robinson, and more as well as a blank sketch cover and a special foil-treated version of Robinson’s cover art.
In Hammerfist, readers meet Mike Denton: a dirtbag hitman, junkie, and absentee father. He’s spent his life chasing the easy fix – drugs, cheap sex, and murder for money – all while failing the one person who still believes he can be better: his daughter.
Now, on the eve of Black Noon – an ancient darkness that erases the light in all things –
Mike has to drag himself out of the gutter, awaken a supernatural weapon powered only by love, and fight his way through the living embodiment of evil to save her. This is the story of an unredeemable killer forced to do the one thing he’s avoided his entire life: stand for something other than himself.
- Cover A by Steve Epting
- Cover B by Jerome Opeña
- Cover C by Nic Klein
- Cover D by Blank Sketch
- Cover E by Dan Panosian
- Cover F by Andrew Robinson
- Cover G by Daniel Acuña (1:50 copy incentive)
- Cover H by Andrew Robinson Foil (1:100 copy incentive)
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Source: ICv2
