Books by Steve Orlando

Discover a world without Avengers! Tony Stark never built an iron armor. Thor is a hard-drinking atheist who despises hammers. Wakanda is dismissed as a myth. Captain America was never found in the ice. Instead, this planet has always been protected by Earth's Mightiest Heroes: the Squadron Supreme of America! But who is responsible for this altered Earth? Why is the vampire-hunting Blade the one man who remembers how things should be? And what will he do about it? It's the complete saga of a world reborn, featuring familiar faces as you've never seen them before! Collecting HEROES REBORN (2021) #1-7; HEROES RETURN #1; HEROES REBORN: HYPERION & THE IMPERIAL GUARD; HEROES REBORN: PETER PARKER, THE AMAZING SHUTTERBUG; HEROES REBORN: MAGNETO & THE MUTANT FORCE; HEROES REBORN: YOUNG SQUADRON; HEROES REBORN: SIEGE SOCIETY; HEROES REBORN: SQUADRON SAVAGE; HEROES REBORN: MARVEL DOUBLE ACTION; HEROES REBORN: AMERICAN KNIGHTS; HEROES REBORN: NIGHT-GWEN; and HEROES REBORN: WEAPON X & FINAL FLIGHT.

Meet the man who can predict your every move but no one can predict what he ll do next!

For hundreds of years, scholars and heroes alike have searched for the complete text of the Darkhold - AKA the Book of the Damned, written by the elder god Cthon. Now one of the greatest socerers in the Multiverse has found it... and Cthon has found him! To save them all, the Scarlet Witch must gather the world''s greatest heroes... and unleash their inner darkness! Witness the Marvel Universe''s descent into chaos! Collecting: Darkhold: Alpha (2021) 1, Darkhold: Blade (2021) 1, Darkhold: Iron Man (2021) 1, Darkhold: Black Bolt (2021) 1, Darkhold: Wasp (2021) 1, Darkhold: Spider-Man (2021) 1 and Darkhold: Omega (2021) 1

Our world sits in the last reality left. Empathy, unity, decency...every day we're losing everything we thought we couldn't live without. The Crisis Command, failed Presidents from across the Multiverse, tried doing things the old way, keeping secrets like they were still in the Oval Office. They tried doing things the superhero way, dropping into situations with flashbang neon heroics to roars of applause. And neither approach got them any closer to stopping the creep of complete universal destruction. To save us all, the Crisis Command must give up everything they know, from their ego to their idealism, and go on a journey of rediscovery as the clock ticks towards annihilation. Standing in their way is the Extinction Society and their leader the Executrix, an organization convinced that the only reasonable act for civilization of self-destruction. To survive, the Crisis Command has to be something more than superhero, they have to be something better...and inspire us all to do the same so we can all meet tomorrow, together. The second part of a new series by acclaimed writer STEVE ORLANDO (Wonder Woman, Doom Patrol: Milk Wars, Martian Manhunter) and artist DAVIDE TINTO (Marvel Action: Spider-Man). Collects COMMANDERS IN CRISIS #7-12

Alan is an older gay man on the prowl for a young, 30-ish hookup. He finds the perfect match in Scott, but when they go back to Alan's sprawling estate, "Scott" suddenly turns on his older date. Turns out, Alan isn't the picture-perfect sugar daddy, but a sociopath responsible for the disappearance of numerous young gay men. "Scott" isn't really looking for a boyfriend, but revenge for a fallen friend...unfortunately for Scott, he may have underestimated Alan and when he finds one of Alan's victims still alive, his mission swerves from one of revenge to a rescue From Jeffrey Dahmer to Ed Buck...to the Toronto gay murders...authorities have a pattern of overlooking crimes against gay men until it's far too late. In PARTY & PREY, we match this unfortunate truth with the hard-to-believe, but real-life extremes that gay power brokers like Peter Thiel go to in attempts to preserve their youth...creating a gay revenge thriller with a true-crime twist that flips our sympathies just when we start to feel bad for Alan. Think a gay Get Out crossed with Criminal, Stray Bullets, or Dead Inside.

Sometimes the monsters aren t the ones you should be scared of sometimes the monsters are the heroes.

"Andy's parents rescued Rocket when Andy was just a toddler, and they grew up together, with Rocket serving as Andy's guardian through every one of childhood's ups and downs. So when Rocket passes away right before Andy's 14th birthday, he's rudderless. High school is coming soon and he can't imagine making that transition without Rocket at his side. The day before school starts, when Andy is at his lowest, he visits Rocket's grave, and unexpectedly summons the RAINBOW BRIDGE, a gateway to a fantasy world where pets discover their afterlife. One part heaven and one part limbo, this is a final resting place for pets - but also a realm where any unfinished business must be completed, before restless pet souls twist into bizarre, seemingly malevolent wraiths that haunt the periphery of this otherwise splendid paradise. It's extremely rare for a human to visit this realm, but Rocket and Andy find each other again in this wondrous pet Valhalla to go on one last epic adventure to help Rocket reunite with his lost littermate, fulfilling Rocket's last wishes. Here, the roles are reversed, as Andy has to be the strong one and support Rocket in his quest for closure. By adventure's end, Andy finally gains the confidence to let go of his childhood and enter the next phase of his life, starting his first day of high school."--Provided by publisher.

TKO Studios presents "The Pull" from superstar creators Steve Orlando (Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter) and Ricardo López Ortiz (Deadpool, Hit-Girl: Colombia)An endtimes caper for the Global Warming era, where humankind's consumption has attracted the attention of the primordial destroyer - THE UNDOER. The only hope lays in BRENTON DEMM, one of Earth's thirteen super-science police, and his ex-wife GAYANO TITH. With days left until the Undoer swallows the Earth, Tith can stop the Undoer, as long as Demm can keep her alive. The catch? Ever since his gloryhounding caused a disaster that killed hundreds and put Earth on the Undoer's radar, he's been clinically incapable of giving a damn. Disaffected, corrupt, but still looking for a hint of hope in his last days, Demm finds it when Tith tells him the world doesn't have to end. He just has to get back to work. "An ambitious and larger-than-life sci-fi series from writer Steve Orlando and artist Ricardo Lopez Ortiz." - SYFY Wire  "Steve Orlando's Profile Hasn't Stopped Rising." - AV CLUB  "Orlando is changing the landcape of comic books for a new generation." - ADVOCATE

"A brand new original graphic novel from writers Steve Orlando and Phillip Kennedy Johnson featuring art by Alec Morgan and lettering by Jim Campbell. In the early days of Mixed Martial Arts, kickboxer icon DJ Bellyi is beaten to death in the ring after yelling a homosexual slur at an opponent, while his young son James watches in horror from the stands. Sixteen years later, young James Bellyi has become an MMA star in his own right, with top-tier endorsements and an imminent title shot. But when James is outed as gay by an opponent in a press conference, he loses everything: his title shot, his fans, his team, even his family. To fight his way back, he turns to the only one left in the world willing to train him: Xavier Mayne, the man who killed his father. Says Johnson: "We're living in an important and dynamic time in American History, when we have the power and responsibility to decide what kind of nation the United States is going to be going forward. Telling a story with such an unlikely crossover -- male queer culture and MMA culture -- is Steve's, Alec's and my way of making that decision for ourselves.""--Provided by publisher.

Sasha never saw his younger brother...until the secret police made him disappear.Sasha Vasnetsov left Thrice-NineΓÇöthe dirty folklore world that limps along in the wreckage of a Technomagic WarΓÇöthirty years ago and never looked back. But word that the secret police have sent his brother Gena to a work camp for the socially degenerate drags him back, with a promise to free Gena and return him to their mother before her fiftieth birthday. The only problem? Sasha isn''t a fraction of the tough guy he tries to be, so if he''s going to break back into Thrice-Nine...he''ll need help. Sasha''s only hope is Maria Kamenaya, a former Technomagic Warrior with hundreds of enemy kills to her name, betrayed by the country that made her when her honor conflicted with their agenda.Thrice-Nine took Sasha''s brother, and it took Maria''s heart. This quest is how they get both of those things back, in the steaming, lawless land of decapitated states...the land of DEAD KINGS.Like True Grit set in the world of Final Fantasy, DEAD KINGS is unrelenting with its passion and thrills, massive in scale and unflinching as it peers into the underside of the obligations that drive us all: to family and country. It''s a classic Wild West revenge cast against a haunting, awe-inspiring vision of a future where we''ve mortally wounded the world, and the prisoners are the only ones left to run the penitentiary.Written by Steve Orlando (Batman/Shadow, Crude, Midnighter, Virgil) and drawn by Matthew Dow Smith (October Girl, Suicide Squad, X-Files) DEAD KINGS continues Orlando''s in-depth exploration of retribution in all its dark, complex forms. Having burst forth from the restrictions of the modern world''s flesh and bone, Orlando and Smith create a whole new world of iron-and-oil fantasy, paths walked by a redemption-fueled older brother and the abandoned, rusted out, vindictive tool of a bygone war that protects himΓÇöthis is us AFTER the World Wars of Mechs and Magic, broken hearts and busted fists included, a world you would ONLY find at AfterShock!

"Killers once feared Piotr Petrovich Bilibin. Now, they've sent his son home to him in a body bag. Haunted by his failures, Piotr journeys across Russia to learn what type of man his son really was while hunting the bastards who killed him. And once Piotr finds them, they will fear to fear him once more"--Back cover.