After ENIAC #1 arrives on stands on March 3, 2021, you’ll never guess what happens next: THE NEXT ISSUE!
Yes, you’re reading that right! In a move that is as sequential as it is audacious, Bad Idea will be following up its momentously monumental and greedily anticipated March debut with (gasps) ENIAC #2 on April 7, 2021!
For the same $3.99 (cheap!) cover price, Bad Idea’s comics-addled readership can head into select comic shops worldwide to secure their second dose of all-out ENIAC-TION from the high-caliber creative team of New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT), incendiary artist Doug Braithwaite (Justice), and powerhouse colorist Diego Rodriguez (Hellblazer: Rise & Fall). PLUS: This ad-free stunner is going to come complete with yet another ALL-NEW BAD IDEA “B-SIDE” story so shocking that we have to keep it under wraps until it hits stands.
What to know what to expect from Bad Idea’s shockingly secondary release in ENIAC #2? Here’s a little peek:
Seventy-seven years ago, the United States unlocked the key to defeating the Axis powers, but, in their desperation to end the war, accidentally created a far more powerful threat: ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer). Designed to be a cutting-edge breakthrough in supercomputing that could deliver a decisive victory to the Allies, ENIAC did just that…by ordering the bombing Nagasaki without human consent or approval. A fully autonomous A.I free from the bounds of programming or morality, ENIAC spent the decades since manipulating global superpowers from the shadows, secretly shaping everything we thought we knew about the history of the geopolitical order. And, throughout it all, one classified question has plagued presidents and prime ministers, generals and spymasters alike: “What is ENIAC planning next?”
Now, after years of silence, ENIAC has re-emerged with a 72-hour countdown until it unleashes every weapon in Earth’s atomic arsenal. Its motives? Unknowable to humankind. Its endgame? Destruction on an unthinkable scale. As ENIAC’s clock rockets toward zero, it’s down to two covert operatives to infiltrate a Russian black site and free the one man alive who knows how to kill the machine…before it erases mankind, once and for all.
In a world beset by crisis, only one thing is certain: Bad Idea begins with ENIAC #1 on March 3, 2021…and then continues with ENIAC #2 on April 7, 2021…and then moves forward with ENIAC #3 in May…and, in daring move no one could have possibly expected, sallies forth with ENIAC #4 in June! Four issues in four months — it’s tough, but that’s how we came to play at Bad Idea.
And that, as they say, is the mere tip of the proverbial iceberg that is Bad Idea’s rising profile. In the wake of ENIAC #1’s (and #2, wow!) awesome berth, we’re going to be hitting store shelves on the reg throughout spring and summer 2021 with a slew of attention-grabbing new releases, such as:
MARCH 2021
ENIAC #1 (of 4)
Matt Kindt (writer) ** Doug Braithwaite (art) ** Diego Rodriguez (colors) ** Lewis LaRosa with Laura Martin (cover)
FOUR ISSUES ** MONTHLY
APRIL 2021
TANKERS #1 (of 3)
Robert Venditti (writer) ** Juan Jose Ryp (art/cover) ** Andrew Dalhouse (colors)
THREE ISSUES ** DOUBLE-SIZED ** BI-MONTHLY
MAY 2021
WHALESVILLE #1
Matt Kindt (writer) ** Adam Pollina (art/cover) ** Matt Hollingsworth (colors)
WHALE-SIZED ONE-SHOT
JULY 2021
THE LOT #1 (of 4)
Marguerite Bennett (writer) ** Renato Guedes (art/colors/cover)
FOUR ISSUES ** MONTHLY
July 2021
SLAY BELLS #1
Zeb Wells (writer) ** David Lafuente (art/cover) ** Ulises Arreola (colors)
SANTA-SIZED ONE-SHOT
Want to make sure you don’t miss your crack at ENIAC #1 or any subsequent Bad Idea release when they first hit stands? You simply have to visit a Bad Idea “destination store” — one of the 154 comic shops around the world that have signed on to join our independent network of direct-distribution retail partners — to pick them up on a Wednesday. (Or pre-order in advance to make sure you secure your copy.)
We’ve made it even easier, too. To locate a Bad Idea retailer near you and then pre-order ENIAC #1 and every other Bad Idea title, simply click here and fill out the little form.
ENIAC #1
*** Written by MATT KINDT // Art by DOUG BRAITHWAITE // Colors by DIEGO RODRIGUEZ ***
*** PLUS: An All-New BAD IDEA B-SIDE: “SAVE NOW” ***
*** Written by MATT KINDT // Art by TOMAS GIORELLO // Colors by DIEGO RODRIGUEZ ***
*** Cover by LEWIS LAROSA with LAURA MARTIN ***
*** $3.99 // 48 PGS. // RATED T+ // ON SALE MARCH 3, 2021 ***
ENIAC #2
*** Written by MATT KINDT // Art by DOUG BRAITHWAITE // Colors by DIEGO RODRIGUEZ ***
*** PLUS: An All-New BAD IDEA B-SIDE ***
*** Cover by LEWIS LAROSA with DIEGO RODRIGUEZ ***
*** $3.99 // 32 PGS. // RATED T+ // ON SALE APRIL 7, 2021 ***
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