One last heist… Or there’ll be hell to pay.

The hit crime comic Stray Bullets creative team of David & Maria Lapham, along with colorist Hilary Jenkins (Grass Kings), brings a hellish new hardboiled heist series to BOOM! Studios in UNDERHEIST, available December 2023.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

After a losing fight to gambling addiction, David hits rock bottom and decimates his personal life in the process. He’d do anything for one last chance to get on the straight and narrow and set things right.

He may just be in luck, if you can call it that. Through the grapevine David learns of a heist–one involving a tunnel system that no one knows better than the former NYC subway veteran. One last job and he’s home free. All he needs to do is make it out alive…

UNDERHEIST #1 features a main cover by David Lapham, with variants by Dave Johnson (100 Bullets), and Goran Sudzuka (Y: The Last Man).

“If you know our work,” said David Lapham, “then you know that we traditionally come at the crime genre from a very non-traditional angle with very non-traditional noir protagonists. I often call them domestic noirs. But with Underheist, we had this idea for a more straightforward story, centered around maybe the most traditional crime trope—the heist. Of course, we can’t do anything straightforward for more than five minutes, and very quickly all these twisted, nightmarish ideas started to flood in…”

Said acquisitions editor Jon Moisan, “A supernatural heist story is a compelling premise—one told by David and Maria Lapham is a no-brainer. Do yourself a favor and preorder a copy for you and everyone you know. No one is going to want to miss out on Underheist. It’s a hell of a good time.”

UNDERHEIST #1 will be available in comic shops December 13, 2023. It is available for pre-order at your local comic shop. Digital copies will also be available. Find Lapham’s currently available digital comics on Amazon.

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About David and Maria Lapham

David and Maria Lapham are the Eisner winning team behind the crime series Stray Bullets, Lodger, Murder Me Dead, Young Liars, The Ends and many other comics and graphic novels over the course of their 30+ years in comics. They live in Carefree Arizona with their five children and create comics largely about the horrible things people do to each other. 

About BOOM! Studios

UNDERHEIST #1 is the newest release from BOOM! Studios, home to critically acclaimed original series, including BRZRKR by Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt, and Ron Garney; Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera; Stuff of Nightmares by R.L. Stine and A.L. Kaplan; Grim by Stephanie Phillips and Flaviano; Ghostlore by Cullen Bunn and Leomacs; Know Your Station by Sarah Gailey and Liana Kangas; Behold, Behemoth by Tate Brombal and Nick Robles; Sirens of the City by Joanne Starer and Khary Randolph; and Rare Flavours by Ram V and Filipe Andrade.

The imprint also publishes popular licensed properties, including Dune: House Harkonnen and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

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