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Red Before Black

Illustrated by Goran Sudžuka
Published by BOOM! Studios
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

A disgraced army veteran is sent by the FBI to Florida to hunt down an infamous drug runner named Leo, but they soon find that they have an unexpected enemy in common, turning the game of cat and mouse into something else entirely!

DISGRACED. DEADLY. DERANGED.

From the tough streets of Miami to the eerie Florida backwoods comes an instantly iconic criminal duo from superstar writer Stephanie Phillips (Harley Quinn, Grim) and acclaimed artist Goran Sudžuka (Hellblazer, Y The Last Man).

Disgraced army veteran Val is sent to Florida to hunt down an infamous drug runner named Leo. But she soon finds that they have an unexpected enemy in common, turning the game of cat and mouse into something else entirely!

With no one else to turn to but each other, can this lethal partnership survive what’s coming… or each other?

Collects Red Before Black #1-6.

About The Author

Stephanie Phillips is an American writer known for comics and graphic novels such as Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman: Evolution, and The Butcher of Paris. Her stories and comics have appeared from DC, AfterShock, Oni Press, Heavy Metal, Dark Horse, Top Cow/Image, and more. Outside of comics, Stephanie also holds a PhD in rhetoric and composition.

About The Illustrator

Goran Sudzuka began working for DC Vertigo in 1999, co-creating "Outlaw Nation" with writer Jamie Delano, for which he won the "Russ Manning" award for the most promising newcomer at the Eisner awards of 2001. He stayed with Vertigo for ten years working on some of their flagship titles like "Y - the Last Man" and "Hellblazer". Later on he worked on superhero comics, most notably on Brian Azzarello's "Wonder Woman" and Charles Soule’s “Daredevil”. He moved on then to work with Garth Ennis on creator-owned books "A Walk Through Hell" and "Marjorie Finnegan - Temporal Criminal".

Product Details

  • Publisher: BOOM! Studios (January 15, 2026)
  • Length: 160 pages
  • ISBN13: 9798892153676

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