JEROME OPEÑA Enlists In LANCER With Killer Croc Design Cover — Witness The Monstrosity Inside!

On October 21st, one of the bloodiest horror action blockbusters to shred the stands is busting the door off a comic shop near you — LANCER #1!

New York Times best-selling writer Mike Costa (Netflix’s LUCIFER), superstar-in-the-making, Jake Baker, and Eisner Award-winning colorist Lee Loughridge (BATMAN) deliver a savage, all-too-plausible action thriller set in a near-future where side hustles have become a literal hunt for survival.

Today, BAD IDEA is proud to announce that superstar artist Jerome Opeña has joined the hunt with design work for the murderous mutant alligators threatening to tear the Lancers limb from limb!

*** LANCER #1  Design Cover ***
Written by MIKE COSTA
Art by JAKE BAKER
Colors by LEE LOUGHRIDGE
Cover by JEROME OPEÑA
$5.99  |  32 PGS.  |  FULL COLOR
1:20 INCENTIVE  | LUNAR CODE: 0626BD0571
FINAL ORDER CUTOFF SEPTEMBER 21, 2026  | IN STORES OCTOBER 21, 2026
Jerome Opeña is the powerhouse artist behind iconic runs on Marvel’s Punisher and Moon Knight series. He worked alongside Rick Remender to launch the critically-acclaimed Uncanny X-Force ongoing and then again to co-create the best-selling Image series Seven to Eternity.

Opeña’s design work is featured on a limited 1:20design cover for LANCER #1, launching into stores this October! Contact your local comic shop to pre-order your copy by Final Order Cutoff on Monday, September 21st!

LANCER #1 is so grisly, that it’s  the first-ever release to feature a comic book that is an ACTUAL KNIFE!

Crafted from cold-blooded stainless steel with a curved blade edge sporting saw-tooth serrations, sharpened to slice-and-dice anything you might send its way.

See what veteran Pete Sanborn is up against in LANCER #1 with a never-before-seen look at virtuoso artist Jake Baker’s interior art below!

LANCER #1 interior art by JAKE BAKER & LEE LOUGHRIDGE
In the near future, if you need extra cash, you open an app. Accept a hunt. Get paid to exterminate whatever dangerous species is overrunning your part of the world. Coyotes in California. King cobras in Mumbai. Feral camels in Australia. Vampire bats in Brazil. If it threatens people, property, or profit, LANCER puts a bounty on its head.

For military vets like Pete Sanborn, it offers something modern life rarely does anymore: a mission, a paycheck, and the hope that one more job might finally be enough.

Two years after a wild hog hunt in Texas went catastrophically wrong, Sanborn has sworn he is done with the app.

Then an old military buddy shows up with an offer he can’t refuse.

Something enormous is living beneath New York City. The payout is life-changing. But the creatures below are not what anyone thinks they are, and by the time Sanborn understands what they are really hunting, it may already be too late.

Think Aliens, Predator, Jurassic Park, and RoboCop.

The Colonial Marines meet DoorDash.

Clock in. Hunt. Survive. Get paid.

It’s a living.

LANCER #1 interior art by Jake Baker & Lee Loughridge

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