THIS COMIC IS A KNIFE — Presenting The LANCER Blade Edition!

*** LANCER #1 BLADE EDITION  ***
Written by MIKE COSTA
Art by JAKE BAKER
Colors by LEE LOUGHRIDGE
$5.99  |  32 PGS.  |  FULL COLOR
1:250 INCENTIVE  | LUNAR CODE: 0626BD0574
FINAL ORDER CUTOFF JULY 13, 2026  | IN STORES AUGUST 12, 2026
Dangerous comics call for dangerous covers. Introducing LANCER: BLADE EDITION – the first-ever comic cover to double as a certified weapon. Because this comic IS A KNIFE!

BAD IDEA has teamed up with artisanal metalworkers to craft a metal cover that is as deadly as it is collectible. Forged from stainless steel, LANCER: BLADE EDITION features a curved blade edge with saw-tooth serrations. This first-of-its-kind comic book cover genuinely functions as a blade, because it is actually, genuinely a knife!

Finally! You can use a limited edition, collectible comic book to: slice up a steak, carve and whittle a wooden duck, draw first blood…

WARNING! This comic was made against all sound legal advice. This comic is NOT A TOY. And is NOT RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN.

So gear up with the only metal cover that will get you removed from the TSA line at airport security, a comic that will likely never be offered again – LANCER: BLADE EDITION.

On August 12th, brace yourself for a savage, all-too-plausible action thriller set in a near-future where side hustles have become a literal hunt for survival.

From powerhouse writer, Mike Costa (Netflix’s LUCIFER), comics’ next superstar, Jake Baker, Eisner Award–winning colorist Lee Loughridge, and featuring letters by the legendary DC Hopkins (BATMAN) comes LANCER!

Click the video above to witness the LANCER: BLADE EDITION prototype in action.

LANCER #1 interior art by Jake Baker & Lee Loughridge
LANCER marks the debut of Jake Baker, a comic book newcomer with virtuoso talent in the tradition of Daniel Warren Johnson, Tradd Moore, and Paul Pope.

Contact your local comic shop today to preorder LANCER #1 before Final Order Cutoff on Monday, July 13th!

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.

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