No Place (2025)

Eisner-nominated writer Tim Seeley (Revival, Peacemaker Presents: Vigilante) and knockout artist Stefano Simeone (Radiant Black) invite you to explore the chilling side of childhood imagination in this new dark fantasy adventure!Mariposa Montiel is having a cruel homecoming. As the daughter of immigrants, the outcast teenager is no stranger to scrutiny, but this is another level. Years after vanishing from her Chicago neighborhood, Mari has returned to a traumatized family and a media circus with nothing but a tiger-striped feather and an extraordinary tale of her time away as the champion of a magical jungle land called Mayahuela.Mari is met as a fraud and her story makes her a stranger in her own life until an eccentric, high-tech organization known as N.O. Place emerges from the shadows and welcomes her home. Led by a legend of the Land of Oz, the secret agency has its finger on the pulse of so-called fictional worlds—and as its newest recruit, Mari is now called upon to save our own world from a creeping Lovecraftian nightmare.NO Place unites all-new heroes with horrific and beloved genre icons alike, featuring main covers by series artist Stefano Simeone!

It’s Mariposa Montiel’s first day on the job with Nether Operations Place, a shadow organization responsible for protecting Earth against invasions from other realms.This is the new purpose Mari’s been craving since she returned to the hostile real world after three years of thriving as a living legend in a magical alternate-dimension jungle paradise. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime, but Mari’s intensely intellectual field partner, Allen Dion, is openly envious of her first-hand experience with the extraordinary; and her boss, Dorothy Gale—yes, THE Dorothy Gale of the Land of Oz—has little patience for learning curves and may be carrying some baggage of her own into the mission.No pressure, right? Good thing there’s no time to wallow in self-doubt when a wicked aquatic presence has a hold on Chicago’s waterways and all eyes are on Mari to crack the case. Let the team-building begin!Eisner-nominated writer Tim Seeley (Revival, Peacemaker Presents: Vigilante) and knockout artist Stefano Simeone (Radiant Black) unite all-new heroes with genre icons in this chilling dark fantasy adventure!

N.O. Place Director Dorothy Gale is a caring leader and she did warn them there would be primates, but Mari and Allen could never have prepared for this fight for their lives against swimming monkeys in the sewer system. Meanwhile, the boss herself comes face-to-face with the Wicked Witch of the Deep. The wounds that follow will cut to the core, revealing an unexpected connection between N.O. Place’s world-saving efforts and the devastation at their doorstep. And as the Old Gods work through Adamik to seize control of Chicago, it’s one step forward, two giant leaps back on Mari’s mission to make amends with her family. Lovecraft and the Land of Oz collide in this continuation of Tim Seeley and Stefano Simeone’s dark fantasy spectacle!

N.O. Place Director Dorothy Gale has just shared a sinking revelation about her hand in Chicago’s current crisis, but there’s no time for the team to reflect. A hypnotizing aquatic mutation grips the city and the Wicked Witch of the Deep rises for a final assault that will shine a light on the terrifying scope of her deal with the Old Ones. Mari’s courage escalates to anger, alarming new questions about Allen emerge, a final boss takes shape, and legendary allies offer new hope. It's a time of revenge and reunion in this penultimate issue of Tim Seeley and Stefano Simeone’s Oz-inspired, Lovecraft-laced dark fantasy adventure!

The Yellow Brick Road ends here—the conclusion to Tim Seeley and Stefano Simeone’s dark fantasy crossover!The Wicked Witch of the Deep has set the stage for Dagon’s Cult of fish people to flood the city and claim it as their own. N.O. Place Director Dorothy Gale and Agent Mariposa Montiel are cornered on the battlefield. With last-ditch combat strategies in short supply, they’ll need to search within and make amends with friends and family to strike the winning blow.It’s legends of Oz versus Lovecraftian Old Gods in a final showdown for the soul of Chicago and the endurance of childhood magic!