RED BEFORE BLACK (2024)

Introducing the most unpredictable outlaw couple since Harley & Ivy! Red Before Black is a violent, hyper kinetic, women-led crime thriller reminiscent of 2000s-era Vertigo from superstar writer Stephanie Phillips (Grim, Harley Quinn) and acclaimed artist Goran Sud uka (Hellblazer, Y The Last Man), perfect for fans of Birds of Prey and Killing Eve. On a special assignment from the FBI, 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!

A PTSD flashback brings Val back to prison, with an intimate look into her character and origins before Florida. Meanwhile in the present, Leo is in her crosshairs, but the operation will have to be carried out at a place with far too much collateral present...

A particularly pointed wound sends Val spiraling into another hallucinatory PTSD experience, but this one's different. Her attacker is there. It will take everything in Val's mental arsenal to get back to reality and finish the job, but even more pressing-is this the last she'll see of her attacker?

Val comes back to reality with the last thing she wanted stuck in her back-a knife. Despite Val's target being oddly curious of her attacker, Val still has a mission to accomplish by any means necessary.

With the police closing in on Leo and Val, they've got nowhere else to turn...but to each other! Will these two violent outsiders find enough common ground to survive?

Val and Leo’s journey reaches an end in the climactic final issue of Stephanie Phillips and Goran Sudžuka unhinged criminal thrill ride.The pair’s violent streak through the Florida underworld has led them to a place of deadly consequences, as they reflect on the choices that led them here and their inevitable connection with each other… for better or worse…The critically acclaimed, action-packed series ends with a bang with a heart-stopping, pulse-pounding issue that fans won’t want to miss!