Hello Darkness #22 A Main (Dressed, Puebla) | CGC 9.8 | PREORDER

The "Life is Too Short for a 9.6" Guarantee

Let’s be honest. We’ve all played that agonizing game of "will it or won't it" with CGC. You stare at the spine, you pray to the comic gods, and then—bam—a 9.6 arrives to crush your spirit.

Frankly, life is way too short for near-misses.

This is a preorder for a guaranteed CGC 9.8 Blue Label. No guessing games. No "close enoughs." No squinting at microscopic color breaks. Just pure, unadulterated, high-grade perfection.

We are officially volunteering to handle the professional grading, the meticulous inspection, and the inevitable, hair-pulling anxiety that comes with waiting on the mail carrier. You? You just sit back, relax, and prepare your shelves for a flawless slab delivered straight to your waiting hands.

These beauties are slated to land in August 2026, and we’ll ship them out the absolute second they hit the door. Drop the stress. Lock in your 9.8.

The temperature rises and so does the body count, as Hello Darkness returns for another summer slashing!A bride’s devoted faith is tested when she’s caught in an endless time loop–will murder be the only way to achieve salvation? Repent, reader, with “Sunday Pt. I” from Eisner and Harvey Award–winning writer Ryan North and artist Giada Belviso!A lone cowboy looking for a payday finds instead a book filled with endless waking nightmares in "The Written Word" by John Arcudi and superstar artist Ryan Sook.Saddle up your hog and roar into “The Boils” by Aaron Losty and Lauren Knight as a revenge killing by a leather daddy and his biker gang comes back to haunt them in every way possible!And finally, sink your fangs into a preview of Vampyrates!, a swashbuckling bloody rags to bloody riches tale, coming soon from Fred Van Lente and Luca Pizzari.