New York Times bestselling author Rick Remender (Escape, Captain America) and acclaimed artist Steve Epting (Velvet, Captain America) have hit big with this week’s Hammerfist launch. The debut issue of this all-new, ongoing series has sold out instantly at the distributor level and will be rushed back to print this week in order to keep up with escalating demand.
The Hammerfist #1, second printing cover will feature eye-popping new art by Epting.
“After a couple of years of developing and bleeding on Hammerfist, it was wonderful to see the book open with such incredible numbers and such a positive response,” said Remender. “Selling completely out of every copy the same day it was released is beyond anything I expected. But then, who wouldn’t gobble up 40 full pages of Epting and Hollingsworth together? Only a monster. I’m glad to know the monsters lost today.”
Epting added: “I think it was back in 2020 when Rick and I first discussed working on something together. You never know where those initial emails will lead, but it’s hard to express how glad I am that it lead to Hammerfist. I love this character and love this book, and can’t wait for you all to see where it goes. Thanks for coming along for the ride. It’s a wild one!”
In Hammerfist, readers meet Mike Denton: a dirtbag hitman, junkie, and absentee father. He’s spent his life chasing the easy fix—drugs, cheap sex, and murder for money—all while failing the one person who still believes he can be better: his daughter.
Now, on the eve of Black Noon—an ancient darkness that erases the light in all things—Mike has to drag himself out of the gutter, awaken a supernatural weapon powered only by love, and fight his way through the living embodiment of evil to save her. This is the story of an unredeemable killer forced to do the one thing he’s avoided his entire life: stand for something other than himself.
Reservoir Dogs collides with Evil Dead in this filthy crime story that mutates into a savage splatter-horror nightmare.
Hammerfist #1, second printing (UPC: 70985304826800112) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, September 23.
Hammerfist #2 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, September 30:
- Cover A by Epting – UPC: 70985304826800211
- Cover B by Michael Kaluta – UPC: 70985304826800221
- Cover C Witchblade Team-up by Brett Parson – UPC: 70985304826800231