Image Comics announced that author Charles Soule and artist Alberto Jiménez Alburquerque will be teaming up at the publisher for December’s The Bloody Dozen, a new six-issue space-horror miniseries as part of Soule and Will Sliney’s saga “The Shrouded College.” The Bloody Dozen #1 will release on December 13th with a main cover by Sliney and variant covers by Sliney and Jiménez Alburquerque. The 1:50 variant cover by Sliney will come with individually-numbered, limited-edition “challenge coins” in the style of a NASA mission patch. Keep scrolling to check out some of the artwork revealed for this exciting new series!

The publisher shared this teaser regarding the series:

In The Bloody Dozen, three down-and-out astronauts are tasked with the ultimate heist: springing a clan of deadly vampires from a space prison orbiting the Sun. Apollo 13 meets Blade in this killer thriller!

“The Bloody Dozen is the second Shrouded College story, which can be read independently of the first (Hell to Pay), but builds on the overarching narrative that will be told across the seven planned stories in the Shrouded College universe,” said Soule. “The Bloody Dozen—like all the Shrouded College stories—is inspired by horror-action of the ’90s and ’00s—films like Blade or Event Horizon or Prophecy. The ‘just smart enough’ stories which build off a kickass hook and then deliver great action and adventure and scares. The basic premise of the Shrouded College is that ordinary people are given magic abilities and then tasked to complete supernatural ‘impossible missions’—and The Bloody Dozen gives us a doozy. I’m particularly excited to be reunited with my Letter 44 collaborator Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque for the interior art—no one draws space terror better!”

“It's class to see the Shrouded College universe expand with The Bloody Dozen,” said Sliney. “Alberto's pages are fun, gorgeous and when they need to be, terrifying. While Charles and Alberto are up in Space with Bloody Dozen, I'm hidden away in a secret location working on another installment. In fact, you can see our road map here with these interlinked coins.”

Jiménez Alburquerque added, “it’s been years since Charles and I started talking about this project. Ever since, it has changed and evolved in several ways but my commitment to work with Charles again has remained intact since we finished Letter 44. And it’s paid off! This series has it all. Magic, space travel, steampunk and, of course, vampires. I have to thank Charles and Will for including me in this saga and allowing me to create and expand on their universe. I’m going to give it my all and it’s going to be epic!”