Description
Princess Aura gets the spotlight!
One day, the daughter of the tyrant Ming the Merciless will betray her father and join the armies of Mongo in revolt alongside Earth hero Flash Gordon. But before she was a sharpshooting assassin on the side of good, Princess Aura was a rebellious, action-hungry teenager with an uncorrupted heart. 2025 Talent Search winners Molly Jones, Alden Kaye, Victor Medina, and Domo Arce tell the story of Aura's first frontline mission!
Then, award-winning Zimbabwean writer & artist Bill Masuku (Forbes Africa Under 30; creator of Captain South Africa and Disney's Runeless) delivers a neon-soaked, Africa-inspired space epic in a “flash fiction” like you've never seen before!
And NYT-lauded writer Eliot Rahal teams up with artist Andrea Mutti for a story that gets inside Ming the Merciless's black heart—literally! The most exciting installation yet of the Flash Gordon Quarterly!
Pages40
Released2026
LanguageEnglish
PublisherMad Cave Studios
ISBN9781545828991
SellerSimon & Schuster
About the author(s)
Molly Jones
Bill Masuku is an award-winning Zimbabwean comic book artist and writer, currently creating Runeless for Disney Hyperion through the Kugali Ink imprint while self-publishing Captain South Africa. His afromanga Tokoloshe Hunters was published by Etan Comics with a Kickstarter that attracted 485% of the funding. Masuku has worked as a storyboard artist for Triggerfish on a Netflix project and Disney x Kugali's 3-time Emmy Award-nominated animated series Iwájú. In 2022, Masuku was featured in Forbes Africa Under 30. Masuku was selected for the Creation Africa FOCUS in France, supported by the Institut Français, among 15 other comic book artists across Africa. He was selected as the British Council’s Design Futures Africa Storyteller for Zimbabwe, a project centred around sustainable development, the green future, and the informal economy. In 2020, Masuku was spotlighted as an up-and-coming artist during DC Comics’ global event DC Fandome.
Eliot Rahal (Hot Lunch Special, Bleed Them Dry, Madam Satan) is a New York Times-acclaimed writer best known for his work in comics and his collaborations with Last Podcast on the Left, Machine Gun Kelly, and Emily Hampshire.
Andrea Mutti began his career illustrating the superheroes comic 'DNAction' for Xenia Edizioni. He then illustrated horror comics for Fenix. He moved over to Star Comics, where he drew stories with 'Lazarus Ledd' and some episodes of 'Hammer'. Since then he's worked with DC/Vertigo, Marvel, Mad Cave Studios, and IDW.
Valerio Alloro is an Italian colorist and illustrator. He has worked with Dark Horse Comics on titles such as Ham-Let, Hotel Rem, Top Secret Service, and Small Town Spirits. For the same publisher, in collaboration with Fantasy Flight Games, he provided t
