🐉 Daniel Warren Johnson Series Premiere: Parents vs. Cascade — A New Monster Comic

Daniel Warren Johnson is among the most distinctive creator-voices in contemporary comics — a writer-artist whose work combines the emotional gut-punch of the best manga with the kinetic visual energy of Western action comics, in an uncompromisingly personal voice that makes every series feel like something that could only come from him. 💥 This is his latest series premiere: Sam and Duncan LaMarr's daughter Penny was taken six months ago by the malevolent Cascade — a force of pure evil whose nature remains terrifyingly obscure. Now her parents fight alongside the magical beings Penny held dear to bring her back. Written and drawn by Daniel Warren Johnson. Additional art by Riley Rossmo. Cover by Ryan G Browne.

🎨 Daniel Warren Johnson: The Complete Creator

Daniel Warren Johnson writes AND draws his creator-owned work — a relatively rare combination in mainstream American comics that gives his series a visual-narrative integration only possible when one person controls both script and image. 📖

His breakthrough title was Murder Falcon (Image Comics, 2018-2019) — a story about a musician who summons a heavy metal warrior falcon to battle demons and process grief, rendered in Johnson's fluid, emotionally expressive linework. The series found an immediate and passionate readership and established the template for his creator-owned output: emotionally raw, visually dynamic, built around characters whose grief or love or determination drives them through impossible situations.

Do a Powerbomb! (Image Comics, 2022) pushed further — a story about a girl who enters a supernatural wrestling tournament after her mother's death, channeling grief and love into physical combat with reality-bending stakes. 💪 It won the Harvey Award for Best New Series and confirmed Johnson's position as one of indie comics' essential voices. His run on Image Comics' Transformers (2023-2024) became one of the highest-selling reboots the franchise had seen in years, demonstrating that his visual vocabulary could be applied to established property comics without losing any of its personal quality.

🖼️ Riley Rossmo: Additional Art

Riley Rossmo is a Canadian comics artist known for visually inventive, stylized work across genres. 🎭 His major credits include Black Magick (with Greg Rucka), Harley Quinn (DC Comics), and I Kill Giants (with Joe Kelly). Rossmo's style complements Johnson's energy without duplicating it — their combination on this title brings two distinct artistic sensibilities to the same narrative world. Ryan G Browne's cover work, known from God Hates Astronauts and various Image projects, rounds out the creative team.

🌟 The Story: Love Against the Impossible

Sam and Duncan LaMarr's world was their daughter Penny — a six-year-old whose imagination populated her world with magical beings. Six months ago, Cascade took her. 💔 Now her parents fight with the magical creatures Penny loved, through situations that defy reason, because Penny is still out there and the alternative is unthinkable.

This is the emotional architecture Johnson builds his best work around — love as the motivating force that makes impossible action feel not just plausible but necessary, grief as the specific weight that turns determination into something raw and urgent. 💫 A rescue mission built from parental love: the most ancient and overwhelming motivation there is, translated into the visual language of monster comics and supernatural action.

📋 Condition: Ungraded

This copy is ungraded — suitable for collection, display, or professional grading submission. ✅ New. Series premiere issue.

🐉 A Daniel Warren Johnson Series Premiere

Every Daniel Warren Johnson series premiere is a collecting event — the point at which a new story from one of comics' most emotionally powerful and visually distinctive voices enters the market. 💎 With Riley Rossmo providing additional art and Ryan G Browne on covers: a debut issue, ungraded, new, ready for the collection.