Antarctic Press’ January 2027 comic listings put a short, high-concept crossover at the center of a slate packed with endangered cities, vampire-hunting space marines, cosmic cryptids and a remastered collection from Gold Digger. The headline release is Tomorrow Girl X Zen The Intergalactic Ninja #2, arriving January 13, 2027 as the second and final chapter of the two-issue event.
It brings together Tomorrow Girl, described in the listing as Antarctic Press’ “Maid of Might,” and Zen the Intergalactic Ninja, an indie-comics character created by Steve Stern and Dan Coté in the 1980s. The issue is written by Ben Dunn and Steve Ross, illustrated by Erwin Prasteya, and has a cover by David Hutchison. Its listed price is $5.99.
A two-issue crossover reaches its finish
The premise positions Earth as the refuge of an alien scientist fleeing a brutal dictator. That refuge proves temporary: bounty hunters are already in pursuit, and Tomorrow Girl must protect the secret the scientist carries. Zen enters as the ally who may give her a fighting chance against those pursuing him.
That setup makes the finale more than a meeting between two recognizable indie heroes. The stated conflict has three clear pressures: a displaced scientist, an unnamed but valuable secret, and bounty hunters willing to cross worlds to recover their target. Tomorrow Girl and Zen are therefore not merely teaming up to stop a one-off monster or settle a personal score. Their objective is defensive—keep the scientist and his knowledge out of hostile hands—while the antagonists are actively closing in.
A crossover is a story that combines characters or settings that normally operate in different series. In this case, the appeal is in the collision of Tomorrow Girl’s superhero identity with Zen’s intergalactic-ninja premise. The two-issue structure also gives the storyline a defined endpoint: readers looking for the complete team-up will need both installments, with issue #2 designated as the conclusion.
The creative credits underline the collaborative nature of the project. Dunn and Ross share writing duties, while Prasteya handles interior art and Hutchison is credited for the cover. Stern and Coté are identified with Zen’s original 1980s comics roots, separating the character’s creators from the issue’s credited creative team.
January 13 brings two very different disasters
Critter #16 shares the January 13 date, but its emergency is much closer to home—and much wetter. Written by Tom Hutchison, with art and cover by Fico Ossio, the $4.99 issue begins with “High Tide,” as Critter seeks help evacuating a city being swallowed by the ocean. School Girl is on hand, but the situation escalates well beyond flood response when whales begin knocking over skyscrapers.
The listing frames the book around a practical superhero question: what can heroes do once the scale of the disaster exceeds a normal rescue? Evacuation is already difficult in a flooding city; giant marine animals destabilizing buildings turn that task into a simultaneous disaster-management and public-safety crisis. The description does not explain what caused the High Tide or why the whales are acting this way, so those are questions left for the issue itself rather than details established by the preview.
For readers keeping up with several books at once, the shared release date creates a tidy contrast. Tomorrow Girl X Zen offers a compact space-tinged pursuit story with a crossover hook. Critter continues an ongoing series with a city-scale catastrophe and a rescue-focused problem. Both are superhero comics, but they point their drama in different directions: one toward protecting an individual with dangerous knowledge, the other toward protecting a population in immediate peril.
Fang Hunters heads deeper into hostile space
One week later, on January 20, Fang Hunters #2 continues with “The Trees of Malthachia.” Nate Streeper writes the issue, while Ubachukwu Ibeh is credited for both art and cover. The listed price is $5.99.
The central figure is a Malthachian space marine coping with the destruction of his homeworld by the Croodorian Armada. His answer to that loss is not quiet reflection: he joins a group of unruly misfits to hunt vampires. Their chosen hunting ground is a jungle planet, and the mission is complicated by the presence of the ferocious trinomorous.
That is an intentionally crowded genre recipe: military science fiction, grief after planetary devastation, vampire hunting and creature danger all sit in the same setup. The important practical detail for readers is that this is issue #2, not a standalone special. Its description introduces the team’s circumstances and immediate setting, but it also implies the series is building a wider conflict around the destroyed homeworld, the Croodorian Armada and the strange threats encountered on the hunt.
The book’s tone, as reflected by the premise, appears willing to put a distressed protagonist in an absurdly difficult situation: a displaced space marine is expected to fight vampires in a dangerous alien jungle. That does not make the underlying loss less significant. Rather, the concept uses heightened pulp and monster-story elements to surround a character dealing with the consequences of a razed world.
Sasquanaut, Sovi-Yeti and an unstable bounty hunt
Savage Sasquanaut #3 arrives January 27 for $5.99. Wes Hartman writes, Gab Santos provides art, and Craig Babiar is credited for the cover. Its story advances several threads at once: Lt. Camden is working with the devious Lord Walcott to recapture Sasquanaut and the Solar Titan; the Solar Titan’s crew are growing closer; and Empress Dalia is set to make a consequential decision.
Then comes the complication that gives the issue its distinctive comic-book energy. Bounty hunters looking for Sasquanaut, tempted by the large price on his head, have captured someone else instead: Sovi-Yeti, identified as his Russian space-program counterpart and an abominable snow woman.
In story terms, this is a case of mistaken capture rather than a completed hunt. The bounty hunters’ goal is Sasquanaut, but the person in their custody is Sovi-Yeti. That distinction matters because it creates a second problem alongside Camden’s recapture plan. Even without further plot details, the listing establishes multiple parties whose aims could collide: Sasquanaut, the Solar Titan crew, Camden and Walcott, Empress Dalia, the hunters, and the wrongly captured counterpart.
The term cosmic cryptid is a useful description for the series’ territory. A cryptid is typically a legendary or elusive creature; “cosmic” shifts that kind of creature premise into a spacefaring setting. The solicitation’s cast makes the label concrete through Sasquanaut and Sovi-Yeti, but the series is not presented as creature action alone. It also includes a ship crew, political decision-making and competing efforts to seize the title character.
Gold Digger Remastered Vol. 5 collects issues 26 through 50
The slate also includes a larger-format archival-style release: Gold Digger Remastered TP Vol. 5. Fred Perry is credited as writer, artist and cover artist for the $64.99 collection, which has a February 10, 2027 date rather than a January release date.
This volume gathers color issues #26 through #50 of Gold Digger and presents them in the same unified remastered format as the first four Gold Digger Remastered books. Antarctic Press describes Gold Digger as Perry’s hit creator-owned series and notes that it became the first creator-owned series to reach 301 issues by one creator.
Remastered, in the context of this listing, identifies a new unified presentation of previously published material rather than a new numbered chapter of the main story. The firm details supplied are the issue range—#26 to #50—and its alignment with the prior four remastered books. Readers deciding between singles and collected editions should note that this is a trade paperback collection, while the other listed titles are individual issues.
Its February timing also makes it an outlier in a set commonly grouped under January solicitations. That is not a contradiction: the listing itself assigns a February 10 date. The same applies to Kendra #3, also dated February 10. For a broader look at the way comics discussion can be shaped by claims that still need separating from confirmed details, see this look at comics chatter and unconfirmed details.
Kendra races for power before the Daughters of Death
Kendra #3 is written by Joe Wolfe, drawn by Alejandro C. Gonzàlez and features a Ben Dunn cover. It is listed at $5.99 for February 10, 2027.
Kendra discovers a mysterious palace that holds great power. Evil forces want control of it, and she has to find that power first. Her route is blocked by the Daughters of Death, while the preview also gives Kendra a conspicuously grounded motivation amid all the mysticism: she is pursuing a long-awaited payday.
The description establishes a race rather than revealing the nature of the palace’s power. Kendra needs to locate it before her adversaries do, and the Daughters of Death serve as the immediate obstacle. Whether the promised payment is tied to the palace, a broader mission, or another arrangement is not specified. What is clear is that the issue blends a classic hidden-power quest with a protagonist who has financial reasons to see the job through.
What the lineup says about the month
Across the dated single issues, Antarctic Press’ schedule moves from the January 13 crossover finale and submerged-city emergency to a January 20 vampire hunt on an alien jungle world, then to the January 27 chaos surrounding Sasquanaut and Sovi-Yeti. The February 10 releases extend the slate with a palace-bound adventure in Kendra #3 and a substantial remastered Gold Digger collection.
The common thread is not a shared universe or a single genre. It is range. Tomorrow Girl X Zen supplies a finite crossover with an alien fugitive at its center. Critter puts superhuman action in the middle of an evacuation disaster. Fang Hunters fuses military sci-fi and vampire hunting. Savage Sasquanaut escalates an interstellar bounty plot with an incorrect captive. Kendra pursues mysterious power, and Gold Digger Remastered provides a collected entry point into earlier material.
For readers planning around dates, January 13 is the busiest day in the supplied listings, with Tomorrow Girl X Zen The Intergalactic Ninja #2 and Critter #16. January 20 belongs to Fang Hunters #2, and January 27 to Savage Sasquanaut #3. The two February 10 books—Gold Digger Remastered TP Vol. 5 and Kendra #3—round out the announced group with a collection and a continuing fantasy-leaning adventure.
