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IMAGE TO PUBLISH TWO 15TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUES OF ‘LUTHER STRODE’
By Justin Jordan, Tradd Moore, Felipe Sobreiro
Posted by Brigid Alverson on July 13, 2026 @ 8:47 am CT
Image Comics plans to offer two special issues of the horror comicLuther Strode, by Justin Jordan, Tradd Moore, and Felipe Sobreiro, to mark the series’ 15th anniversary.
The Luther Strode #1 Anniversary Edition will package the complete first issue of the series along with a gallery of images showing highlights from different eras of the series, which ran intermittently from 2011 to 2016. It will be released on October 7, 2026, with a main Bcover by Moore and Sobreiro, a variant by Ricardo López Ortiz, a 1:25 variant by Ian Bertram, a 1:50 variant by Nick Dragotta, and a foil variant by Moore and Sobreiro
The Luther Strode #1 Anniversary Treasury Edition will be an oversized treasury edition printed on newsprint. It will also be released on October 7 with a cover by Moore and Sobreiro
The Strange Talent of Luther Strode launched as a six-issue series in 2011 and followed up with two more six-issue arcs, The Legend of Luther Strode in 2012-13 and The Legacy of Luther Strode in 2015-16. “It appears to be based on the not unreasonable notion that if someone ‘really’ had super strength they would (whether they meant to or not) regularly reduce their opponents into great sopping chunks of red, pulpy meat, then runs with it,” Steve Bennet wrote during the first run of the series (see “Confessions of a Comic Book Guy”).
Jordan was nominated for the 2012 Harvey Award for Most Promising New Talent for his work on the book. Image’s complete collection of the series was among the top-selling titles in ComicHub in October 2021 (see “Pro: Top 100 Graphic Novels – October 2021”)
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Brigid Alverson
Contributing Editor. Alverson has been writing about comics since she launched MangaBlog in 2005. She wrote the Comics A.M. column for Robot 6 (now part of CBR), and currently edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. In her earlier life, she had roles at magazine and book publishers.
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