Errand Boys

Illustrated by Nikos Koutsis
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$19.99 US
On sale Apr 26, 2022 | 160 Pages | 9781506729817
A runner for a shady errand—and sometimes shifty smuggling—service finds an unexpected partner in his half-human, teenage half-brother!
 

In the future, a decent job is hard to find, especially if you’re a hard-worn scoundrel with commitment issues. But there’s one position that’s always open—an errand runner. Jace is a lifelong solo act running miscellaneous tasks, often dangerous, and hardly legal, for the most questionable of clients. But when his thirteen-year-old half-human half brother comes to live with him, he’s got two mouths to feed and there’s only one way he knows how to put money on the table. Between evading the law, running from angry aliens, and jumping off skyscrapers, can Jace survive being a big brother? Navigating to the furthest depths of the solar system, the only thing weirder than the vastness of space is family.
 
You can outrun monsters, but you can’t outrun duty!
 
Collects Errand Boys #1–#5.
 
D.J. Kirkbride got his start in comics as an editor and writer on Image Comics’ Eisner and Harvey Award-winning Popgun anthologies. After those, he co-wrote the acclaimed fantasy series Amelia Cole, which was part of the Monkeybrain Comics digital launch on ComiXology, published in print by IDW. Kirkbride is also the author of the cosmic space opera The Bigger Bang and its sequel, The Biggest Bang, also published by IDW. He co-wrote a modern reimagining of the King Arthur saga called The Once and Future Queen, the superhero drama Never Ending, and the Dark Horse Presents rock ‘n roll action feature “Laser Joan and the Rayguns,” all published by Dark Horse Comics. His latest comic book is the sci-fi adventure series Errand Boys for Image Comics. A story he co-wrote also appeared in Heavy Metal Magazine #297.

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A runner for a shady errand—and sometimes shifty smuggling—service finds an unexpected partner in his half-human, teenage half-brother!
 

In the future, a decent job is hard to find, especially if you’re a hard-worn scoundrel with commitment issues. But there’s one position that’s always open—an errand runner. Jace is a lifelong solo act running miscellaneous tasks, often dangerous, and hardly legal, for the most questionable of clients. But when his thirteen-year-old half-human half brother comes to live with him, he’s got two mouths to feed and there’s only one way he knows how to put money on the table. Between evading the law, running from angry aliens, and jumping off skyscrapers, can Jace survive being a big brother? Navigating to the furthest depths of the solar system, the only thing weirder than the vastness of space is family.
 
You can outrun monsters, but you can’t outrun duty!
 
Collects Errand Boys #1–#5.
 

Author

D.J. Kirkbride got his start in comics as an editor and writer on Image Comics’ Eisner and Harvey Award-winning Popgun anthologies. After those, he co-wrote the acclaimed fantasy series Amelia Cole, which was part of the Monkeybrain Comics digital launch on ComiXology, published in print by IDW. Kirkbride is also the author of the cosmic space opera The Bigger Bang and its sequel, The Biggest Bang, also published by IDW. He co-wrote a modern reimagining of the King Arthur saga called The Once and Future Queen, the superhero drama Never Ending, and the Dark Horse Presents rock ‘n roll action feature “Laser Joan and the Rayguns,” all published by Dark Horse Comics. His latest comic book is the sci-fi adventure series Errand Boys for Image Comics. A story he co-wrote also appeared in Heavy Metal Magazine #297.

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