A new adventure series with all the sci-fi drama of Breaking Bad set in Mos Eisley! Promising young cadet Tilde is framed for crimes against the empire after discovering her mother was the ruthless warlord of the deadly colony Tartarus, a vital player in the galactic war. Now, Tilde's only way home may be to reclaim her mother's dark crown. #1 New York Times bestseller JOHNNIE CHRISTMAS (Alien 3) and artistic phenom JACK T. COLE (The Unsound) kick off this ongoing series with 44 big pages of story!

When Surka, a ruthless criminal warlord, escapes her prison pit, she unleashes a wave of destruction that ripples across Tartarus, a vital colony in an everlasting galactic war. Years later, when young cadet Tilde learns that shes Surka's daughter, will she continue to fight on the side of galactic order, or will she reclaim her mother's dark crown? From New York Times #1 bestseller JOHNNIE CHRISTMAS (FIREBUG, William Gibson's Alien 3) and visionary artist JACK T. COLE (The Unsound) comes a sci-fi adventure for the ages. Collects TARTARUS #1-5

"Prove you're an Olympian, and I'll listen."Hermes held out his hand. The air shimmered, before a staff burst into existence. And I mean literally burst into existence. But it wasn't exactly a staff.It was a Caduceus, the famed symbol of Hermes.* * *On her eighteenth birthday, Eden Hills gets a surprise visit from someone she would expect the least. Or, at least, from someone she never knew existed. Never knew could exist.Soon, she finds herself in a world that she, in all her years alive, never thought she would be in, but that's the least of her worries. People who want her dead, namely enemies and monsters, are out for her blood. Her past is catching up to her, and she isn't sure what she should do when it finally does.The only problem is, she can't quite remember her past....

After laboring for thousands of years, the people of Earth, fleeing ecological disaster, have built a new, clean, stable world on a worldwide platform erected over the entire land surface of the Earth. Everything is going well--except for Carl Magner, the man who's been having bad dreams. He shouldn't be having dreams at all, because dreams have been banished from the society of the Euchronian Millennium, but somehow he is, and his dreams are showing him the "Underworld." The real surface of the Earth, the Underworld that the Euchronian Millennium has left behind, still maintains life, human and otherwise, life that's adapted to a world without sky or sun, still evolving in response to extreme environmental challenges. Dreams are only dreams, but they're a provocation nevertheless, not merely for Carl Magner, but for the whole of Euchronian society. Can Heaven be truly Heaven, if Hell still festers in its entrails?

Everything is a game of survival in the city of criminals ... even love. The world has become a harsh place and in the floating sky city of Tartarus, friendship is a rare commodity. When the only friend she has disappears, Cassandra will stop at nothing to find her. Even if it means risking her life. Five dangerous men each with their own personal scars track her down, mistaking Cassandra for her missing friend. Together, they discover that Tartarus might be harboring a secret so foul that it could destroy the broken sky scrapers that house the remainder of humankind. In the end, Cassandra will have to make a choice. Life or Death. Love or Loss. There's always a price to pay.

Hate is a strong word. But you've never met Diane Stillman.After Britain's war in 1996 between the Humans and the “Freaks”, a damaged Diane Stillman is left with the rubble of what was her life. Living above a putrid world where she knows her sister's killer hides, her existence revolves around retribution. Tartarus- the Underground City of the Vampires- the freaks- a place with their own rules and regulations.With Government becoming deaf and dumb to her pleas for help, and constant Night Terrors of a figure she calls, “The Man”, Diane moves to the decaying world below to track her sister's executioner herself.But eyes follow her in choking black ink of Tartarus and something is determined to find her first. Unknowingly hunted for being last of the mysterious Stillman bloodline, and finding herself auctioned off as a blood-whore to a possessive Vampire Lord, Diane finds herself starting to evolve into the very thing she's afraid of.A monster…

The Show is About to Begin...When a mysterious ballet theatre surfaces in Paris, people are drawn to the stage productions with a magnetic force. Captivated dancers hastily audition for the grand creations with a sheer disregard for the terror which is rumored to reside within the theatre. A sense of dread permeates the company as the lines between illusion and reality are obscured, when one of the performers is thought to be a danseur de la crypt...a nefarious villain who carries out justice for the immortals. As the company prepares for the spellbinding production of Les Ballerines de la Crypte, members of the company start to disappear. Rumors of "The Crypt Dancer" soar through the performers, and throughout the world, as an increasing amount of immortals are banished to "coffin sentences" for centuries; tormented in crypts, bound in chains with beating hearts, fully aware of the darkness and solitude which surrounds them. At the center of the story is Ramiel, an alluring immortal from Rome, raised in Italian culture and Catholic traditions. He travels to Paris to pursue his artistic dreams, and after, to America, to fulfill an immortal doctrine, The Code of the Immortals. In America, he finds fellow immortal, Antoine, struggling as his sector is in turmoil, overrun by a coven of witches whose true purpose is shrouded in secrecy.Ramiel must return to his past...back to the days when he performed the Ballet of The Crypt Dancer...to raise the immortals back to their renewed strength. A.L. Mengel returns to the enigmatic world of The Tales of Tartarus with a tale of phantoms and masquerades, voodoo and witchcraft, juxtaposed with the enigmatic impression of immortality.