Writer Michael W. Conrad (Nightwing) and acclaimed artist Noah Bailey (Diabolical, Station Grand), the creative team behind the hit graphic novels Tremor Dose and Double Walker, reunite for The 99 Legs, their most disturbing collaboration yet. The 99 Legs finds its roots in the duo’s shared appreciation of the Italian Giallo film genre, complete with its leather clad killers, twisting suspense, and the perfect marriage of avant garde and low brow art sensibilities. Together with letterer Kyle Arends, Conrad and Bailey deliver a fright filled original graphic novel that will be released exclusively via Amazon’s Comixology Originals digital content line on November 17, 2026, and will be published in print from Mad Cave Studios on August 3, 2027.
“Noah Bailey has been a critical component of my most significant work as a comics writer,” says writer Michael Conrad. “It’s with Noah that I was able to present my first widely read work, and it’s with him that I have learned the occulted arts of creating stories in this medium. Creating The 99 Legs was challenging at times and Noah was always there encouraging me to let go and trust the process. Together we have made a strange and marvelous book we hope readers will enjoy.”
When a down-on-his-luck crime writer discovers a string of gruesome murders in his area that seem to align with his newest unpublished manuscript, he alerts his agent in the hopes that they can prevent it from being delivered to publishers. Terrified by the turn of events and fearing that the book will implicate him in the crimes, he tries to stop the murders before they happen. What follows is a blood-spattered, spiraling nightmare, as the mystery of the killer’s identity unfolds.
“Michael and I both tried a lot of new things on this book,” says artist Noah Bailey. “But the best thing we did was put our blood, sweat, and tears into every bit of it. Michael wrote the most gorgeous prose, and a story that is terrifying, groundbreaking and inspired. I spent many months without sleep or sunlight, violently carving these pages out, or at least I think it was me. Kyle came in with some beautiful original fonts and made the work complete. And my wonderful colouring assistants, Elisa and Nick, took on the painstaking task of flatting every page.”
The 99 Legs is a must read for fans of the macabre and uncanny tales that Conrad and Bailey have become known for.
Bailey continued, “I think this book is totally different than anything we’ve ever done and I think it’s the best thing we’ve ever done. I’m insanely proud of it, and I am so happy to see it all come together and share it with readers. I can only hope it’ll mean as much to everyone else as it does to us!”
The 99 Legs will be exclusively Available November 17, 2026, from Comixology Originals.
