Lone Gunman #1 Barends COD Homage LeapsLair Exclusive LTD 500 PREORDER 11/4

🔫 BJORN BARENDS EXCLUSIVE COVER — CALL OF DUTY HOMAGE — LTD 500 🔫

Bjorn Barends brings the golden mask to life. This LeapsLair exclusive puts the Lone Gunman front and center — crouched in full tactical black, rifle slung across the back, the gold mask staring straight through you over a floor of spent shell casings. Painted in Barends' signature photo-real style.

📖 THE STORY
In this can't-miss follow-up to the first EXQUISITE CORPSES series, Laura and her fellow survivors, Xavi and Jason, have tried to carve out an existence with her winnings, far away from the evil machinations of the 13 Families. But two years after the unfathomable events unleashed in their hometown, all that they did to survive still haunts them. Now the legacy of the golden mask refuses to stay silent — and their lives are in danger once again.

✍️ THE TEAM
Written by Pornsak Pichetshote (Absolute Green Arrow), art by Alberto Ponticelli, colors by Jordie Bellaire, letters by Becca Carey. Exclusive cover by Bjorn Barends.

🔑 WHY THIS COVER

• 🎨 Bjorn Barends — the artist behind the Exquisite Corpses #4 and #6 LeapsLair exclusives
• 🎮 Call of Duty homage — a video-game cover swipe with the Lone Gunman as the operator
• 📄 Cardstock cover
• 🔢 Limited to 500 copies — a LeapsLair exclusive you won't find anywhere else
• 🎬 Series premiere of the next Exquisite Corpses chapter

📦 EDITIONS

• Raw — cardstock, LTD 500
• CGC 9.8 — guaranteed 9.8 graded copy in a CGC slab

Exquisite Corpses: Lone Gunman #1 (of 5) · Image Comics · Rated M (Mature) · In stores 11/4/2026

Condition:

• Raw copies: 9.2 NM or better guaranteed, bagged and boarded
• CGC 9.8: guaranteed 9.8 grade, professionally graded and encapsulated by CGC

Shipping:

• PREORDER ITEM
• Raw copies ship approximately 30 days after release (11/4/2026) or sooner depending on publisher and fulfillment timing
• CGC 9.8 copies ship after grading turnaround — please allow approximately 90 days after release
• Multiple preorders in one order ship together when the last item arrives