FOC 7/27: Devil's Class Enrolls This September & THE DIGGER #4 drops 7/29.
THE INVASION IS ON.
Every so often a book comes across our desks that doesn't just want your attention — it wants you alone, after the bell, with the door closed. INVADER COMICS PRESENTS: DEVIL'S CLASS #1 is exactly that kind of book. A single, self-contained one-shot from Eli Powell, hitting stores September 23, 2026, and it is easily one of the most unsettling things we've put on the schedule.
Consider this your first sighting.
The Assignment
Mr. Smith is starting over. A new job, a new town, a new roster of students at a strange, isolated private school. It should be a fresh start.
It is not.
Because at this school, the real lesson plan doesn't begin until after class — and what waits for Mr. Smith when the last student files out is so much worse than detention. Devil's Class is a slow-tightening horror mystery about a teacher who realizes, far too late, that he isn't the one holding the chalk. Somebody has been taking notes on him.
If we had to hand you a comparison to plant the hook: imagine the wide-eyed, wrong-in-the-bones dread of Children of the Corn run headfirst into the "who is actually sane here?" vertigo of Shutter Island. That's the register Powell is working in — a story that keeps moving the walls while you're still trying to find the exit.
The Creator
Devil's Class is written, drawn, and cover-illustrated by Eli Powell, the singular vision behind previous Invader nightmares "Ravage" and "Still." If you've followed either of those, you already know what you're in for: this is single-creator, single-vision horror, the kind of book where every page carries one person's fingerprints.
And those fingerprints are the whole point. Devil's Class is rendered in Powell's stunning, hand-drawn art — no shortcuts, no gloss, just ink and patience and shadow. It's the sort of craft that makes the quiet panels land as hard as the loud ones, and it's why this book will hold you captive from the first classroom to the last locked door.
80 pages. One shot. One vision. No sequel to wait for — the whole story is here.
Two Covers, One Nightmare
Every good sighting comes with more than one photograph.
Cover A — Eli Powell. The creator's own take: Mr. Smith front and center, chalk in hand, the class looming behind him in that unmistakable Powell black-and-white. The definitive face of the book.
Cover B — Mike Nelsen (Variant). A jolt of color and chaos — lockers drowning in graffiti, sigils, and hall-pass menace. A completely different doorway into the same haunted school.
Both retail at $9.99. Both are worth talking your local shop into stocking.
Class Dismissed: Digger Reaches Its Final Stop
Before you go, one more report from the field. The same week Devil's Class was solicited, the road finally runs out for one of our favorites.
DIGGER #4 (OF 4) brings the saga of the Digger and the Kid to its epic conclusion — the climactic finale of the four-issue run from writer T.S. Luther and artist Sam Gudilin. Everything the series has been burrowing toward pays off here, and Gudilin's Cover B variant sends it out in style.
24 pages. $6.99. In stores July 29, 2026. If you've been riding along since issue one, this is the stop you've been waiting for. If you haven't — now's the time to dig in from the start and catch up before the ending lands.
Two very different books, one throughline: single creators chasing a single vision, all the way to the last page. That's the invasion. Join it — and tell your retailer we sent you.
INVADER COMICS. THE INVASION IS ON.