Comixology Originals has a new nightmare queued up for next week. The 99 Legs, a graphic novel steeped in Italian giallo cinema from writer Michael W. Conrad and artist Noah Bailey, goes digital via Comixology this Tuesday, November 17, with a print edition from Mad Cave Studios following in 2027.
Conrad and Bailey previously teamed on Tremor Dose and Double Walker; this is their third collaboration, also lettered by Kyle Arends. Both call it the strongest work they have made together, leaning hard into giallo’s signature cocktail of killers dressed in leather, serpentine suspense, and an art sensibility that splits the difference between avant garde and lurid pulp.
Conrad has credited Bailey as central to his own development as a comics writer, saying his collaborator was “always there encouraging me to let go and trust the process” while the book came together.
The story follows a down on his luck crime writer who discovers a string of gruesome murders in his neighbourhood that match the plot of his own unpublished manuscript. He contacts his agent in a panic, hoping to keep the book out of print, then realizes that stopping publication will not stop the killer. What follows is a blood spattered unraveling, as the writer races to answer one question: who, exactly, has been reading his pages.
The 99 Legs is available now for preorder and launches on Comixology Originals on November 17, included at no extra cost for Kindle Unlimited and Comixology Unlimited subscribers or available for individual purchase. Mad Cave Studios will publish the print edition on August 3, 2027.
