Generation Dead: The Dead Reckoning Collection
Jude Deluca

THE STORY THUS FAR: Five college students were the sole survivors of inhuman experiments at the now destroyed Area 52. Alice Vane, Gina Vivaldi, Salli-Ann Maza, Maximillion Thibodeaux, and Bridger Warren were shocked to discover they’d been killed and resurrected via alien technology. Now wielding extraordinary powers, these five banded together as GENERATION DEAD. Operating out of a small Nevada state university under the watchful eye of their alien-cyborg housemother, POSE, RAINBOW, WINTER, AIRGUN, and SEATTLE are navigating the start of their 20s while fighting to save the world from the otherworldly horrors bent on controlling or destroying the Earth. Or they might kill each other. It wouldn’t be the first time!

Influenced by Jude’s love of 1990s comics and 1990s horror, this collection of eight tales features ninja assassins and sadistic sorority sisters, an eldritch abomination living under the mall’s new food court, a Secretary’s Day dance gone horribly wrong, and more! Aliens, ghosts, cat girls, shapeshifters, movie stars, and grunge music galore!

Jude Deluca’s Secret File

      Jude Deluca in action!

Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Trans-nonbinary (she/he/they)
Sexuality: Aegosexual/caedsexual (sex-repulsed)
Homeworld: The Bronx
Abilities: Knowing extremely obscure facts about characters no one else cares about, finding lost and unpublished short stories, being the #1 Lightning Lad fan of all time, holding grudges
Areas of interest: Magical girls, slasher fiction, 90s nostalgia, YA horror, superhero dads, big beautiful men
Charm Points: Rediscovered “Goosebumps: Dead Dogs Still Fetch” by R.L. Stine and Braden Gardner, officially got Brainiac 5 and Dawnstar acknowledged on panel as demisexual and bisexual respectively, partially responsible for bringing back Coagula of the Doom Patrol
Negative Points: Holds extremely rigid views of certain comic characters, prone to friendbombing and being oblivious to the feelings of others, wallows too much in self pity to get anything done
Favorite Comic Characters: Lian Harper, Arsenal, Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl, Joker’s Daughter, Coagula, Dorothy Spinner, Rocket, Monstress, Dian Belmont, Grunge, Rainbow Girl, Banshee, Dust, Black Orchid (Suzy), Supergirl (Matrix/Linda Danvers), Batgirl (Betty Kane), Hourman, Foxfire, Skullfire, Dark Angel, Saturn Queen, Red Tornado (Ma Hunkel), Blue Snowman, Greycrow, Nanny and Orphan-Maker, Jubilee, Glory, Berzerker, Hypnotia, Steeljack
Least Favorite Comic Characters: Green Arrow (Oliver Queen), Black Canary, Flash (Barry Allen), Cheshire, Deathstroke, Cinder, Mirage, Jason Todd, everyone in Watchmen except Silhouette, the Bendisboot Legion, Darkseid’s Legion, Superboy-Prime, Proty!Lightning Lad, SW6!Live Wire, New 52!Donna Troy, Golden Archer

Character art by Comfort Love and Adam Withers
Cover art forthcoming
Release date: September 2026