I Heart Skull-Crusher! #10
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeI Heart Skull-Crusher! #10 (June 2025) is the series finale of writer Josie Campbell and artist Alessio Zonno's ten-issue post-apocalyptic sports saga, bringing Trini's journey through the deadly Screaming Pain Ball tournament to a full narrative close with the fate of the Dome itself on the line. As the concluding chapter of a consciously queer, manga-influenced YA story set in a ravaged America, it marks the creative bookend of what Campbell has described as her long-desired first wholly original creator-driven comic — a personal landmark for one of the medium's most prominent crossover voices between animation and comics. The series, published under BOOM! Studios' BOOM! Box imprint alongside titles like Lumberjanes and Giant Days, affirms that imprint's ongoing commitment to original, creator-led work centered on underrepresented voices. Critics described the issue as a tonally satisfying conclusion, noting that Campbell and Zonno successfully delivered the emotional payoff the full run had been building toward.
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The series was conceived by Josie Campbell as her first creator-owned comic — a deliberate departure from her prior work exclusively on DC Universe titles — and was announced in December 2023 for a March 2024 launch under the BOOM! Box imprint, with series editor Dafna Pleban shepherding it through production. The original run was initially structured as a five-issue arc (issues #1–5), but reader response was strong enough that BOOM! Studios announced a continuation at San Diego Comic-Con, with the second arc (issues #6–10) beginning in October 2024 — effectively expanding what had been a miniseries into a ten-issue complete story. The creative team remained consistent across both arcs: Campbell writing, Zonno on interior art, Angel De Santiago on colors, and Jim Campbell lettering, giving the series a unified visual and tonal identity from debut to finale. For Italian artist Alessio Zonno, the series represented his first creator credit on an American comic, after a career that had primarily been built in France and Belgium.
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- Published June 18, 2025 by BOOM! Studios under the BOOM! Box YA imprint; 32 pages.
- Written by Josie Campbell; interior art and Cover A by Alessio Zonno; Cover B by Ricardo López Ortiz. Colorist: Angel De Santiago; Letterer: Jim Campbell.
- Issue #10 is the series finale, closing out the ten-issue run that began in March 2024 and resolving the Dome tournament arc against antagonist Queen Mob.
- The story pivots in this issue to Skull-Crusher recruiting protagonist Trini to help assemble a new team for the climactic all-or-nothing match that decides the fate of the Dome.
- The series is Campbell's first wholly creator-owned comic, built around queer characters and anime/shōnen manga storytelling influences — themes she cited explicitly at announcement.
- The run was originally conceived as a five-issue miniseries; BOOM! Studios announced its continuation at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, expanding it to ten issues.
- Issues #1–5 were collected in a trade paperback (Vol. 1); issues #6–10, including this finale, were collected in Vol. 2, available through Penguin Random House distribution.
- For artist Alessio Zonno — a Turin-based graduate and instructor at the International School of Comics — the series was his first creator credit on a US comic book.
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