Six Seasons Of Chaos: Mad Cave’s ‘Pop Kill’ Variant Celebration Begins

From co-writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Dave Johnson, artist Juan Santacruz, colorist Brian Reber, and letterer Sean Konot, Pop Kill returns to shelves with a brand-new twist. Mad Cave Studios is rolling out Seasonal Flavor Variants, a year-long series of limited holiday editions for the cult favorite that fuses espionage, dark humor, and razor-sharp pop-culture bite.

What if rival soda empires truly went to war—and everyone else got caught in the crossfire? In a world where two billion-dollar cola companies are controlled by estranged former conjoined twins, sabotage, assassins, and full-scale corporate warfare turn brotherly love into lethal obsession. Hired guns, spies, and unsuspecting civilians are all part of the fizzing fallout.

The first pour arrives this winter with a salacious holiday showstopper by Allison Sampson, followed by a heart-struck Valentine’s Day edition in January, an Easter vision from Tula Lotay in March, a golden-hour Mid-Summer drop in May, a star-spangled Fourth of July release, and a haunting Halloween finale in September.

In addition, Mad Cave will uncork Pop Kill: Killing Your Thirst Deluxe Edition, collecting the four-issue run for the first time in a deluxe 176-page hardcover edition. This edition is complete with a brand-new cover and variant gallery. It’s perfect for collectors who crave a caper that will explode like a shaken soda bottle.

Both Pop Kill Seasonal Flavor Variant and Pop Kill: Killing Your Thirst Deluxe Edition arrive in comic shops on December 10th, 2025, with a Final Order Cutoff of November 10th, 2025. This new holiday special cover is available for preorder now, so secure your copy before it sells out, and watch for new “flavors” to drop every other month.