Star Cross Comics Issue #9

ALPHA RED Ice to Meet You!

What do we really know about our hero? Issue #9 takes a deeper look into Wes's past to uncover the story behind the man.

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  • Signed by the creator
  • Family-friendly
Alpha Red #9 cover art: Alpha Red in front of his team, with an icy villain behind them

The story so far

The battle
continues.

2013. JamesQ Nguyen creates Alpha Red.

2025. He's back as an ongoing series. Longtime fans return, and a new crew shows up: the Alpha Raiders.

Issue #9. Wes starts uncovering the truth about his parents, and their secret work with The Kingdom: heroes fighting to protect the world from supernatural and demonic threats.

POW!

Action & adventure

Larger-than-life heroes and villains, and the big fights comic fans love.

HA!

Humor & mystery

Laughs along the way, and a past that's only starting to come out.

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A message of faith

A Christian superhero comic that parents can feel good about sharing with their kids.

Five covers

Pick your cover.

Two regular covers, two crowdfunding exclusives limited to 30 copies each, and a homage variant. Tap one for the story behind it.

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Inside issue #9

From inks to colors.

Run your cursor across a page (or tap it) to color it in. The Digital Deluxe Edition has every page both ways, plus clean art for every cover: over 120 pages of art.

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Get Alpha Red #9

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Every physical copy is signed by James (just ask if you'd rather it wasn't). Physical orders ship in the US.

Digital

Digital Deluxe

$10

  • Every page of #9, in color and black and white
  • Clean art for every cover
  • Scans of the sketch covers
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Physical

Exclusive cover

$20

  • Your pick: Cover C, D or E
  • Plus a regular edition #9
  • Plus the Digital Deluxe

C and D: only 30 of each

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Physical

Catch-up collection

$60

  • Alpha Red #1–8 in print
  • Exclusive Cover C, D or E of #9
  • Regular edition #9
  • PDFs of #1–8 and the Digital Deluxe
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Digital

Digital catch-up

$20

  • PDFs of Alpha Red #1–8
  • Plus the #9 Digital Deluxe
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One of a kind

Original art & sketch covers

Own a piece of Alpha Red history: the original art James drew for covers A, B and E, and hand-drawn sketch covers from $55. Each one comes with a regular #9 and the Digital Deluxe.

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Prefer your local comic shop? #9 reaches shops in December through Philbo Distribution. Ask them to add it to your pull list.

Covers of Alpha Red issues 1 through 8

New here?

Eight issues in.
Jump in at #9.

Issue #9 is a great place to start. Or go back to the beginning: the catch-up collection has #1–8 in print, signed.

Catch up on #1–8

The creative team

Who's behind it.

JamesQ Nguyen

Creator · Artist · Co-writer

JamesQ Nguyen

Created Alpha Red in 2013. Drew FUBAR: European Theater of the Damned (Alterna) and Atomic Robo (Red 5), and sketch cards for Marvel Masterpiece and Spider-Man: Homecoming (Upper Deck). Publishes at Star Cross Comics.

Ray MacKay

Co-writer

Ray MacKay

Comics and prose writer, student, hockey player and huge comics fan. Writes Megaton Man for Big Bang, Last Gen for Grok Comics, and Alpha Red #6–9.

Cover C artist

Joey Nguyen

James's brother. Drew this cover in 2016. It was lost for years until James found the original at Joey's house in Pennsylvania.

Cover D artist

Matt Flint

Syracuse cover artist: TMNT (IDW), The Toxic Avenger (Ahoy), Hallowed (Keenspot), Witchblade/Vampirella (Image), and I Brought a Gorilla to a Gunfight.

On the cover: Nguyen · MacKay · Sioc Jr. · Shelton

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