We’re excited today to reveal an exclusive first look at Lewis LaRosa’s variant cover for Fort Psycho #2, the upcoming maxi-series from writer Matt Kindt and artist Brian Hurtt, along with an early peek inside Carbon Based: The Art of Lewis LaRosa, the artist’s first career-spanning retrospective, arriving in comic shops this week from Oni Press.
LaRosa, known for his raw, realism-driven work on Punisher MAX and Bloodshot Reborn, will serve as a cover artist for all 12 issues of Fort Psycho, joining Hurtt who handles interior art. His contributions mark his first consistent return to ongoing cover duties in several years. LaRosa’s black-and-white artwork will also be available as incentive variants throughout the series’ run.
“What a tremendous honor to have a career retrospective of my work,” LaRosa said. “It’s quite a ride to look back and see where you started and how you grew and evolved over the years. I believe my best work is still ahead of me, and I mean to bring my brutal best to Matt Kindt and Brian Hurtt’s brilliant Fort Psycho! With Carbon Based, my greatest hope is that it gives anyone who flips through it the sudden urge to pick up a pencil and draw!”
Fort Psycho is a 12-issue maxi-series following a team of disgraced secret agents sent to a classified island prison to atone for their crimes, with the truth about what really happened slowly unraveling across the series.
Readers can get their first taste on Free Comic Book Day, coming up May 2, when the Mind MGMT / Fort Psycho FCBD 2026 Special arrives. The FCBD issue also includes a self-contained introduction to Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1, a new chapter of Kindt’s mind-bending series arriving in June.
Carbon Based: The Art of Lewis LaRosa is a 256-page hardcover priced at $49.99, featuring more than 25 years of LaRosa’s line art spanning his work for Marvel, Valiant, Epic Games, BOOM! Studios and others, alongside character designs, concepts and rarely seen material.
The book includes an introduction by Oni Press president Hunter Gorinson, page-by-page commentary by LaRosa and former Valiant editor-in-chief Warren Simons, and appreciations from Lee Bermejo, Dave Johnson, Matt Kindt, Jeff Lemire, Yanick Paquette and others. It was successfully crowdfunded last year, raising more than $80,000.
Fort Psycho #1 arrives in August. Carbon Based: The Art of Lewis LaRosa arrives this week. Take a look at some preview art from the latter below:
