1986 A.D.: Under the streets of Los Angeles breeds the seeds of a gruesome interdimensional conflict between order and chaos. Enter Dave, a junkee, heavy metal drummer whose life is about to get a whole lot shittier.

What's to Love: With over 6.5 million copies of the Maze Runner series of books sold and a franchise-launching film that earned over $340 million worldwide, it's plain to see fans are in love with this sci-fi series about a group of young adults who are subjected to sinister experiments in the wake of a global catastrophe that kills most of the Earth's population. Readers got their first taste of Maze Runner comics at last year's San Diego Comic-Con panel and then in the film's Blu-ray release, and we've added three more stories that serve as an introduction to new characters from the upcoming second film, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. What It Is: As anticipation for 20th Century Fox's Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials ramps up (out in September), gain more insight into the Maze Runner cinematic universe with this anthology collection of five short stories that go deeper into the lives of several key characters that feature prominently in the upcoming film, including Aris, Ava Paige, and Mary Cooper.

Young brothers Gabriel and Tobias watch their family and village brutally destroyed and barely manage to escape. Years later, and all grown up, they use their considerable fighting skills to champion the weak who cannot defend themselves. An evil group led by a man names Malacan is attacking a defenseless village and trying to steal a young boy.

In 17th-century Europe, Jacques, a young orphan from France, stows away aboard a fishing boat heading to the northern waters. Willing to brave the dangers and the rough life of a sailor, he is intent on one goal: to go to Iceland. There he hopes to find answers to the mysterious visions that have plagued him since childhood, his unexplained ability to speak and read Icelandic, and also to the strange phenomena that often occur around him.