Diamond Comic Distributors and AfterShock Comics have entered into an agreement, making Diamond the exclusive worldwide distributor for AfterShock’s English-speaking countries. The agreement includes the distribution rights to comic book stores, as well as book publishing through Diamond Book Distributors.

“Diamond is excited to extend our partnership with AfterShock Comics,” Diamond Vice President of Purchasing Tim Lenaghan said. “We look forward to working with the entire AfterShock team on delivering their engaging stories from top creators to stores around the world.”

“We are all very excited about advancing our relationship with Diamond to this next level,” AfterShock Publisher and CCO Joe Pruett said. “Not only will we now be able to reach more outlets, but it will become much easier for retailers to more accurately order our titles.”

AfterShock Comics, launched in April 2015, is run by Pruett, an Eisner Award winning publisher and editor, and with Mike Marts. Their talented list of creators include Marguerite Bennett (InSeXts, Animosity), Garth Ennish (Dreaming Eagles, Jimmy’s Bastards), Warren Ellis (Shipwreck), Brian Azzarello (American Monster), Paul Jenkins (Replica, Alters), and the creative team of Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti (SuperZero).

“This new relationship with Diamond guarantees that a larger universe of both retailers and readers will have access to our rapidly growing arsenal of innovative titles by the best creators in the business,” AfterShock Editor in Chief Mike Marts said.

Fans can preorder AfterShock Comics new titles in the March issue of Diamond’s PREVIEWS catalog. They include Pestilence #1 (Frank Tieri, Oleg Okunev) about ex-Crusaders fighting a zombie hoard in the Dark Ages and The Normals #1 (Adam Glass, Dennis Calero) an intense story that will make readers question reality.