PORTLAND, OR (January 21, 2026) – THE RED PLANET’S RADDEST ROGUES ARE ABOUT TO MEET THEIR MATCH! Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award–winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, and the Nacelle Company are proud to reveal a major new turning point for the Nacelleverse, spinning out of BIKER MICE FROM MARS #8 – on sale in comic shops everywhere tomorrow, January 21st, from red-hot writer Matt Hotson (Power Rangers: The Return) and high-powered artist Jordi Tarragona (Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps)! As Throttle, Modo, and Vinnie enter the grand finale of the cataclysmic second story arc, “Intergalactic Odyssey,” they’ll be surprised to find a brand-new (literally!) antagonist waiting in the wings: Scorch – the first comic book appearance of the major new Biker Mice character slated to debut on-screen in the upcoming, all-new Biker Mice from Mars animated series, produced by the Nacelle Company and Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort.
Mysteriously unveiled in promotional materials for the upcoming animated series last year and the subject of intense fan speculation ever since, Scorch is the first major, all-original addition to the BIKER MICE’s primary cast since the conclusion of their original, globally beloved animated series in 1996 and will soon debut will her own action figure as part of Nacelle’s best-selling BIKER MICE FROM MARS toy line. A hammer-wielding Martian mouse with a score to settle with the Biker Mice, Scorch will ride out of the final pages of January’s BIKER MICE FROM MARS #8 … and into the pages of the first full-scale Nacelleverse comics publishing event, BIKER MICE FROM MARS: SCORCH, coming later in 2026.
“Scorch, Nacelleverse’s newest badass, has crash landed into her own new comic series from Oni Press.” Said Nacelle CEO, Brian Volk-Weiss. “We’re excited to tell the incredible story of Scorch, and how she fits into the Biker Mice universe,”
“At a certain point, our plans for the Biker Mice’s first ongoing series began to coalesce around this massive moment – the first appearance of Scorch in battle against Throttle, Modo, and Vinnie – and we knew that her story was quickly becoming bigger than anything we’d previously imagined,” said Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson, beginning with BIKER MICE FROM MARS #8, we have a surprise twist to share… Scorch’s debut is the first domino to fall in the future of the Nacellverse at Oni Press and will lead directly into our first, full-scale comics event, which will reveal not just Scorch’s means and mission, but her origin as well. Rest assured: 2026 is going to be a scorcher for Biker Mice fans!”
On sale in comic shops everywhere tomorrow, the final issue (for now!) of the Biker Mice’s high-octane ongoing series reveals the coming of outrageous anti-hero called Scorch – courtesy of out-of-this-world Matt Hotson (Power Rangers: The Return) and Jordi Tarragona (Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps) – as Throttle, Modo, and Vinnie rocket into their strangest mission yet! The Biker Mice have blasted into the most bizarre corner of the galaxy—the villainous Lectromag’s sprawling deep-space stronghold known only as the Merge! Still reeling from the loss of their best bro, Throttle and Modo must push past their grief . . . but the Plutarkians aren’t giving them time to breathe. With a galaxy-wide bounty on their heads, every mercenary from here to the Large Magellanic Cloud is out for their tails!
Don’t miss the first major comics milestone of 2026 as Matt Hotson and Jordi Tarragona introduce Scorch to the Red Planet’s raddest rogues … and the whole of the Nacelleverse prepares to feel the aftershocks on January 21st, only in BIKER MICE FROM MARS #8 – featuring high-velocity covers by Edu Souza (Red Sonja), Dotun Akande (Storm), and V. Ken Marrion (Power Lords)!
BIKER MICE FROM MARS #8 (FINAL ISSUE!)
WRITTEN BY MATT HOTSON
ART BY JORDI TARRAGONA
COVER A BY EDU SOUZA & ULISES ARREOLA
COVER B BY HANDBOOK VARIANT BY DOTUN AKANDE
VARIANT COVER (1:10) BY V KEN MARION
FULL ART VARIANT (1:20) BY V KEN MARION
ON SALE JANUARY 21, 2026 | $4.99 | 32 PGS | FC
About Oni Press:
Founded in 1997, Oni Press has a 25-year history as one of the industry’s most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels with titles including Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim, K. O’Neill’s Tea Dragon Society, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt’s The Sixth Gun, Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, Ezra Claytan Daniels’ Upgrade Soul, Brenna Thummler’s Sheets trilogy, and many hundreds more.
In 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics – the Eisner Award-winning independent comic book publisher founded by Academy Award-winning producer and entrepreneur David Steward II – to create one of the largest, independent libraries of comics content anywhere in media. The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group now exists as a publishing subsidiary of Steward’s diversified global media company, Polarity.
The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group publishes more than 60 original and licensed graphic novels annually, in addition to an extensive list of periodical comics.
About Nacelle Company
Established in 2017, The Nacelle Company, founded by Brian Volk-Weiss, is an American diversified media company headquartered in Los Angeles, California, dedicated to producing quality entertainment. Nacelle has evolved into a leader in the pop-culture space through its scripted and unscripted productions, consumer products, records, distribution, and podcasting divisions. Nacelle’s comedy division, Comedy Dynamics, is a worldwide leader in the stand-up comedy space, having produced and distributed specials for Ali Wong, Tom Segura, Iliza Shlesinger, Pete Davidson, Jim Gaffigan, Tiffany Haddish, Larry the Cable Guy, and more. Nacelle is currently producing the NacelleVerse, an interconnected universe of animated shows that include RoboForce, which is co-produced by Brian Volk-Weiss and Seven Bucks Productions’ Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, and Brian Gewirtz, as well as their Biker Mice from Mars animated series, which is co-produced by Brian Volk-Weiss and Matt Kravitsky from Nacelle, Maximum Effort’s Ryan Reynolds, George Dewey, and Kevin Hill. The company’s hits include Netflix’s Emmy-winning docuseries, Down To Earth with Zac Efron and the NAACP Image award-nominated Kevin Hart’s Guide To Black History, as well as Netflix’s The Movies That Made Us, The Toys That Made Us, Behind The Attraction on Disney+, Sony’s Mad About You, Icons Unearthed on Vice TV, CW’s Discontinued, and the History Channel’s Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek. The Nacelle Company develops, produces, and distributes content across multiple media platforms including Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, HBO, Discovery, BET+, A&E Networks, Peacock, Hulu, Vice, Viacom, History, and many more.
