September 29, 2025—New York, NY—Xeric award-winning writer Neil Kleid (The Panic, Brownsville, Nice Jewish Boys) and artist Alex Cormack go Medieval this November with a bombastic new series about baseball, the Bronx, and sixth-century Britain! Written and lettered by Kleid with art and colors by Alex Cormack and edits by Sarah Litt, Medieval issue #1 (of 5) debuts on November 11, 2025, from Amazon’s Comixology Originals exclusive digital content line.
Loud, brash, boisterous and over the top, Kleid takes a swing at something very different and out of his wheelhouse and hits a home run with Medieval, his most brutal, bloody, and vulgar – yet still emotionally grounded—comic series to date.
“This story is a clear departure from my usual over-thought, over-written dramatic treatises about legacy and the human condition,” says writer Neil Kleid. “Oh, it’s still about being human – it’s a love story. Not chivalric romance, but a story about two time-lost lovers who find themselves in a strange place and learn not only their limits, but about what they actually need to become the best versions of themselves. Oh, and it’s about baseball. Oh, and a chance to curse my a** off.”
“I was hesitant to jump in on Medieval, being from Massachusetts and loving baseball,” says artist Alex Cormack, “but Neil’s story was too much fun to miss out on. And I’m so happy I did jump on, because every panel has been a blast to draw! Castles, knights, baseball, dragons (uh, spoilers!), carnage – what’s not to love!”
Baseball fan Danny Landau and his girlfriend Gina Rabinowitz attend a baseball game to watch their favorite Bronx team take on their most notorious rivals. After being hit by a line drive, Danny wakes up in sixth-century England, out of time with no skills other than a knack for construction, a love for baseball, and a penchant for violence. After spending the next year drinking and fighting, seeking a way back home to his girl and New York, Danny’s unique form of loud-mouthed chivalry – and “The Babe,” his custom-designed iron baseball bat – gains the attention of Camelot, and Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table, bringing him helm-to-boot with King Arthur, Lancelot, and Merlin, the notoriously wily magician who may have Danny’s ticket home… but whose true intentions aren’t trustworthy! When cultures clash and their meeting takes a violent turn, Lancelot suggests a Grand Tournament of valor, gallantry, and might as Arthur Pendragon of Camelot and Danny Landau from the Bronx – an ale-swilling, bat-wielding brawler – engage in a battle of the ages.
Kleid and Cormack let er’ rip in this violent, mature original comic about an irreverent, would-be, time-lost hero ready to go medieval on Camelot in order to find his way back home. As the 2025 baseball postseason comes to a close, Medieval will keep readers entertained well after the last inning and in anticipation of the 2026 baseball season!
Kleid’s previous Comixology Originals work Nice Jewish Boys is available digitally from Comixology, and The Panic is now available in paperback from Dark Horse Books and available digitally from Comixology.
About the Creators:
Neil Kleid, is a Xeric-award winning, Orthodox Jewish graphic novelist. He authored Ninety Candles (for which he won the prestigious Xeric Grant in 2003), Brownsville, and The Big Kahn, the latter two which were the first entries in his sequential/narrative exploration of Judaism—his third, Nice Jewish Boys, was co-authored with John Broglia and Ellie Wright, and released from Comixology in 2024. With the late Alex Nino, Neil adapted Jack London’sThe Call of The Wild into comics for Penguin Books; did the opposite for the Marvel Comics’ storyline Spider-Man: Kraven’s Last Hunt for Penguin and Titan Books; co-authored (with Brian Michael Bendis) Powers: The Secret History of Deena Pilgrim for Thomas Dunne Books/MacMillan, an original prose novel based on the award-winning comic book series; and penned bothThe Phoenix Chase, an original X-Men novel, and “Kid Omega Faces The Music”, an original X-Men short story for Aconyte Books / Marvel, the latter for which he was nominated for a 2022 Scribe Award. Neil co-authored The Panic, a New York subway thriller with Andrea Mutti, released from Dark Horse in partnership with Comixology. He was named the 2023 Jewish Writer of the Year by the Center for Jewish History in New York, as part of their inaugural, annual JewCE Awards. He lives with his wife, kids, dog and a kosher grill in New Jersey where he juggles a constantly evolving writing plan and roots, roots, roots for the Detroit Tigers.
Alex Cormack is a Bram Stoker Award nominated illustrator whose work includes Breath Of Shadows, Sea Of Sorrows, Road Of Bones, The Crimson Cage, Sink, Ghosts On The Water, Killing Hope, Weed Magic, and a bunch more. He lives in Vermont with his wife, son, and his two cats.
About Comixology Originals:
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