Yaira: Frost & Ruin
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The Trident calls her unworthy. The world calls her a threat. Yaira: Frost & Ruin is the standalone graphic novel that strips the First Lady of the Rippaverse down to nothing and asks who she is without her power.
Yaira is the most powerful being in the Rippaverse - until the divine artifact that made her one decides she isn't worthy of it. Stripped of nearly everything that made her a god and dropped into a city that wants her dead, Yaira has to survive a shadow organization built specifically to kill her - and by the time Frost & Ruin ends, the woman who walks out of it isn't the same one who walked in.
Written by Eric July (founder of Rippaverse Publishing) and Carrow Brown with interior art by Will Conrad (Nightwing, Justice League Odyssey, Star Wars).
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Eric July is a writer, musician, and the founder of Rippaverse Publishing. As frontman of the bands BackWordz and Fire From the Gods, and host of live-stream features and the podcast For Canon Sake (less frequent now), he built a creative platform - combined audience ~1.2M followers across social channels - that culminated in launching Rippaverse in 2022 with Isom #1, one of the most successful pre-order campaigns in independent comics history. He is the creator of Yaira, Bloodruth, and Alphacore, and the writer of Isom, Yaira (with Carrow Brown), Norfrica, Saoirse, and the Vassie picture-book series. He leads creative direction across the Rippaverse line. He lives in Dallas, Texas. One of the top-selling and most popular Black creators in modern comics and graphic novels.
Carrow Brown is a writer and editor working across comics and speculative fiction. At Rippaverse Publishing, she serves as a key creative contributor, writing multiple titles including Yaira (with Eric July), Dirty Deeds, Twin Tricks, Saoirse, Fontaino, Smuggler's Stitch, and the Rippaverse novel Dirty Deeds: Jailbreak, while also helping shape story development and editorial direction across the line. Her work blends action-driven storytelling with strong character focus, often exploring themes of identity, consequence, and resilience.