Vault launches new Compact Edition line this December

Vault Comics is introducing fans to a new format for reading the publisher’s most beloved series with Vantage, a line of compact-sized graphic novels in a portable format. Sized at 5.5” by 8.5,” each compact edition graphic novel will collect either the entire series or contain multiple story arcs of a longer ongoing series. Each volume is priced at $14.99.

The first wave of books coming to the Vantage line are:

• Money Shot Compact: Book 1 
• These Savage Shores Compact
• Witchblood: The Hounds of Love

These three titles will be available in comic stores everywhere in December 2025, with a second wave to be announced in the coming weeks. 

MONEY SHOT: COMPACT BOOK 1

Writers: Sarah Beattie and Tim Seeley, Artist: Rebekah Isaacs, Letterer: Crank, and Colorist: K. Michael Russell. 

Money Shot: Compact Book 1 collects issues #1-#10 of the bestselling and raunchy series, now in a discreet size that’s sure to slip through intergalactic baggage scanners without tripping any alarms.

In the near future, space travel is ludicrously expensive and largely ignored. Enter Christine Ocampo, inventor of the Star Shot teleportation device with a big idea: She’ll travel to new worlds, engage—intimately—with local aliens, and film her exploits for a jaded earth populace trying to find something new on the internet. Now, Chris and the XXX-plorers, her merry band of scientist-cum-pornstars, explore the universe, each other, and the complexities of sex in MONEY SHOT!

A story about scientists having sex with aliens for the glory of mankind.”

THESE SAVAGE SHORES: COMPACT 

Writer: Ram V. , Artist: Sumit Kumar, Letterer: Aditya Bidikar and Colorist: Vittorio Astone.

These Savage Shores: Compact collects the entire series from Eisner award-winning creators Ram V and Sumit Kumar. 

Two centuries after the first European ship sailed to the Malabar Coast and made landfall at Calicut, The East India Company seeks to secure its future along the lucrative Silk Route, in the year 1766. An old evil now sails aboard a company ship, hoping to make a home in this new found land. But he will soon find that the ground along the Indus is an ancient one with daemons and legends far older than himself. 

Along These Savage Shores, where the days are scorched and the nights are full of teeth.

WITCHBLOOD: THE HOUNDS OF LOVE, COMPACT 

Writer: Matthew Erman, Artist: Lisa Sterle, Colorist: Gab Contreras, and Letterer: AndWorld 

Widely regarded as one of the best comic books of the decade—garnering glowing reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, AV Club, Thrillist, Geek Network, and more—Witchblood: Compact, Book 1 collects issues #1-#10 of the bestselling series. 

A modern, Wild West road trip about a witch named Yonna cruising the Southwest as a band of bloodthirsty biker vampires, The Hounds of Love, hunt her scattered coven for the source of all magic: witch blood.” 

More books will be announced in the coming weeks. I’d like to see Heathen, Sera and the Royal Stars, or Barbaric. What other Vault titles would you like to see on the second wave announcement?