Bruce Dickinson and Z2 Comics have announced The Mandrake Project: Year Two, the next installment in Dickinson’s critically acclaimed graphic novel saga. Everything readers thought they knew about the world of Necropolis and Dr. Lazarus gets turned on its head. Pre-order details are live now.

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Year Two picks up as the war between magic and science for the control of immortality reaches a hallucinatory fever pitch. A near-death experience propels Necropolis into a parallel world, where he uncovers the dark secrets of his family tree, forcing him to confront whether he can escape a legacy of self-destruction or is simply a cog in a greater cosmic machine controlled by supernatural forces.

Dickinson teases what is coming: “Oh, just hold on to your proverbial hats, folks. This one gets REALLY weird!” Co-writer Tony Lee follows up: “You thought the first book was going to get us sued and bring out the pitchforks? You haven’t seen anything yet.”
Z2 Editor-in-Chief Rantz Hoseley adds: “I thought I knew the limits and boundaries of Bruce’s mad vision for this world, but one thing Year Two has made brutally clear: there are no limits to where the story will go. And, let me just say, we are all the luckier for it.”
The one-hundred-and-eighty-four-page volume includes interviews and essays recounting Dickinson’s 2025 solo tour supporting The Mandrake Project album, creative team insight into the development of the saga, and an extensive article on Wilhelm Reich, the sociologist and mystic whose controversial work led to his imprisonment by the FBI, where he died in 1954. The book carries an introduction by Anvil director Sacha Gervasi.

The oversized twelve-by-twelve-inch Deluxe and Platinum Editions arrive in a die-cut slipcase with sealing ribbon, gilt paper edging, four new foil collectors cards, and a new edition of the antiqued metal Mandrake Project medallion. Bruce Dickinson-signed editions are available directly from Z2 at Z2Comics.com. A nine-by-nine-inch hardcover edition without slipcase is available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, HMV UK, and independent comic and music shops worldwide.

Creators: Bruce Dickinson, concept and co-writer; Tony Lee, writer; Piotr Kowalski, art; John Devilman, additional creative; Bill Sienkiewicz, art contributions.