Empire #1 was published by IDW Publishing on April 1, 2015, as part of a series that began in 2015. Barry Kitson and Mark Waid write, and art comes from Alex Bleyaert, Chris Sotomayor and James Pascoe. This 208-page issue features Golgoth, Xanna, Lucullan, Grieze and Lohkyn, among 11 characters cataloged on VerseDB.