COPRA - Michel Fiffe's Revenge Epic

COPRA is Cuban-American cartoonist Michel Fiffe’s handcrafted masterpiece—a solo odyssey of blood and ink that consumed thirteen years and fifty issues, entirely written, drawn, colored, and lettered by one pair of hands. From its scrappy 2012 debut through the incendiary Death of COPRA finale in 2025, this is a saga that feels less like a comic and more like a raw signal smuggled in from a punk universe parallel to our own: all jagged lines, electric color, and emotional brutality that hits like a blade between the ribs.

This is not a story about heroes. This is a story about what happens when the state takes its most vicious criminals, costumes them in garish uniforms, and points them at impossible targets. The black-ops squad known as COPRA operates in the space between disposable asset and damaged family—a roiling cast of convicts turned operatives where trust is a liability, betrayal is the house rule, and death is the only guaranteed discharge. Fiffe layers in rival cabals, supernatural incursions, and antagonists whose pain mirrors the squad’s own, building a mythology where every wound leaves a scar that resurfaces dozens of issues later. At its core, COPRA is about consequence: every pull of the trigger echoes across years, and no one walks away clean.

Self-published under Fiffe’s COPRA Press across 45 limited-edition issues, the series built a fiercely devoted following through sheer artistic will—each issue a handmade artifact with sold-out print runs and collector-grade demand. Image Comics eventually gathered the saga into COPRA Round One and deluxe Master Collection hardcovers. The series closed with the four-issue Death of COPRA miniseries (January–April 2025, legacy issues #46–49), followed by a monumental COPRA #50 in June 2025, completing the run at exactly fifty issues. In 2026, COPRA Master Collection Book 2 earned a Society of Illustrators / MoCCA Fest Award of Excellence—institutional recognition for a series that began as one person’s uncompromising vision.

For a different side of Fiffe’s storytelling, explore the surreal sibling drama of ZEGAS. Critics have hailed COPRA as one of the most distinctive superhero comics of its era. Comic Book Resources called Death of COPRA #1 “a transcendent revenge saga,” while Screen Rant named it “the most underrated superhero series” to conclude in 2025. The Comics Journal has tracked the series from its earliest issues, praising what they call Fiffe’s “punk-zine energy”—that rare ability to detonate splash-page bombast while landing quiet, devastating character moments. IGN listed Death of COPRA among the most anticipated comics of 2025, and The Beat featured it in their weekly reviews.

Perfect for fans of Ostrander’s Suicide Squad, Miller’s Daredevil, Ennis’s The Boys, and anyone who believes that one person with a printing budget and a vision can outdo a whole bullpen.

Grab the collected editions from Image Comics, pick up original self-published issues from Fiffe’s Etsy shop, and follow along at Michel Fiffe’s website.