God Is Dead is an ongoing comic bookseries released by Avatar Press monthly, starting in September 2013. Set in the future world of 2015, it deals with the second coming of the ancient gods and goddesses of the world's pantheons returning to Earth to lay claim to the world of man. The subplot is of a group of people named the Collective, who resist the ancient gods. The series was created by comic book authors Jonathan Hickman and Mike Costa.