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UBER #0 POLARITY #1 | MAX BEMIS | SHIPPING IN CAANAN WHITE JORGE COELHO Kieron Gillen unveils his From the mind of Say epic new monthly series, Anything frontman Max launching with a special Bemis comes Polarity, double-sized issue! a manic-depressive trip 1945. Germany is in you’ll never forget. APRIL ruins. The war in the west Timothy Woods is a can only be days away bipolar artist stuck in from ending. Threats of the world of hipsters, “wunderwaffen” to be unleashed by the dying meaningless sex, and vain art — better known MISS FURY #1 Reich have become laughable. There are no as Brooklyn. But after he survives a near ROB WILLIAMS | miracle weapons here. It’s over. It has to be over. fatal car accident, Timothy discovers that his JACK HERBERT It’s not. There’s been stories which have mixed mental instability is more than just a disorder, The pulp heroine returns! enhanced humans and World War 2 before. and that his bipolar medication hasn’t just When Miss Fury foils There’s never been one like this. See super been subduing depression and uncontrollable a wartime plot by Nazi beings in a whole new light as Gillen presents mania… it’s been suppressing his super secret agents, she is an epic new series that not only rewrites powers! Now it’s time for Timothy to stand catapulted through history, it redefines the genre. up to his disease alongside an onslaught of time… or so it seems. Is The Nazis have the Uber. The Allies don’t. wretched human villainy as he finally finds his she really careening from place in the world. past to future and back, Each issue comes with a free download for or has she lost her mind? And if her sanity a new original song written and performed intact, can one lone heroine possibly by Max Bemis! hope to end World War II by herself, a conflict still waged into the year 2013? REGULAR SHOW #1 As to generations of bloodshed and K.C. GREEN | violence, Miss Fury has lots of righteous ALLISON STREJLAU rage… and anger is her fearsome power! Regular Show… it’s anything but! Cartoon Network’s powerhouse series now has its own series! Hot on the heels of the smash hit HE-MAN AND THE adaptation, Adventure DARK SHADOWS: MASTERS OF THE Time, KaBOOM! unveils the next all-ages YEAR ONE #1 UNIVERSE #1 comic phenomenon! Join Mordecai the | KEITH GIFFEN | POP MHAN Bluejay and Rigby the Raccoon, a couple of GUIU VILANOVA First exciting issue of the best bros in their twenties just tryin’ to chill The origin of Dark new, ongoing adventures for a bit, man. But when you’re livin’ in as Shadows, finally revealed! of He-Man and the crazy a world as they are, no day can be How did Barnabas Collins Masters of the Universe! called…regular! become a bloodthirsty While the Masters of the Also available: vampire? What tragedies Universe mourn the loss REGULAR SHOW befell the Collins family of a fallen friend, Hordak COMPLETE COVER BOX SET through the generations? infiltrates Eternia! Cover Artists: NICK EDWARDS | NATHAN | All it took was one night of weakness, and Featuring the return of She-Ra! Now known as PHIL MCANDREW | JOHN ALLISON | Barnabas cursed his family — and himself Despara, the most lethal weapon in Hordak’s NOELLE STEVENSON | CHUCK BB — forever! The twisted tale of one of pop army, she returns to Eternia as He-Man’s Get all six main “character-focused” covers in culture’s most iconic and enduring vampires newest enemy! a limited edition commemorative slipcase! begins here!

COMICS 2 NEW TITLES SHIPPING IN APRIL 1 FOR $1: HOUSE OF THE MASSIVE #1 GOLD & BONES #1 | COREY TAYLOR | KRISTIAN DONALDSON RICHARD CLARK In a post-war, post- Trapped in an alternate Crash, post-disaster, reality, the Human must post-everything world, make his way to the the environmental action House of Gold & Bones trawler Kapital scours as he is chased by a the earth’s oceans for its crazed mob, and taunted missing sister ship, The by mysterious ally, Allen. Massive, while struggling to redefine its core What the Human discovers on his journey will ABE SAPIEN: mission. Captain Callum Israel, a man who be his salvation . . . or his destruction. DARK AND TERRIBLE #1 dedicated his life to the ocean, now must ask Inspired by the Stone Sour album House of MIKE MIGNOLA | SCOTT ALLIE | himself - as our planet dies - what it means Gold & Bones. SEBASTIÁN FIUMARA to be an environmentalist after the world’s Sebastián Fiumara (Loki, Mystery already ended. in Space) joins the Mignolaverse. It’s the perfect intro to The Massive: Volume 1! THE LAST OF US: On the run from the B.P.R.D., a A great buy for new readers! AMERICAN DREAMS #1 mutated Abe Sapien traverses a FAITH ERIN HICKS | devastated America, with monster NEIL DRUCKMANN corpses scattered around and The comics-exclusive 1 FOR $1: cities in ruin. prequel to the new MIND MGMT #1 Abe’s most defining moments in a new long-running game from Naughty series. MATT KINDT Dog! Creative director Just in time for the first Neil Druckmann teams collection, the sold-out with breakout comics Mind Mgmt #1 is back in star Faith Erin Hicks to print - for $1! present the story of thirteen-year-old Ellie’s life Now’s your chance in a violent, postpandemic world. A newcomer to catch up with Matt at a military boarding school, Ellie is reluctant Kindt’s brilliant tale of to toe the line, which earns her new enemies— lost memories, the Mind and her first glimpse of the world outside. Management psychic spy agency, its most Must-read tie-in to the upcoming release from infamous defector, and the journalist who Naughty Dog Games! uncovers their incredible secrets! Coscripted by The Last of Us art director and lead writer Neil Druckmann.

AMALA’S #1 X #0 STEVE HORTON | STAR WARS: DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI | MICHAEL DIALYNAS DARTH VADER AND THE ERIC NGUYEN The kingdom of NINTH ASSASSIN #1 Three crime lords in Naamaron is bitterly TIM SIEDELL | the decaying city of divided into warring STEPHEN THOMPSON Arcadia have received factions: the low-tech Eight assassins hired to photographic death Purifiers and the high- murder Darth Vader— sentences from the tech Modifiers. Both fear eight assassins dead. mysterious “X Killer.” the great vizier’s deadliest Now the man who Their cunning defenses assassin, Amala. But for enlisted them seeks won’t stop Arcadia’s all her lethal skills, Amala’s drawing too much a ninth assassin. The vigilante from making sure each one of them attention for the vizier’s taste. So what better price? A cost higher than all the credits in suffers. way to deal with a troublesome cutthroat than his bottomless coffers. But when it comes to From the pages of Dark Horse Presents, to send her on a suicide mission? avenging his son, no sacrifice is too great to Duane Swierczynski (, Godzilla) and Nonstop, kickass fun for fans of Avatar: The acquire the one man who can kill the Dark Eric Nguyen brutally relaunch Dark Horse’s Last Airbender, Trigun, and Naruto. Lord of the Sith... classic vigilante! Super Violent!

COMICS 3 NEW TITLES SHIPPING IN APRIL CHIN MUSIC #1 MIGHTY STEVE NILES | TONY HARRIS SKULLKICKERS #1 Shaw is a man on the JIM ZUB | EDWIN HUANG run and lost in time. Mighty Skullkickers: A Fleeing ancient enemies, classic relaunch that Shaw finds himself in blazes a new trail with prohibition-era Chicago familiar fan favorite surrounded by gangers sensibilities. A bold, new and demons alike and direction, a continuing caught between law story and a brand new enforcement and the adjective! Our twenty- local supernatural underground. first issue is brand a new #1! Our B cover Chin Music is a tale of mysticism and violence is a variant with the original numbering, in like nothing you’ve experienced before. case readers want their issue super-duper UNIVERSE #1 “old school.” | In the aftermath of INVINCIBLE 100 and “The Death of JUPITER’S LEGACY #1 Everyone,” Dinosaurus has left his mark on the world. MARK MILLAR | MINIATURE JESUS #1 Can heroes from across the universe – Invincible, the FRANK QUITELY Guardians of the Globe, , the Astounding TED McKEEVER Wolf-Man and more – contain the damage done? Or The comic-book event Devil on one shoulder - are the end times of the Invincible Universe ahead? of 2013 finally arrives as on the other. superstar creators Mark One tells you to do bad Miller and Frank Quietly things, the other . . . well, give us the you get the idea. epic that all future comics Bad news for a recovering ’68 #1 will be measured by. alcoholic if the “good” MARK KIDWELL | The world’s greatest one is MIA. JEFF ZORNOW heroes have grown old and their legacy is Vietnam, 1968: Behind a poisonous one to the children who will Between a liquor-gulping demon and a enemy lines, Private never live up to their remarkable parents. mummified cat hell-bent on mucking up Brian Curliss is alone. Unmissable. his fragile stability with esoteric trappings The enemy caged him, of Egyptian Gods, it’s all about to make our the dead want to devour hero’s day hit the proverbial fan. him and the voices in MICE TEMPLAR IV: his head are driving him LEGEND #1 to madness. A madness BRYAN J.L. GLASS | : DAY OF that emerges in the form of an unstoppable | THE OUTLAW #1 VICTOR SANTOS killing machine wrapped in burlap and JOSHUA FIALKOV | bamboo… “A Dangerous Faith” NELSON BLAKE II Curliss is a one-man-army, sworn to wade Long ago, the valiant Showdown with the through a wet red jungle gone straight to hell Templar destroyed Witchblade of the wild in search of a named Jungle Jim. To themselves through a west! the Viet Cong, he’s a nightmare. To POWs vicious civil war, allowing In the days of the Wild trapped in enemy hands, he’s salvation. To the the bloodthirsty crusade West, before Sara legions of shambling, hungry dead…He’s the of the tyrant king Icarus to destroy mouse Pezzini claimed her Grim Reaper in a gas mask. culture. Yet the inspiring tale of the young destiny, Witchblade MeatGrinder Studios and mouse Karic promises to restore the fractured bearer Sheriff Enola protected the high plains return to the grim world of ’68 with an all- Templar and overthrow the mad king. But from that lurked beyond the new, four-issue series continuing the story of while some accept Karic as a prophecy for horizon. Although her townspeople lived in Jungle Jim. The brutal sequel to the original good, still others see his rising legend as an peace, they were always mistrusting of their one-shot, Jungle Jim #1 fleshes out the new omen of evil. sheriff-witch. With her town seeking to banish dark star of the Vietnam/Zombie apocalypse. Thus begins the climactic chapter in the epic her and the Darkness angling for a duel, will Scripted by Mark Kidwell with savage artwork of hope and despair, of tragedy and the Witchblade be enough to save Enola by Jeff Zornow and Jay Fotos. Covers by Jeff triumph, and where every secret will at last be from becoming a footnote in the annals of the Zornow, Nat Jones and Jay Fotos. revealed. blade’s history?

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THE COLONIZED #1 DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER - CHRIS RYALL | DREW MOSS SHIPPING IN APRIL G.I. JOE: THANOS RISING #1 EVIL GROUND #1 Part 1: “Minutemen in THE FILES #1 FURTH | Black” JASON AARON | MIKE COSTA | SIMONE BIANCHI PETER DAVID | In this all-new miniseries, RICHARD ISANOVE ANTONIO FUSO What comes after “Marvel a spaceship crashes into A snake in their midst! NOW!”? Whatever it is, it While traveling through a separatist camp and Her name is Chameleon starts here. the Desatoya Mountains manages to reanimate - and she used to be towards Eluria, Roland the dead as well! It’s The vile left movie a COBRA agent. Now comes across a haunted aliens vs. zombies vs. audiences in shock after she’s made her way camp. While there, he militiamen in a carnage- last summer’s Marvel into the G.I. Joe team relives one of his past adventures, in which filled tale from the co-creator of Zombies Studios’ “The ” - the honest way. But he and his ka-tet fought Farson’s forces, vs Robots! And if that ain’t enough, covers movie, but who is this even with the best of intentions, does she only to be trapped by supernatural for this series will be by acclaimed Cerebus eerily disturbing villain? have what it takes to fight on the side of the enemies. A fascinating prequel to The creator, Dave Sim! Thanos rises as the unrivaled of angels? thinks she does, and he’s willing Little Sisters Of Eluria, and also a return wretchedness in this gripping tale of tragedy, to Roland’s much-loved early adventures, to gamble the lives of this teammates on deceit and destiny. Where did this demi-god of her… Unfortunately, with the Crimson Twin Evil Ground is a must-read for all Dark death and destruction come from and...more Tower fans. DANGER GIRL: called Tomax pulling the strings, no bet is a importantly what does he want? TRINITY #1 sure thing. The answers come from the incredible creative | JOHN ROYLE | team of Jason Aaron (, X-Men STEPHEN MOLNAR | Origins) and Simone Bianchi (Wolverine, BRIAN STELFREEZE Astonishing X-Men) as they take you on It’s three times the action, SPOTLIGHT: journey that will not only change the course of TRAILCUTTER #1 three times the thrills, and one boy’s life ...but will soon change the very three times the danger!!! JAMES ROBERTS | nature of the Marvel Universe. MATT FRANK Abbey, Sydney and Stealth attack! Trailcutter Sonya embark on three X-MEN #1 has a problem: the Lost different knuckle-clenching adventures, each Light has been taken BRIAN WOOD | an epic tale of intrigue and derring-do, and over by the Decepticons each drawn by a different fantastic artist - It’s - and no one else seems Because you demanded a triple-play of danger that will climax with the to have noticed! Can the it! The X-Women finally biggest surprise of the year! Autobots’ defense strategist singlehandedly get their own book, see off an army of infiltrators? And even if from critically acclaimed he does, will it convince his crew mates that superstars Brian Wood DUNGEONS & he’s got more to offer than kind words and (X-Men, Ultimate X-Men, DRAGONS: CUTTER #1 forcefields? DMZ, The Massive) R.A. & GENO SALVATORE | and Olivier Coipel (AvX, DAVID BALDEON House Of M, Thor)! Birthright! Tierflin and An old enemy shows up at the X-Men’s Doum’weille are half- ULTRON #1 door, seeking asylum from an ancient evil Drow siblings, locked TBD | AMILCAR PINNA come back to earth. Meanwhile, Jubilee in competition for Ultron took over the has come home, and she’s brought with her the ownership of the world. an orphaned baby who might hold the key bloodthirsty sword to the earth’s survival...or its destruction. Khazid’hea - the Cutter! Ultron killed the heroes. Against a backdrop of what seems like an Their father, the Drow renegade Tos’un - a Ultron...is your father. alien invasion and an eons-spanning war veteran of battles against the Kingdom of When you’re Victor between brother and sister, Storm steps up Many-Arrows - is forced to choose his heir… Mancha, android teen and puts together a team to protect the child but what does the powerful sword have to say runaway, “daddy issues” and stop a new threat that could on the subject? doesn’t quite cover it. destroy all life on earth!

COMICS 5 ACTION COMICS VOL.1: CONAN VOL.13: AND THE MEN OF JOURNEY INTO QUEEN OF THE STEEL MYSTERY FT. SIF NOVEL BLACK COAST MORRISON | FISCH | VOL.1: STRONGER WOOD | CLOONAN | MORALES | KUBERT | THAN MONSTERS HARREN ANDERSON | OTHERS... IMMONEN | SCHITI Dark Horse, 152 Pages DC, 200 Pages Marvel, 120 Pages

IDEAS Kicking off Dark Horse’s sweeping The first collection of Grant Morrison’s epic A new journey begins, starring Sif ...the adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s “Queen of run on Action Comics, with art by Rags Berzerker?! When the latest crop of beasties the Black Coast,” Conan turns his back on Morales, Andy Kubert and more! besets Asgardia, our sword-slinging heroine the civilized world and takes to the Western In these startling tales, the people of leads the battle charge — but that no-holds- Ocean. Finding first danger and then passion Metropolis turn on their new champion! Plus, barred zeal for may be the very thing in the arms of the pirate queen Bêlit, the the Superman of today and the Legion Of that brings the realm down around her winged Cimmerian begins a new life of pleasure and Super-Heroes must save the jeans-wearing helm! Finding herself newly minted with an pillage along the Black Coast, in this epic of Superman of five years ago! ancient version of the Berzerker spell, Sif romance and terror! Collects Action Comics #1-8. returns to an unsuspecting Midgard — and A perfect jumping-on point for new readers! with no patience for relative peace, starts putting out fires with gasoline! And things ACE Comics pick heat up even more when our heroine falls of the best new in with a group of brutal Asgardian savages JUDGE DREDD — and joins them in their millennia-old battle graphic novels and VOL. 1 against monsters! But can the berzerkers collected editions SWIERCZYNSKI | keep their bloodlust in check? And can Sif DANIEL | GULACY | master her new abilities and serve Asgard? arriving from April POINT OF IMPACT McCARTHY | FOSS | Guest starring the Superior Spider-Man and JFAERBER | KURANEL MIRANDA a collection of Marvel superstars! onwards IDW, 124 Pages Image, 104 Pages Collecting Journey Into Mystery (1952) #646-650. A gripping, provocative murder mystery In the 22nd century, crime runs rampant in from acclaimed writer and Mega-City One, home to over 400 million stunning artist Koray Kuranel begins with citizens, robots, criminals, and lunatics. The one woman’s murder and branches out to only line of defense between anarchy and follow the investigation by three people with chaos are… the Judges. And Judge Dredd is personal connections to her: her husband, the toughest of them all. an investigative reporter; her lover, an ex- IDW is proud to re-introduce Judge Dredd to soldier; and her friend, a homicide detective. America in this new series. WOLVERINE: Her death will change all of their lives. WITCHBLADE: SEASON ONE Collects Point Of Impact #1-4. DEMON REBORN PREMIERE HC PARKS | JOSE LUIS ACKER | BLACKER | Dynamite, 120 Pages ESPIN Marvel, 136 Pages VOL.1: Since sending the Demon to his rightful BEYOND: THE TRENCH damnation, police officer Sara Pezzini has Discovered as a feral mutant prowling the 10,000 CLOWNS JOHNS | REIS | PRADO turned her attentions to raising her child, wilds! Recruited as a covert operative by BEECHEN | FERREIRA dealing with the stresses of a criminal trial, a secretive government agency! Destined NORM | BREYFOGLE DC, 144 Pages and bearing the responsibility (and burden) to pursue a dream of peaceful coexistence DC, 176 Pages of the mystical Witchblade. But the Demon’s between man and mutant! tale is not yet finished! In the depths of Hell, Witness the birth of the Wolverine as the The first collection of the new Aquaman he encounters the Demoness, a creature man called Logan makes his journey from When the Jokerz gang, a group of criminals series, now in trade paperback! capable of sending him back to Earth. animalistic wildling to beloved X-Man. inspired by the Clown Prince of Crime, The superstar creators from Blackest Night Sara will soon learn that there’s nothing so Including Logan’s first blockbuster battle with launches a series of coordinated attacks all and Brightest Day reunite to take Aquaman dangerous as a being of pure evil, full of the , as well as pivotal appearances around the town, Terry McGinnis can only to amazing new depths! Aquaman has revenge and fueled by hope! by Sabretooth and Wendigo, this blood- save so many people. Who can he turn to renounced the throne of Atlantis – but Collects the four-issue miniseries, the original splattered tale features a contemporary for help? now, from a forgotten corner of the ocean Witchblade: Demon #1 by Mark Millar and retelling of the Clawed Canuck’s formative Collects stories from Batman Beyond emerges…the Trench! Jae Lee, and a complete cover gallery by years! Unlimited #1-13. Collecting Aquaman #1-6. Dennis Calero and Jae Lee.

COMICS 6 MIND THE GAP VOL.2: WISH YOU THE LONE RANGER WERE HERE OMNIBUS VOL. 1 NOVEL IDEAS McCANN | ESQUEJO | MATTHEWS | ACE Comics pick of the best new graphic novels and McDAID CARIELLO | POPE Image, 136 Pages Dynamite, 632 Pages collected editions arriving from April onwards

New threats arise as the curtains pull back The complete story of how fallen lawman to reveal some of the most shocking secrets John Reid was transformed into the Lone surrounding the mystery behind the attack Ranger! STEED AND INDESTRUCTIBLE MRS. PEEL VOL.1: on Elle Peterssen. Meanwhile, what is her Alongside his partner Tonto, the West’s HULK VOL.1: A VERY CIVIL connection to a 10-year-old girl who claims quintessential masked man sets a new AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D. ARMAGEDDON to actually be Elle’s mind trapped in this girl’s standard of justice in this character-defining PREMIERE HC WAID | MONORE | body? All of this plus the acclaimed silent origin story, a collection of twenty-five epic | YU BRYANT | SLINEY issue “speechless” and the unmasking that issues by the all-star creative team Brett Marvel, 136 Pages Boom!, 128 Pages changes the entire series. Matthews, Sergio Cariello, Paul Pope, and Collects Mind The Gap #6-10. John Cassaday! With over 600 pages (including the bonus Hulk: Indestructible force more weapon Saving the world in style! story “Creed”), this must-have omnibus than man. Banner: smartest man alive. The British icon The Avengers, one of showcases the Lone Ranger’s entire struggle Combined, they are the strongest, smartest the longest running TV shows in history, against the unrivaled evil of outlaw Butch weapon on the planet! Now an agent of returns in comic-book form with all-new IDW Cavendish. S.H.I.E.L.D., the Indestructible Hulk must adventures! POWELL | RYALL take down the new Quintronic Man and John Steed and Emma Peel face off | BURNHAM | battle Attuma on the ocean floor to learn the MCCARTHY | BEATTY against a reformed Hellfire Club, led by secret of Lost Lemuria! But not everything the children of their past antagonists. This | KUHN | ROBINSON | is as it seems: What is Banner’s secret HOLDER | FRANK new incarnation does not look to the past, hold over S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Maria Hill? IDW, 162 Pages but instead seeks to warp the British Isles What and where is Bannertown, USA? And to fit their idea of what “the future” should which one of Banner’s lab assistants holds a look like. Eisner Award winning writer Mark The Martians of Mars Attacks invade five different deadly secret? Plus: Bruce Banner and Tony Waid (Irredeemable, Daredevil) begins a Stark are friends, but Hulk and are IDW timelines and universes. Popeye, Zombies new era of Spy-Fi action alongside Caleb vs Robots, Kiss, The Real , anything but! STRACZYNSKI | Monroe (Batman), and artists Steve Bryant and The Transformers each must fight off WESTON The Golden Avenger guest-stars as Eisner (Athena Voltaire) and Will Sliney (Fearless the threat to their respective worlds. Marvel, 328 Pages Award-winning writer Mark Waid (Daredevil) Defenders)! and superstar artist Leinil Yu take the Hulk in a new direction...NOW! Yesterday’s men of tomorrow — today! Collecting Indestructible Hulk #1-5. Includes The Reporter. Electro. The Black designs, sketches, script, and pencils! Widow. The Laughing Mask. The Blue Blade. Dynamic Man. Master Mind Excello. WATCHMEN Mister E. The Fiery Mask. The Witness. . Captain Wonder. Laying dormant DELUXE EDITION HC ADVENTURE TIME for sixty years, they awaken in a tormented MOORE | GIBBONS VOL. 1 world that needs them more than ever. But DC, 448 Pages has the world grown beyond their brand of CORSETTO | STERLING old-fashioned heroism? STAR TREK: COUNTDOWN TO Boom!, 160 Pages In the mid-eighties, Alan Moore and Dave Writer J. Michael Stracyzynski (Babylon 5, DARKNESS Gibbons created Watchmen, changing the The Amazing Spider-Man) and artist Chris JOHNSON | MESSINA course of comics’ history and essentially Weston (The Invisibles, Fantastic Four: An all-new Adventure Time orginal graphic IDW, 104 Pages remaking how popular culture perceived the First Family) present a post-modernist tale novel! Join Princess, alongside Finn genre. Popularly cited as the point where comics of sacrifice, betrayal and human nature. and Jake, as she leaves the Flame Kingdom came of age, Watchmen’s sophisticated take on Plus: Journey into the past to follow the Like the best-selling Star Trek: Countdown and goes on her very first adventure! superheroes has been universally acclaimed death-defying exploits of in 2009, this all-new collection leads directly Written by acclaimed cartoonist Danielle for its psychological depth and realism. Now, Reporter on the front lines of World War II into the next movie, with a story by Star Corsetto (Girls With Slingshots) and drawn DC collects this 12 issue series in the popular and witness his first encounter with history’s Trek writer/producer Roberto Orci and Mike by rising star Zack Sterling (Bravest Warriors, Deluxe Edition format. greatest super heroes! Johnson (Star Trek ongoing series), and Adventure Time). A pocket black and white Includes sketches, bonus material and a new Collecting The Twelve #1-12 and The drawn by the original Star Trek: Countdown edition appealing to fans of Scott Pilgrim and introduction by artist . Twelve: Spearhead. artist, David Messina! Japanese !

COMICS 7 HISTORY BOOKS With the huge volume of titles released each week, it can be quite easy to overlook the rich history of comic books available in the form of back issues and graphic novels, so we’re going to take this opportunity to showcase some gems in Illuminations, that you previously might have missed.

BATMAN: A DEATH IN THE FAMILY JIM STARLIN | JIM APARO “Batman readers were allowed to vote on the outcome of the story and they decided that Robin should die! As the second person to assume the role of Batman’s sidekick, had a completely different personality than the original Robin. Rash and prone to ignore Batman’s instructions, Jason was always quick to act without regard to consequences. In this fatal instance, Robin ignores his mentor’s warnings when he attempts to take on the by himself and pays the ultimate price. Driven by anger with Superman by his side, Batman seeks his vengeance as he looks to end the Joker’s threat forever.” - DC We’re often asked to recommend something fresh for ’s green pixie boots were always going to be hard to fill, but Jason Todd donned the Robin costume for the first time in our customers to read at ACE Comics, so we’ve decided Detective Comics #526. Following Crisis OnInfinte Earths, Todd’s to throw a few ideas in here... origin as an acrobat much like Grayson was rewritten and he became STAFF PICKS a street orphan encountered by Batman as he attempted to steal the Hawkeye’s profile in the Marvel universe has been raised significantly wheels off of the Batmobile. Contrary to Todd’s earlier popularity, this in the past year following Jeremy Renner’s great performance as the smoking, swearing, rebellious version was not a favourite with fans. world’s greatest marksman in the Avengers movie. The Marvel NOW! In 1988, Batman editor Dennis O’Neil suggested an audience relaunch schedule gave the publishers the opportunity to capitalise might be attracted to the comics by being offered the opportunity to on the increase in Hawkeye’s popularity, and Matt Fraction, currently influence the creative process. Wanting to ensure the public’s opinion one of the best writers working for Marvel, was attached to the project. was used on something significant, it was decided to give the option He was joined by Spanish comic book artist, David Aja and the new to vote on the life-or-death outcome of a fight between the Joker and Hawkeye series was born. Robin, via two telephone numbers. Over 10,000 votes were cast and Fraction and Aja have given Hawkeye an ‘indie’ feel, unfamiliar in a the outcome became part of comic book history, causing controversy core title, focusing on the ‘everyman’ aspect of Clint Barton and his throughout society, let alone the arena of the comic book fans. (albeit superhero incorporated) day-to-day life. The book is full of great One of the stand-out emotional events in Batman’s history, ‘A Death humour, strong characterisation and outstanding dialogue, while the In The Family’ is well written with some great artwork, and has served somewhat disjointed structuring fits the style perfectly. as an influence over DC’s highly successful New 52 Batman story arc Hawkeye Vol.1: My Life As A Weapon is due out on March 26th ‘Death Of The Family’. David Aja’s art is loose and unabrasive, with a level of detail that keeps it ‘real’ and his covers are truly exceptional, every single issue! (preorder) with Vol.2: Little Hits due June 25th. ACE Economic Subscription customers can add Hawkeye to your monthly orders, It’s a new paperback edition of the classic Batman tale If you’re not reading Hawkeye, it’s the one of the Marvel titles we’d £18.99 while if you fancy picking up half-a-dozen issues without having to sign that sealed the fate of the second Robin, Jason Todd, strongly recommend. If you are already reading Hawkeye, you’ll know collected from Batman #426-429 and 440-442 and The up for an account, you can buy a hassle-free, Six-Issue Subscription exactly what we mean. New Titans #60-61! here. Alternately, you can buy all of the digital issues here.

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IMAGE: THE NEW HOUSE My favourite at the moment is Bedlam by So, there are two reasons to try a few Motto for the month. Talk comics to . The story of a psychotic new Image titles. Firstly they are , in the people. I am finding more and more OF IDEAS? killer who killed scores of people in his main, bloody brilliant. Secondly, the after ’secret’ readers. They have been buying crime rampage and apparently died on publishing price of about one third of the on E-bay and Amazon, so they are not I still love my monthly dose of superhero his last job , is in fact alive and well. titles has gone through the roof. Kind of seen going into comic shops. It is time to comics but to keep my enthusiasm for Taken in by a rogue psychiatrist he is on handy if you buy a series and it doesn’t encourage them to out themselves. comics alive I need the likes of Image to his way to sanity but has a very skewed quite work for you, because now you can bring me fresh new takes on all manner view on life nonetheless. Taking himself offload it on eBay for more than you paid of genres. off into the city of Bedlam he wants to for it. That just leaves me to say on behalf of all The only problem with Image is that there help the police track down a serial killer. at ACE Colchester, Biff, Tina, Kerrie, Marc, are just too many good new series. Watching his story unfold, whilst flashing Guy, Evil Stu, Victoria, Colin, Ed, Glenn, Matt and of course Joe and Bryony, Lea Last month saw the first issue of East back to scenes from his past gives a ACE ITALIA in Southend, Richard and Guy in Richmond, Of West , a sci-fi western by Jonathan unique viewpoint on madness and sanity. Ivor, Scott, Scott, Stacy, Lorna, Stuart, Hickman, listed. Jonathan’s writing has The atmospheric art of Riley Rossmo Unbeknownst to most of you, I expect, but Daren and Bennie in Glasgow... yet to disappoint me and after the is both surreal and real, keeping you we supply a legion of Italian customers. success of Manhattan Projects I would firmly planted in a balance of sanity and Mainly toys and hero figurines but a be a fool to miss out on this. madness. growing number of comics too. This has all been down to our Italian connection Chew, that glorious horror detective comic, Just the sort of refreshing change after the usual superhero romp. Stacy(Anastasia). A good friend of ours ...READ MORE Peter Panzer Faust a strange twist on Peter she has helped us create an Italian Pan and Nazi Germany, Thief of Thieves, As DC seem to be closing down Vertigo, language side to our business which, Clone, Epic Kill, Fatale, Great Pacific, I Love once a powerhouse of adult themed unsurprisingly, has encouraged a veritable Trouble - an assassin in training, Brian stories, Image with their new creator army of Italians to shop with us now. COMICS!! Woods Mara, Tim Seeley’s and of deals are attracting the sort of talent Thanks Stacy, keep up the great work. course Saga to name but a few. that used to live in Vertigo land.

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