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FEBRUARY 2013: New Titles Staff Picks Page 2-6 Page 8 Novel Ideas Biff’s Bit Page 6-7 Page 9 History Books COMICS Page 8 NEW TITLES UBER #0 POLARITY #1 KIERON GILLEN | 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 remains 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 witness 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 comic book 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 MARC ANDREYKO | 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 FOX | 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 BRIAN WOOD | 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 BLADE #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 (Punisher, 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 INVINCIBLE UNIVERSE #1 “old school.” PHIL HESTER | TODD NAUCK 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, Tech Jacket, 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 angel on the other. superstar creators Mark One tells you to do bad Miller and Frank Quietly things, the other . well, give us the superhero you get the idea. epic that all future comics Bad news for a recovering ’68 JUNGLE JIM #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.