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OCTOBER 2013: PREMIER PUBLISHERS HISTORY BOOKS Page 2-6 Page 10 INDEPENDENTS ONES TO WATCH Page 7 Page 10 NOVEL IDEAS BIFF’S BIT COMICS Page 8-9 Page 11 NEW TITLES SHIPPING IN DECEMBER: PREMIER PUBLISHERS BRAIN BOY #0 DEAD BOY DETECTIVES #1 Fred Van Lente | Toby Litt | Mark Buckingham Freddie Williams II From the pages of The , ’s When the dead boys get their own monthly series! As fans Secret Service needs to of storybook detectives, Edwin Paine (died 1916) make sure a location is and Charles Rowland (died 1990) will take on any safe for the president, and all mysteries—including their own untimely they call Matt Price, a.k.a. deaths! The dead boys head back to St. Hilarions, Brain Boy, the world’s where bullying headmasters continue to rule the most powerful telepath. school. But when they investigate the lingering Raised by his parents’ mysteries of their own deaths, they meet a young employer after their deaths, Matt studied and girl named whose tech skills and strange link to the undead earn honed his incredible psychic abilities under her a place as a new detective. the tutelage of Albright Industries. Jump back Dead Boy Detectives is a fast-paced adventure series that takes us in time to one of Brain Boy’s first missions from the bustling streets of contemporary London to Japanese-inspired TERMINATOR with this #0 issue. He may have a powerful video games and dangerous worlds perched somewhere between the SALVATION: mind, but he’s in over his head! now and nevermore. THE FINAL BATTLE #1 Collects the Brain Boy run from Dark Horse (OF 12) Presents! J. Michael Straczynski | Pete Woods HALO: ESCALATION #1 A-listers J. Michael Chris Schlerf | Sergio Straczynski and Pete Ariño Woods unite for the Halo, the most celebrated biggest Terminator story video game series of all ever! Hopping between time, joins forces with DC COMICS the future and the past, this sweeping, Dark Horse for a thrilling ESSENTIALS: twelve-issue epic counts down the new ! The COMICS #1 end of the Machine War—but not UNSC flagship | Rags the one fans expect! Everything’s is assigned escort duty Morales at stake, and the fates of Skynet for a diplomatic mission The one and only and John Connor will be told! between the Arbiter and a powerful chieftain Grant Morrison (All- of the tribes—but when a Star ) returns Covenant group attacks, it’s going to take all to Superman, joined the the Spartans have to keep the by sensational artist delegates alive! Rags Morales (Identity First issue of an all-new ongoing Halo series ), to bring you tales of The Man of from Dark Horse by Christopher Schlerf, lead Steel unlike any you’ve ever read! Don’t writer of Halo 4! miss this promotionally priced reprint of this cornerstone issue! : DARTH VADER DC COMICS AND THE CRY OF ESSENTIALS: SHADOWS #1 (OF 5) #1 Tim Siedell | Gabriel | Dave Guzman Gibbons During the Clone Wars, The unforgettable debut a single trooper— chapter that began the left for dead during best-selling and most battle—comes to hate talked-about graphic the Jedi generals who novel of all time is back abandoned him. Years later, he lives on, in a new, promotionally bitter and angry, until hearing tales of a great priced reprint! The saga of The Minutemen warrior. Now, this clone believes he may begins with a bang as the Comedian is have found the he should have been brutally murdered—but who could have following all along . . . Darth Vader! killed him?

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COMICS 3 DEADWORLD: THE X-FILES RESTORATION #1 (OF 4) CLASSICS #1: Gary Reed | Sami HUNDRED PENNY Makkonen PRESS EDITION The classic NEW TITLES Stefan Petrucha | returns in an all Charles Adlard new series from the Check out the first time same creative team the truth was in comics, that brought you the SHIPPING IN with this new edition of acclaimed War of the the first Topps X-Files Dead. The lepers have comic! been slaughtered, the people who escaped the breeder pits head for the safety of New DECEMBER: Washington, and now the zombies are under the control of Donna, the half-human/half- zombie hybrid. With King Zombie dead, she leads the zombies. Or does she? PREMIER

DOCTOR WHO SPECIAL 2013 PUBLISHERS | Jimmy Broxton In this special one- shot story celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, a strange force flings the TARDIS INDESTRUCTIBLE #1 and the Doctor into our Jeff Kline | Javi own universe! Once Garron | Salvi Garcia here, the Doctor encounters a 10-year- THE ILLEGITIMATES #1 Meet Greg Pincus -- the old girl who happens to be a huge fan of planet’s brand-spanking- | Marc the Doctor Who TV show. The Doctor newest . Andreyko | Kevin grapples with being a fictional character and Sharpe One small problem: monsters lurking at the girl’s school on the Greg is neither super, way to coming face-to-face with the actor Jack Steele: World nor particularly heroic. who portrays him, Matt Smith! renowned agent of But, he sure enjoys the Olympus, super-spy, perks that come with debonair, lover of ladies, the job. Can Greg survive in a celebrity- man-slut. While facing off obsessed world that wrongly believes he’s with his arch-nemesis, #1 indestructible? Jeff Kline (: Viktor Dannikor, Steele , G.I. Joe: Renegades) explores | Andy faces his biggest defeat, but who will take Clarke this comedic take on a reluctant hero, his place? Olympus scrambles to find not and contemplates what is required to be The popular sci-fi one, but five newbie agents to fill the void considered “special” in a world where fame strip makes its way to and, unbeknownst to them, they share a can come and go faster than a speeding our shores! Finn and common thread. Can these five strangers bullet. Ramone in two classic embrace their fates and come together to 2000AD stories! save the world? They are The Illegitimates! First is “Money Shots,” And if you called them bastards.... you’d be which sees the two absolutely right! gunsharks crashing the From actor/comedian Taran Killam (SNL, The set of an adult movie in order to carry out Heat, 12 Years a Slave), Eisner and Harvey a hit on a target that may be happier to nominated writer (Torso, them than they expected! Second is “Point , And Bucky), Blanc.” The duo is recruited to take out a narc and artist Kevin Sharpe (, of boss who owns extreme firepower. Is their Super-Heroes) comes an exciting and high- mystery employer out for more than control adventure series that will change your views of Downlode’s heavy-duty killware? on super-spies forever!

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COMICS 8 BATMAN ’66: TRANSFORMERS: THE TV STORIES MONSTROSITY NOVEL IDEAS FINGER | KANE | METZEN | DILLE | ACE Comics pick of the best new graphic VARIOUS RAMONDELLI DC, 160 pages IDW, 112 pages novels and collected editions arriving from December onwards For the first time, DC Comics collects In the early days of the war on Cybertron, Batman stories originally published Optimus Prime puts everything on the between 1948 and 1966 that were adapted line to unify the planet-but not everyone into specific episodes of the classic Batman agrees that this new Prime should be in LOBSTER TV series! charge! Meanwhile, the fallen Decepticon JOHNSON VOL.3: Starring The , The Penguin, The leader, Megatron, begins a journey that will SATAN SMELLS A Riddler and Mr. Freeze (here called “Mr. change everything. RAT Zero”), and featuring the debut of Batgirl, MIGNOLA | ARCUDI | these stories have never been collected ZONJIC | VARIOUS together before. Dark Horse, 144 pages ANGEL & FAITH VOL.5: WHAT YOU Collected from Batman #53, 73, 121, 140, WANT NOT WHAT MASS EFFECT: 169 and 171, and #230, ’s favorite gun-blazing vigilante YOU NEED 346 and 359. FOUNDATION VOL.1 takes justice to the skies aboard a Nazi- GAGE | ISAACS Dark Horse, 136 pages WALTERS | PARKER | filled zeppelin and to the gritty alleyways FRANCIA of Chinatown against an army of monkeys. Collects The Prayer of Neferu, Caput Dark Horse, 96 pages Angel’s quest to restore Giles’s life has Mortuum, Satan Smells a Rat, A Scent entered its last stage. As he and Faith of Lotus #1-#2, and “Tony Masso’s Finest Introducing Rasa, a mysterious agent prepare to carry out their task and resurrect SUPERIOR Hour” from Dark Horse Presents #9. working behind the scenes for the Illusive an old friend, Season 9’s Big Bads enter SPIDER-MAN VOL. 4: the last phase of their own plan to restore NECESSARY EVIL Man and his human-survivalist paramilitary group, Cerberus! First, learn how she balance to earth. SLOTT | STEGMAN | CAMUNCOLI began her life as a covert operative-then, follow her investigations and witness Marvel, 112 pages formative events in the lives of signature AVENGERS characters Urdnot Wrex, Ashley Williams, PREMIER HC VOL.4: INFINITY Back by popular demand, Spider-Man and Kaidan Alenko! 2099 returns! Collects issues #1-4 of the Foundation HICKMAN | YU Marvel, 152 pages But when the future Spidey and the series. Superior Spidey clash, who will be FATALE VOL.4: PRAY FOR RAIN the most superior Spider-Man in the Infinity tie-in! Deep in space, the Avengers ? It may not matter, because the join the Council of Worlds as they declare BRUBAKER | PHILLIPS | BREITWEISER end of the battle brings about a moment war on their cosmic invaders. As the that will alter the world of Spider-Man — Empire is reborn, witness the first Image, 144 pages and the — for years to encounter with the Builders! And when come! But which Spider was responsible VOL.6 betrayal strikes the Galactic Council and Sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, and ritual killers for this shocking change? BURNHAM | the Avengers find themselves prisoners of SCHOENING | SHANER all collide in the strangest and most Then, from the ashes of battle comes war, one last desperate plan is hatched! IDW, 104 pages exciting volume of Fatale yet. the first team-up between the Superior The Builders make unexpected overtures, A strange woman with no memory Spider-Man and the Black Cat. Felicia Ex Nihilo re-enters the picture, and the stumbles into the lives of a struggling Hardy always cared for the Spider more final battle for the Marvel Universe begins. The original Ghostbusters are back in grunge band in mid-’90s Seattle... Is she than the man, but what happens when Galactic empires fall and rise - and as Earth Manhattan, picking up the pieces of their their muse? Will she save them from that man is Otto Octavius? And as an is targeted, the Avengers race back to their interrupted lives. Ray and Egon throw “one-hit wonder” status? Or will she be Osborn we haven’t seen in a while own system. But will they be in time themselves into their research, while a something much worse, especially since returns, Otto celebrates a milestone! Is to stop the from making their decision Janine made when she was there’s a psycho killer on her trail? the world ready for “Dr. Peter Parker” — busting comes back to her, move? Or will ’ mad plans conquer The newest volume of the New York Times or what he plans to do next? and to top all of that a ship roams the all life? Best-Selling series collects #15-19. Collecting Superior Spider-Man #17-21. waters off Long Island. Collecting Avengers (2012) #18-23.

COMICS 9 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 some gems in Illuminations, that you previously might have missed.

HAWKEYE: MY LIFE AS A WEAPON MATT FRACTION | “Fraction. Aja. . Kate . Cars. Guns. And videotape. The breakout star of this summer’s blockbuster Avengers film, Clint Barton - a.k.a. the self-made hero Hawkeye - fights for justice...and good rooftop BBQs! And with ex-Young Avenger Kate Bishop by his side, he’s out to get some downtime from being one of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! (Immortal ) reunite to tell the ongoing tales of the Arrow-Avenger. Barton and Bishop mean double the Hawkeye and double the trouble! Plus: Relive Kate’s first meeting with Clint, as she learns wanting something can be miles away from actually earning it. Collecting Hawkeye (2012) #1-5 and Young Avengers Presents #6.” - Marvel Here’s our look at the upcoming comics and Hawkeye: My Life As A Weapon began life as the new ongoing graphic novels that you won’t want to miss! Hawkeye series, debuting in August 2012, in the wake of the supremely ONES TO WATCH popular Avengers movie. Selling extremely well, the initial issues of Terminator fans rejoice as J. Michael Straczynski is teaming up with Pete some long-neglected business. For the most part, though, they are going Hawkeye ran to multiple printings, garnering widespread praise and Woods for Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle, a 12-issue finale to be encountering a much vaster universe of trouble. Our ambitions are in March of this year, the first collected volume was released. series detailing the fates of John Connor and Skynet. Straczynski had this to to have continue to pursue individual cases, but there are some Juxtaposed to the regular Marvel ‘hero’ titles, Hawkeye reads more say about the series, which flits between the present and the dark future... much bigger things at stake than lost cats -- even extremely cute and like an indie comic, following Clint Barton’s interactions with the “The story that I’ve always wanted to see visualized, and that I think other feisty lost cats.” friends, neighbours and gangs in his apartment block, as well as his fans of the movies have eagerly anticipated, is the battle that set all of the File under spooky-version-of-the-Hardy-Boys. undertakings as a secret Avenger for S.H.I.E.L.D. movies into motion: the assault on Skynet, the Terminators going through If you missed out on DC’s Villains Month 3D covers, fear not, as in Matt Fraction’s command of dialogue and character here is unrivalled, and what happens afterward on both sides of the timeline. So the events February 2014 you can buy a full set of second prints, complete with the presenting a very likeable Barton, down on his luck at times, but ever weave in and out of the tapestry of the Terminator, showing what we Forever Evil #1 3D variant! Yes, DC are offering all 52 Villains Month 3D reliable to do the right thing. He is supported by a great cast of allies know or what we think we know, then turning the camera around to show #1’s plus the aforementioned variant in one great big set. Likely to be a and villains, the conversations with ex-female-Hawkeye, Kate Bishop us that what we thought we knew may not be exactly what happens.” little pricey, contact us if you want to pre-order! being particular highlights, equally endearing and hilarious. Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle is out 4th December from Dark Horse. Meanwhile, Marvel have gone a little suffix-happy in their December Artist David Aja is on top of his game throughout, with some gritty and Also on our radar is Dead Boy Detectives, a new series based on the solicitations. The ‘Inhumanity’ issues now have ‘.INH’ added to thick, yet detailed and naturalistic artwork, enhanced by the muted popular Sandman characters, written by Toby Litt and Mark Buckingham their numbering, while Peter Parker’s time as Spider-Man is celebrated colour palette with more than a hint of purple. with Neil Gaiman’s blessing. Edwin Payne and Charles Rowland are in Spider-Man #700.1 - 700.5. In addition, we also have Avengers #24. A future classic come early, you NEED to read this book. spectral detectives, solving mysteries across space and NOW, introducing ‘All-New Marvel NOW!’, the equivalent of a brand new time, including their own untimely demise. #1 and ideal jumping-on point for new readers. £12.99 inc p&p Toby Litt: “These are all new adventures, but they will be taking Charles This could get a bit confusing, but hopefully the quality of the comics will and Edwin back to some familiar locations, allowing them to conclude continue outweigh the bizarre marketing strategy of the publishers!

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