JANUARY 2013: New Titles Staff Picks Page 2-6 Page 9 Novel Ideas Biff’s Bit Page 7-8 Page 10 History Books COMICS Page 9 NEW TITLES SHIPPING IN MARCH AME-COMI GIRLS #1 JUSTIN GRAY / JIMMY PALMIOTTI Art and cover by EDUARDO FRANCISCO ALIENS VS PARKER #1 BIONIC MAN All-new digital adventures PAUL SCHEER / in print for the first time! NICK GIOVANNETTI / ANNUAL #1 MANUEL BRACCHI SCOTT BEATTY / The new, monthly Ame- Set in the not so distant DIETRICH SMITH Comi ongoing series future, a group of Space- Three words: Venus begins here! Ex employees spend Death Probe. The Ame-Comi Girls their days doing what When a clandestine team up for the final showdown with Brainiac! they always do: getting Chinese spacecraft Starring Wonder Woman, Power Girl, sent all over the universe crash lands north of Supergirl, Batgirl, Robin, Steel and The Flash! to mindlessly load and Alaska, its a race against unload cargo bays. In the hierarchy of cool time between China and space jobs, these guys are on the bottom the United States–each anxious to salvage CONSTANTINE #1 rung. Their only relief is playing a massive valuable high-tech secrets–to hunt down an ROBERT VENDITTI / multi-player online game and seeing if there’s errant rover built to survive the greenhouse RENATO GUEDES anything good to eat in the mess hall. hell of the Venusian atmosphere! OSI Agent The star of Justice That is, until, they have to deliver a package Steve Austin tests the limits of his bionics League Dark is marked “classified” to a planet more dangerous as he hunts down an independent-minded unleashed in his all-new than they’ve ever faced before... machine determined to complete its mission ongoing series! no matter where it has landed! Liar, cheat, manipulator... ICE AGE THE HIDDEN John Constantine is all of MARK WAID’S TREASURE ONE SHOT these, and yet he uses GREEN HORNET #1 CALEB MONROE / these skills and more to ANDY HIRSCH MARK WAID / DANIEL INDRO protect the world from the darkest corners of When Crash and Eddie The Hornet faces his most the DC Universe. hear about a haunted dangerous enemy ever– What Constantine learns in this first issue will treasure in a place called an egotistical, arrogant shake the very foundations of the New 52… Bone Valley, they can’t Britt Reid! In his alter-ego and only he knows how to deal with it! get the idea out of their as a powerful newspaper heads! After convincing publisher, the Hornet has Peaches and Sid to join lost control, becoming a TIME WARP #1 them on their journey, they set off to become social crusader far too DAN ABNETT / MATT KINDT treasure hunters…but what surprise awaits sure of himself and of his judgment. But when / DAMON LINDELOF / them where “X” marks the spot? A brand-new he finally goes too far, an innocent man pays PETER MILLIGAN / story featuring popular characters from the a terrible price–and the legend of the Green TOBY LITT / RAY FAWKES / summer smash hit Ice Age: Continental Drift! Hornet begins its cataclysmic collapse! SIMON SPURRIER / TOM KING / GAIL SIMONE / VAMPIRELLA : MARK BUCKINGHAM / ORPHANS #1 (OF 4) JEFF LEMIRE / M.K. PERKER PETER FACINELLI / NUBLOOD ONE SHOT / VICTOR SANTOS / MICHAEL ALAN NELSON / MARK RAHNER / JORGE CORONA / SCOTT GODLEWSKI CEZAR RAZEK RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE / Adopted in secret by Vampirella continues to TOM FOWLER / I.N.J. CULBARD and others a specialized U.S. thrash her way through Let’s do the time warp again! It’s time for intelligence agency, six vampire pop culture, as another fantastic Vertigo anthology filled orphans spend the next she visits a sultry, trashy with spectacular sci-fi stories. Robots, deep decade of their lives Southern town where the space and lots of time travel twists by a bevy under the foster care vampires are out of the of comic greats and the up-and-coming stars of “The Council,” living closet and a synthetic of tomorrow. Damon Lindelof and Jeff Lemire at a training facility called “The Playground” blood substitute is getting a test-run. In fact, it bring us a blast from DC’s past, plus another as they’re molded into the next generation tastes better than the real thing. It could spell installment of the “Dead Boy Detectives” from of superspies. But now that they’ve been the end of the vampirism’s murder and misery Toby Litt, Buckingham and Victor Santos, unleashed on the real world, will their fictional for good, and a chance for Vampi and Criswell Matt Kindt presents a stirring story of man vs. lives come crashing down around them? to settle down. If nothing goes horribly wrong. machine—and so much more! COMICS 2 DRAGON AGE: UNTIL WE SLEEP #1 DAVID GAIDER / ALEXANDER FREED / CHAD HARDIN / MICHAEL ATIYEH NEW TITLES Allied with the world’s most feared warrior race–the qunari–the pirate Isabela, and the rogue Varric, King SHIPPING Alistair brings battle royale to the evil mage responsible for his father’s disappearance! MISTER X: IN MARCH HARD CANDY DEAN MOTTER Someone has abducted SLEDGEHAMMER 44 #1 the sole heir to the MIKE MIGNOLA / pharmaceutical company JOHN ARCUDI / that transformed the City JASON LATOUR / of Dreams into the City of DAVE STEWART Nightmares. Mister X is August 1944: a man hired to find her… alive. in a suit of iron armor His payment–all the drops from an American brain candy he could ever need. Will he trade warplane onto a French his principles for this tasty payout, or stay on battlefield, where he the path to saving Radiant City?! attempts to fight his way through an army of Nazis and the massive war machine they keep protected in an armory. STAR WARS: LEGACY PRISONER OF THE FLOATING WORLD #1 B.P.R.D.: VAMPIRE #1 CORINNA BECHKO / MIKE MIGNOLA / GABRIEL HARDMAN / FÁBIO MOON / GABRIEL BÁ RACHELLE ROSENBERG / DAVE STEWART Despite her famous After the horrific events of heritage, Ania Solo is B.P.R.D.: 1948, we follow just a girl trying to make one doomed agent’s her way in a galaxy quest for revenge against gone bad. But it all gets a clan of vampires and worse when she comes into possession of a their Gorgon-eyed queen lightsaber and an Imperial communications Hecate. droid–and discovers she has been targeted for death! BUDDY COPS NATE COSBY / EVAN SHANER WILD ROVER Explosions! Monsters! FEATURING beer! Dark Horse THE SACRIFICE proudly(ish) presents MICHAEL AVON OEMING / Buddy Cops, the classic VICTOR SANTOS tale of a demoted space Like his mother before cop and a 1970s android him, Shane’s an alcoholic. that hate each other But his family curse goes and beat up evil things. deeper than that–Shane Get ready to enjoy the laugh-inducing odd needs to overcome the couple of Uranus and T.A.Z.E.R. as they take black magic at the heart on gigantic orangutan and vegetation beasts of his addiction by killing a liquor demon if he while debating the sexualization of toasters! hopes to reclaim his soul. Plus a fantasy short Monsterswat! written by Oeming with art from Victor Santos! COMICS 3 DOCTOR WHO MYSTERY SOCIETY MEMORIAL: TRANSFORMERS: TRANSFORMERS CLASSICS #1 SPECIAL 2013 IMAGINARY FIENDS #1 FALL OF CYBERTRON SPOTLIGHT: RICHARD STARKINGS / STEVE NILES / CHRIS ROBERSON / JOHN BARBER / BUMBLEBEE JOHN CARNELL / ANDREW RITCHIE RICH ELLIS DHEERAJ VERMA JOHN BARBER / DAVID DAZA DOUGIE BRAITHWAITE / The Mystery Society Return to the world of Rise Of The Dinobots! / LIVIO RAMONDELLI ANDY LANNING / OTHERS returns! Our outlandish Memorial in “Imaginary Searching for a missing Escape From Earth! Doctor Who Classics is heroes plumb the depths Fiends,” an all new teammate, Grimlock Before Cybertron was back! This new series of the ocean to carry out 3 issue series! The leads his team deep into reborn—Bumblebee presents strips never an exchange with an fantasies and fears that Shockwave’s citadel— lead the Autobots on before reprinted, and eccentric collector who seem so real to children and they’ll pay for their Earth. In this untold in color for the very isn’t what he seems. are often forgotten in trespass with their lives! tale, he must take the first time! In this inaugural issue, enjoy two What horrors await Nick Mystery, Anastasia, adulthood. But after the events of the first It’s the origin of the Dinobots as you’ve never reigns of command... and he’s got hundreds complete stories featuring the Seventh Doctor, Secret Skull and the rest of the team at the Memorial miniseries, forgotten memories seen it before! of rogue Decepticons standing between him “Time and Tide” and “Follow That TARDIS!” by bottom of the sea? are being recovered all over the world. Can Never before released in print! Ties in with the and respect! such luminaries as Richard Starkings, Andy those lost fears and fantasies be far behind? hit Fall Of Cybertron video game—and IDW’s See how Bumblebee first rose to power, even Lanning, and Dougie Braithwaite! Doctor Who Brought to you by Chris Roberson (Edison G.I. JOE: Transformers Prime: Rage Of The Dinobots as his control slips in Robots In Disguise! The Classics is back! Rex, iZombie), Rich Ellis (Stars Below, SPECIAL MISSIONS #1 series! first Transformers to be set on Earth in over a Twilight Zone), and Grace Allison (Wander). CHUCK DIXON / year! These Spotlight stories build toward the PAUL GULACY Variant Rich Ellis cover! biggest event in Transformers comic history... JUDGE DREDD: A new beginning! The New York Times best-selling author and coming in 2013! YEAR ONE #1 Eisner-nominated creator of iZombie, Chris MATT SMITH / legendary team of Chuck Dixon and Paul Gulacy Roberson, is back with a new series, with art SIMON COLEBY / by Rich Ellis! GREG STAPLES lead the G.I.