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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 / 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 is all of ’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 / 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 / / VAMPIRELLA : MARK BUCKINGHAM / ORPHANS #1 (OF 4) / 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 / 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 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 / 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. : 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: / / 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 / 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). / year! These Spotlight stories build toward the PAUL GULACY Variant Rich Ellis cover! biggest event in Transformers comic history... : 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 / by Rich Ellis! GREG STAPLES lead the G.I. Joe team “The Long Hard Road” undercover and into begins here! In an all- action! The Baroness new adventure from Joe tries to get back into Dredd’s early days as a Cobra’s good graces—and it’s up to Scarlett Mega City-One Judge, to assemble a team to take the villainess writer (and Eagle-award- down! winning 2000 AD Editor) Matt Smith presents The second big launch a tale where “all the young juves, carry the in the new direction of news,” only in this case, the news is delivered G.I. Joe comics! with a lethal blow! Ties in to the first G.I. Joe story arc!

KISS SOLO: THE DEMON #1 (OF 4) CHRIS RYALL / ANGEL MEDINA The Four-Who-Are-One go it alone! Up first, the Demon takes the stage in “Radioactive” – a tale of blood, revenge, fire, and... the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Beloved Kiss artist Angel Medina returns to the fold to tell this explosive tale! NEW TITLES SHIPPING IN MARCH COMICS 4 NEW TITLES SHIPPING IN MARCH EAST OF WEST #1 LOST VEGAS #1 (of 4) SAVAGE / JIM McCANN / JANET LEE SKULLKICKERS #1 NICK DRAGOTTA The - JIM ZUB / EDWIN HUANG “Out Of The Wasteland” winning team of Jim Savage Skullkickers: a The things that divide McCann and Janet modern reinterpretation us are stronger than Lee reunite to create that gets back to the the things that unite us. a universe filled with roots of these timeless A Sci-Fi Western set in intrigue as one gambler- characters. It’s a bold new a dystopian America turned-slave has 24 direction, a continuing where all hope for the hours to go all in and pull story and a newly added future rests in the Four off the greatest heist the adjective! Our twentieth Horsemen of the Apocalypse…who just universe has seen. issue is brand a new #1! happen to be trying to kill the President of Welcome to Lost Vegas! the United States. Aboard this luxurious casino-filled traveling One of the most exciting new books of the space-station you will find the highest stakes WALKING DEAD: year, this is East Of West, a brand new, games from every corner of every planet, THE GOVERNOR ongoing, monthly comic from the award- unheard-of winnings, and the greatest SPECIAL winning team of Marvel’s FF, Jonathan attractions anywhere!* / Hickman and Nick Dragotta. *the fine print- those who bet it all and lose / must work it off as indentured servants to the casino. Escape is not possible. No one is This special Walking FIVE GHOSTS: exempt from these rules. Dead issue contains a THE HAUNTING OF reprint of The Walking FABIAN GRAY #1 (OF 5) Dead 27, featuring the FRANK J. BARBIERE / first appearance of The CHRIS MOONEYHAM SEX #1 (MR) Governor, as well as the Governor origin A bold new era of pulp / story that first appeared in the CBLDF Liberty adventure comics PIOTR KOWALSKI Annual 2012. begins here! Finally, a good reason Find out the origins of the villain from The After a tragic encounter for you come in the Walking Dead Season 3! with an artifact known comicbook store — to as “The Dreamstone,” buy Sex! infamous treasure hunter Fabian Gray was Simon Cooke has retired possessed by five literary ghosts and has from his own “alternative been granted access to their unique abilities. lifestyle” and returned to Join writer Frank J. Barbiere and artist Chris the city he’d previously Mooneyham for the most exciting debut sworn to protect. Now he’s just another of 2013 as they introduce you to a unique average citizen — or is he? The term “adult” world full of action, black magic, exotic has never been so appropriate as it is when it locales, and literary allusion! applies to Sex.

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COMICS 5 NEW TITLES SHIPPING IN MARCH WOLVERINE #1 #1 PAUL CORNELL / (OF 10) It’s hunting season! / BRYAN HITCH The best there is at what he does gets an all-new For years the heroes on-going! Pay attention of the Marvel Universe very closely: there’s a have lived in fear that mystery here that even the artificial intelligence Wolverine hasn’t sniffed known as Ultron would out yet. one day evolve to fulfill its desire to wipe out all When Wolverine finds himself the bargaining organic life and take over the Earth -- that day chip in a hostage situation, he must make has arrived. a decision to save a little boy that will follow him forever... literally! How can a berserker This massive 10-part Marvel Universe- fight what he can’t see? And how far will spanning event is brought to you by Eisner he go to assert his humanity in the face of award-winning writer Brian Michael Bendis the Unknown? Find out when superstars and comics legend Bryan Hitch. Paul Cornell (Captain Britain and MI:13, Doctor Who, Action Comics) and Alan Davis GUARDIANS OF THE (Avengers, Clandestine, Excalibur, Uncanny GALAXY #1 X-Men) take on the Wolverine! BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS / STEVE MCNIVEN There’s a new rule in the ULTIMATE COMICS galaxy: No one touches WOLVERINE #1 (OF 4) Earth! No one!! Why has / Earth become the most RAMON ROSANAS important planet in the Jimmy Hudson’s quest Galaxy? That’s what the to discover the answers Guardians of the Galaxy about his past begins are going to find out!! here! Join the brightest stars in the Marvel What mission was universe: Star Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket Wolverine on that led to Raccoon, Groot and - wait for it - Iron- the birth of Jimmy? Man, as they embark upon one of the A story that will rock the Ultimate Universe’s most explosive and eye-opening chapters family tree forever! of Marvel NOW! These galactic Avengers are going to discover secrets that will rattle Marvel readers for years to come! Why wait for the movie? It all starts here! X-TERMINATION #1 DAVID LAPHAM / MARJORIE LIU / MONSTERS, INC.: / DAVID LOPEZ THE PERFECT DATE #1 The X-Termination event ALESSANDRO FERRARI / ANNA MERLI / starts here! ANDREA GREPPI / Joining together the PAOLO CAMPINOTI / teams from Astonishing MICHELA FRARE / X-Men, Age Of PACO DESIATO Apocalypse and X-Treme An all-new Monsters, Inc. X-Men, and spinning out tale! of the pages of Uncanny X-Force. Mike forgets a special Age Of Apocalypse Nightcrawler just wants to date he promised his girlfriend, Celia, and get home... and he doesn’t care if he takes out she’s furious with him. our world to get there. Can Mike get his relationship off the rocks Wolverine versus Nightcrawler! with a little help from his pal Sulley?

COMICS 6 VOL. 1: BELIEVE LAST DAY IN NOVEL IDEAS PREMIERE HC VIETNAM: / A MEMORY HC ACE Comics pick of the best new graphic novels and WILL EISNER collected editions arriving from March onwards Marvel, 112 Pages Dark Horse, 80 Pages

Tony Stark is Iron Man — technological Last Day in Vietnam recounts Will Eisner’s UNCANNY visionary, wealthy playboy, unparalleled own experiences with soldiers engaged not AVENGERS VOL. 1: THIEF OF THIEVES engineer and armored Avenger. But NOW!, only in the daily hostilities of war but also THE RED SHADOW VOL. 2 his greatest invention has just become his in larger, more personal combat. Some of greatest mistake: The lethal techno-virus the stories in this novel are comical, some PREMIERE HC ROBERT KIRKMAN / / JAMES ASMUS / is out in the wild! heartrending, some frightening, yet all JOHN CASSADAY / SHAWN MARTINBROUGH Tony’s hunt for the rogue Extremis Units display the incredible insight into humanity / FELIX SERRANO takes him to New Camelot, where he clashes characteristic of Eisner’s entire oeuvre. Marvel, 136 Pages Image, 128 Pages with the mech-knights called the Circle and Introduction by Matt Fration! dogfights the Russian Black Exoskeleton Printed with special sepia ink and in Academy; to Colombia, where he battles old The Marvel Universe’s greatest era starts Conrad Paulson lives a secret double life as hardcover for the first time. foes Vibro, Firebrand and the Living Laser; Released to coincide with Will Eisner NOW! In the wake of Professor X’s funeral, master thief Redmond. There is nothing he and to the ancient catacombs of Paris, where creates a new Avengers can’t steal, nothing he can’t have… except Week—the annual celebration of Eisner’s absolute horror awaits — and Tony may have life and work. unit comprised of Avengers and X-Men, for the life he left behind. But when his big to betray an old friend! humans and mutants working together. heist doesn’t go as planned… the aftermath But the Red Skull has returned — straight shows that every action has an equal – and Introducing Iron Man’s stealth armor, heavy- out of the 1940s — and he wants to equally violent – reaction. duty battle-suit and space armor as Tony creates new suits to tackle new challenges! destroy all mutants! What gruesome Collects Thief Of Thieves #8-13. weapon has given the him dangerous If he wants to save the world from his own new powers? deadly nano-virus, Iron Man must act fast — and Tony Stark must build faster! Rogue and face off against the Red Skull’s S-Men; Collects Iron Man (2012) #1-5. MARVEL NOW! Wolverine and Captain America OMNIBUS HC investigate the worldwide mutant VARIOUS assassination epidemic; and Havok and battle the spreading Marvel, 688 Pages influence of Honest John, the Living KICK-ASS 2 CYBER FORCE: Propaganda! And when Avenger defects, / The future is now…Marvel NOW! the rest must face the terrible might of the JOHN ROMITA JR. REBIRTH VOL. 1 Get in on the ground floor as the Marvel Omega Skull! Uncanny Avengers Assemble! IDW, 208 Pages / MATT HAWKINS / Universe is revitalized for a new and exciting Collects Uncanny Avengers #1-5. KHOI PHAM / era of adventure! David Lizewski has taken a horrifying and SUNNY GHO Collects Uncanny Avengers #1, Marvel exhilarating plunge. Armed with minimal Image, 160 Pages Now: Point One, A+X #1, (2012) combat training and a pair of batons, he #1, Iron Man (2012) #1, All-New X-Men donned a mask and set out to become a real #1, (2012) #1, Thor: God super hero, Kick-Ass. And he succeeded. Collecting the return of Top Cow’s top-selling series! Of Thunder #1, X-Men Legacy (2012) #1, Wildly. Kick-Ass and ’tween black belt Hit-Girl Captain America (2012) #1, Indestructible TRANSFORMERS: took on the Mafia — and won. The idea went Carin Taylor, codenamed Velocity, has MORE THAN MEETS #1, Ff (2012) #1, Avengers (2012) viral. Suddenly, it became fashionable to put escaped from the CDI controlled Millennium THE EYE VOL. 3 #1, Thunderbolts (2012) #1, Avengers on a costume. Everyone wanted to be a super City and is desperately trying to find the one Arena #1, And X-Force #1, New JAMES ROBERTS / hero. The next logical step for Kick-Ass? Join man she believes can help her prevent the ALEX MILNE / VARIOUS Avengers (2013) #1, Superior Spider-Man a super-hero team. But Kick-Ass’ former end of the world. When she runs a group of IDW, 148 Pages #1, Savage Wolverine #1, ally, Red Mist, thinks heroes are passé. Red other CDI escapees, will they help her... or (2013) #1, Uncanny X-Men (2013) #1, Mist will be the world’s most notorious super turn their backs? Secret Avengers (2013) #1, Nova (2013) The crew of the Lost Light finally reach Crystal villain. When he targets Kick-Ass’ family, Top Cow founder Marc Silvestri (The #1, Guardians Of The Galaxy (2013) #1, City, home to the mysterious Circle of Light, can Kick-Ass stop Red Mist and his team Darkness, Incredible Hulk) returns to his first Red She-Hulk #58, Fearless as the origins of the Knights of Cybertron are of villains? And when the conflict becomes Image series to bring you a contemporary re- #1, #646, Morbius: revealed. In “Shadowplay” follow along as a massive-scale riot in Times Square, can imagining rooted in cutting-edge, real world The Living Vampire #1, Uncanny X-Force Rewind begins telling his crew mates a pre- Kick-Ass survive being a hero? technology! (2013) #1, Wolverine (2013) #1, Avengers war Cybertron story involving Orion Pax! Collects Kick-Ass 2 #1-7. Collects Cyber Force #1-5. Assemble #9 and more!

COMICS 7 FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 1: NEW DEPARTURE, VOL. 2: NEW ARRIVALS EARTH 2 VOL. 1: CITY OF OWLS HC / THE GATHERING HC / NOVEL / / / NICOLA SCOTT / RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE Marvel, 120 Pages DC, 160 Pages DC, 208 Pages

When Reed and Sue decide the family Who are the heroes of Earth 2? When the After a series of deadly discoveries, Bruce IDEAS needs to relax, they take Ben, Johnny Batman, Wonder Woman and of Wayne has learned that the Court of Owls ACE Comics pick and the kids on a year-long vacation — Earth 2 fall in battle, it’s up to a new breed is real — and a deadly threat out to control through all of infinite time and space! And of heroes to come together to combat the Gotham City! of the best new in the absence of Marvel’s First Family, a returning evil of Apokolips! Unleashing their deadly assassins known as graphic novels and handpicked substitute FF — Ant-Man, Collects issues #1-6 of the red-hot DC the Talons, Batman must stop the insidious , She-Hulk and the new Ms. Thing Comics - The New 52 series! Court of Owls before they claim the city for collected editions — stand ready to guard the Earth... for the their own. arriving from four minutes the Fantastic Four will be gone. In doing so, The Dark Knight will uncover What could possibly go wrong? dark secrets — not just about the city he’s March Find out NOW!, as Reed Richards struggles IT GIRL & ATOMICS sworn to protect, but about the history of the to hide his true motivations, someone starts onwards ROUND ONE: Wayne family. having second thoughts (already?), a classic DARK STREETS, Collects issues #8-12 of Batman and Fantastic Four super villain takes aim at the SNAP CITY Batman Annual #1. new FF, and the reacts JAMIE S. RICH / to their mentors’ replacements. MIKE NORTON / Collects Fantastic Four (2012) #1-3, FF CHYNNA CLUGSTON (2012) #1-2 and material from Marvel Now! Image, 208 Pages Point One #1. Snap City is under new guardianship, but no sooner has It Girl decided that the streets are hers to protect then she and AVENGERS MARVEL’S the other Atomics become embroiled in IRON MAN 3 VS. X-MEN an inter-dimensional revenge plot. All-new PRELUDE VARIOUS adventures of Michael Allred ‘s kookiest / creations, with art from the Eisner-winning Marvel, 304 Pages WILL PILGRIM / RAMON ROSANOS / team behind Battlepug. STEVE KURTH Collects It Girl & The Atomics #1-6. Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and the Children of DOCTOR WHO VOL. 1 Marvel, 104 Pages the Atom go to war in the ultimate super-hero ANDY DIGGLE / showdown! BRANDON SEIFER / The world-destroying Phoenix Force is MARK BUCKINGHAM / The Marvel Cinematic Universe returns! back — and while the Avengers are intent PHILIP BOND First, it’s the comics adaptation of the on stopping it, Cyclops and his X-Men have IDW, 104 Pages blockbuster film ! Why is the U.S. other ideas. government going after Iron Man? Which THE MASSIVE VOL. 1: To Captain America, the Phoenix threatens mysterious figure from Tony’s past returns — BLACK PACIFIC The Doctor is back! doom. To Cyclops, it could mean salvation. and what lethal vendetta is he carrying? With BRIAN WOOD / New York Times bestselling writer Andy Hammer drones attacking the Stark Expo KRISTIAN DONALDSON Marvel’s two greatest leaders wage war, Diggle joins Eisner Award-winning artist / GARRY BROWN and Tony’s best friend under enemy control, with the Phoenix’s chosen host — Hope Mark Buckingham as a shadow being Dark Horse, 176 Pages how can Iron Man prevail? Summers — caught in the middle. How far emerges from a machine used to view are both sides willing to go? Then, it’s a new story leading directly into alternate realities, stealing time from those the upcoming Iron Man 3! What mysterious In this first volume of Brian Wood’s new, The answer lies in a battle so big no one world he touches in order to become “real.” project has Tony Stark been developing since sprawling postapocalyptic epic, follow could contain it…and a shocking ending that Can the Doctor save the Hypothetical his alliance with S.H.I.E.L.D.? When Tony the crew of the Kapital from the flooded neither team could have seen coming! Gentleman’s latest victim? tasks Rhodey with a mission of his own, War remnants of Hong Kong to Unalaska, with Marvel’s top writers and artists present a Then, writer Brandon Seifert and artist Machine faces his biggest test as a hero — stops in Antarctica and Mogadishu, as post- space-faring, world-changing epic — the Philip Bond collaborate on a story. When while Iron Man fights the battle of New York Crash ethics and economics are explored culmination of a decade’s worth of incredible the Doctor and Rory, on a boys’ night out alongside Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! across a broken world. event storytelling. gone wrong, leave Amy to face the Silence Collects Marvel’s Iron Man 2 Adaptation #1-2 Collects The Massive #1-6 and three eight Collects Avengers Vs. X-Men #0-12 and on her own! and Marvel’s Iron Man 3 Prelude #1-2. page stories from Dark Horse Presents. material from Point One #1. Collects issues #1-4 of the new series!

COMICS 8 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.

PREACHER VOL. 1: GONE TO TEXAS / “One of the most celebrated comics titles of the late 1990s, PREACHER is a modern American epic of life, death, love and redemption also packed with sex, booze, blood and bullets - not to mention angels, demons, God, vampires and deviants of all stripes. At first glance, the Reverend Jesse Custer doesn’t look like anyone special- just another small-town minister slowly losing his flock and his faith. But he’s about to come face-to-face with proof that God does indeed exist. Merging with a bizarre spiritual force called We’re often asked to recommend something fresh for Genesis, Jesse now possesses the power of “the Word,” an ability to make people do whatever he utters. He begins a violent and riotous our customers to read at ACE Comics, so we’ve decided journey across the country in search of answers from the elusive deity.” to throw a few ideas in here... - DC Vertigo STAFF PICKS Created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, Preacher is based around Reverend Jesse Custer, who becomes bonded to a The Walking Dead has done for the Zombie genre Volume 17: ‘Something To Fear’ arrived last supernatural being called Genesis, the product of a coupling between what Harry Potter did for wizards and what Fifty December. We now have a dedicated page at an angel and a demon, acquiring immense power in the process. He Shades Of Grey did for ...erm, fluffy handcuffs. acecomics.co.uk/the-walking-dead-store, listing travels across the US looking for an absent God, encountering unique and memorable characters along the way, from a hard-drinking Irish It’s with no surprise that over the Christmas the available collection for those of you that Vampire and an extremely disfigured rock-star (the unmistakeable period, The Walking Dead has continued to be need to plug some gaps, or indeed for those ‘Arseface’) to the Angel Of Death The Grail, an organisation sworn to the best-selling series at ACE that want to pick up a couple and discover protect the Holy bloodline. what the rather large fuss is all about. ‘Gone To Texas’ fills the backstory and sets the scene, with Jesse Comics. The zombie apocalypse heading out, keen to avoid the law following an unfortunate incident tale has morphed into a highly successful TV The current crop of Marvel NOW! titles are with his church and congregation. show that is gaining more viewers with each appearing in our Top Ten Sellers lists every week, Beautifully illustrated, the story, if a little violent, is intelligent, provoking new series and Season 3 is due to return in and the new Wolverine series landing in March and smattered with wit, sharp dialogue and charaterization. Chuck in Glenn Fabry’s unbelieveable cover art and it’s a win! February. As good as the TV show is (and it looks set to follow that trend. Alternately, Buy it. Then buy volumes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9! is!), the original comic is equally as engaging, if many of the Marvel relaunches will be beginning not more so. for those that of you that aren’t to show their faces graphic-novel-collection- £13.49 picking up the regular comic book, the graphic wise from March onwards, so if you missed ‘em novels are the alternative reading option and first time, you can still catch up!

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SUPERIOR READ? However, I digress. Amazing Spider- hadn’t quite realised what Peter Parker Motto for the month , is ‘donate a man #700 is in fact a class act. A well represented. I am in for the ride as Dan graphic novel’, to your local Dentist and Well it’s happened. Amazing Spider-man written , perfectly paced finale. The art, examines personalities and great power or Doctors surgery. I have been thanked is finished, for the moment.Death threats not to my taste, but liked by many was and responsibilty. Dan Slott reminds by my Dentist and I am impressed to say have been made to Dan Slott for having by . The letters page, me a bit of who always fully that the books after 5 months are still ‘killed’ Peter Parker. Others are refusing extended , included some great letters explores characters and motivations, there, being read by many kids, diverting to buy the new title, Superior Spider- and answers by Stan Lee. There was a seeing new twists where you would not their minds from the drilling by thrilling. man in protest. The Independent ran a cover gallery of all 700 issues, plus more. expect to see one. That just leaves me to say on behalf of all feature on the last issue, death always This was truly a great read and a great Dan has been lucky to be in charge of at ACE Colchester, Biff, Tina, Kerrie, Marc, attracts the nationals. This brought in a comic. the writing of Amazing Spider-man for so Guy, Evil Stu, Victoria, Colin, Ed, Glenn, new wave of people, the unknowledgeable My only gripe is with the numbering and long. He really has a feel for the character Matt and of course Joe and Bryony, Lea investing public which forced up prices relaunch which has diminished the follow and flowing from this are great stories. in Southend, Richard and Guy in Richmond, immediately. on sales. Many have not put in for Superior Ivor, Scott, Scott, Lorna, Stuart, Daren Superior Spider-Man #1 is going to a This ‘Unknowledgeables’, as I call them, Spider-Man, and they will regret this. and Bennie in Glasgow... second printing and I expect a third also were out in droves to buy the last Having now read issue one I am impressed printing as initial orders were so low. issue of the Dandy back in the latter part at how Dan Slott has a real handle on Grab a copy of whatever printing you can of 2012. Thinking that the last issue would what the essence of Spider-Man is all get or afford and enjoy a great comic somehow be worth money, similar to the about. He may have killed off Peter Parker and art. This is why I still read and enjoy ...READ MORE value of issue one! They cannot grasp (maybe) but before his resurrection we comics. that the reason for the comic folding are going to be fully entertained by Otto was the shoddy quality of the writing and Octavius coming to terms with the purity Of all the Marvel Now relaunches this is art plus there are now 1,000s of this last of spirit that was Peter Parker and by his the only one that has lit the shelves up COMICS!! shoddy issue out there, unlike the maybe slightly more savage actions as Spider- and is truly a new direction, if only for a 10 copies of that first classic issue. man. Until I read Superior issue one I short while.

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