INSIDE... USAGI YOJIMBO! MULTIVERSITY! BIFF’S BIT: EDUCATING ENGLAND & THE DEATH OF WOLVERINE! Little Nemo: Return To Slumberland #1 CONTENTS: PAGE 03... New Series and One-Shots for August: Dark Horse PAGE 09... New Series and One-Shots for August: Indies PAGE 04... New Series and One-Shots for August: DC Comics PAGE 10... New Series and One-Shots for August: Indies PAGE 05... New Series and One-Shots for August: IDW Publishing PAGE 11... Novel Ideas - Part One PAGE 06... New Series and One-Shots for August: Image Comics PAGE 12... Novel Ideas - Part Two PAGE 07... New Series and One-Shots for August: Marvel Comics PAGE 13... Biff’s Bit: Educating England and The Death Of Wolverine PAGE 08... New Series and One-Shots for August: Indies PAGE 14... 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In the fury of the final bat- As a godless mercenary company darkness. Now able to roam freely, tle, a metal rocket crashes to earth- slogs across Europe in search of the Master’s legion of vampires rule and inside is an enemy that neither sustenance and coin, they encoun- the world-a horrifying police state side could have ever imagined! Wit- ter a demonic force born not of hell, where humans are harvested for ness the final fates of your favorite but of somewhere else entirely! blood. As humanity despairs, Dr. Usagi characters, in this all-new From the creators of Vertigo’s The Ephraim Goodweather and an un- samurai epic with a startling sci- New Deadwardians! likely team of heroes continue their ence fiction twist! Starship Troopers meets Kingdom fight against extinction and hope to From multiple-Eisner award-winning of Heaven! unlock the secret to the Master’s de- creator Stan Sakai, an all new story From New York Times best-selling mise. set in Usagi’s future! author Dan Abnett! 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