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INSIDE... USAGI ! MULTIVERSITY! BIFF’S BIT: EDUCATING ENGLAND & THE DEATH OF ! 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: PAGE 12... Novel Ideas - Part Two

PAGE 07... New Series and One-Shots for August: PAGE 13... Biff’s Bit: Educating England and The Death Of Wolverine

PAGE 08... New Series and One-Shots for August: Indies PAGE 14... Top 10 Graphic Novels: April’s Bestselling Books

acecomics.co.uk 02 DARK HORSE NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR AUGUST POP #1 SUNDOWN- DARK HORSE PRESENTS ERS #1 Curt Pires, Jason 2014 #1 Copland, Dylan Tim Seeley, Todd Jim Terry, Chris , Various Brunner Geof Darrow and ’s Big Guy and What if the world’s pop stars and Faster than lightning! Stronger than Rusty the Boy Robot returns in this new vol- celebrities were literally products, steel! Crazier than an outhouse rat? ume of the award-winning, long-running an- grown by the world’s wealthiest (and Enter the Sundowners-sworn to pro- thology powerhouse Dark Horse Presents! most depraved) minds-and one of tect humanity from interdimensional Also in the 48-page tome of awesome com- them escaped? invaders! But is the threat real, or is ics: and Steve Parkhouse’s As unique as it is entertaining, POP it all in their heads? Resident , Brendan McCarthy’s Dream is a white-knuckled thrill ride through Gang, , Justin Gray, and the marketing-mastered, technolog- o From Tim Seeley (Revival, Hack/ Andy Kuhn’s Wrestling with Demons, Da- ically tethered tragicomedy we call Slash, The Occultist), a dark look at mon Gentry and Aaron Conley’s Sabertooth life. the thin line between heroism and insanity! Swordsman, and David Mack’s Kabuki! Smart and savage! Sexy and scath- The award-winning series returns at a ing! In Shops: 27/08/2014 new price! In Shops: 27/08/2014 In Shops: 20/08/2014

STRAIN H COVER STAR H NIGHT USAGI ETERNAL #1 YOJIMBO , SENSO #1 DARK AGES , Stan Sakai #1 E.M. Gist , I. N. Twenty years in his future, Miyamoto J. Culbard It’s been two years since the Mas- Usagi fights as a general for Lord ter’s plan succeeded and a near Noriyuki, against the treacherous The medieval world is locked in war. coated the world in Lord Hikiji. 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--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! The final chapter in Trilo- Celebrating Usagi’s 30th anniver- In Shops: 13/08/2014 gy, by and novel- sary! ist Chuck Hogan, begins here! In Shops: 06/08/2014 In Shops: 20/08/2014 03 ESSENTIALS: NEW SERIES DARK DC AND ONE-SHOTS FOR AUGUST KNIGHT RETURNS - SPECIAL ED #1 Frank Miller, SMALLVILLE - SEASON 11: Batman’s 75th anniversary is here, CHAOS #1 and to celebrate, DC Entertainment Bryan Q. Miller, is offering a series of promotion- Agustin Padilla, ally priced specials that capture the Daniel HDR, Cat Staggs Dark Knight’s greatest moments! Frank Miller’s all-time classic ad- When Lex Luthor attempts to invest venture kicks things off, with this ex- in Ted Kord’s new experiments, the cerpt from the original Dark Knight scientists working on the supercol- Returns #1! lider are skeptical. But Lois Lane is In Shops: 06/08/2014 at the Antarctic compound to cover scientific achievement, not cor- porate espionage, so it’s not until SENSATION things go massively awry that her COMICS fiancé gets sucked into the action! FEATURING 13/08/2014 WONDER In Shops: WOMAN #1 , Amanda Deibert, Ethan Van Scriver, Cat Staggs Diana Prince: Amazon , am- bassador to Man’s world, or cham- pion of women in need? All of the MULTIVERSITY #1 above! This digital-first anthology series will bring some of comics’ , Ivan Reis, Joe Prado greatest talents to Themyscira, and The biggest adventure in DC’s history is here! Comprising six complete adventures - each set heroes from across the Multiverse to face it - in- give them leave to explore Diana, Join visionary writer Grant Morrison, today’s in a different parallel universe - plus a two-part cluding Captain Carrot, like you’ve never seen her world - and ours! most talented artists, and a cast of unforget- framing story and a comprehensive guidebook him before! Gail Simone and Ethan Van Sciver table characters from 52 alternative Earths of to the many worlds of the Multiverse, The Multi- But even with a multitude of alternate worlds to kick things off when Oracle calls for the known DC Multiverse! Prepare to meet the versity is more than just a multipart comic-book choose from, where every variation is possible, help after the entire Bat-Family gets Vampire League of Earth-43, the Justice Riders series. It’s a cosmos spanning, soul-shaking ex- can anyone hope to prevail against the onslaught sidelined. But when of Earth-18, Superdemon, Doc Fate, the super- perience that puts you on the frontline in the Bat- of ultimate evil and undying hatred - in the un- steps into the breach, Gotham City’s sons of and Batman, the rampaging tle for All Creation against the demonic destroy- stoppable form of a one-time cosmic defender criminals get the surprise of their Retaliators of Earth-8, the Atomic Knights of Jus- ers known as the Gentry! with unimaginable powers?! Join us, if you dare, lives! Then, Amanda Deibert and tice, Dino-Cop, Sister Miracle, Lady Quark, the In issue #1, pencilled by superstar artist Ivan for the beginning of The Multiversity! Cat Staggs take Diana to school, legion of Sivanas, the Nazi New Reichsmen of Reis (Aquaman, ), President Su- In Shops: 20/08/2014 where she meets her biggest fan! Earth-10 and the latest, greatest Super Hero of perman of Earth-23 uncovers a threat to all Real- In Shops: 20/08/2014 Earth-Prime: you! ity so apocalyptic it will take a team of incredible 04 JUDGE : ANDERSON - PSI DIVISION #1 Matthew J. Smith, Carl Critchlow, Matt Haley In an all-new adventure from Cassandra Anderson’s LITTLE NEMO: early days in the Mega-City One Psi-Division, writer Matt RETURN TO Smith and artist Carl Critchlow present “King of the Six SLUMBER- Sectors.” It all starts with Anderson awaking from an : IDW LAND #1 unusually strong vision of an attack on the Megapolitan CATACLYSM NEW SERIES AND Eric Shanower, Museum showcasing Cursed Earth artifacts... #1 ONE-SHOTS FOR Gabriel In Shops: 20/08/2014 , AUGUST Rodriguez Dave Wachter An all-new, all-ages series full of Years have passed since the mon- magic and whimsy from award- ster apocalypse nearly destroyed winning creators Eric Shanower mankind. Now it is merely a distant, (Adventures in Oz) and Gabriel nightmarish memory for Hiroshi, an Rodriguez (Locke & Key)! Spinning elder in one of the few remaining SILENT HILL - out of Winsor McKay’s brilliant early tribes of humans. Little does Hiro- DOWNPOUR: 20th century strip, Little Nemo in know that the apocalypse is not ANNE’S Slumberland sees King Morpheus’ over, and that his memories of the STORY #1 daughter, in the Royal Palace of past may yet save the future! Ed Brubaker, Slumberland, select her next-play- In Shops: 20/08/2014 Sean Phillips, mate: Nemo! Only Nemo has no in- Elizabeth terest in being anyone’s playmate, Breitweiser dream or no dream! IDW returns to Konami’s horror mas- In Shops: 27/08/2014 terpiece! In the 2012 hit video game Silent Hill Downpour, players were introduced to Anne Marie Cunning- ham, the enigmatic prison officer TRANS- bent on bloody revenge against SUPER FORMERS: the game’s main protagonist, Mur- SECRET PRIMACY #1 phy Pendleton. Now, at last, fans WAR: Chris Metzen, can learn what horrors Anne faced GRIM ADV Flint Dille, Livio during her fateful journey through OF BILLY & Ramondelli Silent Hill’s fog-shrouded streets... MANDY #1 The war for Cybertron! Optimus and what led her to the terrifyingly Kate Leth, Louise Prime versus Megatron. Autobots cursed town in the first place. Writ- Simonson, , Derek Charm versus Decepticons. At the dawn of ten by Tom Waltz (writer of Silent the conflict, battle lines are drawn Hill: Sinner’s Reward, Silent Hill: A malfunctioning robot crash-lands and sides are set... now legends will Past Life and the Silent Hill Down- in Billy and Mandy’s school! Billy be made. The war that would define pour video game), with artwork by wants to keep it, Mandy wants it out, a planet begins in earnest-and its Tristan Jones (Ghostbusters, Hoax and Grim is just confused. As the ro- revelations will shake the Transform- Hunters). bot starts causing havoc, it’s up to ers’ world to the core! In Shops: 20/08/2014 our heroes (and Billy) to put an end In Shops: 13/08/2014 to the mayhem! In Shops: 27/08/2014

05 GENIUS #1 Adam Freeman, , Afua Richardson

The Winner of Top Cow’s makes its trium- FADE OUT #1 HOWTOONS: phant return to print with Genius issues #1-5, weekly DEAD AT 17 REIGNITION #1 throughout August! BLASPHEMY Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, , What if the greatest military mind of our generation was THRONE #1 Elizabeth , born to a people who are already supremely conditioned Josh Howard Breitweiser Jordie Bellaire to wage war, who know nothing but violence since birth, it’s all been leading to this - the final The first project from their ground- The awe-inspiring series returns with and must continually adapt to new predators in order to survive? What if chapter to the Dead@17 saga be- breaking five-year deal at Image will an all-new story from Fred Van Lente, the second coming of Alexander the Great, of Genghis Khan, of Napoleon, gins here! have Brubaker and Phillips fans, old Tom Fowler, and Jordie Bellaire! of Patton...what if it was a teenaged girl from South Central, L.A. named and new, at the edge of their seats, Destiny? And what if she decides to secede three blocks of the ‘Hood from For the last 10 years, Nara Kilday Tuck and Celine’s parents put their as they weave an epic crime story the Union? Who is going to take it back from her and her army of gang- has gone up against the worst Hell family in suspended animation to unlike anything they’ve done before. bangers? Who can? has to offer, losing many friends and ride out the ecological apocalypse- allies along the way. Now she faces Hollywood - 1948. A noir film stuck in but when the kids wake up to find In Shops: 06/08/2014 her greatest threat: an unholy pact endless reshoots. A writer plagued Mom and Dad are gone, they have between her oldest nemesis and the with nightmares from the war and a to make their way across a brave Great Beast. While the world is thrown dangerous secret. An up-and-com- and terrifying new world to find the into chaos, Nara remains helpless, ing starlet’s suspicious . And ‘rents... using only their Howtoons captive to an unknown force, the se- a maniacal Studio Mogul and his projects to survive! cret to victory hidden somewhere in Security Chief who will do anything In Shops: 06/08/2014 her past. The countdown to Earth’s to keep the cameras rolling before final hours has begun. the Post-War boom days come In Shops: 13/08/2014 crashing down. The most ambitious series yet from the Noir Masters. In Shops: 20/08/2014 WAYWARD #1 Jim Zub, Steven NIGHT- Cummings, John WORLD #1 Rauch, Ross Campbell Paolo Leandri, Adam Buffy The Vampire Slayer for a new McGovern, generation! Rori Lane is trying to start Dominic Regan IMPERIAL #1 a new life when she reunites with her Sad demon Plenilunio rules a haunt- Steven T. Seagle, mother in Japan, but ancient crea- Marc Dos ed castle with his sleepwalking lover tures lurking in the shadows of To- Lidia, and unwisely bargains with Mark is two weeks out from making kyo sense something hidden deep the evil Empyre to wake her. He’s in the biggest decision of his life. But within her, threatening everything a race for the mystic Soul Key with which big decision will it be? Taking she holds dear. Can Rori unlock teen-from-hades Hotspot and the the ring of the woman of his dreams the secrets of her power before it’s ruthless Hellena- agents of the Em- and becoming a married man? Or too late? Jim Zub, Steve Cummings pyre with secret agendas. A four- taking the crown of the world’s only and John Rauch team up to create part thrill ride to hell starts here, with superhero and becoming the next an all-new supernatural spectacle humor, horror, tragic romance, and Imperial? Steven T. Seagle (The that combines the camaraderie and blockbuster monster fights, from the Red Diary, Genius) teams with Mark emotion of Buffy the Vampire Slayer cult-hit team of Adam McGovern and Dos Santos for a buddy book with with the action and mystery of Hell- IMAGE Paolo Leandri (Dr. ID, Idoru Jones). commitment issues. boy. Don’t miss it! NEW SERIES AND ONE- SHOTS FOR AUGUST In Shops: 06/08//2014 In Shops: 06/08/2014 In Shops: 27/08/2014 06 DEATH OF WOLVERINE MARVEL #1 NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR AUGUST Charles Soule, Steve McNiven It’s the beginning of the end - 3 Months To Die ends here! GUARDIANS The beginning of the end is now OF THE here ... The Death Of Wolverine! WOLVERINE GALAXY NOVA Three Months To Die, the loss of ANNUAL #1 ANNUAL #1 SPECIAL #1 Wolverine’s healing factor--all led Elliott Kalan, Brian Michael Sean Ryan, John to this, the single most important X- Jonathan Marks, Bendis, Frank Timms, Gary Men event of the decade. ustin Nguyen Cho Choo Logan has spent over a century be- One Month To Die! Most days in space aren’t exactly Conclusion to the Uncanny X-Men/ ing the best there is at what he does... A little Father/Adoptive Daughter/ what you’d call normal, but every- /Nova crossover - “No End but even the best fade away eventu- Adoptive Daughter’s son time. Now thing seemed to be status quo to- In Sight”. ally. Over the years, Logan has been that’s a mouthful. Wolverine and Ju- day. That is until a S.H.I.E.L.D. heli- Nova gets tied up into an adventure a warrior, a hero, a renegade, a sam- bilee take Shogo on a camping trip. carrier showed up out of nowhere... with the Uncanny X-Men and Iron urai, a teacher-and so much more. Hey, it’s a Wolverine story in the mid- In space. Sometimes you have to Man that takes him half-way across But now, the greatest X-Men hero will dle of the wilderness. What could go outside your jurisdiction to take the galaxy. See three of the best play a role he’s never played before go wrong? care of business, but this might be books at Marvel collide. in this special weekly event brought stretching it a bit. In Shops: 20/08/2014 In Shops: 13/08/2014 to you by industry superstars Charles In Shops: 13/08/2014 Soule and Steve McNiven. In Shops: 03/09/2014

07 GEORGE RR MARTIN’S IN GFT: THE HOUSE ROBYN OF THE HOOD #1 WORM #1 AVATAR ZENESCOPE SIP KIDS #1 George R. R. Martin, Patrick Shand, ABSTRACT John Jos Miller, Ivan Larry Watts Rodriguez Zenescope’s fan-favorite character They’re back! The Strangers of Par- George RR Martin opens his story gets her own ongoing series. adise gang returns in their first all- vault as we adapt a tale of dark fan- The most badass archer in com- new, full-color story since 2007 - as tasy to comics for the first time with ics is back in a brand new ongoing 6 year olds! Francine and Katchoo In The House of the Worm. Beneath series! From drug lords to corrupt comb the neighborhood for a miss- a ruined city on a forgotten planet bankers to the things that go bump ing peanut butter and jelly sandwich, lies a world of plots and revenge. in the night, no evils that plague but Darcy bribes Tambi to find it first When Annelyn is embarrassed the streets will be safe when Robyn and every suspect reeks of PB&J. in front of his noble friends by the Meatbringer, he sets forth a devious Locksley sets up shop as a private Meanwhile, the mysterious “Kissing plan that is meant to gain venge- detective in New York City. Bandit” seems unusually fixated on Francine, and Casey launches an ance. But the terrible truth of the While Robyn settles into her new life, dire White Worm turns his ploy into the Cabal, a collective of mysterious all-out attack on David’s “No Girls” treehouse. folly in terrible fashion. Join a mas- and powerful individuals, sets their ter storyteller as he spins a uniquely 27/08/2014 sights on bringing down the hooded In Shops: mysterious tale and reveals new heroine, who will face the biggest worlds of wonder and horror. threat of her life. In Shops: 27/08/2014 Great jumping on point! In Shops: 13/08/2014 FAIRY QUEST: OUTCASTS #1 BOOM! Paul Jenkins, STEAMPUNK Humberto BSG 1880 #1 Ramos 13 COINS #1 DYNAMITE TITAN If you enjoy your fairy tales with a Tony Lee, Aneke, Martin Brennan, twist like , Fairest, or Once Ardian Syaf Michael B. Upon a Time, Fairy Quest is the per- Welcome to the world of Battlestar Jackson, Simon fect series for you. Bisley Galactica as never seen before, The adventures of Red and Mister as Tony Lee gives it a Steampunk From Eisner award winning artist, Woof have only just begun. In Fa- spin! After Professor Baltar’s clock- Simon Bisley, and the screenwriters blewood, all of the stories that have work Cylonics destroy the Colonial of Hitman: Absolution, comes the ever been told live side-by-side. But Empire, Arch Duke Adama learns story of a new superhero... it is an evil place, overseen by the that his son Apollo is missing! It’s The story of John Pozner, a torment- awful Mister Grimm and his cadre up to Lady Athena to travel to the ed ex-con on a quest for venge- of Think Police. Red and Woof want Sky Pirate world of the Rising Star ance, when he discovers that he is to escape to a world where their and ask for help from the only hope descended from angels, and is the friendship isn’t prohibited, but noth- she has - the disgraced Captain living key to Earth’s future, or Heav- ing can prepare them for what lies Starbuck and his humanoid / Dag- INDIES en’s fall. ahead in the Dark Forest. git copilot Muffit... NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR AUGUST In Shops: 08/10/2014 In Shops: 27/08/2014 In Shops: 13/08/2014 08 DELIN- BOB’S QUENTS #1 INDIES STEVEN BURGERS #1 NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR AUGUST UNIVERSE #1 DYNAMITE VALIANT BOOM! Rachel Hastings, James As- Jeremy Sorese, Frank Forte, mus, Fred Van Coleman Engle Various Lente, Fans of Adventure Time and Sailor The very first Bob’s Burgers comic Confrontation! Devastation! Inebria- Moon are gonna dig this series pre- book, a new series from the creator tion! Here come the Delinquents! sented in a zine-like format of mini- of the hit TV show, created by Loren Quantum and Woody are the world’s comics, recipes, games, and more! Bouchard! Now you can read about worst superhero team. Archer And Steven really wants to enter the an- the Belcher family (parents Bob and Armstrong are a mismatched pair nual Beach City Bike Race but eve- Linda, and their children Tina, Gene of conspiracy-busting adventur- ryone else is a little worried. Steven and Louise) in brand-new in-canon ers. When a mysterious force col- just makes the cut-off for age, which stories created by the TV show’s lides these ill-suited and irrespon- producers, writers and animators means the other bikers will be a lot sible “heroes” for a cross-country creating all original stories appear- older than him. Connie agrees to race through the darkest corners ing exclusively in this comics series. help Steven the old-fashioned way of American mythology, all hell is through good ol’ exercise but Gar- In Shops: 27/08/2014 bound to break loose. Can two net, Amethyst and Pearl have other busted pairs become four of kind in plans... time to defeat the Hobo King, save the day, and make it back home in In Shops: 06/08/2014 GRIMM time for Happy Hour? Let’s hope FAIRY TALES: so...’cause these guys make a re- GODDESS ally, really bad team. (And you don’t INC #1 even want to know about the goat.) ZENESCOPE In Shops: 20/08/2014 HEXED #1 LaToya Morgan, BOOM! Manuel Preitano Michael Alan Writer LaToya Morgan (Showtime’s Nelson, Dan Mora, Emma Shameless) joins the Zenescope CRITICAL Rios team with a brand new, modern re- HIT #1 imagining of Greek mythology like Luci Jennifer Inacio Das Neves you have never seen before. BLACK MASK (most people just call her “Luci- The Greek and Roman gods of leg- Matt Miner, fer”) is a supernatural thief-for-hire Jonathan end are real! They live amongst us, Brandon Sawyer and the perfect mash-up of Buffy hiding in plain sight as humans. the Vampire Slayer and Lara Croft, Some of these gods, such as Zeus Matt Miner rallies a brand new art stealing wondrous objects from the and Athena, work to keep humanity team and launches Liberator fan- dark denizens of the netherworld safe from evil, while others are hell- favorites Jeanette and Sarah in a for her mentor/mother figure, Val bent on returning to the ways of old, bold new direction with their own Brisendine. But when Lucifer ac- when gods were worshipped. As gritty mission to stop a rogue gang cidentally unleashes a terrible evil the vengeful Venus sets in motion a of hunters - but the girls learn to from one of the paintings hanging plan to enslave humanity and have their horror that these hunters have in Val’s art gallery, will any of the it bow to her power, two sides of an developed a new hobby: hunting tricks up her sleeve be enough to inevitable war will begin to form be- people... and suddenly the rescu- stop it? tween the gods! ers become the prey. In Shops: 13/08/2014 In Shops: 06/08/2014 In Shops: 27/08/2014 09 JENNIFER BLOOD: SIXTH GUN: BORN DAYS OF THE LADY DEAD #1 BRITANNIA AGAIN #1 AGENT OF THE ONI DYNAMITE CROWN #1 Cullen Bunn, Steven Grant, Brian Hurtt, Mike ANTARCTIC Kewber Baal Norton Christopher Allen The streets of Lalaland run red when Brother Roberto and Jesup will 1889. A chance encounter with the Jennifer Blood returns to declare a one day play important roles in the wife of one of the Royal Society’s new war on the mobs. Or does she? epic struggle to control the Sixth biggest donors sends the Countess As a low level hood plots to lever- Gun. This is the tale that would of Chambers, one of Great Britain’s age her in a bid to take over the shape these two - one an agent of most celebrated game hunters, and Los Angeles underworld, her war the Knights of Solomon, the other her companions on a voyage to attracts some very dangerous at- a priest of the Sword of Abraham - solve her mentor’s last great quest tention and unexpectedly sets a le- into the men they will become. An and save his name. But forces act- thal international chain of events in ancient god of the dead is stirring, ing behind the scenes may end her motion. A deadly new direction from and diverse factions position them- journey before it even begins... selves to profit from the awakening. writer Steven Grant, the well-known In Shops: 27/08/2014 writer of classic The sto- Abigail Redmayne holds the se- crets of this powerful creature in her ries as well as the creator and writer CAPTAIN of Boom!’s 2 Guns! hands, and a host of secret agents, necromancers, and the undead VICTORY In Shops: 06/08/2014 threaten to claim her body and soul. AND THE In Shops: 06/08/2014 GALACTIC RANGERS #1 DYNAMITE GRIMM , Nathan Fox, FAIRY TALES: Various MASUMI #1 : OMEGAS #1 ZENESCOPE Joe Casey is one of the industry’s VALIANT Joe Tyler, Joel most popular writers having writ- Ojeda Joshua Dysart, ten for Marvel and DC, from The Rafael Sandoval, Uncanny X-Men to Superman, and The Grimm Universe’s latest hero Lewis LaRosa many more best-selling titles, and rises! The team has been shattered and most recently created and writes Masumi has been known as the si- a teenage Renegade lies dead - a the acclaimed Sex series from Im- lent assassin for her lethal prowess victim of the Harbinger Foundation age Comics! Now he is tackling one with her samurai swords, each are led by omega-powered psionic of ’s greatest creations, possessed by the demons known Toyo Harada. Out of the ashes of Captain Victory! And this story will as the Eight Deadly Sins. With eve- Harbinger #25, find out happens Blow! Your! Mind! Out of the hell of ryone she loves dead or gone, Ma- when the full extent of Harada’s se- a cosmic firefight, Captain Victory sumi travels to her home country of cret empire is exposed to the pub- is launched into an epic adventure Japan in search of purpose... but lic, and just the how the surviving that spans both space and time! All there she will uncover a very dan- members of the Renegades recov- your favorites are here - as well as gerous underground sect of Yaku- er from a catastrophic loss that has all-new enemies to face! Your new za, Japanese mafia, that is drawing changed their lives, their team, and favorite cosmic has fi- INDIES its power from an ancient evil. their destinies forever. nally arrived! NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR AUGUST In Shops: 06/08/2014 In Shops: 06/08/2014 In Shops: 06/08/2014 10 NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COLLECTED EDITIONS ARRIVING NOVEL IDEAS FROM AUGUST ONWARDS...

HARLEY JESSICA QUINN VOL.1: Y THE LAST JONES: PULSE HOT IN THE MAN - BOOK 1 STAR WARS: - COMPLETE CITY (HC) DC VERTIGO REBEL HEIST COLLECTION DC Vaughan, DARK HORSE MARVEL Conner, Guerra, Marzan, Kindt, Castiello, Bendis, Mayhew, Palmiotti, Various Carnevale Parsons, Hughes Various

The sensational series that gave The first ten issues of the award- The Rebel Alliance’s newest recruits Jessica Jones, breakout star of her own New 52 spot- winning series written by Brian K. are teamed with its greatest heroes ’ hit series light is collected in hardcover for the Vaughan (Ex Machina, Lost) are to hatch a plot and pull off a heist Alias, is back! first time, from the star-studded #0 collected in this new trade paper- right under the noses of the Empire’s And the ex-Avenger-turned-private issue to issue #8! Don’t miss Har- back! It’s the saga of Yorick Brown - finest. Is it possible that Princess investigator is starting a new ley’s big move to Coney Island as the only human survivor of a planet- Leia’s, Han Solo’s, and others’ most chapter in her life - working for she becomes a roller derby queen wide plague that instantly kills every obvious weaknesses might also be The Daily Bugle’s new super-hero - all while she carries on in her crimi- mammal possessing a Y chromo- their greatest strengths? section, The Pulse! Jessica’s first nal career! some who searches the world for Collects Star Wars: Rebel Heist #1-4. assignment: to uncover the identity In Shops: 22/10/2014 his lost love and the answer to why In Shops: 08/10/2014 of a former Bugle reporter’s super- he’s the last man on earth. powered murderer! In Shops: 10/09/2014 Collecting Pulse #1-9 and #11-14, PREDATOR VS and New Avengers Annual (2006) #1. WINTER VS ALIENS SOLDIER BY In Shops: 27/08/2014 (HC) BRUBAKER DARK HORSE - COMPLETE COLLECTION Wagner, Diggle, CENTURY Alcatena, Various WEST (OGN) MARVEL Brubaker, Various IMAGE JUDGE DREDD: Chaykin Dark Horse and 2000 AD team up MEGA CITY TWO to bring you a collection of the clas- He’s been Bucky and Captain Amer- IDW sic stories Predator versus Judge ica - now, James Barnes returns to Century, Texas used to be a sleepy lit- Wolk, Farinas Dredd and Judge Dredd versus Al- tle burg, barely a whistlestop between the role of the Winter Soldier! iens in one handsome hardcover. It’s nowhere and the great beyond...until Old enemies resurface with new up to Dredd to keep innocent blood the 20th Century arrived with a bang, identities, and Winter Soldier and Dredd heads Californee way! As out of the gutters of Mega-City One bringing with it automobiles, aero- Black Widow’s hunt gets personal. part of a judicial exchange program, as he holds off the universe’s most planes, telephones, paved streets... Now, Winter Soldier must save the Dredd is sent packing to Mega-City efficient killing machines. and, of course, the movies. Widow from her own past! Two, a sprawling city covering 5,000 Art by Alcatena, Henry Flint, Howard Chaykin tells the colorful Ed Brubaker wraps up his critically square miles of the Californian West Staples, Jock, Frazer Irving, Brian story of the American West, trans- acclaimed run here - and no one es- Coast and centered in what was Bolland, and more! formed from frontier to legend, and capes unscathed! once known as Los Angeles, where Written by the legendary John Wag- how the American dream became a Collecting Fear Itself #7.1: Captain he soon discovers that they do ner (A History Of Violence). modern myth. America and Winter Soldier #1-14. things differently there. In Shops: 08/10/2014 In Shops: 18/09/2014 In Shops: 10/09/2014 In Shops: 20/08/2014 11 NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COLLECTED EDITIONS ARRIVING NOVEL IDEAS FROM AUGUST ONWARDS...

MS MARVEL FOREVER DISPLACED VOL.1: NO EVIL: ARKHAM USAGI PERSONS NORMAL WAR YOJIMBO: (OGN) MARVEL SAGA VOL.1 DC IMAGE Wilson, Tomasi, Eaton, DARK HORSE McCulloch, Alphona, Wyatt, Various Sakai Peruzzo Pichelli

Madness and mayhem hit the streets Celebrating the thirtieth anniversary San Francisco, the twentieth Marvel Comics presents the new Ms. as Arkham Asylum and Blackgate of Stan Sakai’s beloved rabbit century: In 1939, a private detective Marvel, the groundbreaking heroine Prison both unleash their prisoners ronin, Dark Horse proudly presents searches for a missingheiress. that has become an international on the citizens of Gotham City. And Miyamoto Usagi’s epic trek along In 1969, twin brothers approach sensation! is an with no Dark Knight to protect the the warrior’s path in a new series a drug heist from opposite sides ordinary girl from Jersey City - until city, what horrors will follow? Arkham of deluxe compilations, beginning of the law. And in 1999, a woman she’s suddenly empowered with and Blackgate face off in this 6-issue with over 600 pages of Usagi’s slowly comes to realize the terrible extraordinary gifts. But who truly miniseries featuring Scarecrow, The essential adventures. danger she faces in her own home. is the new Ms. Marvel? Teenager? Penguin, Bane, Killer Croc, and Collects Vol. 2 #1-16 From the Eisner-nominated writer Muslim? Inhuman? Find out as more. Also includes Batman #23.4: and Vol. 3 #1-6! Derek McCulloch and artist Anthony she takes the Marvel Universe by Bane and Forever Evil Aftermath: Peruzzo comes Displaced Persons, storm! It’s history in the making from In Shops: 22/10/2014 Batman Vs. Bane #1. a riveting tale of murder, love, crime, acclaimed writer G. Willow Wilson In Shops: 17/09/2014 friendship, betrayal, and just the and beloved artist ! slightest bit of time travel. Collecting Ms. Marvel (2014) #1-5 ALL NEW In Shops: 06/08/2014 and material from All-New Marvel DANGER X-MEN VOL.5: Now! Point One #1. ONE DOWN GIRL: BACK IN In Shops: 15/10/2014 BLACK (PREM HC) MARVEL TOE TAGS IDW FEATURING Hartnell, Bendis, Various GEORGE Bradshaw, ROMERO GOON VOL.13: Campbell DC The future Brotherhood of Evil FOR WANT OF Romero, WHISKEY AND Mutants is back - and they’re still Castillo, Ramos BLOOD Abbey and Sydney Savage go gunning for yesterday’s X-Men! But DARK HORSE even as the Brotherhood takes its undercover to infiltrate an all- Powell girl biker gang after a powerful next devastating step against the The horror miniseries by writer/ and mysterious Native American time-tossed teens, the mysteries director George Romero is collected artifact is stolen. From the black surrounding Jean Grey begin to at last! Overnight, the world has The return of the Zombie Priest, hills of California to the white sands unfold! Jean came back from her been turned upside down, and a Latin-tongued Godzilla, drunk of Daytona Beach, the girls take a Shi’ar trial...different. What does this zombies rule the day! It’s up to a sailors, and a Halloween visit from wild ride into the dangerous world mean for her future, for the past of the college professor named Hoffman, Billy the Kid are just a few of the of espionage, motorcycles, and woman she’s supposed to become his assistant Damien Cross and his special tricks and treats for Goon black magic to track down the and for the rest of the X-Men? girlfriend to find out how and why and company in this new volume priceless item. Collecting All-New X-Men #25-29. the undead have taken over. collecting The Goon #42-45. In Shops: 20/08/2014 In Shops: 10/09/2014 In Shops: 17/09/2014 In Shops: 08/10/2014 12 BIFF’S BIT Email Biff here: [email protected]

self to some books. Before school and the issues over reading, they left they also took pictures of or lack of, were prevalent then. If af- themselves in our mock up of the in- ter half a century of trying to improve terior of the Death Star. levels of literacy just using books has EDUCATING EDUCATING This was all fantastic, but the nudge failed, why do they still focus on just ENGLAND was needed to get them into a comic books? shop. I can help the few schools that ask ENGLAND Recently I was invited to a farewell for help but a wholesale change in party by our next door neighbours, So, the moral to me seems to be, attitude by the education hierarchy the couple came from Holland and continue to shout loud and proud is needed. I think using comics in after a three year stint in Colchester about our fantastic medium because & THE senior school would not work except were returning to the Netherlands. I there are many, many people out remedially, but in primary school it couldn’t ask for better neighbours so there just waiting for that nudge. could be extremely helpful if it was I went to say goodbye. That brings me to the teacher. Hav- part of the curriculum and our stu- DEATH OF ing heard me preach comics he Whilst eating farewell cake and meet- dent teachers were taught how to came over and explained that he ing a host of other people I got talk- use them to inspire children’s imagi- would love to introduce comics to ing to a video designer and a school nations and interest in reading. WOLVERINE help his primary school children teacher in particular. to read. He works in the Monkwick The video designer, I thought, may area of Colchester, an area where it THE DEATH OF be a comic reader so I revealed is predominantly Council estate, and my identity of comic impresario su- the young boys in particular have no WOLVERINE preme. Imagine my surprise when it interest in attempting to read. This Over the last two decades many a turns out that he neither read comics isn’t the first teacher to express these hero has died and been resurrect- or books. Books he found difficult to views and it was only in January this ed. This has been so frequent that concentrate on and so did not read year that I helped a primary school most readers expect a rebirth within and it never occurred for him to try in Clacton-On-Sea stock up on com- months, not years. As a tool to create a comic. Well, I proceeded to regale ics and graphic novels. He wasn’t suspense it is pointless. him with the wonders of the medium advocating abandoning books per Now Marvel are going to kill Wolver- and when I left I thought I might have se, but using comics to kindle an ine? His death is being heralded in You, as the reader, will have even less Ace comics are besieged by mind- over done it and bored the shirt off of interest in the written word. I will be the pages of Wolverine with issue 12 information to base a decision to buy less ones under the direction of Dor- his back. liaising with him to help get comics being the ‘final’ issue. Then it moves or pre-order this series. Especially mammu and only the ultimate sacri- into his school and organise some fice of a comic shop retailer will halt I am pleased to report that he wasn’t into a , at least, four issue mini series as, cynically speaking, one expects lesson plans. their relentless march to subsume bored and came into the shop the entitled ‘The Death Of Wolverine’. I him to comeback pretty sharpish. If the whole world. following week , with his wife ,to buy If we cannot get pupils reading at say at least since I have been given heroes come back who don’t have some comics for his young boy and primary level then we, as a society no information by Marvel except for regenerative powers it will be diffi- also for himself. He actually chose a and they as people will be let down. the fact that there will be four issues cult to keep Logan dead. I expect it comic rendition of the Life Of Ghan- At present the education establish- in August. How are retailers sup- to be an interesting read, but staying di. It then transpired that his wife had ment still doesn’t get the need to try posed to know how many to order dead? Who are they kidding? been a customer of ACE, when a something alternative. It is now near- when we are not even aware of the See you next month when you can teenager, and promptly treated her- ly 50 years since I was at primary story content? order issue one of Biff’s Last Stand. 13 TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVELS ACE COMICS’ BESTSELLING GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR MAY 2014...

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