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ILLUMINATIONS NEW FOR AUGUST JUN 2015 DC BOMBSHELLS! X-FILES: SEASON 11! DOCTOR WHO: 4 DOCTORS! ! WELCOME BACK! WELCOME BACK BIFF’S BIT ALL NEW MARVEL! NOVEL IDEAS AND MORE! DC Bombshells (DC Comics)

CONTENTS: PAGE 03... New Series and One-Shots for August: Dark Horse

PAGE 04... New Series and One-Shots for August: DC Comics

PAGE 05... New Series and One-Shots for August: IDW Publishing

PAGE 06... New Series and One-Shots for August:

PAGE 07... New Series and One-Shots for August:

PAGE 08... New Series and One-Shots for August: Indies

PAGE 09... New Series and One-Shots for August: Indies

PAGE 10... Novel Ideas - Part One

PAGE 11... Novel Ideas - Part Two SIGN UP FOR THE ACE COMICS MAILOUT PAGE 12... Biff’s Bit: ACE Comics Awards 2015 AND KEEP UP TO DATE PAGE 13... Top 20 Graphic Novels: May’s Bestselling Books WITH THE LATEST RELEASES, SUBSCRIPTIONS, CHARTS, ILLUMINATIONS, EVENTS acecomics.co.uk AND MORE! 02 DARK HORSE NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR AUGUST THIS DAMNED BAND #1 Paul Cornell, Tony Parker 1972: the world’s most famous rock band thought they were “worship- ing Satan,” only to find they were actually... worshiping Satan. From Paul Cornell (, Ac- tion Comics) and Tony Parker (Mass ADAM.3 #1 Effect: Foundation) comes a darkly hilarious adventure of black magic and classic rock! Award-winning writer/artist Scott Kolins (Past Aways, The , The A hilarious documentary-style thrill ) premieres his first original ride of black magic and rock music! creation: Adam.3! In Shops: 05/08/2015 A man born into a futuristic island utopia fights to save his troubled family as terrifying visions of a mon- strous doom foretell the end to his Eden! Can Adam and his family sur- vive S.E.E.D.S.? ZODIAC In Shops: 05/08/2015 STARFORCE #1 Kevin Panetta, Paulina Ganucheau, Marguerite Sauvage An elite group of teenage girls with magical powers have sworn to pro- tect our planet against dark crea- NEW MGMT tures... as long as they can get out #1 of class! , These high-school girls aren’t just combating math tests. They’re also Matt Kindt brings his game-chang- KING TIGER #1 battling monsters! But when an evil ing masterpiece Mind Mgmt to its Randy Stradley, Doug Wheatley force infects leader Emma, she must astonishing conclusion in this unfor- Blood, death, and fire-the darkest kind of magic. A monstrous secret from King Tiger’s past has work with her team to save herself- gettable one-shot! and the world-from the evil The war is over. The world has been found the mystic warrior, but can Tiger’s skills and sorcery triumph against an unthinkable super- Diana and her mean-girl changed. But into what?! natural obscenity linked to his own destiny? If the Tiger falls, the Dragon will rise! minions! In Shops: 19/08/2015 In Shops: 12/08/2015 In Shops: 26/08/2015 03 JLA: HARLEY QUINN: GODS AND JLA: ROAD TRIP MONSTERS GODS AND DC COMICS - WONDER DC MONSTERS BOMB- SPECIAL #1 WOMAN #1 NEW SERIES AND ONE- #1 SHELLS #1 Amanda Conner, Jimmy J.M. DeMatteis, SHOTS FOR AUGUST J.M. DeMatteis, Marguerite Palmiotti, Bret Blevins Bruce Timm, Bruce Timm, Bennett, Rick Leonardi, Thony Silas, Marguerite It’s the great American summer Dan Green, Jae Darick Sauvage, Ant tradition, but you’ve never seen Lee Robertson Lucia a road trip quite like this before! Prequel to the DC Universe movie Prequel to the DC Universe movie The ultra-popular statues from DC Harley, Ivy, and Catwoman are : Gods And Monsters! Justice League: Gods And Monsters! Collectibles come to life in their own burning rubber across the U.S. ongoing comic book series! Learn Earth in the 1960s-where a woman- Superman, Batman, and Wonder of A! We recommend you all warrior from a faraway world finds Woman: three powerful and danger- the story behind this alternate real- herself among a group of young ous loners, drawn together by a man ity where the Second World War is stay off the roads for the month idealists, seeking peace and love in who claims he can bring humanity fought by superpowered women of August, just to be safe. a time of turbulence and upheaval. to the next level of evolution. But on the front lines and behind the In Shops: 26/08/2015 But Bekka of the New Gods finds are Jackson Alpert and his immortal scenes! It all begins with the stories her Aquarian dream abruptly shat- Forever People what they claim to of Batwoman, tered when she encounters the be? Will they save the Earth-or con- and Supergirl. monstrous genius of Doctor Psycho quer it? In Shops: 12/08/2015 and the Shock Exchange! In Shops: 12/08/2015 In Shops: 05/08/2015

04 X-FILES: SEASON 11 #1 Joe Harris, Matthew Dow Smith, Menton3 IDW Mulder has become a fugitive from a government that considers him a “secrets stealer” on the NEW SERIES AND ONE- order of Julian Assange or Edward Snowden thanks to the mechanizations of “The Glasses- SHOTS FOR AUGUST Wearing Man.” It’s up to Scully, and what allies Mulder has left, to work to clear his name and keep the government itself from falling further into the villain’s clutches. In Shops: 19/08/2015

GARBAGE SHERLOCK PAIL KIDS HOLMES: GO HOLLY- SEVEN- WOOD PER-CENT BOY-1 #1 (ONE-SHOT) SOLUTION H.S. Tak, Bob Fingerman, #1 Amancay Jeff Zapata, Scott Tipton, Nahuelpan, Mark Pingatore, David Tipton, Zach Howard Various Ron Joseph In the fast-approaching future, Everyone’s a critic! Join the Garbage The best-selling Sherlock Holmes when the drug-addled heir of a ge- Pail Kids as they put the spotlight novel by writer/director Nicholas netic-engineering company begins on summer’s top grossing movies! Meyer comes to comics! The real to investigate his company’s murky In Shops: 19/08/2015 story behind Sherlock Holmes’ final past, he discovers he is the catalyst confrontation with Professor Mori- in a terrifying global event that will arty is at long last revealed! Who is transform him and forever alter the the real Moriarty? Why did Holmes course of human evolution. disappear for so long? The game is In Shops: 26/08/2015 afoot! In Shops: 26/08/2015

DRIVE #1 TMNT: AMAZING Michael Benedetto, ADVENT- Antonio Fuso URES #1 A hard-boiled pop-culture sensa- Landry Quinn STRING Walker, James tion re-created for comics. In L.A., Kochalka, there’s one man you want behind DIVERS #1 Chad Thomas, the wheel. Just tell him where Chris Ryall, James and when. He doesn’t take part, Nelson Daniel, Kochalka doesn’t know anyone, doesn’t carry Ashley Wood This new series will feature crazier a weapon. He drives, and he’s the Meet the String Divers! A renegade stories in it’s own all-ages continu- best. Ride along as James Sallis’ team called upon to save the uni- ity that draws inspiration from the lean nü-noir masterpiece unfolds verse from arcane threats at the hit Nickelodeon cartoon! Featuring onto the sun-bleached streets of sub-microscopic level! String theory backups from some of the finest Los Angeles in this exciting 4-part made real, and real thrilling, in “Uni- cartoonists in comics today! comic book adaptation. fied Chaos Theory,” Part 1! In Shops: 19/08/2015 In Shops: 19/08/2015 In Shops: 26/08/2015 05 PHONOGRAM: THE IMMATERIAL GIRL #1 Kieron Gillen, Jamie APOLLO IX McKelvie, Matthew Wilson (ONE-SHOT) The team behind the New Ashley Robinson, York Times bestselling and Fernando Eisner-nominated smash hit Argosino The Wicked + The Divine From the pages of IXth Generation! return to the acclaimed urban- Apollo IX is a ruthless scientist who fantasy where they first made uses his beauty in order to get his their names. Nearly a decade work done for him. Eros and Psyche are two of his brightest protégés, ago, Emily Aster sold half her but will they live to see their contri- personality for the power to rule butions to Apollo IX’s latest experi- a coven of phonomancers. I’m ment come to life? sure nothing could go horribly, In Shops: 12/08/2015 monstrously wrong now. In a world where Music is Magic, a song can save or ruin your life. In The Immaterial Girl, we discover what a video can do. In Shops: 12/08/2015 BEAUTY #1 Jeremy Haun, James A. Hurley The pilot season winner returns! Modern society is obsessed with outward beauty. What if there was DARK a way to guarantee you could be- CORRIDOR come more and more beautiful #1 every day? What if it was a sexually Rich Tommaso transmitted disease? In the world of From the author of Clover Honey and The Beauty, physical perfection is 8½ Ghosts, Rich Tommaso, comes attainable. The vast majority of the an all-new ongoing series set in the population has taken advantage of fictional coastal city of Red Circle - a it, but Detectives Foster and Vaughn city totally controlled by mobsters- will soon discover it comes at a ter- who, after decades of wielding rible price. power, are silently being picked off Writer/artist Jeremy Haun (Con- one-by-one by unidentified female stantine, Batwoman) and co-writer assassins. Like a Goodfellas script Jason A. Hurley offer up a startling re imagined by Quentin Tarantino, reflection on the cost of looking this sprawling crime-adventure will good in this procedural science fic- keep you guessing and tuning in for tion tale. more month after month! IMAGE In Shops: 12/08/2015 In Shops: 05/08/2015 NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR AUGUST 06 NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR AUGUST MARVEL HANK ANT-MAN: JOHNSON: HOUSE OF M #1 LAST AGENT OF DAYS #1 HYDRA #1 Dennis Hopeless, Marco Failla, Kris Anka Nick Spencer, David Mandel, The House of Magnus controls all, having crushed all resistance to their reign. Magneto rules Ramon Michael Walsh, with an iron-fist, while his children and grandchildren live their lives as royals-with allthe Rosanas, Mark Amanda Brooks Conner privileges and pit-falls that come with that title. When a local clairvoyant predicts Hey there, comic reader! Have you But is Magneto’s control as all-encompassing as it seems? And what happens to a conqueror the end of the world, a mysterious ever wondered what Hydra agents when there is no one left to conquer? woman sends Scott on a vital mis- do during their downtime? No? In Shops: 19/08/2015 sion! An old foe (okay, maybe more Well...then, uh, go read Hail Hydra. like annoyance) shows up - and For everyone else with a burning Scott’s going to regret it! What do desire to see a Hydra agent letting it you do when you think the world is all hang out, this is the book for you! about to end? What do you think? Be thrilled as Hank picks up his kids Doesn’t anybody else remember from school! Be amazed as Hank 1999? You party! Everything dies? talks with Hydra’s HR department! Pfft. Everything dances. And be stupefied as Hank wishes In Shops: 26/08/2015 he had picked a different line of work! From Curb Your Enthusiasm executive producer David Mandel, Hank Johnson, Agent of Hydra will have you looking at faceless hench- men in a whole new light. In Shops: 12/08/2015 HOWARD THE HUMAN #1 Skottie Young, Jim Mahfood SECRET Spend a day with Howard, a private WARS: investigator and the only human liv- SECRET ing in city full of animals. But not, LOVE #1 like, criminals and lowlifes. We’re David talking elephants, apes, ducks and Nakayama, kitty cats. Catching a case, grinding Various a few gears, dodging some bullets When worlds collide, can their love and almost getting killed by an an- survive? thropomorchic monstrosity. It’s just another Monday for Howard the Robbie Reyes / ! Human brought to you by Skottie Typhoid Mary / Karen Page / Matt Young () and Jim Murdock! Mahfood (Miami Vice Remix). And many more secret love affairs... In Shops: 19/08/2015 In Shops: 19/08/2015 07 H COVER STAR H BOOK OF WELCOME AMERICA DEATH: FALL BACK #1 INDIES TOWN #1 OF BOOM! NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR AUGUST BOOM! #1 Christopher Bradford VALIANT Sebela, Winters, Daniel Matt Kindt, Jonathan Irizarri, Mike , Brandon Choi Kano Sawyer What if the American Dream were So let it be written, so let it be Mali and Tessa have lived hundreds no longer possible? Screenwriters done... of different lives throughout time, Bradford Winters (Oz, Boss, Kings) In the ruins of his mansion, Colin caught up in an eternal cycle as they and Larry Cohen (Phone Booth, King hunkers down as the last liv- take part in a war so old that neither Cellular), give us a story great for ing member of after the Third side remembers what they’re fighting fans of Transmetropolitan, Hacktiv- Armor Hunt - or so he thinks. A visit for anymore. As Mali wakes up in her ist, and the TV show Black Mirror. from an old friend and a peace of- newest life, she suddenly becomes After an economic collapse, Ameri- fering present the chance for Nin- self-aware and starts to question cans are illegally emigrating to oth- jak to break the cycle of death and everything, especially why she con- er countries to find work, creating escape the horrible fate foretold in tinues to fight. But elsewhere, Tessa “Americatowns” wherever they go. the Book of the Geomancer. Will he is already on the hunt... Owen has a difficult time trying to betray his dead friends or will The In Shops: 05/08/2015 sneak back into Buenos Aires in Fall Of Ninjak come to pass and Argentina to rejoin his family; his give rise to a very familiar future... struggle is just a small part of the In Shops: 26/08/2015 MUIRWOOD: hardships and conflicting agendas THE LOST in an immigrant community trying to ABBEY #1 build itself in of a once great nation. JET CITY In Shops: 12/08/2015 Matthew Sturge, Alex VAN Sheikman, HELSING VS Inaki Miranda #1 A brand-new story set in bestsell- RED SONJA / ZENESCOPE ing author Jeff Wheeler’s Muirwood CONAN #1 Patrick Shand, universe! Maia, the daughter of the DYNAMITE Andrea Meloni, king of Comoros, has been ban- Richard Ortiz Victor Gischler, ished. Although magic is forbidden Roberto Last year, Liesel Van Helsing was of women in her world, Maia has Castro, Alex attacked by an evil from her fa- secretly learned... and now her des- Ross ther’s past... but she survived, and perate father has sent her on a dan- Red Sonja and Conan are reunited has moved on with her life. Besides gerous quest to save their kingdom. as captains of mercenary compa- becoming the name that vampires She voyages to another realm where nies who team to fight the forces of in the tri-state area fear, she’s also an ancient Blight has destroyed all an evil sorcerer. Little do they realize found love - in, admittedly, the the inhabitants. Maia believes she that a shadow of the past has re- strangest places. However, when can restore the deadly lands by us- turned, something of dire peril from old friends come calling on her for ing her magic medallion, but if she’s their previous adventures together. help, she will find herself pulled into discovered wielding her clandestine It’s the Cimmerian and Sonja reu- a final conflict with the deadliest power, she will most certainly be nited for more bloody swordplay! vampire of all time... hunted down and killed! In Shops: 05/08/2015 In Shops: 05/08/2015 In Shops: 26/08/2015 08 STRINGERS KING #1 #1 DOCTOR WHO: FOUR JET CITY ONI DOCTORS #1 Joshua Hale Marc Fialkov, Guggenheim, TITAN Bernard Chang, Justin Paul Cornell, Marcelo Maiolo Greenwood Neil Edwards King just wants what anybody Paul and Nick are the guys who What shocking past event brings wants: not to get fired, eaten, or shoot the news. Filming car chases, three Doctors together - to combat forced to mate with a cheetah lady. fires, and shootouts in their busted- an unknown foe with three incar- As Earth’s sole human survivor after up rig, they put their (uninsured, un- nations in its sights? The five-part the apocalypse, life among Los An- salaried) lives on the line every night Doctor Who event of 2015 begins geles’ strange, new populace ain’t so that the good citizens of Los An- here in a tale written by Doctor Who easy. Working for the LA Depart- geles can get their daily update. But novelist Paul Cornell and illustrated ment of Reclamation, King gets a lot when a firefight between the LAPD by Neil Edwards that brings togeth- of crappy jobs going on quests and and the MS-13 goes wrong, Nick er the tenth Doctor and Gabby, the searching for artifacts from the “old and Paul find themselves on the run. eleventh Doctor and Alice, and the world,” which can range from the In Shops: 19/08/2015 twelfth Doctor and Clara! mythical (Excalibur!) to the absurd In Shops: 12/08/2015 (an iPod Shuffle). The work - com mute can be a real pain in the as- phalt, the 405 freeway is filled with OVER THE mutants, monsters, mayhem and GARDEN tentacled Elder Gods... WALL #1 In Shops: 19/08/2015 JIRNI VOL.2 BOOM! #1 Joel Enos, ASPEN Tracy Yardley, Evan Stanley, J. T. Krul, SHADOW Various Kenneth Marion VOL.2 #1 Airing last November, Pat McHale’s DYNAMITE Over The Garden Wall was Cartoon Her perilous quest resumes! Cullen Network’s first-ever original animat- Ara has returned-and has left more Bunn,Giovanni ed miniseries. The eerily sweet story than her homeland behind, as her Timpano, of two half-brothers trying to find journey brings her to sea along with Jackson Guice their way home has now been ex- Boro and his band of pirates. How- A ruthless cabal of magicians is panded with McHale and returning ever, what new wonders-and dan- searching for the secret to the Last artist Jim Campbell to a new Over gers-await Ara on their next stop? Illusion, and they’ll stop at noth- The Garden Wall story set between And will she be able to survive the ing to achieve their goals. But the episodes three and four of the ani- experience? The world of Jirni ex- person who knew the most about mated series! plodes into uncharted territory as the mysterious rite is dead, and he Wirt and Greg are trying to hitch a ride Ara’s epic story continues! shared his secret with one man -- out of schooltown but end up having Creator J.T. Krul, artist V Ken Mar- the Shadow! Now, the Shadow fac- to walk. Soon, they come upon two ion, and colorist Juan Fernandez es some of his strangest foes as he girls playing, and wind up having to are proud to present the follow-up engages in a deadly game where he keep them entertained so that they volume to Aspen’s smash hit series might be the hunter... or the hunted. don’t wake their giant father! - Jirni! INDIES In Shops: 05/08/2015 In Shops: 26/08/2015 In Shops: 05/08/2015 NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR AUGUST 09 NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COLLECTED EDITIONS ARRIVING NOVEL IDEAS FROM AUGUST ONWARDS...

DEATH ANGEL STROKE: AND FAITH - FLASH: GODS AND SEASON 10 SEASON ZERO WAR - BOOK VOL.3: UNITED DEATH OF DC AND MASK SET DARK HORSE WOLVERINE Kreisberg, DC Gischler, MARVEL Hester, Various Daniel, Florea Conrad, Fischer Soule, McNiven

An all-new series taking place the The latest book and mask set stars When Faith returns to London, her Logan is no stranger to death. He’s world of smash-hit TV show The classic DC villain Deathstroke, and qualms about reteaming with vam- killed thousands. He’s watched Flash! features a PVC mask plus Death- pire Angel are pushed aside when teammates, friends and lovers die. Follow the adventures of Barry Allen stroke Vol. 1: Gods Of War graphic the demon Eldre Koh’s search for Now, stripped of his healing factor, as he struggles to balance his job novel, collecting issues #1-6 of the vengeance and his lost friend Illyr- the X-Man and Avenger faces his as a police crime scene investiga- new, hit series! ia brings him to Magic Town. Illyria own date with the reaper. There’s tor, his unrequited crush on Iris West In Shops: 04/11/2015 isn’t in Magic Town, but strangely, a bounty on his head, a price big (who also happens to be his boss’ Illyria’s host, Winifred Burkle ...is. enough to put a horde of enemies daughter) and his new life as Central Collects issues #11-#15. and assassins on his trail. The race is on to find Wolverine, but who City’s guardian angel. In Shops: 14/10/2015 put out the contract? Sabretooth? Collects : Season Zero AVENGERS: #1-12. TIME RUNS Viper? Or someone even worse? OUT VOL.1 When Logan discovers that his mys- In Shops: 02/09/2015 tery foe wants him alive, he turns MARVEL TRANS Hickman, FORMERS: on the offensive. As the hunted be- Cheung, Various COMBINER comes the hunter once more, he’s FIFTH BEATLE: WARS determined to die the way he lived. THE BRIAN IDW The Wolverine will go out fighting. EPSTEIN The Illuminati killed a world - and their STORY Scott, Barber, Collecting Death Of Wolverine #1-4. own is next. Jonathan Hickman’s cat- Stone, Ramondelli DARK HORSE aclysmic saga, two years in the mak- In Shops: 13/01/2016 Tiwary, ing, jumps ahead to its epic climax! Robinson, Baker For Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and the The Autobots and Decepticons’ Illuminati, it has all been building to uneasy peace is threatened by the WALKING this - the day of the Final Incursion! flames of war! DEAD VOL.24: The Fifth Beatle recounts the untold LIFE AND story of visionary Beatles manager The Cabal has re-formed with a new, Starscream - ruler of Cybertron - DEATH deadly cast, but their motives are makes contact with Windblade’s Brian Epstein-who created Beatle- IMAGE mania and guided the band from complicated. Both groups will fight to home world-and the only defense save their world - but have all the bat- against a new Cybertronian Empire Kirkman, Adlard basement gigs to unprecedented Steward, Various international stardom. This multiple- tles they’ve endured, all the sacrifices are Combiners - multiple Cybertro- award-winning has they’ve made, prepared either group nians forming together into huge, been added to the Rock and Roll for the inevitable moment where time dangerous forms! As the fair opens at Alexandria, old Hall of Fame Library and Archives, runs out for everybody? Collects issues #39-41 of Transform- friends return from afar and new ad- and a film adaptation begins shoot- Collecting Avengers (2012) #35-37 ers and the first three issues of Trans- versaries make their introductions. ing in 2015! and New Avengers (2013) #24-25. formers: Windblade-Combiner Wars. Collects The Walking Dead #139-144. 10 In Shops: 14/10/2015 In Shops: 09/09/2015 In Shops: 12/08/2015 In Shops: 26/08/2015 NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COLLECTED EDITIONS ARRIVING NOVEL IDEAS FROM AUGUST ONWARDS...

BLACK STAR TREK / SCIENCE VOL.3: ARROW: PLANET OF VANISHING SEASON 2.5 THE APES: STAR WARS: POINT DC PRIMATE PRINCESS DIRECTIVE LEIA IMAGE Guggenheim, Remender, Shimizu, IDW MARVEL Scalera, DiNisio Bennett, Various Tipton, Stott Waid, Dodson

The Anarchist League of Scientists Bridging the gap between seasons Star Trek: The hope for the best of When Princess Leia Organa was dive deeper into the Onion than ever 2 and 3 of the hit TV series Arrow, mankind’s future! captured by the Empire, she never before. these tales from issues #1-12 start Planet Of The Apes: A chilling look betrayed her convictions, even after Now veterans of inter-dimensional with Oliver Queen’s battle against at the fall of humanity! the complete destruction of her home travel, the team begins to realize the Church of Blood, with the fate of How could these worlds possibly world, Alderaan. When her rescue how damaging their actions are on Starling City hanging in the balance. collide? What could possibly cause came, Leia joined the fight, escaping the fabric of reality. No longer con- In Shops: 30/09/2015 Captain Kirk and the crew of the back to the Rebel Alliance and help- tent with merely fixing the Pillar and Enterprise to side with Dr. Zaius to ing strike the biggest blow against finding a way back home, they vow protect Ape City? And what does the Empire - destroying the Death to uphold a new ideal: leave every Colonel George Taylor have to say Star! In the aftermath of that victory, GUARDIANS the Empire is rounding up fugitive Al- dimension they visit better off than OF THE about it? how they found it. GALAXY deraanians, and that doesn’t sit well In Shops: 26/08/2015 with their Princess! Join the galaxy’s In Shops: 12/08/2015 VOL.5 (HC) MARVEL toughest Princess on a quest to save Bendis, Schiti, her people and rebuild her life! Cho Collecting Princess Leia #1-5. X-FILES AND 30 DAYS OF In Shops: 14/10/2015 GIANT SIZED The Guardians Of The Galaxy are NIGHT (HC) ARTISTS caught in the pull of the Black Vortex! DC/IDW PROOF: With the Slaughter Lords hot on their Niles, Jones, WALKING Mandrake, DEAD #1 tails, the X-Men and the Guardians MY LITTLE must find somewhere to stash their Sorrentino PONY: FRIENDS IMAGE FOREVER VOL.4 precious cargo, but will the tempta- Kirkman, Moore IDW tion of the Vortex’s unknown power The darkness is coming to Wain- Whitley, Curnow, be too much for this band of misfits? right, Alaska. A group of frozen The all-new Image Giant-Sized Rocket leaps into action! Gamora Garbowska, bodies are eerily and impossibly ar- Mebberson Artist’s Proof Edition series pre- goes on the offensive! Star-Lord is ranged at the top of a 40-foot pole sents special artist achievements defiant! This story has it all - but does so FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana in their raw form in an oversized it seem like they have forgotten some- Scully are called in to investigate. Four tales of friendship and fun! format. thing in all the cosmic craziness? Oh, X-Files/ 30 Days of Night brings to- Contains stories involving Rarity Tony Moore’s gritty line work from that’s right, Peter got elected presi- gether two iconic franchises, pitting and Babs, Spike and Luna, Apple- The Walking Dead #1 is presented dent of Spartax! Wait, what?! the government’s best supernatu- jack and Mayor Mare, plus Silver here in glorious black and white Collecting Guardians Of The Galaxy ral investigators against a horde of Spoon and Diamond Tiara! inks, free of grey tones, at 11x17. (2013) #24-27 and Annual (2015) #1. parasitic vampires. Collects issues #13-16. In Shops: 26/08/2015 In Shops: 30/09/2015 In Shops: 12/08/2015 In Shops: 19/08/2015 11 BIFF’S BIT Email Biff here: [email protected]

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