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INSIDE... MILES MORALES IS... ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN! KEYED UP HISTORY BOOK... Atomic Robo: Knights Of The Golden Circle #1 CONTENTS: PAGE 03... New Series and One-Shots for April: Dark Horse PAGE 10... New Series and One-Shots for April:

PAGE 04... New Series and One-Shots for April: DC Comics PAGE 11... New Series and One-Shots for April: Indies

PAGE 05... New Series and One-Shots for April: IDW Publishing PAGE 12... Novel Ideas - Part One

PAGE 06... New Series and One-Shots for April: IDW Publishing PAGE 13... Novel Ideas - Part Two

PAGE 07... New Series and One-Shots for April: PAGE 14... Biff’s Bit: Marvel To Ditch Comic Shops?

PAGE 08... New Series and One-Shots for April: Image Comics PAGE 15... History Books - ‘Locke & Key: Welcome To Lovecraft’

PAGE 09... New Series and One-Shots for April: Marvel Comics PAGE 15... Parting Shots - Final Issues in May

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line was to try and stop those irri- readers about digital, new comics or tating Comic retailers making extra old comics they state their reasons money from back issues when sell- for buying paper as being a better ing them for higher sums later on. way to appreciate the comic and as An interesting blog article appeared Marvel wanted their share of that pie to the 1970s-1990s thing, they feel this month. According to Goo- as well. these are better drawn, written and designed! Their words not mine. dEreader.com/blog/digital-comic- Always it seemed that Marvel act- news Marvel Comics are intending ed like a spoilt child and saw other Before you all think that I hate Marvel to ditch paper comics in the near fu- people getting what was essentially comics I must point out that I love the ture. He uses unfounded facts and theirs. They didn’t see, for instance, Marvel characters, Daredevil got me figures to back up his hypothesis, that by selling back issues retailers into reading comics full time. The Sil- but, it does raise a question that had were making it possible for a new ver Surfer and the Marvel cosmic line occurred to me. reader to get years of old stories and broadened my horizons and encour- Many a time in the last year, whilst this in it’s turn meant they also bought aged my imagination. Peter Parker reading Marvel comics, I found my- more new issues. Also, it meant that will always have a special place in self irritated by the prescence of nu- retailers were, I say were, buying ex- my heart. Shangi Shi the Master Of merious adverts and coertions to go tra stock each month to cater for this Kung Fu gave my life direction and on line, use an android app or Marvel market. No, Marvel only saw them- a philosophy. and his AR ap, go to Marvel.com and down selves as the losers. At no time in the many Marvel titles encouraged my MARVEL expanded reading of books as his load comics and use the Marvel free last 20 years would I say that Marvel literary references were many. Then digital download code. I had myself have actually , sincerely, tried to help of course Stan Lee and his prosaic begun to think that Marvel were start- and support retailers. style, his love of aliteration, his fond- ing to shape up to oust the comic TO DITCH So, is this just paranoia that Marvel ness for mythology, Shakespeare shop by removing paper comics, would ditch paper? To be honest I and his general plagiarism with style thereby keeping all the money from see that in the short term they would gave me such a thirst for the English comic creation to themselves. be foolhardy to do that. My experi- COMIC language that at one time I was actu- So, knowing that in years past Mar- ence at the moment is that ‘paper’ ally reading a dictionary for the fun of vel did try to distribute their own comic sales are increasing. Young discovering words. comics, but failed. Did try to encour- readers are buying into paper as SHOPS? That is the Marvel I love, the char- age stores to go Marvel only in the much as into digital. Currently pa- acters and their history. It is just the hope of seeing which areas were per runs at 90% and digital at 10% titles and graphic novels available reliant on their product to keep trad- machinations of the corporate suits I strong enough to support setting up for the industry as a whole. However, loathe and detest. a chain of Marvel stores. Did make long term? I firmly believe that the from the many smaller companies ing. I do not over stock on any Marvel the attempt to oust as many ‘mid- corporate suits are planning for this who have a much stronger faith, titles now. I buy to sell out within a few Well, what do YOU think? dle men’ who, in Marvel’s eyes, were and trying to nudge as many people belief and wish to produce comics months. I spend my spare cash on taking money that rightly belonged this way as possible. in the paper form. A form which is buying in older Marvel comics from to Marvel Comics! Knowing this I am Because of this, my long term strate- unique and which digital can never the 1970s to 1990s which, counter inclined to believe the article. gy is to encourage all Ace customers really displace. When Marvel make intuitively, young readers from 12 Then of course the main motivation to branch out their reading tastes, to the break, and I really do believe they years to 25 years are buying more behind the Marvel Graphic Novel encompass the marvellous range of will attempt this, I do not want to be and more. When talking to these 14 PARTING SHOTS MAY WILL SEE THE FINAL ISSUES OF...

APHRODITE IX #11 (Image) Matt Hawkins, Stjepan Sejic Series finale! One of the two established City States, Speros or Genesis, is completely annihilated. Death, death, and more death! HISTORY BOOKS In Shops: 21/05/2014 A GUIDE TO GRAPHIC NOVELS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED... THE BLACK BAT #12 (Dynamite) This month we feature the first volume of the fabulous Brian Buccellato, Ronan Cliquet, Jae Lee Final issue! In the final chapter to this story, the Black Bat is confronted by the LOCKE & Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez, unforeseen consequences of his vigilante quest for redemption. He comes KEY VOL.1: enticingly titled Welcome To Lovecraft! WELCOME face to face with the shadowy villain that has been pulling all of the strings, and TO and Best Short Story, the Sydney father (Stephen King), in creating a must decide how far he is willing to go to save the city. LOVECRAFT J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award tale full of horror and suspense with In Shops: 07/05/2014 IDW 2007 and the 2011 Eisner for Best an emotional heart. The respective DARK HORSE PRESENTS #36 (Dark Horse) Hill, Rodriguez Writer among his growing collection characters are strong and sympa- Various of critical accolades. This collection thetic, weaved into a understand- Living legends , Stan Sakai, and Jaime Hernandez all contribute of Locke & Key features an introduc- able plot that mixes the macbre, the “Acclaimed suspense novelist and to this final issue of Dark Horse Presents! Mignola and Ben Stenbeck deliver a menacing and the mysterious. New York Times best-selling author tion by Robert Crais, author of the new Witchfinder story, while Hernandez introduces Merlon the magician! This Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) creates best-selling Elvis Cole novels.” Gabriel Rodriguez’s wonderful art issue also features a surprise-ending sci-fi story from Martin Conaghan and an all-new story of dark fantasy and Welcome To Lovecraft is the collect- confidently conveys the diverse Jimmy Broxton! emotional range felt by the char- wonder: Locke & Key. Written by Hill ed first-half of Act One in Joe Hill’s In Shops: 21/05/2014 acters, as well as the violent tone and featuring astounding artwork Locke & Key structural narrative. (which is not overdone) and the re- #24 (Image) from Gabriel Rodriguez, Locke & Following the gruesome loss of their markable settings and scenery. , , Bettie Breitweiser Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely father to a derranged local teenag- A tense and dramatic conclusion It all ends here! The final extra-length issue of Fatale! There’s so much story New England mansion, with fantas- er, the Locke children - Tyler, Kinsey raises questions, leading in to the that we needed a lot more room. Will Josephine’s final secrets be revealed? tic doors that transform all who dare and Bode - and their mother move subsequent adventures of the Lock- Will there be much tragedy? Will Brubaker and Phillips fans love all the crazy to walk through them... and home to to ‘Keyhouse’ on the Lovecraft is- es, which are also not to be missed! extras jammed into this special final issue? Yes, yes, and yes. a hate-filled and relentless creature land in New England. Bloody and brilliant, we think it’s In Shops: 21/05/2014 that will not rest until it forces open From here, people and events sur- bloody brilliant! the most terrible door of them all... rounding the Lockes seem more THE MOVEMENT #12 (DC) Locke & Key creator Hill has re- than coincidental, and strange, su- Gail Simone, Freddie Williams, Stephen Segovia ceived the Bram Stoker Award for pernatural elements begin to mate- £14.99 Final issue - There’s no length the Movement won’t go to if it means rescuing Best Fiction Collection, the British rialise, along some suspicious keys. one of their own from a cult that has deep roots in Burden’s hometown. Fantasy Award for Best Collection Joe Hill follows in the footsteps of his Add to basket In Shops: 07/05/2014 15