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ILLUMINATIONS THIS OCTOBER... AUG 2015 BACK TO THE FUTURE! & : ETERNAL! ALL NEW MARVEL! PAPER GIRLS! LARA CROFT! BIFF’S BIT MARVEL-LOUS! NOVEL IDEAS AND MORE! Clean Room (DC Vertigo) CONTENTS: PAGE 03... New Series and One-Shots for October: Dark Horse

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

PAGE 05... New Series and One-Shots for October: DC Comics

PAGE 06... New Series and One-Shots for October: IDW Publishing

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PAGE 09... New Series and One-Shots for October: Marvel Comics

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PAGE 12... New Series and One-Shots for October: Indies

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PAGE 15... Novel Ideas - Part Two SIGN UP FOR THE ACE COMICS MAILOUT PAGE 16... Biff’s Bit: ACE Relauch & Marvel-lous AND KEEP UP TO DATE PAGE 17... Top 20 Graphic Novels: July’s Bestselling Books WITH THE LATEST RELEASES, SUBSCRIPTIONS, CHARTS, ILLUMINATIONS, EVENTS acecomics.co.uk AND MORE! 02 LARA CROFT AND THE FROZEN OMEN #1 Corinna Bechko, Randy Green, Andy Owens, Jean- DARK HORSE Sebastien Rossbach GOON IN NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR OCTOBER An all-new Lara Croft miniseries begins with Corinna Bechko THEATRE at the helm! BIZARRE #1 It’s up to Lara to stop a group of cultists from causing world- , wide cataclysmic devastation, and ancient ivory artifacts John Dunivant hold the key to both salvation and destruction! It’s a race In this special Halloween one-shot, PLANTS VS against time in Lara’s new quest, filled with incredible action, Goon finds himself trapped in the DEAD VENGEANCE ZOMBIES: dual pistols, and high-spirited adventure. Theatre Bizarre at the mercy of #1 GARDEN In Shops: 07/10/2015 Zombo the Clown and burlesque WARFARE #1 queen Roxi Dlite! Bill Morrison, Keith Paul Tobin, In Shops: 14/10/2015 Champagne Jacob Chabot It’s 1940, and a phony body on ex- Based on the hit , this HELLBOY hibit in a carnival sideshow sud- series tells the story leading up to AND THE denly springs to life and shambles the beginning of Plants vs. Zom- BPRD - away. Not so phony after all, he is bies: Garden Warfare 2! Written 1953: THE John Doe, radio commentator and by Paul Tobin (Bandette, Banana PHANTOM archenemy of Detroit’s notorious Sunday) and illustrated by Jacob HAND / THE Purple Gang! But why did he disap- Chabot (The Mighty Skullboy Army, KELPIE pear in 1930, and why did the may- SpongeBob Comics), this is a hilari- , or, the mob, and the cops all want ous, action-packed, all-ages, zom- Ben Stenbeck him dead? bie-fightin’ adventure! Hellboy’s first experiences with In Shops: 07/10/2015 In Shops: 21/10/2015 Bruttenholm in England involve the phantom hand of a murderer and a demonic water spirit in stories remi- niscent of the early Mignola master- piece “The Corpse.” In Shops: 28/10/2015 EVE: STEAM MAN VALKYRIE #1 #1 Brian Wood, Mark Alan Eduardo Miller, Joe R. Francisco, Lansdale, Piotr Borkur Kowalski Eiriksson The Old West, but not as we know Superstar writer Brian Wood tells it. Giant steam-powered robots the origin of Rán, founder of the are created to take invading ROOK #1 Valkyrie-the deadliest space-fighter Martians and armies of killer albino Steven Grant, pilots in the EVE universe! apes in an all-out brawl. The Steam This series leads into EVE: Valkyrie, Man, a giant metal man operated by Bill DuBay’s time-traveling adventure one of the most hotly anticipated a team of monster hunters, seems classic returns, penned and illustrat- video games of all time, a ground- to have the town protected and the ed by comics masters Steven Grant breaking virtual reality space-dog- West under control, until a crazed and Paul Gulacy! Restin Dane is fighting shooter from the creators of and powerful vampire comes to ready for action-anyplace, anytime! EVE Online. town to bring forth the ! In Shops: 21/10/2015 In Shops: 14/10/2015 In Shops: 21/10/2015 03 BATMAN AND ROBIN: ETERNAL #1 NEW SERIES James Tynion IV, , Tony S. Daniel AND ONE-SHOTS FOR OCTOBER DC It’s here at last-the sequel to the blockbuster weekly series Bat- man Eternal! Five years ago, Batman and Robin worked the most disturbing LOIS AND case of their crimefighting careers-bringing down the organi- CLARK #1 zation of the trafficker, the mysterious woman Dan Jurgens, Lee Weeks known only as Mother. At the time, never quite un- derstood the scope of that case, but now its darkest secrets are Following the epic events of Con- vergence, here are the adventures coming back to haunt him and everyone else who ever worked of the last sons and daughter of the with Batman! With Bruce Wayne now lost to them, Dick and all Krypton and Earth as they try to sur- his allies are out in the cold! Who can they trust? Is someone vive in a world not their own. But can among them not who they say they are? And who is the deadly, they keep this world from suffering silent young woman in black who’s come to look- the same fate as their own? Can this ing for Batman? Superman stop the villains he once fought before they are created on Prepare yourself for six months of international intrigue, twists this world? What is , and and turns, and new additions to the world of Batman and Robin, why does Lois’s discovery of it place from showrunners James Tynion IV and Scott Snyder, and writ- everyone she loves in jeopardy? ers Tim Seeley, , Genevieve Valentine, Ed Bris- What will happen when their nine- son, and Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelley! year-old son learns the true identity of his parents? Make way for the In Shops: 07/10/2015 original power couple, for better, for worse, in sickness and in health, until do them part! In Shops: 14/10/2015

CLEAN ROOM #1 , ART OPS #1 Jon Davis- Shaun Simon, Hunt, Jenny Michael Allred Frison TELOS #1 Art not only imitates life, it becomes Astrid Mueller is the enigmatic and Jeff King, Carlo it! When rogue figures from famous compelling guru of a giant self-help Pagulayan, works of art come to life and escape organization-a devastatingly pow- Jason Paz their frames, it’s up to Reggie Riot erful figure in the industry between The villain of the world-shattering and the agents of Art Operatives to psychology and religion. Journal- event stars in his own track them down before they wreak ist Chloe Pierce’s fiancé decided new series! Set loose from his plane- havoc on the unsuspecting public. to pick up Astrid’s book, and within tary tether at the end of the best-sell- But Reggie has secrets of his own three months he blew his brains out. ing Convergence, Telos finds himself that may affect his ability to interact Now Chloe is on a mission to find out free and able to traverse space and with these living works of art - and who Astrid Mueller really is. What is time via a sliver of Brainiac’s powers. he wants no part in the agency his this Clean Room she’s been hearing As this epic begins, he embarks on mother ran before him. Pop culture about where your deepest fear and an odyssey, journeying across time will never be the same. worst moments are revealed? and space in search of his past. In Shops: 28/10/2015 In Shops: 21/10/2015 In Shops: 07/10/2015 04 NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR OCTOBER JUSTICE SURVIVORS’ DC LEAGUE - CLUB #1 GODS AND TWILIGHT MEN: LEX Lauren Beukes, David CHILDREN #1 LUTHOR #1 Halvorson, Gilbert Francis Ryan Kelly, Bill Hernandez, Manapul, Bong Sienkiewicz Dazo One was possessed by a poltergeist. For the first time ever, legendary Lex Luthor has gained the power of Another was trapped in a haunted comics creators a God, but his one failure continues house. A third had a killer doll. Ever (Love and Rockets) and Darwyn to deny him the peace he craves- wonder what happened to these Cooke (DC: The New Frontier) have and only a crazed Superman can children of the 1980s? Find out in joined forces for a surreal project un- help him get it! this new series cowritten by horror like anything you’ve ever read before! In Shops: 11/11/2015 novelist Lauren Beukes and vide- When a white orb washes up on the ogame journalist Dave Halverson, TITANS HUNT #1 shore of a remote Latin American JUSTICE with art by Ryan Kelly (Northlanders). Dan Abnett, Paulo Siqueira village, a group of children naturally LEAGUE In Shops: 07/10/2015 poke at the strange object to see - GODS Convergence is over, but the ripples are still being felt, especial- JUSTICE what it is. The orb explodes, leaving AND MEN: LEAGUE ly by a young precog named . What are these visions she’s the children completely blind. And SHAZAM #1 when a beautiful young woman who - GODS having of a team the world never knew? And why Steve Orlando, AND MEN: does she feel compelled to seek out Dick Grayson, Roy Harper, may be an alien is found wandering , BATMAN #1 Donna Troy and an Atlantean named Garth and warn them that the seafront, she’s taken in by the Francis townspeople, but soon becomes a Manapul Peter J. something dark and sinister is coming after them? Who are Mal, person of interest to a quirky pair of Tomasi, Gnarrk, Hank Hall and Dawn Granger, and what is their connec- A boy becomes an army of Gods! No Fernando undercover CIA agents, and the tar- longer does Billy Batson have access Pasarin, Francis tion to the others-and to the fate of every soul on Earth? This is get of affection for a young scientist. to the powers of the Old Gods. Now, Manapul the Secret History of the Teen Titans! Can they come together to prevent he commands the combined might As the War rages on, Bat- In Shops: 21/10/2015 an all-out alien invasion and save the of , Mantis and other New man’s role in the world alters drasti- souls in this sleepy, seaside town? Gods. But these Gods are not pas- cally as he’s forced to accept his new In Shops: 14/10/2015 sive. And they will sooner destroy Bil- role as a God of Knowledge. ly than give up control of their power. In Shops: 28/10/2015 In Shops: 11/11/2015 JUSTICE - JUSTICE LEAGUE GODS AND LEAGUE - GODS MEN: GREEN - GODS AND MEN: LANTERN #1 AND MEN: #1 Jeff King, Evan SUPERMAN , Shaner, Francis #1 Jesus Merino, Manapul Francis Francis With the Corps Manapul, Bong Manapul threatened by a strange extinction- Dazo is forced to take on the level event on Oa, only Evolving into a God of Strength, role of the Black Racer, harbinger of and John Stewart remain to save the Superman has become an angry, death! But can anyone escape this Corps--and themselves-from joining violent brute. But what unlikely hero unlikely grim reaper? Darkseid’s army forever! can save him? In Shops: 28/10/2015 In Shops: 04/11/2015 In Shops: 04/11/2015 05 FISTFUL OF BLOOD #1 , “She drifted into town with a few days to kill...” Re-releasing the crazed adventure from Kevin Eastman and Simon Bisley! Every issue of this special IDW edition will feature artwork re-mastered by Kevin Eastman, all-new colors, NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR OCTOBER and a plethora of sketches, process work and other bonus material, too! In Shops: 14/10/2015

H COVER STAR H GI JOE: BACK TO COBRA THE FUTURE WORLD #1 ORDER - Bob Gale, Brent PRELUDE Schoonover, , Dan Schoening, S.L. Gallant, Various Paul Pope “Untold Tales and Alternate Time- It’s zero hour for Real American lines,” Part 1: Back To The Future Hero! This table-setter leads into a creator/screenwriter Bob Gale re- mammoth six-part, bi-weekly event turns with all-new tales from the kicking off with next month’s Real twisting and turning timeline that American Heroes #219 and #220! made Back to the Future a, well... G.I. Joe has been fighting the evil timeless pop-culture phenomenon! forces of COBRA for decades, but Take a trip back to 1985 and be now COBRA is ready to unleash its there when Doc Brown and Marty master plan on an unsuspecting G.I. McFly first meet, and then jump Joe! even farther back, to 1945, to wit- In Shops: 21/10/2015 ness Doc’s involvement in the su- per-secret Manhattan Project. In Shops: 21/10/2015

TRANS SKY- FORMERS: LANDERS: REDEMP- SUPER- TION CHARGERS John #1 Barber, Livio Ramondelli Ron Marz, David Into the wild! The Dinobots en- Rodriguez, Fico gaged in some of the most brutal Ossio missions of the war - which made Get supercharged! Join Spyro and them damaged goods in the peace. all his Skylanders friends as they Now, a mission to change the face meet a new group of friends and of Cybertron offers a chance for embark on their most perilous jour- something they never imagined... ney to date! redemption. In Shops: 07/10/2015 In Shops: 21/10/2015 06 CODENAME BABOUSHKA: CONCLAVE OF DEATH #1 Antony Johnston, Shari Chankhamma the sexy Russian Bond girl... was actually the hero? Codename Baboushka is an action-packed modern pulp spy thriller full of high-stakes thrills in exotic locations, with a kick-ass female hero in the style of and Modesty Blaise! BLACK I HATE MAGICK #1 FAIRY Written by Antony Johnston (The Fuse, The Coldest City, Daredevil) and illustrated by Shari Greg Rucka, LAND #1 Chankhamma (Sheltered, The Sisters’ Luck). The enigmatic Contessa is a wealthy socialite, Nicola Scott Skottie Young the last heiress to a noble Russian line-and secretly a deadly assassin! Blackmailed by the US The hammer falls this Halloween! Superstar Skottie Young makes his government to carry out dirty jobs even the CIA can’t sanction, she’s got nothing to lose... and From Times bestselling Image debut with an all-new series! everything to fight for! and -winning writer The Adventure Time / Alice in Won- In Shops: 07/10/2015 Greg Rucka and superstar artist derland-style epic that smashes it’s Nicola Scott! cute little face against Tank Girl / Detective Rowan Black works rob- -esque violent madness bery / homicide for the Portsmouth has arrived. In an adventure that ain’t PD, but her greatest mystery is the for the little kiddies, (unless you have truth about herself... both who she super cool parents, then whatever), has been, and who she will be- you’ll meet Gert - a six year old girl come. Yet there are others in Row- who has been stuck in the magical an’s world with very long memo- world of Fairyland for thirty years and ries, and the power that one person will hack and slash her way through holds, another will always covet. anything to find her way back home. Plus, each issue also features an all- Join Gert and her giant battle-axe on AXCEND #1 new work of original fiction by Greg a delightfully blood soaked journey Shane Davis, Rucka! A new gothic-noir ongoing to see who will survive the girl who Various series about legacy, destiny, re- hates Fairyland! Superman Earth One co-creator demption...and the price of magic. In Shops: 14/10/2015 Shane Davis returns to comics for In Shops: 28/10/2015 an all-new ! What happens when a video game de- cides to come to our reality to play? When there are no extra lives, and looms on the hori- PAPER zon, when your life revolves around GIRLS #1 gaming like teenager Eric Morn, you Brian K. Press Start. Vaughan, Cliff SWITCH #1 Writer / artist Shane Davis (Super- Chang man: Earth One), Michelle Delecki Stjepan Sejic writer Brian K. Vaughan (JLA,Venom) and Morry Hollowell After millions of views on DeviantArt, launches a brand-new ongoing se- (, Old Man Logan) bring this popular web comic finally gets its ries with superstar Wonder Wom- you an epic sci-fi/thriller that’s like own series. A teenage girl gets a mighty an artist Cliff Chiang! In the early Tron meets Inception with a cheat artifact that grants her immense pow- hours after Halloween of 1988, four code! This special introductory is- ers...the catch? It’s a bit haunted! This 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls sue features twenty-eight full pages self-contained “universe” includes uncover the most important story of and no ads! Each issue of the series Artifacts and characters from other all time. Stand By Me meets War of IMAGE will feature a linking cover variant by series (with permission!) in a delecta- the Worlds in this mysterious young NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS Davis showcasing the book’s cast. bly Stjepan Sejic fashion! adult adventure! FOR OCTOBER In Shops: 07/10/2015 In Shops: 14/10/2015 In Shops: 07/10/2015 07 NEW SERIES AND MARVEL ONE-SHOTS FOR OCTOBER

ALL NEW ASTON- ALL ISHING DIFFERENT ANT-MAN #1 POINT ONE #0 Nick Spencer, #1 Kenneth Ramon Michael Del Rocafort, Rosanas, Mark Mundo, Various Various Brooks In the aftermath of Secret Wars, The kickoff to the All-New Avengers Scott Lang was a down-on-his- it’s an All-New, All-Different Marvel line begins here, with new stories luck, divorced ex-con - until he stole Universe, and this is your one-stop of the All-New, All-Different Aveng- renowned scientist and super hero entry point to the changes and mys- ers, , A-, ’s size-altering technolo- teries that have developed during New Avengers, and Un- gy in the hopes of saving his daugh- the eight months that have passed! canny Avengers! Someone is care- ter’s life. Through that act of doing Featuring new stories of Daredev- fully studying the movements of the wrong for the right reasons, Scott il, , Classfied, Classified, Avengers and those in their orbit- inadvertently learned how to be a Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Contest but do they mean to harm, or help? hero himself. With Pym’s blessing Of Champions! Find out the first clues in this special and his daughter Cassie at his side, In Shops: 07/10/2015 launch issue! he became... The Astonishing Ant- In Shops: 07/10/2015 Man! But when a curveball upends Scott’s life, will he continue to be a hero, or will he return to his former life of crime? In Shops: 21/10/2015 ANGELA: QUEEN OF AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 HEL #1 Marguerite CAPTAIN , Giuseppe Camuncoli, Bennett, Aaron AMERICA: Kim Jacinto, SAM Spider-Man has gone global! Parker Industries is more Stephanie WILSON #1 successful than ever, with offices in New York, Shanghai, Hans Nick Spencer, London and San Francisco and Peter Parker is racking up the Hel Hath A New Fury. Daniel Acuña frequent flyer miles with his “bodyguard” Spider-Man in tow, Stolen from , exiled from When Steve Rogers was restored #1 of course. But success breeds enemies and a reinvigorated Heven, and robbed of Sera, her to his natural age, he chose one of Tim Seeley, greatest companion - Angela plung- his closest and most trusted allies Logan Faerber, Zodiac have also widened their scope to threaten the whole Various world. Join Dan Slott and Giuseppe Camuncoli as they es into the depths of blackest Hel to take up his . Now Sam Wil- There’s a new hunter in town... and take Spider-Man to the next level! This huge first issue also to save her friend... and once there, son, formerly the Avenger known as the lost princess of Asgard will carve Falcon, carries on the fight for -lib she’s raising the stakes! includes stories featuring , Spidey 2099, Spider-Woman out a realm of her very own. All hail erty and justice as the all-new, all- In Shops: 28/10/2015 and much more! Angela, the New Queen Of Hel! different ! In Shops: 07/10/2015 In Shops: 21/10/2015 In Shops: 14/10/2015 08 NEW SERIES AND MARVEL ONE-SHOTS FOR OCTOBER

GUARDIANS EXTRA- OF THE ORDINARY GALAXY #1 CHEW- X-MEN #1 Brian Michael BACCA #1 , Bendis, Valerio Gerry Duggan, Humberto Schiti, Arthur Ramos Adams Known as the skilled co-pilot of the The fate of mutantkind is decided The raccoon’s in charge! infamous Millennium Falcon, the leg- here! Staring down the threat of ex- Peter Quill has abandoned the endary Wookiee warrior Chewbacca tinction once more, veteran X-Man Guardians and his role as Star-Lord will star in his very own limited com- pulls together the team she’ll to be Emperor of the Spartax. Rock- ic series! After the battle of Yavin, need to ensure her race’s survival. et didn’t wait a single minute to take Chewbacca is on his own when he Together, these Extraordinary X- the reins and become team crash lands his ship on an Impe- Men will struggle with the familiar of Drax, Venom, , rial occupied planet. Now stranded, burden of being hated and feared, (a.k.a. Star-Lady ?!?!) and new Chewie finds himself caught in the while facing threats the likes of Guardian , the everlov- middle of trying to return to the re- which they’ve never seen. Here’s ing Thing! DOCTOR bellion and helping a young and hoping they survive the experience! In Shops: 14/10/2015 STRANGE #1 feisty girl in need. Writer Gerry Dug- In Shops: 14/10/2015 Jason Aaron, gan and artist Phil Noto bring us a never-before-seen tale of the heroic Wookiee we all know and love. THE Who do you call when things In Shops: 14/10/2015 HOWLING are coming out of your dreams COMMAN- DOS OF and trying to kill you? Or when #1 SHIELD #1 your daughter is cursing in Latin and walking like a spider? , Frank Gerardo Barbiere, Brent Or when your dog keeps Zaffino, David Schoonover screaming at you to strangle CONTEST OF Aja Hidden deep beneath Area 13 lies your neighbors? Doctor CHAMPIONS “My curse is that I see the flaw in the clandestine headquarters of #1 Strange, of course. He’s the all things. Systems. Philosophies. S.T.A.K.E. - a top secret division of only person standing between Al Ewing, Paco Structures. People. Everything. S.H.I.E.L.D. housing aliens, mythi- Medina Never forget who I am. I am Kar- cal beasts, and all manner of extra- us and the forces of darkness, Welcome to the Battlerealm - a bro- nak of the .” You may not normal entities. Under the com- but has he been paying his ken section of space-time where know who Karnak is now, but you mand of legendary soldier Dum tab? Every act of magic has cosmic beings gamble for the ul- will when Warren Ellis (, Dum Dugan, these monsters step a cost and Jason Aaron (, timate power while their unwill- ) and Gerardo Zaffino are out of the shadows and defend the Original Sin) and Chris Bachalo ing pawns fight for their lives and done with you. Phil Coulson goes to world against supernatural threats (Uncanny X-Men) are going to a chance to return back to Earth. Karnak to help with a SHIELD case too dangerous for normal men as Who will survive... the Contest Of with Inhuman implications and what The All-New, All-Different Howling put Stephen Strange through Champions? he’s going to find will terrify you. Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D.! hell to even the scales. In Shops: 07/10/2015 In Shops: 21/10/2015 In Shops: 28/10/2015 In Shops: 07/10/2015 09 SECRET WARS: AGENTS OF ATLAS #1 Tom Taylor, Steve Pugh, Leonard Kirk NEW SERIES AND Son of anarchy! An oppressive domain run by ! MARVEL ONE-SHOTS FOR OCTOBER The peoples’ only hope? An underground group of rebels... Gorilla-Man! M-11! ! ! Marvel Boy! But their leader ... captured! Can Agent Coulson help save MARVEL the resistance or will he lead them to their doom? : SUPER GUARDIANS SPIDER-MAN In Shops: 21/10/2015 HERO SPEC- OF THE 2099 #1 TACULAR #1 GALAXY #1 , Karl Kesel, Joe Will Sliney, David Baldeon, Caramagna, Francesco Todd Nauck Various Mattina A super hero extravaganza the likes The Guardians Of The Galaxy return With a job at Parker Industries, a of which the world has never seen! in their new on-going series! stable relationship, and uncertain of Get a front row seat to the hottest Star-Lord! Rocket! Groot! Gamora! what impact his actions will have on ticket in town as we unveil Saturna- Drax! Join your favorite galactic the future, Miguel O’Hara has de- lia and the Interstellar Circus Spec- guardians at the start of their new cided that it’s time to hang up the tacular! But there’s more to these adventures! webs and retire from being Spider- Man. But when a dangerous new three rings than meets the eye! Fea- In Shops: 16/10/2015 turing a wild array of new characters threat appears and puts his new and some of Marvel’s all-time most life in jeopardy, he’s got no choice popular super heroes including the but to don some new threads and Avengers, the Guardians of the Gal- tackle the problem the only way he axy, and Spider-Man! knows how: head on! In Shops: 14/10/2015 In Shops: 14/10/2015 SPIDER- GWEN #1 Jason Latour, Robbi UNBEAT- NEW Rodriguez ABLE AVENGERS Because you demanded it! Gwen SQUIRREL #1 Stacy is back in the webs and has GIRL #1 Al Ewing, an all-new, all-different mystery to , Gerardo solve: the reappearance of The Liz- Erica Sandoval ard! Spider-Woman was convinced Henderson Everything is new. In the wake of Se- that the Lizard died in her arms Alongside her friends Tippy-Toe (a cret Wars, the old order changeth - along with Peter Parker. But when squirrel) and Nancy (a regular hu- and Bobby DaCosta, Sunspot, is just a similar monster goes on a reptilian man with no powers whatsoever - the man to changeth it. Welcome to rampage, she’s left with doubts not they checked), Doreen Green - aka Avengers Idea Mechanics - a super- only about Peter’s life, but his death The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl - is all scientific global rescue squad of to- as well. And witness the debut of that stands between the Earth and morrow’s heroes... today! America the Osborns of Earth-65! Fan-fa- total destruction! Sometimes. Other doesn’t want them! S.H.I.E.L.D. vorite creators Jason Latour, Robbi times there’s no threats and she’s doesn’t know what to do with them! Rodriguez and Rico Renzi are back just a regular computer science But Earth might not survive without... for more with a story that every Spi- student. That’s an adventure too the New Avengers! der-Fan will be talking about! though! In Shops: 14/10/2015 In Shops: 14/10/2015 In Shops: 28/10/2015 10 WHAT IF: - GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #1 UNCANNY MARVEL Joshua Williamson, Jason Copland, Dave Rapoza INHUMANS #1 NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR OCTOBER What if the Guardians Of The Galaxy found out the Charles Soule, were hiding Thanos? Thanos is the most wanted man in the Steve McNiven, universe and for years he was secretly being held by the Brandon Illuminati. The Guardians of the Galaxy just found out and Peterson they are ****** off. Meet the Uncanny Inhumans. Me- dusa! ! ! Reader! In Shops: 21/10/2015 ?! ?! WHAT IF: It’s eight months later and every- INFINITY thing is different for the Inhumans. AVENGERS UNCANNY #1 and Johnny Storm are an AVENGERS item. Black Bolt is running covert #1 Joshua missions of his own. And something Williamson, Gerry Duggan, , so big happened between the Inhu- Ryan Stegman Matt Ferguson mans and the X-Men that Beast is now on the side of the Inhumans. New team, same mission. What if the Avengers lost the war? And if that’s not enough, the most Steve Rogers has formed a new Years after the fall of Earth, Cannon- dangerous villain throughout Mar- Avengers unity squad compro- ball leads a small team of surviv- vel’s history is against them - Kang mised of humans, mutants and... ing mutants in the deepest parts of The Conqueror. Inhumans? A new threat to the space looking for shelter. Eventually Don’t miss what the epic team be- Avengers is revealed. Wait, is that they meet up with a few surviving hind Death Of (Charles Deadpool on the cover? Is he seri- Avengers who had go to great and Soule and Steve McNiven) have in ously an Avenger now? scary lengths to survive... store for you. All this plus a bonus In Shops: 14/10/2015 In Shops: 14/10/2015 story by Charles and Brandon Pe- terson (Uncanny X-Men). In Shops: 21/10/2015

WHAT IF: INFINITY DARK REIGN WHAT IF: WHAT IF: #1 INFINITY INFINITY Joshua THANOS #1 INHUMANS Williamson, Joshua #1 Goran Williams, Mike Sudzuka, Henderson, Joshua James Flames Tom Whalen Williamson, Riley Rossmo, What if had the In- What if Thanos joined the Aveng- Christian Ward finity Gauntlet?! ers? What if the Inhumans took over Dark Reign returns as the Green Thanos made a deal with the Aveng- Earth? Black Bolt is the new su- Goblin gets his hands on the most ers to use his army to protect Earth preme ruler of Earth, but what hap- dangerous item in the Marvel Uni- from the invading forces, but it came pened to Earth’s Mightiest Heroes? verse! No one is safe! with a cost... In Shops: 07/10/2015 In Shops: 28/10/2015 In Shops: 07/10/2015 11 ASSASSIN’S INDIES GRUMPY CAT LEGEND OF CREED #1 NEW SERIES AND #1 OZ: WICKED ONE-SHOTS FOR WEST #1 TITAN DYNAMITE Anthony Del SEPTEMBER Ben McCool, ASPEN Col, Conor Steve Uy, Ken Tom Hutchison, McCreery, Neil Haeser, Various Allison Borges Edwards Dynamite proudly presents The Mis- Take a trip back over the rainbow to Charlotte is wasting her time in a adventures of Grumpy Cat, featuring an Oz you never knew existed! Dor- dead-end job, spending her free time “The World’s Grumpiest Cat” and othy Gale slips on her ruby spurs af- chasing down conspiracy theories her brother, Pokey! With her ever- ter falling out of the sky and is sent on the internet. When a real-life con- present pout and sassy disposition, off to follow the Yellow Brick Road spiracy crashes into her life, she’s Grumpy Cat has won the hearts of to the Emerald City. The only prob- pulled into the orbit of a mysterious people everywhere. Grumpy Cat is lem is the road is gone! Oz itself has organisation of principled killers with the perfect combination of unbear- been transformed into a wild west roots stretching back thousands of able cuteness, instant fan appeal, landscape: Flying monkeys and years - and users of the stolen Ani- and established multimedia pres- scarecrows still walk the plains of mus technology, which allows them ence. If you love the memes, the Oz, but in ways you would never to experience the memories of their videos, and that irresistible scowl, have imagined! Featuring re-mas- ancestors as if they were there! then get ready for the wildly fun an- tered content, an exclusive behind- In Shops: 14/10/2015 tics of Grumpy Cat and Pokey in the-scenes look at the making of Dynamite’s all-new, all-sensational Legend of Oz, a special foreword by Grumpy Cat comics! L. Frank Baum’s great-great grand- TRAIN In Shops: 07/10/2015 son, Marc Baum, creator commen- tary and more! Don’t miss out on the CALLED start of Aspen’s newest BDI launch! LOVE #1 DYNAMITE In Shops: 07/10/2015 Garth Ennis, Mark Dos LUMBBER- Santos, Russell COGNETIC #1 JANES: Braun BOOM! BEYOND Valerie’s getting dirty phone calls, James Tynion BAY LEAF #1 but when she goes to take revenge IV, Eryk BOOM! she meets Myles, the man of her Donovan , dreams. But Myles is up against Emil Every human believes that they Rosemary and Gustav, mentally unstable guns are self-reliant, self-determined Valero- for hire. And Valerie’s sister Penny’s individuals, each set on their own O’Connell friend Marcy just wants to play her course. But what if that isn’t the In this special one-shot issue, a own songs, but no one in the bar right track? Cognetic is a psychic monster is terrorizing the Lumber- tonight cares - least of all Penny’s action thriller, precariously po- janes camp and the girls go to stop loser boyfriend Marv and his bud- sitioned on the edge of outright it. However, it turns out that the dies, who want their homeboy Mike apocalypse. It’s also the story of a monster is being framed and now to play the race card in a dubious young woman, the assistant to the the girls have to figure out who’s do- scheme to get rich. But Mike has director of the FBI, who might be ing it and to what end! Join April, Jo, just fallen foul of a certain organisa- the only one who can save human- Mal, Molly and Ripley as they earn tion with a lot of Ks in its name. And ity, but at a terrible, terrible cost! their Beyond Bay Leaf pin! then there’s Mister Fluffy. In Shops: 21/10/2015 In Shops: 28/10/2015 In Shops: 07/10/2015 12 BOOK OF DOCTOR DEATH: WHO: THE FALL OF X-O EIGHTH MANOWAR INDIES DOCTOR #1 THE #1 NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR OCTOBER TITAN HANGMAN #1 VALIANT George Mann, ARCHIE , Emma Vieceli, Frank Tieri, Clayton Henry, Alice X Zhang Felix Ruix “I’m the Doctor, and i’d very much They say the Hangman is nothing The Book of the Geomancer fore- like to know what you’re doing in my more than an urban legend. A spook tells of a deadly future for the Val- house...” Get ready for an all-new story told to scare criminals straight. iant Universe... but what if the future season of comics adventures fea- But those who encounter him know holds hope for one powerful hero? turing the eighth Doctor, as played different. They know that when he After hundreds of years in exile on by Paul McGann in the Doctor Who comes for you, you’re dead already. an alien planet, Aric of Dacia has movie, fan-favorite minisode “Night Join fan-favorite writer Frank Tieri returned to an unfamiliar Earth, only of the Doctor,” and over fourteen (Wolverine) and artist extraordinaire to find a planet that doesn’t remem- years (and counting!) of astound- Felix Ruiz (Wolverine ) for an ber... or want him. Will Aric of Dacia ing Big Finish audio spectaculars! ongoing tale of horror, the supernat- fi nally find happiness in the- after Five amazing, interconnected new ural, and violence - and learn why math of the apocalypse? stories take the Doctor on a roller- some men may never be redeemed. Plus: the ultimate fate of the X-O coaster of threat and misadventure, In Shops: 04/11/2015 Manowar armor revealed in this as he investigates the mysteries sur- can’t-miss chapter of the summer’s rounding his new companion Josie. biggest event from New York Times Victorian magic shows, murderous best-selling writer Robert Venditti , lost books, crystalline life- and nominee Clayton forms, barges in space crammed Henry (Archer And Armstrong)! with the undead - and the grand BLOOD FEUD In Shops: 21/10/2015 journey all begins in a sleepy Welsh #1 town besieged by living paintings! ONI In Shops: 28/10/2015 , Drew Moss I’ve got a story to tell-a story about HEROES: CLANDES- how me and a couple of poker bud- TINO #1 VENGEANCE dies squared off against the very #1 legions of Hell ...and maybe even TITAN saved the world. Like all good Amancay Nahuelpan Seamus Fahey, yarns, this one has its share of ac- Zach Craley, tion, adventure, mystery, and ro- The country of Tairona became a no Rubine Cubiles, mance. As for how it ends, though, man’s land after the military coup. Paul Pope you’ll have to judge for yourself. Me, Guerrillas were formed across the Fresh from the brand new Heroes I’ve always been partial to happy lands, and rebels unified against Reborn television series, the Heroes endings-the singing cowboy riding the dictator to resist the regime. The comic will delve into the secrets of off into the sunset-but I reckon that hopes of many lay on Clandestino, the characters. Each five-part story just ain’t the way of the world. This who barely escaped from the mili- arc will spotlight a different charac- story’s got vampires, too, loads of tary attacks as a child, and was then ter, exploring secrets behind what them, but not in the beginning. It be- recruited by the rebel forces, to later makes them tick. gan, for us at least, with spiders. lead the revolution against the dictator. In Shops: 07/10/2015 In Shops: 07/10/2015 In Shops: 28/10/2015 13 NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COLLECTED EDITIONS ARRIVING NOVEL IDEAS FROM OCTOBER ONWARDS...

HARROW GUARDIANS COUNTY FEAR AND OF INJECTION VOL.1: LOATHING IN KNOWHERE VOL.1 COUNTLESS LAS VEGAS MARVEL HAINTS (HC) IMAGE Bendis, Ellis, Shalvey, DARK HORSE IDW Deodato, Bellaire Bunn, Crook Little Cheung

Once upon a time, there were five Emmy always knew that the woods In proud partnership with the Hunter A single moon orbits Battleworld. But crazy people. And they poisoned surrounding her home crawled S. Thompson Estate, Top Shelf Pro- no, that’s no moon. It’s Knowhere, the the 21st Century. From the creators with ghosts and monsters. But on ductions is pleased to announce head of a dead , somehow of Moon Knight: From the Dead, the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a saved from the multiversal collapse. collecting issues 1-5 of Injection, she learns that she is connected delightfully bonkers When Knowhere’s secrets reveal the story of five mad geniuses trying to these creatures-and to the land by Eisner-nominated artist themselves, it will change the face to save us all from themselves. itself-in a way she never imagined. adapting Thompson’s seminal book of the Guardians forever. The galaxy Collects Injection #1-5. Collecting the first four issues of the of the same name. Join Thompson’s may be gone, but there are still places southern gothic fairy tale from the alter ego Raoul Duke on the mother that need heroes. That need champi- In Shops: 07/10/2015 creator of smash hit The Sixth Gun, of all Vegas benders, as he and his at- ons. That need Guardians. Collecting beautifully and hauntingly realized torney Dr. Gonzo cover a motorcycle Guardians Of Knowhere #1-4 and by B.P.R.D.’s Tyler Crook! race, crash a drug-enforcement con- New Avengers: Illuminati (2007) #3. HARLEY In Shops: 02/12/2015 vention, and rack up obscenely large In Shops: 18/11/2015 QUINN VOL.3: room-service bills, all while dosed to KISS KISS BANG STAB the gills on a truly spectacular assort- (HC) ment of mind-altering substances. DC MOON KNIGHT: In Shops: 28/10/2015 SHADOWS OF KID ETERNITY Conner, Palmiotti THE MOON (DELUXE HC) MARVEL DC VERTIGO Harley was certain she could have Moench, Harris, Morrison, Fregredo it all. She could be the world’s best Sienkiewicz, Cowan LUTHOR landlord, protect Coney Island from the scum of the Earth, woo Mason DC Meet Kid Eternity, a teenager with Macabre, work her day job as a Ghosts, werewolves and things that Azzarello, supernatural powers and the ability psychiatrist, volunteer at the puppy go crazy in the night! Marvel’s mul- Bermejo, to bring back the dead-a gift from Various shelter...but that’s a lot of spinning tiple-personality midnight marauder the powers above for being taken plates, and eventually they’re bound takes the fight to the strangest rogues’ by death ahead of his time. Now to start breaking! What happens gallery in all of comics. But with Moon Collected from the miniseries, Luthor the free-spirited kid is back as an when a psychopath cracks up? Is it Knight, the voices inside his head can reveals why the genius villain choos- agent of Chaos in a world that’s too possible for Harley to go even more be as destructive as the lunatics try- es to be the proverbial thorn in the ordered for his taste. Using chaos insane?! Don’t miss this big helping ing to kill him! and Bill Man of ’s side: to save human- magic to elevate humanity’s exist- of Harley from #14-16, Sienkiewicz hit full stride in a super- ity from the untrustworthy alien being. ence, he finds a path paved with Annual #1, Valentine’s Day Special hero comic like no other! Collecting Includes new additional story pages, demons, death and madness! Col- #1, and Holiday Special #1! Moon Knight (1980) #5-23. sketch material, and more! lects Kid Eternity #1-3! 14 In Shops: 09/12/2015 In Shops: 21/10/2015 In Shops: 04/11/2015 In Shops: 09/12/2015 NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COLLECTED EDITIONS ARRIVING NOVEL IDEAS FROM OCTOBER ONWARDS...

JEM AND THE X-FILES HOLOGRAMS CLASSICS: JUPITER’S VOL.1: GROUND CIRCLE VOL.1 SHOWTIME ZERO IMAGE JACK THE RIPPER (HC) IDW IDW Millar, Torres, Thompson, Anderson, Gianfelice, DARK HORSE Campbell Purcell, Shearon Quitely Debois, Poupard

Meet Jerrica Benton-a girl with a Adapts the best-selling novel by In midcentury America, a team Spring 1889. Months have passed secret. She and her sisters team Kevin J. Anderson. Dr. Gregory, a re- of young superheroes faces epic since Whitechapel was covered in up with to become... Jem And The nowned nuclear weapons researcher, threats in public while battling per- blood, and while the mystery sur- Holograms! But what does it mean is not only dead-he’s been charred sonal demons behind closed doors. rounding Jack the Ripper goes cold, to be Jem today? Fashion, art, ac- to a radioactive cinder. Since this is Collects Jupiter’s Circle #1-6. Inspector Frederick Abberline is still a tion, and style collide in Jem and the a death on federal property, Mulder man obsessed. But when a series of In Shops: 07/10/2015 Holograms: Showtime! and Scully are hastily called in. When killings identical to the Ripper’s occur In Shops: 14/10/2015 a second, completely unrelated vic- in Paris, Abberline must risk every- tim is obliterated in the New Mexico thing to close history’s most famous desert, and then a third dies the same murder case once and for all! way in Washington, DC, Mulder and SPIDER- In Shops: 09/12/2015 STAR WARS Scully begin to focus on the frighten- ISLAND: - EPISODE VI: ing dimension of their task and how WARZONES RETURN OF JEDI (HC) this twisted puzzle has fatal conse- MARVEL quences for the entire world. Various MARVEL STRAIN Goodwin, In Shops: 07/10/2015 VOL.6: NIGHT Williamson In the Battleworld zone known as ETERNAL Spider-Island, Peter Parker has lost DARK HORSE Luke Skywalker faces his destiny as BATMAN AND - and the Spider Queen has turned Lapham, ROBIN VOL.6: Manhattan into an island of arachnid Huddleston, Gist the greatest trilogy in all of fiction con- THE HUNT cludes, remastered for the modern FOR ROBIN madness! With Spider-Man defeated and captive, does Flash Thompson - age! These are grim times for the Re- DC The rebels’ victory at Camp Lib- bel Alliance. Han Solo is in the hands a.k.a. Venom - stand a chance? Ven- erty has emboldened their efforts Tomasi, Gleason, om and his squad of monstrous he- of the vile . The Jedi Kubert, Gray against the Master’s vampire army, Master Yoda grows weak. Emperor roes wage all-out war on the Queen, but a traitor in their ranks leaves Palpatine is determined to turn Luke but to reclaim a Manhattan com- an opening for the Master to strike to the Dark Side. And Darth Vader Batman has finally accepted the pletely overrun by her spider-army, back even harder. The fate of hu- nears completion of a new dreaded death of his son-but Damian’s Venom will need a little help from his manity ultimately resides with one Death Star even more powerful than grandfather, Ra’s al Ghul, has not! In friend. (Which friend? We’ll give you man. Will Dr. Ephraim Goodweather the first. To avert certain doom, the order to resurrect Robin, he’s stolen a hint: thwip!) Venom and his allies finally snap and make a deal to see rebels head to the forest moon of the body-and now Batman will stop take the fight straight to the Queen, his son? Or will he use some new- Endor - but will the native Ewoks be at nothing to reclaim him! but one among them will have to found information to destroy the friends or foes? Collecting Star Wars: Collects Batman And Robin #29-34 make the ultimate sacrifice! Master once and for all? Collects Return Of The Jedi #1-4. and Robin Rises: Omega #1! Collecting Spider-Island (2015) #1-5. The Strain: The Night Eternal #7-12. In Shops: 11/11/2015 In Shops: 18/11/2015 In Shops: 11/11/2015 In Shops: 02/12/2015 15 BIFF’S BIT Email Biff here: [email protected]

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