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Top 20 Graphic Novels: October’s Bestselling Books WITH THE LATEST RELEASES, SUBSCRIPTIONS, CHARTS, ILLUMINATIONS, EVENTS acecomics.co.uk AND MORE! 02 LONE WOLF 2100 #1 Eric Heisserer, Miguel Sepulveda H COVER STAR H 2100 CE: A devastating manmade plague is turning the human HELLBOY: race into cannibalistic monsters known as the Thrall. But there WINTER is hope: young Daisy Ogami’s blood holds the secret to a cure- SPECIAL if Itto, her android protector, can get her to a place where it 2016 can be extracted! Mike Mignola, Michael Walsh, In Shops: 06/01/2016 Tim Sale, Various Best-selling novelist Chelsea Cain writes and Michael Avon Oeming draws the first of three snowbound stories. Then Tim Sale visits Mi- gnola’s prehistoric mythology, and in a lead-in to the upcoming issues of Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953, Hellboy explores a haunted mine in the barren wastes of Wyoming. In Shops: 27/01/2016 LEAVING MEGA- LOPOLIS: SURVIVING MEGA- LOPOLIS #1 Gail Simone, Jim Calafiore The Kickstarter phenomenon re- turns! Fan-favorite creators Gail Si- mone (Batgirl, Deadpool) and J. Ca- lafiore (Secret Six, Exiles) return to the town whose citizens are hunted- not by villains, but by heroes! The survivors of Megalopolis reluctantly go back to the city-still under the control of formerly beloved super- heroes turned brutal killers-on a res- cue mission straight into the heart of madness. Get in on the ground floor of this critically acclaimed se- ries and see what happens when the good guys go very, very bad. DARK HORSE In Shops: 13/01/2016 NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR JANUARY 03 GREEN LANTERN DC CORPS: EDGE OF LEGEND OF NEW SERIES OBLIVION #1 WONDER AND ONE-SHOTS Tom Taylor, WOMAN #1 FOR JANUARY Ethan Van Renae De Liz, Sciver Ray Dillon Picking up where Green Lantern: A new Wonder Woman 9-issue min- Lost Army left off! As the universe iseries begins here with a story writ- around them reaches entropy, the ten and pencilled by Renae De Liz Green Lantern Corps must find a (The Last Unicorn)! SUICIDE way home! Along the way, they’ll In the beginning there was only SQUAD: face dying gods, worlds torn asun- chaos. But Hippolyta, Queen of the MOST der and a desperate group of survi- Amazons, saw a better future-and WANTED - vors whose only hope is these cos- eventually, her daughter would be DEADSHOT / mic heroes. destined to bring that new world to KATANA #1 In Shops: 13/01/2016 life! Before her ultimate fate unfolds, Brian though, Diana of Themyscira must Buccellato, learn the important lessons of an Various Amazonian childhood! Two of the stars of next year’s highly INJUSTICE In Shops: 13/01/2016 anticipated action movie break out - GODS in their own solo adventures in this AMONG US: extra-sized, 6-issue miniseries! YEAR FIVE #1 First, in a story by Brian Buccel- lato, Viktor Bogdanovic and Rich- Brian Buccellato, ard Friend, Deadshot is on the run, Bruno Redondo, taking on a series of new contracts, David Yardin, and re-establishing himself as the Various POISON IVY: world’s most deadly marksman. But CYCLE OF This is it: the final year of Injustice: things are about to get complicated LIFE AND for Floyd Lawton when a figure from Gods Among Us, leading into the DEATH #1 storyline of the hit videogame! Hav- his past threatens to expose a dark ing defeated the Green Lantern Amy Chu, Clay secret...and Deadshot gets word of Mann Corps, the forces of magic, and his next target: Lex Luthor! now the gods themselves, the Re- Life. Death. Poison Ivy has power Then, writer Mike W. Barr returns to gime seems to have eliminated all over both. But can she keep her the character he co-created in “Ka- threats. Yet uneasy lies the crown friends and hold down a regular job tana, Cult of the Kobra,” with art by SWAMP THING #1 at the same time? As Dr. Pamela Is- on the head of Emperor Super- Diogenes Neves. Katana needs to Len Wein, Kelley Jones man. Still obsessed with the outlaw ley, she joins the prestigious plant know more about Soultaker’s ori- Batman and worried about having sciences department at Gotham Bo- gin if she’s going to have any hope Swamp Thing returns in an all-new series written by his co- enough troops to police his world, tanical Gardens, but things quickly of controlling the sword instead of creator, legendary writer Len Wein! Swamp Thing has re- get complicated when a fellow sci- The Man of Steel begins to recruit falling under its influence. Dr. Helga ceived an ominous warning, and now he finds himself under entist is murdered and it looks like some of Earth’s deadliest villains to Jace, a Markovian astrophysicist, attack from the forces of dark magic. These are more than his side. Does the Dark Knight have the work of Ivy. may be able to shed some light-but any chance of ending the Man of Don’t miss the start of this new 6-is- before Katana can get the info, Ko- just your average monsters-and there’s something much Steel’s rule? sue miniseries! bra’s forces attack! worse looming on the horizon for Alec Holland! In Shops: 06/01/2016 In Shops: 20/01/2016 In Shops: 27/01/2016 In Shops: 06/01/2016 04 GUTTER MAGIC #1 Rich Douek, Brett Barkley, Jules Rivera, Nic Shaw GHOST IDW BUSTERS Cinder Byrnes has been trying to lie, cheat, and steal NEW SERIES INTER- his way into wizardry his entire life, and he’s finally got AND ONE-SHOTS NATIONAL the key to unlocking the power of magic. But first, he FOR JANUARY #1 needs to stay one step ahead of the sorcerous crime Erik Burnham, lord that wants him dead. Writer Rich Douek and Dan Schoening Artist Brett Barkley present an action-packed urban There’s something strange in the fantasy tale, set in a modern New York City where neighborhood... and whether that World War II was fought with magic. neighborhood is in New York City or Venice, Italy, the Ghostbusters In Shops: 20/01/2016 AMAZING will be there! After a bust at the FOREST #1 United Nations, the boys in gray Ulises Farinas, are engaged to investigate an Old Erick Freitas, World haunting, where they begin Matt Rota, Various to unravel a mystery that sends them around the globe (while still Tales for the bold. Ideas for the trying to keep their contract with VICTORIE strange. Wicked concepts that stir the City, County, and State of New CITY #1 the minds of those with darkness York!). Join us for the next chapter in Keith Carmack, in their hearts. 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Kari Korhonen, Yasmin Sheikh Cesar In Shops: 06/01/2016 Ferioli, Ciro Holy space blast! Ever wonder Cangialosi, how it would be if outer space was Various populated by monsters? Or what it Angry Birds Comics returns! Just would be like to have a green ugly when you thought the winter dol- witch as your best friend? Then look drums were about to get you down no further! Welcome to the amazing comes a ray of comic book happi- everyday life of Luna the vampire. ness in the form of the classic Angry (Zombie postman and crappy job Birds Comics relaunch! Huzzah! included.) In Shops: 06/01/2016 In Shops: 27/01/2016 05 IMAGE NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR JANUARY PENCIL HEAD #1 Ted McKeever Pencil Head is Ted McKeever’s semi-autobiographical take on the whacked-out world of the comic book industry. Journey along as we witness protagonist Poodwaddle’s trials and CRY tribulations of working, and sustaining, his place in the absurd world of comics, where what HAVOC #1 happens behind the scenes is far more twisted, and bizarrely hilarious, than anything on Simon Spurrier, Ryan Kelly, the printed page.