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INSIDE...INSIDE... NEWNEW DOCTORDOCTOR WHO!WHO! Angry Birds #1 CONTENTS: PAGE 03... New Series and One-Shots for April: Dark Horse PAGE 09... New Series and One-Shots for April: Indies PAGE 04... New Series and One-Shots for April: DC Comics PAGE 10... Novel Ideas - Part One PAGE 05... New Series and One-Shots for April: IDW Publishing PAGE 11... Novel Ideas - Part Two PAGE 06... New Series and One-Shots for April: Image Comics PAGE 12... Biff’s Bit: Chasing That Elusive Comic Investment PAGE 07... New Series and One-Shots for April: Marvel Comics PAGE 13... Top 10 Graphic Novels: March’s Bestselling Books PAGE 08... New Series and One-Shots for April: Indies acecomics.co.uk 02 EMILY & THE STRANGERS: DARK HORSE BREAKING RECORD NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR JUNE Rob Reger, Mariah Huehner, Cat Farris, Buzz Parker GOON: Emily-and her new band, the Strangers-won the battle of the bands and ONE FOR received a record contract with Awesomely Awesome Records, but can 1 FOR $1: THE ROAD the girl who just figured out how to get along with her friends manage STRAIN #1 EDGAR (ONE-SHOT) ALLEN POE’S dealing with a major corporation? David Lapham, Eric Powell, Jack An Emily the Strange feature film is in development. Mike Huddleston MORELLA Davis AND THE In Shops: 25/06/2014 Based on the Strain Trilogy by Guill- MURDERS IN Goon and Franky meet a sailor on ermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, this RUE MORGUE the hunt for his buddy... but trouble horrifying first chapter confronts a (ONE-SHOT) ensues when the trio go bar to bar in mysterious outbreak of diabolical pro- genre-hopping pursuit. Richard Corben portions and puts an original twist on Cover by one of the greatest humor the vampire genre! Killer apes and the return of the dead cartoonists of all time, Jack Davis! Read the comics! Watch the series! are presented in these two gothic hor- Created by Eisner-award winner Eric Written by Stray Bullets creator David ror Poe adaptations by Eisner Hall of Powell! Fame inductee Richard Corben. Lapham! In Shops: 25/06/2014 In Shops: 18/06/2014 The greatest horror artist of all time adapts horror’s greatest author! In Shops: 11/06/2014 WITCH- FINDER: MYSTERIES OF UNLAND #1 DREAM Kim Newman, Maura McHugh, THIEF: Tyler Crook, ESCAPE #1 Julian Totino Jai Nitz, Greg Tedesco Smallwood EYE OF NEWT #1 Edward Grey is sent to Hallam to in- Like his father before him, John Lin- Michael Hague vestigate a mysterious death. Once coln is a Dream Thief, possessed there, he hears rumors about the mys- by vengeful spirits while he sleeps-a As a young apprentice wizard em- terious Unland, the wetlands around deadly instrument of revenge! Now barks on a perilous quest, he encoun- the town, and the creatures that in- he must defend the felon possessed ters marvelous creatures of all shapes habit it. Grey’s skepticism vanishes by his father’s ghost . and get re- and sizes, and learns a dark secret when he encounters the monsters of venge against his killer! Continuing that could shape his entire destiny! Unland, and he realizes that Hallam is the supernatural drama of last sum- Gorgeously illustrated! a place of secrets. mer’s acclaimed miniseries. For fans of The Hobbit! Mike Mignola’s Witchfinder from the Jai Nitz’s Dream Thief is back! In Shops: 18/06/2014 pages of Hellboy! In Shops: 25/06/2014 Featuring art by Eisner winner Tyler Crook (Bad Blood, B.P.R.D.) In Shops: 18/06/2014 03 BATMAN ‘66 MEETS DC GREEN NEW SERIES AND ONE- HORNET #1 SHOTS FOR JUNE Kevin Smith, Ralph Garman, Ty Templeton, Alex Ross TINY TITANS: In 1967, television history was made RETURN TO when two masked crime fighters met THE TREE- in a historic crossover. Now, super- HOUSE #1 star filmmaker Kevin Smith and actor/ comedian Ralph Garman join forces Art Baltazar, Franco with artist Ty Templeton (Batman ‘66) to bring these two iconic characters The Eisner Award-winning series is and their famous partners together back for an all-new six-issue minise- again. Set in the continuity of that ries! Superboy and Supergirl return earlier team-up, Batman, The Green to the treehouse to discover... it’s Hornet, Robin and Kato must go up missing! Or is it just...really small? against a very different General (for- Who could have done such a thing?! merly Colonel) Gumm. What crime Find out as all your favorite Tiny Ti- could be so deadly as to force these tans search for answers! rivals to put aside their differences In Shops: 04/06/2014 and join forces again? And what sur- prise does Gumm have up his sticky sleeve? Co-published with Dynamite INFINITY Entertainment. MAN AND In Shops: 04/06/2014 THE FOREVER PEOPLE #1 Dan DiDio, Keith Giffen, Scott HARLEY Koblish QUINN #0 Four of the best students from New DIRECTOR’S Genesis arrive on Earth to study and CUT aid in the advancement of human- Amanda Conner, ity - but they soon discover a darker Jimmy Palmiotti, purpose to their mission: a threat so Various great that it may bring the multiverse The sold-out, four-wall breaking is- itself to its knees! The only thing sue that jump-started Harley’s best- that stands between them and total selling new series is back! This spe- destruction is the mysterious entity cial issue features a new cover by known as the Infinity Man! Amanda Conner, commentary by Don’t miss the start of this new series the writers and many of the super- by Dan DiDio and Keith Giffen, the star artists, plus unpublished materi- team that brought you the over-the- al, top entries from the talent search, top adventures of O.M.A.C.! sketch material and more! In Shops: 11/06/2014 In Shops: 04/06/2014 04 TRANS- JUDGE FORMERS: IDW DREDD: SPOTLIGHT NEW SERIES AND ONE- MEGA CITY DRIFT SHOTS FOR JUNE TWO #1 DIR. CUT DIR. CUT Shane McCarthy, Douglas Wolk, Casey W. Coller, Ulises Farinas Livio Ramondelli Mega-City Two has been drawing All hail Drift! From his debut, the praise from comic critics and long- former Decepticon called Drift has ANGRY time fans alike. Now, in celebration been one of the most controversial- BIRDS of this acclaimed miniseries, we are and popular-Transformers charac- COMICS #1 proud to release a special Direc- ters! Now relive his first solo adven- Jeff Parker, tor’s Cut of the first issue, which in- ture with an outstanding array of David Baldeon, cludes all of the covers along with behind-the-scenes material! Paco Rodriques the comic’s script, plus annotations Learn how Drift went from a sup- Angry Birds, the world’s most popu- and sketches, giving a rare insight porting character in a comic book lar mobile game franchise, makes into the inner workings of a comic to a toy-and how he became a part it’s comic book debut! Featuring a book from initial thought to publica- of the Transformers mythology! fun-filled, action packed story from tion. Join series writer Douglas Wolk In Shops: 04/06/2014 Eisner-nominated creator Jeff Park- and artist Ulises Farinas as we re- er, these comics are ready to sling- prise their story of Dredd’s first visit shot their way off the page and into to the West Coast! your hearts! In Shops: 04/06/2014 In Shops: 18/06/2014 KILL SHAKE- CARTOON SPEARE: NETWORK: MASK OF STAR TREK: WINTER- SUPER NIGHT #1 WORLD #1 SECRET CITY ON THE Conor McCreery, EDGE OF TMNT: Chuck Dixon, CRISIS Butch Guice Anthony Del, FOREVER #1 TURTLES IN WAR #1 Andy Belanger Harlan Ellison, J. TIME #1 Winter is coming early! All new sto- Louise Simonson The award-winning series returns K. Woodward, Paul Allor, Ross ries based on the Chuck Dixon/ The devious demon Aku has called with a high seas tale of pirate bat- Juan Ortiz, Paul Campbell, David Jorge Zaffino classic! Shipper, Various Peterson together a League of Extraordinary tles, vengeance and lost love. Ham- The apocalyptic international com- Villains-composed of malevolent let, Juliet, Othello and Shakespeare For the first time ever, a visual pres- A brand new mini-series from Paul ics sensation of an Earth turned to miscreants from different cartoon become pawns in a deadly game entation of the much-discussed, Allor, Erik Burnham and some of the an icy hell is back with Dixon re- universes. When their evil robots of survival between the legendary unrevised, unadulterated version of best IDW TMNT artists ever! The turning to script and Butch Guice show up in the world’s of The Pow- masked pirate Captain Cessario, Harlan Ellison’s award-winning Star Turtles become unstuck in time and doing some of the best work of his erpuff Girls, Ben 10, Samurai Jack, his first mate Viola, and the new ter- Trek teleplay script, “The City on go spinning into the past! First stop: illustrious artistic career as they Dexter’s Laboratory and (even) Ed, ror on the water, Titus Andronicus’ the Edge of Forever!” See the story the prehistoric age, where they are take on the bleak and frozen future. Edd and Eddy, it’s up to all these forbidding war ship The Lavinia. in this much discussed Hugo and far from the most dangerous reptiles Follow Scully and Wynn from their fearless heroes to band together and An excellent companion peice to Writer’s Guild of America Award- around! Will the Turtles be able to icy home of Wintersea into a killing put an end to the League’s nefarious the new Kill Shakespeare board winning teleplay as Mr.