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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: PAGE 12... Biff’s Bit: Chasing That Elusive Comic Investment

PAGE 07... New Series and One-Shots for April: 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? , , Jack An Emily the Strange feature film is in development. MORELLA Davis AND THE In Shops: 25/06/2014 Based on 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 . . . 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 ! In Shops: 25/06/2014 Featuring art by Eisner winner Tyler Crook (Bad Blood, B.P.R.D.) In Shops: 18/06/2014 03 ‘66 MEETS DC GREEN NEW SERIES AND ONE- HORNET #1 SHOTS FOR JUNE , Ralph Garman, Ty Templeton, TINY TITANS: In 1967, television history was made RETURN TO when two masked crime fighters met THE TREE- in a historic . 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 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- , ity - but they soon discover a darker , 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- 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 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: , CRISIS Butch Guice Anthony Del, FOREVER #1 TURTLES IN WAR #1 Andy Belanger , 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, , 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, ’ 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. Ellison origi- find their way home without damag- wasteland where the coldest place plot of interdimensional conquest! game released by IDW Games! nally intended! ing history? is the human heart. In Shops: 25/06/2014 In Shops: 18/06/2014 In Shops: 25/06/20144 In Shops: 18/06/2014 In Shops: 25/06/2014 05 IMAGE NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR JUNE WICKED + DIVINE #1 DARKNESS: RED CITY #1 (MR) CLOSE Daniel Corey, , YOUR EYES Mark Dos THATS BECAUSE YOU’RE Jamie McKelvie, (ONE-SHOT) In the wake of a system-wide civil A ROBOT (ONE-SHOT) Matthew Wilson (MR) war, hard-nosed interplanetary in- David Quantick, Shaky Kane Every ninety years, twelve gods Ales Kot, Maro vestigator Cal Talmage is given a Two cops, one’s a robot, only they don’t know incarnate as teenagers. They are Oleksicki simple mission to find a missing which! loved. They are hated. In two years, ambassador’s daughter in Mars they are dead. The team behind Ales Kot (Zero, Wild Children) joins Bafta winner and writer on HBO’s award winning Central, aka Red City. The routine critically thermonuclear floor-fillers Maro Oleksicki (Judge Dredd, Pred- Veep, David Quantick teams up with The Bullet- case quickly complicates as Cal Young Avengers and Phonogram ator, Books of Magick) to deliver this Coffin’s Shaky Kane on this migraine induc- finds himself in the midst of rival reunite to start a new ongoing su- special Darkness one-shot! ing Pop Art Cop-Buddy one-shot set in a near future Los Angeles. alien mobs, street vendettas and perhero fantasy with a beautiful WARNING: Contains oversized patrol cars and perilous situations. Los Angeles more than a hundred political conspiracies. He struggles oversized issue. Welcome to The years ago: a different place, yet the with personal demons as he discov- In Shops: 11/06/2014 Wicked + The Divine, where gods sun still burns down the ground and ers that another war is brewing, and are the ultimate pop-stars. But re- the oilfields flow. This is a story of the lives of an entire race hang in member: just because you’re im- another Estacado. This is a story of the balance. mortal, doesn’t mean you’re going love. This is a story of death. In Shops: 11/06/2014 to live forever. In Shops: 04/06/2014 In Shops: 18/06/2014

OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA SUPER- #1 (MR) ANNUATED , MAN #1 (MR) Paul Azaceta, Ted McKeever WILDFIRE #1 Elizabeth Breit- Matt Hawkins, weiser From the critically acclaimed crea- Linda Sejic tor of Miniature Jesus. New horror series from the Walking Is genetically modified food an end By the time most people realized Dead creator Robert Kirkman! to world hunger or a first class ticket it, they were no longer in charge of Kyle Barnes has been plagued by to the apocalypse? Dan Miller is a the world we know. In an unspeci- demonic possession all his life and plant biologist working with a small fied future, the small seaside town now he needs answers. Unfortu- team perfecting an accelerated of Blackwater has now been taken nately, what he uncovers along the plant growth process. When things over by advanced and mutated ani- way could bring about the end of go wrong, Los Angeles pays the mals. Most of the humans that lived life on Earth as we know it. price in a disaster story unlike any there are now either dead or gone, 25/06/2014 before. In Shops: but one old-man , scaveng- ing off the scraps and refuse of hu- In Shops: 11/06/2014 manity’s past, and doggedly defy- ing the new tenants. In Shops: 04/06/2014 06 MARVEL NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR JUNE AMAZING X-MEN NEW ANNUAL #1 AVENGERS UNCANNY X-MEN SPECIAL #1 ANNUAL #1 ORIGINAL Monty Nero, SINS #1 Sean Ryan, Ron Ackins, Gary Choo Salvador Larroca Frank J. Barbiere, Marco Rudy TBD Uncanny X-Men, Iron Man and Nova Cross Over! Storm and the Amazing X-Men go to Everybody has one... Cyclops is kidnapped, but by who?! Africa! The Incursions aren’t the only horrors threatening to end the world! In Shops: 11/06/2014 But what force could bring the Children of the Atom, the A death in Storm’s family sheds light Armored Avenger and the Human Rocket together! on a new threat to the X-Men! Doctor Strange has faced the impos- sible time and again as an Avenger In Shops: 11/06/2014 In Shops: 04/06/2014 and the Sorcerer , but when he is called upon to fulfill an old debt to an enclave of techno-monks high SPIDER-MAN in the Himalayas, even the good SPEC- doctor may be beyond his limits! TACULAR #1 Written by acclaimed young writer Joe Caramagna, Frank J. Barbiere (Five Ghosts, The Patrick Scherberger, FIGMENT #1 White Suits) and illustrated by the il- Various lustrious Marco Rudy (, Jim Zub, Filipe Andrade, John Marvel Knights: Spider-Man), this Four titanic tales set in Spider-Man’s Tyler Christopher oversized annual is one you won’t past! want to miss! Young Peter Parker has mastered his The next Disney adventure is here - In Shops: 25/06/2014 newfound spider-powers, but how starring one of Disney’s most popu- will being the Amazing Spider-Man lar characters! affect his personal life? Dive into a steampunk fantasy sto- Can Peter keep his secret identity ry exploring the never-before-re- from Aunt May, and his high-school vealed origin of the inventor known crush Liz Allan? as Dreamfinder, and how one little spark of inspiration created a dragon Spider-Man’s luck is about to get called Figment. worse, as an experimental serum SAVAGE transforms millionaire Harry Osborn What is the Academy Scientifica- into the villainous Green Goblin! Lucidus? Who is Blarion Mercurial? #1 What is the Integrated Mesmonic Spider-Man soon finds himself locked in a battle high above the Spark Convertor? Find out as we An all-new series!!! give a Marvel spin to Epcot’s mind- streets - with Aunt May caught in the bending attraction, Journey Into Im- Alan Davis writes and draws a block- middle! Can Spidey triumph with a agination! buster story pitting the Hulk against... little help from his new fan club? the X-Men!?!?! Learn the startling se- When Kraven the Hunter puts Spider- Brought to you by the acclaimed and cret of Professor Xavier’s connection uniquely talented team of Jim Zub Man in his sights, can the webbed to Bruce Banner! Guest starring the wonder save himself from becoming (Skullkickers) and Filipe Andrade Leader and the Abomination! (Captain Marvel)! the catch of the day? In Shops: 25/06/2014 In Shops: 04/06/2014 In Shops: 25/06/2014 07 INDIES ARMOR NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR JUNE HUNTERS #1 VALIANT , Doug Braithwaite, BIG TROUBLE Jorge Molina SALLY OF IN LITTLE This summer, Earth will be the greatest THE WASTE- CHINA #1 LAND #1 hunt of all when Valiant First unleash- BOOM! es the first issue of 2014’s must-read TITAN Eric Powell, Brian crossover event - Armor Hunters! Victor Gischler, Churilla, Joe A relentless and surgical strike team Tazio Bettin Quinones from the farthest reaches of space Southern Louisiana, 82 years after Jack Burton, a macho, truck-driving - sworn to exterminate the X-O the Fall. The apocalypse has come adventurer, finds a stowaway hiding Manowar armor and all like it - have and gone, leaving behind a land- on his rig, “The Pork Chop Express”, found finally their final target. They THOMAS ALSOP #1 scape of wreckage and mutant but that soon becomes the least of will hunt. They will trap. They will kill. BOOM! crawfish. Sally leaves her bar job and his troubles. He helped his best And they will rid the universe of the Chris Miskiewicz, Palle Schmidt joins a deranged crew on a mission friend Wang save his fiancée from X-O Manowar’s incalculable destruc- into the ruins of New Orleans. Sav- the clutches of a demon, but now the tive power...even if it means taking Fans of John Constantine and Dr. Strange will love ing the remnants of civilization plays wedding has been invaded by more the Earth with it. this new take on the magic-wielding hero who battles second best to keeping her sweet- evil forces with one thing on their In Shops: 11/06/2014 demons on the streets... and in his own mind. Thom- heart Tommy safe as our smart and minds-revenge against Jack Burton! as has money and fame, but also the burden of a be- sexy princess of the wild frontier runs In Shops: 04/06/2014 ing this generation’s occult warrior. Can he survive the a gauntlet of gigantic genetic freaks AMAZING battles both within and without? and roving gangs of blood-hungry WORLD OF Thomas Alsop is the current “Hand of the Island,” a title handed down barbarians! GUMBALL #1 from generation to generation. He guards Manhattan from evil, using In Shops: 30/07/2014 BLOOD BOOM! his family’s prowess for magic. Being a thoroughly modern warlock, he QUEEN #1 deals with something even more evil than demons... reality television! Frank Gibson, (MR) Tyson Hesse, In Shops: 25/06/2014 DYNAMITE Missy Pena, Paulina Troy Brownfield, Ganecheau DOODLE Fritz Casas, Jay JUMP #1 Anacleto Popular webcomic creators Frank DYNAMITE In a fairy tale land of knights and Gibson (Tiny Kitten Teeth) and artist Meredith Gran, magic, a royal child’s life hangs in Tyson Hesse (Boxer Hockey) bring the Steve Uy, the balance. Summoned to save the wacky adventures of Gumball and his Meredith Gran princess, a young woman of untold friends to comics for the first time! The hugely popular, award-winning power begins a journey that will un- Gumball, Darwin, and all of their game makes its comic debut! Our cover secrets, reveal forbidden de- friends take on the world of com- jump-inclined hero Doodler has sires and stoke the fires of war! The ics! Gumball thinks he’s the coolest landed in a mysterious wintry world reign in blood is about to be born! kid on the block, but his little sister -- and an inhospitable one, at that! Inspired by the nightmares of your Anais begs to differ, and Darwin just With the help of an enthusiastic new youth and the notorious Countess wants to keep them all out of trouble. friend, can he dodge killer penguins Bathory, Blood Queen comes from There’s always another adventure to and weather the storm? writer Troy Brownfield! be had in their mixed-up world! In Shops: 18/06/2014 In Shops: 11/06/2014 In Shops: 11/06/2014 08 he adapts to a whole new world of H COVER STAR H H COVER STAR H INTRINSIC Blue and Human cooperation! Fan VOL.2 #1 DOCTOR DOCTOR favorite illustrator Nei Ruffino debuts WHO: WHO: ANNUAL #1 a new Fathom story all her own, as ARCANA 11TH #1 10TH #1 ASPEN she handles the writing and art du- Sean O’Reilly, TITAN TITAN David Whol, ties in a special tale featuring Aspen Chris “Doc” Matthews and her new close friend Wyatt, Jay Al Ewing, Rob Nick Abadzis, Dennis Calero, Busbee, Alex Williams, Simon Elena Casagrande, Michael Turner, Judith! And Fathom: Kiani writer Ross Fraser, Various Various Various Vince Hernandez takes Aspen Mat- thews on a journey to discover a lost The Intrinsic face enemies from both The eleventh Doctor returns in an The tenth Doctor is back, in an all- Michael Turner’s Fathom returns! city hidden deep under the surface within and without as they simultane- all-new ongoing series, with a time- new ongoing series! New compan- Aspen’s first ever Fathom Annual ar- of the water, only what she discovers ously confront the Demon King’s at- twisting leap into the unknown! ion, new foes, unforgettable new hori- rives, jam-packed with three all new instead is far more shocking! tack on CERN, and the Council of the Geronimo! Alice Obiefune has just zons! Allons-y! Gabriella Gonzalez is stories featuring some of the most Don’t miss out on the debut of the Philosophers, who intend to disman- lost her mother when the Doctor ex- stuck in a dead-end job in her family’s popular characters in the Fathom first ever Fathom Annual #1 in this tle the team. With the odds stacked plodes into her life. But what does a laundrette, dreaming of col- universe-and more! Join veteran thrilling oversized issue featuring a against them, and the heroes being grieving young woman have to do lege and bigger, better, and brighter Fathom writer David Wohl as he gives re-mastered Fathom cover by series pulled apart from one another, Phi- with the career of a 70s musician, an things. So when a strange man with us an inside look at Aspen’s former creator Michael Turner and Peter losopher Rex is forced to turn for amnesiac alien time traveler, and a an even stranger big blue box barges love interest, Chance Calloway, and Steigerwald! aid to someone he never expected. terrifying cosmic threat? In the wake into her life on the eve of the Day of his thrilling exploits away from her, as With amazing cover artwork by Alex of the second Big Bang, discover the Dead celebrations, talking about In Shops: 04/06/2014 Ross, follow our Arcanaverse Heroes what the Doctor gets up to when an of psychic aliens, she in their new adventure. Amy and Rory aren’t around! Plus, seizes her chance for adventure with In Shops: 25/06/2014 every issue includes a “Titans” strip both hands. After Donna’s tragic exit, and a brand-new humor strip. the Doctor thought he was done with In Shops: 23/07/2014 companions. But Gabby Gonzalez is NEW going to prove him wrong - if she sur- VAMPIRELLA vives the night! #1 In Shops: 23/07/2014 DYNAMITE Nancy A. EMPTY MAN BRAVEST Collins, Patrick WARRIORS Berkenkotter, #1 Jenny Frison BOOM! 2014: IMPOSSIBEAR In the first of the six-part Our Lady Cullen Bunn, Vanesa Del SPECIAL #1 Of Shadows story arc, Vampirella is BOOM! sent by the Vatican to investigate the It’s been one year since the first re- kidnapping of a little girl by Ethan ported case of the Empty Man dis- Kevin Panetta, Various Shroud and the Chaos cultists, only ease, and no drug has been able to become the centerpiece of a ritual to slow its progress. The cause is If there is one sassy fur ball in Bravest invoking Lady Umbra, the sister-bride unknown, and the symptoms in- Warriors that deserves a comic dedi- of Chaos, that leaves her marked as clude fits of rage, hideous halluci- cated to how awesome he is, it’s Im- a living sacrifice to the dark goddess nations, suicidal dementia, followed possibear! Impossibear and Catbug who rules the shadows. Vampirella by death, or a near lifeless, “empty” are up to no good with the Bravest returns to her horror roots with Bram state of catatonia. As murder cults Warriors off on a mission! Between Stoker Award-winning author Nancy rise nationwide, the FBI and CDC en- music appreciation, karate-chopping A. Collins (Swamp Thing, Sunglass- ter a joint investigation of the Empty space chickens, and trying to eat a es After Dark) and Patrick Berken- Man, hoping to piece together clues baglewich in peace, there are plenty kotter (The Torch, Dark Shadows). to stop the cult and uncover a cure. of shenanigans to be had. INDIES In Shops: 04/06/2014 In Shops: 18/06/2014 In Shops: 18/06/2014 NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR JUNE 09 NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COLLECTED EDITIONS ARRIVING NOVEL IDEAS FROM JUNE ONWARDS...

BLACK WIDOW BATMAN VOL.1: FINELY UNWRAPPED: WOVEN VOL.1: BORN THE COURT THREAD AGAIN OF OWLS (HC) MARVEL IMAGE CHICACABRA DC Edmondson, Marz, Braga, IDW Snyder, Capullo Noto Silvestri Beland

The critically acclaimed first volume Black Widow goes undercover in This first volume in a new series of Tom Beland, creator of the multiple of and Greg Capullo’s Russia - but from it’s cold streets, the Witchblade collections provides Eisner-nominated series True Story, Batman saga is collected in a special Hand of God reaches out to crush a perfect jumping-on point! Sara Swear to God, returns with an all- edition presenting the art in pencils- her... and it is as merciless as its Pezzini has given up the Witchblade new . only form! name. Outmatched by the brute force and taken up the life of a small-town Heads will roll in 2014 when the Collects issues #1-11 of Batman, in- of this powerful new villain, Natasha is Sheriff, but her past comes back world gets a taste of Chicacabra! troducing Gotham City’s deadly Court in a race against time, with nowhere her in deadly fashion. In Puerto Rico, there is a girl, Isabel of Owls. to turn for answers. Black Widow’s Acclaimed writer returns Sanchez, who could be like any other In Shops: 06/08/2014 strength and cunning will be put to the to the series, working with gifted art- girl you see in high school... except test as she follows the trail of blood ist Laura Braga to tell the next chap- for the creature who lives inside of and destruction to the beginning, but ter in the life of Sara Pezzini and the her that’s a ruthless killing machine. can she locate the entity behind the Witchblade! Chupacabras, Vejigantes, fistfights, attacks? In Shops: 25/06/2014 and weed! Collecting Black Widow (2014) #1-6 In Shops: 25/06/2014 and material from All-New Marvel WHISPERS Now! Point One #1. (MR) In Shops: 16/07/2014 IMAGE SECOND CONAN VOL.16: Luna CHANCE AT SONG OF SARAH (HC) BELIT (HC) DARK HORSE DARK HORSE A mentally troubled man is suddenly DJANGO Druckmann, Wood, Azaceta, empowered with the ability to leave UNCHAINED Wong (MR) Carnevale, his physical body in “ghost” form Various and manipulate people in unusual DC ways. With this incredible power, will Huddleston, As his wife Sarah lies dying, John Guera, Various he control his demons...or discover makes a deal with a demon for a ’s epic and acclaimed even more? desperate chance to save her! adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s Transported to their childhood, John Joshua Luna of the “Luna Brothers” The 7-issue comics adaptation of the “Queen of the Black Coast” reaches gets a single day to prevent the (Ultra, Girls, The Sword) makes a Oscar-winning movie by Quentin Tar- its heart-rending conclusion! This tragedy that led to Sarah’s present- solo debut with a dark, supernatural antino! Don’t miss this blood-soaked thrilling volume collects issues #19- day doom, all while trying to convince thriller that questions free will and tale of a bounty-hunting dentist and #25 of the series her that he really is who he says! explores the obsessions and urges his partner Django, a recently freed Conan the Barbarian. we all have and may not have con- slave, as they search the post-Civil An original graphic novel from the Wood’s acclaimed run reaches its trol of at all. War South for Django’s wife! Last of Us creative director! earth-shattering conclusion! In Shops: 11/06/2014 In Shops: 16/07/2014 In Shops: 20/08/2014 In Shops: 20/08/2014 10 NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COLLECTED EDITIONS ARRIVING NOVEL IDEAS FROM JUNE ONWARDS...

MY LITTLE GEORGE PONY: X-MEN: ROMERO’S FRIENDS BATTLE OF DEADWORLD: OF FOREVER VOL.1 THE ATOM RESTORATION THE DEAD: IDW MARVEL COMICS IDW ACT ONE De Campi, Price, Bendis, Adams, Reed, MARVEL McNeil, Various Various Makkonen Romero, Maleev

Four tales dedicated to exploring The X-Men’s past, present and fu- The classic continues, from Zombie godfather George Romero the magic of friendship. ture collide in an uncanny event 50 the same creative team that brought unleashes his next undead epic! First Applejack and Pinkie Pie en- years in the making! In a desperate you the acclaimed War of the Dead. Welcome to New York City years after ter a baking contest, then The Cutie bid to save Xavier’s dream, the Beast The lepers have been slaughtered, the undead plague has erupted - but Mark Crusaders team up with Dis- brought the original X-Men forward to the people who have escaped the just because Manhattan has been cord, Spike enlists Princess Celes- the present. Now, with the timeline - breeder pits head for the safety of New quarantined, don’t think that everyone tia to help him find a birthday pre- and all of existence - endangered by Washington, but now the zombies are inside is safe! Not only do flesh-eat- sent, and finally Twilight Sparkle their presence, they must go back. under the control of Donna, the half- ers roam the city, but another ancient and Shining Armor chase down a But faced with the horror of what fate human/half-zombie hybrid. predator has taken a bloody bite out mysterious ghost. would have in store for them, young In Shops: 11/06/2014 of the Big Apple: Vampires rule! Are In Shops: 04/06/2014 Cyclops and Marvel Girl are intent on New York’s zombies evolving, and staying and forging their own destiny! how does an undead former cop fit Celebrate the X-Men’s 50th anniver- in? It’s zombies vs. vampires - with sary with a time-twisting epic for the JUICE humans caught in the crossfire! ages! Collecting X-Men: Battle Of The SQUEEZERS JUSTICE Collecting George Romero’s Empire Atom #1-2, All-New X-Men #16-17, VOL.1: Of The Dead: Act One #1-5. LEAGUE OF GREAT BUG AMERICA VOL.1: X-Men (2013) #5-6, Uncanny X-Men ELEVATOR In Shops: 23/07/2014 DANGEROUS (2013) #12-13 and And DARK HORSE DC The X-Men #36-37. Lapham Johns, Kindt, In Shops: 09/07/2014 Finch, Various Tunnels made by a legion of giant DEAD BODY bugs crisscross the fields below Green Lantern! Green Arrow! Cat- BATMAN: ROAD (MR) Weeville, and only one thing can stop woman! Katana! Vibe! Hawkman! ARKHAM IMAGE UNHINGED them from overrunning this quaint Stargirl! They aren’t the world’s Jordan, Scalera, VOL.4 (HC) California town: the Juice Squeezers. greatest Super Heroes-they’re the DiNisio DC A covert group of scrawny tweens, most dangerous! But why does Traviss, Duce, the Squeezers are the only ones who a team like the JLA need to exist? Mitten, Various can fit into the cramped subterranean The men involved in his wife’s death What is their ultimate mission? And battlefield and fight the insects on must now die. All of them. who is pulling the strings? Find out the frontlines! in this collection of the first five -is The prequel to the best-selling video This volume collects the entire Dead sues of the new series as the team game Batman: Arkham City con- Collects stories from Dark Horse Body Road miniseries, a bruising takes on the Secret Society of Su- cludes with these tales from issues Presents #26-28 and issues #1-4 of story of one man’s revenge and the per-Villains! #16-20! the miniseries. dark road he travels. In Shops: 09/07/2014 In Shops: 20/08/2014 In Shops: 06/08/2014 In Shops: 25/06/2014 11 BIFF’S BIT Email Biff here: [email protected]

Over the decades my advice to eve- ryone that has ever asked about what should they buy to make mon- ey on has been “Buy what you enjoy *Warning: Contains Captain Ameri- CHASING reading and if it makes you money ca, The Winter Soldier Spoliers!!! further down the line, then that is a Something strange has happened in bonus“. the ‘real world’ Marvel Universe. Two THAT Just as Jonathan Tann found when totally different companies have the selling back some Spider-Man com- rights to produce Marvel films. The ics. He was genuinely surprised and X-Men and Spider-Man produced by pleased with what I paid him. Unlike Sony who only have a loose grasp of ELUSIVE the collector who asked if he should the source material and Marvel, who buy into a title that had already up until recently, also had a loose reached £100 for #1. I advised no. grasp of their own source material. COMIC He still went and bought it and five As The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver years later he couldn’t give it away. I are owned by Sony via the X-Men must say I forgot to ask if he read it! franchise, Marvel have decided to INVESTMENT I did have to say I told you so when use these characters, but , under a offered the comic. different name. Bova, who had been ed the superhero world now is it oc- Avengers movie. Normally I am a the first issue going for over £10. The Lastly, just to wind the speculators quietly bringing up the twins that curred to me that due to the plethora very savvy comic collector and re- reason, I discover, is that it is the sub- up, I must mention the upcoming Magda gave birth to in Wundagore of movies now spawned by comics a tailer and I have to admit to not being ject of a pilot program and the centre FREE COMIC BOOK DAY, May 3rd mountain, will be shocked that these new generation of comic speculator aware that there was a solo Thanos of new speculator buying. this year, and the fact that some- twins have been abducted by Baron has evolved right under the nose of story as a back up feature in Logan’s Combine the above with the current where amidst the official FCBD give- Strucker to be used as a weapon the High Evolutionary. Run #6. This apparently was the first trend to buy into nearly every Image aways will be a comic that will set against the Avengers in an upcoming solo story featuring Thanos. My re- These speculators who have real- number one in case they strike lucky eBay alight. My lips are sealed at the Marvel movie. Sorry, I have just seen tailers antennae was vibrating when ised that it is too late to buy the first with another Peter Panzerfaust, and moment, but there are at least five Winter Soldier and two different people had contacted there is a large community that are contenders. actually sat through all the credits so appearance of Captain America me asking if I stocked Logan’s Run once again buying, but not reading. Don’t forget, true believers, comics I could see the teaser trailers. Once (Avengers #4, first Modern Age) at a #6. This, a series with fundamentally raise the level of your imagination again, Marvel Studios have nailed bargain price , currently £4,000 and no interest, then people want #6, not Do book buyers buy the latest Ian every time, transporting you to plac- the character whilst modernising for rising, are diving into the almost for- issue #1??! Rankin with expectation that it will gotten back issue market every time rise in value? es and times beyond your imagin- the current movie audience. My fa- Then there are new TV series being a new villain appears, like Baron ing. That is the true value of comics vourite scene was Captain America made or optioned that are causing a Do you buy SFX only to see it multi- Strucker, and buying, in this case, - priceless! addressing the S.H.I.E.L.D. staff as great deal of activity in the back is- ply in value? Sgt Fury and His Howling Comman- he exposed the Hydra agents em- sue market. Most recently Preacher Heck no. You buy them to read them! dos #5. Formerly maybe £50 in near bedded next to them. A tear came to #1 which would languish in the back Gosh what an incredible idea. In fact mint, now £300 and climbing. my eye as his speech exhorting the issue bins at £9.99 and not move has if everyone read the comics that they true S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to act, nailed Any Thanos appearance has been moving at £100 and upwards. bought, then a lot of really poor com- what Captain America means to me. climbed steadily in price ever since Now iZombie, which no-one seemed ics might not last more than one or Whilst ruminating over how accept- his cameo at the end of the last interested in, has started shifting with two issues. 12 TOP 20 GRAPHIC NOVELS THE BESTSELLING GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR MARCH 2014...

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1 - WALKING DEAD VOL.20: ALL OUT WAR (PART ONE) (IMAGE) Robert Kirkman, , Various The biggest storyline in The Walking Dead history starts here. It’s Rick versus Negan, with a little help from everyone else! Collects THE WALKING DEAD #115-120 Add to basket

2 - SAGA VOL.3 (MR) (IMAGE) The Eisner, Harvey, and Hugo Award-winning phenomenon continues, collecting Saga #13-18. 3 - NEMO: ROSES OF BERLIN (HC) (MR) (TOP SHELF) Janni Nemo must rescue her loved ones from the belly of the beastly, nightmarish metropolis of Berlin. 4 - AVATAR - THE LAST AIRBENDER VOL.7: RIFT (PART 1) (DARK HORSE) Aang asks his friends to help him honor Yangchen’s Festival - one of the highest Air Nomad holidays... 5 - CHEW: VOL.8: FAMILY RECIPES (MR) (IMAGE) Presenting a new storyline of the New York Times Bestselling, Harvey and Eisner Award-winning series. 6 - : TRINITY WAR (HC) (DC) The blockbuster event of the summer is collected in this new hardcover. 7 - : WELCOME TO METROPOLIS (DC) In this new Harley collection, Harley Quinn heads to Metropolis with allies Poison Ivy and Bizarro in tow! 8 - ADVENTURE TIME VOL.3: SEEING RED (BOOM!) Kate Leth writes this OGN about Marceline and Jake with Zach Sterling illustrating this super fun adventure! 9 - MARVEL MASTER WORKS: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL.1 (MARVEL) Experience the tales of the world’s most-famous superhero from the very beginning! ebay.acecomics.co.uk amazon.acecomics.co.uk 10 - STRAY BULLETS: UBER ALLES (MR) (IMAGE) YOUR FIRST CHOICE FOR RARE COLLECTIBLES The original five story arcs of one of the greatest crime comic series are collected in this giant volume. 13 acecomics.co.uk/fcbd2014

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