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NOVEMBER 2013: PREMIER PUBLISHERS HISTORY BOOKS Page 2-6 Page 10 INDEPENDENTS ONES TO WATCH Page 7 Page 10 NOVEL IDEAS BIFF’S BIT COMICS Page 8-9 Page 11 BAD BLOOD #1 (OF 5) JUICE SQUEEZERS #1 Maberry | Crook (OF 4) Getting bitten by a Lapham | Loughridge NEW TITLES SHIPPING IN JANUARY: pissed him off. Tunnels made by a Seeing his best friend legion of giant bugs brutally slaughtered crisscross the fields started a war. Trick below Weeville, and only was a typical college one thing can stop them PREMIER PUBLISHERS student—sort of—until from overrunning this vampires attacked. Then quaint California town: : LEAVES #1 FOR $1: CAPTAIN he found out his blood the Juice Squeezers. A ON THE WIND #1 (OF 6) MIDNIGHT was poison to the bloodsuckers. And Trick covert group comprised of scrawny tweens, will do anything to eradicate them. the Squeezers are the only ones who can Whedon | Jeanty | Williamson | Dagnino | Ego | Rude fit into the cramped subterranean battlefield Story | Martin | Dos and fight the insects on the frontlines! Santos Witness the return of BALTIMORE: CHAPEL Captain Midnight—for OF BONES #1 (OF 2) Malcolm Reynolds’s only $1! In the forties, he Mignola | Golden | SKYMAN #1 (OF 4) crew shook the ’verse to was an American hero, Stenbeck | Stewart Fialkov | Garcia | Bit | its core when they laid a daredevil fighter pilot, Williams II | Scott a technological genius . After his long hunt, bare the crimes against Baltimore finally After an embarrassing humanity undertaken by their sinister . . a . But after defeat at the hands hurtling out of a freak in the Bermuda confronts the vampire government—the Alliance. Always outlaws, who destroyed his life of Captain Midnight, Triangle and into the present day, Captain a drunken Skyman Mal, a very pregnant Zoe, new pilot River Midnight doesn’t know what or whom to trust! in London for a final Tam, and the other surviving crew showdown! accidentally kills an innocent man! Needing members are in greater danger a new face for their than ever. Meanwhile, everyone is ELFQUEST: initiative ASAP, the asking the same question . . . #1 FOR $1: CONAN THE FINAL QUEST #1 Skyman Program turns to US Force Sgt. THE BARBARIAN Pini | Pini Eric Reid: a wounded veteran on the ropes, Wood | Cloonan | The Wolfriders’ chief, looking for a new lease on life. Stewart | Carnevale Cutter, knows that Superstar creators change is coming. His and Becky tribe’s proximity to the Cloonan’s first issue of Palace of the High is Ones, a mysterious back in print—for only and magical oasis, $1! In this sweeping makes this inevitable. As adaptation of Robert E. Cutter’s daughter Ember, chief of her own Howard’s fan-favorite “Queen of the Black tribe, shares her father’s efforts to preserve Coast,” Conan takes to the high seas alongside the old ways amongst their kin, the human the pirate queen Bêlit, setting the stage for an tyrant, Angrif Djun, ascends the mountain epic of romance, terror, and swashbuckling. her clan call home and rocks the foundation of their peaceful existence.

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COMICS 2 INJUSTICE: YEAR TWO #1 Taylor | Redondo | NEW TITLES SHIPPING IN JANUARY: Raapack The best-selling prequel to the hit videogame picks up right where it left off! Year one is over— PREMIER PUBLISHERS now, year two begins. The death of one of their own has divided Earth’s protectors as hero turns against hero. As ’s iron grip on the world tightens, at the edge of the galaxy, fear approaches...

THE UNWRITTEN VOL. 2: APOCALYPSE #1 Carey | Gross | Shimizu SCRIBBLENAUTS It’s the perfect jumping UNMASKED: on point, as Tom Taylor is stranded at the beginning A OF of all creation! Lost in the IMAGINATION #1 unwritten scenes of all Elder | Archer the world’s stories, Tom It’s here! Straight from the hit Taylor is headed back to reality — and all the gods and beasts and video game Scribblenauts monsters ever imagined can’t stop him. But Unmasked: A DC Comics there’s a toll on the road that may be too high Adventure comes an all-new, for him or anyone to pay… all-ages adventure featuring Maxwell, Lily and as many DC characters as you can imagine! You don’t want to miss this! THE VAMPIRE DIARIES #1 Doran | Shasteen Elena, Stefan and Damon make their comics debut in a new series based on the hit CW television show! This anthology series will bring some of comics’ greatest talents to Mystic Falls and set them loose to bring the characters to life. Or death. They are /SUPERMAN vampires, you know. ANNUAL #1 Pak | Lee | Benes | Others WORLDS’ FINEST It’s the first meeting of ANNUAL #1 and Red , Levitz | Neves | Steel and Supergirl and Deering | Lupacchino more as the competing Batman and Superman In one of their first families must battle adventures together, for the control of the Earth 2’s Supergirl and missing Mongul’s fortress! And at the heart team up to face of it, Batman and Superman deal with their their world’s Wonder grief over their fallen comrades. Woman!

COMICS 3 THE X-FILES: CONSPIRACY #1 (OF 2) THE X-FILES: : Crilley | Stanisci | Kim SEASON 10 #1 - MEGA-CITY TWO #1 DIRECTOR’S CUT (OF 5) The event of the year begins here! When The Lone Gunmen Harris | Walsh | Wolk | Farinas discover Internet files from the future, they learn that a plague Valenzuela Dredd heads Californee will soon wipe out most of humanity. With Agents Mulder and The X-Files: Season 10 way! As part of a judicial Scully working one lead, the Gunmen must spring into from IDW took the world exchange program, Dredd and investigate several urban legends: a group of ghost- by storm, drawing praise is sent packing to Mega- hunters, mutant turtles that live in the sewers, shape-changing from comic readers and City Two, a sprawling city alien robots, and a vengeful spirit from beyond the grave! longtime X-Philes alike. covering 5,000 square Now, in celebration of this miles of the Californian THE X-FILES: CONSPIRACY: acclaimed series, we are proud to release a West Coast and centered in what was once special Director’s Cut of the first issue, which known as Los Angeles, where he soon discovers includes all of the covers along with the that they do things differently there. Burnham | Navarro | Kim comic’s script, giving a rare insight into the The Conspiracy continues! The Lone Gunmen inner workings of a from initial investigate their first lead, the Ghostbusters. Are thought to publication. Join series creator MY LITTLE PONY: they frauds and charlatans, bilking unwitting clients Chris Carter, writer Joe Harris (Great Pacific) FRIENDS FOREVER #1 out of money? Or do they have special insight into and artist Michael Walsh (Comeback) as we De Campi | McNeil | the afterlife? And how are they connected to the reprise their story ushering The X-Files into Mebberson plague that’s poised to wipe out humanity? a new era! Introducing a brand new ongoing series! Dedicated to exploring the magic that arises from the friendship of two different ponies, prepare for anything in this fun-filled team-team up comic! Our first pony pairing features none other than Applejack and Pinkie Pie! When the two enter a baking contest, you can bet the culinary hijinks are going to get messy! TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: PURGATORY #1 (OF 5) UTROM EMPIRE #1 Halpin Sr. | Guerrero (OF 3) An all-new creation from Allor | Kuhn Joe Halpin Sr., writer on Intrigue and betrayal TV’s Hawaii Five-O! In abound on Burnow a surreal setting where Island! This mini- a red sky burns bright series takes us to the and the blanket of night Technodrome where brings a terror known ’s plans to destroy only as the Dark Souls, the Earth are ramping up. Little does he ex-cop Jake Ryan know that Baxter Stockman plans to harness struggles to make sense of his surroundings. its power for himself! As the two villains Purgatory is a story that weaves a rich scheme, one imprisoned robot holds the tapestry of loyalty, lust, intrigue and betrayal key to success—Fugitoid! Will he be able as beggars, thieves, priests, and murderers to reach the Turtles in time? All this plus the all vie for power in a world that rewards the long awaited story of the alien Utrom race! bold and enslaves the weak. NEW TITLES SHIPPING IN JANUARY: PREMIER PUBLISHERS

COMICS 4 DEADLY CLASS #1 ALL-NEW Remender | Craig | NOW! POINT ONE #1 Loughridge Slott | Ewing | Robinson | It’s 1987. Marcus Lopez hates NEW TITLES Edmondson | Spencer school. His grades suck. He | Allred | Garbett | has no money. The jocks are Pugh | Noto | Morales | hassling his friends. He can’t Larroca | McNiven focus in class, thanks to his SHIPPING IN Here we go again! It’s mind constantly drifting to ALL-NEW X-FACTOR #1 your one-stop entry the stunning girl in the front row and the Dag David | Di point to the world of All- Giandomenico | Nasty show he has tickets to. But the jocks are New Marvel Now! embarks on a mission Fletcher | Larroca | for Asgard! The and Dawn the children of Joseph Stalin’s top assassin, JANUARY: Young experience the cosmic rays of Nautikos! A the teachers are members of an ancient “Not Brand X” Part 1. Pursuer and her Special Forces team league of assassins, the class he’s failing X-Factor is back…like prepare to invade the Earth! The Black Widow is “Dismemberment 101,” and his crush, never before! Serval goes undercover in Russia! And can even PREMIER the Indestructible survive the aid and a member of the most notorious crime Industries, one of the syndicate in Japan, has a double-digit world’s most trusted assistance of fellow Cannonball body count. names in electronics and and Sunspot? in cutting-edge internet and weapons Features completely new Loki: Agent Of Welcome to the most brutal high school PUBLISHERS technology, has just unveiled their newest Asgard, Silver Surfer, Black Widow, All-New on Earth, where the world’s top crime AVENGERS WORLD #1 contribution to society…the All-New X-Factor. Invaders and Avengers World lead-in stories! families send the next generation of Led by mutant mistress of magnetism, Hickman | Spencer Polaris, the team uses its corporate backing assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. | Caselli | Cassaday for the betterment of society. With her half- Killing is a craft. At King’s Dominion High | Adams | Manara | brother Quicksilver, notorious thief, , School for the Deadly Arts, the dagger in Young and more by her side, can Polaris trust that your back isn’t always metaphorical, nor is “Trouble Map”. Earth’s her corporate masters really have good your fellow classmates’ poison. Mightiest Heroes have intentions? returned from the stars-- EGOS #1 but on the world they THE AMAZING Moore | Storms left behind, new threats have emerged, and The SPIDER-MAN: THE A twisted far-future epic! Avengers will be tested like never before. In MOVIE ADAPTATION #1 An aging hero risks one cataclysmic day, the face of the Marvel Cohen | Alves everything to rebuild his Universe will change forever-- and the fight Get ready for The former team.But to do for Earth’s future will begin. A globe-spanning Amazing Spider-Man so he must cross a line epic of empires and armies, and the brave 2, with an awesome with his wife that can’t be few who stand between them and us. adaptation of the web- uncrossed. slinger’s latest hit film! ALL-NEW INVADERS #1 When danger threatens BLACK WIDOW #1 Robinson | Pugh | the city, high school student Peter Parker Edmondson | Noto | MINIMUM WAGE #1 Singh | Cassaday | leaps into action as the wall-crawling Spider- Campbell | Manara | Fingerman Young Man! Spider-Man! The Lizard! Gwen Stacy! Young After a nearly 15-year “Gods And Soldiers” All this and more movie magic! “The Finely Woven hiatus, Bob Fingerman’s Part One. Eisner Award Thread”. You’ve seen edgy, critically- winner Black Widow as an (Starman, Earth 2) returns : acclaimed title returns THE GAUNTLET #1 Avenger and even an as a monthly. When last to Marvel, uniting with Agent of Shield. But we left Rob and Sylvia (, Dugan | Brown | Cho on her own time she they were exchanging Hotwire, Gen-X) to create Deadpool has tangled searches for atonement vows at the altar. Three a unique, modern day take on the Invaders. with vampires before, for her past as a KGB assassin—in ways of years later (in Rob’s The Kree Empire intends to conquer the but is he ready…to work which those teams just wouldn’t approve. world), much has changed. Rob has a cell universe using a weapon that will grant them for them?! From the darkest corners of the Marvel phone. He’s 25. And oh yeah – spoiler alert – an army of Norse Gods. It falls to four heroes has a very Universe, Nathan Edmonson (Who is he’s single again. Oops. Living again with his united by their past—, important package he Jake Ellis?) and (, mom, it’s get-back-on-the-horse time as the , The Original and the needs delivered safely, X-23) bring you a new ongoing series as daunting prospect of dating looms large as a Winter Soldier—who must now face the future so he hires the Merc with the Mouth to get gorgeous and mysterious as Nastasha horny Kraken. and wage war against the Kree to save Earth. the job done! Romanov herself!

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COMICS 6 THE ZONE #1 DREDD: UNDERBELLY DYNAMITE ENT (MOVIE SEQUEL) Straczynski | Vilanova 2000AD | Francavilla Wyatt | Flint SELECTED TITLES SHIPPING IN JANUARY Trevor Richmond is a The one-shot sequel to Wall Street investor the critically-acclaimed GRIMM FAIRY TALES CURSE #1 (OF 4) BRAVEST WARRIORS who embezzled millions movie! In the wake of PRESENTS: THE BOOM! STUDIOS 2014 ANNUAL #1 and is about to tank Ma-Ma’s death, other DARK QUEEN #1 Moreci | Daniel | BOOM! STUDIOS the economy. Again. criminal gangs in Mega- ZENESCOPE ENT Rossmo | Lorimer Hesse | Leth | Desperate to avoid the City One are moving into Esquivel | Sharma The Curse creative team Mannino | Pequin | consequences for his the power vacuum, trying | Sejic | Qualano | practically screams Hankins | Jeong actions, he goes to Expedited Services, Inc., to fill the gap in the market left by the Slo- Ehnot “horror” - from writers It’s a Catbug special!! which offers to help him disappear and enjoy Mo drug. When a corpse dump is discovered For centuries, the Dark Michael Moreci (Hoax All new original short a life of leisure in a new life. But what exactly is in a rad-pit, the bodies are all revealed to Horde has tried in vain Hunters) and Tim stories starring your this new life, how much is freedom worth, and be mutants. Could the dead be connected to take control of both Daniel (Enormous) and favorite Catbug! Join what happens to the old life when someone with an outfit smuggling illegal refugees Earth and the four artists Riley Rossmo Catbug and his friends, else shows up to claim it? This is the first into the city from the Cursed Earth? Dredd realms of power. 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COMICS 7 ACE Comics pick of the best new graphic novels : WAR (HC) SATELLITE SAM VOL.1 NOVEL IDEAS and collected JOHNS | REIS | PRADO | VARIOUS FRACTION | CHAYKIN editions arriving from January DC, 320 pages Image, 144 pages onwards... The blockbuster event of the summer is , 1951: The star of the hit TV collected in this new hardcover featuring show “Satellite Sam” turns up dead in a Justice League #22-23, Justice League Of flophouse filled with dirty secrets. If his son America #6-7, Justice League Dark #22- can sober up, he might be able to figure out why in this noir mystery shot through with :THE 23, Constantine #5, Trinity Of Sin: Pandora : sex and violence in the seedy underbelly POWER TRIP FIRST 20 YEARS #1-3 and Trinity Of Sin: Phantom Stranger (HC) #11. When the three Justice Leagues go of TV’s golden age. By Matt Fraction JOHNS | CONNER | (Sex Criminals, Casanova, ) PALMIOTTI | VARIOUS MIGNOLA | STEWART to war with one another, whose side will everyone be on? Allies will be born, friends and Howard Chaykin (Black Kiss I and II, DC, 392 pages Dark Horse, 136 pages will become enemies, and the DC Universe American Flagg!). will never be the same! Collects Satellite Sam #1-5. Every Power Girl story Mignola has expanded Hellboy into the illustrated by most exciting group of books since the is collected in one volume that early , and his style has includes JSA Classified #1-4 and influenced art and illustration far beyond Power Girl #1-12! Don’t miss these the world of comics. Selected finished stories featuring the Psycho-Pirate, pieces are shown alongside sketches and JUDGE DREDD Ultra-Humanite, Vartox and some very raw scans from the last twenty years. VOL.3 sexy alien marauders! HALF PAST SWIERCZYNSKI | DANGER (HC) DANIEL | FUSO MOONEY IDW, 104 pages IDW, 200 pages CASTLE: RICHARD CASTLE’S STORM As chaotic and violent as things can be in SEASON Summer, 1943, and in the midst of a war Mega-City One, it’s all unicorns, ice cream, DECONNICK | BENDIS waged by monsters, Staff Sergeant Tommy and rainbows compared to what you’ll find VOL.1: | LUPACCHINO | “Irish” Flynn never expected to encounter a beyond the outer walls... in the Cursed ORIGIN WEAVER real one. But on a remote island in the South Earth! In the wake of the devastation of “The LOEB | MCGUINNESS Marvel, 112 pages Pacific theatre, Flynn and his squad come Long Fail,” Dredd is forced to lead a small Marvel, 160 pages face-to-fanged-face with creatures long team of Judges into the scariest stretch of thought dead! History meets Prehistory in irradiated wasteland to recover the very The sequel to the critically acclaimed, this two-fisted race against time. soul of the city, which means, among other The new Human Rocket roars into action! best-selling Richard Castle’s unsavory things, the Angel Gang! Sam Alexander is a kid bound by the Deadly Storm! In this “adaptation” of gravity of a small town - and a father Derrick Storm’s second novel, the private whose ridiculous, drunken fairy tales about investigator is hired to bug an African head FBP - FEDERAL a “Nova Corps” were just another heavy of state’s hotel suite - but the routine mission BUREAU OF burden. But lucky for Sam, gravity soon quickly spirals out of control when Storm PHYSICS VOL.1: won’t even matter - and those troubles will overhears a woman’s terrifying scream on THE PARADIGM be a billion miles away. It’s a boy, a helmet the wire. Plagued by the victim’s helpless SHIFT BEDLAM VOL.2 and an intergalactic legacy! As Sam trains cry, Storm - despite an ominous warning OLIVER | RODRIGUEZ with the Guardians of Galaxy’s Gamora and SPENCER | BROWNE | - investigates. Soon, he’ll discover an | FOX IRVING , the helmet leads Nova international conspiracy reaching further DC, 160 pages Image, 120 pages into intergalactic conflict that will affect than he ever imagined - and perhaps the the entire Marvel Universe! Mysteries are truth about Clara Strike, a CIA agent the revealed in this breathtaking new series world thinks is dead! Richard Castle’s When gravity fails, time reverses itself Fillmore Press, formerly the maniacal by the best-selling, award-winning team Storm Season reunites the lauded writing and entropy sets in, it’s time to call the crime lord Madder Red, is trying to protect of and Ed McGuinness (Hulk, duo of and Kelly Sue Federal Bureau of Physics! And with these the city he once terrorized - but what Avengers: X-Sanction)! DeConnick for their second Castle story, anomalies getting worse, Special Agent happens when the city turns on itself? No Collecting Nova (2013) #1-5 and material and the dynamic artwork of rising star Adam Hardy and his team must unlock the one is safe when a new killer emerges, from Point One #1 and Marvel NOW! Point Emanuela Lupacchino brings the world of secret of the Bubbleverse! pulling unseen strings and wreaking chaos One #1. Derrick Storm to life like never before. Collecting issues #1-7 of the new series! on every corner.

COMICS 8 FEARLESS VOL.2: AVENGERS VOL.1: : MOST FABULOUS AVENGERS REGENERATION SUPERIOR FIGHTING TEAM WORLD ONE VOL.3 CARNAGE OF ALL Hickman | Opena | FURMAN | WILDMAN | SHINICKN | SEGOVIA | BUNN | HANS | SLINEY Kubert | Weaver VARIOUS CRAIN | BROOKS Marvel, 152 pages IDW, 152 pages Marvel, 112 pages Marvel, 136 pages

The greatest heroes in comics, together as The very fabric of the Transformers’ universe Locked away in an asylum, Carnage may With ’ hordes invading Earth, the one unbeatable team! The Avengers “go begins to unravel, as huge and ancient finally be gone for good - but his fellow Fearless Defenders live up to their name large,” expanding their roster and sphere of cosmic forces take note of Cybertron’s inmates have other plans. Can they in an tie-in like no other! Misty influence to a global and even interplanetary (and ehe Cybertronians’) descent into successfully wake the monster? Or will kicked ass in ’s world, now it’s time level. When Captain America puts out his call, chaos and anarchy. this hideous experiment create the most to see how Valkyrie fares in Misty’s. But it’s who will respond? The answers will surprise powerful, dangerous, maniacal Carnage not easy being an Asgardian shieldmaiden you! The Avengers’ first mission takes them to yet - a Superior Carnage? After performing - especially when your boyfriend’s got a chip Mars, but the secrets of the Garden lead right unspeakable acts in the name of science, on his shoulder! And when a gifted young back to Earth’s Savage Land! And when the the Wizard releases Carnage into the woman discovers she possesses terrifying Shi’ar Imperial Guard are broken on a dead BUFFY SEASON 9, world as his personal agent of evil! But powers, will this new hero join the ranks of moon, the Avengers travel across the galaxy VOL.5: THE CORE can the new control its latest the Defenders? Then, secrets of Hippolyta’s to battle an invading force. It all leads up to the CHAMBLISS | member? And lest you think we forgot, resurrection are revealed on a field trip to secret origin of the universe itself, as Captain ESPENSON | JEANTY it’s the moment you’ve been waiting for: New Amazonia as the team makes a stand Universe races to decipher the code hidden | MADSEN | CHEN | Superior Carnage vs. Superior Spider- against Caroline LeFay’s apocalyptic Doom VARIOUS in the Avengers’ recent adventures! Jonathan Man, with enough blood and bluster to rival Maidens! Plus: Valkyrie and Annabelle’s Dark Horse, 160 pages Hickman takes Earth’s Mightiest Heroes to Sunday nights on HBO! Can the Wizard complicated relationship becomes even the next level with big threats, big ideas and pull one last trick out of his hat, or has more perplexing and problematic, and a big idealism. These are the Avengers NOW! When Dawn falls ill, it’s up to best friends Carnage been unleashed for good? It’s a new (cosmically awesome) character joins Collecting Avengers (2012) #1-6. Buffy, Xander, and Willow to join forces and story so grotesquely gratifying you won’t the team! Guest-starring Elsa Bloodstone, find a supernatural cure in a world sorely be able to look away! , Dr. Strange, , Hercules, lacking magic. The trio must fight their way Collecting Superior Carnage #1-5. Werewolf By Night and more! into the Deeper Well, the former home of Collecting Fearless Defenders #7-12. Illyria and other ancient gods known as the Old Ones, where they hope to jump-start magic back into existence. CAPTAIN AMERICA: LIVING LEGEND Collects Buffy Season 9 #21-#25 and DIGGLE | GRANOV | “Love vs. Life” from Dark Horse Presents ALESSIO #25-#27. Marvel, 96 pages NOVEL IDEAS ACE Comics pick of the best new graphic novels and When a top-secret orbital research station is dragged from the sky by an unknown collected editions arriving from January onwards... alien force, Captain America finds himself caught between two global superpowers KISS KIDS on the brink of war! But how does it involve Volkov - a decorated WWII Russian officer RYALL | WALTZ | HOLDER who disappeared on an ill-fated lunar mission IDW, 104 pages more than forty years ago? And how is Cap’s CONSTANTINE shield the key to the mystery of this deadly VOL.1: SPARK AND THE FLAME MY LITTLE PONY: alien force? As the Russian army mobilizes Presenting the adventures of Li’l Demon, LEMIRE | FAWKES FRIENDSHIP IS to lock down the station’s remote Siberian Starchild, Catkid, and Spacey... the KISS MAGIC VOL.3 crash site, Captain America’s mission is to | GUEDES | REIS | Kids gang! This rockin’ new comic offers PRADO | VARIOUS COOK | PRICE find the survivors and bring them back alive adventures for all ages (and many in-jokes DC, 144 pages IDW, 104 pages - or silence them forever. But as mutated and familiar characters for the KISS faithful, foes swarm the Russian squad, even Cap is too). 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COMICS 9 HISTORY BOOKS With the huge volume of titles released each week, it can be quite easy to overlook the rich history of comic books available in the form of back issues and graphic novels, so we’re going to take this opportunity to showcase some gems in Illuminations, that you previously might have missed.

CHEW VOL.1: TASTER’S CHOICE | ROB GUILLORY “Tony Chu is a detective with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he’s a hell of a detective, as long as he doesn’t mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit, and why. He’s been brought on by the Special Crimes Division of the FDA, the most powerful law enforcement agency on the planet, to investigate their strangest, sickest, and most bizarre cases.” - Image In the vast, almost impassable sea of comic books available, ‘Chew’ makes for a refreshing read. The idea of a story based around a cibopath (a person able to visualize events connected to food just by biting them) and other characters with food- related powers is truly unique. Here’s our look at the upcoming comics and In ‘Taster’s Choice’, said cibopath Tony Chu (great play-on-words graphic novels that you won’t want to miss! linking to the title) gets recruited to the Food and Drug Administration ONES TO WATCH who wish to use his abilities to solve crimes. What follows is a series Almost hidden amongst the plethora of brand new Marvel #1’s and false Dark Horse is setting out on a new adventure with the Serenity crew of events that range from the comical to the violent and disgusting. ‘All-New Marvel NOW!’ #1’s (a system that looks destined to become - Mal, River, Zoë and the rest, in the miniseries Serenity: Leaves on It’s a snappily written collection with John Layman showing a great confusing), we have a new ongoing Black Widow series debuting. Natasha the Wind. Following the model established with its Buffy The Vampire talent for characterization and humour that still carries enough Romanova has never appeared in a run of self-titled comics longer than Slayer line of books, the Serenity series will pick up where the 2005 film drama to be taken seriously. Reading through, there is a real sense 8 issues, so it will be interesting to see if this new book has legs, but with ended and will feature Buffy artist Georges Jeanty with of direction in ‘Chew’, and the ‘tasters’, for want of a better word, of (Image spy-thriller ‘Who Is Jake Ellis?’) writing, and writing and as Executive Producer. where the story will lead, are tantalising. the supremely talented Phil Noto (Dark Horse’s ‘Ghost’) providing the As the series begins, Mal and the crew are recouping from their recent Opting for a stylized approach, Rob Guillory’s art is strong and artwork, it’s an exciting prospect and one we can’t wait for! strike against the sinister interplanetary government, The Alliance, in definitive throughout. The characterization of the cast is enhanced by Nathan Edmondson talking to : “Her world is which they exposed government agencies as those responsible for the their individual appearances from the reasonably vanilla Tony Chu to real; her apartment is small, her enemies are warlords or martial arts creation of the Reavers … the scourge of the universe. We’re big fans of the hulking, egg-on-legs that is Mason Savoy. killers and the gun she aims at them fires very real hollow points; she the show and are looking forward to seeing where the series goes next When issue #1 first appeared in 2009, Chew was a surprise hit for dangles on steel wire outside of towering Dubai hotels, she doesn’t have when the book lands on 8th January 2014. and since then, it has continued to sell strongly, a jetpack ... Natasha can slip into a country, a city, a hotel, a laboratory Another upcoming title of note is Dynamite’s Legendary: A Steampunk particularly as collected editions. unseen, she can move in the shadows and strike in the dead of night. Adventure, a seven issue series penned by Bill Willingham. We cannot recommend Chew enough, so we’ll simply suggest you ...We are having a total blast with this book. The story is fast paced, Famous for his outstanding work on Vertigo’s Fables, Willingham will take a bite, as this truly original book tastes great! character-driven, and action-packed. Phil’s approach on art is fully fresh be introducing alternate versions of Dynamite’s stable of characters, and thoroughly sexy. We couldn’t have struck a better balance, I don’t including The Green Hornet, Red Sonja, Vampirella, Steve Austin and £7.50 inc p&p think, to tell an ongoing Natasha story.” Zorro. It’s looking very interesting indeed and will be well worth picking Black Widow debuts on 8th January 2014. up when it hits comic book shelves on New Year’s Day!

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Fantagraphics has been at the forefront Now the hard sell: of independent, intelligent and thought provoking comic publishing since 1976. 2013 has been a particularly hard year Gary Groth and Comics Journal were an for Fantagraphics Books. Earlier in the integral part of the young comic scene year, one of their founding partners, I joined back in 1979 when a very young Kim Thompson, was diagnosed with lung Biff made his first steps on the road cancer and died four and a half months to founding ACE Comics (Planet Ace later, on June 19. Because Kim was such Ltd). In those early days I bought a few an active part of the company, his death items direct from Fantagraphics, as I has had repercussions — emotionally, did direct from Dave Sim. Cutting out of course, but financially as well. Kim the distributors in order for the small edited their European graphic novel publisher to make a few extra dollars. line and as a result of his illness, 13 of his books scheduled for the Spring- Now a situation has arisen that I feel Summer season had to be cancelled or the comic community should get behind. postponed, representing the loss of Fantagrahics must not fall (fail). Visit nearly a third of that season. Their fixed MARVEL MOVE INTO there is a new Black Widow comic, hurrah! their website and pledge now to make costs stayed the same —because they’re INHUMANITY AND BLACK WIDOWS Written by Nathan Edmondson (Image: sure that an iconic part of the comic fixed— but the income 13 books would’ve Who Is jake Ellis) and with art by Phil Noto, this will be an excellent adventure world continues to publish ground generated was lost, disrupting their Flowing from Infinity, the next cataclysmic comic and will be a much needed break breaking works, and some not so ground cash flow, and leaving them in a tight event to overwhelm planet Earth will be the from the doom of the main line of titles. breaking (Eros). spot. Many, if not most of them, will be Inhuman Terrigen mist that is activating re-scheduled (Jacques Tardi’s Run Like all latent Inhumans. If the fall of Attilan I am sure that this series, like Hawkeye Now a few words from Gary Groth: Crazy, Run Like Hell is scheduled for July on to New York, the invasion by Thanos last year, is going to take off in a big 2014, for example) but in the meantime, and the attempt to destroy the planet way with intriguing stories and classy “We are not going to bullshit you. If they’ve suffered a severe shortfall that by the Builders was not enough, we now art. we were a big corporate publisher (or will impede their ability to produce next face an of mutation. Much as perhaps an avaricious smaller one), we’d season’s books. That’s why they’re I am enjoying the story, I cannot help Thought for the month. Why can’t Walt have plenty of money to weather this asking their faithful readers, stores and but feel the planet cannot survive this Disney, owners of , temporary crisis. But, we’re not. Ours new converts alike to help them recoup continuing barrage of world destructive create good Disney comics? Boom did, is and always has been an intrinsically — and help finance their next season’s forces. I hanker for the simpler days of Gladstone did. What will they do with the difficult commercial enterprise, and we books. The money we contribute will go Daredevil fighting the Jester, Stiltman ? have survived due to a combination of toward production, design, marketing, and the much loved but maligned Frog- good taste, sheer will, good luck and and printing the books. man. reasonable business acumen. Still, it has never been easy. Fantagraphics has FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS IS ASKING FOR Looking at the Marvel output for January always been a guerilla publisher – lean YOUR SUPPORT. CONTINUE THEIR LEGACY 2014 shipping I feel there is a lack of all and mean. In order to do what we do, BY HELPING TO FINANCE THEIR SPRING- ages comics which used to be the glue On behalf of all of my fabulous staff at we’ve always kept our overhead low and SUMMER SEASON, AND BE A PART OF that held the Marvel Universe together. ACE COMICS and RED HOT COMICS... our lifestyle modest. No fancy offices, THE COMPANY THAT HAS PUBLISHED no limousines, no frills. We publish 100 MORE GREAT CARTOONISTS THAN ANY However, in amongst all the heavy hitting, books a year with a staff of 20 – a level PUBLISHER IN THE HISTORY OF COMICS. depressing world destructive events, ...READ MORE COMICS!!

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