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ILLUMINATIONS NEW FOR MAY FEB 2015 FOREVER! 2! ’ INJECTION! DIRK GENTLY - DETECTIVE! SECRET WARS! BIFF’S BIT FIGHT CLUBS & SECRET WARS NOVEL IDEAS ULTRON AND MORE! FOREVER : Sam Hain Mystery #1 (Dark Horse) CONTENTS: PAGE 03... New Series and One-Shots for May: Dark Horse

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

PAGE 05... New Series and One-Shots for May: IDW Publishing

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PAGE 07... New Series and One-Shots for May: Image Comics

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

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PAGE 11... New Series and One-Shots for May: Indies

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

PAGE 13... Novel Ideas - Part One

PAGE 14... Novel Ideas - Part Two

PAGE 15... Biff’s Bit: Fight Clubs, Secret Wars and

PAGE 16... Top 20 Graphic Novels: February’s Bestselling Books acecomics.co.uk 02 BALTIMORE: CULT OF THE RED KING #1 , DARK Christopher Golden, Peter Bergting, Ben Stenbeck HORSE The Red King is legendary. But is he NEW SERIES AND ONE- the stuff of myth-or the ultimate ad- versary of the human race? In this SHOTS FOR MAY series, Lord Baltimore discovers the truth about an ancient evil that threatens to destroy the world. In Shops: 06/05/2015

HARROW RESIDENT COUNTY #1 ALIEN: , SAM HAIN Tyler Crook MYSTERY #1 Emmy always knew that the deep, Paul Hogan, dark woods surrounding her home Steve crawled with ghosts, goblins, and Parkhouse zombies. But on the eve of her eight- The stranded, curious alien known eenth birthday, she learns that she as Dr. Harry tends to patients in the is connected to these creatures-and sleepy town of Patience, Washing- to the land itself-in a way she never ton. Questions about the town’s pre- imagined. vious doctor arise when a strange Don’t miss the first issue of this briefcase is found. And does Har- southern gothic fairy tale from the ry’s favorite mystery writer live in creator of smash hit The Sixth Gun, #1 Patience too? (Tom beautifully and hauntingly realized , , David Mack Strong) and (Milk- by B.P.R.D.’s Tyler Crook! man Murders) return to their unique In Shops: 13/05/2015 Some imaginary friends never go away ... science-fiction/mystery series! Ten years after starting Project Mayhem, he lives a mundane life. A kid, a wife, In Shops: 20/05/2015 pills to keep his destiny at bay. But it won’t last long; the wife has seen to that. The time has come... In Shops: 27/05/2015 03 MAD : FURY ROAD NUX AND IMMORTAL JOE #1 George Miller, Riccardo Burchielli, Leandro Fernandez, Tommy Lee Edwards DC In a fallen world ravaged by oil and And don’t miss the story of Nux, one NEW SERIES AND water wars, humanity exists without of the Immortan’s “War Boys,” who ONE-SHOTS FOR MAY law or mercy. All those who wander knows only the chaos into which he the Wasteland are ruled by a single was born. imperative... survive! Among them is From the mind of George Miller, the Max Rockatansky, a Road creator of the Mad Max trilogy, comes haunted by his turbulent past... a brand new epic tale that serves as In this first issue, the rise of a prelude to the upcoming film, Mad Colonel Joe Moore, a war hero turned Max: Fury Road! tyrannical warlord...The Immortan Joe! In Shops: 20/05/2015

INJUSTICE GODS AMONG US YEAR FOUR #1 Brian Buccellato, Bruno Redondo, Howard Porter, Various ’s regime has been Hera’s role in awakening Wonder opposed by the Corps Woman from her coma has drawn and by those who wield the power the attention of Mount Olympus, and of magic, but the Man of has these new players are about to test emerged battered yet still in control. existing alliances. Now he’s about to face his greatest In Shops: 13/05/2015 opponents yet: the gods themselves! 04 IDW DONALD NEW SERIES AND ONE- DUCK #1 SHOTS FOR MAY Romano Scarpa, Jan- Roman Pikula, Various In “Shellfish Motives,” Donald wants to be a crimebustin’ ace reporter- but can he save Uncle Scrooge’s top-secret scientist from the mob? INSUFFER- In Shops: 27/05/2015 ABLE #1 , Peter Krause What happens when your crime- fighting sidekick grows up to be an arrogant, ungrateful douchebag who makes Kanye look humble? Worse, what on Earth could force PHANTAS- the two of you together for one last MAGORIA #1 case? Nocturnus and his former El Torres, Angel protege, Galahad, will find out-if Hernandez they don’t kill one another first. New series involving a mass murder In Shops: 27/05/2015 in Victorian London, an otherworldly haunting, and the Professor Hawke- the only one who knows about the... Phantasmagoria. In Shops: 20/05/2015

INDES- TRUCTIBLE: #1 WINTER DIRK GENTLY’S HOLISTIC Jeff Marsick, WORLD: DETECTIVE AGENCY #1 Luca Reguzzoni, FROZEN Jeff Langevin FLEET #1 Chris Ryall, Tony Atkins It’s tough enough being a , An all-new comic series based on teenager, but imagine the chal- Esteve Polls, Douglas Adams’ beloved holistic lenges when you’re surrounded by Gerardo Zaffino detective! Dirk arrives in San Diego role models driven wholly by pow- to face a new country, new cases er, money, and fame. Kelly, a.k.a. The Frozen Fleet begins! Scully and Stingray, finds herself the newest Wynn aren’t travelling alone any and new threats: reincarnation, for member of the League of Defend- more... but will secrets revealed starters...! ers, America’s premiere super-team, turn tentative friends into certain In Shops: 20/05/2015 and most dysfunctional “family.” enemies out on the Big ? In Shops: 27/05/2015 In Shops: 06/05/2015 05 IMAGE NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR MAY

ARTIFACTS: MANTLE #1 LOST TALES Ed Brisson, #1 INJECTION #1 Brian Level Sean Hardy, Brian Rogers, Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, Robbie never asked for any of this. Linda Sejic, While drunkenly walking home from Various Once upon a time, there were five crazy sequence of graphic novels about how a punk show, he’s hit with lightning Witchblade! Heartstone! Blood- people, and they poisoned the 21st Century. loud and strange the world is getting, and wakes to find that he’s been sword! Now they have to deal with the corrosion to about the wild future and the haunted past chosen as the new host for The try and save us all from a world becoming all crashing into the present day at once, Mantle, a power set of unimaginable Three short stories featuring three scope. Despite his lack of interest, artifacts by three Talent Hunt-win- too weird to support human life. and about five eccentric geniuses dealing he’s forced into action. The Plague, ning creative teams in this special Injection is the new ongoing series created with the paranormal and numinous as well a being who has spent 50 years kill- one-shot! by the acclaimed creative team of Moon as the growing weight of what they did to ing every previous host of The Man- In Shops: 06/05/2015 Knight. It is science fiction, tales of horror, the planet with the Injection. tle, is already coming for him. strange crime fiction, techno-thriller, and In Shops: 13/05/2015 In Shops: 13/05/2015 CBLDF ghost story all at the same time. A serialized PRESENTS ELEPHANT- MEN: SHOTS #1 , Doug Braithwaite, MATERIAL #1 Tim Sale, Various Alex Kot, Will Tempest, Tom Collecting all the special Elephant- Muller men strips from Hero Comics, Lib- A man comes home from Guanta- erty Comics, and The Thought Bub- namo Bay, irrevocably changed. An ble Anthology to benefit The Comic actress receives an offer that can Book Legal Defense Fund. revive her career. A boy survives a Features the hard-to-find Judge riot and becomes embedded within Dredd, , and Marine a revolutionary movement. A philos- Man crossovers. opher is contacted by a being that In Shops: 27/05/2015 dismantles his beliefs. Look around you. Everything is ma- terial. In Shops: 27/05/2015 06 MINIMUM WAGE: SO MANY BAD SONS OF DECISIONS THE DEVIL #1 #1 Bob Fingerman Brian The first chapter of the new six- Buccellato, issue arc of Bob Fingerman’s so- Toni Infante real-it-hurts series. From Times Best Selling What do sex dungeons, sleepy- writer Brian Buccellato and artist time heart-to-hearts with mutant Toni Infante comes a psychological horseshoe crabs, and feelings horror story about Travis, an aver- of frustration have in common? age guy trying to get by, who dis- Rob’s first post-divorce birthday, of covers that he has familial ties to a MYTHIC #1 course. Season with a soupçon of deadly cult. Phil Hester, John McCrea Dream Sylvia and Real Sheila and Told across three decades, Sons Of bon appétit! The Devil is an exploration of cults, Science is a lie, an opiate In Shops: 06/05/2015 family, and the dark side of human for the masses. The truth nature. It’s True Detective and Or- is, magic makes the world phan Black meets Helter Skelter. go ‘round. And when magic In Shops: 27/05/2015 breaks, Mythic fixes it. Apache Waterson, ROCHE Greek immortal Cassandra, LIMIT: and cell phone salesman Nate CLAN- DESTINY #1 Jayadarma are the crack field Michael team assigned with keeping Moreci, the gears of the supernatural Kyle Charles, world turning, and more Vic Malhotra VALHALLA MAD #1 importantly, keeping you from The breakout hit of 2014 returns with ever knowing about it. volume two of the groundbreaking , Paul Maybury sci-fi trilogy! Join Eisner nominee Phil It’s 75 years after the events that left Their names are legend: the Glori- Hester (, The the Roche Limit colony in flames. ous Knox! Greghorn the Battleb- Coffin) and Eisner winner John When a crew of military and science jörn! Jhago the Irritator! Three war- Mccrea (Hitman, The Boys) on personnel are sent to the forgotten rior gods vacationing on Earth, just looking to get their drink on and their latest expedition to the and desolate planet on a mysterious dark heart of weird comics. expedition, they quickly learn its have a good time! IMAGE dark secrets-and that their mission Join the drunken festivities with In Shops: 06/05/2015 NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR MAY is not what they thought it to be. toastmasters Joe Casey (Sex) and With danger lurking all around, the Paul Maybury (Sovereign). The new crew members fight to find a way off mythology begins now! the planet and resist the mysterious In Shops: 20/05/2015 presence that haunts them all. In Shops: 06/05/2015 07 ALL NEW MARVEL NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR MAY SPECIAL #1 Jeff Loveness, Alec Morgan, Jamal Campbell VS #1 Part 3: The grand finale of “Inhu- man Error”! Joe GAUNTLET Caramagna, #1 Red Raven has Spider-Man and Andrea Di Vito, the right where he wants Tom Raney, , them! One bird turn deserves an- Various Dustin Weaver other, as the All-New Captain It’s the Avengers versus some of Think your life is hard? Anwen Baki- America answers the call to defend their all-time greatest foes! Power- an’s family lives in a post-apocalyp- New York from the revenge-ready ful Asgardian artifacts are on Earth... tic wasteland, scrounging for food Red Raven! but can the Avengers recover them and avoiding giant bugs intent on In Shops: 06/05/2015 before ? eating them. Mom left years ago to Contains four short stories featur- join the force and never came ing the villainous , Attuma, back. So it’s just Anwen, her dad, Loki, MODOK, and more! her sister and her grandpa against the huge insects. That is, until she In Shops: 06/05/2015 finds a mysterious stone that may DEAD- or may not hold incredible cosmic POOL’S power. Don’t miss this incredible INFERNO #1 new series that will set the cosmic SECRET Dennis SECRET table for the for Hopeless, Javi WARS #1 years to come! Garron Cullen Bunn, In Shops: 27/05/2015 Spinning out of the universe-shatter- Matteo Lolli, ing events of Secret Wars comes a Jacopo new twist on the X-Men classic that’s Camagni, Tony a whole hell of a lot hotter than you Harris remember. Not a ‘Secret Wars’ tie-in! Well...it 5 years ago a band of demons rose is...but not that Secret Wars. A-FORCE #1 up out of the fiery depths and turned Remember the original Secret Wars INHUMAN Manhattan into Hell on Earth. The X- from 1984? And remember how ANNUAL #1 C. Willow Wilson, Marguerite Bennett, Jorge Molina, Men fought to vanquish the demon played a huge important Charles Soule, horde and... The X-Men failed. Ryan Stegman role in it? Wait...you don’t? Then Marvel’s Mightiest Women finally get their own explosive Welcome back to the Inferno. On this you need to read this series imme- All the threads of the first year series! In a secluded corner of the , an island the fifth anniversary of Manhattan’s diately and be educated! come to a head in this epic over- nation is fiercely protected by a team of Avengers the likes fall, Piotr Rasputin is leading a small From the team that brought you sized Annual! of which has only ever been glimpsed before... band of mutants back into the Inferno. Deadpool Killustrated comes the ! Lash! Ennilux! Reader! Lin- Fighting to protect the small sliver of their world that’s left, doesn’t know what they’ll most Secretest War of all! eage! What will be left standing be- find on of those flames Plus: a bonus Deadpool Contest of fore Secret Wars pulls it all crashing the Amazing A-Force stands shoulder-to-shoulder, ready to but he knows for certain... They’re not tale! to the floor?!?!? take on the horde! coming back without his sister. In Shops: 20/05/2015 In Shops: 06/05/2015 In Shops: 20/05/2015 In Shops: 27/05/2015 08 OLD MAN LOGAN #1 , NIGHT Enter the Wastelands...a realm where all heroes have been MARVEL NURSE #1 murdered by their arch-enemies, villains who now rule over NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR MAY Jean Thomas, the land with an . In the midst of this dystopian cha- Winslow Mortimer, Alex os, one man may make a difference...a reluctant warrior Maleev, Siya who was once the greatest mutant of all...a man known as Oum, Various Old Man Logan. INHUMANS: MODOK: Marvel’s 1970s cult-classic mini- In Shops: 27/05/2015 series is collected in one super- ATTILAN ASSASSIN #1 sized one-shot! RISING #1 Christopher Linda Carter, Georgia Jenkins and Charles Soule, Yost, Amilcar Christine Palmer are all studying John Timms, Pinna, David Dave Johnson Lafuente to become nurses. But what will happen when Linda must choose There is a rebellion brewing on Bat- In a world populated by the most between love and career? tleworld and it stretches far and fearsome thieves, murderers and wide into every domain. Medusa, ne’er-do-wells, there is one who As the nurses care for a mysteri- ruler of Attilan, is tasked with uncov- is a head above the rest... Enter, ous hit-and-run victim, Christine ering the of this uprising and M.O.D.O.K.: The Mental Organism realizes that her new boyfriend scuttling it with extreme prejudice. Designed Only for killing! hides a terrible secret! When she discovers the leader of Killville’s very own Merc with a Maw And when Daredevil is fatally shot, this rebellion is , however, is open for business! But his next the must step out of things get complicated. job may be biting off more than he the shadows and return to action! In Shops: 27/05/2015 can chew... Guest-starring Black Widow, Elek- In Shops: 27/05/2015 tra, Iron Fist, and Jes- sica Jones! Collecting Night Nurse (1972) #1-4 and Daredevil (1998) #80. In Shops: 13/05/2015 MASTER OF KUNG FU #1 Haden SECRET Blackman, WARS 2099 Dalibor Talajic, #1 , PLANET Will Sliney, #1 Welcome to the mystical land of Dave Rapoza K’un Lun, where the study of martial Sam arts reigns supreme! When everything ends, it’s time to go Humphries, back to the future. Revisit the world Marc Laming, In a world where everyone is well- of 2099 and see it a whole new light, Mike Del trained in at least some form of Mundo as characters who have never been deadly combat, what becomes of seen before make their first appear- A forbidden zone of wild . A a drunken, drop-out failure? If any- ances - including the Avengers 2099. battle-worn gladiator named Steve one speaks out against Emperor Zu, Can the ideal of Earth’s Mightiest He- Rogers. A journey that could break the price is their head! Good thing roes survive in a world where mega- the spirit of a world’s greatest free- Shang-Chi’s a man of discretion corporations rule with an iron fist? dom fighter. Plus: A back up story and...oh, who are we kidding. This by a surprise creative team! is going to get nasty. In Shops: 27/05/2015 In Shops: 20/05/2015 In Shops: 20/05/2015 09 #1 Brian Michael Bendis, UNITED MARVEL and the rest of the heroes of the Ultimate STATES OF Universe face final extinction! MURDER INC NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR MAY ANNUAL #1 As the end of their world becomes inevitable, will the he- SECRET Brian Michael WARS: SECRET roes’ heartbreaking sacrifices make any difference? Bendis, Michael Avon BATTLE- WARS: The dramatic end of an era begins here! Oeming WORLD #1 JOURNAL #1 In Shops: 20/05/2015 The secret origin of Jagger Rose Joshua Prudence Williamson, Ed Shen, Michael is revealed in this double-sized, Brisson, Mike Rosenberg, all-new story from the creators of Henderson, Ramon Bachs, ! Scott Hepburn, Luca Pizzari, For those waiting for a new chapter Paco Medina Kevin Wada in the biggest crime saga in comics When the Marvel Universe and the Is Lady Kate of 1602 the nefarious today - your wait is over. Ultimate Universe collide, there is Bandit who robs from the Everyone who’s read the critically only... Battleworld! Featuring the rich and gives to the poor? Can an acclaimed first series of The - Unit fights, battles and blow-ups that are enslaved band of mutants in Egyptia ed States Of Murder Inc. has fallen just too big for Secret Wars! overthrow their overlord, Khonshu? completely in love with the most tal- Can you afford not to read the cool- When a Dr. Strange-possessed ented hit-woman in the five families. goes on the run, only Spi- est, hippest, most continuity-impor- But where did she come from, and der-Man, , Hulk and Ghost tant book in all of Secret Wars??? how did she get this good? Rider can track him down! Question: Because this is totally that book. What happens when M.O.D.O.K. But don’t tell anyone. It’ll be our lit- You’ll find out right here! recruits every single M.O.D.O.K. tle Secret...Wars Journal. In Shops: 13/05/2015 ever for his evil schemes? Answer: In Shops: 27/05/2015 M.O.D.O.K. M.A.D.N.E.S.S.! In Shops: 20/05/2015

H COVER STAR H UNCANNY AVENGERS: WHERE ULTRON MONSTERS SPIDER- FOREVER #1 DWELL #1 VERSE #1 , Alan Garth , Davis Mike Costa, Russell Braun, Andre Arujo, The time-spanning epic comes to Nick Bradshaw a senses-shattering finish! returns to Marvel Com- Spinning out of the Spider-Verse Asgardia’s Avengers versus the ics proper and he’s bringing his The event, a team of Spiders finds massed forces of Ultron! Can the Boys collaborator Russ Braun along themselves face-to-face with Bat- Avengers - or will evil re- with him! tleworld! Starring Spider-Gwen, take the throne of ? Plus - the Fighter planes and dinosaurs collide Spider-Man Noir, Spider-Man: In- dark secret of ! And in this raucous tale that starts with the dia, Mayday Parker, Spider-UK and who is... Earth’s Last Avenger? classic Marvel character Phantom Spider-Ham! In Shops: 20/05/2015 Eagle and digs much deeper! In Shops: 20/05/2015 In Shops: 27/05/2015 10 SWORDS OF INDIES SORROW #1 NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR MAY PROVIDENCE #1 DYNAMITE SURFACE , TENSION #1 AVATAR Sergio Fernan- Alan Moore, dez Davila, J. TITAN Scott Campbell Jay Gunn The most important work of 2015 Dynamite’s fiercest females in their Months after mysterious corals begins here with the long-awaited biggest event ever! Fan-favorite Gail drew 99% of humanity into the sea, arrival of Alan Moore’s breathtak- Simone (Red Sonja, ) and ris- a band of survivors ekes out a hol- ing epic Providence with his artis- ing art star Sergio Davila (Legender- low existence on a remote British is- tic partner Jacen Burrows. In his ry) combine to tell the ultimate pulp land. When two people are cast up most carefully considered work in adventure, featuring Vampirella, De- on the beach, completely blue, but decades, Moore deconstructs all jah Thoris, Red Sonja, Kato, Jungle very much alive, the island is thrown of Lovecraft’s concepts, reinvent- Girl, and many, many more! Villains into turmoil. What caused the mass ing the entirety of his work inside and heroes from a dozen worlds extinction event? How did these a painstakingly researched frame- and eras face off against a legend- two return from the deep, when bil- work of American history. The result ary evil that threatens all their home- lions died? Most importantly, what is a breathtaking masterpiece of se- lands. Don’t miss this thrilling epic is the coral, and what does it want quential art that will define modern tale, an event supported by one- with the Earth? The oceans have horror for this generation. shot side adventures written by the never seemed so threatening! Moore has designed every cover, hottest writers today, like G. Willow In Shops: 27/05/2015 page, and nuance of this work to Wilson, Marguerite Bennett, Nancy create his most fully-realized Collins and more! to date. This is a definitive demon- In Shops: 06/05/2015 stration of just how good a can be. AUTEUR In Shops: 27/05/2015 SISTER BAMBI #1 ONI GFT: SNOW 7 DAYS OF Rick Spears, WHITE 10TH DEATH #1 James Callahan ANNIVER- DEVIL’S DUE SARY Down on his luck and out on his ass SPECIAL #1 Jordan Michael after being thrown out of Hollywood, Johnson, Jasen Nathan T. Rex refuses to accept ZENESCOPE Smith defeat! Prepping his next exploita- Joe Brusha, A random burglary attempt turns tion masterpiece, Sister Bambi, Rex Various horror story when Robert Boyd and and crew head to South America The first of six special 2015 Zene- his wife are ambushed by armed with Nazis, ninjas, and budgetary scope 10th Anniversary one-shots gunman, and Robert fails to save constraints nipping at their heels is here. The story of Snow White her. The death of a loved one is a in search of the most elusive piece is told in Zenescope’s horror-filled terrible and difficult thing to deal of any artistic endeavor: foreign fi- re-imagining of a classic! As Sela with. we could get a second nancing! Fall in love all over again Mathers aka “Snow White” meets chance to be with them? How hard with the return of the most insane the seven dwarves, a child’s fairy would we fight? For Robert Boyd, series of 2014, but in 2015, make tale quickly becomes a nightmare! you fight through 7 Days of Death. sure you wear protection. In Shops: 06/05/2015 In Shops: 13/05/2015 In Shops: 13/05/2015 11 PSYCHO THE CAPTAIN INDIES BONKERS #1 DISCIPLES #1 CANUCK #1 NEW SERIES ASPEN BLACK MASK CHAPTER AND ONE-SHOTS Vince , HOUSE FOR MAY Hernandez, Christopher Kalman Adam Archer Mitten Andrasofszky Crack the speed barrier wide open Dagmar, Rick, and Jules, intrepid pri- Captain Canuck is a reboot of the in this thrilling new adventure that vate eyes/bounty hunters, have been classic Canadian comic book hero redefines what it means to go full hired by a high ranking Senator to created in 1975 by Richard Comely throttle! retrieve his teenage daughter who’s and Ron Leishman. This all-new series Join Shine, a young but unyielding run off to join a mysterious religious re-imagines Canuck as a kinetic and teenage girl, as she races to find cult. This is no ordinary cult though. accessible 21st-century . Born of the true story behind the tragedy In the near future of The Disciples, the true north and tested in war, Cap- that wrecked her family, and shat- the -wealthy have become true tain Canuck is thrust into battle at the tered the sport of Bonk Racing to its Masters of the Universe by colonizing head of the global intervention core. Along with her trusted techni- moons throughout the solar system. agency called Equilibrium. He must cian, Gabbo, and her sentient Bonk When the team reaches Ganymede in find his way as warrior, leader, and ul- Racer, Shiza, she will discover that their Starship Venture, they discover timately, hero to save humanity from learning the truth about her future is something has gone horribly wrong! the machinations of Mr. Gold, Blue as dangerous as the tragic past she In Shops: 27/05/2015 Fox, and the even more menacing is trying to forget! forces that watch from the shadows. Told in a series of five legs within In Shops: 27/05/2015 the race of all races-the Super Bonk Rally, this five issue mini-series LANTERN will span amazing landscapes and CITY #1 death-defying terrain, as these rac- BOOM! ers go Psycho Bonkers! DEAD DROP , In Shops: 20/05/2015 Matthew Daley, #1 Carlos , VALIANT Benjamin Carre Ales Kot, Adam Sander Jorve just wants to keep his Gorham, Raul BODIE wife and son safe. Living in the brutal- Allen TROLL: ized lower class of Lantern City means There is a secret black market in FUZZY living in near constant darkness, the New York. It is hidden in plain sight MEMORIES enormous walls of the city always - in our streets, trains, restaurants. #1 looming overhead, while the upper Those who know how to navigate RED 5 class enjoys the elevated, intercon- it exchange secrets of extraordinary nected towers and airships above. nature. But when the secret in circu- Jay P. Fosgitt When Sander’s brother-in-law, the lation is a biological weapon derived Bodie thinks he’s a big, scary troll, persuasive activist Kendal, convinces from Vine technology, the gloves yet everyone in the village of Haga- him to infiltrate the brutal ranks of the are off - and the most extraordinary dorn knows he’s cute and cuddly. Guard, he’s set on a dangerous path agents are released to stop the dis- But that won’t stop a monster that will test his abilities and beliefs, all aster before it occurs. Otherwise, in hunter from making a trophy out of in the name of making a difference for less than thirty minutes, there will be Bodie! his family and his caste. no world to come back to. In Shops: 06/05/2015 In Shops: 06/05/2015 In Shops: 06/05/2015 12 NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COLLECTED EDITIONS ARRIVING NOVEL IDEAS FROM MAY ONWARDS...

EDWARD ANT-MAN DEADPOOL SCISSOR- VOL.1: VOL.8: ALL HANDS SECOND GOOD THINGS VOL.1: PARTS CHANCE MAN MARVEL UNKNOWN THE WAKE MARVEL Camuncoli, IDW DC VERTIGO Spencer, Various Leth, Rausch Snyder, Murphy Rosanas, Brooks

It’s the end of the road for the Merc An all-new adventure revisits Ed- When marine biologist Lee Archer is Scott Lang has never exactly been With a Mouth! And what better way to ward Scissorhands! Two gen- approached by the Department of the world’s best super hero. Heck, celebrate the series’ end than to kill erations of exile have left Edward Homeland Security for help with a most people don’t even think he’s Deadpool? Yup, you heard us! First, digging through abandoned ex- new threat, she declines but quickly been the best Ant-Man! But when Deadpool takes a relaxing vacation periments, but once he wakes up learns they won’t take “no” for an calls with a once-in-a-life- to the Middle East, where a simple a creature left buried, he discovers answer. Soon she is plunging to time opportunity, Scott’s going to merc job leads to a violent battle he isn’t the only one missing a vital the depths of the Arctic Circle to a get a second chance to be the hero with Red and a journey into piece. Collects issues #1-5. secret, underwater oil rig filled with he’s always dreamed of becoming! the Tomb of Scariness with Shiklah! In Shops: 06/05/2015 roughnecks and scientists on the Collecting Ant-Man #1-5. Then, comes at Deadpool brink of an incredible discovery. But In Shops: 24/06/2015 for revenge, and he has no choice when things go horribly wrong, this but to take them on. And in one final scientific safe haven will turn into a feast, we revisit the Infin- JUSTICE house of horrors at the bottom of ity Gauntlet ! Plus: a slew LEAGUE VOL.6: the ocean! INJUSTICE of bonus stories by special guest BLACK LEAGUE (HC) In Shops: 10/06/2015 CANARY AND writers showcasing Deadpool’s clos- DC : est friends and allies! Also, Spoiler: Johns, Reis, BLOODSPELL Deadpool dies at the end. Collecting Prado, Various DC Deadpool (2012) #41-44 and #250. PREDATOR: AND Dini, Quinones In Shops: 27/05/2015 STONE In these tales from issues #30-39, DARK HORSE heroes quit, villains join and a Jus- A year ago, infiltrated Williamson, tice League roster you’ve never Mooneyham, a gang of female criminals set to pull seen before emerges, led by the Lucas, Graciano a dangerous heist at a Las Vegas ca- world’s greatest hero - Lex Lu- sino. Its leader was skilled in hand- ?! The violent consequences to-hand combat and had more than As the Perses escapes from the ter- ODYC VOL.1 of Forever Evil must be dealt with a passing interest in . ror of the wrecked Prometheus, an IMAGE as a new and deadly force targets Rather than be captured by Canary the . And who knows invisible stowaway forces or the law, she went to her death, Fraction, Ward how the new Power Ring will affect into a deadly conflict! While the crew vowing to get revenge on Canary! the team? Plus: The Chief and the defend themselves against this un- Now, one year later, death stalks The first five issues of Fraction and treacherous join The seen predator, the hunter itself stalks those gang members, and Canary Ward’s epic science fiction, gender- New 52 - and they’re out to show a much more substantial game! must turn to her friend Zatanna to broke, mind-expanding retelling of the world that their leader is Luthor’s Collects Predator: Fire and Stone help investigate. Also includes a The Odyssey. Collects ODY-C #1-5. superior in every way! #1-4! special sketchbook section. 13 In Shops: 27/05/2015 In Shops: 08/07/2015 In Shops: 15/07/2015 In Shops: 17/06/2015 NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COLLECTED EDITIONS ARRIVING NOVEL IDEAS FROM MAY ONWARDS...

LITTLE NEMO: SPIDER- RETURN TO WOMAN VOL.1: CONAN / RED KNIGHT RIDER SLUMBER- SPIDER-VERSE SONJA (HC) VOL.1 LAND MARVEL DARK HORSE IDW IDW Goodwin, Simone, Zub, Thorne, Denton, Shanower, Hopeless, Land, Panosian, Johnson, Rodriguez Buscema Various Denham

An all-new, all-ages series full of Jessica Drew has been an agent of Gail Simone and Jim Zub team up The smash hit ‘80s television phe- magic and whimsy from award-win- both S.H.I.E.L.D. and S.W.O.R.D., to bring together two legendary nomenon comes roaring back to life ning creators Eric Shanower and an Avenger and more - but nothing warriors: Conan and Red Sonja! in this all-new take on Knight Rider! Gabriel Rodriguez! Spinning out of could prepare her for the multidi- This volume collects issues #1-4 of In Shops: 06/05/2015 Winsor McKay’s early 20th mensional insanity of Spider-Verse! the smash-hit crossover! century strip, Little Nemo: Return to A war is brewing, and every spider- In a tale spanning three eras in the Slumberland sees King Morpheus’ character in the is a tar- lives of these classic characters, daughter, in the Royal Palace of get! And with Silk - the newest spi- Conan and Red Sonja become AVENGERS: Slumberland, select her next-play- der on the block - at her side, she’ll comrades to take down a sorcerer- mate: Nemo! need to put all her training to the priest hell bent on creating a new MARVEL test if she wants to make it out of Collects issues #1-4. age in Hyborian warfare! Costa, Thomas, Spider-Verse alive! Collecting Spi- In Shops: 13/05/2015 In Shops: 29/07/2015 Giandomenico, der-Woman (2014) #1-4 and Marvel Yu, Various Spotlight (1971) #32. In Shops: 17/06/2015 At a secret installation in rural Japan, the Avengers discover a time portal that sends them on a millen- nia-spanning adventure! But what : kind of bad guys have a time ma- DEATH VIGIL VOL.1 chine that they don’t use to change DC WYTCHES IMAGE the past? Bad guys who know that Dixon, Various VOL.1 IMAGE Sejic they win! Now the Avengers must leap through time to figure out what Snyder, Jock This new edition of Batman: Cata- kind of horrors Hydra’s cooked up Gifted? Join the Death Vigil in their clysm includes material never col- for the world, but something goes ongoing war against the ever- lected before from Batman #553- When the Rooks family moves to horribly wrong. And suddenly the growing power of the Primordial 554, #719-721, the remote town of Litchfield, NH to only thing standing between our im- Enemy! The only catch is you have Batman: Shadow Of The Bat #73-74, escape a haunting trauma, they’re mutable past and our wasted, ru- to die first. Nightwing #19-20, Azrael #40, Cat- hopeful about starting over. But ined future are the Avengers - united woman #56-57, #52-53, Bat- something evil is waiting for them Become a corporeal immortal Death against a weapon thou- man Chronicles #12, Blackgate: Isle in the woods just beyond town. Knight, and obtain reality-altering sands of years in the hatching! Plus: Of Men #1, Huntress/Spoiler: Blunt Watching from the trees. Ancient... weaponry in the never-ending battle classic tales of time travel! Trauma #1 and Batman: Arkham and hungry. between Good and Evil. Collecting Avengers: Millennium #1- Asylum: Tales Of Madness #1. Collects Wytches #1-6. Collects Death Vigil #1-8. 4, and Avengers (1963) #56 and #71. In Shops: 10/06/2015 In Shops: 20/05/2015 In Shops: 27/05/2015 In Shops: 03/06/2015 14 BIFF’S BIT Email Biff here: [email protected] PROVIDENCE AND ALAN MOORE FIGHT CLUB 2 Once again Alan Moore is at his best Back in 1996 Chuck Palahniuk as he deconstructs all of HP Love- wrote the now legendary paperback craft’s concepts and then reinvents novel, Fight Club, which became them inside a carefully researched a major/ cult film starring Brad Pitt history of American history. This is and Edward Norton. both sequel and prequel to Neo- nomicon. Providence #1 starts in Dark Horse has linked with the 1919 and blends the mythical vi- original writer and in May 2015 we sions of HP Lovecraft flawlessly into will see the release of Fight Club the cauldron of racial and sexual 2. Their track record for producing intolerance that defined that era. If comic sequels to film and television you love his work, buy it. If you have shows guarantees that this will be FIGHT CLUBS, never read his work before, buy it. If a rock solid sure fire hit, written by you love horror, buy it. Do you think Palahniuk and well drawn by Dave I want you to buy this? Stewart. This type of comic is what SECRET WARS our industry needs more of to draw As always there are far too many ti- in a wider readership and also to tles I want to read and recommend AND ALAN MOORE so I am keeping it down to the short expand the breadth of stories to the existing reader. list above. Our medium is still the fully the titles keep coming as the novelist) and artist Toni Infante ex- liantly for nearly ten years, then the greatest, beating, in my opinion, film Dark Horse is cooking with gas this market slowly catches up with the plores three decades of a family en- creative direction was lost and it has and television when done well and month as they have another sure fire varied and intelligent comics that twined in cults and the dark side of floundered ever since. Some of the fights to a noble draw with a novel. smash with Harrow County. Written are currently available. human nature. My own experience artwork on recent series has been by Cullen Bunn (creator of Sixth Gun That’s all for this month. Remember This month the pick of the bunch of comics written by novelists is that appalling. This, then, is the swan from ), this ongoing se- now, keep on reading. for me are: Injection, by Warren El- they bring a refreshing twist to com- song of the once brave, revamped ries will be a ‘Southern gothic fairy lis writer and art by Declan Shalvey ic writing as they adapt their prose universe. I hope that this series does tale’ both wonderfully charming and and Jordie Bellaire. The premise is style to the comic medium. justice to the original idea. flowing from this almost childlike that five geniuses created an injec- Over at Marvel the Secret Wars event I have been thoroughly enjoying naivety the horror is even more un- tion which was supposed to have is in full swing with multiple new mi- Superior Iron man as the reversed settling. So, yes we have zombies, improved life on Earth, but failed ni-series and one-shots available. odious character of Tony Stark has goblins and ghosts, but, expect a spectacularly. The world is now a The one of most interest, to me at played out. Now it moves on as refreshingly off beat and scary twist. wild and haunted place and the least, is Ultimate End #1 of 5. The is taking on the ar- Image Comics always have at least ‘five’ are travelling the world trying Ultimate universe, when it started, mour. Fabulous, or what? The cur- one or two innovative new titles to deal with what they have created; was a bright vibrant revisit to the rent Thor series has been working every month, sometimes too many and Sons Of The Devil by Brian Buc- beginnings of Spider-Man, Fantas- incredibly well and I look forward to for the market to support. Thank- cellato (New York Times best-selling tic Four and X-Men. 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