INSIDE... CRIMINAL MACABRE! DOCTOR WHO! BIFF’S BIT: DARK HORSE, WEEKLIES AND SILVER SURFER! Wild’s End #1 CONTENTS: PAGE 03... New Series and One-Shots for August: Dark Horse PAGE 10... New Series and One-Shots for August: Indies
PAGE 04... New Series and One-Shots for August: DC Comics PAGE 11... New Series and One-Shots for August: Indies
PAGE 05... New Series and One-Shots for August: IDW Publishing PAGE 12... Novel Ideas - Part One
PAGE 06... New Series and One-Shots for August: Image Comics PAGE 13... Novel Ideas - Part Two
PAGE 07... New Series and One-Shots for August: Image Comics PAGE 14... Biff’s Bit: Dark Horse, Weeklies and the Silver Surfer
PAGE 08... New Series and One-Shots for August: Marvel Comics PAGE 15... Top 20 Graphic Novels: June’s Bestselling Books
PAGE 09... New Series and One-Shots for August: Indies
acecomics.co.uk 02 DARK HORSE NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR SEPTEMBER
H COVER STAR H CRIMINAL 1 FOR $1: MACABRE: GHOST THE THIRD PROMETHEUS: FIRE AND Christopher CHILD #1 Sebela, Kelly Steve Niles, STONE #1 Sue DeConnick, Christopher Paul Tobin, Juan Ryan Sook, Terry Mitten, Justin Ferreyra, David Dodson Erickson Palumbo Ghost, the hero trapped between Cal’s changed ... and maybe not for When the Prometheus never re- two worlds, fights to protect Chicago the better. Locked away and drown- turned from her fateful journey to LV- from extradimensional demons dis- ing himself with booze and aspirin, 223, the questions surrounding the guised as humans. When a familiar Cal feels the evil consuming him. origins of man went unanswered. stranger destroys an el train, Ghost Will he be able to withstand its pull Now a new team of explorers seeks makes a deal with a devil for the or will he become the monster war’s to uncover the dark mystery that chance to uncover her own myste- greatest weapon of destruction? holds not only the fate of the origi- rious past. The perfect issue to join The Third Child directly picks up nal mission, but possibly their own this action-packed superhero title! from Criminal Macabre: The Eyes of damnation. In Shops: 03/09/2014 Frankenstein! First issue in a blockbuster crosso- In Shops: 17/09/2014 ver event that ties directly into the hit motion picture! In Shops: 10/09/2014
CONCRETE PARK: THE RESPECT #1 GRENDEL WHEDON Tony Puryear, VS THE THREE WAY Erika Alexander SHADOW #1 ONE-SHOT ALIENS: FIRE AND STONE #1 Matt Wagner A troubled young outcast from Earth Zack Whedon, Chris Roberson, Patric Reynolds, David awakens on a distant desert planet Sparks fly and bullets blaze when Georges Jeanty, Various Palumbo that’s gripped by gang war. Will the the original Grendel, Hunter Rose, is exiles of Scare City destroy each transported to 1930s New York and Jump into the comics of Joss Whe- During a vicious xenomorph outbreak, terraforming en- other or create something surpris- faces off with the original darknight don with a value-packed issue that gineer Derrick Russell leads a desperate group of survi- ing, beautiful, and new? Concrete avenger, the Shadow! Two pulp-noir contains three number ones of the vors onto a rickety mining vessel. They hope to escape Park returns with volume 2’s R-E- icons go head to head in this three- newest Whedon series: Buffy The the creatures overrunning their colony-but they’ll face S-P-E-C-T arc-a sexy sci-fi saga by issue prestige-format series written Vampire Slayer Season 10, Angel horrors both in space and on the strange planet they Tony Puryear (Eraser) and Erika Al- and drawn by legendary Grendel And Faith Season 10, and Serenity: crash on. Ties in with the Prometheus and Aliens films! exander! creator Matt Wagner. Leaves on the Wind. First issue in an exciting direction for Aliens! Blockbuster screenwriter Tony Pur- A great starting point for new Gren- Whedon’s best creations live on in From critically acclaimed writer Chris Roberson! year cowrites and draws! del and The Shadow readers! comics-right here at Dark Horse! Variant cover by Fiona Staples (Saga, North 40)! In Shops: 03/09/2014 In Shops: 03/09/2014 In Shops: 10/09/2014 In Shops: 24/09/2014 03 THE NEW SERIES NAMES #1 DC AND ONE-SHOTS FOR SEPTEMBER Peter Milligan, Leandro Fernandez, Celia Calle MULTIVERSITY: BATMAN THE SOCIETY New York City. Forty-year-old Kevin ESSENTIALS: OF SUPER- Walker is a successful trader. He’s BATMAN AND HEROES #1 incredibly rich. He has a young, SON #1 SP ED Grant Morrison, sexy wife and a son he adores. He Grant Morrison, Chris Sprouse, has everything. Until... Andy Kubert Karl Story The mysterious man known as the Batman’s 75th anniversary celebra- The biggest adventure in DC Com- Surgeon walks into Kevin’s office. tion continues with another promo- ics history continues! He takes a seat and tells Kevin to tionally priced special presenting Grant Morrison joins modern leg- write a suicide note. Trembling but one of the Dark Knight’s greatest end Chris Sprouse (Tom Strong, obedient, Kevin does what the Sur- tales plus related pages from the Batman: Return Of Bruce Wayne, geon says. Then, at a word from this 2014 DCE Essential Graphic Novels Action Comics) for a trip to Earth-20 well-dressed figure, Kevin jumps catalogue! In this special, Batman starring a Society of Super Heroes out his window and falls fifty stories gets the shock of his life when he unlike anything you’ve seen before! to his death. discovers that he has a son: Dami- It’s pulp Super Hero action with a Thus begins The Names, an 8-issue an Wayne! And sparks fly when the post-modern twist - you can’t afford miniseries by writer Peter Milligan new addition is introduced to Robin. to miss it! (Hellblazer, Skreemer) and artist Le- In Shops: 03/09/2014 Who is the demon-like Green Lan- andro Fernandez (Wolverine, Pun- tern protecting Earth-20? What isher: Max). secret does Doc Fate hold that The Names is a dark, contemporary could save the world? Who are the thriller set in the world of Big Money: hand-to-hand and air-to-air combat hedge funds, leveraged buyouts, SUPERMAN #1 queens known as the Blackhawks? market raids, flash crashes. High- JOHNS / And what happens when these he- end finance that can ruin entire ROMITA JR roes come face to face with their di- economies, run by a cabal of the DIR CUT abolical Earth-40 counterparts - led world’s richest (and sickest) people. Geoff Johns, by Vandal Savage - for an epic war Now, it’s up to Katya Walker - the John Romita Jr between parallel worlds? beautiful and deadly wife of the late Find out all that and more in this ex- Kevin - to take on this hidden power Reprinting the explosive first chap- ter of “The Man of Tomorrow,” from citing stand-alone issue which also structure and find out who killed her acts as chapter two of the overall husband, and why. No matter what Superman #32, featuring the spec- tacular pencil art of John Romita, Jr., Multiversity storyline. Join us, if you it takes. No matter who she has to dare, for The Multiversity! kill. It’s The Wolf of Wall Street meets along with the entire script by leg- In Shops: 17/09/2014 Kill Bill. And heaven help the 1%. endary comics writer Geoff Johns! 03/09/2014 In Shops: 03/09/2014 In Shops: 04 GI JOE #1 Karen Traviss, Steve Kurth, Jeffrey Veregge IDW ROT AND Does the world need G.I. Joe? Cobra had become an international peacekeeping force... NEW SERIES AND RUIN #1 and the future of G.I. Joe looks bleak. Scarlett leads what’s left of America’s ultimate fight- ONE-SHOTS FOR Jonathan ing force-but will she be able to keep hew team together? Real-world action and politics SEPTEMBER Maberry, Tony collide... and nothing will be the same. Vargas, Alex In Shops: 17/09/2014 Ronald Brand new adventures set in the world of Rot And Ruin! Written by NY Times best-selling author and multiple Bram Stoker award-winner, MARS Jonathan Maberry, this all-new sto- ATTACKS ryline continues events from the ART award-winning series of novels. In GALLERY #1 Rot & Ruin: Warrior Smart we meet Various Benny, Nix, Lilah and Chong as they travel through the Sierra Ne- This special ad-free art gallery is- vada mountains just one faltering sue presents an out-of-this-world step ahead of zombie hordes and array of hand-drawn Mars Attacks one giant leap behind the plane fly- card art curated by IDW Limited. ing through the sky that set them on The rare art in this book comes from their journey of discovery. a wide array of TOPPS, IDW and In Shops: 03/09/2014 sketch card all-star talent done in the grand tradition of Mars Attacks trading cards! In Shops: 10/09/2014 SSCW: FOSTERS HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS #1 Ivan Cohen, Louise Simonson, Paulina Ganucheau, MY LITTLE Various PONY 2014 The crossover event of the sum- ANNUAL mer hits Foster’s when a dimension- Ted Anderson, hopping robot sets out to challenge Ben Bates Bloo, Eduardo, and a host of other Check out the original Power Ponies familiar Friends! Will they pass the in action! When Mane-iac assem- test? Or does the fate of Foster’s bles an all-star team of villains, the rest in the hands of the house’s new- Power Ponies may be outmatched! est resident? It will take a familiar face from Plus, a two-page epilogue by Louise Equestria to even the odds! Get Simonson and Derek Charm, delv- ready for super powered adventure ing into the formation of the League like you’ve never seen it! Of Extraordinary Villains!! In Shops: 17/09/2014 In Shops: 10/09/2014 05 IMAGE NEW SERIES AND ONE- SHOTS FOR SEPTEMBER ROCHE ODDLY LIMIT #1 68 HOMEFRONT #1 NORMAL #1 Michael Moreci, Otis Frampton Vic Malhotra Mark Kidwell, Kyle Charles, Jay Fotos, Nat Jones Meet Oddly Normal, a ten-year-old “Our destiny is the stars, and I will girl with pointed ears and green lead us there.” In 1968, the horrors of the Vietnam war invaded every American living room. On February 13th hair-a half-witch who will be the first Twenty years after this promise, of that year, a new war began, bringing horror... to tell you that having a mother from billionaire Langford Skaargard’s and hunger home to stay. ‘68: Homefront returns a magical land called Fignation and dream of cosmic exploration is no the series to the American heartland and the a father from Earth doesn’t make it more. Roche Limit, a colony situated small, sleepy town of Harbinger, Pennsylvania easy to make friends at school! On on the cusp of a mysterious energy (home of the Heralds) in the first two-issue story arc, “’68: Peece her tenth birthday, she blows out her anomaly, is a melting pot of crime And Love.” Fresh accident victims sit up on morticians’ slabs, a cake’s candles and makes a disas- and terrible secrets. When Bekkah busload of visiting athletes rises from wet red asphalt to become trous wish. Now, Oddly must travel Hudson goes missing, the search an army of the damned, and Jenny Love-homecoming queen, to Fignation to uncover the mystery to find her will plunge her sister and cheerleader, and girl next door-prepares to reveal her deepest of her parents’ disappearance. a cadre of the colony’s underworld secret to the world. A secret in the form of leather-clad town bad In Shops: 17/09/2014 figures into an odyssey that reveals boy, Johnny Love. a grim future for mankind. Blending 2001: A Space Odyssey with Blade In Shops: 10/09/2014 Runner, Roche Limit is the first part of a bold sci-fi/noir trilogy. In Shops: 24/09/2014 GOD HATES ASTRO- COPPER- NAUTS #1 HEAD #1 Ryan Browne Jay Faerber, Ryan Browne’s (The Manhattan Pro- Scott Godlewski, A VOICE IN Ron Riley jects, Bedlam) farcical cult-sensa- THE DARK: tion returns with a new story perfect GET YOUR Welcome to Copperhead, a grimy for new readers! GUN #1 mining town on the edge of a back- A NASA funded group of arrogant water planet. Single mom Clara Larime Taylor, Bronson is the new sheriff, and on “super people” must stop a rash of Sylv Talor farmers that have been using rock- her first day she’ll have to contend et-powered silos to launch them- Now in full color! with a resentful deputy, a shady selves into outer space! As these A great jumping-on point for new mining tycoon, and a family of alien Astro-Farmers fire themselves all readers. With Zoey and several of hillbillies. And did we mention the over the galaxy, NASA must utilize her roommates possible suspects in massacre? their every resource (a guy with a the murder of Mandy Jenkins, Uncle Writer Jay Faerber and the art team ghost-cow head, a bunch of magic Zeke is taken off the case to avoid a of Scott Godlewski and Ron Riley bears, and a Chicago cop with ro- conflict of interest. Meanwhile, Zoey bring you this gritty 24th Century bot arms) to avoid an intergalactic meets her ‘fan’ for the first time with- Western with an extra-long first is- incident! out masks. sue for the regular price! In Shops: 03/09/2014 In Shops: 17/09/2014 In Shops: 10/09/2014 06 IMAGE NEW SERIES AND ONE- SHOTS FOR SEPTEMBER
IMAGE FIRSTS: IMAGE FIRSTS: MORNING IMAGE FIRSTS: EAST OF IMAGE FIRSTS: GLORIES #1 DEADLY GREAT IMAGE FIRSTS: WEST #1 Nick Spencer, CLASS #1 Jonathan PACIFIC #1 LAZARUS #1 Tim Daniel, Joe Rick Remender, Hickman, Nick Joe Harris, Greg Rucka, Eisma, Rodin Wesley Craig Dragotta Martin Morazzo Michael Lark Esquejo It’s 1987. Marcus Lopez hates “Out Of The Wasteland” “Trashed!” Part One “Family,” Part One The most anticipated new series of school. His grades suck. He has The things that divide us are strong- Chas Worthington dreams of big In a dystopian near-future govern- the year starts here! Morning Glory no money. The jocks are hassling er than the things that unite us. A things, solving bigger problems, ment is a quaint concept, resourc- Academy is one of the most pres- his friends. He can’t focus in class, Sci-Fi Western set in a dystopian and making his mark on the world. es are coveted, and posession is tigious prep schools in the coun- thanks to his mind constantly drift- America where all hope for the fu- Only no one takes the twenty-one 100% of the law. A handful of Fami- try... But behind it’s hallowed doors ing to the stunning girl in the front ture rests in the Four Horsemen of year-old heir to one of the biggest lies rule, jealously guarding what something sinister and deadly lurks. row and the Dag Nasty show he the Apocalypse...who just happen oil fortunes in history very seriously. they have and exploiting the Waste When six brilliant but troubled new has tickets to. But the jocks are the to be trying to kill the President of That is, until he turns his back on his who struggle to survive in their do- students arrive, they find them- children of Joseph Stalin’s top as- the United States. cushy life of wealth and prestige, mains. Forever Carlyle defends her selves trapped and desperately sassin, the teachers are members One of the most exciting new books and seeks to solve an environmen- family’s holdings through deception seeking answers in a place where of an ancient league of assassins, of the year, this is East Of West, a tal disaster twice the size of his na- and force as their protector, their nothing is what it seems to be! the class he’s failing is “Dismember- brand new, ongoing, monthly com- tive Texas known as the Great Pa- Lazarus. Shot dead defending the In Shops: 09/2014 ment 101,” and his crush, a mem- ic from the award-winning team of cific Garbage Patch. The epic sci-fi family home, Forever’s day goes ber of the most notorious crime syn- Marvel’s FF, Jonathan Hickman and adventure and survival tale begins! downhill from there.... dicate in Japan, has a double-digit Nick Dragotta. In Shops: 09/2014 In Shops: 09/2014 body count. In Shops: 09/2014 In Shops: 09/2014 07 DARK TOWER DRAWING OF THREE PRISONER #1 MARVEL EDGE OF NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR SEPTEMBER Peter David, THE SPIDER- Robin Furth, Piotr Kowalski, VERSE #1 Julian Totino Fabrice Sapolsky, Tedesco Richard Isanove The Dark Tower saga begins again... Spider-Man Noir returns! The Peter HAWKEYE VS DEADPOOL #0 on Earth! Parker of the 1930’s finds himself not Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, James Harren Meet Eddie Dean, a troubled young only up against Mysterio, but knee- man gifted with the ability to open deep in the Spider-Man event of 2014! Once upon a time, champions doors to other worlds. Can he sur- In Shops: 10/09/2014 emerged to fight evil plaguing vive family tragedy, haunting addic- humanity. They fought for salva- tion, and the deadly forces that con- tion, for all that is good in the world -- spire to stop him from growing up to and they won. They were kind, gener- challenge the Man in Black? ous and self-sacrificing. They were If you thought the badlands of Mid- FANTASTIC heroes. These are not those heroes. FOUR World were dangerous, just wait until Meet Hawkeye: Ladies man (“ladies you experience Brooklyn in the 1960s! ANNUAL #1 man” because the ladies love to In Shops: 03/09/2014 James Robinson, Tom Grummett, hate this man), crossbow cru- Greg Land sader and, most important- ly, Avenger. He’s the GEORGE See the majesty of Dr. Doom’s sover- ROMEROS eign country blown apart as he and only guy on the team EMPIRE OF the Invisible Woman turn Latveria into without any powers, DEAD ACT a battlefield in one of the most sav- though, so cut him a little TWO #1 age battles in FF history! And when slack. Then there’s Dead- George A. it’s over and the smoke has cleared pool (MR. Deadpool to you, Romero, Dalibor whose side will Valeria be on? skippy) -- the regeneratin’ Talajic, Alexander degenerate. You can shoot Lozano In Shops: 24/09/2014 him, stab him, and make It’s zombies vs vampires vs an in- with the punchy-punchy vading militia as the legendary right in his face, but noth- George Romero unleashes the next ing can keep the Merc chapter in his undead epic! with a Mouth down. Welcome back to New York City HULK What do they have years after a world-changing undead ANNUAL #1 in common? Hal- plague-and now outside forces are Monty Nero, loween and a knocking on Manhattan’s walls! Mike Del Mundo , Various S.H.I.E.L.D. espio- What’s worse, the roaming flesh- nage mystery that eaters who seem to be growing Someone close to Hulk dies. What has the both heroes racing against smarter every day...the ruling blood- impact will this have on one of the suckers struggling to keep their grip most dangerous super beings on the clock while outshining one an- on power...or the Southern army the planet? And how does a ghost other. It’s a Hawkeye & Deadpool bent on pillaging the greatest city in from the past threaten to haunt the comic 75 years in the making, give the world? world of the Hulk forever? or take 75 years. In Shops: 10/09/2014 In Shops: 17/09/2014 In Shops: 03/09/2014 08 DOCTOR WHO RED SONJA: INDIES 12TH #1 THE BLACK NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR SEPTEMBER TOWER #1 TITAN WILDS END #1 DYNAMITE Robbie BOOM! Frank Tieri, Cezar Morrison, Dave Dan Abnett, I.N.J. Razek, Amanda Taylor Culbard Conner As the eighth series of Doctor Who When a rural English community is What is the Black Tower? What star- hits BBC America, don’t miss the the victim of an alien invasion, the tling mysteries does it contain within stunning debut of the twelfth Doc- residents’ lives are upended by the its walls? And most shockingly... tor’s all-new comics adventures! harsh realities of life-and-death. Led how will its very existence cause the Freshly regenerated and with a new by the town’s outsider and retired death of Red Sonja?! Join fan fa- head full of unanswered questions, war veteran, they have to rally to- vorite writer Frank Tieri (Wolverine, the Doctor whisks Clara Oswald gether to uncover the secret of their Iron Man, Batman), artist extraor- away to a strange and distant world. invaders and ultimately fight back. dinaire Cezar Razek (Red Sonja/ Witchblade, Battlestar Galactica), Clara thought she was in for an even- Inspired by the sci-fi aesthetic of and captivating cover artist Amanda ing of marking essays, followed by War of the Worlds and the anthro- Conner (Harley Quinn), as they tell a date, if things went well. Instead, pomorphic characters of Blacksad a decades spanning, mind-blowing she’s facing down murderous alien and Mouse Guard, fans of Edgar tale that could spell the end for our fauna in her best dress, without a Wright and Simon Pegg’s Cornetto favorite She-Devil with a Sword! clue what the Doctor is searching Trilogy (Shaun Of The Dead, World’s for, or what is going to try to kill them End) will fall in love with Clive, Peter, In Shops: 10/09/2014 should they find it! Offering shocks, and Gilbert as they try to survive an surprises, and timestream-shaking alien invasion. revelations, don’t miss your chance In Shops: 10/09/2014 to get on board this amazing ongo- DAWN / ing series! VAMPIRELLA In Shops: 01/10/2014 #1 DYNAMITE STUMPTOWN Joseph Michael VOL.3 #1 Linsner ONI The silver tongued demon Masodik JACK- Greg Rucka, HAMMER: tricks and kidnaps both Dawn and Justin Vampirella! He tells them that they USURPER #1 Greenwood are the most beautiful women in all ACTION LAB Greg Rucka’s fan favorite private of the worlds. Their demon host de- Brandon eye is back in a new ongoing series mands a cat fight to see who is best Barrows, Ionic illustrated by Justin Greenwood! suited to his purposes, but the ladies Just as things are starting to get Things never go according to plan suggest something more feminine back to normal for Jack McGriskin for Dex Parios--it doesn’t matter - a storytelling contest. Together and friends, a new shadow falls whether it’s work or play. When a they take us to the bloody shores of across their path and lands square- weekend of soccer fun (both play- Draculon, to post-apocalyptic New ly on Ramona! A mystery man stalks ing and watching!) turns ugly, it’s York and to worlds beyond imagina- her through the streets of Boston, up to Dex to get to the bottom of tion. What rewards and punishment but is she his target or only a means the violence before a heated rivalry await the winner and the loser in this to an end? transforms into an all out war! duel of horror hostesses? In Shops: 10/09/2014 In Shops: 03/09/2014 In Shops: 03/09/2014 09 CHILLING ADVEN- ALICE TURES OF INDIES PIROUETTE #1 COOPER #1 SABRINA NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR SEPTEMBER BLACK MASK DYNAMITE #1 Mark L. Miller, Joe Harris, Eman ARCHIE Carlos Granda, Casallos, David Alé Garza Mack Various The circus is the Greatest Show On The X-Files’ Joe Harris takes on The New Ongoing Series! Terror is born Earth, unless you’re the attraction. Prince of Darkness - Alice Cooper in anew in this dark reimagining of Raised from infancy by duplicitous his first ongoing comic series! While a Sabrina the Teenage Witch’s origin. clowns who entertain by day and legend in the waking world, few knew On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, menace by night, Pirouette dreams his role as “The Lord of Nightmares” the young sorceress finds herself at of washing the paint from her face beyond it, where he watched over us a crossroads, having to choose be- and escaping to a better life far while we dreamed, and delivered hor- tween an unearthly destiny and her away from her cruel adoptive circus rors unto the deserving. Only some- mortal boyfriend, Harvey. But a foe family... because when the spot- one took it all away from him, cast from her family’s past has arrived lights dim and the crowd disperses, him out of his realm and locked him in Greendale, Madame Satan, and the clown princess’ big-top dreams away... until now. And if he’s going to she has her own deadly agenda. give way to a nightmarish world of reclaim his dark throne, he’s going to Archie Comic’s latest horror sensa- monsters with painted smiles. need all the help he can get! tion starts here! In Shops: 24/09/2014 In Shops: 03/09/2014 In Shops: 08/10/2014
HOLLYWOOD ANNIHIL- CLOAKS #1 ZOMBIE ATOR #1 APOCALYPSE BOOM! LEGENDARY #1 Caleb Monroe, Grant Morrision, Mariano Navarro, ZENESCOPE Frazer Irving W. Scott Forbes Ralph Tedesco Washed-up screenwriter Ray Spass In the Big Apple, a highly skilled Unknown actor Michael May gets is caught in a downward spiral of street illusionist blows the minds of his big break starring along a laun- broken relationships and self-de- crowds with logicdefying acts, while dry list of A-listers in a new Holly- struction. He’s one failed script away surreptitiously using his artistry to wood Superhero Blockbuster. But from fading into obscurity. Little does steal from corrupt investment bank- Michael’s good fortune doesn’t last he know he’s about to write the story ers and redistribute their illbegotten long when a Zombie outbreak hits of his life. As his imagination runs wealth to those in need. He’s a mod- during the script reading party at rampant, Ray must join forces with ernday Robin Hood, but his travails the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. his own fictional character on a re- garner the attention of the local au- Now Michael is thrust into the role ality-bending race to stop the entire thorities. While evading their pursuit, of a leader when celebrity zombies universe from imploding - without he is confronted by three suits and begin attacking the unsuspecting blowing his own mind in the process. quickly ascertains that freedom has a cast and crew! From the extraordinary mind of cost-in order to maintain his liberty, he Don’t miss this incredibly over-the- Grant Morrison, brought to life with must join this clandestine Black Ops top parody zombie comic from Ze- stunning artwork from Frazer Irving. organization simply known as Cloaks. nescope Entertainment! In Shops: 03/09/2014 In Shops: 03/09/2014 In Shops: 24/09/2014 10 BUTTER- FLY #1 GEORGE BOOM! NUMBER ONE PEREZ’S Arash Amel, #1 SIRENS #1 Marguerite AAZURN BOOM! Bennett, Gary Scott George Perez, Antonio Fuso, Beatty, Aaron Cameron Phil Noto Warner Stewart Butterfly is one of Project Delta’s Comic shop owner isn’t a job, it’s As an intergalactic force enslaves deep cover agents, no birth certifi- a calling, in this full color, done-in- planets across the galaxy, the leg- cate, no social security number, a one-issue story exploring 50 years endary team known only as the Si- complete ghost. When her cover is of comic book history! Comics rens must reunite to save the gal- blown and she is set up for a murder helped Steve through some tough axy - but is that even possible when she did not commit, she is unknow- times growing up and he turned the Sirens themselves don’t even ingly led to her father’s doorstep, a his love of the medium into a comic remember who they are? And the man she thought died 20 years ago. shop business. But is it worth the toll rest of the universe only remembers Her father was once a member of it takes on his family? them as... villains? A sixissue mini- the very same Project Delta, a spy In Shops: 24/09/2014 series featuring your new favorite in the violent aftermath of the Cold comic book team, written and drawn War, and believes they are behind by the master himself, George Pérez her setup. Trained to trust nothing (Wonder Woman, JLA Vs. Aveng- and no one, Butterfly must decide ers) begins his greatest story yet. whether to seek answers with the EX-CON #1 In Shops: 17/09/2014 Project, or believe the man who be- DYNAMITE trayed her years ago. Duane Bennett and Fuso make the perfect Swierczynski, creative team for a morally complex Keith Burns, Tim DEATH- story of violence and family set in Bradstreet DEFYING DR MIRAGE #1 the web of a global conspiracy. Dynamite present Ex-Con, written VALIANT In Shops: 24/09/2014 by Duane Swierczynski (Cable, Deadpool, Judge Dredd)! Jen Van Meter, Roberto De La 1985: Cody Pomeray had a gift for Torre, Travel BIONIC looking inside a mark’s soul with Foreman WOMAN just a glance. But one fateful night, Doctor Mirage talks to the dead... - SEASON he targeted the wrong man -- and but the only spirit Shan Fong can’t FOUR #1 was sentenced to the most savage find is that of her late husband, DYNAMITE prison in California. Pomeray would Hwen. Instead, America’s favorite Brandon Jerwa, have been beaten to death on his semi-retired paranormal investiga- David T. Cabrera, first day if not for the intervention of Sean Chen tor is haunted and raw, using her Barnaby Creed, the most powerful gift to solve homicides and bring Jaime Sommers is trying to balance crime lord in the Southland... peace to the recently bereaved. the hope of a normal life with her life 1989: Now Pomeray’s out on pa- But when a big-time occultist with as a government agent... but when role, robbed of his special ability a classified military past hires her you work for the O.S.I., even a routine and tasked with doing Creed “a lit- for a special job, Shan discovers a mission to Mexico can prove to be far tle favor.” He has no idea he’s just lead that might close the greatest more dangerous than anyone expect- stepped into a long con, and this mystery she’s ever tackled - how to INDIES ed! Continuing from the TV series. time, he’s the mark... get Hwen back. NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS FOR SEPTEMBER In Shops: 17/09/2014 In Shops: 03/09/2014 In Shops: 03/09/2014 11 NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COLLECTED EDITIONS ARRIVING NOVEL IDEAS FROM SEPTEMBER ONWARDS...
SERENITY: WALKING LEAVES ON DEAD VOL.10 MOON KNIGHT WIND (HC) (HC) VOL.1: FROM DARK HORSE IMAGE WAKE (HC) DEAD Whedon, Jeanty, Kirkman, Adlard, DC MARVEL Dos, Various Rathburn Snyder, Murphy Ellis, Shalvey
In the film Serenity, outlaw Malcolm Rick’s treaty with Negan and the The entire Eisner Award- nominated Marc Spector is Moon Knight! Or Reynolds and his crew revealed to Saviors is pushed to the limit, as both series is collected in one volume! is he? It’s hard to tell these days, the entire ‘verse the crimes against sides march toward All Out War. When Marine Biologist Lee Archer especially when New York’s wild- humanity undertaken by the sinis- In Shops: 03/09/2014 is approached by the Department est vigilante protects the street with ter Alliance government. In this of- of Homeland Security for help with a two-fisted justice and three different ficial follow-up, circumstances force new threat, she declines but quickly personalities! But even with a mys- the crew to come out of hiding, and realizes they won’t take “no” for an tical force fueling his crusade, how one of their own is captured, setting AMAZING answer. Soon she is plunging to the does the night’s greatest detective them on another mission of rescue SPIDER- depths of the Arctic Circle to a secret, save a city that’s as twisted as he is? and resistance... MAN VOL.01: underwater oil rig filled with rough- Marvel’s most mind-bending adven- PARKER LUCK Collects the six-issue miniseries necks and scientists on the brink of ture begins as Moon Knight sleuths MARVEL and the 2012 Free Comic Book Day an incredible discovery. But when his way to the rotten core of New story. Slott, Ramos things go horribly wrong, this scien- York’s most bizarre mysteries! In Shops: 05/11/2014 tific safe haven will turn into a house Collecting Moon Knight (2014) #1-6. The greatest super hero of all of horrors at the bottom of the ocean! In Shops: 01/10/2014 time returns! The world may have In Shops: 05/11/2014 changed since Spidey’s been gone, but so has Peter Parker. This is a REGULAR man with a second chance at life, FAIREST SHOW VOL.1: JUDGE DREDD and he’s not wasting a moment of VOL.4: OF MEN HYDRATION VOL.5 it. But his old foes are back, as well! AND MICE (OGN) IDW Re-energized, out of control and DC VERTIGO BOOM! Swierczynski, madder than ever, Electro and the Andreyko, Connor, Stone, Daniel, Pierce Black Cat demand revenge! And McManus, Strejlau as if dealing with them isn’t enough, Hughes the radioactive spider that granted Dredd’s most vicious and unstop- The summer is turning into a Peter his powers bit someone else, pable enemies - the Dark Judges - Cinderella returns in an all-new epic roastfest and Mordecai and Rigby too! Who is Silk, and where has she are clawing their way into Mega-City from Fairest #21-26! After an as- are desperate to find a way to cool been all these years? Find out as One, determined to transform it into sassination attempt on Snow White, down. But when a mystery pool Peter Parker retakes his life, putting a new city of the dead. But the only Cindy is called back into service to suddenly appears and offers a the “amazing” back in “Spider- thing more horrifying than the Dark unravel an age-old conspiracy that chance to beat the heat, it’s only Man!” Judges’ onslaught are the drastic dates back to that fateful midnight a matter of time before these two measures the Justice Department is Collecting Amazing Spider-Man ball! Can she uncover the plot and best bros find themselves in totally willing to take to repel them. (2014) #1-6. prevent a massacre in Fabletown? waterlogged trouble. In Shops: 24/09/2014 In Shops: 15/10/2014 In Shops: 01/10/2014 In Shops: 03/09/2014 12 NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COLLECTED EDITIONS ARRIVING NOVEL IDEAS FROM SEPTEMBER ONWARDS...
GUARDIANS MARVEL OF THE ZOMBIES - TEEN TITANS: GALAXY VOL.2: MANHATTAN COMPLETE EARTH ONE ANGELA PROJECTS COLLECTION VOL.1 (HC OGN) MARVEL VOL.1 (HC) VOL.3 DC Bendis, Pichelli, IMAGE MARVEL Lemire, Dodson, Various Hickman, Pitarra Various Dodson
When Gamora, one of the galaxy’s What if the research and development The original Marvel Zombies invade In this new, original graphic novel, greatest warriors, battles Angela, department created to produce the dimension of the Marvel Apes! the young heroes of the Teen Titans the entire universe hangs in the the first atomic bomb was a front And when the Marvel Universe is never felt like normal kids...but they balance! Can the mysterious for a series of other, more unusual, targeted by a dimension of Nazi had no idea how right they were. Angela’s power help combat the programs? What if the union of a zombies, Howard the Duck must Their seemingly idyllic Oregon fallout from Thanos’ master plan? generation’s brightest minds was not assemble a brigade of misfits to upbringing hides a secret - one The biggest blockbuster hit of the a signal for optimism, but foreboding? beat them back! that will bring killers, shamans, year continues as comics legend What if everything went wrong? Collecting Marvel Apes: Prime Eight and extraterrestrials down on their Neil Gaiman joins the team in this Collects Manhattan Projects #1-10. #1, Marvel Zombies: Evil Evolution heads, and force them into an one-of-a-kind comic-book event! alliance that could shake the planet In Shops: 24/09/2014 #1, Marvel Zombies 5 #1-5, Marvel Collecting Guardians Of The Galaxy Zombies Supreme #1-5, Marvel to its foundations! (2013) #4-10. Zombies Destroy #1-5 and Marvel The superstar team of writer Jeff In Shops: 24/09/2014 Zombies Halloween #1. Lemire and artist Terry Dodson In Shops: 15/10/2014 reinvent DC’s youngest heroes, with CHIMERA an all-new mythos in an all-new world! BRIGADE VOL.1 (HC) In Shops: 19/11/2014 DETECTIVE COMICS VOL.5: TITAN TOMB RAIDER GOTHTOPIA Colin, Lehman, VOL.1: DC Gess SEASON OF THE WITCH Layman, Fabok, BUFFY Burnham, DARK HORSE SEASON 10 Various World War II. The year is 1938, and a Simone, Selma, VOL.1 new generation of superhumans, born Gedeon, Dos DARK HORSE as a side effect of secret chemical Gage, Brendon, Who - or what - has created this weapons, have taken control of the Isaacs, Morris twisted vision of the Dark Knight’s capital cities of Europe. Above the Lara and the other survivors of the hometown? As far as anyone knows, law, above human authority, these Endurance are experiencing horrific Gotham City is and always has been strange metahumans capture the visions after their ordeal in the lost While slaying a hoard of zompires, a crime-free utopia, patrolled by the imagination of the public, even as they kingdom of Yamatai. But the visions Buffy and her pals are shocked to white-clad Batman and his sidekick, baffle scientists with their impossible lead to a darker fate. Can Lara discover a new kind of vampire: Selina Kyle, a.k.a. Catbird. Don’t powers. But a new, more powerful survive the calamities that await her harder to kill, able to transform and miss the strange adventure from threat is looming, one that could yet as she struggles to piece this new walk in the light of day-like Dracula. Detective Comics #25-29, including erase them from existence and shift mystery, and her life, back together? Collects Buffy the Vampire Slayer the amazing Detective Comics #27! the balance of power. Collects Tomb Raider #1-#6. Season 10 #1-5. In Shops: 19/11/2014 In Shops: 29/10/2014 In Shops: 12/11/2014 In Shops: 12/11/2014 13 BIFF’S BIT Email Biff here: [email protected]
DARK HORSE, WEEKLIES & THE SILVER SURFER
MAKE IT A DARK 4) and Aliens: Fire and Stone #1 (of This imaginative range of stories to Batman. New 52 Futures End was I say ‘weakness’ as whenever HORSE MONTH 4). They do tie in, but can be read and series is why Dark Horse grows not originally on my ‘to read’ list as a new reprint comes out, I have separately. I recommend buying each year in strength and stature I am not sure I feel comfortable with to buy it. I have the comics, the Over the last twenty five years Dark both. The story, I hear you ask? Well, and is why I recommend that any- seeing the future and then knowing trades, the Omnibus and now I just Horse have continuously given the it involves suspense, death and Al- one and everyone try at least one that this is the fate my current fa- have to have IDW’s artists edition. comic market a steady stream of iens. Need I say more? title this month. vourite reads are moving to. I know The artist editions are absolute gor- powerful, well written, and exqui- Tomb Raider is now up to issue #8 it is not set in stone, but it still is an geous. I just love to see the original sitely drawn comics. No deaths to and going strong. Gail Simone has DC WEEKLIES odd premise for me. That said, they pages as they were drawn in glori- boost sales, no reboots to create hit her stride with this series which are a cracking good read. ous black and white complete with Well I am having to eat one of my sales and no die-cut, lenticular or is full of mystery, magic and myth. notations in the margins. They may many hats this week as I admit to Now pass me the ketchup as my 3D covers. Instead they have made The first collected trade paperback seem expensive at around £100, being pleasantly proved wrong by trilby is a bit stale. an art of taking movie licences and is now available for ordering cover- but 144 full art pages for £100? the two DC weekly series. I cannot producing strong titles that hold well ing issues #1 to 6. That is a bargain by this man’s wait each week to get my copy of to the original and then move the IDW BREAK A MAN’S standards! John Buscema’s Silver Not to mention the other games tie- Batman Eternal as it is a fast paced, stories on. Giving Buffy and Angel WALLET Surfer Artist Edition HC, you are ins such as Halo and Mass Effect. well written, well drawn entertaining further seasons, but in comic form, now destined to be lovingly read comic. It takes me back to the feel- My greatest weakness in comic and will stand proudly on a shelf in was inspired and made Joss Whe- Other crafted stories unique to them include the all new stories of ing I used to have waiting for the pa- collecting is the Silver Surfer. I just Biff’s study... if I can find a shelf big don and Buffy fans very happy and Elfquest, the excellent continuation perboy to deliver my parents papers love the character, especially Stan enough! the horror range is unique and un- of the Conan mythos, Brian Wood’s on a Saturday, knowing my Terrific, Lee’s original eighteen issue run, surpassed for quality. The Massive, Matt Kindt’s Mind Valiant, etc would be inside. My and within that, the John Buscema Solicited this month for September MGMT, Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, one criticism would be that it is not issues, which for me stand out as release are two mini series that are BPRD, Baltimore and Abe Sapien, all ages. I would love to recommend some of the best comics he ever a must for Aliens and horror fans - Eric Powell’s The Goon and finally this to all parents who come in to drew - in fact, the best comics ever Prometheus: Fire and Stone #1 ( of Steve Niles’ Criminal Macabre. the stores as a perfect introduction (apologies to Jack Kirby)! 14 TOP 20 GRAPHIC NOVELS 15 ACE COMICS’ BESTSELLING GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR JUNE 2014... 20 14 8 CROSSED: BADLANDS VOL.9 SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN CHRONICLES AVATAR VOL.6: GOBLIN NATION OF CONAN VOL.27 £14.99 MARVEL DARK HORSE £13.50 £14.99 Info / Add to Basket Info / Add to Basket Info / Add to Basket 19 13 7 SALLY HEATHCOTE: TOM STRONG AND THE CHRONICLES OF KING SUFFRAGETTE HC PLANET OF PERIL CONAN VOL.8 AVATAR DC VERTIGO DARK HORSE £14.99 £10.99 £14.99 Info / Add to Basket Info / Add to Basket Info / Add to Basket 18 12 6 SUPERMAN: DETECTIVE COMICS VOL.3: WORLDS FINEST VOL.3: H’EL ON EARTH EMPEROR PENGUIN CONTROL ISSUES DC DC DC £14.99 £12.99 £10.99 H 1 Info / Add to Basket Info / Add to Basket Info / Add to Basket VELVET VOL.1: BEFORE THE LIVING END 17 11 5 IMAGE MASSIVE VOL.3: LONGSHIP DETECTIVE COMICS VOL.4 DEAD BOY DETECTIVES £7.50 DARK HORSE THE WRATH (HC) VOL.1: SCHOOLBOY TERRORS £14.99 DC DC VERTIGO Info / Add to Basket £18.99 £7.50 ED BRUBAKER, STEVE EPTING Info / Add to Basket Info / Add to Basket Info / Add to Basket From the bestselling creators of “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” comes this 16 10 4 smash-hit spy thriller with a unique new twist! GREEN LANTERN CORPS NEW LONE WOLF MARVEL UGNC VOL.66: When the world’s greatest secret agent is VOL.4: REBUILD AND CUB VOL.1 AVENGERS - PRIME (HC) killed, all evidence points to Velvet Temple- DC DARK HORSE MARVEL ton, the personal secretary to the Director of £12.99 £10.50 £9.99 the Agency. But Velvet’s got a dark secret buried in her past... because she’s also the Info / Add to Basket Info / Add to Basket Info / Add to Basket most dangerous woman alive. 15 9 3 2 RED HOOD VOL.4: LEAGUE NIGHT OF THE SHOWCASE PRESENTS: MARVEL UGNC VOL.66: OF ASSASSINS LIVING DEADPOOL THE GREAT DISASTER SECRET EMPIRE (HC) DC AVATAR DC MARVEL £12.99 £12.99 £14.99 £9.99 Info / Add to Basket Info / Add to Basket Info / Add to Basket Info / Add to Basket IN AID OF ST HELENA HOSPICE & COLCHESTER HOSPITALS CHARITY
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