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ILLUMINATIONSAUG 2016 THIS OCTOBER... SERENITY # 335 MOONSHINE HE-MAN / THUNDERCATS LOST BOYS BIFF’S BIT... DC DOES IT AGAIN NOVEL IDEAS AND MORE! Jessica Jones (Marvel) CONTENTS: PAGE 03... New Series and One-Shots for October: Dark Horse

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

PAGE 05... New Series and One-Shots for October: DC Comics

PAGE 06... New Series and One-Shots for October: IDW Publishing

PAGE 07... New Series and One-Shots for October: IDW Publishing

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PAGE 10... New Series and One-Shots for October: Marvel Comics

PAGE 11... New Series and One-Shots for October: Marvel Comics

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

PAGE 13... New Series and One-Shots for October: Indies

PAGE 14... Novel Ideas - Part One

PAGE 15... Novel Ideas - Part Two

PAGE 16... Biff’s Bit: DC Does It Again SIGN UP FOR THE PAGE 17.. Graphic Novel Top 20: June’s Bestselling Books ACE COMICS MAILOUT AND KEEP UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST RELEASES, SUBSCRIPTIONS, CHARTS, acecomics.co.uk ILLUMINATIONS, EVENTS For the complete catalogue of new releases visit previews.com/catalog AND MORE! 02 SPELL ON WHEELS #1 Leth, Levens, Doyle Three young witches are robbed of their magical items, and they’ll have to hit the road to track down the mysterious thief before he does any damage to-or with- their possessions. DARK H COVER STAR H SERENITY: NO POWER In Shops: 19/10/2016 IN THE VERSE #1 HORSE Roberson, Jeanty, Story, NEW SERIES AND ONE�SHOTS Dos Santos FOR OCTOBER The ‘verse is a complicated and dangerous place, and Malcolm Reynolds and his outlaw crew aboard the Serenity are ever experiencing tough times. When tensions rise among , a call for help becomes a welcome interruption: they must track down a missing friend and the answers to the mystery surrounding her disappearance. In Shops: 26/10/2016 CALL OF DUTY: ZOMBIES #1 Jordan, Wayshak, Bisley Waves of zombies just keep coming, first in the Call of Duty: Zombies games, and now CHIMICHANGA: THE from Dark Horse Comics! SORROW OF THE Join Stuhlinger, Misty, Russman, and Marlton WORLD’S WORST as they fight for survival against the undead FACE #1 horde. The Tranzit crew, last seen in the “Buried” map, are trapped on a deeply unstable Powell, Buscema and fractured future Earth. Wrinkle’s Traveling Circus’s most adorable The Call of Duty: Zombies miniseries delves bearded girl and her savory-named are into these characters’ backstories, providing a back, and there is a new act in store! crucial piece of the Zombies puzzle. See what Come one, come all to the Sorrow of the World’s happens between the maps as the Tranzit Worst Face! But beware: those who look behind crew fights to escape Maxis’s apocalyptic the curtain are in for an awful treat, and it’s not wasteland. just his face we’re talkin’ about! In Shops: 19/10/2016 In Shops: 12/10/2016

03 DC NEW SERIES AND ONE�SHOTS FOR CAVE CARSON HAS A OCTOBER BEYOND #1 CYBERNETIC EYE #1 Jurgens, Chang, Sook Way, Rivera, Avon Oeming “The Return” Part One! Cave Carson has done it all: survived countless Terry McGinnis is back as Batman, much to adventures below the Earth’s surface, met the the delight of his family and friends. But is the love of his life, and gotten a cybernetic eye... HE-MAN / original Joker really back as well? Inspired by the somehow. After he and his wife, Eileen, sent their THUNDERCATS #1 possible return of their role model, the Jokerz only daughter Chloe off to college, Cave was have taken over an entire section of Gotham City ready to become just another mundane member David, Goldfine, Williams II and are determined to wreak havoc in the still- of the surface world. That is, until Eileen got sick. rebuilding city. Newly widowed, Cave tries to piece his life back He-Man and the Masters Of together when a knock on the door of his secret While Batman battles chaos on the streets, his underground lab pulls him back into a past that The Universe team up with the friend Dana is at the mercy of the new of he and Eileen thought they had left buried deep ThunderCats - the epic the now-unified gang. within the Earth. Adding to his troubles, Cave event you’ve waited thirty years In Shops: 26/10/2016 must determine if his recent hallucinations and visions are the work of his mind or his mysterious to see! cybernetic eye. (Spoiler: It’s the eye.) In his ever-living desire to destroy Written by Gerard Way (Doom Patrol, Umbrella Academy) and Jon Rivera (Heartbreak), and the mighty ThunderCats, Mumm- illustrated by Michael Avon Oeming (), this Ra quests for a weapon that is an absurdist action-adventure story unlike any other! can rival the legendary Sword In Shops: 19/10/2016 of Omens: He-Man’s Sword of HAWKMAN AND Power! ADAM STRANGE: OUT OF TIME #1 But his dimension-spanning Andreyko, Lopresti scheme kick starts a cataclysmic Residing on Earth and out of the hero game, crisis that will embroil heroes and Adam Strange finds himself trying to live a villains - Masters, Mutants and “normal” life, until he’s literally pulled back into DEADMAN: DARK adventure again when a seemingly normal Zeta MANSION OF Thundercats - in a mind-blowing beam transmission returns him to the planet six-part saga! Rann, where he hopes to be reunited with his FORBIDDEN LOVE #1 beloved Alanna. But instead he finds the once- Vaughn, Medina, Hans In Shops: 05/10/2016 great city of Ranagar in ruins, with millions dead, Trapped inside an old gothic mansion, Deadman and the once peaceful Alanna is now calling for must battle the forces of darkness alongside the blood of Rann’s oldest enemy, Thanagar, Berenice, a young woman with a complicated home of the Hawkmen. love life who is gifted-or cursed-with the ability to Sensing something is amiss, Strange finds an communicate with the dead. ally in Hawkman, who also is trying anything Romance, mystery, and evil await in the new, possible to avert war. bimonthly miniseries Deadman: Dark Mansion Of Don’t miss the start of this sensational new six- Forbidden Love, by Sarah Vaughn (Alex + Ada) issue miniseries! and Lan Medina (Fables)! In Shops: 05/10/2016 In Shops: 05/10/2016 04 , DC NEW SERIES AND ONE�SHOTS FOR OCTOBER SHADE THE MIDNIGHTER AND CHANGING GIRL #1 APOLLO #1 Castellucci, Zarcone, Orlando, Blanco, Aco Cloonan LOST BOYS #1 You wanted it? You got it-six more issues of There’s no such thing as a little bit of madness. Midnighter madness! Together again after too Far away on the planet Meta, Loma’s going Seeley, Godlewski, Harris long apart, Midnighter and Apollo take on subway nowhere fast. She’s dropped out of school, pirates in Los Angeles and demons in Opal City... dumped her boyfriend, and is bored out of her The stakes are raised in this but their reunion is about to take a shocking turn mind. She longs to feel things. That’s where her and send them both on an epic journey beyond idol, the lunatic poet Rac Shade, and his infamous nostalgic and unstoppable sequel all belief! to the ‘80s cult classic vampire madness coat come in. In Shops: 05/10/2016 Loma steals the garment and makes a break film, The Lost Boys. Veteran horror across galaxies to take up residence in a new writers Tim Seeley (Grayson, body: Earth girl Megan Boyer. Surely everything will be better on this passionate primitive planet Nightwing, Hack/Slash), and Scott with a dash of madness on her side and this Godlewski (The Dark And Bloody, human girl’s easy life. Only now that she’s here, Loma discovers being a teenaged Earth girl Copperhead) deliver a gruesome comes with its own challenges and Earth may and stylish return to the bloody not be everything she thought it’d be. boardwalks and big hair of 1987! TEEN TITANS #1 In Shops: 05/10/2016 Santa Carla, California is on edge. Percy, Meyers The eccentric coastal town and “Damian Knows Best” part one! Now that Damian has “summoned” the Teen Titans, the tyrannical haven for the undead was finally teen reveals his master plan! But a great evil from returning to “normal” after its last Damian’s past is lurking around the corner, ready supernatural scuffle left the local to strike at the team’s newest leader and destroy the new Teen Titans before they even begin! WONDER WOMAN - coven’s head vampire dead and In Shops: 216/10/2016 75TH ANNIVERSARY gave newcomers Michael and SPECIAL #1 Sam Emerson a housewarming Lee both violent and bizarre. Now the brothers must once again team An immense special issue celebrating seventy- up with militant vampire hunters five years of the Amazing Amazon, through Edgar and Allan Frog when a new VIGILANTE: phenomenal new stories, art, and stand-alone SOUTHLAND #1 illustrations! gang of ruthless, stunning, life- Featuring a roster of incredible creators-some sucking nightcrawlers known as Phillips, Casagrande, who’ve laid down legendary runs with the Gerads character, and some who’ve never drawn her the Blood Belles emerges from the Set in the heart of Los Angeles, this new series before-including Rafael Albuquerque, Brian aftermath to collect Michael’s love raises an old question while making it relevant Azzarello, Cliff Chiang, Renae De Liz, Brenden to our times: when you witness bad things being Fletcher, Adam Hughes, Karl Kerschl, Gail Simone, interest and their lost sister, Star. done, how far would you go to set them right? and many, many more to be announced! In Shops: 07/10/2016 In Shops: 26/10/2016 In Shops: 26/10/2016 05 DIRK GENTLY: DISNEY’S GIANT THE SALMON OF HALLOWEEN HEX #1 DOUBT #1 Artibani, Komorowski, David, Ilias, Kyriazis Cavazzano Dirk Gently, created by Douglas Adams and shortly Hee! Hee! Hee! Scrooge McDuck’s sinister to be the star of his own television series from sorceress foe gets her own eerie Halloween extra! BBC America, returns to comics in The Salmon And she’s seeking the “Great Rock of Power-Plus” of Doubt, brought to you by executive producers - the magically supercharged Pantarba Stone - to of the show Arvind Ethan David and Max Landis. destroy Scrooge once and for all! Plagued by nightmares about a childhood he In Shops: 19/10/2016 never had, Dirk returns to Cambridge University to seek the advice of his former tutor, the time- traveling Professor Reg Chronotis. There he discovers that a holistic detective can have more than one past, and his adventures have only just begun... Featuring fan-favorite characters from the original books as well as the cast from the TV series, including Elijah Wood. In Shops: 26/10/2016 DUCK AVENGER #1 Sisti, Gray, Sciarrone Supervillain Red Raider hits Duckburg with a crime spree-just as crook newsman Angus Fangus aims to ruin Duck Avenger’s rep! Will INSUFFERABLE: HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE #1 Donald’s life crash and burn? Not if the mysterious Lila Lee has anything to say... Waid, Krause At last! IDW brings you the new-to-USA “Duck With their city under by an army of supervillains, only Nocturnus and Galahad can save the lives ELECTRIC SUBLIME #1 Avenger: New Adventures”, adapted for our readers Price, Morazzo by fan favorite Jonathan Gray (Sonic the Hedgehog)! of millions - and they have no resources, no weapons, nothing but one another to depend on! “Art is anything you can get away with... destroy In Shops: 26/10/2016 Beginning the third and final arc of the Insufferable saga! it all.” Welcome to The Electric Sublime - where art history, madness, and expression meet in In Shops: 19/10/2016 a Pollock-splatter of thrilling crime adventure! When a mysterious change in the composition of a famous painting begins poisoning the minds of its spectators, Margot Breslin-director of the Bureau of Artistic Integrity-must pull famed “art detective” Arthur Brut out of a mental institution OCTOBER FACTION: and back into the insanity that sent him there in the first place. Featuring a treasure trove of DEADLY SEASON #1 classical works, under-the-radar art, and a Niles, Worm seven-foot talking mannequin, this is comics, Ghouls in the graveyard! Giant Monsters downtown! imitating art, imitating life. The Allan family comes face to face with a whole The X-Files meets Alice in Wonderland, by way new threat. This one comes from the past and it of The Da Vinci Code! won’t stop until the Allan’s are dead. In Shops: 19/10/2016 In Shops: 19/10/2016 IDW NEW SERIES AND ONE�SHOTS FOR OCTOBER 06 07 IDW NEW SERIES AND ONE�SHOTS FOR OCTOBER

TRANSFORMERS REVOLUTION #1 AUG160391 : (W) John Barber (A) REVOLUTION #1 Andrew Griffith (CA) Barber, Villanelli, Johnson Marcelo Matere Revolution worldwide! While the battle between Thundercracker and Buster save the world! A , G.I. Joe, M.A.S.K., and ROM rages Decepticon who wants to be a screenwriter. A across the Earth, the U.K.’s top field agent, Action dog who wants to, I don’t know, eat stuff and Man, tracks down the mystery of ORE-13-and chase squirrels or whatever dogs want to do. A finds an unusual metal ally! White House under siege by Dire Wraiths. And In Shops: 26/10/2016 the phone call that brings them all together. Just because Optimus Prime and Soundwave are leading the Revolution doesn’t mean the rest of the Transformers aren’t keeping busy! In Shops: 19/10/2016

GI JOE: REVOLUTION #1 Sitterson, Milonogiannis, TRANSFORMERS - Conley TILL ALL ARE ONE: G.I. Joe is back! Thanks to the events of Revolution, REVOLUTION #1 STAR TREK: BOLDLY GO #1 the G.I. Joe team led by Scarlett returns to the fray, leading the charge against invading Transformers Scott, Tsushima, Johnson, Shasteen, Caltsoudas and other aliens. But when a US military defense Pitre-Durocher Star Trek’s 50th Anniversary Celebration continues with this all-new series following the adventures base goes dark, Scarlett has reason to suspect Windblade on Earth! The mysterious link between that these enemy forces may have infiltrated G.I. Metrotitan and Microspace threatens to tear of Captain Kirk and the iconic crew! New worlds! New species! New ships! And a new danger Joe. It’s up to her, Roadblock, Rock ‘n Roll, Quick two universes apart, and only Windblade has a unlike anything the Federation has encountered before! Kick, Wild Bill, and Shipwreck to move in and root chance to heal the Titan... and there she learns out any traitors before the facility falls into the a terrifying secret that changes the stakes of the Boldly go into a new era of Star Trek, following the events of Star Trek Beyond, featuring the debut wrong hands! Revolution. of brand-new uniforms for the crew! A key one-shot connected to the world of Featuring Optimus Prime, ROM, and much, much Revolution! more! In Shops: 19/10/2016 In Shops: 19/10/2016 In Shops: 05/10/2016 MOONSHINE #1 BLACK LIGHT Azzarello, Risso DISTRICT: 6 ISSUES IMAGE (ONE-SHOT) Set during Prohibition, and deep in the backwoods of Appalachia, Moonshine tells the story of Lou NEW SERIES AND ONE�SHOTS Blaze Snider, Hester, Pirlo, a city-slick “torpedo” sent from New York City to negotiate a deal with the best moonshiner in FOR OCTOBER Pearson, Tamme, Witt, West Virginia, one Hiram Holt. What Lou doesn’t figure on is that Holt is just as cunning and ruthless Woodward, Spicer, Larsen, Dalhouse, Burnham as any NYC crime boss. Because not only will Holt do anything to protect his illicit booze operation, Jesse Blaze Snider’s groundbreaking online comic he’ll stop at nothing to protect a much darker family secret... a bloody, supernatural secret that must book / music anthology “Black Light District: 6 never see the light of day... or better still, the light of the full moon. Issues” comes to Image Comics! Featuring six epic illustrated stories set to the music of the Moonshine marks the first time Azzarello and Risso have worked together for Image Comics and geek culture inspired “Black Light District” EP! reunites the Eisner Award winning creative team that defined modern crime comics with 100 Bullets... In Shops: 12/10/2016 and now puts a horror-twist on a classic gangster tale. CANNIBAL #1 In Shops: 05/10/2016 Buccellato, Young, Bergara A brand new series! From New York Times bestselling writer Brian Buccellato and Jennifer Young, Cannibal is about the denizens of a small Everglades town desperately trying to hold onto their everyday GREEN VALLEY #1 lives at the dawn of a cannibal pandemic. With Landis, Camuncoli, no cure in sight, the region has become split over Rathburn, Beaulieu what to do with the victims, though for Cash and The knights of Kelodia are the finest in the land, Grady Hansen the answer is simple: Kill them. but they’ve never faced a power like the one that But all of that changes when the virus begins to resides in the Green Valley... infect people they love. Max Landis and Giuseppe Camuncoli welcome In Shops: 05/10/2016 you to the world of Green Valley... where nothing is ever what it seems. In Shops: 05/10/2016

ROMULUS #1 Hill, Blake REBORN #1 Our world isn’t free. All of us, for generations, have lived under the secret control of The Ancient Millar, Capullo Order of Romulus. One young woman, raised by Mark Millar and join forces to create them, trained by them, betrayed by them, must the smash hit sci-fi / fantasy story of the year: push through her fear to take a stand against the Reborn. Where do you go when you die? Not silent evil that masters our world. Her name is heaven or hell; somewhere else. Somewhere you Ashlar, and her war begins with the brutal first have to fight to survive. Somewhere the people chapter of the new Image series Romulus, from from the past are waiting for you-the good and writer Bryan Hill (Postal) and artist Nelson Blake the bad. Ii (Magdelena). In Shops: 12/10/2016 In Shops: 05/10/2016 08 MARVEL NEW SERIES AND ONE�SHOTS CLONE CAGE #1 FOR OCTOBER CONSPIRACY #1 CHAMPIONS #1 Slott, Cheung, Dell’Otto Waid, Ramos Tartakovsky “Dead No More”: The Jackal is back and has Following the fallout of II, Ms. From the Award-Winning conquered death. The Amazing Spider-Man is Marvel, and Spider-Man strike out on their creator of Dexter’s outmatched by his classic enemy’s army. own - joined by Cyclops, Viv and the Totally Does the wall-crawler stand a chance? Awesome ! Six young heroes determined to Laboratory, change the world - and they’re only the beginning! Should he stand in The Jackal’s way if he’s found and Hotel Transylvania! the key to eternal life? In Shops: 05/10/2016 A YEAR OF MARVELS: On the mean streets of Harlem, UNBEATABLE #1 In Shops: 12/10/2016 shoes are big, shirts are large, Bowers, Sims, Magruder, bottoms are belled and crime is Level, Campbell rampant! But in the heart of the city, It’s August, and Nick Fury is just in time to attend DARK TOWER - THE the world’s hardest-working, smack- Japan’s Bon Festival... but he’s not here to DRAWING OF THREE: celebrate. Not when an illegal weapons auction talking, chain-wearing super is about to begin! SAILOR #1 hero is on the street and on From Chad Bowers ans Chris Sims (X-Men ‘92) Furth, David, Ramirez, Anacleto the case! And his rates are and Brian Level! reasonable! He’s Cage! and And in September, Tippy-Toe is flying solo (until Jake Chambers returns as Stephen King’s dark is done studying)! But when a villain CIVIL WAR II: OATH #1 fantasy epic continues! he’ll save your behind. Dig it! threatens Central Park, she’s gotta call in the Spencer, Reis, Dekal Haunted by the specter of a boy he let fall to his big guns. Enormous guns, relatively speaking death, Roland is beset by despair. But the boy In Shops: 05/10/2016 (because Tippy and are small)! The epilogue to the blockbuster event Civil War II! never existed, and Roland’s guilt is madness. Or It’s the team-up - written by Nilah Magruder In the aftermath of war, Tony Stark and Carol is it? (M.F.K.) - you would have demanded if you knew Danvers both turn to the one person they can As timelines converge and reality shatters, Jake your worth! You’re wonderful, and you deserve trust... Steve Rogers, . Chambers becomes the focus of Roland’s quest... beautiful things! Uh-oh... and may be the key to the survival of the ka-tet! In Shops: 19/10/2016 In Shops: 26/10/2016 In Shops: 12/10/2016

09 : Secret Wars. Point is, did you know BACK IN BLACK #1 that after Spider-Man rejected the costume...it went slinking back to MARVEL NEW SERIES AND ONE�SHOTS FOR OCTOBER Bunn, Espin Deadpool on the rebound? And they During 1984’s Secret Wars, went on adventures together? You Deadpool was introduced to an alien didn’t? Well, you will, now, thanks who went on to become to this series by Cullen Bunn (The Spider-Man’s black costume Deadpool Killogy) and Salva Espin and, eventually, Venom. (Deadpool And The Mercs : ENCHANTED Okay, okay, maybe that For Money)! DEADPOOL: TOO MYSTIC APPRENTICE TIKI ROOM #1 SOON #1 #1 really happened in In Shops: 05/10/2016 Adams, Domingues, Deadpool’s Secret Corin, Nauck, Larraz Pilgrim, Di Vito, Ryan Kesinger Someone has murdered Forbush Man! Could Before he was the sorcerer ... Strange An all-new adventure in the Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room! someone be targeting all of Marvel’s funniest mastered the mystic arts! Welcome to the Enchanted Tiki Room, a place of characters for death? A master of delicate surgery, Dr. Stephen Strange legend... of fantasy... and mystery. Here - on an That’s what Deadpool thinks, and now he’s gotta had no equal... until a accident shattered his isolated island populated by talking (and singing) act before someone bumps off Squirrel Girl, hands! Now a student of the mystic arts, Strange birds and plants and ancient Tiki gods - almost Rocket Raccoon, Groot, -Man, Howard The must find a way to master his magical assignment... anything can happen and does. As the next boat Duck and The ! (Like we said, the funny or throw in his cape and robes for good! arrives with new visitors, what stories will unfold, characters.) Don’t miss this all-new story, as Strange finds what mysteries will be revealed and how are Good thing Deadpool is renowned for his that the road to Sorcerer Supreme can be a real they all connected? Summer ain’t over yet, so investigative skills! pain in the... astral form! grab your flip-flops, pop open your beach chair and book your vacation with the latest Disney In Shops: 19/10/2016 Also: reprinting the original and Kingdoms series! origin stories of Doctor Strange from Strange Tales #110 and #115! In Shops: 05/10/2016 In Shops: 26/10/2016

GREAT LAKES AVENGERS #1 DOCTOR STRANGE: Gorman, Robson SORCERERS DEATH OF X #1 “All New, All Different?” No, thank you! New things SUPREME #1 Lemire, Soule, Kuder are bad and different things are scary! Instead, Thompson, Rodriguez, What happened eight months ago that set the why not join everybody’s least favorite super-hero Albuquerque and X-Men on a collision course? Find team, the Great Lakes Avengers in their brand An ancient evil threatens to unravel the fabric out here! new - but not too brand new - ongoing series, of reality, and one Sorcerer Supreme may not Same Old, Same Old, Great Lakes Avengers! The Inhumans travel to Japan where one of the be enough. Doctor Strange must unite past, Terrigen Clouds creates a shocking new Inhuman. When the team gets reinstated as permanent present and future Sorcerers Supremes to stem members of the Avengers and uprooted to Detroit, the coming darkness - Merlin, the Ancient One, The X-Men travel to Muir Island where the second the GLA has one more shot at super hero ... , and more! But Strange should watch Terrigen Cloud causes something truly terrible. but can they answer the call? Do they even have his back, not all of these Sorcerers have his best When these two events collide, a war of 4G coverage here? Find out! interests in mind... catastrophic proportions explodes! In Shops: 12/10/2016 In Shops: 26/10/2016 In Shops: 05/10/2016 10 INFAMOUS #1 JESSICA JONES #1 PUNISHER ANNUAL #1 Bendis, Maleev Bendis, Gaydos, Mack Conway, Ruiz, Rahzzah There is a new Iron Man in town and his name She is back after a decade! A lot has changed Our treat: Frank’s up to his old tricks! There are is Victor Von Doom. The greatest villain of the in the and there are still many ghouls everywhere on Halloween night, but real Marvel Universe will try something new. Where secrets hiding in the shadows. Secrets only a monsters don’t wear costumes! The Punisher Tony Stark failed, Doom will succeed. What is special woman like Jessica Jones can hope to is searching for a killer, but he’s also being Doom’s Master Plan? uncover. Discover the haunting secrets from watched... Let’s hope Frank’s quarry doesn’t put In Shops: 19/10/2016 Jessica’s past in this blistering new series. costumed civvies in the line of ! Investigations is open for business. In Shops: 26/10/2016 In Shops: 05/10/2016

MOSAIC #1 Thorne, Randolph, MARVEL Immonen SOLO #1 NEW SERIES AND PROWLER #1 Professional basketball player and world Duggan, Thorne, Diaz ONE�SHOTS FOR OCTOBER Ryan, Campbell, Foreman renowned celebrity, Morris Sackett, gains The “One Man War on Terror” will get the job extraordinary abilities, at the grave cost of his “Clone Conspiracy” tie-in! done! That’s right - James Bourne, A.K.A. Solo, is own mortal body. Imbued with the ability to jump Even a super hero’s life can get boring. Double- on his own, right where he belongs! Deadly alien from person to person like a ghost, he controls the check your gear. Patrol the city. Save the innocent. weapons are making their way into the hands of bodies and memories of those he inhabits. With Report back to your boss, The Jackal. Wait, ordinary thugs - and Solo is going undercover his own body destroyed, the one-time superstar what? Why is Prowler working for The Jackal? to locate the source. Things are heating up, athlete must rely on others to survive. What does the resurrected Madame Web have to and Solo might just wish he had some backup! The saga of the newest Marvel Inhuman, Mosaic, do with him? And what has Prowler already done Deadpool was just the beginning. You haven’t begins here! that may have compromised him?! seen anything till you’ve met Solo! In Shops: 12/10/2016 In Shops: 26/10/2016 In Shops: 12/10/2016 GUIDE TO THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE: AGENT CARTER - SEASON ONE #1 O’Sullivan, The Ohotmu Team, Martin, Various Featuring fact sheets, show-to-comic comparisons, and behind-the-scenes production art and stills, this fantastic flip book is packed with profiles and updates! Relive the thrills of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season Two and Marvel’s Agent Carter Season One right here, and continue building your indispensable library of Marvel Cinematic Universe reference books! In Shops: 26/10/2016 11 BIG TROUBLE IN ARCHIE MEETS INDIES LITTLE CHINA / : THE THE RAMONES NEW SERIES AND ESCAPE FROM LONG CON (ONE-SHOT) ONE�SHOTS FOR NEW YORK #1 OCTOBER TITAN ARCHIE BOOM! STUDIOS James, Casco, Fraser, Segura, Rosenberg, Pak, Bayliss Giovanni, Zhang Lagace Done with director John Carpenter’s complete Brand new convention special story! Hey! Ho! Let’s go! America’s favorite teens blessing, witness this melee of the mullets as Previously only available at Titan’s comic cross paths with the original NYC punks in two cult classic characters made famous by convention appearances this year, this is your this extra-sized one-shot spectacular that is actor Kurt Russell crossover in an improbable chance to take home the all-new short “The not to be missed! adventure. Long Con,” featuring the tenth, eleventh, and When the Archies tank at the Riverdale High As lightning cascades around Jack and his twelfth Doctors under brand-new covers from Battle of the Bands, a magical twist of fate good ol’ Pork-Chop Express, he finds himself Alice X. Zhang and Simon Fraser! sends them hurtling into the past-and face- transported and driving through the horrors Plus, the special also reprints all nine to-face with none other than the Ramones! of what seems to be the dystopian future of... Supremacy of the Cybermen back-ups by Can the legendary punks get the Archies to Escape from New York. George Mann, Cavan Scott and a cavalcade realize their own rock ‘n’ roll potential and Snake Plissken catches wind of Jack and of amazing creators including Blair Shedd, find their way home? goes on the hunt to find who is trying to steal Lee Sullivan, Dan Boultwood, Andrew Pepoy, Probably not-but it’ll be a blitzkrieg bop of a his identity. Simon Myers, and many more, perfect for the journey, as the two bands bounce from 53rd Prepare for the road trip of a lifetime, with dedicated signature hunter! and 3rd to Rockaway Beach in this must-read Jack and Snake rumblin’ down the streets In Shops: 19/10/2016 crossover from the writers of the best-selling of a dystopian future to find what craziness Archie Meets Kiss and We Can Never Go caused Jack to jump through worlds. Home with jaw-droppingly beautiful art from Gisele Lagace (“Occupy Riverdale”)! Written by Greg Pak (Totally Awesome Hulk, Action Comics) and illustrated by Russ In Shops: 05/10/2016 Manning Award nominee Daniel Bayliss (Kennel Block Blues, Translucid). In Shops: 05/10/2016 SONIC - MEGA DRIVE: THE NEXT LEVEL (ONE-SHOT) ARMY OF DARKNESS ARCHIE / XENA: FOREVER Flynn, Herms, Hesse AND A DAY #1 DYNAMITE STEAM WARS Welcome to “The Next Level.” The sequel to the hit Sonic: Mega Drive is here! 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ing, due to a total lack of a solid story that makes sense as it goes from A to Z. All the special effects in the world will not make SECONDLY up for a deficient plot. Children and teens So the country voted for Brexit! Despite DC DOES IT are the best arbiters of story as they seem my warnings of exchange rate madness. to intuitively know when the plot holds to- Now it costs more to travel abroad and gether. Several teens I know have been import from anywhere in the world. As AGAIN and given both films the thumbs down. predicted comics and graphic novels The DC Rebirth event has been an unar- The main comment: flashy, but that is all. have risen in price. Here at ACE, while we guable success. DC titles are back in the have held the comic increase to just 10- Back to the comics. DC’s bold move Top 20 and Marvel’s best titles are now 11 percent, unfortunately graphic novels into multiple bi-weekly series seems to the Star Wars family. Marvel are gamely have gone up by 15-25 percent. I predict be working and fans adapting to a two- killing off ‘big’ characters in Civil War II a little trimming will be done as you guys comics-a-month approach. Here is hop- to try to catch up, but it would seem the and gals take a good look at some titles ing that the quality continues. comic buying public are not being taken to make sure it really is a good read. How in. Even the killing of Bruce Banner has We can gauge if what DC do is good / this will affect comic stores in the UK will hardly raised ripples. I admit to being successful because Marvel will generally take a good six to nine months to unfold. stunned and surprised, then saddened, follow about six months later! They did af- On Ebay I have seen some ridiculously but this has been an exit point for some ter the New 52 launch , but, they made low prices on comics, meaning that each long term readers and Hulk fans. Totally a real hash of it with all their restarts ( one sold will be well below cost. There Awesome Hulk is not quite the same for Marvel NOW!) not really having a unified could will be another ‘Disposable Heroes’ us old timers. approach. Then they tried a ‘kill the uni- collapse if a more sensible approach isn’t So once again it lays with DC to reinvigor- verse’ and restart approach with Secret taken. Good service needs a reasonable ate the medium. Admittedly it was their Wars, which was also met with limp en- profit. At the prices being charged, I can fault that their New 52 line of titles had thusiasm. see trouble ahead there... been losing sales so quickly. It wasn’t the Now we learn that, starting in October, fans that demanded poor artwork and there will be a reduction in the number of lack lustre storylines, nor did they de- Mission for the month: Be inspired by the regular titles and yet another slew of new Olympics and get exercising! mand last year’s Convergence debacle. books. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem Still, good has come out of bad as this to be a cohesive reason for this, besides fresh take on their characters is actually their ‘number ones sell’ mantra. Having very, very good. Better artwork all round looked at the titles announced so far, I am and better stories. Something their movie less than impressed. Time will tell, I sup- division should pay attention to - good pose. I just really hope that they up the stories that is. Batman v Superman: Dawn artistic quality and get good writers. It is Of Justice failed ,as Suicide Squad is fail- as simple as that. 16 MARVEL’S MIGHTIEST VOL.68: 13 HACHETTE £9.99

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