X-Men: Messiah Complex (one-shot) Batman & The Outsiders (ongoing series) Superstars Ed Brubaker (UNCANNY X-MEN, CAPTAIN AMERICA) and Marc Silvestri The rules have changed all over the DC Universe — but for the Outsiders, they’re still (UNCANNY X-MEN, NEW X-MEN) bring you the first chapter of the story that fans will just things that were made to be broken! It’s a fresh game of dirty pool for the Outsiders be talking about for years. Just when it looked like there was no possibility of a future as the Dark Knight sends his new team to the frontlines of a massive assault on meta- for mutants, hope arrives. But the X-Men aren’t there to meet it—The Marauders and humans. Batman and the Outsiders must fight even dirtier than their enemies...and risk Purifiers beat them to it. Now the race is on to get the first new mutant since HOUSE becoming the supervillains they despise! OF M! The story that begins here continues through all the X-Men books. Don’t miss it! Marvel Zombies 2 (5 issues) Green Arrow/Black Canary (ongoing series) Are you ready for Marvel Zombies Civil War? Forty years have passed and the zombies The new Green Arrow/Black Canary team investigates the shocking results of the Wed- have come back home after eating just about everything else in the universe. Yum ding of the Century in an all-new adventure that brings the Star City-crossed lovers yum! What awaits them back on Earth, though, is beyond anything even these sham- together! From Judd Winnick (GREEN ARROW) and Cliff Chiang (DR. THIRTEEN). bling monstrosities could have conceived! They’re back and more stomach-churning than ever! The smash hit series is back, daring to ask: "Whose stomach are you in?" What If? Planet Hulk (one-shot) Countdown: Lord Havok & Extremists (6 issues) What if the Hulk had landed on the peaceful planet the Marvel heroes originally intended? Lord Havok! Dr. Diehard! Tracer! Gorgon! Dreamslayer! Carny! Meet these dangerous What if Banner had landed on Sakaar instead of the Hulk? And what if the Hulk's warrior individuals and learn why they are so integral to COUNTDOWN and the fate of the bride Caiera the Oldstrong had come to Earth seeking vengeance instead of her hus- Multiverse! Guest-starring Monarch, the Monitors, Donna Troy, Jason Todd and Kyle band? Get ready for three shocking tales of what could have been from the writer of the Rayner! All the exclamation marks you can eat! And one more! Here’s another! Bye! "Planet Hulk" and "World War Hulk" epics. Omega The Unknown (10 issues) Death of The New Gods (8 issues) Created in 1975 by Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes, the original Omega The Unknown The title says it all! For months now readers have witnessed the unimaginable and lasted only ten issues but was a legend to those who recall it -- an ahead-of-its-time tale unthinkable as New Gods across the DCU have seemingly died, with Lightray’s death of an anti-hero, inflected with brilliant ambiguity. One of Omega's teenage fans was in COUNTDOWN the biggest of them all. Now, the carnage continues but the mystery award-winning novelist Jonathan Lethem, who has used the original as a springboard and adventure is just beginning! Jim Starlin — master of the cosmic odyssey — writes for a superbly strange, funny, and moving graphic novel in ten chapters. and illustrates this epic tale of death and destruction on a scale never seen before. Mythos: Fantastic Four (one-shot) Crime Bible (5 issues) The prestigious Mythos format returns as we find out how Marvel’s First Family be- A Monk of the Dark Faith is moving through the DCU, seeding evil in his wake, as he came the team they are today! Paul Jenkins tells the tale while Paolo Rivera delivers prepares for a final, potentially devastating act. Trailing him is The Question, who the beautiful fully painted origin of the FANTASTIC FOUR! seeks to save the life of the author of a best-selling expose about the Dark Faith. But is The Question simply playing a part in a much larger game? All will be revealed when The Lesson of Deceit is foretold. Foolkiller (5 issues) Captain Carrot & the Final Ark (3 issues) Los Angeles Times best-selling author Gregg Hurwitz (The Crime Writer) and Lan The Zoo Crew is back in a 3-issue COUNTDOWN tie-in miniseries! Captain Carrot Medina (Punisher) bring you a gritty, no-holds barred crime thriller! Move over Frank reunites the team to face a threat that begins at the “Sandy Eggo Comic-Con” and Castle, there’s a new vigilante in town. When the Foolkiller strikes, the punishment fits quickly menaces the entire world ! The gang’s all here: Fastback, Pig-Iron, Yankee the crime. It’s a grand display for all to see, the truth in all its brutal glory, our hidden Poodle, American Eagle, Alley-Kat-Abra, and the Captain himself, taking on the Sala- secrets gutted and turned inside out for the front pages. mandroid! Howard The Duck (4 issues) Metamorpho: Year One (6 issues) Grab your guns and camcorders and start shooting, it's DUCK SEASON! Marvel's Adventurer Rex Mason is a star — as the host of the reality series Treasure Quest, he favorite furious fowl, Howard, and his faithful friend with benefits, Beverly, begin their travels the world on the hunt for the world’s hidden riches, and it’s all to help line the journey to destroy the internet, radio and television, in this all new mini-series by Ty pockets of one of the world’s richest men: Simon Stagg. When Mason’s latest quest (She-Hulk) Templeton and Juan (She-Hulk) Bobillo. leads him to Egypt to recover the mysterious Orb of Ra, his life will be forever changed. What other surprises are in store? Find out in Metamorpho Year One! (8 issues) X-Men: Die By The Sword (5 issues) Gotham Underground This 8-part epic explores the underbelly of the DC Universe and ties in to COUNT- Psylocke’s reunion with her brother, Captain Britain, takes a turn for the worst when the DOWN! Frank Tieri and COUNTDOWN’s J. Calafiore team up to deliver an action- diabolic minds of several of Excalibur’s greatest foes decide that one world is not enough packed tale that features Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Batwoman and just about every to conquer. The Exiles and Excalibur must join forces to save crosstime before all of other Gotham guest-star imaginable. As more and more evildoers seemingly disappear creation is destroyed! into thin air, Gotham City finds itself in the midst of a villainous vacuum. Who will rise to commandeer the remainder of Gotham’s rogues? DC Infinite Halloween Special (one-shot) Don’t miss this collection of 13 stories of tricks and treats by some of comics’ top creators, including writers Steve Niles, Mark Waid, Peter Johnson (TV’s Supernatural), David Arquette (Scream), and many more with art by Ian Churchill, Bernard Chang and others! The inmates of Arkham horrify each other with terrifying tales involving Super- man and zombies, Batman and vampires, Robin and werewolves, Aquaman and witches, Flash and the dead, and more! Plus, the return of Resurrection Man! Simon Dark (ongoing series) Gotham City has another guardian, a protector known only in whispers and children’s jump rope songs — and he’s not afraid to get his hands bloody! Meet Simon Dark, the mysterious creature of the night who’s the star of a new ongoing series by the creative team behind the acclaimed GOTHAM COUNTY LINE — writer Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) and artist Scott Hampton (BATMAN: NIGHT CRIES)! Authority: Prime (6 issues) Fan-favorite creators Christos Gage (StormWatch: PHD) and Darick Robertson (THE BOYS) bring their incredible talents to The Authority! Will the Authority’s desire to build a “finer world” come into conflict with StormWatch’s goal of protecting humanity from the super-humans of the world? You bet it will! Trick ’R Treat (4 issues) In the best tradition of horror comics comes Trick ’r Treat, a 4-issue, weekly shipping miniseries based on the major motion picture written and directed by Michael Dougherty (co-writer of Superman Returns and X-Men 2), produced by Bryan Singer, and starring Dylan Baker, Brian Cox, and Anna Paquin. Each issue presents a vignette and weaves together four tales of terror and laughter as we witness a sleepy suburban neighbor- hood’s transformation into a Halloween horror! .