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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 ETHER #1 Kindt, Rubin, Lemire A science-minded adventurer gets mixed up in the mysteries of a fantasy world in this charming new adventure from an award- winning creative team. Boone Dias is an interdimensional explorer, a scientist from Earth who has stumbled into great responsibility. He’s got an explanation for everything, so of course the Ether’s magical residents turn to him to solve their toughest crimes. But maybe keeping the real and the abstract separate is too big a job for just one man. From New York Times best-selling author Matt Kindt (MIND MGMT, Past Aways, Super Spy, Dept. H) with stunning artwork from David Rubín! In Shops: 16/11/2016 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - SEASON 11 #1 HELLBOY AND Gage, Isaacs, Morris THE BPRD - 1954: DARK Life is good for Buffy and the Scoobies with everyone finally finding a happy and THE UNREASONING calm place in their lives. But when a supernatural disaster wreaks havoc on their BEAST #1 Mignola, Roberson, Green, HORSE very existence, and the entire city of San Francisco, they are forced back into Huddleston NEW SERIES fighting form. An unusual ghost hunt leads Hellboy to a A N D O N E � S H O T S Rebekah Isaacs and Christos Gage return for Season 11! spectral monkey with a message for a grieving FOR NOVEMBER family. Catch “deleted scenes” on the variant covers from Rebekah Isaacs and Christos Joe Golem artist Patric Reynolds draws Hellboy! Gage! Special 30th anniversary variant by Fray artist Karl Moline! In Shops: 23/11/2016 In Shops: 23/11/2016 03 CATWOMAN: ELECTION NIGHT #1 Finch, Russell, Caldwell, Davis DC NEW SERIES AND ONE�SHOTS FOR NOVEMBER It’s mayoral election time in Gotham City, and while the city is up in arms, Catwoman couldn’t care less! But when the candidates get personal, the Feline Fatale decides to get involved-much to the detriment of...well, everyone! INJUSTICE - This issue contains a special bonus story featuring the return of GODS AMONG US: President Beth Ross from the critically acclaimed Prez miniseries. BATMAN YEAR FIVE In Shops: 02/11/2016 ANNUAL #1 ANNUAL #1 King, Snyder, Dini, Orlando, Buccellato, Miller, Wilson, Rossmo, Adams, Santucci, Xermanico, MOTHER PANIC #1 Finch Yardin Houser, Edwards “Silent Night”! A hush of winter snowfall has Catch up on three untold tales from the final Meet Violet Paige, a celebutante with a bad fallen over Gotham City... but a quiet night in year of Injustice: Gods Among Us. attitude and a temper to match, who no one this place is never truly quiet. Batman and his Harley Quinn goes to The Joker’s oldest hideout suspects of having anything lying beneath the allies-and his many foes-stalk the streets in this only to find a band of ex-Joker lackeys have surface of her outrageous exploits. But Violet icy showcase of top talent. taken up residence there. isn’t just another bored heiress in the upper In Shops: 30/11/2016 echelons of Gotham City’s elite. Motivated Ares returns from his imprisonment on Apokolips by her traumatic youth, Violet seeks to exact to try and win the favor of Superman’s regime, vengeance on her privileged peers as the but can anyone trust him? terrifying new vigilante known only as Mother Black Lightning-not seen since Year One- Panic. switches sides and takes a leadership role in In Shops: 09/11/2016 Superman’s plans to rebuild Metropolis. NEW TALENT In Shops: 30/11/2016 SHOWCASE #1 Ayala, Beeby, Jones, Khan, McMillian, Moreci, Schultz, Sebela, Smith, Liew, Messina, Randolph, Janson In this new one-shot, Wonder Woman unleashes her true god of war against a parade of monsters! Superman discovers a new threat that might SUPER POWERS #1 be bigger and badder than the joker himself! SUPERMAN Baltazar, Franco Hawkgirl solves crimes in the weird weapons ANNUAL #1 Aw yeah, the World’s Greatest Heroes are back unit for the GCPD! Carol Ferris and Kyle Rayner Tomasi, Gleason, Jimenez in a new, all-ages miniseries-except for Batman! fight about ice cream in space! “Earth To Earth, Ashes To Ashes”! Mr. Oz told Superman helps out by cleaning up in Gotham You’ll find all of this and so much more in Superman he was not what he thought. Now, City, where he discovers a clue that sends New Talent Showcase #1, where recent Swamp Thing comes hunting for the Man of Wonder Woman into space to find the Caped graduate writers from the inaugural DC Talent Steel to discover what strange connection this Crusader. Her journey brings her a step closer Development workshop showcase some of their new Superman has to the planet. But their to Batman, but can she uncover the truth behind strongest work yet! contact is something neither is prepared for, his disappearance? From the award-winning See what they’ve learned from masters of the leading to Kal-El battling the Earth elemental creative team that brought you Tiny Titans and craft Scott Snyder, Jim Lee and Klaus Janson. who wants to bury him! Superman Family Adventures! In Shops: 30/11/2016 In Shops: 30/11/2016 In Shops: 23/11/2016 04 IDW NEW SERIES AND ONE�SHOTS FOR NOVEMBER COMIC BOOK HISTORY OF COMICS #1 Van Lente, Dunlavey For the first time ever, the story of comics, graphic BATMAN / TMNT novels, and manga is presented in four-color glory! ADVENTURES #1 OPTIMUS PRIME #1 Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey turn their Manning, Sommariva Barber, Zama irreverent-but-accurate eye to the stories of Jack Kirby, R. Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Alan Moore, Stan When villains start to mysteriously escape Revolution is over-but the danger to Earth is Lee, Will Eisner, Fredric Wertham, Roy Lichtenstein, Arkham, Batman seeks to track them down. What just beginning. As Optimus Prime pulls Earth Art Spiegelman, Herge, Osamu Tezuka - and more! happens when he discovers that they have left into the larger universe, he’s painted a target on Gotham completely... and entered the TMNT’s Earth... and a new alien incursion begins when a In Shops: 23/11/2016 New York City? corkscrew shaped craft drills into our world! The animated worlds of the current TMNT The next evolution of Transformers is here as Nickelodeon cartoon and Batman: The Animated Optimus Prime’s past on Cybertron haunts his Series collide in this outstanding mini-series! present on Earth! The greatest all-ages crossover of all-time Artist Kei Zama (Scarlett Witch) makes her debut featuring villains and allies from both universes! with veteran writer John Barber (Transformers)! The influential Batman: The Animated Series In Shops: 16/11/2016 DONALD QUEST #1 returns to comics! Ambrosio, McGreal, In Shops: 09/11/2016 M.A.S.K.: Freccero MOBILE ARMORED STRIKE KOMMAND #1 In the steampunk warrior world of Feudarnia, only the Magnus Malleus can save humanity from Easton, Vargas, Edwards marauding Meteorbeasts! It’s an epic weapon for TRANSFORMERS - Launching from the events of Revolution! an epic hero... so why is it up to Donald Duck to MORE THAN MEETS grab it before Magica De Spell, the Beagle Boys, THE EYE: REVOLUTION The M.A.S.K. team streaks into a dangerous, unstable landscape and the Phantom Blot get there first? WYNONNA EARP In Shops: 30/11/2016 LEGENDS DOC #1 of dark wars, high intrigue and non-stop action where they’ll HOLLIDAY #1 Roberts, Roche, Milne encounter the nearly unstoppable threat of Miles Mayhem and Smith, Rozon, Evenhuis A date wth destiny! After years of doing very little, his black ops squadron known as V.E.N.O.M. Krok, Crankcase, Fulcrum, Spinister, and Misfire Wynonna Earp and Doc Holliday have faced off think they can wriggle out of anything-but not How will an untested Matt Trakker lead M.A.S.K. through a against demons and Revenants, but nothing even they can avoid a heavily-promoted multi- complex new world order where nothing is what it seems? can prepare them to square off against the franchise crossover. It’s the Scavengers Versus infamous Pinkertons. When Doc catches wind of Your Childhood in a story that exposes all other Join writer Brandon Easton (Marvel’s Agent Carter), artist Tony YAKUZA DEMON an abandoned stash of gold from a train robbery, art for the sham it is. he and Wynonna race to track it down before Vargas (Rot and Ruin) and cover artist Tommy Lee Edwards for KILLERS #1 Pinkerton agents get their hands on it.