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TITANS #1
A new team must rise and protect the Earth!
The Dark Crisis is over, and the Justice League is no more. Now, a new team must rise and protect the Earth...Titans, go! The Teen Titans are ready to grow up. Each member joined as a much younger hero, certain that one day they'd be invited to join the Justice League. But the time has come for them not to join the League...but to replace it! Are the no-longer-teen heroes ready for the big leagues? Danger lurks around every corner as heroes and villains alike challenge the new team before they’ve even begun. Will the DCU ever be the same? Find out in this landmark first issue brought you by the all-star creative team of Tom Taylor (Nightwing, DCeased) and Nicola Scott (Wonder Woman Historia, Earth 2)!
ARCADE KINGS #1 (OF 5)
IMAGE COMICS
(W/A/CA) Dylan Burnett
MINISERIES PREMIERE
ROUND ONE: FIGHT!
Writer and artist DYLAN BURNETT (Ant-Man, Cosmic Ghost Rider) unveils a new prestige comics series sensation, perfect for fans of INVINCIBLE and MURDER FALCON.
Joe, a mysterious new face in Infinity City, has suddenly become the hottest new player at the Round House Arcade. Anyone can challenge him, but no one can win.
But Joe's secret past is about to catch up to him when his most formidable challenge yet rolls into town, forcing Joe to combo his powers with a joystick, his fists...and his fighting family legacy!
ROUND ONE: FIGHT!
Writer and artist DYLAN BURNETT (Ant-Man, Cosmic Ghost Rider) unveils a new prestige comics series sensation, perfect for fans of INVINCIBLE and MURDER FALCON.
Joe, a mysterious new face in Infinity City, has suddenly become the hottest new player at the Round House Arcade. Anyone can challenge him, but no one can win.
But Joe's secret past is about to catch up to him when his most formidable challenge yet rolls into town, forcing Joe to combo his powers with a joystick, his fists...and his fighting family legacy!
AVENGERS #1
MARVEL PRH
(W) Jed MacKay (A) C.F. Villa (CA) Stuart Immonen
JED MACKAY AND STORMBREAKER C.F. VILLA TAKE THE REINS OF EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES!
The Star. The Icon. The Witch. The Construct. The God. The Engineer.
The King. The world is ever in peril, and a new team of Avengers
mobilizes to meet any dangers that dare threaten the planet. But when
TERMINUS attacks, a new and insidious danger rears its head: one that
the Avengers know all too well, and one that comes to them in the most
dangerous of guises - that of a friend.
BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #1
(W) Various (A) Various (CA) Simone Di Meo
Written by Tom King, Ed Brisson, Christopher Cantwell, and Dan Mora Art by Mitch Gerads, Jeff Spokes, Javier Rodriguez, and Dan Mora Coming off the spectacular success of Batman - One Bad Day: The Riddler, the Eisner Award-winning team of Tom King and Mitch Gerads reunite for a horrifying four-part retelling of the first bloody clash between The Joker and the Batman. A tale of loathing, lies, and laughter, this may be the most frightening Joker story in a generation. Everyone is going to be shocked. Everyone is going to be talking about it. The Justice League may be gone, but its enemies aren't. Who'll protect the world from the worst of the worst? Ed Brisson and Jeff Spokes pick up the story started in the Wildstorm 30th Anniversary Special as Director Bones and his new covert StormWatch team travel the globe on black-ops missions to take super-powered weapons of mass destruction off the board. But this is StormWatch, and as always, not all is as it seems. Down with the Kings starts here! Superstar artist Dan Mora (Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Detective Comics) makes his writing debut kicking off a new series of Batman Black & White short stories. In a Gotham City overrun by the cybernetic henchmen of The Joker, the only person who can save us is the mysterious motorcycle-riding, bat-costumed hero of urban legend... In The Order of the Black Lamp—Part I, from writer Christopher Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire co-creator, Briar, Iron Man) and artist Javier RodrÃguez (Daredevil, Defenders), Superman finds a decoder ring with a secret message— Save me —which sends him on a quest to solve a mystery with ties to the Man of Steel's past.
BLOOD LOVE GHOST AND A DEADLY SPELL #1
FAIRSQUARE COMICS LLC
(W/A/CA) Damian Connelly
Off of the huge
successes of his previous comics, You Promised me Darkness and Follow
me Into Darkness, here's a little gem Damian Connelly saved for last...
"Blood, Love, Ghosts, and a Deadly Spell" is a dark, atmospheric 64
page volume filled with horrific tales from the inimitable mind of
Damian Connelly, author of the best-selling hits "You Promised Me
Darkness" and "Follow Me into Darkness". The book contains four
never-seen-before self-contained horror short stories and an illustrated
poem that will terrify, unsettle, and astonish.
CAPABLE #1
ADVENT COMICS
(W) Jonathan Hedrick (A/CA) Gino Kasmyanto
Derik Davidson
is just an average high school kid. He's awkward, shy, bullied, and he
uses a wheelchair. But one day Derik suddenly has the ability to run
super-fast! What will Derik do with his new power and what happens when
more people wake up capable?
CYBORG #1 (OF 6)
(W) Morgan Hampton (A) Tom Raney (CA) Edwin Galmon
When a family emergency brings Cyborg back home to Detroit, Victor Stone surprisingly finds himself enjoying his return to the simpler life—where everybody sees him for who he really is and always was, rather than as a larger-than-life superhero. It's been a while since Vic's been able to lower his guard and seek a purpose outside of being Cyborg 24/7. But a lot has changed in Detroit while Victor's been away. An aggressive new company is turning the Motor City into an overclocked engine for revolutionary artificial intelligence...and no one knows better than Cyborg that technological transformation always comes at a steep human price! Milestone Initiative writer Morgan Hampton (DC Power: A Celebration) joins forces with veteran star artist Tom Raney (Green Lantern, Uncanny X-Men) to give Cyborg the Dawn of DC epic he deserves!
DANNY KETCH: GHOST RIDER #1 (OF 5)
MARVEL PRH
(W) Howard Mackie (A) Daniel Picciotto (CA) Ben Harvey
DANNY KETCH IS BACK!
Flashback to a time when innocent blood was spilled, a Spirit of Vengenace was born, and Danny Ketch found himself transformed into the GHOST RIDER! A gang war is breaking out across New York City, with Ghost Rider caught in the middle! But if it's just rival gangs killing each other, does Ghost Rider need to get involved?
Join us for an untold tale written by Danny Ketch co-creator HOWARD MACKIE and artist DANIEL PICCIOTTO!
Flashback to a time when innocent blood was spilled, a Spirit of Vengenace was born, and Danny Ketch found himself transformed into the GHOST RIDER! A gang war is breaking out across New York City, with Ghost Rider caught in the middle! But if it's just rival gangs killing each other, does Ghost Rider need to get involved?
Join us for an untold tale written by Danny Ketch co-creator HOWARD MACKIE and artist DANIEL PICCIOTTO!
Rated T+
DARK SPACES GOOD DEEDS #1
IDW-PRH
(W) Che Grayson (A/CA) Ramsay, Kelsey
Scott Snyder's Dark Spaces
anthology line returns with an all-new story and creative team! In
search of a fresh start, teenager Cheyenne Collins and her mother,
Rebecca, move to St. Augustine, Florida, where they cross paths with
Jean McKnight, a disgraced big-city journalist determined to pay her
dues and rebuild her career, starting with a fluff piece on the town's
upcoming 450th anniversary celebration.
When the quaint community's
festivities give way to bloodshed and Cheyenne is the sole witness, Jean
begins an investigation and the women find themselves at the heart of a
supernatural conspiracy linked to St. Augustine's colonial past.
Together, they vow to expose the town's historical sins, but the deeper
Jean digs, the less clear it becomes: Who is Cheyenne Collins, and when
does a quest for truth become a thirst for vengeance?
DISNEY VILLAINS MALEFICENT #1
DYNAMITE
(W/A) Soo Lee (CA) Jae Lee
Disney and
Dynamite proudly present Maleficent, Queen of the Forbidden Mountain!
Her realm is shrouded in darkness, and evil, and full of all things that
go bump in the night. Her soul is cold, hardened by a lifetime of
small-minded wanderers seeking to steal her powers to satisfy their
mortal greed. Her patience wears thin. Her mystical might grows. It is a
matter only of time before she descends the mountain and unleashes her
horrible magics upon the powerless people below. A stunning vision of
villainy from writer and artist Soo Lee!
ELVIRA IN MONSTERLAND #1
DYNAMITE
(W) David Avallone (A) Kewber Baal (CA) Dave Acosta
What's scarier
than Dracula? ALL THE DRACULAS! Vlad the Impaler is back, and he's
raiding the Multiverse of Movies to build a monster army and conquer the
world. And only one woman can stop him! Vampirella! But she's busy in
her own books... so it's up to Elvira, the Mistress of the Dark, and
bane of Vlad's existence, to stop his evil plan! It's monster movie
madness horror from writer David Avallone (Elvira in Horrorland, Bettie
Page: Unbound) and artist Kewber Bal (Vampirella, Red Rising, Red
Sonja).
FEARLESS DAWN THE BOMB #1 (OF 4)
ASYLUM PRESS
(W/A/CA) Steve Mannion
The origin of
Fearless Dawn is finally told! This is a great jumping on point for any
comic book fans who are not familiar with this funny, sexy, stumbling
super-heroine. Learn how the awkward Prissy Jones gets her super-powers
and how she creates her own costume of moose elks, action gloves and
whoop-ass utility belt!. Fearless Dawn comics have always been about
great art and fun frolics and this latest offering is no exception!
Artist/writer Steven Mannion whips up some of the craziest comic book
tales this side of The Goon and Mad Magazine, This comic was previously offered as the The Bomb TPB from 2010. New art and pages have been added, and previously published pages have been reworked.
GRIT N GEARS #1 (OF 7)
BLOOD MOON COMICS LLC
(W) Angel Fuentes (A/CA) Nahuel Sb
The wonders of
steampunk technology have reached the old west! It is 1879 and the world
is about to meet Ranger ONE, the first self-aware automaton programmed
to eradicate crime in the town of Steam's Eddy. But what happened in the
next few years that made the federal government ban the existence of
self-aware automatons? And whatever happened to the hero Ranger ONE?
There are whispers of a grifter automaton named Screw Driver who's
saving humans and automatons alike. He's a machine wanted by the
law-functional or dismantled.
HULK ANNUAL #1
MARVEL PRH
(W) David Pepose, Phillip Kennedy Johnson (A) Caio Majado, Travel Foreman (CA) Gary Frank
HULK VS. GIGANTO!
A documentary crew is on the hunt for a monster at the heart of a gamma radiation leak, but they get much more than they bargained for when they end up on Hulk's angry side - and caught in the middle of a brawl between two unstoppable giants, as Hulk battles an unleashed Giganto! Plus: A special preview, exclusive to this issue, of the shocking new direction Hulk is headed in this summer!
A documentary crew is on the hunt for a monster at the heart of a gamma radiation leak, but they get much more than they bargained for when they end up on Hulk's angry side - and caught in the middle of a brawl between two unstoppable giants, as Hulk battles an unleashed Giganto! Plus: A special preview, exclusive to this issue, of the shocking new direction Hulk is headed in this summer!
Rated T+
MISS TRUESDALE & THE FALL OF HYPERBOREA #1 (OF 4)
DARK HORSE COMICS
(W) Mike Mignola (A/CA) Jesse Lonergan
One of the last
followers of a failing Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra, the unassuming Miss
Truesdale, finds herself on the receiving end of Brotherhood leader
Tefnut Trionus's final vision. Connecting her life in Victorian London
to a young gladiator's in ancient Hyperborea, Truesdale discovers she
now has the chance to change the future by altering the bygone past.
Mike Mignola, creator of the Hellboy Universe and artist Jesse Lonergan team up tell an all new, supernatural-horror tale.
o Award-winning creator Mike Mignola with acclaimed artist Jesse Lonergan!
Mike Mignola, creator of the Hellboy Universe and artist Jesse Lonergan team up tell an all new, supernatural-horror tale.
o Award-winning creator Mike Mignola with acclaimed artist Jesse Lonergan!
o The beginning of a new Mignolaverse series!
NBX BATTLE FOR PUMPKIN KING #1 (OF 5)
TOKYOPOP
(W) Shaun McLaughlin & Various (A) Deborah Allo
How did Jack Skellington become the Pumpkin King?
Explore Jack and Oogie Boogie's early days in Halloween Town and learn how their inseparable friendship turns sour as they battle to become the next Pumpkin King. Discover the mastermind who's pulling the strings, and relive the fantastic world of The Nightmare Before Christmas in this new manga-inspired adaptation!
Explore Jack and Oogie Boogie's early days in Halloween Town and learn how their inseparable friendship turns sour as they battle to become the next Pumpkin King. Discover the mastermind who's pulling the strings, and relive the fantastic world of The Nightmare Before Christmas in this new manga-inspired adaptation!
RED ROOM CRYPTO KILLAZ #1
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
(W/A/CA) Ed Piskor
The media won't
leave Brianna Fairfield alone since her father was arrested and
identified as the Steel City Cannibal. But what more sinister forces are
also following her? Mistress Pentagram and the Red Room Players return
in this all-new, four-issue miniseries from Ed Piskor (X-Men: Grand
Design)! Splatterpunk never looked so good! As seen on YouTube's
Cartoonist Kayfabe!
RICK AND MORTY PRESENTS MAXIMUM OVERTURE #1
ONI PRESS INC.
(W) Jarrett Williams (A) Leonardo Ito, Crank! (CA) Jarrett Williams, Andrew Dalhouse
Rick and Morty
find themselves in the mad composer's clutches and must weather
Concerto's orchestral onslaught while trying to figure out what any of
this have to do with Rick. Can they survive this macabre musical death
race, or will Concerto compose the Rick and Morty Requiem?
STAR TREK ECHOES #1
IDW-PRH
(W) Marc Guggenheim (A) Chudakov, Oleg (CA) Jake Bartok
From critically
acclaimed screenwriter, producer, and comics writer Marc Guggenheim
comes a brand-new miniseries detailing a never-before-seen adventure
from Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise! When a
space anomaly thrusts a bounty hunter and her target-a criminal
mastermind-into their universe, it's up to Kirk and his crew to stop
them from unintentionally starting a war with the Romulans and
unleashing a superweapon of foreign tech onto the system. But the
strangers from another universe are more familiar than they assume for
underneath their helmets are their doppelgangers from an alternate
reality!
TITANS #1
(W) Tom Taylor (A/CA) Nicola Scott
The Dark Crisis is over, and the Justice League is no more. Now, a new team must rise and protect the Earth...Titans, go! The Teen Titans are ready to grow up. Each member joined as a much younger hero, certain that one day they'd be invited to join the Justice League. But the time has come for them not to join the League...but to replace it! Are the no-longer-teen heroes ready for the big leagues? Danger lurks around every corner as heroes and villains alike challenge the new team before they’ve even begun. Will the DCU ever be the same? Find out in this landmark first issue brought you by the all-star creative team of Tom Taylor (Nightwing, DCeased) and Nicola Scott (Wonder Woman Historia, Earth 2)!
TOMORROW GIRL #1
ANTARCTIC PRESS
(W) Ben Dunn, David Furr (A) Ben Dunn, Shigara (CA) Ben Dunn, David Hutchison
At long last,
the heroine of Quagmire High School has her own series! In this
exciting debut, Tomorrow Girl finds herself in a dystopian world where
somewhere in the past, a superhero from the Golden Age went evil! Now
she must travel to the past to confront this hero and make things right
for her world. But will she be able to defeat a being whose powers are
every bit as mighty as her own?
VIGIL #1 (OF 6)
(W) Ram V (A) Lalit Kumar Sharma (CA) Sumit Kumar
/.../ /Who Are The Vigil? The shipping vessel Eastwind was taken captive by pirates off the coast of Thailand. 24 hours after the crew had been taken hostage, before communications had been established or any demands made, the crew reported an intervention by a group of unknown individuals. Amid other bizarre claims by the crew, are reports of an individual who changed his appearance at will and a woman who seemingly dodged bullets. Once the pirates were taken out, no attempts were made at rescuing the crew. There have long been rumors rogue metahumans targeting weaponized illegal technology. With some hinting that they call themselves The Vigil. What were they after? Why did they intervene? Are there metas among us? Stay tuned for more/ /.../ /you are being watched./
VIOLET DESCENDS #1 (OF 5)
BLOOD MOON COMICS LLC
(W) Angel Fuentes (A/CA) Ivonne Falcon
Seven
archangels guide the fate of humanity: the angels of life, death,
miracles, nature, technology, freedom, and emotions. When the angel
Violet abandons her sacred duties as shepherd of humanity's emotions,
the world is suddenly thrown into a hellish apocalypse event. Violet is
punished for her actions and bonded to a human named Ruth who helps her
uncover a demonic plot to bring upon the end of the world. One by one,
the seven archangels fall prey to attacks from the Deadly Seven, a group
of powerful arch-demons that personify each of the seven deadly sins.
With the impending destruction of humanity growing near, Violet and her
human friend are tested as they must rely solely on one another to
rescue the rest of the archangels while uncovering a secret conspiracy
that dates all the way back to Earth's creation.
X-MEN 1991 #1 FACSIMILE EDITION GATEFOLD
MARVEL PRH
(W) Chris Claremont, Jim Lee (A/CA) Jim Lee
Another chance to buy the best-selling comic book of all time - one that ushered in a new era of X-Men greatness! In 1991, history was made when superstar creators Chris Claremont and Jim Lee launched a second ongoing title for Marvel's premier mutant super-group - and the inaugural issue featured an all-star lineup, separated into Cyclops' Blue team and Storm's Gold team, for an action-packed showdown against their archenemy, Magneto, and his fanatical Acolytes! Featuring fan-favorite characters looking better than ever in bold new costumes that helped define a decade, it's no wonder the "adjectiveless" X-MEN #1 sold an incredible eight million copies! It's one of the all-time great Marvel comic books, boldly re-presented in its original deluxe-edition form, packed with pinups and an iconic wraparound cover! Reprinting X-MEN (1991) #1.
Rated T
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