Sollicitations Décembre 2015 : Image Comics

Et voici les sollicitations de décembre prochain pour Image Comics ! des sollicitations assez surprenantes pour qui les suit de manière régulière, en raison du peu de nouveautés annoncées.

Nous sommes en effet habitués à voir au moins 5 à 6 nouveaux titres débarquer, et là à peine 2 et pas vraiment mis en avant puisqu’il faut aller les chercher tout au fond à droite près des toilettes…

Je ne m’en plains pas car je commence à trouver que Image lance beaucoup de choses mais ne soutient guère sur la longueur et qu’à part de rares exceptions qui trouvent une base de lecteurs suffisante, beaucoup de séries meurent au champs d’honneur dans l’anonymat le plus complet…

Être innovant, c’est bien, mais il y a aussi beaucoup de pertes…Bon sinon comme d’habitude, les louages habituelles pour les séries de l’éditeur que nous suivons tous avec un appétit sans borne, et je peux le dire d’autant plus que je suis très peu attiré par les programmes des deux “grands” éditeurs dans les prochains mois…

 

 

8HOUSE #7: MIRROR PART 2 (OF 4)
STORY: EMMA RÍOS
ART / COVER: HWEI LIM
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
A rebellious man-made child returns home to take a dangerous gamble in the colony’s darker days.

IXth GENERATION #8
STORY: MATT HAWKINS
ART / COVER B: ATILIO ROJO
COVER A: STJEPAN SEJIC
DECEMBER 23 / 40 PAGES / FC / T+ / $4.99
SERIES CONCLUSION
The final issue of the IXTH GENERATION hits shelves in this oversized story. Will the future come to an end?

ASTRONAUTS IN TROUBLE #7
STORY: LARRY YOUNG
ART / COVER: CHARLIE ADLARD
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / BW / T / $3.99
Meanwhile, back on the moon… Hayes reveals himself to be a Lex Luthor-level bad guy.

THE AUTUMNLANDS #8
STORY: KURT BUSIEK
ART / COVER: BENJAMIN DEWEY
DECEMBER 9 / 24 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
Our heroes meet a god. Maybe. And goats, definitely. Definitely goats.

AXCEND #3
STORY: SHANE DAVIS
ART / COVERS A & B: SHANE DAVIS, MICHELLE DELECKI, & MORRY HOLLOWELL
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Everything is RUIN.

THE BEAUTY #5
STORY: JEREMY HAUN & JASON A. HURLEY
ART / COVER A: JEREMY HAUN
COVER B: MIKE HUDDLESTON
COVER C: MIKE TISSERAND
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Everybody dies sometime. Might as well look good doing it…

BIRTHRIGHT #12
STORY: JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
ART / COVER A: ANDREI BRESSAN & ADRIANO LUCAS
COVER B: BENJAMIN DEWEY
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $2.99
As Mikey and Brennan track the next mage to Seattle, Wendy and Aaron make their own deals to try to save their sons.
Plus, a new “Hero’s Journey” variant by BENJAMIN DEWEY (THE AUTUMNLANDS)!

BLACK JACK KETCHUM #1 (OF 4)
STORY: BRIAN SCHIRMER
ART: CLAUDIA BALBONI
COVER: JEREMY SALIBA
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $3.99
In a dreamlike version of the Old West, Tom Ketchum struggles to clear his name — and stay alive — when he’s mistaken for wanton outlaw “Black Jack” Ketchum. With the aid of his talking sidearm, a secretive gambler, and a mute girl with a Winchester, Tom evades the mysterious Union and its supernatural enforcers, the faceless Dusters, as he’s forced to question his identity, his sanity, and his very existence.

BLACK MAGICK #3
STORY: GREG RUCKA
ART / COVER A: NICOLA SCOTT
COVER B: AFUA RICHARDSON
DECEMBER 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
BOOK 1: “AWAKENING,” Part Three. The threat begins to reveal itself. Rowan casts twice.

BLACK SCIENCE #18
STORY: RICK REMENDER
ART / COVER: MATTEO SCALERA
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
The last surviving Dimensionaut delves deeper into the beating heart of the Godworld to uncover the secrets of the Eververse, and a lurking shadow of his own past.

BLOODSTRIKE #4
STORY / ART / COVER A: ROB LIEFELD
COVER B: ROB LIEFELD & KARL ALTSTAETTER
DECEMBER 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
BLACKSTRIKE! The Bloodstrike agents are confronted by an ominous figure from the past, a figure that threatens to expose the darkest secrets of Project Born Again.

CHEW #53
STORY: JOHN LAYMAN
ART / COVER: ROB GUILLORY
DECEMBER 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Questions. Answers. Dinosaurs.

CHEW OMNIVORE EDITION, VOL. 5 HC
STORY: JOHN LAYMAN
ART / COVER: ROB GUILLORY
DECEMBER 2 / 296 PAGES / FC / M / $34.99
This gorgeous oversized edition collects the ninth and tenth storylines of the New York Times bestselling, Harvey and multiple Eisner Award series, as well as the beloved one-shot CHEW: WARRIOR CHICKEN POYO.
Collects CHEW #41-50 plus WARRIOR CHICKEN POYO

CITIZEN JACK #2
STORY: SAM HUMPHRIES
ART / COVER A: TOMMY PATTERSON
COVER B: MING DOYLE
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
America meets Jack, as his demon plays a lethal game.

CODENAME BABOUSHKA: THE CONCLAVE OF DEATH #3
STORY: ANTONY JOHNSTON
ART / COVER A: SHARI CHANKHAMMA
COVER B: ANNIE WU
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
On the run and under siege! The odds are stacked against Baboushka, but there’s more to this situation than mere piracy — and she’s about to find out who she can really trust…!

THE COVENANT #5
STORY / COVER A: ROB LIEFELD
ART / COVER B: MATT HORAK
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
Samuel and his daring band of men in a final showdown to claim the Ark or lose it forever!

DARK CORRIDOR #5
STORY / ART / COVER: RICH TOMMASO
DECEMBER 2 / 24 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
Pete catches up with Mia’s mystery girl. Also, Rosemary’s revenge.

DEADLY CLASS #17
STORY: RICK REMENDER
ART / COVER: WES CRAIG
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
NEW STORY ARC
The Kings Dominion school grounds become a killing field, and Marcus Lopez is hunted by his classmates for their final exam. Onetime friends and lovers become hunters in the dark, brandishing blades, bullets, and a burning desire to become best in class.
Sign up with RICK REMENDER (BLACK SCIENCE, TOKYO GHOST), WES CRAIG (BLACK HAND COMICS), and JORDAN BOYD (INVISIBLE REPUBLIC, Planet Hulk) for the bloodiest year of DEADLY CLASS yet!

DESCENDER #8
STORY: JEFF LEMIRE
ART / COVER: DUSTIN NGUYEN
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $2.99
Bestselling creators JEFF LEMIRE and DUSTIN NGUYEN launch their sci-fi epic into bold new territory. TIM-21 and his companions are taken to the mind bending home world of the Robot resistance while a long lost figure from Tim’s past emerges, but will he be friend or foe?

EAST OF WEST #24
STORY: JONATHAN HICKMAN
ART / COVER: NICK DRAGOTTA
DECEMBER 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.50
Old friends reappear in EAST OF WEST #24.

THE FADE OUT #12 (OF 12)
STORY: ED BRUBAKER
ART / COVER: SEAN PHILLIPS & ELIZABETH BREITWEISER
DECEMBER 16 / 40 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
SERIES CONCLUSION
It all ends here! The dramatic wrap-up to the mystery and to Brubaker and Phillips’ bestselling and most ambitious project yet!

FASTER THAN LIGHT #4
STORY / ART / COVER: BRIAN HABERLIN
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $2.99
AUGMENTED REALITY ENHANCED
Meet The Neighbors.
What happens when you meet a highly advanced species to form a new alliance, BUT you can’t even stand to look at them? Also, Forest must root out the truth when a collection of space vagabonds try to sell him their home planet.

FROM UNDER MOUNTAINS #3
STORY: CLAIRE GIBSON & MARIAN CHURCHLAND
ART: SLOANE LEONG
COVER: MARIAN CHURCHLAND
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
SLOANE LEONG (Adventure Time), CLAIRE GIBSON and MARIAN CHURCHLAND
(8HOUSE: ARCLIGHT) return with another issue of the magic war between families.

THE GODDAMNED #2
STORY: JASON AARON
ART / COVER: R.M. GUÉRA
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
“And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” — Genesis 6:6

HEAD LOPPER #2: INTO THE SILENT WOOD
STORY / ART / COVER: ANDREW MacLEAN
COVER B: MIKE & LAURA ALLRED
DECEMBER 9 / 56 PAGES / FC / T+ / $5.99
Norgal and Agatha pass through a dark forest with a particularly grim history, where they meet a strange little creature named Gnym. Is he a friend? Or does he just want to see undead giants squish the Head Lopper to meat-jelly? All this… and more!

HUCK #2
STORY: MARK MILLAR
ART / COVERS A & B: RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $3.50
Now under media scrutiny, Huck sets out to help the flood of strangers coming to him in need.

THE HUMANS #10
STORY: KEENAN MARSHALL KELLER
ART / COVER: TOM NEELY
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
The Humans‘ quest for vengeance comes to its violent and bloody conclusion as Johnny and the crew overtake Flex Trucking.
Issue 10 concludes the first THE HUMANS miniseries. THE HUMANS will return in 2016.

I HATE FAIRYLAND #3
STORY / ART / COVERS A & B: SKOTTIE YOUNG
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Queen Cloudia is forced to bend the rules of Fairyland in hopes to rid their world of Gert once and for all.

IMAGE GIANT-SIZED ARTIST’S PROOF EDITION: WYTCHES #1
STORY: SCOTT SNYDER
ART / COVER: JOCK
DECEMBER 30 / 40 PAGES / BW / M / $24.99
The all-new IMAGE GIANT SIZED ARTIST’S PROOF EDITION series presents special artist achievements in their raw form in an oversized format. JOCK’s gruesomely gorgeous line work from WYTCHES #1 is presented here in glorious black and white inks, free of grey tones, at 11×17.

INVINCIBLE #126
STORY: ROBERT KIRKMAN
ART: RYAN OTTLEY, CLIFF RATHBURN, & JEAN-FRANCOIS BEAULIEU
COVER: RYAN OTTLEY & JEAN-FRANCOIS BEAULIEU
DECEMBER 16 / 24 PAGES / FC / T+ / $2.99
“REBOOT?” part three! CONCLUSION! Invincible’s world comes crashing down around him leaving him with the same question we all have… where do we go from here?

INVISIBLE REPUBLIC #9
STORY: GABRIEL HARDMAN & CORINNA BECHKO
ART: GABRIEL HARDMAN & JORDAN BOYD
COVER: GABRIEL HARDMAN
DECEMBER 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
The key to the past is literally a key. It’ll take a zero G heist to unlock it.

ISLAND MAGAZINE #5
STORY / ART: BRANDON GRAHAM, MATT SHEEAN, MALACHI WARD, SIMON ROY, & JOHNNIE CHRISTMAS
COVER: AMY CLAIRE
DECEMBER 16 / 112 PAGES / FC / M / $7.99
Stories of space cannibalism, future tech dependency, and volcano gods along with articles and illustration in this monthly oversized comics magazine.

JUPITER’S CIRCLE, VOL. 2 #2 (OF 6)
STORY: MARK MILLAR
ART: WILFREDO TORRES
COVER A: BILL SIENKIEWICZ
COVER B: FRANK QUITELY
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Disillusioned Skyfox tunes out with the Beat Generation, while his former teammates struggle to face social unrest.

LIMBO #2 (OF 4)
STORY: DAN WATTERS
ART / COVER: CASPAR WIJNGAARD
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
Our detective’s open and shut case takes a turn for the surreal as he discovers that in Dedande City even watching television can be deadly. Join us on a cathode ray fuelled nightmare to the centre of the televerse.
We’re through the static now…

MATERIAL #7
STORY: ALES KOT
ART: WILL TEMPEST
COVER: TOM MULLER
DECEMBER 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Cam porn, comics, gender, fracking.

MYTHIC #7
STORY: PHIL HESTER
ART / COVER A: JOHN McCREA
COVER B: GENE HA
DECEMBER 30 / 24 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
After being fired by Mythic, Nate experiences the chaos of Ragnarok as a helpless civilian.

MONSTRESS #2
STORY: MARJORIE LIU
ART / COVER: SANA TAKEDA
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Maika fights to cross the wall.

NAILBITER #18
STORY: JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
ART / COVER: MIKE HENDERSON
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
There is a new serial killer in Georgia and catching it might mean selling your soul to the Devil.

NO MERCY #5
STORY: ALEX DE CAMPI
ART: CARLA SPEED McNEIL & JENN MANLEY LEE
COVER: CARLA SPEED McNEIL
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
NEW STORY ARC
Gina finds her spirit animal. The new arc of ALEX DE CAMPI (Archie vs. Predator) and CARLA SPEED McNEIL’s (Finder) acclaimed teen survival series begins here!

ODY-C #10
STORY: MATT FRACTION
ART / COVER: CHRISTIAN WARD
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
Ene fights a monolithic beast on the outskirts of space and time as He-of-Troiia tells stories in the mad hope to save his life.

OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #14
STORY: ROBERT KIRKMAN
ART / COVER: PAUL AZACETA & ELIZABETH BREITWEISER
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
Get behind me Satan.

PAPER GIRLS #3
STORY: BRIAN K. VAUGHAN
ART: CLIFF CHIANG & MATT WILSON
COVER: CLIFF CHIANG
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $2.99
The ongoing mystery series from BRIAN K. VAUGHAN & CLIFF CHIANG charges ahead, as the girls have a close encounter with an unexpected visitor.

PHONOGRAM: THE IMMATERIAL GIRL #5 (OF 6)
STORY: KIERON GILLEN
ART: JAMIE McKELVIE & MATT WILSON
COVER: JAMIE McKELVIE
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
David Kohl. Kid-with-Knife. An Army Surplus Land Rover. An impossible mission to save a friend. It’s like 2006 again. Nothing’s changed. Except everything has, as PHONOGRAM: THE IMMATERIAL GIRL reveals while it builds towards its climax…

PLUTONA #4 (OF 5)
STORY: JEFF LEMIRE & EMI LENOX
ART: EMI LENOX & JEFF LEMIRE
COVER: EMI LENOX
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $2.99
Mie begins to suspect that one of her friends may have broken their pact to keep Plutona’s body a secret, but nothing can prepare her for what she finds next. The penultimate chapter in the breakout hit by JEFF LEMIRE and EMI LENOX.

PRETTY DEADLY #7
STORY: KELLY SUE DeCONNICK
ART / COVER: EMMA RÍOS
DECEMBER 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Deathface Ginny and Big Alice take on the Reaper of War.

RINGSIDE #2
STORY: JOE KEATINGE
ART / COVER: NICK BARBER & SIMON GOUGH
DECEMBER 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
Fact vs. Fiction.

RUMBLE #10
STORY: JOHN ARCUDI
ART / COVER: JAMES HARREN
DECEMBER 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Wrapping up the second big RUMBLE arc with battles, rescues, betrayals, and one hell of a last page!

SAGA #32
STORY: BRIAN K. VAUGHAN
ART / COVER: FIONA STAPLES
DECEMBER 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
Marko and Alana learn something.

SAINTS #3
STORY: SEAN LEWIS
ART / COVER: BENJAMIN MACKEY
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
So it’s issue three of this Crusade you want to know about? Our Saints march on in their battle with teen runaway (and telekinetic) Saint Stephen. At the same time the Archangel Michael’s soldiers on Earth continue to sacrifice the anointed. Slush puppies, talking religious paintings, and murderous rednecks abound in the third installment of Image’s new ongoing series!

SAVAGE DRAGON #210
STORY / ART / COVER: ERIK LARSEN
DECEMBER 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
Trouble in paradise. Malcolm and Maxine on their honeymoon in hell.

SIDEKICK #12
STORY: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
ART / COVER A: TOM MANDRAKE & HIFI
COVER B: BEN TEMPLESMITH
DECEMBER 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
The culmination of Barry Chase’s story ends with more revelations about his dark past, and an even darker future. With power beyond his wildest dreams at his disposal, will Barry turn back toward the path of light, or turn into the greatest menace humanity has ever known?

SOUTHERN BASTARDS #13
STORY: JASON AARON
ART / COVER: JASON LATOUR
DECEMBER 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Coach Boss’s Running Rebs face off against their sworn enemy from Wetumpka in the most important game in Craw County history.

SPAWN #259
STORY: TODD McFARLANE
ART / COVER A: TODD McFARLANE & FRIENDS
COVER B: GERARDO SANDOVAL (PENCILS) & TODD McFARLANE (INKS)
DECEMBER 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $2.99
BEGINNING “THE SATAN SAGA WARS!” — THE FOUR-PART STORY CHRONICLING THE FINAL FATE OF WANDA SIMMONS’ SOUL! THIS STORY WILL FOREVER CHANGE THE WAY SPAWN WILL LIVE HIS LIFE!
In the entire run of the SPAWN comic, our hero has never had to face his greatest threat: Satan himself!
Starting with this issue, Al Simmons will come face to face with Lucifer for the very first time. A battle of epic proportion will begin and the prize is… Wanda’s soul.
This story will forever change the way Spawn will live his life. Join us on this historic odyssey as Spawn takes on the Evil entity that gave him his powers way back in issue #1.

STRAY BULLETS: SUNSHINE AND ROSES #11
STORY / ART / COVER: DAVID LAPHAM
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / BW / M / $3.99
Three days from pulling off the crime of the century, Beth must confront the realization that she’s about to get everyone she’s ever loved killed…

SUNSTONE, VOL. 4 OGN
STORY / ART / COVER: STJEPAN SEJIC
DECEMBER 30 / 200 PAGES / FC / M / $14.99
Meet a girl online: check!
Befriend and flirt for two months online: check!
Know her in person for two weeks: check!
Move in together!
Well…this can only end well!
This is the big one, people! In fact, it’s so big we had to up the page count!

SWITCH #3
STORY / ART / COVER A: STJEPAN SEJIC
COVER B: LINDA SEJIC
INCENTIVE COVER C: STJEPAN SEJIC
DECEMBER 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $3.99
Mary finally learns what the Witchblade’s world is all about as she gets pulled to the other side where she has both friends and enemies…if only she know who was which!

SYMMETRY #1
STORY: MATT HAWKINS
ART / COVERS A, B, & C: RAFFAELE IENCO
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
Utopia is here. Hunger, sickness, work…all relics of a long forgotten past. For the greater good of the human species, all individuality, creativity, and negative emotions have been genetically bred out and medically suppressed. The population is limited to segregated areas where people lead long lives of leisure, games, and socializing. Only one man and one woman seem to notice, care, or think differently. Once they find each other, their relationship sparks a revolution…but will their love cause the salvation or destruction of mankind?

THEY’RE NOT LIKE US #11
STORY: ERIC STEPHENSON
ART: SIMON GANE
COVER: SIMON GANE & JORDIE BELLAIRE
DECEMBER 23 / 24 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
“EVERYTHING HAS A PRICE TO PAY”

TOKYO GHOST #4
STORY: RICK REMENDER
ART: SEAN MURPHY
COVER A: SEAN MURPHY & MATT HOLLINGSWORTH
COVER B: SEAN MURPHY & DAVE McCAIG
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
Life in paradise is cut short for Led and Debbie, as a snake from their past seeks vengeance on the Constable.

THE VIOLENT #1
STORY: ED BRISSON
ART / COVER: ADAM GORHAM
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $2.99
From ED BRISSON (SHELTERED) and ADAM GORHAM (Dead Drop) comes an all-new, ongoing series. Meet Mason, an ex-con and former drug addict who’s trying hard to give up his old life. He’s got more important things to live for now: a wife struggling to contain her own addiction and a young daughter who needs them both. When threatened with losing his daughter, Mason falls into old habits, stumbling through a string of desperate criminal acts whose repercussions quickly become deadly serious.

THE WALKING DEAD #149
STORY: ROBERT KIRKMAN
ART: CHARLIE ADLARD, STEFANO GAUDIANO, & CLIFF RATHBURN
COVER: CHARLIE ADLARD & DAVE STEWART
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / BW / M / $2.99
The devil on your shoulder.

WAYWARD #12
STORY: JIM ZUB
ART / COVER A: STEVEN CUMMINGS & TAMRA BONVILLAIN
COVER B: VIVIAN NG
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
No more hiding. The new gods of Japan are on the attack and Tokyo is caught in the middle.
JIM ZUB (SKULLKICKERS, Samurai Jack) and STEVE CUMMINGS (Deadshot) continue their acclaimed supernatural spectacle.

WE STAND ON GUARD #6 (OF 6)
STORY: BRIAN K. VAUGHAN
ART / COVER: STEVE SKROCE
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
MINISERIES CONCLUSION
The smash-hit miniseries reaches its epic FINAL ISSUE with explosive battles and shocking revelations… but how will things end for the Great White North?

WHERE IS JAKE ELLIS? #5 (OF 5)
STORY: NATHAN EDMONDSON
ART: TONCI ZONJIC & JORDAN GIBSON
COVER: TONCI ZONJIC
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.50
The game has been changed. Jon and Jake have passed the point of no return, and now they are faced with one last thing: EVERGREEN.

THE WICKED + THE DIVINE #17
STORY: KIERON GILLEN
ART: BRANDON GRAHAM, JAMIE McKELVIE, & MATT WILSON
COVER A: JAMIE McKELVIE & MATT WILSON
COVER B: BRANDON GRAHAM
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
In the last of our guest issues, we’re joined by BRANDON GRAHAM (PROPHET, ISLAND, MULTIPLE WARHEADS) to slink closer to the mysterious and oft-murderous Sakhmet. Plus a backup by JAMIE & MATT. Also…the end of an arc? You know WicDiv. Expect big game changers and/or Sakhmet having a nice purr.

’68, VOL. 5: HOMEFRONT TP
STORY: MARK KIDWELL
ART / COVER: KYLE CHARLES, JAY FOTOS, & RICHARD BONK
ADVANCE LISTING
JANUARY 20 / 176 PAGES / FC / M / $19.99
In February of 1968, Hell gave up its dead and the entire world became a graveyard filled with hungry cannibalistic ghouls overnight. With HOMEFRONT, the fifth volume in the ongoing ’68 series, the focus on Vietnam and the war shifts to the American continent, revealing three red, dripping slices of post-apocalyptic life in the USA and Canada. A pep rally at Harbinger High in a small Pennsylvania town becomes an orgy of undead violence in: ’68: PEECE AND LOVE.
The Canadian snow runs red as Vietnam draft-dodgers flee the US seeking asylum with neutral neighbors to the north in ’68 DODGERS. And deep in the Butchertown district of San Francisco, a bloodthirsty madman who calls himself The Zodiac completes with the living dead for headlines, daring the remnants of a fragmented police force to catch him if they can in ’68: BAD SIGN! Five full issues plus a cover gallery, pin-ups, and tons of behind-the-scenes extras available nowhere else!

BIG MAN PLANS TP
STORY: ERIC POWELL & TIM WIESCH
ART / COVER: ERIC POWELL
DECEMBER 2 / 120 PAGES / FC / M / $14.99
The complete brutal and heartbreaking revenge tale by The Goon creator ERIC POWELL and co-writer TIM WIESCH. WITH 20 PAGES OF BONUS MATERIAL!
Collects BIG MAN PLANS #1-4

BLOOD STAIN, VOL. 1 OGN
STORY / ART / COVER: LINDA SEJIC
ADVANCE LISTING
JANUARY 27 / 128 PAGES / FC / M / $14.99
Mad science at its finest. Chemistry major, Elliot Torres has been unable to keep a steady job and eventually accepts one by a rumored mad scientist Dr. Vlad Stein. Humorous hijinks ensue as their collaboration becomes epic.

EMPTY ZONE, VOL. 1: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DEAD TP
STORY / ART / COVER: JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER
DECEMBER 16 / 136 PAGES / FC / M / $9.99
SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE OF $9.99!
Eisner nominated artist JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER (Abe Sapien: The Drowning, Queen and Country) brings us a future eighty years after a worldwide black-out. The world is a much darker and scarier place. Corinne White is an ex-soldier turned black market spy, data courier, manic-depressive, alcoholic. Punishing herself for mistakes from her past, Corinne is brought out from her spiral when she’s contacted by her dead friends, who inform her of a plot to reanimate the bodies of the dead by a psychotic billionaire. EMPTY ZONE follows Corinne as she confronts these undead monsters and comes to terms with her past.
“… this is truly above and beyond anything I’ve seen before.” — Mike Mignola (HELLBOY)
“What a gorgeous book.” — Brian K. Vaughan (SAGA)
Collects EMPTY ZONE #1-5

GOD HATES ASTRONAUTS, VOL. 3 TP
STORY / ART / COVER: RYAN BROWNE
DECEMBER 2 / 160 PAGES / FC / M / $14.99
The incredibly strange, totally true story of the Power Persons Five continues! Be sure to hunker down as our world is invaded by crab people and the evil King Tiger Eating a Cheeseburger! That’s right. You heard me. Hunker down!
Collects GOD HATES ASTRONAUTS #6-10

LADY PENDRAGON, VOL. 1 TP
STORY: MATT HAWKINS
ART: RON ADRIAN, HECTOR GOMEZ, & JOHN STINSMAN
COVER: DREW STRUZAN
DECEMBER 30 / 160 PAGES / FC / T+ / $14.99
A classic from the Golden Age of Image Comics, collected in trade paperback for the first time! Pagan imagery and early Christianity clash across time in Matt Hawkins’ acclaimed tale of medieval mayhem and transtemporal quests! In 541 AD, Guinevere, widow of King Arthur, attempts to unite the Britons under the banner of Excalibur and the Goddess. In 1999, her descendant, Jennifer Drake, unravels a mystery that could end the world — unless she claims her birthright, and the sword Caliburn. Guinevere faces traitors on all sides, and Jennifer battles the wicked Mordred and Morgana — can the righteousness of any god or goddess triumph over evil?
Collects LADY PENDRAGON Volume 1 Issue #1, Volume 2 Issues #0-3, & cover gallery

THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS, VOL. 6 TP
STORY: JONATHAN HICKMAN
ART / COVER: NICK PITARRA
DECEMBER 16 / 152 PAGES / FC / T+ / $14.99
The sixth volume of the award-winning THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS: THE SUN BEYOND THE STARS.
Collects THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS: THE SUN BEYOND THE STARS #1-4

THE PRIVATE EYE: THE CLOUDBURST EDITION HC
STORY: BRIAN K. VAUGHAN
ART: MARCOS MARTIN & MUNTSA VICENTE
COVER: MARCOS MARTIN
DECEMBER 2 / 304 PAGES / FC / M / 12 x 7.5 / $49.99
THE EISNER AWARD-WINNING “BEST DIGITAL COMIC” IS FINALLY AVAILABLE IN PRINT!
Because retailers, readers, and ROBERT KIRKMAN demanded it, the online sensation from PanelSyndicate.com’s BRIAN K. VAUGHAN (SAGA, PAPER GIRLS) and MARCOS MARTIN (The Amazing Spider-Man, Doctor Strange: The Oath) is finally coming to print with this gorgeous deluxe hardcover edition, presented in the story’s original widescreen format!
Years after the digital cloud “bursts” and exposes all of our worst secrets, THE PRIVATE EYE is set in an inevitable future where everyone has a secret identity. Following an unlicensed P.I. who is thrust into the most important case of his life, this sci-fi mystery explores the nature of privacy with frightening prescience.
Collects THE PRIVATE EYE #1-10
REVIVAL, VOL. 6: THY LOYAL SONS & DAUGHTERS TP
STORY: TIM SEELEY
ART: MIKE NORTON
COVER: MIKE NORTON & JENNY FRISON
DECEMBER 23 / 128 PAGES / FC / M / $14.99
For one day in rural central Wisconsin, the dead came back to life. Now it’s up to Officer Dana Cypress to deal with the media scrutiny, religious zealots, and government quarantine that has come with them. Her sister, Em, is on the hunt for the murderer of her friend, while Dana tries to prevent her from revealing herself to the world and being confined to a new concentration camp for the recently revived. The hit series created by New York Times bestselling author TIM SEELEY and Eisner Award-winning artist MIKE NORTON is collected with bonus material!
Collects REVIVAL #30-35

ROCHE LIMIT, VOL. 2: CLANDESTINY TP
STORY: MICHAEL MORECI
ART: KYLE CHARLES & MATT BATTAGLIA
COVER: KYLE CHARLES
DECEMBER 23 / 144 PAGES / FC / M / $12.99
The bestselling, critically acclaimed sci-fi series returns! It’s 75 years after the events that left the Roche Limit colony in flames. When a crew of military and science personnel are sent to the forgotten and desolate planet on a mysterious expedition, they quickly learn its dark secrets — and that their mission is not what they thought it to be. With danger lurking all around, the crew members fight to find a way off the planet and resist the mysterious presence that haunts them all.
Collects ROCHE LIMIT: CLANDESTINY #1-5

STARVE, VOL. 1 TP
STORY: BRIAN WOOD
ART: DANIJEL ZEZELJ & DAVE STEWART
ADVANCE LISTING
JANUARY 13 / 120 PAGES / FC / M / $9.99
SPECIAL LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE OF $9.99!
Once the world’s most famous chef, Gavin Cruikshank’s been in a self-imposed exile for years. His little foodie television program has since evolved into STARVE, an arena sport that pits chef against chef for the pleasure of their super-rich patrons. It’s a stain on a once-noble profession, and Chef Gavin is ready to go to war to stop it. Two things stand in his way: his arch rival Roman Algiers, and his adult daughter Angie, who probably just wants her dad back and acting normal.
Collects STARVE #1-5

THE WALKING DEAD OMNIBUS, VOL. 6 HC
STORY: ROBERT KIRKMAN
ART: CHARLIE ADLARD, STEFANO GAUDIANO, & CLIFF RATHBURN
COVER: CHARLIE ADLARD & DAVE STEWART
DECEMBER 2 / 560 PAGES / BW / M / $100 / S & N EDITION $150
This deluxe hardcover features 24 issues of the hit series, THE WALKING DEAD, along with the covers for the issues all in one massive, oversized slipcase volume.
Collects THE WALKING DEAD #121-144

WHERE IS JAKE ELLIS? TP
STORY: NATHAN EDMONDSON
ART / COVER: TONCI ZONJIC
ADVANCE LISTING
FEBRUARY 3 / 112 PAGES / FC / T+ / $14.99
Jon Moore and Jake Ellis are back. The sequel to the Eisner-nominated WHO IS JAKE ELLIS? finds the American spy now without his invisible guide, but their enemies are still after them. Where is Jake, and will Jon find him in time to stop The Facility from furthering their designs?
Collects WHERE IS JAKE ELLIS? #1-5

REVIVAL, VOL. 3: DELUXE HC
STORY: TIM SEELEY
ART: MIKE NORTON
COVER: MIKE NORTON & JENNY FRISON
JANUARY 20 / 128 PAGES / FC / M / $34.99
For one day in rural central Wisconsin, the dead came back to life. Now, it’s up to Officer Dana Cypress to deal with the media scrutiny, religious zealots, and government quarantine that has come with them. In a town where the living have to learn to deal with those who are supposed to be dead, Officer Cypress must solve a brutal murder, and everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect. The sell-out hit series created by New York Times Bestselling author Tim Seeley and Eisner-winning artist Mike Norton is collected in this oversized hardcover featuring Revival #24-35, plus many behind-the-scenes bonuses and other features.
Collects REVIVAL #12-17

SEX CRIMINALS, VOL. 3 TP
STORY: MATT FRACTION
ART / COVER: CHIP ZDARSKY
JANUARY 20 / 128 PAGES / FC / M / $14.99
As seen on LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS! The Eisner- and Harvey-award winning raucous sex comedy that Time magazine called the Comic of the Year and Apple called “inappropriate for sale on iOS devices” returns in SEX CRIMINALS V3: THREE THE HARD WAY. So it turns out Jon and Suzie aren’t alone — other people around the world, like them, freeze time when they climax. A self-appointed group wants to regulate and control them through fear and intimidation. Jon and Suzie are falling in love and want their freak flags to fly, but if they’re going to fight back they can’t do it alone. And really, isn’t that a metaphor for the whole series? That we might all be alone but we’re all alone together? I think so. If you read only one comic with a semen-demon in it this year, please make it SEX CRIMINALS V3: THREE THE HARD WAY.
“I wouldn’t trust most comic creators to turn a sexual awakening into compelling pulp fiction, but Fraction and Zdarsky pull it off masterfully.” -Paste Magazine
Collects SEX CRIMINALS #11-15

SHUTTER, VOL. 3 TP
STORY: JOE KEATINGE
ART / COVER: LEILA DEL DUCA & OWEN GIENI
JANUARY 13 / 128 PAGES / FC / M / $14.99
Kate Kristopher was a globally renowned explorer on an Earth far more fantastic than our own. Then she wasn’t. In our third volume, Kate’s memory has been wiped by the organization manipulating her entire life. Those she hold close all walk to their execution. All roads lead to Leonis.
Collects SHUTTER #13-17