Wednesday's New Books!
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Next week's new books include Zombies vs Robots Annual,
Ghostbusters #9, Road Rage #4, Star Trek: TNG/Doctor Who:
Assimilation 2 #1, Zombies HC, and more!
Zombies vs
Robots Annual - Also available
digitally!
Click here for a preview!
Chris Ryall, Daniel Wilson, Rio Youers, Kevin Grevioux (w)
• Ashley Wood, Sam Kieth, Andy Kuhn, Drew Ford (a) •
Ashley Wood (c)
This first-ever ZvR special not only reunites co-creators Chris
Ryall & Ashley Wood, but it opens the ZvR world to other
creators, too. Creators like novelists Daniel Wilson
(Robopocalypse) and Rio Youers, artists Sam Kieth and Andy Kuhn! In
“Seasons of War,” each creative team looks at a
different season of the zombie-robot apocalypse!
FC • 48 pages • $7.99
Bullet points:
• Features an
all-new story by co-creators Ashley Wood & Chris Ryall
• Also features the first-ever comic work from Robopocalypse
author Daniel Wilson and author Rio Youers!
Click here to purchase the digital version.
Ghostbusters
#9 - Also available digitally!
Click here for a preview!
Erik Burnham (w) • Dan Schoening (a) • Schoening,
Tristan Jones (c)
New York City doesn't have a monopoly on the supernatural, and it
was only a matter of time before apparitions in other areas were
enhanced by the expansion of psychokinetic energy! HAUNTED AMERICA
finds the Ghostbusters venturing out far beyond the comfortable
confines of the Empire State. So grab some snacks and get ready...
it'll be the most spirited road trip of the year!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
Variant Mike Henderson cover!
Bullet points:
• Each issue
contains a back-up Ghostbusters story by Tristan Jones! “Who
Killed Laura Parr?” will run in all 4 issues of Haunted
America!
• The Ghostbusters leave New York! On the road for the first
time in comics!
• Four Dan Schoening covers connect to make a unified National
map, each featuring a different Ghostbuster! Four Tristan Jones
covers featuring a haunted tourist postcard theme!
Click here to purchase the digital version.
Hawken #4 (of 6)
- Also available digitally!
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Tim & Ben Truman (w) • Tim Truman (a & c)
The Trumans continue to redefine the western horror genre! Just a
haunted old man with a blind mule, a bulldog, two rusty colt
pistols and a heart full of hatred. What chance does he have
against a train full of vengeful ghosts and a party of thugs
thirsting for blood? Hell, probably none. The bloodiest, most
bizarre adventure tale of the year continues!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant covers:
Variant “Rawhide edition”
Tim Truman cover!
Bullet points:
• All-new,
6-issue weird western series co-written and drawn by Tim Truman
(GrimJack, Hawkman, Scout)!
• As your retailer how to get a special “Rawhide
edition” cover by Tim Truman!
Click here to purchase the digital version.
Monocyte #4 (of
4) - Also available digitally!
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menton3, Kasra Ghanbari (w) • menton3 (a & c)
The world is in in chaos. Monocyte makes his way to Azrael as the
human slaves are freed… Series conclusion with art by
menton3 (ZvR: Aventure, Silent Hill) and co-written by Kasra
Ghanbari with an incentive cover by world-renowned fine artist Phil
Hale and side stories by legendary fine artist/illustrator Barron
Storey (Sandman: Endless Nights) and superstar horror writer Steve
Niles (30 Days of Night, Criminal Macabre).
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
Variant Phil Hale cover!
Bullet points:
• “MONOCYTE creates one of
those awesome edge-of-the-psyche disturbance fields. You sick
bastards. I LOVE IT!" – Bill Sienkiewicz (Elektra: Assassin,
Stray Toasters)
Click here to purchase the digital version.
Next Men:
Aftermath #43 - Also available
digitally!
Click here for a preview!
John Byrne (w & a & c)
The world is broken, time is out of joint—but the surviving
Next Men are about to discover it may not be entirely their fault.
A familiar face returns, but will it be good news or bad for
our ragged band?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
Variant Black & White John Byrne
cover!
Bullet points:
• The final
storyline in John Byrne’s Next Men saga continues!
Click here to purchase the digital version.
Road Rage #4 (of
4) - Also available digitally!
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Richard Matheson, Chris Ryall (w) • Rafa Garres (a &
c)
The harrowing conclusion of the first-ever comic adaptation of
Richard Matheson’s classic, Duel. It’s just Mann and
his damaged car trying to survive the final onslaught of a
murderous and crazed trucker, as brought to life by Matheson, Chris
Ryall, and artist Rafa Garres.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
Variant Black & White Rafa Garres
cover
Bullet points:
• Story by Richard Matheson, the
inspiration behind Steven Spielberg’s classic movie!
Click here to purchase the digital version.
Snake Eyes & Storm Shadow #13 - Also
available digitally!
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Chuck Dixon (w) • Robert Atkins (a) • Atkins x 2
(c)
“Serpent’s Shadow,” part 1! SNAKE EYES returns to
Japan to re-join the Arashikage clan to team with STORM SHADOW.
Their target: the new COBRA COMMANDER! Will the most dangerous JOE
turn his back on his loyalties and his friends just to bring down
the new COBRA leader? Only HE knows! And G.I. JOE master penciller
Robert Atkins is back on art!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
Variant Steve Ellis cover!
Variant Black & White Steve Ellis cover!
Bullet points:
• Snake Eyes becomes Snake Eyes
& Storm Shadow with this issue!
• All the G.I. JOE titles this month have two foil character
covers! Collect all six!
Click here to purchase the digital version.
Star Trek #9
- Also available digitally!
Click here for a preview!
Mike Johnson (w) • Stephen Molnar (a) • Tim
Bradstreet, Joe Phillips (c)
The countdown to the next STAR TREK movie continues here in "The
Return of the Archons!" Kirk, Spock and the crew search for a
lost Starfleet ship that may hold clues to the future of the entire
Federation. TREK writer/producer Roberto Orci oversees this latest
chapter in the ongoing adventures of the
starship Enterprise!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
Variant Tim Bradstreet sketch
cover!
Variant Photo cover!
Bullet Points:
• Fully sanctioned by Paramount
pictures, with direct ties to the new movie!
• The new adventures continue here!
• Look for the variant of the CBLDF contest winner!
Click here to purchase the digital version.
Star Trek
TNG/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 #1 - Also available
digitally!
Click here for a preview!
Scott & David Tipton with Tony Lee (w) • J.K. Woodward
(a) • Woodward, David Messina (c)
They said it would never happen! Nearly five decades and 1500
episodes in the making! The two greatest science-fiction properties
of all time cross over for the first time in history, in STAR TREK:
THE NEXT GENERATION/DOCTOR WHO: ASSIMILATION2!
When the Federation’s most terrifying enemy strikes an unholy
alliance with one of the Doctor’s most hated antagonists, the
result is devastation on a cosmic scale! Spanning the ends of space
and time itself, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS
Enterprise find themselves joining forces with the Doctor and his
companions, with the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance!
Written by Scott and David Tipton, the authors of the critically
acclaimed Star Trek: Infestaion, and featuring the beautiful
painted artwork of J.K. Woodward (Fallen Angel), this is the
adventure that both Trekkers and Whovians have waited for all their
lives! Geronimo? Make it so!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
Variant wrap-around photo cover!
Joe Corroney “TARDIS crew on the Enterprise” cover
Star Trek TNG: A New Frontier TPB (A $19.99 retail value!)
Bullet Points:
• The first Star
Trek/Doctor Who crossover ever!
• Featuring fan-favorite villains the Borg
and the Cybermen!
• Fully painted artwork by J.K.
Woodward!
• Ask your retailer about the rare
wraparound photo cover!
• Ask your retailer about the super-rare Joe
Corroney cover featuring the Doctor and friends aboard the USS
Enterprise!
Click here to purchase the digital version.
Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles Ongoing #10
Click here for a preview!
Tom Waltz, Kevin Eastman (w) • Dan Duncan (a) •
Duncan, Eastman (c)
This May, enter... THE SHREDDER!
(What else need be said?!)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
Tyler Walpole variant!
Bullet points:
• The long awaited return of THE
SHREDDER! A re-match 600 years in the making!
Transformers: Robots in Disguise Ongoing #5
- Also available digitally!
Click here for a preview!
John Barber (w) • Andrew Griffith (a) • Casey Coller,
Griffith (c)
TORN APART FROM WITHIN! Tensions reach a breaking point—a new
arrival on Cybertron tips the scales and violence erupts! Will
Bumblebee be able to stop his own allies? Plus: Ironhide reveals a
secret that will redefine the future of the Transformers!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
Marcelo Matere variant! Interlocks
with TRANSFORMERS: More Than Meets The Eye #5’s RI cover!
Bullet points:
• The breakout success of the
TRANSFORMERS relaunch continues with new dangers!
• Fan-favorite characters from the ultra-popular franchise in
all-new adventures!
Click here to purchase the digital version.
Zombies (Chilling
Archives of Horror Comics)
Click here for a preview!
Jack Cole, Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Wally Wood, Gene Colan,
Lou Cameron, Reed Crandall, & more (w & a) • Lee Elias
(c)
From the banned 1950s horror comics that Dr. Fredric Wertham, The
U.S. Senate, and mothers didn't want innocent children to devour
comes a terrifying and timely anthology of comics of the
undead…"Zombies". These gruesome mini-masterpieces are
hauntingly delineated by some of the Golden Age's greatest artists
at their very best. The nightmarish scripts of the unstoppable
living dead will make your spine freeze over in terror! Edited and
designed by Eisner winner Craig Yoe with an introduction by the
host of the popular "The Horrors of It All" vintage comics blog,
Steve "Karswell" Banes. "Zombies" follows in the footsteps of "Dick
Briefer's Frankenstein" and "Bob Powell's Terror."
HC • FC • $21.99 • 148 pages • 8.5” x
11” • ISBN 978-1-61377-213-3
Bullet points:
• The third not-to-be-missed book
in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics!
