New IDW Books This Week!
Wednesday, Nov 14th, 2012
Borderlands: Origins #1 (of 4) - Also
available digitally!
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Mikey Neumann (w) • Augustin Padilla (a & c)
“Roland.” For the millions and millions of fans of the
smash-hit video game BORDERLANDS, a lingering question exists:
how did the Vault Hunters get on the bus with Marcus in the first
place? Find out how Roland got on the bus with Mordecai, Lilith,
and Brick in this exciting look at the soldiers of the Crimson
Lance and what made him leave their ranks and search for the Vault.
Surprises abound in the first part of a four-issue series
chronicling where Borderlands began!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
Ray Dillon variant cover!
Bullet points:
• Over 8 million copies of the Borderlands video game sold
worldwide!
• Written by Mikey Neumann, writer of Borderlands, Aliens:
Colonial Marines, and Brothers in Arms video games, as well as the
novelist of The Returners!
• Comics contain all-new official canon
Borderlands origin stories not seen anywhere else!
• Borderlands 2 video game releases to stores in September
2012 -- game will include special Borderlands: Origins insert
ad.
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Chasing the
Dead #1 (of 4) - Also available
digitally!
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Matthew Scott, Tim Westland (w) • Dietrich Smith (a
& c)
A stranger has kidnapped Sue’s daughter, Lily. But he
doesn’t want her money, only her suffering – and he
will kill Lily if Sue doesn’t follow his every command. With
detailed instructions, the faceless abductor leads Sue into a
blinding snowstorm on the longest night of the year to a place she
has not traveled to since childhood. The voice on the other end of
her cell phone somehow knows Sue’s deepest, most chilling
secret – an ominous incident from her past, buried long
ago...
Chasing the Dead is a fast-paced, ferociously tense supernatural
thriller from the twisted mind of Star Wars horror novelist Joe
Schreiber (Red Harvest, Death Troopers).
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
• Based on a novel by Joe
Shrieber!
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Classic Popeye
#4 - Also available digitally!
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Bud Sagendorf (w & a & c)
Is that a cool cover or WHAT?!? And the insides of this comical
comic comic are every bit as awesome! The first story, "Dead
Valley," has plenty of Popeye's twister-sock punches Old West
Style. And the second story, "Gift from Uncle Ben," features a
fantastical and funny creature called a Zoop that will delight fans
of the Jeep and the Wiffle Bird! Plus, three boffo one-eyed sailor
one pagers--all by The World's Greatest Popeye Cartoonist, Bud
Sagendorf!
FC • 52 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
• A perfect companion to the new
Popeye series!
• Bud Sagendorf’s classic tales, lovingly restored!
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Star Trek
TNG/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 #7 (of 8) - Also
available digitally!
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Scott & David Tipton (w) • J.K. Woodward & Gordon
Purcell (a) • Woodward (c)
The Doctor and his companions must travel into the past and
navigate through one of the Federation’s most crushing
defeats in order to prevent an even worse fate in the present!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
Jenny Frison variant cover!
Bullet Points:
• Featuring fan-favorite villains
the Borg and the Cybermen!
• Ask your retailer about the Jenny Frison (I, Vampire)
incentive cover!
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purchase the digital version.
Dorothy Of
Oz Prequel
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Denton J. Tipton (w) • Blair Shedd (a) • Eric Shanower
(c)
The upcoming animated film Dorothy Of Oz will tell the tale
of the titular hero’s return to the Land of Oz. But first
read here about what events transpired to necessitate
Dorothy’s return, and witness the rise of the Jester!
TPB • FC • $17.99 • 104 pages • ISBN
978-1-61377-217-1
Bullet points:
• Based on the upcoming animated
film Dorothy Of Oz!
Ghostbusters
Ongoing, Vol. 3: Haunted America
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Erik Burnham (w) • Dan Schoening (a & 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. This ghostly tour has
stops in Detroit, New Orleans, Roswell, and Seattle.
TPB • FC • $17.99 • 104 pages • ISBN
978-1-61377-512-7
Bullet points:
• “What makes it so good is
that the creative team have captured the SPIRIT (no pun intended)
of the Ghostbusters franchise.” –GeeksOfDoom.com
G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #184 -
Also available digitally!
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Larry Hama (w) • S L Gallant (a) • Ron Frenz and
Sal Buscema (c)
Just as COBRA COMMANDER begins to settle into his new COBRA base on
the west coast, trouble starts brewing. Destro and Baroness, Road
Pig and Zarana, Darklon, Zartan: every one of them pursuing their
own agenda and getting in COBRA COMMANDER’s way. Not to
mention G.I. JOE following all their activities, waiting for the
right time to step in. The stakes are raised in G.I. Joe: A Real
American Hero #184!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
Variant Larry Hama
sketch cover!
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G.I. Joe:
Deep Terror
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Chuck Dixon (w) • Will Rosado & Alex Cal (a) •
Tommy Lee Edwards (c)
COBRA is digging a miles-deep shaft in the Patagonian wilderness
and what they're digging for could change the world forever and NOT
in a good way. G.I. JOE is looking for payback after recent events
but will the cuts to their operating budget allow for a mission to
the bottom of the world?
TPB • FC • $19.99 • 124 pages • ISBN
978-1-61377-511-0
Bullet points:
• Collects issues
#13–17!
• “Chuck Dixon… consistently delivers fresh,
easily accessible stories that are both entertaining and
exciting.” –GeeksofDoom.com
Godzilla, Vol.
1
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Duane Swierczynski (w) • Simon Gane (a) • Art Adams
(c)
Duane Swierczynski and Simon Gane launch this ultimate action-movie
blockbuster, ushering in a new era of monster battles. Ex-special
forces tough-guy Boxer is a man with a grudge and vows to end the
terror of Godzilla, no matter what. He assembles a top-notch team
to take down monster-sized threats... at $7 billion a bounty. What
starts as a vendetta could become a lucrative business for Boxer...
if he can live past day one!
TPB • FC • $17.99 • 104 pages • ISBN
978-1-61377-413-7
Bullet points:
• "Godzilla brings what a Godzilla
comic should be: fun, action packed, creative, and well
delivered.” –Comic Book Resources
Locke
& Key: Ω #1 (of 7) - Also available
digitally!
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Joe Hill (w) • Gabriel Rodriguez (a & c)
A season of lies and murders has come to a head; the shadows rise
and the water falls, as Dodge approaches the Black Door... with the
Omega Key in his possession and nothing left to stand in his
way.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
Gabriel Rodriguez variant cover!
Bullet points:
• The FINAL Locke & Key
storyline begun in Welcome to Lovecraft starts HERE!
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purchase the digital version.
OPUS by Berkeley Breathed:
The complete Sunday strips from 2003-2008
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Berkeley Breathed (w & a & c)
It’s Berkeley Breathed’s final spin around the dance
floor with his most quirky and endearing character—Opus. The
Pleasant penguin has long been the moral center of the
Berkley-verse, and nowhere is that as abundantly clear as in his
own self-named book. Aside from our waddling friend, this book
contains numerous characters readers will fondly remember from the
days of Bloom County.
This volume collects the entire run of Berkeley Breathed’s
Opus, from first to last, and features an introduction and running
commentary from Breathed.
HC • FC • $39.99 • 288 PAGES • ISBN
978-1-61377-408-3
Bullet points:
• The entire “magnum
opus” in one volume!
Star Trek,
Vol. 3
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Mike Johnson (w) • Stephen Molnar & Claudia Balboni (a)
• Tim Bradstreet (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 and in "The Truth About Tribbles!" the crew of the
Enterprise encounters the classic alien species in an ALL-NEW
story inspired by the fan-favorite episode.
TPB • FC • $17.99 • 104 pages • ISBN
978-1-61377-515-8
Bullet points:
• Star Trek writer/producer
Roberto Orci oversees this latest chapter in the ongoing adventures
of the starship Enterprise!
• Featuring an afterword by “Tribbles” writer
David Gerrold!
Torpedo, Vol.
1
Enrique Sanchez Abuli (w) • Jordi Bernet &
Alex Toth (a) • Jordi Bernet (c)
Enrique Sanchel Abuli and Jordi Bernet's masterpiece is a darkly
humorous exploration of the criminal underbelly in 1930s New York
City. Abuli's distinctive narrative builds the story over time and
Bernet's masterful renditions of the title character and the city
he inhabits are stunningly cinematic.
TPB • B&W • $17.99 • 144 pages • 8.5”
x 11” • ISBN 978-1-61377-516-5
Bullet points:
• This volume also contains the
first two Torpedo stories, illustrated by Alex Toth, as well as a
new translation by Jimmy Palmiotti.
Zaucer of Zilk #2 (of 2) - Also available digitally!
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Brendan McCarthy & Al Ewing (w) • Brendan McCarthy (a
& c)
IDW’s special collaboration with 2000 AD and
Rebellion Publishing, The Zaucer of Zilk, concludes here
in the second chapter of Brendan McCarthy & Al
Ewing’s phantasmagorical psychedelic extravaganza from beyond
the fringes of imagination! 30 pages of brilliantly surreal artwork
by McCarthy!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
• 30 pages of story and art!
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