February's Exciting New Books from IDW!
Tuesday, Nov 24th, 2009
Check out the great new comics and books coming from IDW in February, Like Mercy Thompson: Moon Called, G.I. JOE Operation HISS and more!
Mercy Thompson: Moon Called #1
Patricia Briggs, Derek Ruiz (w) • Clint Hilinski (a & c)
Mercedes "Mercy" Thompson is a talented Volkswagen mechanic living in the Tri-Cities area of Washington. She also happens to be a walker, a magical being with the power to shift into a coyote at will. Mercy's next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she's fixing a bus for a vampire...
This is the world of Mercy Thompson, one that looks a lot like ours but is populated by those things that go bump in the night. And Mercy's connection to those things is about to get her into some serious hot water...
Moon Called faithfully
adapts New York Times best-selling author Patricia
Briggs' first Mercy Thompson novel to comics. Prepare to
see the fantastic characters and supernatural settings that have
made her novels a hit with fans worldwide come to four-color
life!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0886
G.I. Joe: Operation HISS
#1
Brian Reed (w)
• Agustin Padilla, Alex Cal (a) • Padilla, Joe Corroney
(c)
G.I. JOE thinks they've won
the day, and stopped the rise of Cobra... but their battle is just
beginning! Scarlett and Snake Eyes are dispatched to investigate a
disturbance at a Chinese weapons facility-and come face to face
with the first stages of Cobra's latest and most deadly
plan.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0888
G.I. Joe Cobra II #2
Mike Costa, Christos N. Gage (w) • Antonio Fuso (a) • Howard Chaykin, Fuso (c)
General Hawk's new operative
has found Chuckles... who's in no mood to be rescued. And
considering how his last handler ended up, maybe she should take
his advice and leave him alone. Meanwhile, delve deeper into
Cobra's twisted inner circles as Tomax and Xamot are called before
the high command.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0890
G.I. Joe #15
Chuck Dixon (w) • Robert Atkins (a) • David Williams, Atkins (c)
The M.A.S.S. Device is
activated and COBRA's got it! A world-wide crime spree ensues as
COBRA can send killers, thieves and spies anywhere in the world in
an instant. No place on the planet is safe from their influence.
Also, Duke and Scarlett are under arrest and another Joe is in a
body bag!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0892
G.I. Joe: Origins #12
Marc Andreyko (w) • Ben Templesmith (a) • Tom Feister, Templesmith (c)
The Baroness was once part
of a respectable, aristocratic family, before leaving them in
search of her own destiny. Soon, she would meet the man that
changes her path in life forever. Now a deadly COBRA operative, The
Baroness seeks this man once more, but perhaps rescue is not her
intention...
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0894
G.I. Joe, Vol.
2
Chuck Dixon (w) • SL Gallant (a) • David Williams (c)
Scarlett on trial! Mainframe
gone insane! Snake Eyes on his own! And Cobra revealed! G.I. JOE
squares off against COBRA, face-to-face and for the first time! But
the battle doesn't go anything like what you think! G.I. JOE's
first year concludes in this pulse-pounding climax that no action
and adventure fan will dare miss!
TPB • FC • $19.99
• 152 Pages • Diamond Code: DEC09
0896
Classic G.I. Joe Volume
7
Larry Hama (w) • Marshall Rogers, Danny Bulanadi, William Johnson, Ron Wagner, Russ Heath, Andy Mushynsky (a) • J. Scott Campbell (c)
More classic G.I. JOE action
in this seventh collection of G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero!
Including the issues "Beginnings and Endings," "Manuevering for
Position," and "Into the Beach," read along with the action as the
G.I. JOE team battles COBRA around the globe.
TPB • FC • $19.99 • 232 Pages • Diamond Code: DEC09 0897
Transformers #4
Mike Costa (w) • Don Figueroa (a) • Figueroa, Andrew Wildman (c)
His ambivalence cost him his
allegiance. His betrayal set the stage for Autobot victory. His
name is THUNDERCRACKER, and this issue reveals what he's been doing
these past three years after his brutal expulsion from the
Decepticons in All Hail Megatron! Mike Costa and Don Figueroa show
you perhaps the most unique transformation of
all...
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0898
Transformers: Bumblebee
#3
Zander Cannon (w) • Chee (a) • Guido Guidi, Chee (c)
"Things Fall Apart," Part 3:
After leaving a decoy for the Skywatch colonel, Bumblebee embarks
on a solo quest to find the device that will free the Autobots. He
befriends the child of the one man who holds the device they need,
and finally has to ask himself if what he's doing is
right.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0900
Transformers: Last Stand of
the Wreckers #2
Nick Roche, James Roberts (w) • Roche (a) • Trevor Hutchison, Roche (c)
The Autobots' finest begin
their descent into hell, and all bets are off. The true nature of
the Wreckers' mission is revealed and the reappearance of an old
enemy drastically reduces the chances of anyone making it back
alive. Nick Roche and co-writer James Roberts start lining up the
body bags.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0902
Transformers Movie
Collection, Vol. 1
Simon Furman, Chris Ryall, Chris Mowry (w) • Alex Milne, Don Figueroa (a) • John Nizzi (c)
Now available in one
handsome, oversize hardcover collection, get all the action
surrounding the first TRANSFORMERS film. This volume includes the
TRANSFORMERS Movie Prequel, Movie Adaptation, and the sequel, The
Reign of Starscream.
HC • FC • $50.00
• 320 Pages • Diamond Code: DEC09
0904
Army of Two #2
Peter Milligan (w) • Dexter Soy (a) • Chester Ocampo (c)
ACROSS THE BORDER: Part 2:
Trans World Operations' first mission is off to a bad start. With
one operative dead, Salem and Rios find themselves in the middle of
what looks like a civil war. Now, with trust eroding between them,
Rios and Salem have to put their lives on the line as they're drawn
deeper into the violent world of a murderous Mexican street gang
known as the Maras.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0905
Ghostbusters Holiday
Special: Tainted Love
Dara Naraghi (w) • Salgood Sam (a) • Salgood Sam, Nick Runge (c)
Love is in the
air-literally!-as Winston befriends an attractive woman with a
ghostly problem in her apartment. But trapping the love-struck
apparition proves to be more complicated than the Ghostbusters
originally thought. Can Winston step up and save the day? Just how
far will Peter go to find a date? And do Ray and Egon ever stop to
think about girls, or is it always about trans-dimensional
ectoplasmic anomolies with those two?
FC • one-shot • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0906
Star Trek Movie Adaptation
#1
Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Tim Jones, Mike Johnson (w) • David Messina (a & c)
JJ Abrams' blockbuster
revitalization of the Star Trek franchise was the most thrilling
film of the year. Now, under the direction of Abrams and
screenwriters Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman, comes the highly
anticipated graphic adaptation of the film! Additionally, new
scenes and moments cut from the movie are revealed-an event no Star
Trek fan can dare miss!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0908
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Ghosts #4 
Zander Cannon (w) • Javier Aranda (a) • Joe Corroney (c)
With Captain Picard shifted
into another dimension, Commander Riker takes command of the
Enterprise and negotiates with Worf's hot-tempered captors for his
release. Troi tries to pick through the noise in her patient's head
to unravel information on the extra-dimensional ghosts. Meanwhile,
the missing Picard finds himself in a peculiar leadership
role.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0914
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Fool's Gold #3
Scott & David Tipton (w) • Fabio Mantovani (a) • Sharp Brothers, David Messina (c)
As the temperature rises
aboard Deep Space Nine, Captain Sisko, Kira and Odo come closer to
getting to the bottom of the mystery. Can Sisko calm the volatile
situation and restore order before another riot breaks out? And
what does Garak have to do with all that has
transpired?
FC · 32 pages · $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0916
Star Trek: Nero 
Mike Johnson, Tim Jones (w) • David Messina (a) & (c)
From STAR TREK
writer/producers Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman and artist David
Messina, comes an all-new story set within the events of the hit
film! Not an adaptation, this exclusive story follows the
villainous Nero as he seeks to destroy the
Federation.
TPB • FC • $17.99
• 104 Pages • Diamond Code: DEC09
0910
Star Trek: Romulans: Pawns of War
John Byrne (w) & (a) & (c)
Collecting legendary creator
John Byrne's tales of STAR TREK's Romulans in one volume. This
special edition tells tales leading up to the seminal "Balance of
Terror" episode. Included within is the Romulans Alien Spotlight,
the two-part Hollow Crown story, and the three-issue Schism series.
As an added bonus, Byrne writes and draws an all-new 12-page
"Balance of Terror" adaptation just for this
collection.
TPB • FC • $19.99
• 164 Pages • Diamond Code: DEC09
0911
Angel #30 
Bill Willingham (w) • Brian Denham (a) • Jenny Frison, David Messina (c)
Things are not going so well
for either our famously intrepid hero or his "merry" band of
assistant heroes. Spike and Gunn finds themselves committing
rooftop shenanigans, Connor is in over his head back at the office,
and Angel is starting to wonder if anyone is going to find him
before he dies of boredom. And just what is Connor "chosen" for,
anyway?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0916
Angel: A Hole in the World #3
Scott Tipton (w) • Elena Casagrande (a & c)
Continuing the harrowing
story of one of the Angelverse's most controversial characters,
Fred continues to be gutted from the inside out as Angel and Spike
discover that the cost of saving her might be more than they can
sacrifice.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0918
Angel: Only Human TPB 
Scott Lobdell (w) • David Messina (a) • David Messina (c)
Now that the Fall is over,
Illyria and Gunn are trying to get back on the straight and narrow.
But having tasted their truly darker sides, is there any way to
really come back from trying to end existence? Maybe a road trip
will help. But visiting Fred's folks brings up more than just
memories as the Scourge makes an appearance, along with an old
enemy of Illyria's who's looking for a little
payback...
TPB • FC • $19.99 • 152 Pages • Diamond Code: DEC09 0919
Doctor Who
#8
Tony Lee (w) • Al Davison (a) • Paul Grist, Davison (c)
"Tessaract" Part 2 (of 2):
With the TARDIS breached by invaders and with only moments before
both vessels implode, The Doctor and his friends must find a
working console and escape the fifth dimension. But what happens
when the clock runs out-and everything ends? What happens to a Time
Lord when his song finally ends?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0920
Zombies vs Robots Aventure #1 
Chris Ryall (w) • Menton Matthews III, Paul McCaffrey, Gabriel Hernandez (a) • Ashley Wood (c)
Zombies vs Robots is back,
retooled and rarin' to go monthly in this new 4-part series.
Chris Ryall scripts, Ashley Wood
provides the covers, and a cadre of new artists tackle three
serialized tales. Beginning in this issue, the war story of "Kampf"
(art by Menton Matthews III); the growth of the
human resistance in "Masques" (art by Paul
McCaffrey); and a new form of zombies is born in
"Zuvembies vs Robots" (with art by Gabriel
Hernandez).
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0922
We Will
Bury You #1
Brea & Zane Grant (w) • Kyle Strahm (a) • Ben Templesmith (c)
1927: The first talkie ended
the silent film era, the first man completed a solo transatlantic
flight, and... a zombie virus decimated the human race. Two
unlikely heroines use their unorthodox skills to survive as a
zombie infection spreads through the streets of New York and
beyond. Brea Grant ("Heroes") and Zane
Grant promise the worst breakup
ever and an epic beginning to this historical horror
miniseries.
FC • 32 pages •
$3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0924
Dan DeCarlo: Jetta 
Dan DeCarlo (w) & (a) & (c)
Dan
DeCarlo's futuristic curvy teenage girl Jetta zoomed
through the future a full decade before Judy Jetson. In the 1950s,
the fan favorite artist, beloved for his portrayals of Betty and
Veronica, Josie and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, delineated the
madcap adventures of Jetta, "Teen-Age Sweetheart of the 21st
Century" with obvious delight. The comics, collected for the first
time in their entirety and in living color will be accompanied by a
revealing introduction by Craig Yoe. There will
also be a bevy of rare unpublished original art and photographs.
Plus, as a highly desirable bonus, Jetta pinups by top comic book
artists and Hollywood animators.
TPB • FC/BW •
$21.99 • 104 Pages • Diamond Code: DEC09
0926
Sam Kieth
Sketchbook #1
Sam Kieth (w & a & c)
From the mind of Sam
Kieth comes a behind-the-scenes peek at 48 pages of unseen
art, collected from his moldy collection of sketchbooks dating back
25 years. Featuring pen, pencil, brush, feathers, straws, twigs,
watercolor, acrylic, glue, sand, mud, grease, dirt, garbage, and
any other debris handy. Enjoy everything: tons of unpublished
sketches, pin-ups, thumbnails, and visual
tangents.
TPB • FC • $9.99
• 48 Pages • 8.5" x 11" • Diamond Code:
DEC09 0927
Sparrow 17: Pushead 
Pushead (a & c)
Few artists known for their
skateboard designs or album cover art can compare with Pushead. A
long-time punk art icon, particularly acclaimed for his
unforgettable Metallica cover art, Pushead now gets the Sparrow
treatment in a deliciously devious sampling of his
images.
HC • FC • $11.99
• 48 Pages •6 x 6 • Diamond Code: DEC09
0928
Belladonna
Ben Ross (w) • J.K. Woodward (a & c)
The tables are turned on the
worlds most beautiful-and most vicious-assassin. Gunned down,
comatose in a city hospital for months, and with no clue to her
identity, she eventually awakens. Fully recovered but with no
memory and few clues to her past, she sets out on a dangerous
journey to discover who she is—But will she like what she
finds? Art for this special one-shot by Fallen Angel's J.K.
Woodward!
FC • 48 pages •
$7.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0929
Song of Saya #1 
Daniel Liatowitsch & Todd Ocvirk (w) • Yair Herrera (a & c)
Based on the Japanese
smash-hit PC game, Song of Saya tells the story of Josh, a young
doctor trying to recover from a near-fatal accident. When a
nightmarish world threatens to drown out reality, Josh meets a
mysterious girl named Saya who promises to take his pain away... if
Josh agrees to help her in return.
FC • 32 pages •
$3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0940
Weekly
World News #2
Chris Ryall (w) • Alan Robinson (a) • Alan Robinson, Thom Zahler (c)
In the second chapter of
"The Irredemption of Ed Anger," the first-ever Weekly World News
comic series, Ed hits the road in his attempt to discredit Bat Boy
and runs into Manigator and Nessie the Lake Erie Serpent, even as
Chaos Cloud gives him a nightmare at 20,001 feet...! Bonus back-up:
more classic articles from the Weekly World News!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0931
Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows #4 
Joe Hill (w) • Gabriel Rodriguez (a & c)
Kinsey and Bode find
themselves in a desperate, seemingly unwinnable battle against a
rising army of living shadows, while Tyler faces down Dodge in a
terrifying duel of wits
and wills.
FC • 32 pages •
$3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0937
Munden's Bar:
All-Star, All-New, All-Strange
John Ostrander, Martha Thomases (w) • Skip Williamson, William Messner-Loebs, Marc Hempel, Joe Staton, Joanna Estep, Hilary Barta, Chris Burnham, Mark Wheatley, Norm Breyfogle (a) • Marc Hempel (c)
We return to the nexus-point of Cynosure, GrimJack's own Munden's Bar, for a slew of BRAND-NEW, never-before-printed stories produced by comics' most creative talents-including Skip Williamson, John Ostrander, William Messner-Loebs, Marc Hempel, Joe Staton, Hilary Barta, Mark Wheatley and guest-starring Wolverine MacAlistar, Jesus Christ, Del Close, the Frankenstein Mobster, and more! Cutting-edge heroic wackiness, as only found at Munden's!
TPB • FC • $17.99
• 104 Pages • Diamond Code: DEC09
0935
Munden's Bar, GrimJack TM and © Nightsky GrimJack LLC, 2008, 2009. All Rights Reserved
From the Ashes 
Bob Fingerman (w) & (a) & (c)
Bob Fingerman's speculative
memoir (starring Bob and his wife Michelle) set in a
post-apocalyptic and nuclear ravaged New York City is a
surprisingly perky take on Armageddon. A hip satirical romp though
Manhattan's ruins, From the Ashes is a new spin on the old
autobiographical comics genre.
TPB • PC • $19.99
• 160 Pages • Diamond Code: DEC09
0936
Lone
Justice: Crash #1
Robert Tinnell and Mark Wheatley (w) • Mark Wheatley (a & c)
Being a superhero is
dangerous and expensive work, and Lone Justice has suffered
devastating financial loss. Now the masked villain known as Scion
stalks our hero, and Lone Justice is left with nothing more than
his wits... and his fists! The first issue of this EZ Street
spin-off starts now!
Lone Justice TM and © Robert Tinnell and Mark Wheatley, 2009. All Rights Reserved.
Diamond Code: DEC09 0942
Jon Sable Freelance: Ashes of Eden #5 
Mike Grell (w & a & c)
Ashes of Eden comes to its
explosive conclusion as Jon Sable and Maggie the Cat battle to save
not only their own lives but those of all of New Yorkers! How will
one man's greed and a nuclear terror plot change America's
future?
FC • 32 pages •
$3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0945
Grimjack
Omnibus
The entire original John
Ostrander/Timothy Truman GrimJack run, from its very beginnings in
Starslayer to the first 21 issues of First Comics' solo title.
BlacJacMac! Bob The Watchlizard! Goddess! Gordon Munden! They're
all here in all their amazing glory! The creation that made comics
superstars of Ostrander and Truman, now all gathered in one stellar
Omnibus edition!
TPB • FC • $24.99 • 400 Pages • 6.x 9 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0946
GrimJack TM and © Nightsky GrimJack LLC, 1983 - 2009. All Rights Reserved.
Starstruck #6 
Elaine Lee (w) • Michael Wm. Kaluta, Charles Vess (a) • Kaluta (c)
Sentenced to life on
abandoned Omega Disque 6, Molly helps a tribe of Amazons defeat
their enemies... but during the post-battle ritual, the newly
minted Galatia is accidentally shot off the Disque in an ancient
escaped pod, but is saved by a traveling trio of Troikani
actors. Will the actors' plans for a glorious suicide mean the
end of Galatia 9?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0943
Jennifer Love Hewitt's The Music Box #3
Scott Lobdell (w) • Adam Archer (a & c)
Everyone knows music calms
the savage beast... but how much help is it against an alien
mothership intent on destroying an airline at 30,000 feet?! A young
sergeant on his way home from Iraq is the only person on board a
crowded airplane who knows the only chance of thwarting an alien
invasion rests in the plane's cargo hold... the music
box!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0933
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Prose Collection) 
Lewis Carrol (w) • Jenny Frison (a) • Jill Thompson (c)
A new twist on Lewis
Carroll's classic tale of the
wildly weird, this prose collection combines both Alice in
Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Featuring chapter
illustrations by Jenny Frison
(Angel) and cover by Eisner Award-winning
artist Jill Thompson.
HC • PC • $16.99
• 240 Pages • 6 x 9 • Diamond Code: DEC09
0939
Beyond the
Wall #4
Matt Venne (w) • Gordon Purcell (a & c)
Forced to choose between
freedom or returning to Rome to defend her from the encroaching
Barbarian Army, Marcus makes the only decision a hero can-but will
he and his men be too late? And, even if he succeeds, what will the
Roman leaders who betrayed him have in store for
him?
FC • 32 pages •
$3.99 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0930
Nanovor: Game Day 
Eric Burnham (w) • Felipe Torrent (a) • Filipe Torrent & German Torres (c)
A killer video game
tournament; energy drinks; nigh-immortal microscopic monsters
fighting to the death... that's all Lucas Nelson and friends could
ask for in a weekend. But another crew has their eyes on the game
championship, and will do whatever it takes to get it. Based on the
popular "Smith & Tinke"r handheld game aimed at
teens!
TPB • FC• $11.99 • 104 Pages • 6 x 9 • Diamond Code: DEC09 0941
