TRUE BELIEVERS SCOTT LANG ASTONISHING ANT-MAN #1 #0
Reprinting Marvel Premiere #47 Rated T
TYLER CROSS BLACK ROCK HC
(W) Fabien Nury (A) Bruno
From the writer of The Death of Stalin and Death to the Tsar! A gritty 1950's gangster thriller! Tyler Cross lives his life of the knife edge, but never shows the slightest sign of losing his cool. Guns, drugs, and the occasional well-placed explosive combine with trip-off-the-tongue hardboiled noir dialogue to make this an unforgettable plunge into the dark side of the American dream!
UDON NOODLE SOUP LITTLE TALES FOR LITTLE THINGS GN
(W) Jiro Taniguchi (A) Jiro Taniguchi (CA) Jiro Taniguchi
Two children are close neighbors and love playing together. Then one day they are separated when one of the families moves to the other side of the world. But the boy leaves her a present and a promise. 20 years later a flavor awakens her memories. A mother's gift for knitting lays unappreciated until it is almost too late. As she grows older and raises a family, a woman holds on to her memories of a first love and a toothbrush. A hand-made present and a small lie lead to great upset. A soccer shirt is a poor substitute for the idol that should be wearing it. Yani Hu whips up recipes of young love in its many forms in these five not-so-little stories from China told with innocence and a certain oriental twist.
UN-BEDABLE VARK #1 (OF 1)
(W) Dave Sim (A) Dave Sim (CA) Lee Thacker
Un-Bedable Vark & Batvark crossover; Batmite and Un-Bedable Vark, "partners"? Batmite's Mom & The End of "Un-Bedable"; Pimping Un-Bedable Vark; Cerebus, Dante & Virgil play Grand Theft Auto; Central Voodoo Grocery Spam; Cerebus buys Twitter; Batvark & Nietzsche Team-Up; Jingles, the Manticore and Minotaur critique Nietzsche; Batvark & The Puzzler's Macro-Enlarg-O-Ray; Cerebus vs. the Infanto-Throw-a-phobes; "Baby-Throw Shaming"; How Can You Throw a Baby?; Jingles on Puppy-Throwing; The Strange Death of Todd McFarlane's Grey Hulk; The Manticore recovers from the Homonym Ray; Deconstructing the Batvark Codpiece.
UNAUTHORIZED TARZAN HC #1
(W) Joe Gill (A) Sam Glanzman
A classic run of Tarzan comics, reprinted for the first time! In the 1960s, believing Tarzan to have fallen into the public domain, Charlton Comics enlisted Joe Gill (Flash Gordon, House of Mystery) and Sam Glanzman (Hercules, Our Army at War) to create a new comics version of the Lord of the Jungle. Only four issues were produced before Charlton was forced to end the series, and much of the original print runs were destroyed. Collects Chalton's Jungle Tales of Tarzan #1-#4.
UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL #33
(W) Ryan North (A) Erica Henderson (CA) Erica Henderson
• Trapped in a deadly room from which the only escape is DEATH, Squirrel Girl and Kraven must try to figure out a way to survive! • But who is pulling the strings? WHY does someone want them dead? And even if they CAN escape, what guarantee do they have that their troubles aren't just beginning? • NONE! They have NO guarantees, which is too bad for them but great for YOU, the reader! And it's especially great for you, the reader who is presumably interested in stories of SUPER HERO CONFLICT and SUPER-POWERED FIGHTS!!! • All that PLUS Brain Drain, Koi Boi, Chipmunk Hunk AND MORE await you in an issue so astounding, so filled with adventure, that we could ONLY call it "The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Issue 33"! Rated T
UNCLE SCROOGE #39
CVR A INTINI
(W) Jonathan Gray (A) Stefano Intini (CA) Stefano Intini
"The Colossal Coin of Cashdownia!" Scrooge, Donald and Daisy are off to capture the world's hugest, heaviest gold coin-but Flintheart Glomgold wants it first! And when the treasure weighs a ton, lives may hang in the balance...
UNCLE SCROOGE #39
CVR B BRANCA
(W) Jonathan Gray (A) Stefano Intini (CA) Daniel Branca
"The Colossal Coin of Cashdownia!" Scrooge, Donald and Daisy are off to capture the world's hugest, heaviest gold coin-but Flintheart Glomgold wants it first! And when the treasure weighs a ton, lives may hang in the balance...
UNCLE SCROOGE TOURIST AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE TP
(W) Giorgio Cavazzano (A) Giorgio Cavazzano (CA) Marco Mazzarello
Unmistakeable Uncle Scrooge action in this new collection! O.K. Quack may look like a normal Duckburgian to Scrooge McDuck-but he's really a spaceman whose shrunken ship is lost in Scrooge's Money Bin! Then in "Crisis at Sorcery Summit," Magica De Spell sics her fellow magic-makers on Scrooge... and in "The Great Cackle Caper," a golden egg has turned up at the McDuck Chicken Farm, and the Beagle Boys are ruling the roost! Collects issues #29-31 of IDW's Uncle Scrooge comic series.
UNEARTHING SC
(W) Alan Moore (A) Mitch Jenkins (CA) Mitch Jenkins
One of the world's foremost authors of the fantastic, Alan Moore, joins internationally esteemed photographer Mitch Jenkins for an unprecedented visual and literary experience. An intensely poetic and innovative work of biography, Unearthing maps the lifetime of author, orientalist, and occultist Steve Moore, while simultaneously investigating the extraordinary history of South London with which that life has been intertwined. Integrating text with haunting and exquisite imagery, Unearthing excavates a territory at the margins of a city, of reality, and of human imagination. Co-published with Knockabout.
(W) Steve Orlando (A) Ryan Sook (CA) Ryan Sook
In the aftermath of DARK NIGHTS: METAL, the DC Universe has been forever changed as new heroes are called out of the shadows. Amid this all is Janet Fals...Firebrand! Once a paramedic dedicated to saving lives, she must now start a fight once every 24 hours to feed the Conflict Engine that's replaced her heart. But Janet's heart isn't just a curse-it's a beacon, drawing out both the mysterious Neon the Unknown and the seductive, malevolent Bad Samaritan. One of them wants to cut out her heart, the other wants to save it-but neither of them knows the true danger hidden within that will kick off a superhero manhunt ranging from Thanagar to the deepest heart of the Dark Multiverse!
UNKNOWN ANTI-WAR COMICS HC
(A) Various (CA) Steve Ditko
An action-oriented medium, comics have long used wars-real and fictional-as narrative fodder. Now, discover the secret, surprising history of anti-war comics with this marvelously curated collection. A few comics portrayed the horrors of war, but no blatantly anti-war stories were known to exist-until now! Buried in rare comics published during the Cold War were powerful war, fantasy, and sci-fi stories that strongly condemned war and the bomb, boldly calling for peace.
USAGI YOJIMBO #3 (OF 7) #169
THE HIDDEN
(W) Stan Sakai (A) Stan Sakai (CA) Stan Sakai
The only person who knows the true contents of the mysterious box Usagi and Detective Ishida are tracking escapes from custody-and then hired assassins attack Usagi and Ishida! The realization that someone has been following them all along leads to a plan to seek help from a very unexpected source.
VAGRANT QUEEN #2
CVR A ALTERICI
(W) Magdalene Visaggio (A) Jason Smith (CA) Natasha Alterici
Elida finds herself teaming up with an old frenemy to rescue her mother from political prison, but first they have to stage the most daring break-in imaginable, past an impenetrable energy shield, in the middle of empty space, guarded by a battalion of the Republic's best troops!
VAGRANT QUEEN #2
CVR B SMITH
(W) Magdalene Visaggio (A) Jason Smith (CA) Jason Smith
Elida finds herself teaming up with an old frenemy to rescue her mother from political prison--but first, they have to stage the most daring break-in imaginable, past an impenetrable energy shield, in the middle of empty space, guarded by a battalion of the Republic's best troops.
VALERIAN AND LAURELINE GN #1
SHINGOUZLOOZ INC
(W) Wilfrid Lupano (A) Mathieu Lauffray (CA) Mathieu Lauffray
Beginning a new series of Valerian and Laureline stories, with each volume a fresh take on the characters and the universe by a different creative team! Valerian and Laureline are forced to fix a blunder by the Shingouzm one that could cost Humanity Earth itself! An apparently simple mission - apprehending a speculator-droid - turns into a race against time when the Shingouz drop in uninvited mid-arrest, begging Valerian and Laureline for protection against someone who means to kill them. To the agents' surprise, it's an old friend who soon pops up in hot pursuit, guns blazing. The ensuing shoot-out does little to simplify an already complicated situation: our heroes' favorite information brokers have managed to lose Earth in a card game!
VALIANT HIGH #2 (OF 4)
CVR A LAFUENTE
(W) Daniel Kibblesmith (A) Derek Charm (CA) David Lafuente
Class is in session as Valiant's all-ages escapade escalates! As Valiant Universe's best and brightest young minds know all too well, Valiant High isn't your average everyday high school... It's the kind of place where dodgeball is a literal blood sport and trying to find a date to homecoming can be just as stressful as saving the world! But deep within the hero-filled halls of this otherwise prestigious institute, Principal Harada is hiding a mysterious secret...and Valiant High's newest foreign exchange student, Colin "Ninjak" King, is ready to seek out the truth - once he's done giving omega-level nerd Peter Stanchek a cool-kid makeover first, of course! Get ready for second period as rising star Daniel Kibblesmith (QUANTUM AND WOODY!, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert) and Eisner Award-winning artist Derek Charm (Jughead) detail another hysterical day in the life of the world's most talented teenagers, in an incredible all-ages adventure set outside of Valiant's standard superhero continuity!
VAMPBLADE SEASON 3 #4
CVR A COSTA
(W) Jason Martin (A) Marcello Costa (CA) Marcello Costa
You'd think having two Vampblades to battle a foe Katie previously defeated would make things easy. But it's going to take everything they've got to survive this Earth's deadlier, slimier, skeevier Suck Lord!
VAMPBLADE SEASON 3 #4
CVR B COSTA RISQUE
(W) Jason Martin (A) Marcello Costa (CA) Marcello Costa
The past and the present collide as our Brigands attempt to find a way off the Island of Rekik, now under Krantali martial law. But an attack of conscience will turn an assassin into a revolu-tionary. And, an act of rebellion into an act of war. Old lessons will be learned anew. The cost of freedom is paid in blood and so it must always be defended, especially in the darkest hour and against unlikely odds.
VAMPBLADE SEASON 3 #4
CVR C WINSTON YOUNG
(W) Jason Martin (A) Marcello Costa (CA) Winston Young
The past and the present collide as our Brigands attempt to find a way off the Island of Rekik, now under Krantali martial law. But an attack of conscience will turn an assassin into a revolu-tionary. And, an act of rebellion into an act of war. Old lessons will be learned anew. The cost of freedom is paid in blood and so it must always be defended, especially in the darkest hour and against unlikely odds.
VAMPBLADE SEASON 3 #4
CVR D WINSTON YOUNG RISQUE
(W) Jason Martin (A) Marcello Costa (CA) Winston Young
The past and the present collide as our Brigands attempt to find a way off the Island of Rekik, now under Krantali martial law. But an attack of conscience will turn an assassin into a revolu-tionary. And, an act of rebellion into an act of war. Old lessons will be learned anew. The cost of freedom is paid in blood and so it must always be defended, especially in the darkest hour and against unlikely odds.
VAMPBLADE SEASON 3 #4
CVR E MENDOZA
(W) Jason Martin (A) Marcello Costa (CA) Dan Mendoza
The past and the present collide as our Brigands attempt to find a way off the Island of Rekik, now under Krantali martial law. But an attack of conscience will turn an assassin into a revolu-tionary. And, an act of rebellion into an act of war. Old lessons will be learned anew. The cost of freedom is paid in blood and so it must always be defended, especially in the darkest hour and against unlikely odds.
VAMPBLADE SEASON 3 #4
CVR F MENDOZA RISQUE
(W) Jason Martin (A) Marcello Costa (CA) Dan Mendoza
The past and the present collide as our Brigands attempt to find a way off the Island of Rekik, now under Krantali martial law. But an attack of conscience will turn an assassin into a revolu-tionary. And, an act of rebellion into an act of war. Old lessons will be learned anew. The cost of freedom is paid in blood and so it must always be defended, especially in the darkest hour and against unlikely odds.
VAMPIRE HUNTER D NOVEL #6
PILGRIMAGE SACRED & PROFANE
(W) Hideyuki Kikuchi (A) Yoshitaka Amano (CA) Yoshitaka Amano
Granny Viper is a "people finder," a searcher for lost souls along the roads of a forbidding wasteland. Her latest mission: the safe return of a young woman named Tae, kidnapped eight years ago by vampire Nobility and held in Castle Gradinia on the Frontier's far border. But rescuing Tae is only half the battle--Viper knows she and the girl can't cross the formidable expanse to the town of Barnabas alone. After making the fatal mistake of hiring the mercenary Bullow Brothers to help her, Granny turns to the legendary Vampire Hunter D for salvation. As they traverse the bleak desert between the Inner and Outer Frontier, the two women and D find themselves in a race for their lives. And they soon discover how cruel the desert is--and how very ruthless the Bullow Brothers are . . . * Features six illustrations by the renowned Yoshitaka Amano, illustrator of Neil Gaiman's Sandman: The Dream Hunters.
VAMPIRE HUNTER D NOVEL #7
NORTH SEA PT 1
(W) Hideyuki Kikuchi (A) Yoshitaka Amano (CA) Yoshitaka Amano
A girl's dying wish sends D on an impossible quest in this riveting prose novel. Even a reluctant hero can't refuse the last request of a beautiful woman. On her deathbed, the mortally wounded woman gives him a strange gem and asks him to deliver the priceless stone to her sister, far off in a North Sea fishing village. D's journey is made ever more perilous by a series of scoundrels and rogues hired by the girl's murderer. They'll stop at nothing to claim the jewel. Will they catch him? Hideyuki Kikuchi's crackling narrative and Yoshitaka Amano's imaginative artwork make this a must-read entry in the series. Co-published with Digital Manga Publishing.