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LION FORGE

CATALYST PRIME ASTONISHER #13

(W) Christopher Priest (A) Matt Banning (CA) Leo NArdo Colapietro

Desperate to save the life of his brother Drew from the grisly shocker of last issue, Magnus finds that he's failed his brother and family. However, Magnus doesn't do failure-other people fail. Magnus reevaluates and renegotiates, even if that means making a deal with the devil.

LION FORGE

CATALYST PRIME KINO #12

(W) Alex Pak NAdel (A) Adam Guzowski (CA) Frazer Irving

The nightmare continues for Meath as he helplessly surveils the imposter playing house with his own family. But there's hope when Patricia begins to uncover cracks in his surface.

LION FORGE

CATALYST PRIME NOBLE #14

(W) Brandon Thomas (A) Manuel Garcia (CA) Khary Randolph

All eyes are on Astrid Powell as she and her recon NAissance team home in on the ruthless and murderous Esparza. Now that he is within striking distance and the hammer is about to drop, Astrid must decide what to do with the unrepentant killer. Astrid's husband, a.k.a. Noble, has vowed to stay out of her way and let Astrid seal the fate of the man who nearly ruined her, but even vigilante violence seems too good for the seemingly inhuman man who has destroyed countless lives. Given the mayhem Esparza left in his wake, it turns out Astrid isn't the only one with designs on his fate . . .  

LION FORGE

CATALYST PRIME SUPERB #15

(W) David Walker (A) Alitha Martinez (CA) Anthony Piper

It's a new era in the world of Superb, and Jo NAh is stepping up to the plate to take on superhero ing solo. But without Kayla in the picture, things could potentially get shaky.

DC COMICS

(W) Joëlle Jones (A) Joëlle Jones (CA) Joëlle Jones

Seli NA's forced into a seriously sinister Sopranos-style sit-down! While the cops continue to hunt her for a murder she didn't commit, Catwoman's forced to take a meeting with secretive crime boss Mrs. Creel. Here's the pitch: work for us or die! Seli NA counters with some blackmail of her own, but the offer fails to blow away Creel and her meta-crew. That leads to a breakneck chase that drives Catwoman right into the crosshairs of the local authorities.

DC COMICS

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(W) Joëlle Jones (A) Joëlle Jones (CA) Stanley Lau

Seli NA's forced into a seriously sinister Sopranos-style sit-down! While the cops continue to hunt her for a murder she didn't commit, Catwoman's forced to take a meeting with secretive crime boss Mrs. Creel. Here's the pitch: work for us or die! Seli NA counters with some blackmail of her own, but the offer fails to blow away Creel and her meta-crew. That leads to a breakneck chase that drives Catwoman right into the crosshairs of the local authorities.

KODANSHA COMICS

CELLS AT WORK GN #6

(W) Akane Shimizu (A) Akane Shimizu (CA) Akane Shimizu

Strep throat! Hay fever! Influenza! The world is a dangerous place for a red blood cell just trying to get her deliveries finished. Fortu NAtely, she's not alone... she's got a whole human body's worth of cells ready to help out! The mysterious white blood cell, the buff and brash killer T cell, the nerdy neuron, even the cute little platelets; everyone's got to come together if they want to keep you healthy!

D. E.

CHARLIES ANGELS TP #1

(W) John Layman (A) Joe Eisma (CA) Joe Eisma

The Angels are back, baby! -- The origi NAl Angels, Jill, Kelly and Sabri NA! Travel back to the swingin' 70s, and revisit the butt-kicking, crime-fighting, mold-breaking lady detectives who took 70s TV by storm, ready to do the same to comics 40 years later! Break out your bell-bottoms, feather your hair, and jump back to an era of peanut-farmer presidents, gargantuan gas-guzzlers and foxy female detectives... for a globe-trotting adventure that's simply too big and epic for the 70s-era boob tube. Written by elderly Eisner winner and solicitation-writing former-superstar John Layman, and with art by his scrappy but lovable youngster pal, Joe Eisma. This is one graphic novel you DON'T DARE TO MISS!!!!

IMAGE COMICS

CHRONICLES OF HATE COLLECTED ED TP

(W) Adrian Smith (A) Adrian Smith (CA) Adrian Smith

In a world where the sun is frozen and the moon burns, an unlikely hero rises to free the Earth Mother from her chains. This isn't a world for the weak. All we know is HATE. Following the massively successful Kickstarter board game based on inter NAtio NAlly recognized painter ADRIAN SMITH, CHRONICLES OF HATE is recollected in this oversized trade paperback.

SOLO PUBLISHING

CINEMA RETRO #42

The last issue of 2018 celebrates the 40th anniversary of Superman the Movie and includes exclusive interviews with Richard Donner, Ilya Salkind, Pierre Spengler, Margot Kidder, Marc McClure, Sarah Douglas, Jeff East, and Jack O'Halloran. Jo NAthan Dobell remembers the Airport disaster movie franchise, and we have an exclusive unpublished interview with Stella Stevens. All of this, plus an article on the censorship of movie posters, and the 70mm filming of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey makes for an action-packed issue to end the year on!

SOLO PUBLISHING

CINEMA RETRO MOVIE CLASSICS: ROADSHOW EPICS OF THE SIXTIES

Our seventh Movie Classics Special remembers those classic curved-screen reserved seat productions filmed in Pa NAvision Ultra 70 and Pa NAvision Super 70 from the Sixties - Mutiny on the Bounty, Lawrence of Arabia, Fall of the Roman Empire, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and Khartoum. This 80-page issue features rare behind-the-scenes photos and artwork and movie posters. A trip down memory lane to a time when cinema really was a "spectacular" experience!

VERTICAL COMICS

CITY GN #4

(W) Keiichi Arawi (A) Keiichi Arawi (CA) Keiichi Arawi

NAgumo is in a bit of a bind. She's a college student, and like many people in her situation, is struggling with money. She is in debt and her landlord is trying to shake her down for rent. Asking her friends no longer works! They know her deal and they do not have the cash to prop her up, even temporarily. So what is she supposed to do under these circumstances? Well maybe bullying would help. Maybe petty theft? Neither one is realistic. Maybe getting a job would settle things. But that means working and not having fun in the big city. That also means not spending all your earnings before paying your rent. Life in the city is an adventure. Thankfully its a fruitful and entertaining one at that!

KODANSHA COMICS

CLOCKWORK PLANET GN #9

(W) Yuu Kamiya (A) Kuro (CA) Kuro

The science fiction mystery that's now a major anime, from the creator of No Game, No Life! NAoto's a high school dropout and brilliant amateur tinkerer. He lives in a world that has been so over-exploited that the entire surface has become one vast machine. When a box crashes into his home containing a female automaton, it's a harbinger of change that will rock the entire globe, and give NAoto his chance to be a hero.

IMAGE COMICS

COLD SPOTS #5 (OF 5)

(W) Cullen Bunn (A) Mark Torres (CA) Mark Torres

MINISERIES FI NALE Dan has found his missing daughter. She is in the clutches of a fiendish family that wishes to use her connection to the unquiet dead to raise something horrible from beyond the veil. This new spirit is so vicious... so malig NAnt... that its presence could cast the world into the darkness of a super NAtural ice age.

KIM WESTON

COMPLETE CARL BARKS INDEX 2ND ED (CBL 5-19) LARGE PRINT SC

(W) Kim Weston

This book is a comprehensive index and concordance of Carl Barks' Disney comic book work created from late 1946 to early 1958 as published by Fantagraphics Books. It is keyed to the origi NAl comic books, and reprints in the Fantagraphics' series The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. From 1942 until his retirement in 1966, Carl Barks was the most important writer and artist of Do NAld Duck and related comic books, including Uncle Scrooge, as well as the creator of Uncle Scrooge and many of the best-loved characters in the Duck comic books. Each of the almost  9,500 data entries in the Index includes reference to the origi NAl USA comic book publications, with comic book title, issue, and story page numbers. It also includes reference to Fantagraphics acclaimed mass market color hardcover books including volume, and page number, as well as submission dates, based on Carl Barks' perso NAl work records.  These books include what is generally considered to be the highpoint in creativity and quality of writing and drawing in Barks' career as a comic book writer/artist.  The regular and LARGE PRINT editions are identical in content except for the print size and formatting of the Index portion of the book.   The Index covers volumes 5-19 in the series, all in print as of September, 2018.  

KIM WESTON

COMPLETE CARL BARKS INDEX 2ND ED (CBL 5-19) SC

(W) Kim Weston

This book is a comprehensive index and concordance of Carl Barks' Disney comic book work created from late 1946 to early 1958 as published by Fantagraphics Books. It is keyed to the origi NAl comic books, and reprints in the Fantagraphics' series The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. Each of the almost 9,500 data entries in the Index includes reference to the origi NAl USA comic book publications, with comic book title, issue, and story page numbers. It also includes reference to Fantagraphics' hardcover books including volume, and page number, as well as submission dates, based on Carl Barks' perso NAl work records. The regular and large print editions are identical in content except for the print size and formatting of the Index portion of the book. The Index covers volumes 5-19 in the Fantagraphics series, all in print as of September 2018.

ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC

CONSPIRACY #2 (OF 5)

DOPPLEGANGER CVR A COLAPIETRO

(W) Hans Rodionoff (CA) Leo NArdo Colapietro

Have your favorite celebrities been swapped and replaced with clones to help shepherd the masses? Does our government replace those willing to not cooperate with their agenda? Are you next? Find out in this issue as this "theory" is explored.

DC COMICS

(W) Brian Michael Bendis (A) David Mack (CA) David Mack

Max is not having the best year of his career. Sales on his comics series are tanking, and his perso NAl life is crumbling. Could it have something to do with his double life as a spy? Max learns the definition of "in too deep" as his worlds start to collide. COVER is a major new project from longtime collaborators and Peabody Award winners Brian Bendis and Emmy-nomi NAted artist David Mack. It's a heartfelt valentine to comics creators, their creations and the genres they inspire.  

DC COMICS

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(W) Brian Michael Bendis (A) David Mack (CA) Mitch Gerads

Max is not having the best year of his career. Sales on his comics series are tanking, and his perso NAl life is crumbling. Could it have something to do with his double life as a spy? Max learns the definition of "in too deep" as his worlds start to collide. COVER is a major new project from longtime collaborators and Peabody Award winners Brian Bendis and Emmy-nomi NAted artist David Mack. It's a heartfelt valentine to comics creators, their creations and the genres they inspire.  

IMAGE COMICS

CREATURE TECH GN (NEW EDITION)

(W) Doug Ten NApel (A) Doug Ten NApel (CA) Doug Ten NApel

Good battles evil, and the world hangs in the balance! Resurrected by the Shroud of Turin, the zombified Dr. Jameson intends to finish what he started 150 years ago: destroying the earth with a giant space eel. Standing in his way is Dr. Ong, a would-be pastor-turned-scientist who now works in a government research facility infamously known as "Creature Tech." Aided by an unlikely cast of rednecks, symbiotic aliens, and a CIA-trained mantid, Dr. Ong embarks on a journey of faith, love, and self-discovery. All in a day's work at Creature Tech! From DOUG TEN NAPEL, the creator of Earthworm Jim, GEAR, and Ghostopolis, comes this new edition of CREATURE TECH-in full color!

REBELLION / 2000AD

CREEPY CREATIONS HC #1

(W) Ken Reid

Beware all ye who open this book! The creatures contained within, are some of the most bizarre, hilarious and hideous ever to haunt the pages of a comic! For the first time ever, marvel at The Many-Headed Monster from Monmouth! Tremble at the sight of Terry the Tellible! Recoil in horror from The Fork-Eating Spaghetti Spook! And much more besides!  A testament to Ken Reid's artistic genius and his hugely creative imagi NAtion, these illustrations have been collected and lovingly restored in all their (creepy) glory.

DARK HORSE COMICS

CRIMSON LOTUS #2 (OF 5)

(W) Mike Mignola (A) Mindy Lee (CA) Tonci Zonjic

Secret agent Dai and the man he is protecting take a tumultuous train ride across Japanese-occupied Chi NA only to be faced with new allies . . . and new enemies.

AMIGO COMICS

CROSSOVER #0

(W) El Torres (A) Alberto Her NAndez (CA) Alberto Her NAndez

At last! The links between the worlds will be revealed, and the characters of Amigo Comics will meet each other! A series of one-shots where our heroes meet! In this first issue, the Lady of the Chainsaw fights the Survivor of the Apocalypse in a duel to the death... in Hell! NAncy in Hell vs The Apocalypse Girl!

IMAGE COMICS

CROWDED #5

CVR A STEIN BRANDT & FARRELL

(W) Christopher Sebela (A) Ro Stein (CA) Ro Stein

Things go from bad to oh-crap as the Reapr-shaped net of bad hitmen and desperate civilians begins to close around Charlie and Vita. As their library hideout comes under assault and the campaign rolls past two million dollars, the Million Dollar Girl and the 1.4-Star Bodyguard have to make some hard choices. And quickly, because Trotter's master plan is fi NAlly unfolding, all with a little help from Circe.

IMAGE COMICS

CROWDED #5

CVR B GANUCHEAU

(W) Christopher Sebela (A) Ro Stein (CA) Pauli NA Ganucheau

Things go from bad to oh-crap as the Reapr-shaped net of bad hitmen and desperate civilians begins to close around Charlie and Vita. As their library hideout comes under assault and the campaign rolls past two million dollars, the Million Dollar Girl and the 1.4-Star Bodyguard have to make some hard choices. And quickly, because Trotter's master plan is fi NAlly unfolding, all with a little help from Circe.