DARK HORSE, IDW, AND IMAGE COMICS: June 2015 Collected Editions Solicits DARK HORSE Angel & Faith Season 9 Library Edition Volume 2 HC Christos Gage (W), Victor Gischler (W), Rebekah Isaacs (A), David Lapham (A), Paul Lee (A), Lee Garbett (A), Cliff Richards (A), Derek Fridolfs (I), Andy Owens (I), Dan Jackson (C), Cris Peter (C), and Steve Morris (Cover) On sale Aug 12 FC, 280 pages $29.99 HC, 8" x 12 1/4" Willow arrives in London looking for help from Angel so she can get to the fearsome hell dimension Quor’toth and restore magic to earth! And Spike identifies some hard truths when a pack of demons and a succubus rip him from a melancholic reverie and take him on an unexpected adventure. Collects Angel & Faith Volume 3 and Spike: A Dark Place. • Expanded sketchbook and deluxe oversized format. * * * The Art of Satoshi Kon HC Satoshi Kon (A/Cover) On sale Aug 5 b&w, 136 pages $29.99 HC, 8 1/4" x 11 1/2" Director Satoshi Kon blazed a brilliant animation career before his tragic death in 2010 at age forty-six. Now Dark Horse is privileged to remember him and his works through The Art of Satoshi Kon, a beautiful book of Kon’s illustrations for his movies Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, and Paprika, and his television series Paranoia Agent, plus his unfinished The Dreaming Machine, his manga, his commercial art, and several little-known and incomplete projects! • Kon trained under Akira’s Katsuhiro Otomo. • Remembering a master of anime filmmaking. * * * Bowery Boys: Our Fathers HC Cory Levine (W), Ian Bertram (A/Cover), and Brent McKee (A) On sale Aug 5 FC, 208 pages $19.99 HC, 6 5/8" x 10 1/4" When his father is framed for murder, immigrant Nikolaus McGovern rallies a motley crew of street youths in a rip-roaring coming-of-age adventure based on the period history of antebellum New York City! Against a backdrop of rampant political corruption, vicious street gangs, nascent labor reform, and ardent xenophobia, can Niko and his friends triumph in a life-or-death battle against their oppressors—or will they succumb to the engines of socioeconomic progress? • An original graphic novel collecting the acclaimed web series!  * * * Edgar Rice Burroughs’ At the Earth’s Core HC & Ltd. HC Bobby Nash (W) and Jamie Chase (A/Cover) On sale Aug 19 FC, 104 pages $14.99 HC, 7" x 10" On sale Aug 19 FC, 104 pages $49.99 Ltd. HC, 7" x 10" Burroughs’ 1914 pulp-fantasy epic comes to life in a heart-pounding adventure! An heir and an inventor take their "Iron Mole" five hundred miles below the earth’s crust to the world of Pellucidar, crossing paths with the evil Mahars, the ape-like Sagoths, and all manner of prehistoric creatures . . . as well as the lovely Dian the Beautiful! • A work that helped inspire H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness! • The limited edition hardcover with silver embossing is perfect for the family bookshelf. * * * Nanjing: The Burning City HC Ethan Young (W/A/Cover) On sale Aug 19 b&w, 224 pages $24.99 HC, 6" x 9" After the bombs fall, the Imperial Japanese Army seized the Chinese capital of Nanjing. Now screams echo off the rubble as two abandoned Chinese soldiers—trapped and desperately outnumbered inside the walled city—try to escape. What they’ll encounter will haunt them. But in the face of horror, they’ll learn that resistance and bravery cannot be destroyed. • Ethan Young won a 2007 Independent Publisher Book Award for Best Graphic Novel for Tails. • For fans of Maus, Persepolis, and Boxers & Saints  * * * The Usagi Yojimbo Saga Volume 4 TP & Ltd. HC Stan Sakai (W/A/Cover) On sale Aug 26 b&w w/FC, 616 pages $24.99 TP, 7" x 10" On sale Aug 26 b&w w/FC, 616 pages $79.99 Ltd. HC, 7" x 10" Miyamoto Usagi’s past returns as he fights alongside his former teacher and struggles with the knowledge that his traveling companion Jotaro is his son! The Neko ninja and fan-favorite character Sasuké the Demon Queller reappear, and a manga classic is paid tribute in "Lone Goat and Kid"! Collects Usagi Yojimbo Volume Three #53–#75! • Over 600 pages of Stan Sakai’s enduring samurai masterpiece! • Full-color cover gallery! • Also available in a signed and numbered hardcover edition, limited to 900 copies! * * * Conan Volume 17: Shadows over Kush TP Fred Van Lente (W), Brian Ching (A), Eduardo Francisco (A), Michael Atiyeh (C), and Daryl Mandryk (Cover) On sale Aug 5 FC, 152 pages $19.99 TP, 7" x 10" Conan drinks himself into a stupor while in the city of Shumballa—until an act of thievery propels him into a witch hunt of adventure, demons, and rebellion! Fred Van Lente writes the world’s most famous barbarian in this collection of issues #1–#6 of Dark Horse Comics’ Conan the Avenger. * * * Empowered Volume 9 TP Adam Warren (W/A) On sale Aug 19 b&w, 208 pages $17.99 TP, 6 1/2" x 9" Already under suspicion and suspended from her superteam, costumed crime fighter Empowered finds herself the bewildered target of every major supervillain in the cape-and-tights field for her supposed access to alien technology. Underestimated as she is, can our long-suffering but plucky heroine outwit her tormentors—and escape the sinister Fleshmaster’s revenge? * * * Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952 TP Mike Mignola (W/Cover), John Arcudi (W), Alex Maleev (A), and Dave Stewart (C) On sale Aug 12 FC, 144 pages $19.99 TP, 7" x 10" A bizarre series of murders and rumors of something worse lead Professor Bruttenholm to send a young Hellboy to a Brazilian village on his first mission. Hellboy and a small group of agents uncover something terrible in the shadows of a sixteenth-century Portuguese fortress . . . Collects the five-issue miniseries. • Alex Maleev returns to Dark Horse! * * * The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus Edition Book One TP Eiji Otsuka (W), Housui Yamazaki (A), and Bunpei Yorifuji (Cover) On sale Aug 19 b&w, 640 pages $19.99 TP, 5 1/8" x 7 1/4" Five spiritualist students at a Buddhist college in Japan realize the job market is tough these days . . . among the living, that is! But the dead need jobs done too, so the five form the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, carrying out the last wishes of their cadaverous clients, so their souls can move on. But the Kurosagi gang are magnets for weirdness—not just corpses—and every case gets them involved in disturbing personal obsessions, bizarre modern Tokyo fads, and strange rituals of old Japan! Collects The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Volumes 1–3.   * * * The Mighty Skullboy Army Volume 1 Second Edition TP Jacob Chabot (W/A/Cover) On sale Aug 5 b&w, 104 pages $14.99 TP, 6" x 9" This remastered edition of The Mighty Skullboy Army Volume 1 sports a new cover, includes revised story pages, and is reformatted to match Volume 2! Celebrated all-ages comics creator Jacob Chabot (SpongeBob Comics, X-Babies, Hello Kitty) gets the first thrilling volume of Skullboy’s adventures back in print! A Best Publication for Teens 2008 Eisner Award nominee!  * * * Sundowners Volume 2 TP Tim Seeley (W), Jim Terry (A), Sean Dove (C), and Juan Ferreyra (Cover) On sale Aug 26 FC, 168 pages $19.99 TP, 7" x 10" When the Sundowners are on the run from the Chicago police, a stopover in Detroit uncovers the Motor City’s supervillain underbelly! Meet Mr. Christmas and his little helpers—he knows when you're sleeping, and he's not too happy that the Sundowners are coming to town . . . Collects Sundowners #7–#11. • An original graphic novel collecting never-before-seen material!  * * * VEDA: Assembly Required TP Samuel Teer (W) and Hyeondo Park (A/Cover) On sale Aug 5 FC, 128 pages $14.99 TP, 6" x 9" Beneath a factory floor lives an orphaned girl named Veda. Watched over by the diligent Assembly, a robot that works the production line, Veda discovers a unique power—she can speak to machines! Under the tutelage of Assembly, she learns the three laws of the machines . . . But it’s the unspoken secret fourth law—avoid the Gremlin—that piques young Veda’s interest and leads her down a dangerous and compromising path on a journey of self-discovery.   IDW PUBLISHING Miracleman Artifact Edition HC The Original Writer (w) Garry Leach, Alan Davis, John Totleben, and more (a) John Totleben (c) Miracleman was launched 30 years ago in the now legendary Warrior magazine. It turned the concept of "super-hero" on its ear with big ideas that helped redefine an entire genre... when Miracleman fought Kid Miracleman on the streets of London... well, things would never be the same. And then there was the art. Miracle Man had a true knack for bringing out the best work from extraordinary artists. Starting with co-creator Garry Leach, followed by Alan Davis (and others) and finishing with one of the most amazing endings in comics history by the phenomenal John Totleben, Miracle Man was a work of art painted on a grand canvas, unlike anything before or since. HC • BW • $95.00 net discount item • 144 Pages • 15" x 20" * * * Mike Zeck's Classic Marvel Stories Artist's Edition HC J.M. DeMatteis, Steven Grant, David Anthony Kraft, Jim Shooter (w) Mike Zeck (a & c) Mike Zeck is one of the classic artists of the 1980s, at the forefront of many of the best books and in demand by fans and editors alike. This unique Artist's Edition showcases some of Zeck's finest works—the first two issues of the initial Punisher miniseries, the first issue of Secret Wars, a classic two-part Captain America story (featuring Deathlok, Nick Fury and Spider-Man), and the first part of what is arguable one of the best Spider-Man sagas ever done... Kraven's Last Hunt! Additionally, there are extensive covers throughout, including many of Zeck's best! HC • BW • $95.00 net discount item • 192 Pages • 12" x 17" * * * Ghostbusters: Mass Hysteria Oversized HC Erik Burnham (w) Dan Schoening, Doc Shaner (a) Dan Shoening (c) Mass Hysteria collects the last 20 issues of the Ghostbusters series written by Erik Burnham with art by Dan Schoening, plus an art gallery, backup stories, and a new introduction by "Ray Stantz" himself, Dan Aykroyd! HC • FC • $49.99 • 460 pages • 7" x 11" * * * X-Files Classics: Season One, Vol. 2 HC Roy Thomas (w) Alexander Saviuk, Val Mayerik, John Van Fleet, Sean Scoffield (a) Paul Shipper (c) Collects the last four issues of adaptations of the first season by Topps Comics; "Space," "Fire," "Beyond The Sea," and "Shadows." HC • FC • $29.99 • 188 pages * * * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection, Vol. 6 HC Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, and various (w & a) Kevin Eastman (c) The Ultimate Collection returns! The celebrated hardcover series collecting all the most important TMNT work by Eastman and Laird is back to present the best of the one-shots and short stories. Whether handled as a team or on their own with another creator, these stories expand the universe of TMNT and established the characters and story lines that are today so loved and revered. HC • FC • $49.99 • 256 pages • 9" x 12" * * * Skylanders: Return of the Dragon King HC Ron Marz, David A. Rodriguez (w) Fico Ossio, Mike Bowden (a) Fico Ossio (c) One of Spyro's most malevolent and powerful enemies makes his Skylanders debut! And nothing Spyro, Hex, Cynder or the rest of the Skylanders do can prepare them for the evil that is about to be unleashed! The return of the first purple dragon, MALEFOR!!! HC • FC • $9.99 • 80 pages • 6" x 9" * * * American Barbarian: The Complete Series HC Tom Scioli (w & a & c) American Barbarian is a pop art odyssey from the artist and co-author of Transformers vs. G.I. JOE. A red-white-and-blue-haired hero must defend a post-post-apocalyptic world from the immortal Two-Tank Omen. HC • FC • $29.99 • 256 pages • 6" x 9" * * * Inks, Drinks, and Catfinks! The Custom Cartoon Art of Shawn Dickinson HC Shawn Dickinson (a & c) Shawn Dickinson's first deluxe art book! Influenced by old comic strips, 1930's rubber hose cartoons, 1960's "kustom culture" art, pin-up art, and MAD magazine, this collection of cartoons, paintings, comics, and illustrations from the past decade covers a wide range of his personal art as well as professional illustration work for rock bands, companies such as Fender Guitars, Shaun White's clothing line, and much more. If you're a fan of cartoony art featuring surf= and hot-rod culture, rock n' roll art, beer drinking cats, sexy cartoon go-go girls, and bug-eyed weirdos, this book is for you! HC • FC • $39.99 • 224 pages • 11" x 11" * * * Bravo For Adventure HC Alex Toth (w & a & c) Alex Toth's magnum opus, collected in its entirety for the first time ever! This deluxe hardcover edition contains all three of The Genius's stories starring Jesse Bravo, knock-about pilot and reluctant swashbuckler, including the original graphic novel that's been out of print for 30 years. Also included are never-before-seen pencil roughs, preliminary drawings, and story fragments, as well as Toth's own coloring samples for an edition that never saw print, and—freed from storage after 40 years—some of the coloring for what was intended to be Bravo's original 1975 first printing in France! The ultimate Bravo for Adventure, published by special arrangement with the Toth family! HC • PC • $34.99 • 100 pages • 9.5" x 13" * * * The Amazing Spider-Man: The Ultimate Newspaper Comics Collection, Volume 1! 1977-1978 HC Stan Lee (w) John Romita (a & c) The wondrous wall-crawler's long-running newspaper strip by Stan Lee, John Romita, and others is given the deluxe Library of American Comics treatment, with all Sundays in color and integrated with the dailies—just as they originally appeared in newspapers worldwide. Edited by Bruce Canwell, this first volume includes the complete strips from the series start in 1977 through the end of 1978. HC • PC • $49.99 • 312 pages • 11" x 8.5" * * * Monster Motors TPB Brian Lynch (w) Nick Roche (a & c) In Transylvania, Kentucky, genius mechanic Vic Frankenstein and his android assistant iGOR battle Cadillacula, an evil vampire-car that sucks gas out of other vehicles! Also getting in on the action is Minivan Helsing, four-wheeled monster-hunter! Collects the one-shot, the two-part story "The Curse of Minivan Helsing," and a special all-new story featuring...Witchcraft Carrier! TPB • FC • $17.99 • 104 pages * * * My Little Pony: Pageants & Ponies TPB Various (w & a & c) Revisit the habitants of Equestria and learn about the magic that friendship brings in this adaptation of the television series episodes "Family Appreciation Day" and "Hearth's Warming Eve." TPB • FC • $7.99 • 132 pages • 5" x 7" * * * My Little Pony: FIENDship is Magic TPB Jeremy Whitley, Christina Rice, Ted Anderson, Heather Nuhfer, Katie Cook (w) Brenda Hickey, Tony Fleecs, Agnes Garbowska, Andy Price (a) Amy Mebberson (c) Fiendship is Magic explores the secret origins of Equestria's greatest villains: Sombra, Tirek, Sirens, Nightmare Moon, and Queen Chrysalis! TPB • FC • $19.99 • 120 pages * * * Transformers: Drift: Empire of Stone TPB Shane McCarthy (w) Guido Guidi (a) Alex Milne (c) DRIFT RETURNS! After leaving the Autobots in disgrace, he's now alone on a mission to clean up the darkest depths of the galaxy—until RATCHET shows up to try to bring him home! Also contains bonus content including creator interviews, behind-the-scenes info, an art gallery, and more! TPB • FC • $19.99 • 132 pages * * * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol. 11: Attack on Technodrome TPB Tom Waltz, Kevin Eastman (w) Cory Smith (a & c) Time is short as Krang accelerates his plan to terraform the Earth, which will kill all who live on it! A surprise alliance results in a daring plan—and the stakes have never been higher! Collects issues #41–44. TPB • FC • $17.99 • 104 page * * * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Animated, Vol. 6: Vengeance is Mine TPB Various (w & a & c) Re-live the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon action in this young reader volume that adapts the episodes from Season Two, "The Return of Tiger Claw" and "Vengeance is Mine," and reveal amazing secrets about Karai! TPB • FC • $7.99 • 136 pages • 5" x 7" * * * Star Trek: New Visions, Vol. 2 TPB John Byrne (w & a & c) John Byrne presents all-new, feature length tales set in the Star Trek: The Original Series universe, done in a unique, photomontage style. Collects the stories "Cry Vengeance," "Made Out of Mudd," "A Scent of Ghosts," and "Memorium," plus a special bonus: an all-new "Gold Key" crossover story you never expected with an ending you won't believe! TPB • FC • $19.99 • 144 pages * * * Bacchus: Omnibus Edition, Vol. 1 TPB Eddie Campbell (w & a & c) Eddie Campbell's BACCHUS is a true epic, spanning a decade of work, over a thousand pages, and several millennia of alcohol consumption. In BACCHUS, the visionary behind FROM HELL (with Alan Moore) and ALEC: THE YEARS HAVE PANTS presents his version of "an American-style comic book," filtered through his own brilliant, whimsical, and wide-ranging sensibility. With a fine blend of action, comedy, suspense, and an ear for a great story, BACCHUS brings the gods and myths of ancient Greece to modern life, as if they had never left. Nearly 600 pages, this deluxe volume collects the first half of the BACCHUS saga (including Immortality Isn't Forever, The Gods of Business, Doing the Islands with Bacchus, The Eyeball Kid: One Man Show, and Earth, Water, Air & Fire) with new notes and commentary by the author. TPB • B&W • $39.99 • 576 pages • 7.5" x 10" * * * Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury TPB Joe Hill, Jason Ciaramella, Neil Gaiman, Mort Castle, Audrey Niffeneffer, Harlan Ellison, Sam Weller, Dave Eggers, Charles Yu, Alice Hoffman (w) Charles Paul Wilson III, Maria Frohlich, Eddie Campbell, Mark Sexton, Matthew Dow Smith, Christine Larsen, S L Gallant, Chris Evenhuis (a) Charles Paul Wilson III (c) Acclaimed writers and artists come together to pay tribute to the one and only Ray Bradbury in these adaptations of nine short stories such as "By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain," "The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury," "Backward in Seville," and more TPB • FC • $19.99 • 128 pages * * * Creeple Peeple TPB Matt Anderson & Patrick Pidgeon (w) Tim Lattie (a & c) It's weird science gone wild! A trio of gifted lab students hatches a bizarre scheme that runs amok when they inadvertently create a mystical bunch of wildly creepy troll-creatures that wreak havoc on campus. TPB • FC • $17.99 • 100 pages * * * Dungeons & Dragons: Abraxis Wren of Eberron TPB Paul Crilley, Keith Baker (w) Valerio Schiti, Paco Diaz, Atilio Rojo, Chris Lie (a) menton3 (c) Eberron holds many wonders, from dragonmarks to warforges, deadly dungeons to elemental airships. As the shadows of evil and conspiracy threaten to envelop the land, heroes of prophecy come forth to save the day. Collects the 2012 Annual, Infestation 2: Dungeons & Dragons, and Eye of the Wolf. TPB • FC • $19.99 • 148 pages * * * Creature Cops: Special Varmint Unit TPB Rob Anderson (w) Fernando Melek, Novo Malgap (a) Leandro Panganiban & Steve Bird (c) Patchwork, hybrid animals are everywhere, and it's up to the Creature Cops to deal with them! From escaped gator-snakes to neglected Horned Mastiffs, burned out veteran Kaminski and his partner Marita Vasquez think they've seen it all... until they discover a nest of griffins, and end up on the trail of a ten-year-old cold case that nearly ended Kaminski's career—and life! TPB • FC • $17.99 • 100 pages * * * Saved by the Bell, Vol. 1 TPB Joelle Sellner (w) Chynna Clugston Flores, Tim Fish (a) Chynna Clugston Flores (c) All your favorite characters–Zack, Slater, Kelly, Lisa, Screech, and Jessie (and Mr. Belding, of course!)–are back at Bayside High for freshman year, trading in brick phones and mullets for iPhones and Twitter accounts. TPB • FC • $12.99 • 112 pages * * * Wonderous: The Adventures of Claire Sinclair, Vol. 1 TPB Joelle Sellner (w) Rick Burchett (a) Photo (c) Meet real-life icon Claire Sinclair, recast here as a financially struggling college student who volunteers for a medical study for some quick cash... and ends up superpowers! When she realizes that her ex-boyfriend also has powers that he's using to go on a citywide crime spree, it's super-villain vs. superhero—but will old feelings get in the way? TPB • FC • $14.99 • 124 pages * * * Dead Squad TPB Matthew Federman & Stephen Scaia (w) Michael Montenat (a) Howard Chaykin (c) Three highly trained Delta Force Operators embark on a high-stakes mission to obtain a mysterious serum. But when they are betrayed by one of their own, securing the drug immediately becomes a matter of life, death, and their own resurrection. TPB • FC • $19.99 IMAGE COMICS GØDLAND CELESTIAL EDITION, VOL. 3 HC story: JOE CASEY & TOM SCIOLI art / cover: TOM SCIOLI JUNE 24 / 360 PAGES / FC / T+ / $34.99 THE BOOK THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE! The final edition of the Eisner Award-nominated CELESTIAL EDITION hardcover series is here! This is how the universe ends! All of your favorites are back: Adam Archer! Basil Cronus! Friedrich Nickelhead! And the ultimate secret of Iboga! If you've never experienced the cosmic wonder of GØDLAND, this is your last chance! Also included: a galaxy full of quantum extras! Collects GØDLAND #25-36 & GØDLAND FINALE * * * IXth GENERATION, VOL. 1 TP story: MATT HAWKINS art / cover: STJEPAN SEJIC JUNE 24 / 160 PAGES / FC / T+ / $14.99 In the future there is no more natural death, no needs unfilled and everything you could ever want is yours…as long as you're one of the chosen ones to live in this new Utopia and you're willing to subjugate yourself to these new self-proclaimed gods with IXs emblazoned on them. Do the ends truly justify the means? Is a utopia built on genocide worth the price? Aphrodite, Velocity, Hades and the other Nines establish fiefdoms in this new world and attempt to rule. Their internal clashes have escalated, but they are forced to put that aside as they face off against the relentless hordes of the Darkness. The sins of the past have come to claim those who would pretend to be Gods. Collects IXTH GENERATION #1-4 and IXTH GENERATION: HIDDEN FILES #1   * * * RASPUTIN, VOL. 1 TP story: ALEX GRECIAN art / cover: RILEY ROSSMO JUNE 24 / 136 PAGES / FC / M / $14.99 In one night Rasputin was poisoned, beaten, stabbed, shot in the head, and drowned, then tied up and thrown in a frozen river. But how did he get from Siberia to the Winter Palace? And why was it so hard to kill him? A supernatural reimagining of the "mad monk." Collects RASPUTIN #1-5   * * * THE AUTUMNLANDS, VOL. 1: TOOTH & CLAW TP story: KURT BUSIEK art / cover: BENJAMIN DEWEY colors: JORDIE BELLAIRE lettering: COMICRAFT JUNE 3 / 184 PAGES / FC / M / $9.99 SPECIAL LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE OF $9.99! The debut collection of the hit epic-fantasy series. When the wizards of the Autumnlands reach through time to bring back a legendary hero, they don't get the savior they expected. But in a shattered, besieged city, he's their only hope of survival—and possibly their entire world's, as well. Collects THE AUTUMNLANDS: TOOTH & CLAW #1-6 * * * C.O.W.L., VOL. 2: THE GREATER GOOD TP story: KYLE HIGGINS & ALEC SIEGEL art: ROD REIS cover: TREVOR MCCARTHY JUNE 24 / 128 PAGES / FC / M / $14.99 With super villain threats a problem of the past, a strike on his hands, and scandal on the horizon, Geoffrey Warner has taken drastic steps to breathe life back into the Chicago Organized Workers League. But how far will his false-flag operation reach? Is there any line he won't cross for "the greater good?" Collects C.O.W.L. #7-11 * * * CRIMINAL, VOL. 5: THE SINNERS TP story: ED BRUBAKER art / cover: SEAN PHILLIPS JUNE 3 / 144 PAGES / FC / M / $14.99 Tracy Lawless returns with a vengeance in this strikingly-designed new edition from Image Comics. One year after the events of CRIMINAL, VOL. 2: LAWLESS, Tracy Lawless is still a man caught between a history of violence and his own conscience. And now the worst bad guy in the world is tasked with a new job: Solving a series of murders of untouchable crime lords. CRIMINAL returns to its hard-hitting pulp roots! * * * DANGER CLUB, VOL. 2: LIFE TP story: LANDRY Q. WALKER art / cover: ERIC JONES JUNE 10 / 120 PAGES / FC / $9.99 It is Kid Vigilante's' darkest hour as he travels through the labyrinth of Hell in order to battle the Gods. Can the teenage sidekicks stop the all-powerful cosmic menace from devouring existence, or will their universe itself be rewritten into a sick parody of what it once was? All will face death in this conclusion to the critically-acclaimed superhero epic by Landry Q. Walker, Eric Jones, and Rusty Drake. Collects DANGER CLUB #5-8   * * * DRIFTER, VOL 1: OUT OF THE NIGHT TP story: IVAN BRANDON art / cover: NIC KLEIN JUNE 17 / 128 PAGES / FC / M / $9.99 SPECIAL LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE OF $9.99! Abram Pollux barely survives a crash landing on Ouro, a lawless backwater planet, only to end up on the wrong end of a bullet. What starts as a struggle for survival quickly becomes a journey to the very edges of what it means to be human, as Pollux searches for answers among the ruins of this forgotten world. And if he can't have answers, he'll at least have his revenge. Catch up on the first collection of IVAN BRANDON & NIC KLEIN's seminal sci-fi epic before the story continues in July with DRIFTER #6. Collects DRIFTER #1-5 * * * THE FUSE, VOL. 2 GRIDLOCK TP story: ANTONY JOHNSTON art / cover: JUSTIN GREENWOOD JUNE 3 / 160 PAGES / FC / M / $14.99 22,000 MILES UP, THERE IS (STILL) NO BACKUP. They call it "Gridlocking"—maglev-bike races across the Fuse's vast solar arrays. Fast, dangerous, and very illegal. So when the #1 gridlock racer turns up dead, Klem and Ralph begin their own race to catch a killer...in a case that will force them into the dark underbellies of drug smuggling and terrorism in zero-g! "Comic of the year... Deserves to be on the Hugo ballot." — The Angriest Collects THE FUSE #7-12 * * * GHOSTED, VOL. 4: GHOST TOWN TP story: JOSHUA WILLIAMSON art: VLADIMIR KRSTIC, JUAN JOSE RYP, GORAN SUDZUKA, & MIROSLAV MRVA cover: MATTEO SCALERA JUNE 10 / 120 PAGES / FC / M / $12.99 In a newly created ghost town, a portal to the afterlife has emerged—setting the stage for the greatest heist of Jackson's career. Collects GHOSTED #16-20 * * * INVINCIBLE, VOL. 21 TP story: ROBERT KIRKMAN art: RYAN OTTLEY, CLIFF RATHBURN, & JEAN-FRANCOIS BEAULIEU cover: RYAN OTTLEY & JEAN-FRANCOIS BEAULIEU JUNE 17 / 152 PAGES / FC / T+ / $16.99 In the aftermath of Robot's attempt to take over the world, the few survivors that remain must pick up the pieces of a world once familiar...but now completely alien. Collects INVINCIBLE #115-120 * * * POSTAL, VOL. 1 TP story: BRYAN HILL & MATT HAWKINS art: ISAAC GOODHART cover: LINDA SEJIC JUNE 24 / 128 PAGES / FC / T+ / $9.99 SPECIAL LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE OF $9.99! The first volume of Top Cow's bold new ongoing series POSTAL brings readers into the fictional town of Eden, Wyoming, a place founded by criminals for criminals. A place where, despite its inhabitants, no crime is allowed. Local postman Mark Shiffron has Asperger's, and through his peculiar eyes we see a town struggling to keep its fragile peace, a town on the constant brink of chaos. When a murdered woman's body is found on Eden's main street, Mark's need to solve her crime leads him into darkness and truth about the town he's known his entire life and the hidden realms of his own psychology. Co-writers BRYAN HILL & MATT HAWKINS work with newcomer ISAAC GOODHART to take an unflinching look at the cost of justice and the price of redemption through a tale set in the murky soul of America's heartland. Collects POSTAL #1-4 * * * REYN, VOL. 1: WARDEN OF FATE TP story: KEL SYMONS art / cover: NATHAN STOCKMAN JUNE 17 / 128 PAGES / FC / T+ / $9.99 SPECIAL LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE OF $9.99! Freelance swordsman and monster-hunter Reyn is the last of the legendary "Wardens" whose ranks long ago faded from the land of Fate into myth. Not exactly a white knight, Reyn's haunted by visions from his "guiding angel" Aurora, who sets him on a great quest against the mysterious Venn, teaming him with Seph, a woman with witch-like powers. Together they discover Fate holds an incredible secret. Collects REYN #1-5 * * * RUMBLE, VOL. 1: WHAT COLOR OF DARKNESS? TP story: JOHN ARCUDI art / cover: JAMES HARREN JUNE 24 / 144 PAGES / FC / M / $9.99 SPECIAL LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE OF $9.99! A Scarecrow Warrior God walks into a bar...and proceeds to drag a modern American city into a ten-thousand-year-old grudge-match! A bizarre new adventure—complete with boozehound shamans, monster queens, and a football-fetching hydra! Featuring an extended sketchbook section and a few surprises! Collects RUMBLE #1-5 * * * THE WICKED + THE DIVINE, VOL. 2: FANDEMONIUM TP story: KIERON GILLEN art / cover: JAMIE MCKELVIE & MATT WILSON JUNE 10 / 176 PAGES / FC / M / $14.99 The critically-lauded best-selling hyphen-abusing series of stardom, divinity, and death returns with a second volume that's even grander than the first, because it contains six issues instead of five. THE FAUST ACT is over. Welcome to FANDEMONIUM. Includes cover gallery and anything else we'll cram in the back, because we just can't help ourselves. Collects THE WICKED + THE DIVINE #6-11