IDW Publishing has released previews of this week’s arrivals, including Jem Misfits #2, Uncle Scrooge #23, Back to the Future #16, Box Office Poison Color Comics #2, Donald Quest #4, Electric Sublime #4, Ghostbusters Annual 2017, Haunted Horror #26, Jem & The Holograms Annual 2017, Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me #5, My Little Pony Friendship is Magic #50, Popeye Classics i#55, Transformers Lost Light #2, and Yakuza Demon Killers #4, as well as several hardcovers and trade paperbacks.
Previews:
America’s Best Comics: Artist’s Edition HC
Alan Moore (w) • Arthur Adams, Hilary Barta, Gene Ha, Kevin Nowlan, Paul Rivoche, Chris Sprouse, Rick Veitch, J.H. Williams III (a) • Chris Sprouse (c)
Alan Moore was the braintrust behind America’s Best Comics, one of the most acclaimed imprints in the history of comics. Comprised of four main titles: Tom Strong, Top10, Promethea, and the anthology Tomorrow Stories, the ABC line paired Moore with the finest artists in comics. This volume will present a beautiful overview of the ABC line, including complete stories from Promethea #10 (Eisner Award-winner for best issue of the year) and Top 10 #7. Additionally, a fine selection of shorter stories featuring Tom Strong, Jack B. Quick, Splash Brannigan, and Greyshirt will be included. Plus a stunning gallery section. The best stories by the best artists in the best format!
HC • BW • $95.00 net cost item • 216 pages • 12” x 17” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-757-4
Bullet points:
- Advance solicited for November release!
- The ABC line won a total of 12 MAJOR Eisner Awards, including: Best Writer (four times), Best Artist, Best Single Issue (twice), Best Serialized Story, Best Continuing Series, Best New Series, Best Anthology, and Best Graphic Novel!
Back to the Future #16
Bob Gale, John Barber (w) • Emma Vieceli (a & c)
WHO IS MARTY McFLY?!? And why are there so many on the loose in 1986?! Marty and Doc finally get some answers, but they might not like where those answer take them… and they’re definitely not going to like WHEN it takes ’em!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
- Part of IDW’s Artist’s Edition Cover Month!
Box Office Poison Color Comics #2
Alex Robinson (w & a & c)
Sherman’s frustration with his job grows and grows… while the story of Jane and Stephen’s relationship is revealed!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
- Winner of the Eisner Award for Talent Deserving Wider Recognition, the International Comics Festival Award for Best Debut Graphic Novel (Angouleme, France), and voted by Wizard Magazine as the best indy graphic novel of all time.
- “A salute to comics, an exploration of the human condition, and a solid, absorbing, and riotously snide tale about at least half of the things that make life important.” — Tasha Robinson, The AV Club
- Each issue will be presented in color for the very first time!
Chester 5000: Isabelle & George
Jess Fink (w & a & c)
1889: an age of industrial revolution and sexual frustration. Isabelle is a lonely orphan, reprimanded at every turn by her strict matron. George is an inventor on the cusp of a brilliant discovery. Together they find love, but in an age of violent mechanization and military secrets, can their passion survive?
After the smash success of CHESTER 5000’s first volume (the tale of a Victorian woman and her robot lover), beloved web-cartoonist Jess Fink returns with another triumphant story of boundary-breaking love, sex, and technology. Discover the origins of your favorite characters along with all-new thrills. All the drama and adventure of the silent film era is here, enlivened with modern whimsy and erotic charm.
HC • BW • $14.95 • 184 pages • 6.5” x 7.5” • ISBN: 978-1-93656-169-8
Bullet points:
- “A woman-friendly, couple-friendly book destined to become a perennial in sex-positive toy and book stores.” — The Comics Journal
- Fink’s storytelling is as likely to pluck on your heartstrings as get you all steamed up.” — The Guardian
- Adults Only (18+)
Donald Quest #4 (of 5)
Stefano Ambrosio, Chantal Pericoli, Pat McGreal (w) • Stefano Zanchi (a) • Stefano Zanchi (c)
“Rock Racers!” As evil Emil Eagle reaches the Trembling Anvil—Feudarnia’s last, best hope against the Meteorbeast invasion!—desperate Donald is trapped in the villains’ Dragon Moon lair, forced to fight Pegleg Pete and his gang in a thrilling battle of wits!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
- As Donald’s great steampunk miniseries rolls on, the whole Disney rogues’ gallery is here—from the Beagle Boys and Magica De Spell to Pegleg Pete and the Phantom Blot!
- Variant cover by Andrea Freccero!
The Electric Sublime #4 (of 4)
W. Maxwell Prince (w) • Martin Morazzo (a & c)
Arc finale! Featuring famous works by Rene Magritte, Georges Seurat, Edward Hopper, and Pablo Picasso, this is the blood- and paint-splattered chapter you’ve been waiting for!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
- From the writer of Judas: The Last Days (IDW) and the artist of Great Pacific and Snowfall (Image)!
- The X-Files meets Alice in Wonderland, by way of The Da Vinci Code!
Ghostbusters Annual 2017
Erik Burnham (w) • Dan Scoening, Rachel Stott, Corin Howell, Erik Evensen (a) • San Schoening (c)
Join us for this special double-sized annual, featuring Ghostbusters past, present… and future! Learn the origin of Slimer! Witness a crazy bust in the Midwest with the Chicago Ghostbusters! Find out what Winston Zeddemore was up to during the Scolari Brothers incident in Ghostbusters 2! And peek into the future at the next generation of Ghostbusters… and much more! Be there or be slimed!
FC • 48 pages • $7.99
Bullet points:
- The secret origin of Slimer and much more!
- Part of IDW’s 2017 Annual Offensive! Over-sized and action-packed key stories in a deluxe format!
Ghostbusters International, Vol. 2
Erik Burnham (w) • Dan Schoening, Rachael Stott (a) • Dan Schoening (c)
The team is still on the move as they head to Puerto Rico and Ireland as ghosts all over the world need to be busted, while Egon chases a mystery about a powerful Scandinavian spell book. Collects issues #6–11.
TPB • FC • $19.99 • 132 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-834-2
Bullet points:
- “One of the best paced and best written series out there. Artist, writer, and colorist working together in perfect harmony.” –Big Comic Page
Haunted Horror #26
Various (w & a) • Bernard Baily (c)
The second sickening installment in THE HORRORS OF IT ALL! Featuring terrifying tales as chosen by Steve “Mr. Karswell” Banes! A surprisingly vicious issue highlighted by a terror-ific Bernard Baily cover, as well more severed head stories inside than you can swing a sharp edged stick at! Yes, if this one doesn’t scare you—you’re already dead!
FC • 32 pages • $4.99
Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me #5 (of 5)
Devin Faraci (w) • Vic Malhotra (a & c)
Jim Thompson’s sinewy, brutal, and beloved novel comes to a disturbing climax. Small-town deputy Lou Ford seems a little slow and a little boring on the surface, but underneath hides a sickness that has reared its ugly head once again and left a trail of bodies in its wake…
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
- Variant covers by Robert Hack (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina).
- “Probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally-warped mind I have ever encountered.” —Stanley Kubrick
Jem and the Holograms Annual 2017
Kelly Thompson (w) • M. Victoria Robado, Maria Jose Barros, Svanna Ganucheau, Katarzyna Witerscheim, Gisele Lagace (a) • W. Scott Forbes (c)
The Starlight Girls have been writing and drawing an “exquisite corpse” style fan fiction comic that re-imagines their favorite pop stars — Jem & The Holograms — as pop-stars by day and renegade space heroes by night. Follow the adventures of Jem and The Holograms as you’ve never seen them before — superheroes fighting to save the universe from the evil Majestrix Pizzazz and her…army of Mecha-Spider-Pizzes!?!? OMG.
FC • 48 pages • $7.99
Jem: The Misfits #2
Kelly Thompson (w) • Jenn St. Onge (a) • M. Victoria Robado (c)
OUR SONGS ARE BETTER Part Two! The band is getting a whole new taste of fame via an intrusive “MISFITS!” reality TV show and it’s pushing on everyone’s most vulnerable buttons – none more so than Stormer — who’s reliving her early days of fame and the nasty things that came with it. How did Stormer not only survive but blossom in the often toxic court of public opinion? And will she be able to do it again?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
- Learn how The Misfits first came together!
- Will a Misfits Reality Show be the thing that will finally tear them apart… forever?!
- Misfit’s first ever series of their own!
- Variant cover by Derek Charm!
Judge Dredd: The Brendan McCarthy Collection
John Wagner, Alan Grant, Al Ewing (w) • Brendan McCarthy (a & c)
Ground-breaking artist Brendan McCarthy has been at the fore-front of independent comics since the early 1980s as well as the TV and film industry, including co-writing and designing Mad Max Fury Road. This oversized hardcover collection showcases all of his stories and covers for Judge Dredd including “Oz,” “The Day the Law Died,” “Dr. Panic,” “Atlantis,” and more!
HC • PC • $49.99 • 200 pages • 9.25” x 12” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-824-3
Bullet points:
- Lead Designer on Mad Max Fury Road!
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #50
Ted Anderson (w) • Andy Price (a & c)
“Chaos Theory” Part 3 (of 3). Discord’s new form threatens to take over all of Equestria! When the Elements of Harmony prove ineffective, the final gambit rests in Starlight Glimmer’s hoofs!
FC • 40 pages • $5.99
Bullet points:
- The landmark 50th issue of My Little Pony!
- Part of IDW’s Artist’s Edition Cover Month!
- Variant cover by Sara Richard!
My Little Pony: Friends Forever, Vol. 8
Ted Anderson, Christina Rice, Tony Fleecs (w) • Brenda Hickey, Agnes Garbowska, Tony Fleecs, Jay Fosgitt (a) • Trish Forstner (c)
Five tales of friends and fun! Rarity tries to help Maud Pie discover her inner enthusiasm; Twilight visits Cadance in the Crystal Empire; Little Strongheart asks Rainbow Dash to go on a quest with her; Fluttershy meets the most adventurous adventurer ever: Daring Do; and, Applejack must discover the secret history of Cherry Jubilee! Collects issues #29–33.
TPB • FC • $19.99 • 120 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-839-7
Bullet points:
- “The Friends Forever line of MLP comics either work amazingly well as character pieces.” — We The Nerdy
Popeye Classics #55
Bud Sagendorf (w & a & c)
More brilliance from the raucus retro-cool Popeye comics! Five great features with your beloved Popeye characters: The one-eyed sailor himself, Swee’pea, Olive Oyl, that rascal Wimpy, O.G. Wotasnozzle, and the bad guys this time, the terrible, terrible Misermites!
FC • 32 pages • $4.99
Bullet points:
- Variant cover by Sarah Rose!
Star Trek New Visions: Sam
John Byrne (w & photo-manipulation)
James Kirk faces the greatest challenge of his life when his own brother is accused of murder!
FC • 48 pages • $7.99
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The IDW Collection, Vol. 4
Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, Paul Allor (w) • Kevin Eastman, Sophie Campbell, Mateus Santolouco, Cory Smith, Andy Kuhn (a) • Dan Duncan (c)
Recovering from the events of “City Fall,” the Turtles seek sanctuary in the countryside, but questions remain unanswered and tension festers among the brothers. Meanwhile, in New York, Shredder tightens his grip on the city in their absence and Krang’s plan to destroy the Earth is ramping up, but Baxter Stockman has plans of his own. Collects Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles issues #29–37, Utrom Empire, and the 2014 Annual.
HC • FC • $49.99 • 344 pages • 7” x 11” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-820-5
Bullet points:
- All of the TMNT comics in recommended reading order!
Transformers: Lost Light #2
James Roberts (w) • Jack Lawrence (a & c)
Rodimus and Co. find themselves in a dangerous place. Even more dangerous than on a planet that exploded from the inside. That’s already pretty dangerous. But where they are now? Oh boy.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
- Part of IDW’s Artist’s Edition Cover Month!
- Variant cover by Joana Lafuente!
Uncle Scrooge #23
Francois Corteggiani, Jonathan Gray, Lars Jensen (w) • Giorgio Cavazzano, Daan Jippes (a) • Giorgio Cavazzano (c)
“The Third Nile,” Part 1 of 2! A McDuck quest into Egyptology for Scrooge, Donald, and Ludwig Von Drake gets hairier with the Beagle Boys hot on our heroes’ trail—and prehistoric caveducks ready to pounce!
FC • 40 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
- Continues this beloved series’ legacy numbering at #427!
- Thinking man’s thinking man Ludwig Von Drake is back with Scrooge and the gang for another journey into insanity! (Hoo-hoo!)
- Variant cover by Fabrizio Petrossi!
The Wind in the Willows (Illustrated by David Petersen)
Kenneth Grahame (w) • David Petersen (a & c)
Experience the timeless story of Toad, Rat, Mole, and Badger in a beautiful new unabridged, hardcover designed and illustrated by New York Times Bestselling author and Eisner Award-winning creator David Petersen (Mouse Guard). Painstakingly illustrated over 3 years, this exquisite and lavish edition features both color and pen and ink illustrations throughout.
Begun as a series of letters from Kenneth Grahame to his son, The Wind in the Willows is a timeless tale of animal cunning and human camaraderie. Since its first publication in 1908, generations of adults and children have cherished this world of gurgling rivers and whispering reeds, serving as home to the most lovable creatures in all literature—Rat, Mole, Badger, and the irrepressible Toad of Toad Hall; with his goggles, overcoat and love of fast cars. Follow these little adventurers through gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their Wild Wood.
HC • FC • $24.99 • 256 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-343-9
Bullet points:
- Direct Market Exclusive: Each hardcover will feature an exclusive tip-in plate illustrated and signed by David Petersen limited to orders received!
- Complete and unabridged! Original art dust jacket, cloth cover with gold foil stamping, 20 color illustrations, 50 pen and ink illustrations!
- Advance solicited for October release!
Weird Love: Jailbird Romance
Various (w) • Jim Mooney, Pete Morisi, Vince Colletta, Manny Stallman, Pete Costanza, Henry Keifer, The Iger Shop (a) • Ogden Whitney (c)
“Forget funny Valentines… some of the most off-kilter 1950s romance comics, titled Weird Love…. the mind boggles!” —The Hollywood Reporter
With an introduction by Heidi MacDonald of The Beat! Your mind will be blown when you read: “Jailbird Romance!,” “Never Love A Man With A Harem!,” “Hobo Girl,” “Innocence Was My Angle,” “Backroads Romance,” and “I Tortured My In-Laws,” plus many more!
HC • FC • $29.99 • 160 pages • 7.5” x 9.75” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-782-6
Bullet points:
- “Get your sweaty little libidinous palms all over these testaments to twisted torridness!” —Dan Greenfield, Dimension 13
Yakuza Demon Killers #4
Amit Chauhan (w) • Eli Powell (a & c)
The devastating price of power! In this shocking conclusion, Tokyo is the final battleground for Earth’s future, and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. The Yakuza come face-to-face with their greatest threat, and it will come from an unexpected place.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
You Might Be An Artist If…
Lauren Purje (w & a & c)
With a BFA, solo exhibitions, and work experience at a New York gallery, Lauren Purje has spent plenty of time in the art world…consider this her cry for help.
You Might Be An Artist If…collects several years of her comic strips about the ups and downs of life in the arts. Her wry and relatable sense of humor animates every page, tying together flights of fancy, bitter grumblings, motivational pep-talks, self-doubt,
procrastination, and inspiration.
Capturing the moments that remind us why we take art seriously — but not TOO seriously — Purje’s comics are a perfect handbook for anyone living the creative life.
HC • BW • $19.99 • 144 pages • 5.82” x 8.26” • ISBN: 978-1-60309-406-1
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