Image Comics Previews for March 18th

By Keith Hendricks • 9 years ago • Comics

There’s a lot to relish in the Image Comics offerings tomorrow, from the third chapter of Kel Symons and Nathan Stockman’s upbeat fantasy Reyn to the martial arts hijinks of Kyle Starks’ Sexcastle; if your preference is more for the dark or downbeat, there’s the noir-ish and sordid panels of Satellite Sam, or the android love story Alex + Ada.

Alex + Ada #13

Story By: Jonathan Luna
Story By: Sarah Vaughn
Art By: Jonathan Luna
Cover By: Jonathan Luna
Price: $2.99

Disaster closes in on Alex and Ada.

Chrononauts #1

Story By: Mark Millar
Art By: Sean Gordon Murphy
Art By: Matt Hollingsworth
Cover By: Sean Gordon Murphy
Cover By: Matt Hollingsworth
Variant Cover By: Matteo Scalera
Variant Cover By: Declan Shalvey
Variant Cover By: Dan Panosian

Cover Price: $3.50

Digital Price: $2.99

From MARK MILLAR (Kick-Ass) and SEAN GORDON MURPHY (Punk Rock Jesus) comes a bromance for the ages! Corbin Quinn and Danny Reilly are two buddies who love to have fun. They’re also scientific geniuses. When their research leads them to a time-traveling adventure, will they use their knowledge for the good of all mankind? Or use the space-time continuum for their own ends? This is the story of man’s first, televised steps through the time-stream and everything going wrong in the process.

C.O.W.L. #9

Story By: Kyle Higgins
Story By: Alec Siegel
Art By: Rod Reis
Cover By: Trevor McCarthy

Price: $3.99

Geoffrey Warner and Camden Stone’s false-flag operation continues to escalate with the return of a Chicago Six villain: Skylancer. But who’s under the Skylancer mask will shock even Geoffrey.

Invisible Republic #1

Story By: Gabriel Hardman
Story By: Corinna Bechko
Art By: Gabriel Hardman
Art By: Jordan Boyd
Cover By: Gabriel Hardman
Cover By: Jordan Boyd

Price: $2.99

Breaking Bad meets Blade Runner. Arthur McBride’s planetary regime has fallen. His story is over. That is until reporter Croger Babb discovers the journal of Arthur’s cousin, Maia. Inside is the violent, audacious hidden history of the legendary freedom fighter. Erased from the official record, Maia alone knows how dangerous her cousin really is… Creative team GABRIEL HARDMAN (KINSKI, “Intense” – A.V. Club) and CORINNA BECHKO (HEATHENTOWN, “Nuanced” – Broken Frontier) brought you scifi adventure before (Planet of the Apes, Star Wars: Legacy, Hulk) but never this gritty or this epic.

The Manhattan Projects: The Sun Beyond the Stars #1

Story By: Jonathan Hickman
Art By: Nick Pitarra
Cover By: Nick Pitarra

Cover Price: $3.50

Digital Price: $2.99

“MAN IN SPACE” Only when he’s lost in space does the great Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, find his true calling. THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS is back with all new stories told in a brand-new format. The greatest FEEL GOOD, BAD SCIENCE book in the long history of man returns in THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS: THE SUN BEYOND THE STARS.

Punks: The Comic #5

Story By: Joshua Hale Fialkov
Art By: Kody Chamberlain
Cover By: Kody Chamberlain

Price: $3.99

The rip-roaring conclusion to the first arc of “PUNKS!” Questions get answered and answers get questioned! Will Flo leave Boshannon for the Big City? Can Effie ever truly love again? Just how much feeling has Eddie lost from the thresher accident? None of these questions and more won’t be answered.

Red One #1

Story By: Xavier Dorison
Art By: Terry Dodson
Art By: Rachel Dodson
Cover By: Terry Dodson
Cover By: Rachel Dodson

Price: $2.99

What happens when America’s greatest hero…is a Russian Spy? Soviet Agent Vera Yelnikov is sent to 1977 Los Angeles by the Kremlin to become an American Superhero and spread communist values in the land of Uncle Sam in a funky superhero romp straight out of a Tarantino film by TERRY & RACHEL DODSON (Uncanny X-Men, Wonder Woman, Spider- Man, Harley Quinn) and XAVIER DORISON (Long John Silver, The Third Testament).

Reyn #3

Story By: Kel Symons
Art By: Nathan Stockman

Price: $2.99

Reyn returns Seph to her father and the Followers of Tek, who ask him to join them on a mission to stop the Venn from destroying Fate.

Satellite Sam #12

Story By: Matt Fraction
Art By: Howard Chaykin
Cover By: Howard Chaykin

Cover Price: $3.50

Digital Price: $2.99

Everybody’s got their something. Sometimes that something is sex, death, and live TV.

Secret Identities #2

Story By: Brian Joines
Story By: Jay Faerber
Art By: Ilias Kyriazis
Cover By: Ilias Kyriazis

Cover Price: $3.50

Digital Price: $2.99

Image’s hit super-team book continues! As Crosswind further ingratiates himself with the team, Gaijin finds her own loyalties tested.

Sexcastle

By: Kyle Starks

Cover Price: $15.99

The Former World’s Greatest Assassin leaves the world of killing to a small town only to be pulled back in. An exciting action romp in the style of classic ’80s Action Film.

“SEXCASTLE is a perfect mix of homage and comedy, action and irony, loving tribute and hilarious send-up of the great, good, and ungodly-bad action movies of the ‘80s. I don’t remember the last time a debut book hit me this hard. Literally, this book punched me in the face. It’s THAT mean.” – Matt Fraction

ISBN 978-1-63215-300-5
208 pages, paperback, black and white
Rated Mature

Spread #6

Story By: Justin Jordan
Art By: Kyle Strahm
Cover By: Kyle Strahm

Cover Price: $3.50

Digital Price: $2.99

Spreadworms, Sirens, Raiders, Cannibals, The Preacher. Everything collides. Almost everybody dies. The first arc ends here.

Stray Bullets: Sunshine and Roses #2

By: David Lapham

Cover Price: $3.50

Digital Price: $2.99

You’ll never find a happier person than Rose. A single mom living among the worst killers, thieves, and drug addicts in the city, she’s never had a down thought cross her mind. Not until her least favorite person hooked up with a boy she was more than sweet on. The day Rose saw Beth and Orson together something broke inside her, and now this air-headed, happy-go-lucky, highly promiscuous, fake-blonde is out for blood—and she doesn’t care whose or how much is spilt. Can this buxom bombshell’s heart be “fixed” before she blows up Baltimore and ruins Orson and Beth’s own revenge plans, or will the next bouquet of flowers she gets be the ones on her grave?

The Thrilling Adventure Hour Presents: Sparks Nevada: Marshall On Mars #2

Story By: Ben Acker
Story By: Ben Blacker
Art By: J. Bone

Cover Price: $3.50

Digital Price: $2.99

Based on the hit Nerdist podcast! Chased by masked marauders wielding futuristic guns in turn-to-glass mode, Sparks and Croach The Tracker race through the undercity of Mars, an impossible expanse of wonderment that defies human understanding.

Witchblade #181

Story By: David Hine
Art By: Laura Braga
Cover By: Stjepan Sejic

Price: $3.99

The one where Jackie dies! This is the way it had to end. Sara Pezzini goes head to head with Jackie Estacado and the Darkness. Sometimes there are no winners…