Image Comics Previews for March 4th
With new issues of Saga and Rat Queens coming out this week, comic readers will already be scrambling to the comic shops tomorrow, but there are a lot of other good Image Comics for discriminating comic readers, such as Warren Ellis and Tula Lotay’s Supreme Blue Rose #7, Rick Remender and Matteo Scalera’s Black Science #12, and the second issue of Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham’s occult science fiction tale, Nameless. Two new series worth checking out this week are Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s robot drama Descender and Eric Powell and Tim Wiesch’s crime shocker Big Man Plans.
‘68 Jungle Jim: Guts ‘N’ Glory (One-Shot)
- Story By: Mark Kidwell
- Art By: Jeff Zornow
- Art By: Jay Fotos
- Cover By: Nat Jones
- Cover By: Jay Fotos
- Variant Cover By: Nate Van Dyke
- Variant Cover By: Jay Fotos
Price: $3.99
JUNGLE JIM IS DEAD. LONG LIVE JUNGLE JIM! Private Brian Curliss returns to Vietnam, armored in bamboo, burlap, and a haunted gas mask to avenge a group of slaughtered US Peace Corps volunteers murdered by the sadistic guerillas of the Khmer Rouge. In hellish jungles swarming with the living dead, a hero’s sanity can pass the breaking point…and his soul be lost in the eyes of a ghost from home.
Big Man Plans #1
- Story By: Eric Powell
- Story By: Tim Wiesch
- Art By: Eric Powell
- Cover By: Eric Powell
Cover Price: $3.50
Digital Price: $2.99
From ERIC POWELL (Eisner award-winning creator of The Goon) and TIM WEISCH (a guy who used to be a bricklayer) comes BIG MAN PLANS, a brutal crime drama with a shocking mystery at its heart. Even the most marginalized in society can exact revenge if they don’t care how they do it.
Black Science #12
- Story By: Rick Remender
- Art By: Matteo Scalera
- Art By: Moreno Dinisio
- Cover By: Matteo Scalera
- Cover By: Moreno Dinisio
- Variant Cover By: Sean Gordon Murphy
Cover Price: $3.50
Digital Price: $2.99
n than ever before, lost in the void, the Dimensionauts set out on a bold new course: no longer merely explorers on the frontier of forbidden science, can they become saviors of the Eververse?! Strap in for the start of the second year of BLACK SCIENCE, as RICK REMENDER (DEADLY CLASS, Captain America) and MATTEO SCALERA (DEAD BODY ROAD, Secret Avengers) take you on a sci-fi high adventure a billion dimensions deep!
Dark Engine #5
- Story By: Ryan Burton
- Art By: John Bivens
- Cover By: John Bivens
Cover Price: $3.50
Digital Price: $2.99
THIS IS HOW THE WORLD BEGINS. Sym is trapped at the bottom of the ocean, the Enemy is on the move, and there is evil at every turn. But there is light in the darkness—the Inkface Ranger rises.
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Descender #1
- Story By: Jeff Lemire
- Art By: Dustin Nguyen
- Cover By: Dustin Nguyen
Price: $2.99
One young robot’s struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. A rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey that pits humanity against machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling space opera from the creators of Trillium, Sweet Tooth, and Little Gotham. Extra-sized first issue. 30 story pages for only $2.99!
EGOs #6
- Story By: Stuart Moore
- Art By: Gus Storms
- Cover By: Gus Storms
Price: $2.99
Continuing the new storyline CRUNCHED: Meet the Cubers—forgotten soldiers from a longago war, now starving to death on a planet full of food. But are they the key to the galactic conspiracy? Or is it the mysterious Quantum Trust? “Everything [Stuart Moore] writes demands attention.” -Warren Ellis
God Hates Astronauts #6
- Story By: Ryan Browne
- Art By: Tradd Moore
- Cover By: Tradd Moore
Cover Price: $3.50
Digital Price: $2.99
Part one of a brand new story arc! King Tiger Eating a Cheeseburger’s invasion of Earth is in full swing and all hope seems lost! Good thing some new cosmic strangers just showed up with space maces!
Nailbiter/Hack/Slash (One-Shot)
- Story By: Joshua Williamson
- Story By: Tim Seeley
- Art By: Mike Henderson
- Art By: Emilio Laiso
- Cover By: Tim Seeley
- Cover By: Mike Henderson
Price: $4.99
SERIAL KILLERS MEET SERIAL KILLER… KILLERS! Cassie Hack vs. the Nailbiter! Vlad vs. the Lucha Eliminador! IT’S ON! Two brand spanking new tales of terror by the creative teams of both Image hits! TIM SEELEY returns to the character he created to give you a nasty blast from the past. If you’ve ever needed an excuse to read these two horrific comics, now is your chance!
Nameless #2
- Story By: Grant Morrison
- Art By: Chris Burnham
- Art By: Nathan Fairbairn
- Cover By: Chris Burnham
- Cover By: Nathan Fairbairn
Price: $2.99
On a former U.S. moonbase, kept secret since the Cold War, a terrible key unlocks an ancient box and a last-ditch plan is drafted to save humanity from the doomsday asteroid Xibalba— but is it already too late? The nightmare intensifies in MORRISON & BURNHAM’s apocalyptic occult horror epic!
Rat Queens #9
- Story By: Kurtis J. Wiebe
- Art By: Stjepan Sejic
- Cover By: Jenny Frison
Cover Price: $3.50
Digital Price: $2.99
“THE FAR REACHING TENTACLES OF N’RYGOTH,” PART FOUR. Life in Palisade is a goblet of toasty sweet mulled wine. But this issue is the skull-pounding headache the next morning when all you’re left with is the consequences. And they are life-changing, awful ones at that. SPECIAL COVER BY SUPERSTAR ARTIST JENNY FRISON!
Revival #28
- Story By: Tim Seeley
- Art By: Mike Norton
- Cover By: Jenny Frison
Price: $3.99
Dana’s quest for revenge leads her to a massive conspiracy. Em deals with getting what she asked for, and finds out that nothing stays buried in a town where the dead live.
Saga #26
- Story By: Brian K. Vaughan
- Art By: Fiona Staples
- Cover By: Fiona Staples
Price: $2.99
Gwendolyn’s quest takes an interesting turn.
Supreme: Blue Rose #7
- Story By: Warren Ellis
- Art By: Tula Lotay
- Cover By: Tula Lotay
Price: $3.99
MINISERIES CONCLUSION Concluding the story of superhero fiction gone wrong with the final confrontation between Diana and Ethan, between agents and operators from splintered timelines, and between Darius Dax and the nature of the universe. Many questions have been asked, and the answers will kill people.
