NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS FROM 13th MAY 2015

New Graphic Novels For Wed 13th May



Graphic Novels / Trades

Dark Horse Comics
Aliens: Fire and Stone TPB Dark Horse Comics (W) Chris Roberson (A) (CA) , Patric Reynolds, Dave Stewart, David Palumbo The most terrifying creatures in the universe collide! During a vicious xenomorph outbreak, terraforming engineer Derrick Russell leads a desperate group of survivors onto a rickety mining vessel. They hope to escape the creatures overrunning their colony-but they'll face horrors both in space and on the strange planet where they crash. Ties in with the Prometheus and Aliens films! Collects the four-issue miniseries.	MASS EFFECT LIBRARY EDITION HC VOL 02 - Dark Horse Comics (W) Mac Walters, Jeremy Barlow (A) Omar Francia & Various (CA) Tony Parker Featuring behind-the-scenes annotations by the creators, this deluxe oversized hardcover collects the Mass Effect: Foundation series, a story from Free Comic Book Day 2013, Mass Effect: Blasto-Eternity Is Forever, and a beautiful gallery section of covers, exclusive sketches, process drawings, and more, making this an essential edition for any Mass Effect fan!
PANTY & STOCKING WITH GARTERBELT TP Dark Horse Comics (W/A/CA) Tagro Panty and Stocking are cute but highly dangerous angels, booted out of heaven for wrath, sloth, lust, envy, avarice, and gluttony (at least pride wasn't high on their list). Now residing among the sinners of Daten City, the angels try to earn their way back into grace by exorcising evil at the behest of their questionable preacher boss, the Afro-bedecked Garterbelt!	Tomb Raider Volume 2: Secrets and Lies TPB - Dark Horse Comics (W) (A) (CA) Gail Simone, Rhianna Pratchett, Derlis Santacruz, Nicolas Daniel Selma, Andy Owens, Juan Gedeon, Michael Atiyeh, Andy Park After the return to Yamatai Island, Lara and her friends try to put the horror of what happened there behind them and return to "normal" life. However, when a dearly departed friend pleads for help, Lara goes on a globetrotting adventure fraught with new perils and a horrible truth that must be brought to light at all costs! Collects issues #7–#12 of the ongoing series.
DC Comics
BATMAN ARKHAM RIDDLER TP - DC Comics (W) Gardner Fox & Various (A) Carmine Infantino & Various (CA) Guillem March The Riddler's greatest hits are collected in stories from DETECTIVE COMICS #140, #142, #377, #822, #837, BATMAN #171, #179, #292, #317, #362, BATMAN #23.2: THE RIDDLER, BRAVE AND THE BOLD #183, JOKER'S ASYLUM II: THE RIDDLER #1 and LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT 100-PAGE SUPER SPECTACULAR #2!	BATMAN DARK KNIGHT UNWRAPPED DAVID FINCH DLX HC - DC Comics (W) David Finch & Various (A/CA) David Finch This fantastic unwrapped collection features tales of the Dark Knight written and pencilled by superstar artist David Finch from the pages of BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT #1-3, BATMAN: THE RETURN #1 and BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT Vol. 2 #1-7 and 9, all in pencil form.
EARTH 2 WORLDS END TP VOL 01 - DC Comics   (W) Daniel H. Wilson & Various (A) Eddy Barrows & Various (CA) Ardian Syaf, Jaime Mendoza The first volume collecting issues #1-11 of the hit weekly series delves into the world of Earth-2 - a world that saw its greatest heroes die and new ones take their place. A world where Superman became its greatest villain, and a man named Zod seeks to save it, along with Batman, Green Lantern, The Flash and other heroes. A world they can only save from the forces of Apokolips through great personal sacrifice!	FABLES DELUXE EDITION HC VOL 10 - DC Comics (W) Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges (A) Mark Buckingham & Various (CA) Dan Dos In an epic from FABLES #83-85, JACK OF FABLES #33-35, and THE LITERALS #1-3, the existence of the Fables is threatened by The Literals, who just don't like their messy, mythical lives. And in the original graphic novel FABLES: WEREWOLVES OF THE HEARTLAND, Bigby Wolf goes on a quest to find a new location for Fabletown, only to find a village populated by werewolves!
FOREVER EVIL TP - DC Comics (W) Geoff Johns (A/CA) David Finch, Richard Friend The Justice League is dead! And the villains shall inherit the Earth! In this new title collecting the seven-issue miniseries FOREVER EVIL, the Crime Syndicate takes over the DC Universe, and no one can stand in the way of them and their quest for complete world domination - no one except Lex Luthor!	GREEN LANTERN TP VOL 05 TEST OF WILLS - DC Comics (W) Robert Venditti & Various (A) Billy Tan & Various (CA) Billy Tan As war threatens to dismantle the Green Lantern Corps, Hal does the unthinkable: He asks for help. Can he and a handpicked team of Lanterns remove a deadly weapon from the enemy's arsenal? Collects GREEN LANTERN #27-34 and GREEN LANTERN CORPS #31-33!
GREEN LANTERN HC VOL 06 THE LIFE EQUATION - DC Comics (W) Robert Venditti (A) Billy Tan & Various (CA) Ethan Van Having staked their claim to the emotional spectrum, the New Gods set about redefining the universe in their image, starting with Metron, who's determined to steal the secrets of the Corps' Citadel. But Hal and the Corps will have something to say about that. Good luck trying to make yourself heard when you're talking to a god! Collects GREEN LANTERN #35-40, GREEN LANTERN ANNUAL #3 and a story from SECRET ORIGINS #3.	ROBIN THE BOY WONDER A CELEBRATION OF 75 YEARS HC - DC Comics (W) Bill Finger & Various (A) Bob Kane & Various (CA) Jim Lee, Scott Williams 2015 marks the 75th anniversary of Robin, the Boy Wonder! DC Comics is proud to present this new hardcover anthology collecting some of Robin's greatest stories, featuring his adventures with Batman, the Teen Titans and more!
IDW Comics
RIP KIRBY HC VOL 08 IDW Comics (W) Fred Dickenson (A/CA) John Prentice The suave detective mixes it up with more stunning beauties, sleazy blackmailers, and vicious murderers, drawn in John Prentice's slick, award-winning photo-realistic style. Containing more than 800 sequential comics from October 10, 1964 to July 8, 1967!	STAR SLAMMERS HC IDW Comics (W/A/CA) Walter Simonson Before Walter Simonson's work with Marvel and DC, there was Star Slammers, a series first devised by Simonson during his college days. The Slammers would later be resurrected as a Marvel graphic novel, and then a miniseries. Simonson describes it thus: "Once upon a time, there was a race of men who could out-shoot, out-fight, and out-kill anybody. They were paid fabulous sums to act as mercenaries. The practice became so lucrative, they decided to go into business. They became the most successful businessmen in history, and they called themselves...The Star Slammers!" The collected Star Slammers also features, published here for the very first time, Simonson's earliest version of the Slammers created for his college thesis at the Rhode Island School of Design. These stories predate his first professional comics work but strongly show the artist's keen sense of composition and design.
Image Comics
APHRODITE IX COMPLETE OVERSIZED HC - Image Comics (W) Matt Hawkins, David Wohl (A) Stjepan Sejic, David Finch (CA) Stjepan Sejic The ultimate Aphrodite IX collection, featuring over 500 pages collecting all of the Aphrodite IX books to date. Taking place hundreds of years after a cataclysmic event scorched the surface, Earth and its inhabitants have been forever altered and new landscapes and political struggles have taken hold between two distinct factions fighting for control. Aphrodite IX is both anachronism and advanced technology in a world that she no longer recognizes. Collects APHRODITE IX V1, APHRODITE IX REBIRTH V1, APHRODITE IX REBIRTH V2, & APHRODITE IX/CYBERFORCE.	REVIVAL VOL 05 GATHERING OF WATERS - Image Comics (W) Tim Seeley (A/CA) Mike Norton For one day in rural central Wisconsin, the dead came back to life. Now it's up to Officer Dana Cypress to deal with the media scrutiny, religious zealots, and government quarantine that have come with them. As the pregnant Em searches for the missing father of her child, Dana is embroiled in a conspiracy to contain Revivers that ends in fire.
Marvel Comics
AVENGERS TIME RUNS OUT PREM HC VOL 03 Marvel Comics (W) Jonathan Hickman (A) Stefano Caselli, Kev Walker For Earth's Mightiest Heroes and the Illuminati, it has all been building to this. After two years of carefully crafting his cataclysmic saga, writer Jonathan Hickman jumps ahead eight months to the grand finale, the honest-to-goodness immediate future of the Marvel Universe -and the day of the Final Incursion! After the revelation of the Illuminati's desperate, world-destroying actions, the Avengers are fragmented! What has become of Earth's Mightiest Heroes over the past eight months? What will happen when the Avengers, Illuminati and Cabal clash? And have all the battles they've endured, and the sacrifices they've made, prepared any of these groups for the inevitable moment when time runs out for everybody? The third act of the astonishing climax to Jonathan Hickman's legendary run is here! Collecting AVENGERS (2012) #40-42 and NEW AVENGERS (2013) #29-30.	BUCKY BARNES WINTER SOLDIER TP VOL 01 MAN ON WALL Marvel Comics (W) Ales Kot (A) Marco Rudy, Langdon Foss (CA) TBD After the tragedy of ORIGINAL SIN, what becomes of Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier? Discover the cosmic answer here as Bucky takes his place as the newest secret protector of Earth! Wounded by a mystery bullet, Bucky traces the evidence to Asgard, where a secret lurks underneath the kingdom. Bucky has the key - but first he must face the Frozen Wolves of Niffleheim! Then, on the planet Mer-z-Bow, Bucky meets his match! And as the Winter Soldier comes face-to-face with Crossbones, leap 200 years into the future and discover how Bucky's actions will affect the Marvel Universe to come! It's a vision of the future like none you've ever seen before! But who took a shot at Bucky? Why? And what will be the cost of his action? Collecting BUCKY BARNES: THE WINTER SOLDIER #1-5.
MMW INCREDIBLE HULK HC VOL 09 Marvel Comics (W) Various (A/CA) Herb Trimpe Artist Herb Trimpe is joined by writer Steve Englehart for another Hulk-sized Marvel Masterworks edition! But first, a trip to Counter-Earth, where Hulk confronts his most-hated enemy: Bruce Banner! Add in the Rhino and the Abomination, and the action and drama can't be contained! Then, Hulk heads for Canada where the X-Men's Mimic returns, and the Wendigo makes his first appearance! And Hulk's travels will take him both over land and undersea until he returns to the United States to unleash his vengeance on General Thunderbolt Ross! When the malevolent M.O.D.O.K. mutates Betty Ross into the Harpy, Hulk must save her - even if she's now married to Glenn Talbot - in an adventure that ends like every Hulk story ought to: with the green goliath battling giant monsters! Collecting INCREDIBLE HULK (1968) #157-170	SAVAGE HULK TP VOL 02 DOWN TO CROSSROADS Marvel Comics (W) Various (CA) TBD Fan-favorite Gabriel Hardman spotlights the Hulk's savage side! It's a Crossroads of Destruction as we travel back to a time in Hulk's life when he was mindless, enraged and unstoppable! Banished to a realm between dimensions by the Avengers, Hulk is no longer a threat to Earth - but free of Bruce Banner's calming influence, what damage will the Hulk do to other worlds? Will the mindless brute destroy an entire civilization to get revenge on Doctor Strange? And what is the Hulk without his humanity? Plus: The Hulk takes on Frankenstein's Monster and a hoary host of Marvel's scariest creatures! And it's a beatdown of literally monumental proportions when the Hulk and the Wrecking Crew wage war in our nation's capitol! Collecting SAVAGE HULK #5-6, HULK: MONSTER-SIZE SPECIAL and HULK: LET THE BATTLE BEGIN
STAR WARS LEGENDS EPIC COLLECTION TP VOL 01 NEW REPUBLIC Marvel Comics (W) Various (CA) Duncan Fegredo When the Empire falls, a New Republic rises! After Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Emperor Palpatine is dead - but can his faithful Hand, Mara Jade, complete her final mission of revenge? Replica droid assassin Guri has also lost her master...but as she struggles for humanity, her android brain makes her a target! When rivals clash over Jabba the Hutt's criminal empire, the Bloated One makes a surprising appearance! And a mysterious doppelganger is asking for trouble impersonating everyone's favorite bounty hunter - it's Boba Fett vs. Boba Fett! Collecting STAR WARS: MARA JADE - BY THE EMPEROR'S HAND #0-6, STAR WARS: SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE - EVOLUTION #1-5, STAR WARS: THE JABBA TAPE, STAR WARS: BOBA FETT - TWIN ENGINES OF DESTRUCTION, and material from STAR WARS TALES #1, #3-5, #10, #14-15, #20 and #22.	THOR PREM HC VOL 01 GODDESS OF THUNDER Marvel Comics (W) Jason Aaron (A) Russell Dauterman, Jorge Molina (CA) TBD Mjolnir lies on the moon, unable to be lifted! Something dark has befallen the God of Thunder, leaving him unworthy for the first time ever! But when Frost Giants invade Earth, the hammer will be lifted - and a mysterious woman will be transformed into an all-new version of the mighty Thor! Who is this new Goddess of Thunder? Not even Odin knows, but she may be Earth's only hope against the Frost Giants! Get ready for a Thor like you've never seen before, as this all-new heroine takes Midgard by storm! Plus: The Odinson clearly doesn't like that someone else is holding his hammer - it's Thor vs. Thor! And Odin, desperate to see Mjolnir returned, will call on some very dangerous, very unexpected allies. It's a bold new chapter in the storied history of Thor! Collecting THOR (2014) #1-5.
Other publishers
THE FANGIRL`S GUIDE TO GALAXY: A HANDBOOK FOR GIRL GEEKS HC Quirk Books (W) Sam Maggs (A/CA) Kelly Bastow Fanfic, cosplay, cons, books, memes, podcasts, vlogs, OTPs and RPGs and MMOs and more - it's never been a better time to be a girl geek. The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy is the ultimate handbook for ladies living the nerdy life, a fun and feminist take on the often male-dominated world of geekdom. With delightful illustrations and an unabashed love for all the in(ternet)s and outs of geek culture, this book is packed with tips, playthroughs, and cheat codes for everything from starting an online fan community to planning a convention visit to supporting fellow female geeks in the wild.	ROGER DAHL COMIC JAPAN GN Tuttle Publishing (W) Roger Dahl Roger Dahl's Zero Gravity cartoon strip has been a popular feature of Japan's leading English-language daily newspaper, The Japan Times, since 1991. Now, for the first time, Roger Dahl's Comic Japan brings together the best of Zero Gravity in book form. Offering a Western artist's take on Japan, the strip stars Larry and Lily, a young American couple working as English teachers in Tokyo. Larry and Lily never manage to fully integrate into Japanese society, and Zero Gravity takes a whimsical approach to the meeting of cultures as well as the quirky dynamics of changing relationships between generations and subgroups within Japan.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE FORSOOTH PHANTOM MENACE HC (W) Ian Doescher When the best-selling William Shakespeare's Star Wars presented the classic George Lucas film in the form of an Elizabethan drama, the results blew the minds of Star Wars fans and Stratfordians alike. Now the curtain rises once again on that star-crossed galaxy far away, this time revealing the tragedy, hubris, and doomed romance that will lead to the fall of the Republic and the rise of an Empire. The saga starts here with this reimagining of Episode I, a prequel tale in which a disguised queen, a young hero, and two fearless knights clash with a hidden, vengeful enemy. Masterful meter, Shakepearean soliloquies, and intricate Elizabethan illustrations will leave more than a few readers convinced that the Star Wars saga sprang straight from the Bard's quill.	WOMEN OF WONDER CELEBRATING WOMEN CREATORS OF FANTASTIC ART (W) Various Women of Wonder shines a spotlight on women creators of fantastic art. Increasingly, women are impacting the world of contemporary fantastic art and inspiring new generations of illustrators, designers, sculptors, and painters. Women of Wonder reflects of the expanding numbers of women artists featured in Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art. This full-color collection, complete with artist statements and photos, acknowledges their presence and influence. Women of Wonder is a beautiful celebration of the imagination and of exemplary creators who just happen to be women.