NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS FROM 12th AUG

12th August is New Comics Day with lots more new graphic novels to go with it


Graphic Novels / Trades

Dark Horse Comics
ANGEL AND FAITH SEASON 9 LIBRARY ED HC VOL 0 Dark Horse Comics (W) Christos N. Gage, Victor Gischler (A) Rebekah Isaacs & Various (CA) Steve Morris 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.
AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP POSTER COLLECTION Dark Horse Comics (A) Various The beloved television series Avatar: The Last Airbender has won fans of all ages over the years. Relive this award-winning show with a set of twenty high-quality art prints in this Dark Horse poster-book collection!	HELLBOY AND THE BPRD 1952 TP - Dark Horse Comics (W) Mike Mignola, John Arcudi (A) Alex Maleev (CA) Mike Mignola 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.
DC Comics
GREEN ARROW ARCHERS QUEST DELUXE ED HC - DC Comics (W) Brad Meltzer (A) Phil Hester, Ande Parks (CA) Phil Hester Oliver Queen takes a moody, dangerous trip down memory lane as he and his former ward Arsenal seek out a series of legendary artifacts from his past and along the way run into the likes of the Shade, Solomon Grundy, and Catman! Collects GREEN ARROW #16-21.	HELLBLAZER TP VOL 11 LAST MAN STANDING - DC Comics (W) Paul Jenkins (A) Sean Phillips & Various (CA) Jae Lee In these tales from issues #108-120, Constantine summons sinister beings with terrible consequences. Plus, cattle mutilations in Yorkshire lead John to discover that one of the villagers has become a werewolf, but this case of lycanthropy is only a sign of worse to come...
LOBO TP VOL 01 TARGETS - DC Comics (W) Cullen Bunn (A) Reilly Brown & Various (CA) Aaron Kuder Charged with protecting a valuable client from six highly trained assassins, Lobo cuts a path of destruction through the DC Universe as he attempts his mission while trying to find those responsible for the contract on his client's life. In the midst of all the chaos, Lobo must also track down the individual who has stolen his identity and serve him with Lobo's own brand of justice! These tales from issues #1-6 guest-star Superman!	SUPERMAN KRYPTON RETURNS TP DC Comics (W) Scott Lobdell & Various (A) Mahmud A. Asrar & Various (CA) Kenneth Rocafort In this epic from SUPERBOY #0 and 25, SUPERGIRL #0 and 25, SUPERMAN #0, 25 and 23.3: H'EL, and ACTION COMICS ANNUAL #2, three heroes must unite to prevent H'El from dooming the entire universe!
IDW Comics
STAR TREK PLANET OF THE APES TP PRIMATE DIRECTIVE IDW Comics (W) Scott Tipton, David Tipton (A/CA) Rachael Stott STAR TREK: The hope for the best of mankind's future! PLANET OF THE APES: A chilling look at the fall of humanity! How could these worlds possibly collide? What could possibly cause Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise to side with Dr. Zaius to protect Ape City? And what does Colonel George Taylor have to say about it?	TRANSFORMERS COMBINER WARS TP IDW Comics (W) Mairghread Scott, John Barber (A) Sarah Stone, Livio Ramondelli (CA) Sarah Stone The AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS' uneasy peace is threatened by the flames of war! STARSCREAM-ruler of CYBERTRON-makes contact with WINDBLADE'S home world-and the only defense against a new CYBERTRONIAN EMPIRE are COMBINERS-multiple CYBERTRONIANS forming together into huge, dangerous forms! Collects issues #39-41 of Transformers and the first three issues of Transformers: Windblade-Combiner Wars.
Image Comics
BLACK SCIENCE TP VOL 03 VANISHING POINT Image Comics (W) Rick Remender (A/CA) Matteo Scalera The Anarchist League of Scientists dive deeper into the Onion than ever before. Now veterans of inter-dimensional travel, the team begins to realize how damaging their actions are on the fabric of reality. No longer content with merely fixing the Pillar and finding a way back home, they vow to uphold a new ideal: leave every dimension they visit better off than how they found it.	SATELLITE SAM TP VOL 03 LIMESTONE CAVES OF FIRE Image Comics (W) Matt Fraction (A/CA) Howard Chaykin Collects SATELLITE SAM #11-15.
Marvel Comics
BLACK PANTHER BY PRIEST TP VOL 01 COMPLETE TP Marvel Comics (W) Joe Quesada, Christopher Priest (A) Various (CA) Sal Velluto Black Panther reinvented as a sharp and witty political satire? Believe it! T'Challa is the man with the plan as Christopher Priest puts the emphasis on the Wakandan king's reputation as the ultimate statesman, as seen through the eyes of the U.S. government's Everett K. Ross. As the Panther investigates a murder in New York, Ross plays Devil's Advocate in an encounter with Mephisto, and a new regime seizes control in Wakanda. When the truth behind the coup becomes clear, T'Challa finds himself an enemy of the state - and a major revelation threatens to destroy his relationship with the Avengers! Plus: Meet Queen Divine Justice - is she ready to join T'Challa's deadly crew of female bodyguards, the Dora Milaje? Are they ready for her? Hold onto your pants, because Ross sure can't! Collecting BLACK PANTHER (1998) #1-17.	DAREDEVIL TYPHOIDS KISS TP Marvel Comics (W) Ann Nocenti, Steve Lightle (A) Various (CA) Joe Madureira Daredevil's craziest ex-girlfriend, Typhoid Mary, stars in her own twisted fairy tale! Peek inside the crowded head of Mary Walker - whose dissociative identity disorder, and mutant talents for telekinesis and pyrokinesis, are a deadly combination. But could the psionic psycho become a force for good when she fights for women too powerless to defend themselves? Typhoid's appetite for vengeance draws the attention of Ghost Rider, while her growing contempt for men places Daredevil and Wolverine in the line of fire. Meanwhile, it's bad news for Peter Parker when he befriends the benign Mary, only for her newly discovered third identity to manifest itself. Spidey sure won't want to say Bloody Mary three times! Collecting TYPHOID #1-4, MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS (1988) #150-151 and SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN (1976) #213-214 - plus material from MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS (1988) #109-116 and #123-130, and GIRL COMICS (2010) #3.
OPERATION SIN TP AGENT CARTER Marvel Comics (W) Kathryn Immonen (A) Rich Ellis, Ramon K. Perez (CA) Michael Komarck Tying into the explosive events of ORIGINAL SIN! In the early 1950s, an alien energy source is discovered in Russia. It's up to Peggy Carter and Howard Stark to find it - but a newly risen terrorist group called Hydra is also on the hunt! When the mysterious Woodrow McCord enters the picture and Howard accidentally causes a UFO to fire on Moscow, Peggy and her team must go underground. And when they discover a Hydra-run gulag that hides a mysterious woman just as Soviet scientists open a portal between worlds, an ancient terror is released! But what is it searching for? The truth behind S.I.N. is exposed, and Peggy and the gang face impossible decisions with grisly consequences! Plus: a tale of love and honor starring Peggy Carter and Captain America! Collecting OPERATION S.I.N. #1-5 and CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FIRST THIRTEEN #1.	SECRET WARRIORS COMPLETE COLLECTION TP VOL 01 Marvel Comics (W) (A) (CA) VARIOUS The shadow war between Hydra and Leviathan has left a trail of destruction across the globe, and it's up to Nick Fury and his Secret Warriors to take them both out. Fury recruits the Howling Commandos, but will this reunion be the Howlers' last? Now, Fury must make some of the grittiest life-and-death choices his Warriors have ever seen. What is his final wild card, and how deep does his complex and dangerous scheme go? Plus: How does S.H.I.E.L.D. fit in with the Brotherhood of the Shield? Nick Fury and Baron Strucker face each other in a final showdown decades in the making - but what will their deaths mean to the Brotherhood's master plan? Jonathan Hickman's tale of intrigue and international espionage reaches its jaw-dropping climax here! Collecting SECRET WARRIORS #17-28 and SIEGE: SECRET WARRIORS #1.
Other publishers
ART OF MOUSE GUARD 2005 - 2015 HC Boom Studios (W) David Petersen (A) David Petersen & Various (CA) Roger Petersen Celebrate the first 10 years of a comics classic from the very first sketch. For the first time since the series debut, David Petersen's process for creating the world of Mouse Guard and bringing it to life in stunning illustration is documented in exquisite detail. With never-before-seen sketches; 100 pages of full-color, oversized artwork; and commentary from colleagues, collaborators, and Petersen himself, readers and fans get an unprecedented look behind-the-pages at how their favorite characters and adventures were born.	DARK GODS TP VOL 01 Avatar Press Inc (W) Justin Jordan (A) German Erramouspe, Michael DiPascale (CA) Christian Zanier Justin Jordan is unleashing some ancient evil!   For millennia the human race has felt safe in its orderly world never imagining the chaos that lurks just outside the boundaries of reality.  The mysterious Murdock leads The Storm, a group of heroes that are humanity's last line of defense against the brewing Primordial Chaos and The Serpent, Tiamat herself!  Her hideous monster children slowly emerge ahead of Tiamat's return as human-creature hybrids set upon inflicting horrors in their wake and preparing the world to submit to the ultimate force of chaos. The Storm has to prevent this invasion, stop the rest of humanity from breaking into panic, and hold back the flood of horrors that come with the return of the original evils, the Dark Gods themselves!   This volume collects the Dark Gods #1 - 6 comic book series.