SOMETHING NEW

NEW COMICS

26 NOVEMBER 2014

Lots of great debuts this week, with crime noir GOTHAM BY MIDNIGHT, Matt Fraction's re-imagining of Homer's Odyssey in space ODY-C, the adorable CAPTURE CREATURES (Pokemon fans don't miss this!), Spider-Verse miniseries SCARLET SPIDERS, anthology series celebrating the works of speculative fiction author Ray Bradbury THE SHADOW SHOW, the weirdest mashup you've ever seen of TRANSFORMERS ANGRY BIRDS, and DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. We also say goodbye to the delightful SUPERIOR FOES OF SPIDER-MAN and X-FILES YEAR ZERO. Also arriving in store: SUPERIOR IRON MAN, JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK, BEE AND PUPPYCAT, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, UNWRITTEN APOCALYPSE, ARKHAM MANOR, THE MASSIVE,  and TREES.
What are you excited to read this week? Talk to us @DavesComics! 

BOOM  
BEE AND PUPPYCAT #6

 Nothing can ever be normal for poor Bee, and that includes getting strange house guests that make her nontemp life seem more like a fulltime job! PuppyCat doesn't say this often...well, he does, but he's got a big case of the "Toldyouso's" that Bee will definitely not want to hear. 
  CAPTURE CREATURES #1

 WHY WE LOVE IT: Frank and Becky's sidewriting and gorgeous artwork have always been a favorite of ours, especially with their original web comics like TINY KITTEN TEETH. Getting a chance to tell their original adorable creature story and seeing more of what they can do...yeah, we wouldn't miss this.
WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: Becky Dreistadt (ADVENTURE TIME 2014 ANNUAL) and Frank Gibson (THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL) are two of the most clever and visually arresting creators in the business, and this is one of their most ambitious projects ever. From the vivid visuals to the rad story and hilarious, heartwarming moments, you'll love every second in this world. If you like titles like POKÉMON or DIGIMON, or just like cool things, this is definitely the comic for you. WHAT'S IT ABOUT: Over a hundred wonderful and terrifying creatures have suddenly appeared on earth. Two teens investigate the origins of these curious creatures and how they can stop those who are trying to destroy them.
CLIVE BARKERS NIGHTBREED #7
DAWN OF PLANET OF APES #1

 WHY WE LOVE IT: BOOM! has a long history with PLANET OF THE APES and for good reason: We love those damn dirty apes. Serving as a perfect tableau to examine society's ills through the lens of science fiction, we were thrilled to explore those themes in the modern setting of the new films.
WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: Michael Moreci (CURSE, HOAX HUNTERS) and Dan McDaid (MIND THE GAP) bring the hardworld of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes to life - dealing with both classic and modern POTA questions of what the true meaning of "society" is, and if being "civilised" is even possible in a world wracked with strife. Great for fans of endstories like 12 MONKEYS, THE ROAD, and CHILDREN OF MEN.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Bridging the 10gap between the RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES and DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES films, fans will bear witness to the fall of humanity and the rise of Caesar's civilisation. While the apes of the world have yet to advance as a species, Caesar must find a way to unify them to one cause. On the other side of the country, Malcom must venture into the decaying Americas with his family to find a cure for the plague slowly killing his wife, Rita. World powers will shift as civilisations collapse and rise.  
DEAD LETTERS #6
MEMETIC #2 (OF 3)
SHELTERED #13


DARK HORSE
ALIENS FIRE AND STONE #3

 With their numbers dwindling and hopes for rescue fading, the desperate survivors on the strange planet known as LV-223 fight among themselves. A lone scientist may hold the key to their freedom, though-if everyone can live long enough to hear him out! Ties in with the Prometheus and Aliens films!
BALTIMORE WOLF AND THE APOSTLE #2 (OF 2)
COLDER BAD SEED #2
CONAN THE AVENGER #8

 Conan and his comrades join forces with the very brigands they once fought! Swords and personalities clash as Conan's plan to steal a legendary treasure right under the nose of his new "ally" is in danger of being revealed!
DARK ENGINE #4
ELFQUEST FINAL QUEST #6
HALO ESCALATION #12
MASSIVE #29

 The world as we know it will die. This is a fact. Will anyone, or anything, manage to survive?
MIND MGMT #28
TOMB RAIDER #10
USAGI YOJIMBO SENSO #5 (OF 6)

 Another Martian rocket crashes into the territory of the Komori, the outlaw clan of ninja bats. Will Tomoe's husband convince them to set aside their differences with the shogun and team up against the alien threat? Meanwhile, Lord Noriyuki reveals the astonishing secret weapon he believes will win the war-you just have to see it to believe it!


DC
AQUAMAN #36
ARKHAM MANOR #2

 When Batman goes undercover in Arkham Manor, we learn just how important inmate Jack Shaw is to his mission.
BATMAN 66 #17
BATMAN BEYOND UNIVERSE #16
BATMAN ETERNAL #34
BODIES #5 (OF 8)
CATWOMAN #36

 "Family Business" part 2! 
Selina struggles to maintain her role as the leader of Gotham City's crime families when...Catwoman attacks?
DEAD BOY DETECTIVES #11
DEATHSTROKE #2

 Slade Wilson's entire life is turned upside down after he learns that his involvement in a top-secret mission was wiped from his memory. Now, a new, mysterious enemy known as Odysseus has targeted Deathstroke and everyone involved in the decade-old mission. With only fragments of his memories to work with, Deathstroke will have to see help from allies he thought long dead to fight the men who wish to reshape the balance of global power.
EARTH 2 WORLDS END #8
FLASH #36
GOTHAM BY MIDNIGHT #1

 Strange doings are afoot in Gotham City! Look out, though - Jim Corrigan is on the case in this new series by writer Ray Fawkes (CONSTANTINE, BATMAN ETERNAL) and artist Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night, Ten Grand)!
HE MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE #19
INFINITY MAN AND THE FOREVER PEOPLE #5
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #36

 Separated and scattered across the time stream in the wake of their most recent battle, can the team find a way to reunite? Or will they perish when faced with surroundings specifically picked to neutralise their abilities?
NEW 52 FUTURES END #30 (WEEKLY)
RED LANTERNS #36 (GODHEAD)
SECRET ORIGINS #7
STAR SPANGLED WAR STORIES GI ZOMBIE #4
SUPERMAN #36
UNWRITTEN VOL 2 APOCALYPSE #11 

 The end is near, and the final battle is about to be fought - and Tom is back where he never wanted to belong. But if he's going to die tomorrow, then tonight he's got some unfinished business - with the most derivative boy wizard in all the worlds.


DYNAMITE

BIONIC WOMAN SEASON FOUR #3

DOCTOR SPEKTOR #4

FLASH GORDON ANNUAL 2014

 

48 STORY PAGES! FIVE STORIES, all tying in to the hit FLASH GORDON ongoing series! KID FLASH - Teenage Flash's daring & dumb misadventures! DALE ARDEN - Hero of the science desk! PROFESSOR ZARKOV - Drunken rocket scientist of the future! SHARK PRINCESS - Royal tribulations on one of Ming's many conquered underwater worlds! BABY FLASH - What kind of trouble did Flash get into before he was even out of diapers!?
A cavalcade of fantastic fun featuring JEFF PARKER (Batman '66), BEN ACKER & BEN BLACKER (Thunderbolts, Thrilling Adventure Hour) & CHRIS ELIOPOULOS (Hawkeye)!

JUSTICE INC #4 (OF 6)

PURGATORI #3

RED SONJA BLACK TOWER #3 (OF 4)

STEAMPUNK BSG 1880 #4 (OF 4)

IDW

ANGRY BIRDS TRANSFORMERS #1 (OF 4)

 You got TRANSFORMERS in my Angry Birds! No, you got Angry Birds in my TRANSFORMERS! ERGH, OOF, MPPHH!!! Hey! Waitaminit! This is actually pretty great! That's right, comic lovers, two of your favorite IDW comics have morphed into one amazing new comic! When the TRANSFORMERS lose their powerful ALLSPARK, it ends up on Piggie Island and the world of Angry Birds turns robotic! Prepare to meet...  the AUTOBIRDS and DECEPTIHOGS!  
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS #2 (OF 5)

 Megs' detective work leads her further into the past, as she struggles to uncover the truth about Edward. At the castle, Edward searches for Eli, the unfinished creation with a penchant for taking things apart, unaware that he's slipped out into the shadows of a sleepy suburban town.
GI JOE (2014) #3
GODZILLA RULERS OF THE EARTH #18
JUDGE DREDD #25
SHADOW SHOW #1 (OF 5)

In Shadow Show, acclaimed writers and come together to pay tribute to the work of the one and only Ray Bradbury, the incomparable literary artist who has given us such timeless classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Dandelion Wine. Up first is "By The Silver Water of Lake Champlain," written by Joe Hill and adapted by Jason Ciaramella (The Cape) and Charles Paul Wilson III (Wraith). In this haunting story, Gail and Joel, two young teens, form an unlikely bond over the discovery of a lifetime. But their lives will soon be changed, forever altered by what they found that foggy day by the silver waters of Lake Champlain.

SKYLANDERS #2
TMNT GHOSTBUSTERS #2 (OF 4)

The Turtles are stuck in the Ghostbusters dimension... along with a brand-new, all-powerful, all-crazy ghost from centuries past! The two teams will have to act fast to save the day, but what happens when Casey Jones becomes possessed?
TMNT ONGOING #40  
TRANSFORMERS DRIFT EMPIRE OF STONE #1 (OF 4)

 DRIFT RETURNS! Last year, TRANSFORMERS readers were shocked when DRIFT left the AUTOBOTS in disgrace... and now he's alone, on a mission to clean up the darkest depths of the galaxy-until RATCHET shows up to try to bring him home!
TRANSFORMERS MORE THAN MEETS EYE #35
TRANSFORMERS VS GI JOE #4
  X-FILES YEAR ZERO #5 (OF 5)

 Mulder and Scully have finally come face-to-face with "Mr. Zero" and slowly unraveled a mystery stretching nearly 70 years in the past. But more major twists are revealed as this historic case comes to a close! For now...

IMAGE
COWL #6
ENORMOUS #5
  LAZARUS #13

 "CONCLAVE," Part Three
Surrounded by decadent luxury, the Conclave of the 16 Families continues. As new alliances are formed and old ones destroyed, Forever is dispatched by her father with a uncharacteristically straightforward mission: kill her brother, Jonah.  
MADMAN IN YOUR FACE 3D SPECIAL

This super-sized special-effects spectacular features an all-new Madman story by MICHAEL ALLRED, plus an exclusive 3D gallery of superstar talent: PAOLO RIVERA, MARCOS MARTIN, JAE LEE, EDUARDO RISSO, EMMA RIOS, NICK DRAGOTTA, ANDREW ROBINSON, SEAN MURPHY, MARIS WICKS, AARON CONLEY, JENNY FRISON, DECLAN SHALVEY, BECKY CLOONAN, JOE QUINONES, MING DOYLE, NICK BRADSHAW, and more!
Plus newly converted 3D versions of the acclaimed "Swiped From Dimension X," where Allred drew almost every panel in the style of a different artist, and "The World's Biggest Comic Book Panel." Also includes a cut-out 3D cube and surprises galore!
Custom MADMAN 3D glasses included!

MANHATTAN PROJECTS #25

ODDLY NORMAL #3

ODYC #1

 An epic 26 centuries in the making: In the aftermath of a galactic war a hundred years long, Odyssia the Clever Champion and her compatriots begin their longest, strangest trip yet: the one home. A gender-bent eye-popping psychedelic science fiction odyssey begins HERE, by MATT FRACTION (CASANOVA, SEX CRIMINALS, SATELLITE SAM) and CHRISTIAN WARD (INFINITE VACATION, OLYMPUS). INCLUDES SPECIAL EIGHT-PAGE FOLDOUT!
PROPHET STRIKEFILE #2
  RASPUTIN #2 

 With the ghost of his dead father for company, Rasputin leaves home for the monastery, where he fights monks, has a chat with God, and meets the man who will eventually murder him.
ROCHE LIMIT #3
SEX #18
SIDEKICK #9
  TREES #7

Chenglei's life is changing so quickly, under the shadow of the tree over Shu, that he doesn't know if he can keep up with it. He's worried that he's running headlong into something awful. He has no idea what's really waiting for him in the dark at the end of the line. 

UMBRAL #11

WAYWARD #4

INDIE

BART SIMPSON COMICS #93

CROSSED PLUS 100 #1

Before the epic begins, we offer a sampler platter, if you will, showing the savoury goods on offer.  Get a first look at the pencil art of Gabriel Andrade, design sketches, and notes from Alan Moore.  This special edition is limited to just 3000 copies and will be in stores the week before #1.  
DELINQUENTS #4 (OF 4)

BROS BEFORE HOBOS!

After battling, befriending, breaking-up, and making-up, our suckers supreme - Quantum, Woody, Archer, and Armstrong - have finally arrived at their destination...Big Rock Candy Mountain! With their enemies rapidly gaining on them can our dreamed-up-team-up find the lost treasure of the hobos before it is too late? You've read the other three issues, you've played the board game, WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU NOT SEE HOW IT ENDS?! See you at the finish line, hobolievers!

EVIL WITHIN #3 (OF 4)
LABYRINTHECTOMY LUNCHEONETTE ONE SHOT 
  LENORE VOLUME II #11

After four issues it's time for a death in the family. And we're not talking about a case of mild death where a character comes back after a year or so, no longer dead. We're talking dead-dead. Dead as a doornail dead, the pushing up daisies kind of dead. And Roman swears blind it's sticking, "no one's curing this dose of the deads," said he. But who will it be? Will it be Lenore, the titular star of the comic, or maybe Ragamuffin, her stalwart and loyal companion? Or perhaps it's that new, good-looking crewmember dressed in the red shirt. There's only one way to find out!
LETTER 44 #12
SALLY O/T WASTELAND #5 (OF 5)
  STUMPTOWN V3 #3

 With her friend Mercury still in a coma, Dex is taking things personally -- perhaps too personally. As the investigation stalls, Dex begins to veer out of control, and there's no telling who might get hurt in her wake.
TAROT WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE #89

MARVEL
ALL NEW GHOST RIDER #9
ALL NEW INVADERS #12
AMAZING X-MEN #13  
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND MIGHTY AVENGERS #2 AXIS

 AXIS TIE-IN!
Once, Luke Cage was a man of the people... a champion of the community... a hero for everyone who needed help.
But there's a new Luke Cage in town... and the only one he's helping is himself!
Plus: Captain America declares war - on the Mighty Avengers!
CYCLOPS #7
DEATH OF WOLVERINE LOGAN LEGACY #5 (OF 7)
  DEATHLOK #2

 "FLIGHTPATH"
In a mission that twice-crosses the globe, Deathlok must stop an airplane mid-flight.
While Henry Hayes tries to balance his life at home with the missions he doesn't even know about, other parties, good and bad, are taking an interest in him.
Deathlok is activated only to find himself racing against the clock in the Philippines. MARVEL UNIVERSE ULT SPIDER-MAN WEB WARRIORS #1

 The start of an all-new era of adventure, as SPIDER-MAN teams up with the Marvel Universes' greatest heroes! Spidey joins CAPTAIN AMERICA in a raid on the fortress of DR. DOOM to retrieve Cap's lost shield!
Based on the smash hit DISNEY XD animated series.
NEW AVENGERS #27 TRO
NEW WARRIORS #12
NOVA #24 AXIS
SCARLET SPIDERS #1 (OF 3)

The first issue in an explosive limited series tying into the biggest Spider-Event ever: SPIDER-VERSE!
In the midst of Spider-Verse, Kaine, Ben Reilly, and Ultimate Jessica Drew must come together for a mission of vital importance! There is more to their mission than meets the eye - what dangers await the Scarlet Spiders across the multiverse?
SECRET AVENGERS #10
SPIDER-MAN 2099 #6 SV
 SUPERIOR FOES OF SPIDER-MAN #17

 This is it! The end! The finale! The big wrapuperoo!!  
SUPERIOR IRON MAN #2

 THE SUPERIORITY COMPLEX!
TONY STARK has transformed SAN FRANCISCO...into the prototype for his NEW WORLD concept. But MATT MURDOCK isn't down with Tony's new vision
Can DAREDEVIL lead the rebellion against THE SUPERIOR IRON MAN?
WOLVERINE AND X-MEN #12 AXIS