Image Comics’ January 2019 Solicitations

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CRIMINAL #1

WRITER: ED BRUBAKER
ARTIST / COVER: SEAN PHILLIPS & JACOB PHILLIPS
JANUARY 9 / 48 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
SERIES PREMIERE
THE RETURN OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED CRIME COMIC OF THE 21ST CENTURY!
Hot off their bestselling series KILL OR BE KILLED and their original graphic novel MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES, crime comic masters ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS finally return to their most-demanded title—as a new MONTHLY SERIES!
In this double-sized (at no additional cost!) debut issue, Teeg Lawless is back in town. But he finds himself in more trouble than ever, thanks to his delinquent teenage son—and this time, fists and bullets may not be enough to solve his problems.
A perfect introduction to CRIMINAL and its dark, exciting world, this series will also include back page art and articles to bring readers more fully into the noir experience.

OLIVER #1

WRITER: GARY WHITTA
ARTIST / COVER: DARICK ROBERTSON
JANUARY 23 / 24 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
SERIES PREMIERE
Award-winning screenwriter GARY WHITTA (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Book Of Eli) teams with celebrated artist DARICK ROBERTSON (Transmetropolitan, HAPPY!, The Boys) for a new take on a literary classic—with a futuristic twist. OLIVER re-imagines Charles Dickens’ most famous orphan as a post-apocalyptic superhero fighting to liberate a war-ravaged England while searching for the truth about his own mysterious origins.
“GARY WHITTA slips effortlessly from movies into comics with a terrific story and career-best art from DARICK ROBERTSON.” —MARK MILLAR
GUNNING FOR HITS #1
WRITER: JEFF ROUGVIE
ARTIST / COVER: MORITAT
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
SERIES PREMIERE
Set in the shady New York City music scene of the mid-80s, GUNNING FOR HITS stars Martin Mills, a record company talent scout with an inscrutable past. Follow Martin as he attempts to sign a rock band that’ll conquer the world in this music business crime thriller written by music producer JEFF ROUGVIE (David Bowie, Big Star) with art by MORITAT (The Spirit, Harley Quinn, Hellblazer). Plus: each issue will include a background feature and a Spotify playlist.

JESUSFREAK HC

WRITER: JOE CASEY
ARTIST / COVER: BENJAMIN MARRA
MARCH 20 / 64 PAGES / FC / T+ / $17.99
TRIM SIZE: 7 1/4” x 10 7/8”
The year is 26 C.E. A young Nazarean carpenter is having some trouble adjusting to the violent world around him—and finding his place within it. He knows he’s different, but he doesn’t know why. Not yet, anyway. A bloody, two-fisted tale of historical heroic fiction brought to you by JOE CASEY (SEX, BUTCHER BAKER, THE RIGHTEOUS MAKER, MCMLXXV) and BENJAMIN MARRA (Night Business, Terror Assaulter: O.M.W.O.T.).

VINDICATION #1 (OF 4)

WRITER: MD MARIE
ARTIST: CARLOS MIKO & DEMA JR.
COVER: JONATHAN DAVIS
JANUARY 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
In turbulent times, when cops are often portrayed as the enemy of the people, Detective Chip Christopher maneuvers the blurred blue line between racism and due diligence in order to do his job. And right now it’s his job to investigate Turn, a young black man with a sketchy past—who was previously exonerated of a similar murder.

DIE!DIE!DIE! #1-4

WRITER: ROBERT KIRKMAN & SCOTT M. GIMPLE
ARTIST / COVER: CHRIS BURNHAM & NATHAN FAIRBAIRN
28 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
2018’s most surprising release—from THE WALKING DEAD creator Robert Kirkman—is now available for reorder!
A secret cabal within the United States government works outside our normal system to influence world matters through targeted assassination. So if you’re hurting people and making the world worse than it already is… someone could right now be giving the order for you to… DIE!DIE!DIE!

COYOTES, VOL. 2 TP

WRITER: SEAN LEWIS
ARTIST / COVER: CAITLIN YARSKY
JANUARY 23 / 120 PAGES / FC / M / $16.99
The second chapter of this critically lauded allegorical series is a fascinating look at misogyny, war, and forgiveness.
Red is tasked with ridding her home of men who have donned animal pelts that turn them into woman-hunting wolves. Returning from her first war with these wolves, she works to bring more women to safety—and to slaughter more wayward men. But when she meets a group of women who challenge her ideas and her core self, she questions the person she’s become.
Collects COYOTES #5-8

CYBER FORCE: AWAKENING, VOL. 2 TP

WRITER: MATT HAWKINS & BRYAN HILL
ARTIST / COVER: ATILIO ROJO
JANUARY 30 / 128 PAGES / FC / M / $16.99
With the world still reeling from the sudden blackout of all networked technology, Stryker, Aphrodite, and Velocity are sent to find a deadly bounty hunter that could help them bring order to the chaos… but this bounty hunter has a secret that might stop Cyber Force before it starts.
Collects CYBER FORCE #5-8

ECLIPSE, VOL. 3 TP

WRITER: ZACK KAPLAN
ARTIST / COVER: GIOVANNI TIMPANO
JANUARY 9 / 128 PAGES / FC / T+ / $16.99
In a world where sunlight is deadly, a corporate heiress-turned-rebel, her corrupt solar tycoon father, and a former hero seeking redemption, all find themselves battling to find and control the mysterious Scientist responsible for an immunity to dangerous sunlight—a Scientist with his own plans in mind.
Collects ECLIPSE #9-12

HEY KIDS! COMICS! TP

WRITER / ARTIST: HOWARD VICTOR CHAYKIN
COVER: DON CAMERON
FEBRUARY 13 / 152 PAGES / FC / M / $16.99
HEY KIDS! COMICS! takes its cue from nearly a century of turbulence and triumph, despair and drama in the comics racket.
Artists and writers, con men and clowns, ganefs and gangsters create the foundations of today’s biggest entertainment business—or at least the tail that wags the dog.
Some of it really happened, and the names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty…
…although in the end, everyone was guilty of something.
Collects HEY KIDS! COMICS! #1-5

MOONSTRUCK, VOL. 2: SOME ENCHANTED EVENING OGN TP

WRITER: GRACE ELLIS
ARTIST: SHAE BEAGLE & KAT FAJARDO
COVER: SHAE BEAGLE
FEBRUARY 13 / 120 PAGES / FC / E / $14.99
Werewolf barista Julie and her supernatural friends try to unwind at a party, but a conniving fraternity of fairy bros has other plans for our heroes. With one of their friends trapped in the frat house and the winter solstice (a notable night of magical mischief) looming ever closer, it’s up to the amorous werewolves and gregarious centaur to save the day.
The second chapter of the popular all-ages magical adventure from Lumberjanes creator GRACE ELLIS and talented newcomer SHAE BEAGLE.


NEAR DEATH, VOL. 3 OGN TP

WRITER: JAY FAERBER
ARTIST: SIMONE GUGLIELMINI, GIGI BALDASSINI & RON RILEY
COVER: GARRY BROWN
FEBRUARY 6 / 120 PAGES / FC / T+ / $16.99
Former hitman Markham returns! He’s setting out to balance the scales after a near-death experience, using his mercenary skills to save people—instead of killing them.
In this original graphic novel, Markham is offered an early parole from his prison sentence. There’s just one catch: he’ll have to extract the warden’s daughter from a dangerous group of anti-government separatists.
“A killer crime book with a very sharp hook.” —BRIAN K. VAUGHAN (SAGA, PAPER GIRLS)

NEW LIEUTENANTS OF METAL TP

WRITER: JOE CASEY
ARTIST: ULISES FARINAS
COVER: ULISES FARINAS & SONIA HARRIS
JANUARY 30 / 104 PAGES / FC / T+ / $12.99
The New Lieutenants of Metal are the most kick-ass, head-banging heroes ever assembled—a precision strike force, ready to face any threat; a metal militia of mayhem. Their names are legend: The Mighty Krieg, Vandenborg Riot, Manowarrior, Steppenwulf. Beset from all sides by a growing roster of vicious foes, the New Lieutenants of Metal have arrived to bust down the doors of perception and deliver you to a greater comic book glory!
Collects NEW LIEUTENANTS OF METAL #1-4

PAPER GIRLS DELUXE EDITION BOOK TWO HC

WRITER: BRIAN K. VAUGHAN
ARTIST: CLIFF CHIANG & MATT WILSON
COVER: CLIFF CHIANG
APRIL 3 / 320 PAGES / FC / T+ / $34.99
TRIM SIZE: 7.25” x 10.75”
From BRIAN K. VAUGHAN, New York Times bestselling writer of SAGA, and CLIFF CHIANG, legendary artist of Wonder Woman, this gorgeous, oversized deluxe hardcover collects two complete time-traveling adventures—one that sends our four newspaper delivery girls from 1988 to the prehistoric past, and another to their own terrifying future.
Collects PAPER GIRLS #11-20, along with EXCLUSIVE BONUS MATERIAL and an ALL-NEW WRAPAROUND COVER!

PROXIMA CENTAURI, VOL. 1 TP

WRITER / ARTIST / COVER: FAREL DALRYMPLE
JANUARY 23 / 160 PAGES / FC / T+ / $16.99
Teenage wizard adventurer Sherwood Breadcoat is trapped on Proxima Centauri, a manufactured dimensional sphere 4.243 light-years from Earth. Looking for escape—and a way back to his brother—Sherwood must also deal with his confusing emotions, alien creatures, and all sorts of fantastic dangers.
Starring Sherwood Breadcoat, “The Scientist” Duke Herzog, Dr. EXT the Time Traveler, the ghost M. Parasol, Shakey the Space Wizard, and Dhog Dahog, PROXIMA CENTAURI is a psychedelic science-fantasy action comic book drama from FAREL DALRYMPLE (The Wrenchies, POP GUN WAR).
Collects PROXIMA CENTAURI #1-6

SHANGHAI RED TP

WRITER: CHRISTOPHER SEBELA
ARTIST / COVER: JOSHUA HIXSON
JANUARY 30 / 152 PAGES / FC / T+ / $16.99
Red is one of hundreds of people who were shanghaied out of Portland in the late 1800s. Drugged, kidnapped, and sold to a ship’s captain for $50, she wakes up on a boat headed out to sea for years, unable to escape or reveal who she is. Now, she’s coming back in a blood-soaked boat to find her family and track down the men responsible for stealing her life out from under her.
Eisner-nominated writer CHRISTOPHER SEBELA (High Crimes, Heartthrob, CROWDED), JOSHUA HIXSON (The Black Woods), and HASSAN OTSMANE-ELHAOU (Felix & Macabber) bring you a tale of revenge, family, and identity that stretches from the deck of a ship outside Shanghai all the way to the bleak streets of—and secret tunnels beneath—Portland, Oregon.
Collects SHANGHAI RED #1-5

BARRIER LIMITED EDITION SLIPCASE SET

WRITER: BRIAN K. VAUGHAN
ARTIST / COVER: MARCOS MARTIN & MUNTSA VICENTE
SLIPCASE PACKAGED WITH BARRIER #1-5
MARCH 27 / 208 PAGES / FC / M / $29.99
SLIPCASE SHIPPED EMPTY
MARCH 27 / EMPTY BOX / FC / M / $10.00
“BARRIER is a science fiction comic that America needs right now.” —io9
To celebrate serialized comic books (and the awesome stores that sell them!), BRIAN K. VAUGHAN and MARCOS MARTIN have no plans to ever release a collected edition of their Eisner-nominated miniseries BARRIER, but for everyone looking for a way to store or display all five original issues, Image Comics is proud to release this gorgeous new SLIPCASE, the perfect home for this unconventional sci-fi drama about violence, language, and illegal immigration.
INCLUDES BARRIER #1-5

AUNTIE AGATHA’S HOME FOR WAYWARD RABBITS #3 (OF 6)

WRITER: KEITH GIFFEN
ARTIST / COVER: BENJAMIN ROMAN
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $3.99
A pair of unwanted guests at the wayward rabbit estate won’t take no for an answer! Goons-for-hire Naomi and Raquel turn up the pressure to get Agatha to sell her home.

BIRTHRIGHT #35

WRITER: JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
ARTIST / COVER: ANDREI BRESSAN & ADRIANO LUCAS
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
END OF STORY ARC
Brennan has become one of the most powerful mages on Earth… but at what cost to his family?

BITTER ROOT #3

WRITER: DAVID F. WALKER & CHUCK BROWN
ARTIST / COVER A: SANFORD GREENE
COVER B: SKOTTIE YOUNG
COVER C: LARRY STROMAN
COVER D: MIKIA SOTO
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
With violence erupting on the streets of Harlem and his cousin possessed by a demonic force, Cullen Sangerye reaches out for help from an estranged family member. Meanwhile, in Mississippi, Ford Sangerye fights for his life at the gateway to Hell.
BITTER ROOT Cover As by SANFORD GREENE will be connecting through the first story arc.

BLACKBIRD #4

WRITER: SAM HUMPHRIES
ARTIST / COVER A: JEN BARTEL
COVER B: SANA TAKEDA
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
Between pulling back the veil on the magic underground and learning shocking secrets from the past, Nina can’t even right now. Also, she’s terrible at flirting, and that’s getting in the way of making out with Clint.

BLACK SCIENCE #40

WRITER: RICK REMENDER
ARTIST: MATTEO SCALERA & MORENO DINISIO
COVER A: MATTEO SCALERA
COVER B: LEWIS LaROSA
JANUARY 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
“NO AUTHORITY BUT YOURSELF,” Part Two (of Four)
The last surviving members of the Anarchist League of Scientists are reunited, and every decision they make splinters out a trillion possible universes. Is this a new beginning? Or the end of everything?

BULLY WARS #5

WRITER / COVER B: SKOTTIE YOUNG
ARTIST / COVER A: AARON CONLEY
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / E / $3.99
END OF STORY ARC
It all comes down to this! HOCK! RUFUS! Spencer? The Bully Wars exist for one reason and one reason alone—to reveal who gets to rule Rottenville High!

BURNOUTS #5

WRITER: DENNIS CULVER
ARTIST / COVER B: GEOFFO
COVER A: CHRIS BURNHAM
COVER C: JUSTIN GREENWOOD
JANUARY 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
END OF STORY ARC
It’s Burnout versus Burnout in all-out civil war as the aliens finally reveal the reason for their secret invasion.

CEMETERY BEACH #5 (OF 7)

WRITER: WARREN ELLIS
ARTIST / COVERS A & B: JASON HOWARD
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
Mike and Grace have been separated by Drum’s military airboats, and he doesn’t have a prayer of getting back to Earth without her. But what happens next teaches Grace something about Mike that’s frightening enough to make her rethink going anywhere with him. Ever.

CROWDED #6

WRITER: CHRISTOPHER SEBELA
ARTIST / COVER A: RO STEIN, TED BRANDT & TRIONA FARRELL
COVER B: NAOMI FRANQUIZ
JANUARY 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
END OF STORY ARC
Trapped with the psychopathic streaming superstar Trotter on one side and all of Los Angeles carrying a weapon and a two-million-dollar-dream on the other, Charlie and Vita have only each other—and a few of the secrets they’ve been keeping from each other—to rely on for their survival.

CURSE WORDS #20

WRITER: CHARLES SOULE
ARTIST / COVER A: RYAN BROWNE
COVER B (“ESCAPE TRICK” VARIANT): RYAN BROWNE
JANUARY 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
END OF STORY ARC
“THEM BLUE WIZARD BLUES,” Conclusion
The fourth arc of the acclaimed series comes to a close, with the game-changing revelations you’ve come to expect from CURSE WORDS. IN THIS ISSUE: a talking koala makes a proposition, a bunch of bad guys get drunk and make a fateful decision, and Wizord loses a fight. Like, badly. Offered with our final “magical” variant by RYAN BROWNE: a fun reference to a classic stage magic trick of old. Get it!

CYBER FORCE #10

WRITER: BRYAN HILL & MATT HAWKINS
ARTIST / COVER: ATILIO ROJO
JANUARY 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
Morgan Stryker convinces Ripclaw to join Cyber Force, but the organization that created him wants Ripclaw dead. Stryker makes a choice that will turn Cyber Force into fugitives or murderers—or something much, much worse.

DAYS OF HATE #12 (OF 12)

WRITER: ALEŠ KOT
ARTIST: DANIJEL ŽEŽELJ
COVER: DANIJEL ŽEŽELJ & TOM MULLER
JANUARY 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
SERIES FINALE
Where are we now?

DEAD RABBIT #4

WRITER: GERRY DUGGAN
ARTIST / COVER A: JOHN McCREA
COVER B (1:10 INCENTIVE PHOTO VARIANT COVER): GERRY DUGGAN & JOHN McCREA
JANUARY 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
END OF STORY ARC
Dead Rabbit’s secret identity starts to be a little less secret as the mafia situation comes to a head, but he finds a brutal new enemy in Boston’s finest.

DEADLY CLASS #37

WRITER: RICK REMENDER
ARTIST: WES CRAIG & JORDAN BOYD
COVER A: WES CRAIG
COVER B: DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON
JANUARY 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
“NEVER GO BACK,” Part Two (of Five)
Get ready for the wildest night in Tokyo as Saya gets one chance to escape the clutches of her psycho Yakuza brother Kenji.

DEATH OR GLORY #6

WRITER: RICK REMENDER
ARTIST / COVER A: BENGAL
COVER B: ERIC CANETE
JANUARY 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
NEW STORY ARC
Glory is back—and barreling toward the Mexican border in the hopes of delivering the liver transplant to save her father’s life. Hot on her heels is her ex-husband, his criminal empire, crooked cops, psycho killers, and a Mexican murder cartel. Time, fuel, and hope are running out, but no one outruns Glory!
Don’t miss the start of the second chapter of RICK REMENDER and BENGAL’s runaway smash hit!

DIE #2

WRITER: KIERON GILLEN
ARTIST / COVER A: STEPHANIE HANS
COVER B: JANA SCHIRMER
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
“FANTASY HEARTBREAKER,” Part Two
Remember last time, when we said “Goth Jumanji”? As the bleak, austere fantasy-horror ramps up, we start underlining the word “Goth” in black marker until we cut a hole through the page.

EAST OF WEST #42

WRITER: JONATHAN HICKMAN
ARTIST / COVER: NICK DRAGOTTA
JANUARY 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
END OF STORY ARC
“RISK”
Things draw to a close on the Earthly plane.

ERRAND BOYS #4 (OF 5)

WRITER: D.J. KIRKBRIDE
ARTIST / COVER: NIKOS KOUTSIS
JANUARY 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $3.99
Jace’s past has come back to haunt him, and there’s no outrunning it this time. While Tawnk is faced with fending for himself, Jace does his court-ordered time in a mental prison for what feels like ten years, living a life of what might have been. This one is going to get a little emotional, folks.

EVOLUTION #13

WRITER: JAMES ASMUS, JOSEPH KEATINGE & CHRISTOPHER SEBELA
ARTIST / COVER: JOE INFURNARI & JORDAN BOYD
JANUARY 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
NEW STORY ARC
Humanity is rapidly evolving, and no one knows why. Sister Hannah, Abe, and Rochelle have been piecing it together, slowly but surely. Is it a mad conspiracy engineered by deviants, or nature’s ultimate revenge on mankind?

EXORSISTERS #4

WRITER: IAN BOOTHBY
ARTIST / COVER A: GISÈLE LAGACÉ & PETE PANTAZIS
COVER B: TY TEMPLETON
JANUARY 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
Cate and Kate learn that the only thing worse than selling your soul to the Devil is selling it to someone you thought was the Devil. Can they save a soul from being saved? Also, their Mother returns, bringing the first-ever evil along with her.

THE FREEZE #2

WRITER: DAN WICKLINE
ARTIST / COVER: PHILLIP SEVY
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
Ray and his coworkers have begun to build their new society, but each newly unfrozen person has their own opinions about what happened—and how things should be done.

GASOLINA #14

WRITER: SEAN MACKIEWICZ
ARTIST / COVER: NIKO WALTER & MAT LOPES
JANUARY 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
“CONQUISTADOR”
A cartel war has erupted in Veracruz, and the future of humanity is in the crossfire. What will happen when ancient monsters, a submarine, and a drug lord named El Dorado are unleashed?

GIDEON FALLS #10

WRITER: JEFF LEMIRE
ARTIST: ANDREA SORRENTINO & DAVE STEWART
COVER A: ANDREA SORRENTINO
COVER B: CHRISTIAN WARD
JANUARY 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
“ORIGINAL SINS,” Part Four
The past finally catches up to the present when Doc gives Father Fred a rather gruesome history of Gideon Falls. And if finding a needle in a haystack is impossible, what chance does Norton have of finding one in a giant garbage dump?

HARDCORE #2

WRITER: ANDY DIGGLE
ARTIST: ALESSANDRO VITTI & ADRIANO LUCAS
COVER: DAN PANOSIAN
JANUARY 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
The Hardcore program has been compromised, leaving its top operative stranded in another country, his mind trapped in the body of one of America’s most wanted. Now he has 72 hours to escape hostile territory, with no allies—only a Lamborghini and a license to kill! Kill! Kill!

HIT-GIRL #12

WRITER: RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE & RAFAEL SCAVONE
ARTIST / COVERS A & B (BW VARIANT): RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE
COVER C: CLAIRE ROE
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
END OF STORY ARC
Hit-Girl must defeat the crazed religious zealot, Giustina, and slaughter the army of nuns and monks that stands in her way. War is waged over the relic that completes Giustina’s disturbing collection—the corpse of a long-dead saint she thinks will grant her mercy in the afterlife.

ICE CREAM MAN #9

WRITER: W. MAXWELL PRINCE
ARTIST / COVER A: MARTÍN MORAZZO & CHRIS O’HALLORAN
COVER B: KYLE SMART
JANUARY 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
NEW STORY ARC
“HOPSCOTCH MÉLANGE,” Part One
A wild western one-shot which witnesses the way the world once was.

INFINITE DARK #4

WRITER: RYAN CADY
ARTIST / COVER: ANDREA MUTTI
JANUARY 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
END OF STORY ARC
It’s everyone’s life on the line as Deva Karrell comes face-to-face with the Entity from beyond and learns the terrible truth behind the Orpheus’ recent deaths.

ISOLA #6

WRITER: BRENDEN FLETCHER & KARL KERSCHL
ARTIST: KARL KERSCHL & MSASSYK
COVER A: KARL KERSCHL
COVER B: JEN BARTEL
JANUARY 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
NEW STORY ARC
Olwyn has returned from the land of the dead, but did she return alone?
The journey to Isola continues…
NOW BI-MONTHLY!

ISOLA PROLOGUE + BONUS MATERIAL SPECIAL ONE-SHOT (1:25 INCENTIVE ISSUE)

WRITER: BRENDEN FLETCHER & KARL KERSCHL
ARTIST: KARL KERSCHL & MSASSYK
COVER: KARL KERSCHL
JANUARY 16 / 16 PAGES / FC / T+
Who were Olwyn and Rook before the ISOLA adventure began? Check out the first appearance of the characters from the bestselling, Miyazaki-inspired fantasy by BRENDEN FLETCHER and KARL KERSCHL in this very special ISOLA: PROLOGUE one-shot, which was originally serialized as bonus material in MOTOR CRUSH issues #1-5 from December 2016-April 2017.

KICK-ASS #11

WRITER: STEVE NILES
ARTIST / COVERS A & B: MARCELO FRUSIN
COVER C: DECLAN SHALVEY
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
Kick-Ass is ready to strike, but Santos and Violencia have joined forces to crush her. The brother-in-law she put in a coma is starting to stir—will he wake up and expose her identity?

THE LAST SIEGE #8 (OF 8)

WRITER: LANDRY Q. WALKER
ARTIST / COVER A: JUSTIN GREENWOOD
COVER B: TOM NEELY
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
MINISERIES FINALE
Fire, blood, and death. That is all that awaits the king and his soldiers as they breach the walls of the castle. The end of the battle is finally here, and as the dawn breaks, the Stranger must choose between revenge… and redemption.

LOW #22

WRITER: RICK REMENDER
ARTIST: GREG TOCCHINI & DAVE McCAIG
COVER A: GREG TOCCHINI
COVER B: DAN BRERETON
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
“LAST EMBERS,” Part Three (of Seven)
Stel must decide whether to live her final days in a gilded cage or sink back into the black waters of despair in search of one final hope.

MAN-EATERS #5

WRITER: CHELSEA CAIN
ARTIST: KATE NIEMCZYK
COVER: LIA MITERNIQUE
JANUARY 30 / 24 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
“RAGTIME GOSPEL”
Twelve-year-old girls fight the patriarchy.
Because someone has to.

MIDDLEWEST #3

WRITER: SKOTTIE YOUNG
ARTIST: JORGE CORONA
COVER: MIKE HUDDLESTON
JANUARY 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
Abel and Fox learn that there may be someone who can help the boy’s worsening condition. But the road to reach her is long and unpredictable—and not everyone they run into along the way is anxious to let them pass.

MONSTRESS #19

WRITER: MARJORIE LIU
ARTIST / COVER: SANA TAKEDA
JANUARY 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
NEW STORY ARC
Five-time Eisner Award winner for 2018
As Maika and Corvin search for Kippa through a warped and lethal land, Kippa herself will face her own terrible monsters…

MURDER FALCON #4

WRITER: DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON
ARTIST / COVER: DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON & MIKE SPICER
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $3.99
The reunion tour of Brooticus gets off to a rough start as Magnum Khaos unleashes his monstrous minions on Chicago. Only the mighty musical attack of Murder Falcon and the band can turn the tide… but where is Jake when his friends need him the most?

OBLIVION SONG BY KIRKMAN & DE FELICI #11

WRITER: ROBERT KIRKMAN
ARTIST: LORENZO DE FELICI & ANNALISA LEONI
COVER: LORENZO DE FELICI
JANUARY 9 / 28 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
Nathan’s journey to atone for past sins has just led to more pain and heartbreak for those around him. He’s due for a win, but will it come?

OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #38

WRITER: ROBERT KIRKMAN
ARTIST / COVER: PAUL AZACETA & ELIZABETH BREITWEISER
JANUARY 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
SURROUNDED! The darkness is closing in on Kyle Barnes… the end game approaches.

OUTER DARKNESS #3

WRITER: JOHN LAYMAN
ARTIST / COVER: AFU CHAN
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
An away mission to a mysterious asteroid leads to the death of a beloved crewman. Too bad death is only the beginning for the crew of The Charon…

OUTPOST ZERO #6

WRITER: SEAN KELLEY McKEEVER
ARTIST / COVER: ALEXANDRE TEFENKGI & JEAN-FRANCOIS BEAULIEU
JANUARY 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
Mitchell is itching for a fight—with his dad, his sister, his friends, anybody. Luckily, fighting is the Outpost’s most popular form of entertainment, and what does it matter if most fighters don’t live to see their next birthday?

PRODIGY #2 (OF 6)

WRITER: MARK MILLAR
ARTIST / COVERS A & B: RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE
COVER C: TRAVIS CHAREST
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
Edison Crane heads to a military base in Australia to investigate otherworldly apparitions the government can’t explain. Meanwhile, a long-dormant evil is rising, and Crane will have to unlock secrets hidden deep in the Kremlin vaults before it’s too late.

RAT QUEENS #14

WRITER: KURTIS J. WIEBE
ARTIST / COVER A: OWEN GIENI
COVER B: JIM VALENTINO & OWEN GIENI
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
“THE INFERNAL PATH,” Part Four
Having escaped the Underpit by the skin of their teeth, the Queens track down the source of the orc invasion while Dee must make an impossible choice: save her friends or save herself.
This book will ship with two covers—cover B by JIM VALENTINO and OWEN GIENI will be the fourth of five connected covers.

REDLANDS #10

WRITER / ARTIST: JORDIE BELLAIRE & VANESA DEL REY
COVER: VANESA DEL REY
JANUARY 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
Redbrandt returns to Redlands while the witches are away. Meanwhile, Nancy discovers the whereabouts of her father and the Devil’s plan finally comes together. Which is bad news—for everyone.

REGRESSION #15

WRITER: CULLEN BUNN
ARTIST: DANNY LUCKERT & MARIE ENGER
COVER: DANNY LUCKERT
JANUARY 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
SERIES FINALE
Final issue! In the future, the Valgeroti have grown in power, in large part thanks to the leadership of Gregory Sutter, the man possessed by a terrible demon. There is but one chance to finally break the fiendish influence of the cult. Only Adrian, a man who succumbed to their will decades ago, can stop them now.

ROSE #16

WRITER: MEREDITH FINCH
ARTIST / COVER A: IG GUARA
COVER B: JON LAM
COVER C: MIKE KROME
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
As the final battle dawns, Dante and Felix must overcome their animosity toward each other if they hope to prevent Rose from succumbing to darkness.

SAVAGE DRAGON #242

WRITER / ARTIST / COVER: ERIK LARSEN
JANUARY 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
“ANT!”
Hannah Washington returns! Ant chases a master criminal to Toronto, where she recruits Malcolm Dragon to help her battle their common foe. But this new menace has a secret that could shatter both of their lives!

SELF / MADE #2

WRITER: MAT GROOM
ARTIST / COVER: EDUARDO FERIGATO & MARCELO COSTA
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
“OVERTIME”
With Amala’s true nature revealed, her creator has just one night to figure out how and why this miracle occurred… before Amala is lost forever.

SKYWARD #10

WRITER: JOE HENDERSON
ARTIST: LEE GARBETT & ANTONIO FABELA
COVER: LEE GARBETT
JANUARY 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $3.99
END OF STORY ARC
“HERE THERE BE DRAGONFLIES,” Conclusion
In this climactic issue, Willa is forced to ally with her mortal enemy and stage a breakout. But when Edison discovers Willa’s secret, how far will he be willing to go to stop her?

SLEEPLESS #11

WRITER: SARAH VAUGHN
ARTIST / COVER: LEILA DEL DUCA & ALISSA SALLAH
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $3.99
SERIES FINALE
The fates of Poppy and Cyrenic are finally decided.

SPAWN #293

WRITER: TODD McFARLANE
ARTIST: JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER
COVER A: FRANCESCO MATTINA
COVER B (VIRGIN VARIANT): FRANCESCO MATTINA
COVER C (B&W COVER & INTERIORS): TODD McFARLANE & FRANCESCO MATTINA
JANUARY 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $2.99
Spawn acquires a new power and goes toe-to-toe with his most HATED enemies.

SPAWN KILLS EVERYONE TOO #2 (OF 4)

WRITER / COVERS A & B (BW VAR): TODD McFARLANE
ARTIST / COVER C: WILL ROBSON & TODD McFARLANE
JANUARY 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
IF YOU THOUGHT ISSUE ONE HAD A LOT OF BLOOD AND GUTS… WAIT ‘TIL YOU SEE ISSUE TWO!!
MORE CUTENESS, AND EVEN MORE KILLING THAN BEFORE!

STRAY BULLETS: SUNSHINE & ROSES #42

WRITER / ARTIST / COVER: DAVID LAPHAM
JANUARY 30 / 32 PAGES / BW / M / $3.99
It’s a beautiful day on the open road. Plenty of sunshine, plenty of roses… and a little murder.

UNNATURAL #6 (OF 12)

WRITER / ARTIST / COVER A: MIRKA ANDOLFO
COVER B: BABS TARR
JANUARY 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
While she continues to be hunted, Leslie finally meets Carol. But this meeting leads to new questions and doubts in a spiral of uncertainties, pain, and bad memories. Will Leslie be able to get up again? As more details of the grim—and unsettlingly familiar—scenario created by MIRKA ANDOLFO emerge, Leslie’s tale of emancipation and self-discovery reaches a turning point.

THE WALKING DEAD #187

WRITER: ROBERT KIRKMAN
ARTIST: CHARLIE ADLARD, STEFANO GAUDIANO & CLIFF RATHBURN
COVER: CHARLIE ADLARD & DAVE STEWART
JANUARY 2 / 32 PAGES / BW / M / $3.99
“THE ROAD BACK”
Can Rick Grimes bring peace to the Commonwealth—or will he tear it apart?

Princess Action Figure (Color) – PI

Joining Skybound’s exclusive lineup of limited The Walking Dead action figures is the vibrant child-at-heart Juanita Sanchez! With her self-proclaimed nickname, “Princess,” she comes equipped with her trusty machine gun and knife.
This is the color version.

Princess Action Figure (B/W Bloody) – PI

Joining Skybound’s exclusive lineup of limited The Walking Dead action figures is the vibrant child-at-heart Juanita Sanchez! With her self-proclaimed nickname, “Princess,” she comes equipped with her trusty machine gun and knife.
This is the black and white bloody version.

THE WARNING #3

WRITER / ARTIST / COVER: EDWARD LAROCHE
JANUARY 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
“RAZORBACK”
The alien counteroffensive Operation: All-Weather begins.

THE WICKED + THE DIVINE #41

WRITER: KIERON GILLEN
ARTIST / COVER A: JAMIE McKELVIE & MATTHEW WILSON
COVER B: PAULINA GANUCHEAU
JANUARY 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
“OKAY,” Part Two
Back in black.

WITCHBLADE #12

WRITER: CAITLIN KITTREDGE
ARTIST / COVER A: ROBERTA INGRANATA
COVER B: FARAH NURMALIZA
JANUARY 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
END OF STORY ARC
“GOOD INTENTIONS,” Conclusion
Alex and the Witchblade are inexorably linked—but what happens when that bond is broken?

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