New Release Highlights - 18th November 2020

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New Release Highlights - 18th November 2020

THIS WEEK'S SHELF STOCK COMICS WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLINE TO PURCHASE FOR DELIVERY OR IN-STORE COLLECTION!

LOCKDOWN

The store is closed again as per the Government's new national lockdown.

We are offering Click & Collect appointments for online purchases and settled invoices via our existing booking system.

You cannot make additional purchases in store during a collection appointment, as we are deemed a non-essential retailer and may only trade online during this lockdown.

When you come to collect, you will find the door at 8 St Georges Place is locked.

Please knock to alert Rae you are there and ready to collect.

Thank you for your support and understanding.

COMIC BOOKS

DOCTOR WHO COMICS #1
TITAN COMICS
SEP201470
(W) Jody Houser (A) Roberta Ingranata (CA) Peach Momoko

Doctor Who returns with the comic debut of iconic 70s TV Villain!

After narrowly escaping the Weeping Angels and the Autons in 1960s London, the Tenth and Thirteenth Doctor must team-up once again to save present-day Earth from being overrun by the classic aquatic villain, the Sea Devils!

Who else can they turn to for help but Rose Tyler: leader of the human resistance!

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SYMBIOTE SPIDER-MAN KING IN BLACK #1
MARVEL COMICS
SEP200664
(W) Peter David (A/CA) Greg Land

Knull, the KING IN BLACK, has set his sights on Earth - but as avid Marvelites already know, his hand has been at work at the edge of the Marvel Universe for years!

IN THIS SERIES, witness one of Knull's earliest attempts at birthing life from the darkness of non-creation!

From superstar creators PETER DAVID and GREG LAND comes a titanic tie-in tale to this year's winter epic KING IN BLACK!

Rated T+

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STAR TREK VOYAGER SEVENS RECKONING #1 (OF 4)
IDW PUBLISHING
SEP200455
(W) Dave Baker (A/CA) Angel Hernandez

After Voyager encounters a damaged ship deep in the Delta quadrant, what at first seems to be a simple repair mission becomes much deeper as Seven of Nine becomes involved in an ancient conflict that will put her newfound humaity to the test.

From writer Dave Baker (Action Hospital, F*ck Off Squad, Star Trek: Waypoint) and artist Angel Hernandez (Star Trek: Picard Countdown, Star Trek/Green Lantern).

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A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT #1
BEHEMOTH COMICS
SEP201139
(W) Ana Lily Amirpour (A/CA) Michael DeWeese

Written by the director of the film of the same name rated 96% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps and other sordid souls, is a bastion of depravity and hopelessness where a lonely vampire, The Girl, stalks the town's most unsavory inhabitants.

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WIDOWMAKERS RED GUARDIAN YELENA BELOVA #1
MARVEL COMICS
FEB200833
(W) Devin Grayson (A) Michele Bandini (CA) Mike McKone

Devin Grayson, one of the creators of Yelena Belova - the Red Room recruit who once nearly killed Natasha Romanoff - returns with a brand-new story drawn by rising star Michele Bandini! Yelena has spent years trying to figure out who she is. Once she thought the Black Widow mantle was her destiny, but fate had other plans. Now the past is catching up with her - and with Alexi Shostakov, a.k.a. the Red Guardian! Alexi has worn many titles, including husband to Natasha, but while the Widow played her avenging games, the Red Guardian waited in the shadows. Now a new day is dawning - and this time, no one will stand in his way.

Rated T

CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE #1
SCOUT COMICS
SEP201411
(W) Sam Romesburg, Ben Roberts (A) Gioele Filippo

Earth has been reset.

Now known as Terra, the populace lives in blissful ignorance of the centuries of unrest that plagued mankind.

Now the Terrans receive all they need from the mysterious, but unquestioned, "Providers."

Life is free of hardship, pain, and suffering on Terra, but something is brewing and young Terran Daniel is determined to find the truth.

Scout Comics presents another installment in the annals of Sci-Fi futures that are too good to be true.

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SEA OF SORROWS #1 (OF 5)
IDW PUBLISHING
SEP200463
(W) Rich Douek (A/CA) Alex Cormack

Deep sea adventure with a horrific twist! From the creative team behind last year's hit horror series, ROAD OF BONES, comes an all-new tale of bone-chilling terror!

In the aftermath of the Great War, the North Atlantic is ripe for plunder by independent salvage crews. When a former naval officer hires the SS Vagabond, he leads the ship to a sunken U-boat, and a fortune in gold. Tensions mount as the crew prepares to double cross each other, but the darkness of the ocean floor holds deeper terrors than any of them have bargained for!

Plunge headfirst into the icy waters of dread with another historic tale of terror from writer Rich Douek, and artist Alex Cormack.

AVENGERS MARVELS SNAPSHOT #1
MARVEL COMICS
MAR200967
(W) Barbara Randall Kesel, Kurt Busiek (A) Staz Johnson (CA) Alex Ross

The Marvel Snapshot tour through Marvel history takes a romantic - and destructive - turn during the Michelinie/Byrne/Pérez Avengers era!

Take one rookie cop, add one new-to-the-city emergency medical technician, and make their meet-cute a devastating battle between the Avengers and a giant, rampaging robot!

What comes next?

Only Barbara Randall Kesel (Hawk & Dove, Ultragirl) and Staz Johnson (New X-Men, Robin) can tell you.

Featuring Iron Man, the Beast, Wonder Man, Count Nefaria and more.

Rated T+

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SENSATIONAL SECOND ISSUES

WE LIVE #2
AFTERSHOCK COMICS
SEP201025
(W) Roy Miranda, Inaki Miranda (A/CA) Inaki Miranda

Issue #1 + #2 are possibly the best new comic we've read this year! Highly recommended, especially for fans of Saga and
Oblivion Song! Issue #1 2nd Ptg also available! - Ben & Rae

The encounter with the Bengal Ripper puts the group's survival to the test.

Their lives now rest on Simon's shoulders, but in the Broken Lands every wrong step comes with a consequence.

Tala and Hototo, now joined by their new friends, Humbo and Alice, find themselves dragged onto a new and unsafe path.

Reaching the train to Mother Megalopolis Nine is becoming an uncertain milestone.

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Also out this week:

Amazing Spider-Man #53 Last Remains
Barbalien Red Planet #1 (of 5)
Batman #103
Batman The Adventures Continue #6 (of 6)
Blade Runner 2019 #12
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Willow #5
Captain America #25
Catwoman #27
Die #15
Fantastic Four #26
Firefly #22

Flash #765
Green Lantern Season 2 #9 (of 12)
Immortal Hulk #40
Joker Harley Criminal Sanity #6 (of 9)
Marvel Action Avengers (2020) #2
Once & Future #13
Something Is Killing Children #12
Star Wars Bounty Hunters #7
Stillwater By Zdarsky & Perez #3
Venom #30
Walking Dead Dlx #3

GRAPHIC NOVELS

BATMAN THREE JOKERS HC
DC COMICS
AUG202594
Written by: Geoff Johns
Art by: Jason Fabok
Cover Art by: Jason Fabok

Thirty years after Batman: The Killing Joke changed comics forever, Batman: Three Jokers reexamines the myth of who, or what, is the Joker and what is at the heart of his ongoing battle with Batman?

New York Times bestselling writer Geoff Johns and artist Jason Fabok, the team that waged the “Darkseid War” in the pages of Justice League, reunite to tell the ultimate story of Batman and The Joker!

In this highly anticipated epic, learn why there are three Jokers, and what that means for the decades-long battle between the Dark Knight and the Clown Prince of Crime.

In this powerful, emotional story, Batman, Batgirl, and Red Hood - all past victims of The Joker - work together to solve a mystery unlike anything they’ve ever faced before!

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MIRKA ANDOLFOS UNSACRED VOL 01 HC
ABLAZE
AUG201030
(W) Mirka Andolfo (A/CA) Mirka Andolfo

The extraordinary talent of Mirka Andolfo (Unnatural, Mercy, DC Bombshells) brings to life a Heaven (and a Hell) filled with humor and lovable characters!

Angelina, a voluptuous angel, and Damiano, a mischievous devil, are madly in love. But, while she does not intend to give in to temptation, he would very much like to...

This is the tale of their bizarre and spicy daily life!

A sex-positive - and incredibly funny - slice of life... full of angels, devils and gags!

Mirka Andolfo's Un/Sacred Vol 1 hardcover collects the hit series and includes a bonus section with cover gallery, sketches, and other behind-the-scenes material!

LUDOCRATS TP
IMAGE COMICS
SEP200069
(W) Kieron Gillen, Jim Rossignol (A) Tamra Bonvillain (A/CA) Jeff Stokely

The Ludocrats! The aristocrats of ludicrous!

Defending reality from the encroaching forces of boredom while having a nice time.

KIERON GILLEN (DIE, THE WICKED + THE DIVINE) and JIM ROSSIGNOL (Sir, You Are Being Hunted) write!

JEFF STOKELY (The Spire) draws!

TAMRA BONVILLAIN (Once & Future) colours!

CLAYTON COWLES (Every excellent comic) letters!

The universe screams in pleasure, writhing, finally satisfied, complete, joyous!

COLLECTS THE LUDOCRATS #1-5.

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WOLVERINE BY BENJAMIN PERCY VOL 01 TP
MARVEL COMICS
AUG200745
(W) Ben Percy (A) Viktor Bogdanovic (A/CA) Adam Kubert

The best is back!

Wolverine has been through a lot. He's been a hero and a killer. An X-Man and an Avenger. He's been to hell and back. Now, as the nation of Krakoa brings together all mutantkind, can he finally be... happy? Wolverine finally has everything he ever wanted - and everything to lose.

Writer Benjamin Percy and legendary WOLVERINE artist Adam Kubert bring the best there is to his new home! But the worst is never far away - whether it's Omega Red, Lady Deathstrike, Sabretooth or Doctor Cornelius. And Wolverine must make an unlikely alliance when he finds himself targeted by... Dracula?! But the Flower Cartel might have enlisted the deadliest foe of all: Wolverine himself. Logan is about to find himself at the heart of a conspiracy that threatens to darken the Dawn of X!

Collecting WOLVERINE (2020) #1-5.

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