Previews #331 (vol. XXVI #4) previews publications

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Luciano Saracino (w) • Ariel Olivetti (a & c)

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TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE #1

Joe Hill (w) • Gabriel Rodriguez (a & c)

Joe Hill's nerve-shredding re-imagining of Tales from the Darkside never made it to your TV set...but the dead are restless and refuse to stay buried! This summer, IDW releases DARKSIDE, a four-issue comic-book adaptation of the episodes written by Hill and illustrated here by Locke & Key co-creator Gabriel Rodriguez! Three stories of the macabre and malevolent! One coulda-been, shoulda-been TV epic on paper with pictures that don't move! Step out of the warm, sunlit world you think of as reality and get ready to take a chilling walk... on the DARKSIDE.

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Joe Hill (w) • Gabriel Rodriguez (a) • Charles Paul Wilson III (c)

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BIGGEST BANG #2 (OF 4)

D.J. Kirkbride (w) • Vassilis Gogtzilas (a & c)

THE BIGGEST BANG rages on as Cosmos is tries to dissuade the misguided Cosmic Church of the Half-God from worshipping him! There is definitely more going on than meets Janishire Sneck's giant eye. And who, or WHAT are The Penumbra...? Meanwhile, Wyan continues to explore the possibilities of her amazing new powers, becoming a hero in her own right! It doesn't get bigger than the BIGGEST, cosmic comics fans!

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D.J. Kirkbride (w) • Vassilis Gogtzilas (a & c)

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THE MAXX: MAXXIMIZED #32

Sam Kieth (w & a & c)

As the Maxx-a-verse bubbles separate, Glorie breaks off from Mark and an alternate universe of her life, outside of Maxx's world, takes shape.

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Sam Kieth (w & a & c)

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Expected in-store date: 6/1/16

Steve Niles (w) • Damien Worm (a & c)

As Geoff and Vivian battle vampires and a new unknown terror, Fred and Deloris get trapped in the Realm of the Erl-King with Lucas. All alone in the house, Geoff and Vivian are pushed to the limits of their magical abilities.

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Steve Niles (w) • Damien Worm (a & c)

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3 DEVILS #4 (OF 4)

Bo Hampton (w & a & c)

Ex-Slave Marcus and Tara the Gypsy Girl are hot on the trail of the vampire known as the White Man. Along the way, they stumble upon a traveling freak show with a head-liner called The Human Wolf, who may be a pitiable freak of nature — or something much, much more deadly!

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Ulises Farinas & Erick Freitas (w) • Mike Prezzato, Marcus Muller, Jon Sperry, A. Shay Hahn (a) • Ulises Farinas (c)

Tales for the bold. Ideas for the strange. Ulises Farinas, Erick Freitas, and a cavalcade of new talents bring to life amazing fantastical tales: A killer virus! Cowboxing! Astronauts lost in space! And Santa’s worst nightmare!

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Ulises Farinas & Erick Freitas (w) • Mike Prezzato, Marcus Muller, Jon Sperry, A. Shay Hahn (a) • Alexis Zirritt (c)

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INSUFFERABLE: ON THE ROAD #5

Mark Waid (w) • Peter Krause (a & c)

Wounded, alone, and out of resources, Galahad finally snaps and crosses a line that should never be crossed—and all Nocturnus can do is watch in horror!

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Mark Waid (w) • Peter Krause (a) • Mike Norton (c)

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LUNA THE VAMPIRE, VOL. 1: GRUMPY SPACE

Yasmin Sheikh (w & a & c)

Ever wondered how it would be if outer space was populated by monsters? LOOK NO FURTHER, as this is the AMAZING everyday life of Luna the Vampire. Jam-packed with awesome adventures, crazy faces, zombie postmen, AND SPACE. By the power of the giant floating god-heads, don’t miss out!

TPB • FC • $9.99 • 80 pages • 6” x 9”

Mike Raicht, Zach Howard, Austin Harrison (w) • Zach Howard (a & c)

While navigating the dangers of a post-apocalyptic society in the sky, Cola, a teenage fighter pilot and her family fight to protect The Dawn, their solar powered flying fortress and home. With the world in chaos, bullets dwindling, and fuel drying up, the few survivors in the sky must use anything at their disposal in order to survive. Battles rage from ship to ship as jet-pack warriors, planes, and crew members scratch and claw to claim the few crumbs society left behind. Hunted by The Judge and his armada of warships, The Dawn will be forced to fight insurmountable odds in order to survive.

TPB • FC • $24.99 • 180 pages

Ryan Ferrier (w) • Valentin Ramon (a & c)

While Costello works on his escape plan to get out of Hell, Teddy is fast becoming bff’s with Satan, who’s actually so nice, you guys. Heaven, on the other hand, is a real mess thanks to a couple of rude angels. But hey, who likes reanimated corpses?!

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Ryan Ferrier (w) • Valentin Ramon (a & c)

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SATELLITE FALLING #2

Steve Horton (w) • Stephen Thompson (a & c)

It's life or death for Lilly as the sting operation she never wanted goes horribly wrong. What's a taxi driver-slash-bounty hunter to do? Steal a car, of course!

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Steve Horton (w) • Stephen Thompson (a) • Weshoyot Alvitre (c)

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HUNTER S. THOMPSON’S FEAR & LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS #2

Troy Little (adaptation & c)

Troy Little’s gonzo adaptation of Hunter Thompson’s Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas is now available in an all-new format. The Village Voice says, “Cartoonist Troy Little reimagines [the] gonzo tour-de-force in a new graphic novel adaptation... buzzing with manic energy.” This comic book version is presented in black-and-white and at a slightly larger size than the full-color hardcover edition. Each issue also includes pages from Little’s sketchbook and other behind-the-scenes information.

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Troy Little (adaptation) • Ben Templesmith (c)

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ROCKETEER AT WAR!

Marc Guggenheim (w) • Dave Bullock (a & c)

Europe, 1942–the world is at war! As the Allies battle against the Axis, able bodied men everywhere enlist in the war effort, including Cliff Secord. Secord, also known as The Rocketeer, has been thrust full throttle into the heat of battle, and–with or without his jet pack–he will depend on his wits and daring if he is to survive! Collects issues #1–4.

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Beau Smith (w) • Lora Innes (a & c)

In order to confront the dangerous enemy that’s been stalking her, Wynonna Earp needs to go to the one place she’s avoided for years: home. Wynonna heads to Tombstone, Arizona to discover the truth behind this supernatural foe and come to terms with the legacy of the Earp name!

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Beau Smith (w) • Lora Innes (a) • Chris Evenhuis (c)

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WYNONNA EARP #5—PHOTO VARIANT

Beau Smith (w) • Lora Innes (a) • Photo (c)

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DIRK GENTLY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY: A SPOON TOO SHORT #5 (OF 5)

Arvind Ethan David (w) • Ilias Kyriazis (a & c)

A Spoon Too Short sees Dirk Gently take on rhino poaching in Kenya and The Tribe With No Words, while confronting untold secrets from his childhood. The world’s weirdest detective proves there is no such word as impossible in his dictionary!

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Arvind Ethan David (w) • Ilias Kyriazis (a) • Robert Hack (c)

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V-WARS: SHOCKWAVES

Jonathan Maberry, John Dixon, John Skipp, Nancy Holder, Weston Ochse, Yvonne Navarro, Jade Shames, James R. Tuck, Dana Fredsti, Jeff Mariotte, Marsheila Rockwell, Joe McKinney, Jennifer Brozek, Cody Goodfellow, Mike Watt (w) • Trevor Hutchison (c)

The Vampire Wars are raging. We're all infected. Anyone can turn at any time. Your ally one minute could be at your throat the next, or you suddenly crave their blood.

V-Wars: Shockwaves chronicles the spread of bloodlust, bloodshed, and violence between the living and the undead. New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry brings the pain along with some trusted allies, including John Dixon, John Skipp, Nancy Holder, Weston Ochse, Yvonne Navarro, Jade Shames, James R. Tuck, Dana Fredsti, Jeff Mariotte, Marsheila Rockwell, Joe McKinney, Jennifer Brozek, Cody Goodfellow, and Mike Watt. The world will bleed.

HC • B&W • $19.99 • 384 pages • 6” x 9”
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: THE ULTIMATE NEWSPAPER COMICS COLLECTION, VOLUME 3: 1981–1982

Stan Lee (w) • Larry Lieber, Fred Kida (a) • Larry Lieber (c)

Advance Solicited for July release! New artists offer a new look, but the wall-crawling adventure is as exciting as ever! Doctor Octopus and Aunt May a couple? Not if Peter Parker can help it! Mary Jane’s stage debut may be spoiled by the mystery man known as—The Assassin! As the campaign for president heats up, millionaire Thurston Thruwell shows us where creatures roam, while Spidey invades Latveria just in time for Dr. Doom and his captured spaceship to show the world where monsters dwell! And that’s just to start! Edited by Bruce Canwell, this book includes more than 700 sequential comics—the complete run from January 1981 through December 1982!

HC • PC • $49.99 • 312 pages • 11” x 8.5”

Bob Karp (w) • Al Taliaferro (a & c)

From the Disney Vaults! The early Donald Duck daily strips are collected for the first time ever! This third volume includes 750 sequential daily comic strips from 1943 to 1945 drawn by Al Taliaferro and reproduced from pristine original material in the Disney Vaults!

HC • B&W • $39.99 • 272 pages • 11” x 8.5”

Guido Martina, Daan Jippes (w) • Romano Scarpa, Daan Jippes (a) • Andrea Freccero (c)

“Revenge of the Duck Avenger,” Part 1 of 2! Scrooge and Gladstone drive Donald back into his role as a super-anti-hero—with Gyro’s memory-wiping chocolate drops at his command... uh-oh!

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Guido Martina, Daan Jippes (w) • Romano Scarpa, Daan Jippes (a) • Paco Rodriguez (c)

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MICKEY MOUSE #13

Romano Scarpa, Joe Torcivia (w) • Romano Scarpa (a) • Andrea Freccero (c)

“Hail Napoleon!” Pegleg Pete is auctioning stolen French treasures to the highest evil bidder—until everyone’s outbid by a strange sailor nobody knows! Can Mickey crack the startling secret?

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Romano Scarpa, Joe Torcivia (w) • Romano Scarpa (a) • Daan Jippes, Ulrich Schröder (c)

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UNCLE SCROOGE #15

Francisco Artibani, William Van Horn (w) • Alessandro Perina, William Van Horn (a) • Alessandro Perina (c)

“Scrooge’s Last Adventure,” Part 3 of 4! Scrooge can only beat Flintheart Glomgold and John D. Rockerduck through a truce with some other famous enemies—the underground creatures of Terry Fermy! Then it’s Uncle Rumpus versus the Beagle Boys in William Van Horn’s all-new “The Stick-Up!”

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Francisco Artibani, William Van Horn (w) • Alessandro Perina, William Van Horn (a) • Andrea Freccero (c)

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UNCLE SCROOGE: THE ETERNAL KNOT

Romano Scarpa, Gary Leach, Joe Torcivia (w) • Giorgio Cavazzano, Romano Scarpa, Gary Leach (a) • Dave Alvarez (c)

Bad deals come back to haunt Scrooge McDuck! When our miserly mallard isn’t buying screwy outer space real estate, he’s betting fellow gold miners that he’ll never get married—then falling for a spendthrift spouse! Add a winter wager with Santa’s grouchy grandpa, and you’ve hit the tightwad trifecta for thrills! Collects issues #10–12.

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“The Search for the Zodiac Stone,” Part 12 of 12! It’s the grand finale! Scrooge, Mickey, and Donald have finally assembled the future-predicting Stone... just in time for Pegleg Pete and the Phantom Blot to strike!

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WALT DISNEY’S COMICS & STORIES #732—SUBSCRIPTION VARIANT

Bruno Sarda, Jonathan Gray, Lars Jensen (w) • Massimo De Vita (a) • Corrado Mastantuono (c)

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STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE #3

Georgia Ball (w) • Amy Mebberson (a & c)

Strawberry Noire! A smooth-talking salesman tries to convince Strawberry Shortcake her café needs an overhaul and the Berry Bitty baker tries to sort out her decision in dreamland in the midst of a tense mystery. Detective Shortcake and her able assistant Orange Blossom are hot on the case!

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Georgia Ball (w) • Amy Mebberson (a) • Tina Francisco (c)

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STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE #3—SCENTED VARIANT

Georgia Ball (w) • Amy Mebberson (a) • Nicoletta Baldari (c)

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ANGRY BIRDS COMICS #6

Janne Toriseva & Various (w) • Paco Rodriques (a) • Ciro Cangiolosi (c)

Sign of the times! The pigs (accidentally) discover a way to trick the birds and steal their eggs! Now it’s up to Red and the rest of the flock to turn the tables and get the eggs back. All signs point to destruction ahead!

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Janne Toriseva & Various (w) Paco Rodriques (a & c)

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MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC #43

Thom Zahler (w) • Tony Fleecs (a) Tony Fleecs (c)

“Ponies of Dark Water Part 1” The Ponies go on an adventure to a newly erupted geyser. After some fun playing in the water, the ponies begin to act a bit strange, perhaps even… sinister? What happens when good ponies turn bad?

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Thom Zahler (w) • Tony Fleecs (a) • Sara Richard (c)

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MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDS FOREVER #29

Ted Anderson (w) • Brenda Hickey (a) • Tony Fleecs (c)

When Rarity meets Maud Pie at a gem convention the two seemingly have little in common. But when Maud comes across an opportunity to make a name for herself in rock academia, Rarity may be just the pony to help Maud discover her inner enthusiasm.

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Ted Anderson (w) • Brenda Hickey (a & c)

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MY LITTLE PONY OMNIBUS, VOL. 3

Katie Cook, Ted Anderson, Christina Rice, Thom Zahler, Jeremy Whitley (w) • Andy Price, Jay Fosgitt, Agnes Garbowska, Tony Fleecs (a) • S-bis (c)

The adventures continue as the group heads to Canter Creek to investigate a shady land deal, problems near the Everfree Forest start affecting Ponyville, Cheerilee visits her sister, the town gets split into two factions over Ponyville Days, bad apples come alive at Sweet Apple Acres, and an enigmatic new foe brings together some of the most villainous characters in Equestria. Collects issues #25–37 of the ongoing My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comic series.

TPB • FC • $24.99 • 316 pages • 6” x 9”

Eddie Campbell (w & a & c)

Eddie Campbell’s Bacchus is a true epic, spanning a decade of work, over a thousand pages, and several millennia of alcohol consumption. In Bacchus, the visionary behind From Hell (with Alan Moore) and Alec: The Years Have Pants presents his version of “an American-style comic book,” filtered through his own brilliant, whimsical, and wide-ranging sensibility. With a fine blend of action, comedy, suspense, and an ear for a great story, Bacchus brings the gods and myths of ancient Greece to modern life, as if they had never left. Nearly 600 pages, this deluxe volume collects the second half of the Bacchus saga with new notes and commentary by the author.

TP • BW • $39.99 • 552 pages • 7.5” x 10”

Eddie Campbell (w & a & c)

Gathered into one amazing package for the first time ever: the complete collection of Eddie Campbell's sprawling, award-winning masterworks ALEC and BACCHUS! See why Booklist calls his work "a high-water mark in the graphic novel’s short history... no one else in the medium combines emotional truth, literary intelligence, and formal

daring with such adroitness and elegance." This massive OMNIBOX collects three profound and delightful books — Alec: The Years Have Pants (A Life-Sized Omnibus) and both volumes of Bacchus (Omnibus Edition) — in one beautiful slipcase, celebrating decades of work from one of comics' greatest literary talents.

TP w/slipcase • BW • $99.99 • 1,752 pages
THE FUN FAMILY

Benjamin Frisch (w & a & c)

Beloved cartoonist Robert Fun has earned a devoted following for his circle-shaped newspaper comic strip, celebrating the wholesome American family by drawing inspiration from his real home life... but the Fun Family bears some dark secrets. As their idyllic world collapses and the kids are forced to pick up the pieces, can they escape the cycle of art imitating life imitating art? In his debut graphic novel, Benjamin Frisch presents a surreal deconstruction of childhood, adulthood, and good old American obsession.

TP • FC • $24.99 • 240 pages • 6.5” x 9.25”

Ruth Roche, Basil Wolverton, and more (w) • Basil Wolverton, Sid Check, The Iger Shop, and more (a) • Don Heck (c)

Join special guest host Mike "The Howler" Howlett for this sordid selection of Pre-Code Horror screamers! Artwork from Basil Wolverton, Sid Check, the Iger Shop and other horror masters bring you eight envelope-pushing tales of grue and gore from the days of yore. The twist here is that all of these stories were redrawn in the 1970s by the slimy Eerie Publications staff! The publishers of Haunted Horror assume no responsibility if your eyes pop clear out of your skull.

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Bud Sagendorf (w & a & c)

Ahoy ya swab! Six boffo features starring Popeye of course, plus Olive, Bluto, Swee’pea, Wimpy, O.G Wottasnozzle and…the Abominable Snowman!

FC • 32 pages • $4.99

STORY: MARK MILLAR

ART: FRANK QUITELY & PETER DOHERTY

COVER A: FRANK QUITELY

COVER B: JAE LEE

COVER C: MIKE MAYHEW

COVER D: FRANK QUITELY

JUNE 29 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99

IT’S HERE! The sequel to industry sales-beast JUPITER'S LEGACY is back and it boasts monthly FRANK QUITELY! Superhero offspring Hutch and Chloe have come out of hiding with son Jason to assemble a team of super-crooks from around the globe.
MIDNIGHT OF THE SOUL #1 (OF 5)

STORY / ART / COVER: HOWARD CHAYKIN

JUNE 8 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50

It's 1950, and Joel Breakstone, former GI and liberator of Auschwitz, is seriously damaged goods. He hasn't exhaled a sober breath in five years—until the sheltered life he's created for himself unravels and he begins the long night that will change his life forever.

STORY / ART / COVER: RICH TOMMASO

JUNE 22 / 24 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99

SHE WOLF is a surreal exploration in horror as the story follows a teenage girl who believes she's been bitten by a savage werewolf. Soon after she begins to experience feverish nightmares that seamlessly bleed into her everyday reality.

STORY: WARREN ELLIS

ART / COVER: DECLAN SHALVEY

JUNE 29 / 32 PAGES / BW / M / $24.99

The all-new IMAGE GIANT-SIZED ARTIST’S PROOF EDITION series presents special artistic achievements in their raw form in an oversized format. DECLAN SHALVEY’s atmospheric line art from INJECTION #1 is presented in glorious black-and-white inks with ink-washes at 11” X 17”. Also includes a full size cover gallery.
BIRTHRIGHT #16

STORY: JOSHUA WILLIAMSON

ART / COVER: ANDREI BRESSAN & ADRIANO LUCAS

JUNE 8 / 32 PAGES/ FC / T+ / $2.99

NEW STORY ARC! A lost member of the Rhodes family returns… but can they recover from the damage already done?
CASANOVA: ACEDIA #5

STORY: MATT FRACTION & MICHAEL CHABON

ART / COVER: FÁBIO MOON & GABRIEL BÁ

JUNE 1 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99

NEW STORY ARC! The world-melting CASANOVA returns. Casanova Quinn doesn't remember who he is or how he got here—the only thing he knows is an awful lot of people want him dead and the world might be ending. Psychedelic, sexy, and surreal science-fiction the way only comics can do it.
DESCENDER #12

STORY: JEFF LEMIRE

ART / COVER: DUSTIN NGUYEN

JUNE 15 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $2.99

NEW STORY ARC! Critically-acclaimed, best-selling DESCENDER is back with “SINGULARITIES,” its next exciting arc. Learn the terrible secret origin of the vicious doppelgänger Tim-22 and what secrets shaped him into a monster.
HEAD LOPPER #4

STORY / ART / COVER A: ANDREW MacLEAN

COVER B: GABRIEL BÁ

JUNE 8 / 56 PAGES / FC / T+ / $5.99

At long last, Norgal and Agatha face off against the demigod-sorcerer Barra, who proves to be much more able than his frail frame implies. Meanwhile, Lulach approaches with an entire army at his back, but does he come in support or opposition of Barra’s cause?
I HATE FAIRYLAND #6

STORY / ART / COVER A & EXPLICIT COVER B: SKOTTIE YOUNG

JUNE 15 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50

NEW STORY ARC! The hit comedy I HATE FAIRYLAND is back for a second round of adventure. What will become of Fairyland as Gert is crowned the new queen and how will that affect her thirty-year quest to return home?

STORY: GREG RUCKA

ART / COVER: MICHAEL LARK

JUNE 15 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99

NEW STORY ARC! “CULL," Part One—There are fifteen families fighting to control the world. That’s fourteen too many. The time has come for the cull.
PAPER GIRLS #6

STORY: BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

ART / COVER: CLIFF CHIANG

COLORS: MATT WILSON

JUNE 1 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $2.99

NEW STORY ARC! The smash-hit ongoing series returns with a bold new direction, as Erin, Mac, and Tiffany find themselves launched from 1988 to a distant and terrifying future.

STORY: JOHN ARCUDI

ART: JAMES HARREN & DAVE STEWART

COVER A: JAMES HARREN

COVER B: ANDREW MacLEAN

JUNE 22 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50

NEW STORY ARC! RUMBLE returns for its third arc! Bobby and Rathraq learn that life and death aren’t what they used to be!
THIEF OF THIEVES #32

STORY: ANDY DIGGLE

ART / COVER: SHAWN MARTINBROUGH & ADRIANO LUCAS

JUNE 22 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99

NEW STORY ARC! Conrad has been the undisputed thief of thieves throughout the world… until now. Who are his rivals? Does he have what it takes to outfox them in his most thrilling heist yet?