August was a month where everything just clicked. Invincible Universe: Battle Beast from Robert Kirkman & Ryan Ottley kept swinging for the fences, Transformers from Daniel Warren Johnson, Jorge Corona & Mike Spicer stayed locked in at the top of everyone’s pull list, and Exquisite Corpses from James Tynion IV, Michael Walsh & crew kept proving it’s one of the most talked about books on the stands. Pair those with the red-hot launches of Escape by Rick Remender & Daniel Acuña, Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man by James Tynion IV & Dani, another pulse pounding issue of Geiger and you’ve got a month that showed just how dialed-in Image’s lineup really is.
TOP 10 COMICS
1. INVINCIBLE UNIVERSE: BATTLE BEAST #4
2. TRANSFORMERS #23
3. UNIVERSAL MONSTERS' THE INVISIBLE MAN #1 (OF 4)
4. G.I. JOE #10
5. EXQUISITE CORPSES #4
6. ESCAPE #1
7. VOID RIVALS #22
8. SPAWN #367
9. G.I. JOE A REAL AMERICAN HERO #319
10. GEIGER #17
That momentum kept rolling on the book side, led by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Knives: A Criminal Book with another masterclass in character and tension. Also, time fans of Howard Chaykin's Black Kiss Omnibus now can read the whole story in one massive tome. Collections like Feral, Vol. 3 and Radiant Black, Vol. 7 kept fans who have been waiting for these to drop, happy and fed. Then when you round the month out with a new OGN release like Space Opera Xanadax, August proved there’s no corner of comics Image isn’t willing to explore.
TOP 10 BOOKS
1. KNIVES A CRIMINAL BOOK HC
2. BLACK KISS OMNIBUS HC
3. SPAWN COMPENDIUM, VOL. 7 TP
4. FERAL, VOL. 3 TP
5. RADIANT BLACK, VOL. 7 TP
6. SPACE OPERA XANADAX: ACROSS THE UNKNOWN DIMENSIONS OF THE GALAXY OGN
7. WITCHBLADE, VOL. 2 TP
8. THE HIVE, VOL. 1 TP
9. DIE! DIE! DIE! DELUXE EDITION HC
10. SPAWN ORIGINS, VOL. 31 TP
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