Image Comics Solicitations for September 2015

By the flickering light of a scavenged projector, the dark secret behind the zombie plague that destroyed the 1960s is revealed.

A NEW 8HOUSE STORY ARC BEGINS! A young Baroness can see the invisible.

For the first time ever, the entire cult classic Image Comics series is collected in three hardcover volumes. Book one includes the first two arcs of the original series, plus never-before-reprinted backup stories and sketchbook material.

The twisted, drug-fueled finale! Is this a dream, reality, or somewhere in between? All JAMES ROBINSON and GREG HINKLE know is that now that they're in Airboy's world and not the bars of San Francisco, they have to put down the bottle, put away the drugs, zip up their flies—and actually act like heroes. Except they don't know how to be heroes. And if they die, will they just wake up...or really perish?

Fifty years after Neil and Buzz's one small step, the world's richest man claims the moon as his own personal property...and Channel Seven is there!

The Beauty has transformed average people into beautiful people. But is it killing them too? Detectives Vaughn and Foster are close to learning the truth, and that puts them directly in harm's way. Sometimes the truth isn’t pretty.

Fugitives from the law, Brennan will need all the survival skills Mikey learned in Terrenos to stay alive. But something has followed Mikey back, that’s strong enough to tear the brothers apart. Collects BIRTHRIGHT #6-10.

FUGITIVE!
Bloodstrike marshals its forces to stop a deserter that threatens to expose the program and its hideous secrets.

Disease breaks out among the Philistines as Samuel and his men pursue the Ark as it is shipped from the Capital.

Carter burns through his money like a big-baller. Also, we see The Scalinas death at the hands of deadly daughter Nicole.

Marcus and his girlfriend Maria are thrown to the wolves when a Mexican Cartel, the family of a classmate they were forced to kill, comes gunning for revenge. The true costs of the life he’s chosen to live are only just dawning on Marcus. The troubled teen has never been more troubled.

Collects DESCENDER #1-6.

Things get ugly.

The war between nations heats up in EAST OF WEST #22.

Collects ELEPHANTMEN issues #50, 56, 57, 63 & 64.

Corinne comes face to face with the man responsible for the death of her friend during a harrowing battle above the city.

Tanoor is a hunter struggling to feed her village in an apocalyptic world of poison and decay, but Tanoor finds hope when she discovers a stranger named Lila who has the ability to grow life from death—a power that could change the world of The Empty. Collects THE EMPTY #1-6.

NEW STORY ARC.
Act Three begins as the mystery heats up! NOMINATED FOR THE EISNER AWARD FOR BEST NEW SERIES!

Act Two of the acclaimed Hollywood Noir from the best-selling team of Brubaker and Phillips. Collects THE FADE OUT #5-8.

SPECIAL LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE: $2.99! In the very near future we discover the secret of faster-than-light travel. Suddenly the universe is wide open to us, but are we ready for it? With all the idealism of the original Star Trek and the grit and immediacy of Gravity, the story of humanity's first thrilling and terrifying adventures to the stars takes flight! Every issue features Anomaly's free cutting edge Augmented Reality app, which makes it look like interactive holograms are coming out of the book!

"PERIHELION," Part Two The Fuse’s annual day of chaos continues! Murder, riots, theft, politics, terrorism—and a break in the “haircut killer” case for Klem and Ralph! “Terrifically thought-through SF, in collision with a Scandinavian noir police drama.”— Alan Moore

Action. Adventure. Fantasy. Decapitation! ApocalyptiGirl creator ANDREW MACLEAN brings this critically acclaimed indie hit to Image Comics! The dark humored quarterly adventure begins with a double-sized first issue, with eighty pages of story and a premium pin-up gallery for the regular price of just $5.99! “HEAD LOPPER is what you’d get if Mike Mignola wrote an issue of Brian Wood’s Northlanders by way of James Stokoe’s ORC STAIN.”– Multiversity Comics.

Maria Kilbride goes underground to save a man from the sound of the haunted future.

Loose ends are tied up, conflicts are brought to a resolution, a door is closed...so that a new one can open.

NEW STORY ARC. This war just got asymmetrical.

THIRD ISSUE OF THE OVERSIZED COMICS MAGAZINE! This issue introduces MATT SHEEAN & MALACHI WARD's sci-fi series ANCESTOR!

The nine are down to five. Who lives, who dies? The battle for total rule reaches its penultimate chapter.

“POISON,” Part Four. Johanna makes her move.

This is it: Stel Caine has risen from the depths to set foot on the surface of Earth, the first human in millennia to do so. But what she finds there will make her wish she never left the safe darkness of the deep sea.

Deep in America’s heartland, Lewis & Clark’s expedition discovers a civilization unlike any they—or anyone else on Earth—has encountered. An encounter that will push their men to the brink of mutiny. Collects MANIFEST DESTINY #13-18.

SPECIAL LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE OF $9.99! America is unwinding. The world is undergoing massive changes. MATERIAL is a journey through what it means to be alive, today. Collects MATERIAL #1-4.

An old flame rekindled.

The origin of Killer of Enemies.

Collects NAILBITER #11-#15. Nailbiter will return with #16 in October 2015!

SPECIAL LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE OF $9.99! A group of US teenagers on a pre-college service trip are stranded in a remote part of Central America after a horrible accident. Things get worse from there. Collects NO MERCY #1-4.

Oddly encounters real, live superheroes.

He of Troiia must tell the story of his life—or face its violent end.

In light of recent revelations, Kyle feels like he’s starting to piece together the answers he’s looking for. But while he feels a new sense of purpose...is Reverend Anderson’s life falling apart? Catch up on the new hit horror series from the creator of THE WALKING DEAD, soon to be a show on Cinemax. Collects OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #7-12.

You will never look at A-Ha's "Take On Me" video in the same way ever again.

A brand new heartfelt super-hero series by JEFF LEMIRE (DESCENDER, Hawkeye) and amazing newcomer EMI LENOX! PLUTONA follows the story of five suburban kids who make a shocking discovery while exploring the woods one day after school...the body of Plutona, the world's greatest superhero. A dark and heartbreaking journey about friendship and coming of age all through the lens of the superhero genre.

FROM THE PAGES OF IXth GENERATION!
Journey to Triton, where luxury is a cyborg's reward for worship of their God-King Poseidon. But in blue oceans lurks a sleeping terror—from before the Ascension, before even civilization as we know it!

Limited convention variant, allocations may occur. $10 UNSIGNED, $20 SIGNED BY MATT HAWKINS AND BRYAN HILL.

Mark communicates with his father, exploring the darkest parts of his own nature as the Mayor brings a new threat into Eden, a newcomer that has the power to turn the town against itself.

“Koschei the Deathless” keeps his soul in a nail locked inside an iron box. Rasputin returns it to him with a mallet.

"Demons," Part Five. A betrayal changes the Rat Queens forever! Prepare to be shocked!

Collects RAT QUEENS #1-10 plus the never-before reprinted RAT QUEENS SPECIAL: BRAGA #1 plus extras all in an over-sized hardcover with a SILVER-FOIL stamped cover! A collector's dream package just in time for Christmas!

NEW STORY ARC. An excellent jumping-on-point issue, focusing on Em Cypress...sister, daughter, mother...reviver.

Conclusion of volume two of the sci-fi trilogy.

The Esu are in full attendance as they return in a Counsel of Monsters! And Rathraq is humbled by a new foe. New for him, anyway.

While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko makes an uneasy alliance with Prince Robot IV to find their missing children, who are trapped on a strange world with terrifying new enemies. Collects SAGA #25-30.

John Doe’s past is finally revealed.

DOUBLE-SIZED SERIES FINALE! The Front Line’s world is rocked when the truth of Crosswind’s deception comes out. Will any of them survive the intruder’s final victory? It all ends here!

Cartoonist SINA GRACE returns to his roots with his most personal and intimate work since the 2012 charmer NOT MY BAG. Comes with FREE AUDIOBOOK download!

For Simon Cooke, some things can get a little sticky…

Why can't we all just get along? Because then the comic would be boring.

That's right. That lovely woman that did Gronk and My Little Pony goes HARD N' FILTHY for the brimpers. One print run only. Sealed in pink polybags. Horribly filthy.

Secret origins and death ballads.

The final chapter of the first arc. A traitor revealed.

Welcome to Craw County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin' Rebs football team and more bastards than you've ever seen. SOUTHERN BASTARDS by JASON AARON (Scalped, Star Wars) and JASON LATOUR (Spider-Gwen, Loose Ends) gets a premiere hardcover, collecting the first eight issues of the Eisner Award-nominated (2015: Best Continuing Series) southern-fried crime series. Collects SOUTHERN BASTARDS #1-8.

Spawn’s enemies think they have the upper hand, but what they don’t know is that they are playing right into his hands.

Part 1 of “Blood & Sausages,” a.k.a. Kitchen Battle, a.k.a. culinary mayhem, a.k.a. STARVE.

The entire STRANGE GIRL saga back in print!

Kretchmeyer must fix his shattered family or risk losing his own carefully constructed sanity.

The final showdown between The Mantle and The Plague! And someone is going to die!

"ISLAMOPHOBIA," Part One. Dwayne, Jimmy, and Samaritan working together? Hypocrisy and prejudice reach an all-new level with more adrenaline-fueled heists!

A breaking point reached.

Who are the Whisperers? And how will their emergence affect the peace and stability Rick has built since the war? Find out in this oversized collected edition, just in time for the season premiere of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Collects THE WALKING DEAD #133-144.

Behind the music, Woden's stayed back from the spotlight. But in this issue? We look beneath the mask. Shall we say it's the most audacious and experimental issue of WicDiv yet? I think so.

There’s a new thief of thieves in town—and they’re using the Redmond name to pull heists. Will stealing Conrad’s legacy be enough to pull the master thief out of retirement? Collects THIEF OF THIEVES #26-31.

“CREATIVE DESTRUCTION,” Chapter One. An unknown enemy savages the technological infrastructure of the U.S. Panic and conspiracy theories spread as David Loren and his misfit science team continue work on the TALOS project, trying to make “Iron Man” suits a reality in California.

The Isles of Los Angeles 2089: Humanity is addicted to technology, a population of unemployed leisure seekers blissfully distracted from toxic contamination, who borrow, steal, and kill to buy their next digital fix. Getting a virtual buzz is the only thing left to live for. It’s the biggest industry, the only industry, the drug everyone needs, and gangsters run it all.
And who do these gangsters turn to when they need their rule enforced? Constables Led Dent and Debbie Decay. This duo is about to be given a job that will force them out of the familiar squalor of Los Angeles to take down the last tech-less country on Earth: The Garden Nation of Tokyo.
Bestselling writer RICK REMENDER (BLACK SCIENCE, DEADLY CLASS) and superstar art team SEAN MURPHY (CHRONONAUTS, Punk Rock Jesus) and MATT HOLLINGSWORTH (WYTCHES, Hawkeye) examine our growing addiction to technology while thirsting for a nature we continue to destroy.

Terrible machines have been set in motion.

Betrayed, beaten, and banished by his own, an outed cop fights his way across Jamaica for revenge!

What will torture look like in the future?

Freddy's in trouble.