NCBD 13/04/2016 - Have you Xena the new releases this week?

NCBD 13/04/2016 - Have you Xena the new releases this week?

Quite an eclectic selection of releases again this week. 

Aftershock release their next series Jackpot! again at the low risk entry point of £1.75 (we have last week's release Rough Riders still in stock at the same price)

As you may have guessed from the blog line there is a new Xena series out, along with the ladies from Marvel & DC (Gwen-Pool and Harley)

Brian Wood returns to Vikings with Images new series Black Road (Check out his older series Northlanders if you get a chance)

As ever new series listed right below with all the week's releases following.

NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS



AETHER AND EMPIRE #1
Publisher: BLUE JUICE COMICS
(W) Michael Horan (A) Bong Dazo (CA) Tim Yates
At the height of Victoria's reign, a scientific expedition to Mars has vanished and the daring rescue mission is now a race against time and space. When control is wrested from fellow scientists and given to a heroic crew of Her Majesty' Navy, can the two groups work together to save the men of the first voyage? A young naval officer is thrust into command during a desperate battle in the skies above the Mediterranean. In his hands lies the fate of not only his ship and crew, but dozens of innocent lives. Will he accomplish the mission? Or doom them all? Jules Verne meets Star Trek in Aether and Empire, a tale of adventure, mystery, and terror!


BLACK ROAD #1
Publisher: IMAGE COMICS
(W) Brian Wood (A/CA) Garry Brown
Meet Magnus the Black, neither clean nor sober, neither Christian nor Pagan, but a man true to his word. When a ranking official under his care is brutally murdered, he's prepared to hunt the killers to the frozen tip of Norway, religious war be damned. 

Northlanders creator BRIAN WOOD returns to the Viking genre along with artist GARRY BROWN (The Massive, Catwoman) and DAVE McCAIG (Batman, American Vampire) in this all-new series.



GOLDIE VANCE #1 (OF 4) (COVER A BRITTNEY WILLIAMS)
Publisher: BOOM! STUDIOS
(W) Hope Larson (A/CA) Brittney Williams
What's to Love: From Nancy Drew to Veronica Mars, we really dig girl detectives! Hope Larson (A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel) and Brittney Williams (Patsy Walker, A.K.A Hellcat!) present the newest gal sleuth on the block with Goldie Vance, an exciting, whodunnit? adventure that mixes the fun of Eloise with the charm of Lumberjanes.

What It Is: In a timeless story, 16-year-old Marigold "Goldie" Vance lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place. Her mom, who divorced her dad years ago, works as a live mermaid at a club downtown. Goldie has an insatiable curiosity, which explains her dream to one day become the hotel's in-house detective. When Charles, the current detective, encounters a case he can't crack, he agrees to mentor Goldie in exchange for her help solving the mystery utilizing her smarts, random skills, and connections with the hotel staff and various folks in town.



GWENPOOL #1 (GURIHIRU REGULAR COVER)
GWENPOOL #1 (SKOTTIE YOUNG VARIANT COVER)
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Christopher Hastings (A) Gurihiru, Danillo Beyruth (CA) Gurihiru
2015's overnight internet sensation takes center stage in her own ongoing series! Gwen Poole used to be a comic book reader just like you...until she woke up in a world where the characters she read about seemed to be real! But they can't be, right? This must all be fake, or a dream or something, right? And you know what that means...NO CONSEQUENCES! Could Gwenpool truly be Marvel's least responsible and least role-modely character to date? She can if she tries!



HARLEY QUINN AND HER GANG OF HARLEYS #1 (OF 6) (AMANDA CONNER REGULAR COVER)
Publisher: DC COMICS
(W) Frank Tieri, Jimmy Palmiotti (A) Mauricet (CA) Amanda Conner
Straight from the pages of HARLEY QUINN comes the story of her strange new army of assistants, the Gang of Harleys! In this new miniseries, they've been on the job for just a few months, and the Gang is ready to stand up and show what they can do without Harley...and they just might have to, because Harley's been kidnapped! The Gang's homes, their loved ones-they're all in danger from a strange new villain with a very personal grudge against Harley!



HEARTTHROB #1 (COVER A ROBERT WILSON)
HEARTTHROB #1 (COVER B JAMIE MCKELVIE)
Publisher: ONI PRESS INC.
(W) Christopher Sebela (A/CA) Robert Wilson
A new series about bank heists and thieving hearts from writer Christopher Sebela (Welcome Back), artist Robert Wilson IV (Bitch Planet), and colorist Nick Filardi (Powers). Callie Boudreau hasn't been herself lately. After a lifetime sidelined by illness, she's rescued by a miracle cure in the form of heart transplant surgery, but the life she returns to doesn't fit her anymore. Besides the morally questionable job, the crappy boyfriend and the crippling hospital bills, Callie finds herself developing new tastes, unfamiliar urges and a mouth like a sailor. As she balances what she has to do with what she wants to do, a mystery man shows up to teach her that instead of waiting for her new life, she should go out and steal it.


HOUSE OF PENANCE #1 (OF 6)
Publisher: DARK HORSE COMICS
(W) Peter J. Tomasi (A/CA) Ian Bertram
The Winchester House-famous for its original owner's bizarre compulsion to incorporate a multitude of architectural curiosities. But as the bereaved Sarah Winchester's workers toil on stairways to nothing and doors to nowhere, a mysterious stranger arrives . . . and he could make Sarah's demons all too real.

"Blending horror, history and fiction, House of Penance stands as a singular triumph. Tomasi and Bertram have crafted something truly special with this book."-Scott Snyder (Wytches)

"House of Penance is Peter Tomasi's finest work to date, a haunting, macabre experience that will stay with any thoughtful reader long after its conclusion. A fine tale well told, and highly recommended."-Garth Ennis (Preacher)



JACKPOT #1 (COVER A BRIAN STELFREEZE)
Publisher: AFTERSHOCK COMICS
(W) Ray Fawkes (A) Marco Failla (CA) Brian Stelfreeze
Meet the World's Greatest Con Artists on the eve of the greatest scam in human history --ripping off the Gods themselves! The high-stakes, high-octane story of JACKPOT! begins here! Ray Fawkes, acclaimed creator of INTERSECT (writer of Gotham by Midnight and Batman: Eternal) teams up with Marco Failla (Spider-Man & the X-Men) to bring a new mind-bending, genre-busting monthly series from AfterShock!



MOON KNIGHT #1 (GREG SMALLWOOD REGULAR COVER)
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Jeff Lemire (A/CA) Greg Smallwood
THE BOOK YOU'D BE INSANE TO MISS!
Marc Spector (a.k.a. Moon Knight/Jake Lockley/Steven Grant) has been fighting criminals and keeping New York City safe for years... or has he? When he wakes up in an insane asylum with no powers and a lifetime's worth of medical records, his whole identity (indentities) are called into question. Something is wrong, but is that something Marc Spector himself? Jeff Lemire (EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN) and rising star Greg Smallwood are calling everything you know about Moon Knight into question.



STAR WARS SPECIAL C-3PO #1 (TONY HARRIS REGULAR COVER)
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) James Robinson (A/CA) Tony Harris
• Follow everyone's favorite protocol droid as he Journeys to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, in this special one-shot leading up to his appearance in the film! Just how did Threepio get a red arm, anyway? Find out here as the blockbuster creative team of James Robinson and Tony Harris of DC's Starman reunite for the first time in nearly two decades!
•  You may be fluent in over six million forms of communication...but this book is a must have in any language!


XENA WARRIOR PRINCESS #1
Publisher: D. E.
(W) Genevieve Valentine (A) Ariel Medel (CA) Greg Land, Jenny Frison
After the Twilight of the Gods, the world is precariously uncertain - and Xena and Gabrielle have been missing from it for twenty-five years. Even without Livia, the power of Rome is growing: Caesar is determined to conquer by lies what he can't conquer by force, and the people at its edges know what's coming. (All roads lead to Rome, and Rome is hunting.) Xena and Gabrielle scramble to stop him before they have to wage war against a man they once called a friend. But along the way, Xena will have to confront her past against a rogue band of women warriors, and Gabrielle, whose secret visions are becoming prophecy, will have to protect Xena - at any cost.


COMICS
2000 AD PROG #1976
ABE SAPIEN #32
ADVENTURE TIME #51 (COVER A PAUL REINWAND)
A-FORCE #4
AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. #4 AVENGERS STANDOFF


ALL-NEW ALL-DIFFERENT AVENGERS #8 AVENGERS STANDOFF (ALEX ROSS REGULAR COVER)
ALL-NEW INHUMANS #6
ALL-NEW X-MEN #8
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #10 (ALEX ROSS REGULAR COVER)


ANOTHER CASTLE #2 (COVER A PAULINA GANUCHEAU)


BAKER STREET PECULIARS #2 (OF 4) (COVER A ANDY HIRSCH)
BATMAN SUPERMAN #31 (JOHN ROMITA JR. & KLAUS JANSON VARIANT COVER)


BATMAN SUPERMAN #31 SUPER LEAGUE (YANICK PAQUETTE REGULAR COVER)
BATMAN TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #5 (OF 6) (FREDDIE E. WILLIAMS II REGULAR COVER)
BLACK CANARY #10
CATWOMAN #51
CONSTANTINE THE HELLBLAZER #11
DARK AND BLOODY #3 (OF 6)
DARTH VADER #19
DC COMICS BOMBSHELLS #11
EARTH 2 SOCIETY #11
FABLES THE WOLF AMONG US #16

GOTHAM ACADEMY #17
GREEN LANTERN CORPS EDGE OF OBLIVION #4 (OF 6)
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #7 (ARTHUR ADAMS REGULAR COVER)


ILLUMINATI #6 AVENGERS STANDOFF
LAST CONTRACT #4 (OF 4) (COVER A LISANDRO ESTHERREN)
LEGEND OF WONDER WOMAN #4 (OF 9)
MASSIVE NINTH WAVE #5 (OF 6)


MOCKINGBIRD #2 (JOELLE JONES REGULAR COVER)
MONSTRESS #5
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC #41 (COVER A ANDY PRICE)
RED WOLF #5
RIVERS OF LONDON NIGHT WITCH #2 (OF 5) (COVER A ANNA DITTMANN)


ROCKET RACCOON AND GROOT #4 (SKOTTIE YOUNG REGULAR COVER)


SAMURAI #2 (OF 8) (COVER A FREDERIC GENET)


SILVER SURFER #3 (MIKE ALLRED REGULAR COVER)


SPIDER-GWEN #7 SPIDER-WOMEN (YASMINE PUTRI REGULAR COVER)
SPIDEY #4
WONDER WOMAN '77 SPECIAL #3


X-MEN '92 #2 (DAVID NAKAYAMA REGULAR COVER)

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