This week is another of those weeks where we get a crazy number of titles arriving. Logistically for us this is straining the limits of our little shop as not only do we have this week's books (new releases following this missive and with all the books following at the bottom of the post), but we have many of the Free Comic Book Day comics (about 2000!) arriving as well. Add in a bumper week for POP! Funkos and the shop is bursting at the seams! Still, it's a nice problem to have and means lots of exciting stuff for us all to read over the next week.
We have a double dose of Doctor Strange (possibly to complement the recent trailer release), new Aliens from Brian Wood (Also check out Black Road recently released by the same writer), Stand Off comes to a close from Marvel (we still have most of the cross over books in stock if you want to jump onto this right at the end) and fans of the Dredd film get another comic sequel in Dredd Dust.
Walking Dead readers get a special treat as Image's new Previews magazine has the first part of an exclusive story explaining Negan's origins - plus information on all Images releases for the month of July!
NEW RELEASES AND ONE SHOTS
ALIENS DEFIANCE #1 (COVER A MASSIMO CARNEVALE)
Publisher: DARK HORSE COMICS
(W) Brian Wood (A) Tristan Jones (CA) Massimo Carnevale
Battling demons from her past while fighting for her life, Colonial Marine Private First Class Zula Hendricks, in the company of Weyland-Yutani synthetics, is forced to question her strength and loyalty when the discovery of an insidious alien species on a derelict hauler sends her on a dangerous journey across the stars.
AVENGERS STANDOFF ASSAULT ON PLEASANT HILL OMEGA #1 (DANIEL ACUNA REGULAR COVER)
AVENGERS STANDOFF ASSAULT ON PLEASANT HILL OMEGA #1 (JIM STERANKO VARIANT COVER)
AVENGERS STANDOFF ASSAULT ON PLEASANT HILL OMEGA #1 (MIKE DEODATO WRAPAROUND VARIANT COVER)
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Nick Spencer (A) Daniel Acuña, Angel Unzueta
A STANDOFF tie-in!
• This is it! The explosive finale to the spring's blockbuster Avengers event!
• Lost heroes return, new threats emerge, and the stage is set for major upheavals all throughout the Marvel Universe!
DOCTOR STRANGE LAST DAYS OF MAGIC #1 (MIKE PERKINS REGULAR COVER)
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Jason Aaron & Various (A) Leonardo Romero (CA) Mike Perkins
This companion to the "LAST DAYS OF MAGIC" epic! THE EMPIRIKUL, led by The Imperator, are destroying all magic and magic users in the Marvel Universe. Jason Aaron brings you Doctor Strange and Wong's secret history and the ultimate sacrifice that Wong makes! Gerry Duggan shows Brother Voodoo's stand against the evil magic-eaters. James Robinson introduces a new magic figure in the Marvel U just in time for her last stand!
DREDD DUST #1
Publisher: REBELLION / 2000AD
(W) Arthur Wyatt (A) Ben Willsher (CA) Ryan Brown
The Dredd movie sequel comic is back in a two-part special! When Judge Dredd is called to a ruthless gang slaying, it seems a vigilante is at work, but a residue of dust left behind indicate that this is no ordinary perp and Dredd's quest for answers leads beyond the walls of Mega-City One and into the inhospitable irradiated wasteland called The Cursed Earth! "Dust" is the latest comic-book sequel to the critically-acclaimed cult movie DREDD!
IMAGE+ #1 (WALKING DEAD HERES NEGAN PART 1)
Publisher: IMAGE COMICS
(W/A) Various
From Image Comics. Image+ is an all-new monthly magazine featuring Image's upcoming releases, as well as bonus creator-owned comics content. Each issue will be distributed with Diamond's monthly PREVIEWS Catalog and will feature an original, four-page The Walking Dead story concerning Negan's origins, and created by New York Times bestselling team Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard, for a total of 48 pages of backstory.
Image+ will also showcase:
- Four-page THE WALKING DEAD story concerning Negan's origins by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard in every issue for the first year.
- Exclusive interviews
- Spotlight features
- Bonus never-before-seen preview pages
- Editorials from industry and retailer voices
- LCS Highlights
- You will receive one copy of Image+ for free with every Previews Catalogue you order and is open to purchase separately from your Previews Catalogue order for a retail price of £1.50.
Image Comics solicitations for each month will continue to appear in Previews Catalogue as usual.
MICRONAUTS #1 (COVER A J. H. WILLIAMS)
Publisher: IDW PUBLISHING
(W) Cullen Bunn (A) David Baldeon (CA) J. H. Williams
THEY CAME FROM A DYING UNIVERSE! ACROYEAR, SPACE GLIDER, BIOTRON and their allies are back, on the run from the evil BARON KARZA, and blasting through a universe where magic and science vie for control! With resources dwindling, the long-lost TIME TRAVELLERS may hold the key to salvation... but will it mean armageddon for our world?
YEAR OF MARVELS THE AMAZING #1
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Ryan North, Amy Chu (A) Bruce Bezaire, Ryan Browne (CA) Jamal Campbell
• Join us in a brand new Marvel comics adventure as your favorite heroes journey through the calendar year one month at a time!
• It's February and Peter Parker's got a hot date, but the old Parker luck hits hard...and so does the bank-robbing villain The Vulture! It's a tale of romance, adventure, and punching! From Ryan North (SQUIRREL GIRL) and Danilo Beyruth!
• When business is down in March, Scott Lang's Ant-Man Security Solutions will take just about any job offered to them - including stealing back stolen goods! But all is not as it seems! Join writer Amy Chu (Poison Ivy) and artist Ryan Browne (SECRET WARS TOO) as they team together for this Spring Break themed heist!
COMICS
2000 AD PROG #1977
2000 AD PROG #1978
3 DEVILS #2 (OF 4)
ALL-NEW WOLVERINE #7
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #11
ANGELA QUEEN OF HEL #7
ART OPS #7
ASSASSINS CREED TEMPLARS #2 CVR A THORNLEY
BATGIRL #51
BATMAN #51 (GREG CAPULLO & DANNY MIKI REGULAR COVER)
BATMAN #51 (JOHN ROMITA JR. & KLAUS JANSON VARIANT COVER)
BATMAN '66 MEETS THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. #5 (OF 6)
BILL AND TED GO TO HELL #3 (OF 4) (COVER A JAMAL CAMPBELL)
BLACK CANARY #11
CIRCUIT-BREAKER #2 (OF 5)
DAREDEVIL #6 (BILL SIENKIEWICZ REGULAR COVER)
DARK KNIGHT III THE MASTER RACE #4 (OF 8) (ANDY KUBERT REGULAR COVER), 
DOCTOR STRANGE #7 (CHRIS BACHALO REGULAR COVER)
FABLES THE WOLF AMONG US #15
GRAYSON #19 (MIKEL JANIN REGULAR COVER)
HARLEY QUINN #27 (AMANDA CONNER REGULAR COVER)
HARLEY QUINN #27 (JOHN ROMITA JR. & KLAUS JANSON VARIANT COVER)
HELLBOY AND THE B.P.R.D. 1953 BEYOND THE FENCES #3 (OF 3)
INJECTION #9 (COVER A DECLAN SHALVEY & JORDIE BELLAIRE)
INJECTION #9 (COVER B DECLAN SHALVEY & JORDIE BELLAIRE)
INTERNATIONAL IRON MAN #2 (ALEX MALEEV REGULAR COVER)
JACKED #6 (OF 6)
JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #371
JUSTICE LEAGUE #49 (JASON FABOK REGULAR COVER)
JUSTICE LEAGUE #49 (MATTEO SCALERO VARIANT COVER)
LAST GANG IN TOWN #5 (OF 6)
MARVEL PREVIEWS #10 MAY 2016
MARVEL UNIVERSE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS #2
MS. MARVEL #6 (DAVID LOPEZ REGULAR COVER)
OLD MAN LOGAN #5 (ANDREA SORRENTINO REGULAR COVER)
OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN AND AZACETA #18
POWER LINES #2 (OF 6)
PREVIEWS #332 MAY 2016
SAGA #36
SEX CRIMINALS #15 (COVER A CHIP ZDARSKY)
SEX CRIMINALS #15 (COVER XXX JAIME HERNANDEZ)
SPIDER-WOMAN #6 (YASMINE PUTRI REGULAR COVER)
SPIDEY #5
STAR WARS #18 (LEINIL FRANCIS YU REGULAR COVER)
SUICIDE SQUAD MOST WANTED DEADSHOT AND KATANA #4 (OF 6)
SUICIDERS KINGS OF HELL.A. #2 (OF 6)
SUPERZERO #5
TRANSFORMERS SINS OF THE WRECKERS #4 (OF 5) (COVER A NICK ROCHE)
TRANSFORMERS SINS OF THE WRECKERS #4 (OF 5) (COVER B E.J. SU)
ULTIMATES #6 (KENNETH ROCAFORT REGULAR COVER)
UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL #7 (ERICA HENDERSON REGULAR COVER)
X-MEN WORST X-MAN EVER #3 (OF 5)