It's an exciting week folks, when the most mainstream number one comics you have to talk about are Deathstroke, Hellblazer and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers you know that you have an interesting time ahead. So with no further ado ladies and gentlemen leave your capes at the door and come take a walk on the wild side.
Firefly gave us Cowboys in Space (or rather Cowboys in spaaaaaace!) and now Kingsway West is bringing us Cowboys and Magic. With amazing art, a reluctant hero and a beautiful woman with a magical sword what's not to love?
John Constantine is back and going old (old) school getting in touch with Swamp Thing, one of the few friends he hasn't sacrificed to "the greater good". 5 to 1 says there's a reference to Constantine's tattoo of a Christmas Tree.
Six Pack and Dog Welder return to Gotham City! Sadly no Rebirth issue for them, but a new number one is pretty great.
Image brings us Lake of Fire, this is no High Crusade (anyone gets that reference without googling and I will be amazed) this is alien invasion in the dark ages! Imagine Kingdom of Heaven mixed with Attack the Block and you might have some idea of what to expect.
First Issues
JUN160043
(W) Greg Pak (A/CA) Mirko Colak
After thirteen years in prison, a Chinese gunslinger named Kingsway Law just wants to find his wife. But in a fantastical American Old West crackling with magic, monsters, and racist vigilantes, trouble just won't leave him be. And in this case, trouble is a woman with a magic sword who needs his help.
JUN160208
(W) Keith Giffen (A/CA) Scott Kolins
Lost in the desert with no memory of the past few years, teenager Jaime Reyes must find his way home again-but when he reaches his town, he's shocked to find it abandoned and in the hands of government officials...officials who are very interested in the Blue Beetle and the scarab that gives him his power! How can Jaime find his family and uncover the secret behind the town's seizure-and why Kord Industries is helping keep the world from learning the truth?
JUN160216
(W) Christopher Priest (A/CA) Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz
"The Professional" part one! Deathstroke's latest contract takes him to a war-torn African country, where he finds himself caught in the middle of a disintegrating alliance between a ruthless dictator and a deadly super-villain. With an entire nation at stake, Slade Wilson must choose between fulfilling his contract and saving an old friend. 
JUN160222
(W) Simon Oliver (A/CA) Moritat
"The Poison Truth" part one! London may have recovered from Constantine's return, but he hasn't. Mercury hasn't forgiven him, but she won't leave him alone, and Swamp Thing is calling in a favor. And all the while, bigger things are brewing...
JUN160286
(W) Garth Ennis (A) Russell Braun (CA) Steve Dillon
In the tradition of the original Hard-Traveling Heroes, Green Lantern and Green Arrow, Sixpack and Dogwelder are ready to bring their allegedly socially aware brand of justice to the lands beyond Gotham City!After the events of ALL-STAR SECTION EIGHT, Sixpack is fighting to keep what's left of his team together. Dogwelder has gone in search of his past, while newlyweds Bueno Excellente and Guts are dealing with some fidelity issues. Could Section Eight be done for good?
But everything changes when a mysterious trenchcoat-wearing chain smoker offers our favorite dog enthusiast some clues about his true nature. Is Dogwelder everything he seems? Or is he meant for something greater?
JUN160396
(W) Brian Clevinger (A/CA) Scott Wegener
The year is 1938 and a viral weapon is being developed that will rival even Tesla's lightning weapon designs! Cue Atomic Robo, Jack Tarot, secret government agencies, moon men, magical arctic circle elves, jetlagged aliens, elderly rights activists, youngling laborers, and the manifestation of human hope to help save the day!• Atomic Robo blows things up in a blast-from-the-past adventure!
• Part of IDW's five-week Creator Visions event! Five creator-driven books, launched in five straight weeks!
JUN160597
(W) Nathan Fairbairn (CA) Nathan Fairbairn (A/CA) Matt Smith
SERIES PREMIEREIt is 1220 AD, and the gears of the Albigensian Crusade grind on. When an alien mining-craft infested with a horde of bloodthirsty predators crash-lands in the remote wilderness of the French Pyrenees, a small band of crusaders and a Cathar heretic are all that stand between God's Kingdom and Hell on Earth.
JUN160821
(W) Al Ewing (A) Jefte Palo (CA) Francesco Francavilla
A CIVIL WAR II PREQUEL!• How did Ulysses join the Inhumans?
• What difficult journey did he have to go through to master his powers?
Rated T+
JUN160864
(W) Charles Soule (A) Kev Walker (CA) Jamal Campbell
• The Inhumans travel to India!• Months ago, the Terrigen Mist made its way through Mumbai and transformed Dinesh Deol into the Inhuman Grid.
• But what threats did the Mist create, and why are the Inhumans only addressing it now?
Rated T+
JUN161223
(W) Jorge Corona, James Kochalka, Trey Moore, Ross Thibodeaux, Kyle Higgins, Marguerite Bennett (A) Jorge Corona, James Kochalka, Terry Moore, Rob Guillory, Rod Reis, Huang Danlan (CA) Goni Montes
Comics creators come together to celebrate their mutual love of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers!From short stories like "The Origin of Goldar" to "What Would Happen If Bulk and Skull Became Rangers?", this oversized, anthology collection features contributions from creators like Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise), Rob Guillory (Chew), James Kochalka (Monkey vs Robot), and more!
40 pages of new story and art!
JUN161874
(W) Fred Van Lente (A) Francis Portela (CA) Stephen Mooney
Because you demanded it! Exploding out of the pages of HARBINGER WARS comes AN ALL-NEW ONGOING SERIES starring GENERATION ZERO from New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG, IVAR, TIMEWALKER) and blockbuster artist Francis Portela (FAITH)!If you have a problem... If your parents won't help... And if your cause is worthy... Log onto network #ZERO... because Generation Zero is listening.
Years ago, the children of the experimental strike team known as Generation Zero were taken from their families by Project Rising Spirit, a private weapons contractor, and raised to be psychic soldiers. After years of taking orders, they have fought for and won their freedom. Now, the world's most wanted teenagers have pledged to protect each other tooth and claw, while using their extraordinary abilities to right wrongs for a generation without a
future... To fight for kids, just like them.
One of those kids is Keisha Sherman, whose boyfriend just turned up dead after a suspicious car crash in Rook, Michigan - a newly booming tech town that sprang from rags to super-riches seemingly overnight. When Keisha makes a desperate plea into her webcam, the local high school suddenly finds itself with several unusual new students... But as word of Generation Zero's presence spreads rapidly through the halls, this volatile band of teenage upstarts is about to discover that they're far from the most extraordinary thing lurking behind Rook's stainless-steel facade..
New Comics
Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks (TPs)
DEC090684
(W) Warren Ellis (A/CA) Gianluca Pagliarani
Where did the space heroes go to die? From Warren Ellis, the writer who reinvented science fiction in comics, in the alternate-world style of the award-winning Ministry Of Space and Aetheric Mechanics, comes a retropunk "future of the past" where spaceships still belched smoke and arguments were still settled with laser pistols. Grounded space pilot Mary Raven has come to the interzone settlement in the middle of Ignition City, Earth's last spaceport, to recover the effects of her dead fatherso people think. Mary really wants to know how he died, and who did it. Mary Raven is out to spoil a great many people's days. Today might be her last day on Earth, trapped on the last spaceport where no-one cares about murder and the only real currency is fear. She has her dead father's raygun, and that's enough for space hero turned arms dealer Lightning Bowman to want her dead. But she also has her dead father's diary. And when she finds out something no-one else in the settlement knows... they'll want her dead for that, too! Featuring the art of Aetheric Mechanics' Gianluca Pagliarani, this full-color volume collects all five issues of the sci-fi epic with a gorgeous cover gallery full of design sketches, ray-gun fights and giant metal machines! The Ignition City collected volume is available in a standard Trade Paperback with a painted cover by Felipe Massafera, a Special Edition Hardcover featuring an exclusive cover by Gianluca Pagliarani that is limited to only 2000 units, and a special Dual Signed Hardcover featuring a new cover by Pagliarani and is signed by both writer Warren Ellis and artist Pagliarani that is limited to only 400 copies!
MAY160669
(W) Larry Young (A/CA) Charlie Adlard
Fifty years after Armstrong's one small step, the world's richest man claims the moon as his own personal property... and Channel Seven is there! This graphic novel shows what happens when absolute power corrupts absolutely, when The Mob has nuclear first-strike capability, and when cows jump over the moon.Collects ASTRONAUTS IN TROUBLE #1-11
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