Here are our top picks for comics and graphic novels. These and many more are available at g-mart.com.
Comics:
Atomic Robo and the Flying She-Devils of the Pacific #1
Red 5 Comics
Brian Clevinger (W) Matt Speroni (A) Scott Wegener (C)
It's called The Flying She-Devils of the Pacific. If there's another combination of English words that could better sell you on a comic book than those, it probably involves "give you" and "a million dollars."
Regular price: $3.50
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Before Watchmen
DC ComicsBefore Watchmen: Minutemen #1
Darwyn Cook (W/A)
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1
Darwyn Cooke & Amanda Conner (W) Amanda Conner (A)
Before Watchmen: Comedian #1
Brian Azzarello (W) J.G. Jones (A)
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #1
J. Michael Strazynski (W) Andy Kubert and Joe Kubert (A) JOE KUBERT
Backup story: Len Wein (W) John Higgings (A)
Regular price: $3.99
G-Mart.com preorder price: $2.60
Bleeding Cool Magazine #0
Bleeding Cool, the comics and entertainment source for news, interviews, and the latest gossip and scuttlebutt is coming to your local comic shop! Featuring Rich Johnston’s trademark knack for delivering the biggest stories and interviews, this value-priced initial issue of Bleeding Cool Magazine will introduce you to the magazine event of the year. With coverage of the most creative publishers and exciting characters, Bleeding Cool Magazine is the essential source for collectors looking to get features you can’t find on the web. Over a million monthly BleedingCool.com visitors can’t be wrong!
Regular price: $1.49
G-Mart.com preorder price: $1.05
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Drusilla #1 (OF 5)
Dark Horse
Juliet Landau (W) Cliff Richards (P) Tim Seeley (A) Andy Owens (I) Cris Peters/Steve Morris (C)
As Drusilla flees through the streets of London, her savagery is witnessed by a documentary filmmaker who becomes fixated on her. He wants to bring the story behind such a unique and mysterious specimen to the big screen! His hunt for Drusilla, past, present, and future, sets him on a path of no return!
Regular price: $3.50
G-Mart.com preorder price: $2.28
Fatima: the Blood Spinners #1 (OF 4)
Dark Horse
Gilbert Hernandez (W/A)
Comics luminary Gilbert Hernandez envisions his strangest, most thrilling future yet! A drug called “spin” offers the wildest trip imaginable, followed by its users’ inevitable, rapid deterioration into undead flesh eaters. Despite the side effect, the drug is so popular that the human population is dying out! With no cure to be found, the beautiful, lovesick Fatima may be the only thing standing between the survivors and the apocalypse. Get ready for four issues of zombies, drug lords, and gorgeous women!
Regular price: $3.99
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Harbinger #1Valiant Press
Joshua Dysart (W) Khari Evans (A)
READ MINDS. BEND STEEL. BREAK ALL THE RULES. Teenager Pete Stanchek is out of work, on the skids, and — unbeknownst to him — a psionic-powered "harbinger" with the potential to reshape the course of human history. Toyo Harada is a wealthy business magnate, a respected philanthropist and the most powerful harbinger of all – or so he thought. As they forge an uneasy alliance, will Harada offer Pete a chance for redemption — or attempt to induct him into a secret network of conspiracy, subversion and control? Pete is about to discover that he's not alone in the world and, soon, the generation who has nothing will take on the man who has everything.
Don't miss the exclusive pullbox variant available to anyone who preorders Harbinger #1!
Regular price: $3.99
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The Infernal Man-Thing #1 (OF 3)
Marvel Comics
Steve Gerber (W) Kevin Nowlan (A)
• STEVE GERBER’S FINAL MAN-THING STORY!
• What is the mystery behind the “Screenplay of the Living Dead Man”?
• The story no one thought existed!!!
• NO ADS! BONUS CONTENT!
Regular price: $3.99
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The Massive #1Dark Horse
Brian Wood (W/C) Kristian Donaldson (A/C) Dave Stewart (C)
In a post-war, post-crash, post-disaster, post-everything world, the environmental-action trawler Kapital scours the earth’s oceans for its mysteriously missing sister ship, The Massive. Captain Callum Israel, a man who has dedicated his life to the ocean, now must ask himself—as our planet dies—what it means to be an environmentalist after the world’s ended. Callum and his crew will come up against pirates, rebels, murderers, and thieves as they struggle to remain noble toward their cause. Can you save a planet that's already doomed?
Regular price: $3.50
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Prophecy #1
Dynamite Entertainment
Ron Marz (W) Walter Geovani (A) Paul Renaud (C)
In 2012, the Mayan doomsday prophecy is coming to pass, and the end of the world makes for strange allies. Vampirella, Red Sonja, Kulan Gath, Dracula, Eva, Herbert West The Re-Animator, Alan Quatermain, Athena, Dorian Gray, Purgatory, Pantha and many more choose sides and clash in battles that will decide the fate of the Earth and all of mankind. Will the forces of good be able to stop the end of days? Or will an army of darkness rise? A seven-issue, SELF-CONTAINED event! That's right, fans, no spinoffs, no add-ons, just seven issues of all out, apocalyptic warfare! Be there for the first crossover spanning the Dynamite line...before it's too late!
Regular price: $3.99
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Books and Collections:
Alien: the Illustrated Story - Artist's Edition
Titan BooksArchie Goodwin (W) Walter Simonson (A)
Two of comics' greatest talents — Walt Simonson and Archie Goodwin — joined forces to bring Ridley Scott's epic Alien to the comic book page, including scenes cut from the final movie! This brand-new softcover edition of Alien: The Illustrated Story, released to coincide with Scott's latest sci-fi epic, Prometheus, has been carefully reproduced from the original artwork in Walt Simonson's studio.
The limited run Artist's Edition presents the story for the very first time in a huge 14" x 17" hardcover. The Artist's Edition also includes never-before-published color try out pages, early sketches and Archie Goodwin's complete annotated script, and an interview with Walt Simonson, providing an in-depth view into the creation of a legendary comic. Signed by artist Walter Simonson
(Softcover also available)
HC / 96 pgs / PC / 14x17
Regular price: $75.00
G-Mart.com preorder price: $56.25
“Came the Dawn” and Other Stories
Fantagraphics
by Wally Wood, Al Feldstein, et al.
HC / 240 pgs / BW / 7 x 10
From the legendary Wally Wood, Fantagraphics proudly presents one of two premiere releases in our highly-anticipated new EC reprint line. Ranging from supernatural shockers from the Tales from the Crypt and The Haunt of Fear to pointedly contemporary crime thrillers from Crime SuspenStories, these compelling and superbly crafted classics will be accompanied by extensive essays and notes on these historic stories by EC experts.
Regular price: $24.99
G-Mart.com preorder price: $18.75
Fatale, vol. 1: Death Chases MeImage Comics
Ed Brubaker (W) Sean Phillips & Dave Stewart (A/C)
TP / 128 PAGES / FC
The first arc of Image's surprise hit is collected just in time for new readers to jump on board with issue 6! Secrets, lies, horror, lust and monsters from the time before time all collide in FATALE: DEATH CHASES ME. In present day, a man meets a woman who he becomes instantly obsessed with, and in the 1950s, this same woman destroys the lives of all those who cross her path, on a quest for... what? ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS best-selling series will leave you craving more! Collects FATALE #1-5.
Regular price: $14.99
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Invisibles Omnibus
Grant Morrison (W) Various (A)
HC / 1,536 pgs / FC /
Collecting for the first time ever in one book: all three volumes of the blockbuster series by Eisner award-winning writer Grant Morrison (ALL-STAR SUPERMAN, BATMAN)! Follow the adventures of The Invisibles, a secret organization out to battle the physical and psychic oppression brought upon humanity by the interdimensional alien gods of the Archons of Outer Church! This massive book includes THE INVISIBLES #1-25, THE INVISIBLES VOL. 2 #1-22, THE INVISIBLES VOL. 3 #12-1, and stories from ABSOLUTE VERTIGO #1 and VERTIGO: WINTER'S EDGE #1.
Regular price: $150.00
G-Mart.com preorder price: $97.50
Marathon
:01 First Second
Boaz Yakin (W) Joe Infurnari (A)
HC / 192 pgs / PC / 6 x 9
It was a turning point in ancient history. It inspires men to greatness. It was the foundation of one of the greatest and most prevailing global peace efforts of the 20th century. It was the greatest feat — and the tragic death — of a man whose legacy will never be forgotten. In 490 BCE, an Athenian messenger named Eucles ran 27 miles from Sparta to Athens, and in so doing preserved ancient Greek civilization from subjugation to the Persian Empire.
Regular price: $16.99
G-Mart.com preorder price: $12.75
Star Trek Omnibus: Clone Wars Volume 1 - The Republic Goes to WarDark Horse
Various (W/A)
TP / 408 pgs / FC
The Clone Wars explode across the galaxy! From the stormy seas of Kamino to the rocky hills of Devaron, the battle lines have been drawn, and the Jedi Knights who were once protectors of the peace must become generals, leading the clone armies of the Republic to war! These are the stories that were published immediately after the release of Attack of the Clones, featuring Jedi heroes Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu, and Quinlan Vos. Collects Clone Wars Volume 1: Defense of Kamino, Volume 2: Victories and Sacrifices, Volume 4: Light and Dark, and Free Comic Book Day 2006.
Regular price: $24.99
G-Mart.com preorder price: $17.50
Superman: Action Comics, vol. 1 - Superman and the Men of Steel
DC Comics
Grant Morrison (W) Rags Morales, various (A)
Backup story: Sholly Fisch (W) Brad Walker, CrissCross (A)
HC / 256 pgs / FC
• The first collection of GRANT MORRISON’S epic run on ACTION COMICS, with art by RAGS MORALES, ANDY KUBERT and more!
• In these startling tales, the people of METROPOLIS turn on their new champion! Plus, the SUPERMAN of today and the LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES must save the jean swearing Superman of five years ago!
• Collects ACTION COMICS #1-8.
Regular price: $24.99
G-Mart.com preorder price: $16.25
The Walking Dead, vol. 16: A Larger WorldImage Comics
Robert Kirkman (W) Charlie Adlard & Cliff Rathburn (A)
TP / 136 pgs / BW
Rick discovers that there are communities of survivors nearby, and begins to explore a larger world. Collects THE WALKING DEAD #91-96.
Regular price: $14.99
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The Walking Dead and Philosophy
SC / 288 pgs
Rick, Lori, Shane, Carl, Dale, Andrea, and Michonne — human survivors of a zombie apocalypse — don't know much about philosophy, but philosophical ideas continue to shamble on through their world, and there's no excape from them. Guns, chainsaws, and machetes are not enough for survival: humans also need agreement on rules of conduct. Can equality or fairness have any place in the post-apocalyptic world? Do theft or even assault and murder become okay under desperate circumstances? The epic story of The Walking Dead focuses on the individual, social, and moral consequences of survival in a world overrun by zombies.
Regular price: $19.95
G-Mart.com preorder price: $15.96
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