Market Monday
Fairest #12, written by Lauren Beukes, colored by Eva de la Cruz
Rapunzel discovers that bloody vengeance will come back to haunt you. Frau Totenkinder and Bigby get caught in a war between Tomoko’s yakuza gangsters and Katagiri’s not-so-unassuming sumo school. There’s murder, mayhem, terrible compromises and unholy hairballs deep in the heart of a dark forest and in the frenetic streets of Tokyo.
Market Monday
The Unwritten #45, cover by Yuko Shimizu
As the old stories die, new stories wake and stretch — without Leviathan to rein them in. And detective Didge Patterson gets pulled into a messy homicide case that brings together a strange, young boy with a wicked imagination, a pack of zombies and one very hungry vampire journalist.
Market Monday
The Unwritten #44, cover by Yuko Shimizu
In the classical underworld of Hades, Tom takes on harpies, sinister ferrymen and multiheaded dogs. But none of these encounters prepare him for his meeting with the king — or for the responsibilities he has to take on for some very familiar damned souls.
Market Monday
Django Unchained #1, colored by Giulia Brusco
Oscar-winning writer/director Quentin Tarantino’s latest epic film script is adapted for comics! The blood-soaked tale of a bounty-hunting dentist and his partner, a recently freed slave, in the post-Civil War South! This is an adaptation of the full screenplay, including scenes that may not make it into the final theatrical cut!
Market Monday
Saucer Country #10, colored by Giulia Brusco
Arcadia’s team finds itself under siege at the Democrat candidate’s debate in Las Vegas, Michael finds himself wondering what’s real and what he’s capable of, and Kidd discovers the secrets behind the men in black, all in part two of three of “The Reticulan Candidate.”
Market Monday
iZombie vol. 4: Repossession TP, colored by Laura Allred
This final collection contains iZOMBIE #19-28! Following a zombie invasion and some major heartbreaks, Gwen is hiding out in her crypt. But Galatea and Dr. Coffee are determined to give the town more to worry about – and the only one standing in their way is Amon the dashing, deadly mummy, and the end of the world as we know it.
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Market Monday
Fairest #10, written by Lauren Beukes
In part 3 of “The Hidden Kingdom,” Rapunzel kicks ass when hungry ghosts and angry Yakuza storm the skyscraper. Meanwhile, Bigby and Frau Totenkinder arrive in Japan only to get captured by local Harijuku girls. And back in the dark, simmering pit that is the witching well, something is stirring — and it wants out.
Earlier today, DC Comics issued a press release stating that long time Vertigo Executive Editor Karen Berger will be leaving the publisher in March of next year. Berger commented:
“I’ve been incredibly proud to have provided a home where writers and artists could create progressive and provocative stories that broadened the scope of comics, attracting a new and diverse readership to graphic storytelling,” said Berger. “I’d like to thank all the many immensely talented creators who have helped make Vertigo into a daring and distinctive imprint and I’m grateful to everyone at DC Entertainment and the retail community for their support and commitment to Vertigo all these years. It’s been quite an honor.”
Berger has worked at DC Comics for 33 years, starting out as an editor. Her first job was editing DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #7, “Sgt. Rock’s Prize Battle Tales”. She later went on to edit Wonder Woman, and then, the turning point of her career—as well as the turning point for all mainstream comics—hiring Alan Moore to write Swamp Thing and Neil Gaiman to write The Sandman. Both revolutionary titles led to the formation of the Vertigo imprint, of which she has been Executive Editor from the beginning.
Vertigo comics were my gateway into the comics medium, and I always felt a spark of joy seeing her name on every comic. Karen Berger and Vertigo are synonymous in my mind, and both are synonymous with “good comics”. Her departure is not entirely surprising, as the Vertigo imprint has been on the decline in recent years, but it is still with great sorrow I see her depart. She almost single-handedly caused the British Invasion of comics in the ’80s and ’90s with Moore, Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, and later Warren Ellis, all of whom have written comics I love. She brought into the forefront such female creators as G. Willow Wilson, Amy Reeder, and Becky Cloonan. She oversaw the criminally short-lived young adult imprint Minx, which aimed to get more teenage girls reading comics. I wish her all the best in her future endeavors.
It is my fervent, possibly selfish, hope that her next move is to take her Rolodex and open up her own publishing company and start another revolution.
Market Monday
A Flight of Angels TP, conceived and illustrated by Rebecca Guay, includes stories written by Holly Black, Alisa Kwitney, and Louise Hawes
ANGELS: Guardians. Messengers. Warriors. Fallen. All these angelic aspects and more are explored in A FLIGHT OF ANGELS, a riveting tale in the tradition of The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales. A mysterious angel plummets to Earth and lands deep in a dark forest, where his dying body is found by the mystical denizens of this strange place. As the gathered fauns, fairies, hags and hobgoblins debate what to do with him, each tells a different story of who they imagine this celestial creature to be: a hero, a lover, a protector or a killer. Once the stories have been told, a verdict is rendered – and the outcome will leave you breathless. Conceived and stunningly illustrated by fantasy art legend Rebecca Guay (Magic: The Gathering, Veils), A FLIGHT OF ANGELS is written by an all-star lineup of today’s top fantasy talent, including Bill Willingham (FABLES) and Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles) in tales that will grip your heart and make your imagination soar.
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Market Monday
The Unwritten #43, cover by Yuko Shimizu
What do Baron Munchausen, a Jane Austen heroine, a homicidal bear and three bad rabbits have in common? They’re all either helping or sabotaging Tom Taylor on the next leg of his quest to find Lizzie and bring her back from the land of the dead…
Market Tuesday
Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo vol. 1, adaptation written by Denise Mina
DC Entertainment is pleased to present the official graphic novel adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium Trilogy,” brought to life by best-selling mystery novelist Denise Mina and illustrated by Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti, with a spectacular cover by Lee Bermejo. Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families, disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and corruption in this extraordinary adaptation of the first half of the international best-selling novel.
Market Tuesday
Fairest #9, written by Lauren Beukes
We look back to Rapunzel’s first fateful steps as she’s shipwrecked on the shores of the Hidden Kingdom. She’s charmed by the Celestial Court, but there is political intrigue afoot and a forbidden love affair when Rapunzel falls in love with Tomoko, a kitsune fox spirit. Meanwhile Joel Crow and Jack of Fables get more than they bargained for in a seedy pachinko parlor and karaoke club. And when Rapunzel is
Market Monday
Ghosts #1, includes stories by Cecil Castellucci, Mary H.K. Choi, and Amy Reeder
Check out this all-new anthology from some of the biggest talents in the industry! Stories spotlight a space heist on a ghost ship, a spirit who wants to play synthesizer in a techno band, a ghost-for-hire haunting agency and others dark, twisted tales. With stories and art by some of comics’ greatest talents, this special features a cover by Dave Johnson, and a variant cover by Brendan McCarthy!
Market Tuesday
The Unwritten #42, cover by Yuko Shimizu
The land of the dead is just a story, but Tom Taylor is going there anyway on a rescue mission that hasn’t been tried since Orpheus – provided he can get the door to open in the first place. And provided the worlds of story are still there… A hungry vampire and two misfit lovers gather around the campfire in “Live Like Lazarus.”
Market Monday
The Unwritten vol. 6: Tommy Taylor and the War of Words TP, cover by Yuko Shimizu
In this new volume collecting THE UNWRITTEN #31-35.5 (including all the half issues), Tom Taylor goes to war against the cabal that has tormented, imprisoned and tried to destroy him.
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