Screenwriter CHRISTOS GAGE takes his network television hardboiled crime sensibilities back to the violent world he created to reveal the fate of police superhero turned vigilante, John Dusk. With Dusk's fall from grace, every scumbag lawyer in the city is leading the charge to have the criminals he put away released from prison. But the thugs are finding that life behind bars is safer than facing Dusk's brand of permanent justice on the streets. As the body count increases, the former friends and loves in Dusk's life face the difficult challenge of trying to bring in one of their own. With a bounty on his head and pressure mounting for his arrest, the authorities take an insane chance by unleashing an unstoppable maniac to take him down. But sometimes the cure can be far worse than the disease. This collection also features the Happy Kitty origin special issue! John Dusk continues his slide into darkness with this all new collection of Absolution Rubicon #1-5 and the Happy Kitty Special. (C: 0-1-2) [(W) Christos N. Gage (A) Daniel Gete, Paul Duffield (CA) Daniel Gete]
AVX fall-out: Avengers Academy is closed - indefinitely! And Alchemist, a.k.a. wunderkind industrialist Jeremy Briggs, has offered the students a chance to be normal again - but is there a catch? Who will accept his deal? Years of plot threads explode as your favorite Academy characters face their futures - including the ultimate challenge to the Mettle/Hazmat romance! Can friendships, romances - and the Academy itself - survive? Plus, because you demanded it: the flag football game between Avengers Academy and the Jean Grey School! Guest-starring the staff and students of WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN! Collecting Avengers Academy #34-39. [(W) Christos N. Gage (A) Tom Grummett, Andrea Vito (CA) Giuseppe Camuncoli]
Avengers She-Hulk, Falcon and Moon Knight are tasked with securing the Jean Grey School - but Rogue and her team of X-Men aren't too happy about it! Then, as the war between the Avengers and the X-Men rages on, Frenzy's past is revealed - and Rogue confronts hers head-on as she battles Ms. Marvel in a clash that will leave one woman with a changed allegiance! Plus: Trapped in another world and in the clutches of the terrifying Swarm, Rogue struggles to end a conflict between two alien tribes and stay alive long enough to find a way home! But with the Phoenix poised to raze Earth, will she make it in time? Finally, Rogue is reunited with Magneto - and he's got an offer that will leave her speechless. Collecting X-Men Legacy (2008) #266-275. [(W) Christos N. Gage (A) Rafael Sandoval, David Baldeon (CA) Mark Brooks]
Based on the acclaimed videogame series from Telltale Games, this new digital-first comic tells the story of events between the first and second seasons. Someone is killing people associated with Arkham Asylum during the time Thomas Wayne was forcibly committing people there. Suspicion falls on the families suing Bruce Wayne to pay for the harm caused by his father. Batman has other ideas, but his investigation leads to him becoming the target of a deadly assassin.
Every missionis someone's last. Out of the ashes of Harbinger Wars, Bloodshot is about to join the weaponized men and women of the HARBINGER ACTIVE RESISTANCE DIVISION - the black budget, technologically-augmented strike force where the powers are dangerously unstable and every mission is a one-way ticket into the meat grinder. With a reluctant leader calling the shots and a new crop of untested rookies manning the frontline, Bloodshot is about to take H.A.R.D. Corps behind enemy lines - and into a gasoline-drenched, synapse-snapping suicide run where no one is safeand heroes always die trying. Collecting BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS #14-17 and BLOODSHOT #0, join acclaimed writers Christos Gage (Avengers Academy) and Joshua Dysart (Harbinger Wars) and superstar-in-the-making Emanuela Lupacchino (Archer & Armstrong) right here to light the fuse on an explosive new chapter for Bloodshot and the Valiant Universe's most feared team of superhuman operatives! [(W) Christos N. Gage & Various (A) Emanuela Lupacchino, ChrisCross (CA) J. G. Jones]
90s tech. Bad attitudes. No wifi. It's Valiant's 21st-century shock troops - head-to-head against Project Rising Spirit's first wave of superhuman specialists! With a valuable oil pipeline in dire peril, Bloodshot and the expendable commandos of H.A.R.D. Corps are headed to Africa to bring down a network of terrorist saboteurs. But as Bloodshot digs into the multinational oil conglomerate he's been brought in to protect, he'll soon find himself confronted by the complex truth behind the terror - and up close and personal with an older, scrappier, more grizzled generation of wet-wired soldier from the glory days of proxy wars and state-sponsored assassination. Collecting Bloodshot And H.A.R.D. Corps #18-19, Bloodshot And H.A.R.D. Corps: H.A.R.D. Corps #0, and Bloodshot And H.A.R.D. Corps #22-23, don't miss a single shot fired as acclaimed creators Christos Gage (Superior Spider-Man), Joshua Dysart (Harbinger Wars) and Duffy Boudreau (BlackAcre) partner with an all-star cast of top talents - including Bart Sears (X-O Manowar), ChrisCross (Superman/Batman) and Al Barrionuevo (The Authority) - for a brutal, globe-spanning cavalcade of missions from the classified archives of Project Rising Sprit and beyond. [(W) Christos N. Gage & Various (A) Bart Sears & Various (CA) Lewis LaRosa]
The Sculptor makes a tempting offer to Andrew that requires a smidgen of Buffy betrayal. But the potential gains seem too good to pass up. Will Andrew go evil, or will Buffy need to keep the former ne'er-do-well in check to ease the tension among the Scoobies? • Issue #23 variant cover connets with issue #24 variant cover!
As new jobs, new relationships, and new priorities arise, the Scoobies' personal feuds are becoming a big issue for the team. When the trail of the Restless Door leads to the Demon Lord's hideout, the Mistress takes advantage of their discord and presents the team with a terrible decision that could tear them apart.
Defeating the demon lords has been priority one for Buffy and team-to stop the continual opening of portals to dangerous demon dimensions . . . Suddenly there is a new priority one: closing a portal-and one portal in particular. Will the team be lost?
A Previews Direct Market Exclusive! The Hardcover edition will not be available in book stores or on Amazon! [(W) Christos Gage, David Lapham / (A) Christian Zanier, Miguel Ruiz / (CA) Christian Zanier]
From the boundary-pushing world of Crossed come two master storytellers who take you into the depraved depths of uncensored grueling survival horror. CHIRSTOS GAGE tells the tale of ultimate betrayal as one of the survivors betrays his own kind to live among the monsters in Quisling with the luscious art of Christian Zanier. DAVID LAPHAM reveals the final chapter in the trilogy of stories digging into the deepening insanity overtaking the mind of Crossed: Psychopath survivor Amanda. This volume of Crossed collects issues #29-36 of the Crossed: Badlands series. [(W) Christos Gage, David Lapham / (A) Christian Zanier, Miguel Ruiz / (CA) Jacen Burrows]
Surviving their first taste of war, the students of Avengers Academy find themselves trapped in the Infinite Mansion with murderous demigods. Now, the heroes-in-training must do the unthinkable - or die! Is this where they choose evil? Plus: The trainees get a crash course in big-time villainy as they take on Spider-Man's greatest foes, the Sinister Six! And this year's Avengers Academy students meet the kids who didn't make the cut! Collecting AVENGERS ACADEMY #14-20 and #14.1. 192 pages. /Rated T
Collecting AVENGERS ACADEMY #14.1 and #14-20. [(W) Christos N. Gage (A) Sean Chen & Various (CA) Billy Tan]
The legend returns! From venerated comics artist Neal Adams (X-MEN, AVENGERS) and fan-favorite writer Christos Gage (AVENGERS ACADEMY) comes the thrilling secret history of Marvel's most dangerous mutants. Long before Charles Xavier built his School for Gifted Youngsters and founded the X-Men, a team of genetic outcasts with unique powers banded together to protect themselves and those like them from a world of fear and hatred. The astonishing tale of a previous generation of mutants is revealed as Wolverine and Sabretooth lead their recruits in a tooth-and-nail battle for survival featuring Magneto, the frightening new X-villain Virus, the origin of the Sentinal program and the truth behind the bloodiest rivalry in X-Men history! Collecting First X-Men 1-5. [(W) Christos N. Gage (A/CA) Neal Adams]
High school life is a rough go for Rupert Giles-as if being a grown man living inside a teenage body wasn't hard enough. Crushing on each other, Giles and his mysterious new friend, Roux, navigate around the bullies in the hallways while they investigate the school-wide threat and missing staff and students-which they are certain is connected to some kind of demon . . .
Love is complicated. For a guy and a girl, both aware the other is keeping secrets, they shouldn't even consider love. But for Giles and Roux there hasn't been a choice: uneasy allies, they've been falling in love while working together against a demon. But trying to trust one another isn't working anymore. Roux will finally tell Giles her secrets . . . or he may have to kill her.
The First of Gwen Stacy's Amazing Adventures! Gwen and Peter may not have met until Amazing Spider-Man #31, but that doesn't mean Gwen's life began on that page. Learn the never-before told origin of Gwen Stacy, top of her class, daughter of the Police Captain and, as her friend Harry Osborn calls her, The Beauty Queen of Standard High. But she's way more that you even know! Gwen's got a science brain, a nose for trouble and a no-quit attitude that always gets her in trouble. In the early Marvel Universe, that's a recipe for disaster. Don't miss Gwen, Captain Stacy, Harry and Norman Osborn, Crimemaster, Wilson Fisk, Jean DeWolff, Yuri Wantanabe and even Spider-Man!
The Marvel Cinematic Universe returns! First, it's the comics adaptation of the blockbuster film Iron Man 2! Why is the U.S. government going after Iron Man? Which mysterious figure from Tony's past returns - and what lethal vendetta is he carrying? Featuring the origin of War Machine! With Hammer drones attacking the Stark Expo and Tony's best friend under enemy control, how can Iron Man prevail? Then, it's a new story leading directly into the upcoming Iron Man 3! What mysterious project has Tony Stark been developing since his alliance with S.H.I.E.L.D.? When Tony tasks Rhodey with a mission of his own, War Machine faces his biggest test as a hero - while Iron Man fights the battle of New York alongside Earth's Mightiest Heroes! Collecting Marvel's Iron Man 2 Adaptation #1-2 and Marvel's Iron Man 3 Prelude #1-2. [(W) Christos N. Gage, Will Pilgrim (A) Ramon Rosanas, Steve Kurth (CA) Various]
For nearly a century, MI-6, the most elite branch of Britain's clandestine intelligence service, has honed a ruthlessly effective, top-secret division - The Ninja Programme - into one of its nation's most finely wielded weapons. Tasked as the first and last line of defense for queen and country, this small shadow army of agents and assassins has produced a succession of notable assets, including NINJA-A, the Queen's silent weapon of World War I; NINJA-E, the globe-trotting secret agent that pulled the Cold War back from the brink of Armageddon; and, most recently, Ninja-K, aka Colin King, a brash but fearless instrument of lethality that has saved the world from madmen and terror at every turn. But now an unknown enemy is hunting and killing members of The Ninja Programme one by one - and Ninjak is next on the list.
Written by CHRISTOS N. GAGE Penciled by RAFA SANDOVAL, MAHMUD ASRAR, JORGE MOLINA & STEVE UY Cover by DAVID YARDIN Taskmaster rules! Anointed as the nation's top cop, Norman Osborn was given authority over every facet of America's security apparatus - with the Initiative one of his greatest prizes. In all fifty states, the Initiative's teams of superhumans stand at the ready - and now they're under Osborn's control! Along with the Hood, the Taskmaster honed the Initiative into a fighting force ready to be deployed at Osborn's command. And now that command has come: Join the Siege of Asgard, and lay waste to its defenders! As Asgard falls, the Avengers Resistance makes its final stand against Taskmaster, the Hood and their Initiative minions! Collecting AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE #31-35 and AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE SPECIAL #1. 160 pages. /Rated T+
Spider-Man Noir, dead no moir?! • Miles continues his journey to save the web of life and comes face to face with Spider-Man Noir! • But, waitisn't he dead?!
• The last temptation of Green Goblin Phil Urich! • As Goblin Nation consumes New York, the Superior Spider-Man's world is in flames! • Who will rise? Who will fall? NO ONE will be the same after this! [(W) Christos N. Gage (A) Various (CA) Mike Del Mundo]
Trapped in another world and in the clutches of the terrifying Swarm, Rogue struggles to stay alive long enough to find a way home! [(W) Christos N. Gage (A) Rafael Sandoval (CA) Mark Brooks]
Based at the new Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, Rogue leads a squad of veteran X-Men charged with teaching - and safeguarding - the next generation of mutants. But that proves to be no easy task when new threats emerge every day at the school, from the interdimensional demons known as the NGarai to an out-of-control Weapon Omega. And the deadliest enemy of all may be the near-omnipotent mutant called Exodus, who blames Wolverine and his team for the schism that split the X-Men in two, and he'll do everything in his vast power to reunite the species - including removing anyone who stands in his way. Collecting X-MEN LEGACY #260.1 and #261-265. [(W) Christos N. Gage (A) David Baldeon, Rafael Sandoval (CA) Mark Brooks]
