You want a quick glimpse of the BIG books from the premier publishers this month? Here's the checklist. Get ready for new titles from Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, and Marvel Comics. These are the books you DON'T want to miss!

You want a quick glimpse of the BIG books from the premier publishers this month? Here's the checklist. Get ready for new titles from Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, and Marvel Comics. These are the books you DON'T want to miss. We let you know right here every month that if there are any books you make sure to pre-order, these are the ones that should be put down first on your order form!

You want a quick glimpse of the BIG books from the premier publishers this month? Here's the checklist. Get ready for new titles from Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, and Marvel Comics. These are the books you DON'T want to miss. We let you know right here every month that if there are any books you make sure to pre-order, these are the ones that should be put down first on your order form!

You want a quick glimpse of the BIG books from the premier publishers this month? Here's the checklist. Get ready for new titles from Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, and Marvel Comics. These are the books you DON'T want to miss. We let you know right here every month that if there are any books you make sure to pre-order, these are the ones that should be put down first on your order form!

BOOM! Studios and Cartoon Network Enterprises will release Adventure Time #1 in February 2012. BOOM! Studios' all-ages imprint KaBOOM! will have the ongoing monthly comic book series feature all-new original stories that follow Finn the Human, Jake the Dog, Princess Bubblegum and the other inhabitants of the Land of Ooo as they explore many varied adventures.

Mark Millar has written an all-new, in-continuity lead-in to his hotly anticipated new series Supercrooks, to run exclusively in CLiNT! Make sure you read this article before you pick up #1! Supercrooks — which was announced at last year's Kapow! Comic-Con — has already been optioned as a film by Universal.

Symphonic metal band Within Temptation (see the YouTube video!) will join a host of publishers like Image Comics and IDW Publishing to launch Diamond Digital in comic shops this September. Fans will soon be able to redeem codes for new digital comics, as Beta testing is now underway with over 50 retail shops and more than 30 publishers set to participate in this new program with dozens of new releases and nearly 2,000 back issues.

At the New York Comic Con 2011, Diamond Digital has unveiled Within Temptation's The Unforgiving #1, which is the company's first digital comic bundled with exclusive video media. Promoted at the Diamond booth by Dave Bowen, Director of Diamond Digital, the digital release is showcased by an exclusive video trailer made by Within Temptation Entertainment for the New York Comic Con.

This April, Marvel's new comic book event, Avengers vs. X-Men (AvX), will pit Earth's Mightiest Heroes against the Children of the Atom for 12 can't-miss issues. For the insiders' take on the battle to come, PREVIEWSworld turned to Axel Alonso, Marvel Editor in Chief, and Tom Brevoort, Marvel Senior Vice President and Executive Editor.

Harvey Pekar's Cleveland is one of Harvey Pekar’s final projects; a love letter of sorts to the city he called home, as well as an autobiographical record of his years in the city with Joyce. As the publication of the book nears, Joyce was kind enough to sit down and talk with us about Harvey’s personal project.

When the record label Nuclear Blast linked to our article about how Within Temptation was getting involved with a new ongoing comic, we’ve been getting questions from music fans about what other kinds of comics are in circulation for rock bands. Among the answers we gave: Queen. And then we got a hand on a video that blew our minds!

Gorefest Special! Homage to Myron Fass' Eerie Publications! This volume spotlights six bloody Dick Ayers stories from Eerie Publications, including "A Corpse for the Coffin," "The Hungry Ghoul," "Witches' Revenge," "Swamp Monsters," "The Corpse," and his favorite story, "I Chopped Off Her Head!"

The always sexy and playful Bettie Page returns in her very first comic series featuring real photos of the iconic pin-up girl as she fights off zombies, mad scientists, and other nude models with lots of sassy scenes with the most famous pin-up girl in bondage, chains, and perilous situations.

Ripped straight from the debut of his first-ever writing/directing effort comes the ongoing comic book continuation of the acclaimed short film, Stitched. The three survivors of an American military helicopter crash discover that there is something even more deadly than the Taliban controlled countryside where they find themselves stranded.

Limited print run of 5,000 copies. Conceived by legendary storyteller, Stan Lee, developed by comic book revolutionary, Todd McFarlane, and inspired by worldwide musical icon, Yoshiki! As an overwhelming force of darkness prepares for an epic assault on reality, one man must call upon a power beyond his control to stand against the rising tide of Oblivion.

Soon to be a movie starring Judd Nelson and Ben Browder! Six spoiled rotten private school kids get locked in detention on a frightfully dark and stormy Saturday afternoon. Each of the six kids falls victim to a horrible "accident" until only one of them remains. Is one of the kids secretly evening the school's social playing field?

This month we begin the 5-part conclusion to the story that began over 30 issues ago. Join us for the epic celebration of Marvel's First Family with 96 pages of all-new content written by Jonathan Hickman with art by Steve Epting, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Leinil Yu and Farel Dalrymple.

Continuing the comic book saga that’s based on The Unforgiving concept album from European rockers, Within Temptation. Detective Beecham feels she's losing her mind. After a hunter stumbles upon the latest Disciple victim, Beecham is herself attacked by The Triplets. Shaken but undeterred, Detective Beecham soldiers on.

Over the top. Possibly where no comic has gone before. Nominated for both the Harvey Award and Eisner Award, Arsenic Lullaby is truly the king of dark humor, and these pages prove it! Zombie fetuses, alcoholic cereal mascots, Nazis, the KKK, and more grace the pages of this 400-page collection in a way that will make you ashamed that you laughed.

As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Yoshiki is thrust into battle against a massive invasion force led by Oblivion's mightiest mass murderer, Ky'rann the Slayer. It is up to Yoshiki, with the aid of his new allies, the beautiful, yet deadly, shrine maidens of the Dragon Temple, to defeat Oblivion's armies.

The King is dead: long live the Dead King! King Valen Brand was a just king and a great warrior until he was killed by a Necromancer in battle and resurrected as one of the walking dead. Now he's considered an abomination in his own realm, an outcast with only one purpose: to restore his lost soul!

In the late 1940s, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby set the comics world on fire with the creation of a genre that resulted in some of the best-selling American comic books of all time: the romance comics. Check out the .pdf preview!

Aquaman has renounced the throne of Atlantis, but the sea will not release Arthur Curry so easily. Now, from a forgotten corner of the ocean emerges... The Trench! A broken race of creatures that should not exist, an unspeakable need driving them, The Trench will be the most talked-about new characters in the DC Universe!

Get the scoop on who's doing what in the ever-expanding indie universe.
This month: Alan Moore. He's bringing back The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Grammy Award-winning musician Tom Morello is known for his work with Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman, and many other projects. Now the rock legend takes on comics, introducing readers to his post-apocalyptic world of Orchid, the new series from Dark Horse. In our exclusive interview, Morello talks about the experience of creating his first comic, one tapping into all of his talents and passions.

Kevin Huizenga is not just creating good comics, he's weaving and finding his way through his own approach to the creative process. But the big news is that both new readers and longtime fans of his comics can look forward to Drawn & Quarterly’s upcoming Gloriana, an expanded edition of earlier work featuring his best-known character Glenn Ganges.

Actor Nicolas Cage's stolen copy of Action Comics #1 set a record auction price, and is the first comic book to sell for more than $2 million at auction. Cage first bought the comic in 1997 for about $150,000. But the comic was later stolen from Cage’s house in 2000. It is said that the book was found in a storage locker this past April.

This month PREVIEWSworld has taken time to ask some of the industry’s leading talents to tell us about the process of restoring classic comic strips, and perhaps illuminate the production process for some of their favorite projects. This interview focuses on Peter Maresca of Sunday Press Books.

At the end of my trip for this year's San Diego Comic Con, I was able to conduct several interviews with the cast, film crew, and Garth Ennis himself to help promote their new movie Stitched, which premiered at the Con, and which would soon spawn a comic book series from Avatar Press. Download the .mp3 interview, and see the YouTube videos that show the movie's trailer, and Garth's interview with PREVIEWSworld.

The March issue of PREVIEWS goes on sale in comic shops February 29, showcasing products available beginning May 2012. This newest catalog features Image's Mind the Gap #1, DC's Batman: Earth One OGN, Manga Month, PREVIEWS Exclusive pages in the Apparel section, and much more!

The Dark Knight Rises is directed by Christopher Nolan, and is the third installment in Nolan's Batman film series, which began with Batman Begins (2005) and was continued in The Dark Knight (2008). The new film stars Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, and Morgan Freeman, and takes place eight years after we see The Dark Knight make his escape on his motorcycle.

A Christian metalcore band that developed a zombie comic book and mobile zombie game downloadable through i-Tunes caught the attention of PREVIEWSworld writer Vince Brusio. The zombie comic's artist, he learned, was Kevin Mellon, who works with Blair Butler on the Image comic Heart. A story was in order, as well as another chance to headbang!

David Lapham cut his teeth on his indy book Stray Bullets, and he hasn't stopped his verbal rampage since he moved on to other projects. David has been tearing things up recently for Avatar Press with Caligula and his Crossed books Family Ties and Pychopath. Now the writer has some more red meat to chew.

While metal heads around the world rejoiced at Rick Rubin's press conference that announced the reunion of Black Sabbath, I typed on my PC that Testament and Anthrax helped me to play a variation of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, which I’m calling The Six Degrees of Alex Ross.

Renae De Liz had a dream — an anthology of women creators, creating comics from a women's perspective — and through Kickstarter she brought her dream, Womanthology, to life. Here in this interview, learn about what spearhead an anthology of comics from all-female creators.

The Dutch metal band Within Temptation toured the east coast of the United States in early September to support their horror comic series and same-titled fifth CD release The Unforgiving. PREVIEWSworld's Vince Brusio writes how the comic was first picked up by the July PREVIEWS catalog, and how it ties into the launch for Diamond Digital at this year's New York Comic Con.

Comic and music fans will have an early opportunity to get Within Temptation's The Unforgiving #1 when they stop by Beyond Comics' booth # 707 & 708 (under the Hulk) at the Baltimore Comic Con show this weekend (August 20-21). At those booths, fans can also enter to win a FREE copy of the new Within Temptation CD and FREE TICKETS to the band's September 12, 2011 show at Ram's Head Live! in downtown Baltimore.

Symphonic rock band Within Temptation unleashes their new full-color comic The Unforgiving as a tie-in to their hit concept album. See the latest video from that album here! In The Unforgiving, Mother Maiden recruits lost souls to be part of her wraith taskforce to fight evil in all its forms. They each carry guilt about something they did in their lives. And from there, it gets worse.

If you're a fan of Aspen's Fathom books, you know that the ladies take center stage in the series. Editor-In-Chief Vince Hernandez says don't expect that to change. Just check out the covers that are in the hopper for the new series Fathom: Kiani!