Gems of the Month for PREVIEWS February 2013

HOUSE OF GOLD & BONES #1
Dark Horse Comics

Written by Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor, and based on the album of the same name, House of Gold & Bones is an epic vision set in an alternate reality where a lone man known as the “Human” must journey to the titular location.

THE LAST OF US: AMERICAN DREAMS #1
Dark Horse Comics

Co-scripted by Faith Erin Hicks and The Last of Us art director and lead writer Neil Druckmann, American Dreams is the official prequel to the new post-apocalyptic survival video game from Naughty Dog Games.

DETECTIVE COMICS #19
DC Comics

April is DC’s official “WTF” month, with each New 52 series featuring a shocking WTF?! moment in each issue, along with a fold-out cover and — in honor of MAD Magazine’s 60^th Anniversary — a MAD-inspired variant cover by one of the Usual Gang of Idiots! This is it: the 900^th issue of Detective!

ACTION COMICS #19
DC Comics

Featuring the new creative team of Andy Diggle and Tony S. Daniel! April is DC’s official “WTF” month, with each New 52 series featuring a shocking WTF?! moment in each issue, along with a fold-out cover and — in honor of MAD Magazine’s 60^th Anniversary — a MAD-inspired variant cover by one of the Usual Gang of Idiots!

THE COLONIZED #1
IDW Publishing

In this all-new miniseries from Chris Ryall and Drew Moss, an alien spaceship crashes into a separatist camp… bringing the dead back to life in the process! It’s aliens vs. zombies vs. militiamen in a carnage-filled tale featuring covers by Cerebus creator, Dave Sim!

JUPITER’S LEGACY #1
Image Comics

The comics event of 2013 arrives as superstar creators Mark Miller and Frank Quietly bring you the superhero epic to which all future comics will be measured. The world's greatest heroes have grown old and their legacy is a poisonous one to the children who will never live up to their remarkable parents.

CHIN MUSIC #1
Image Comics

Steve Niles and Tony Harris bring us the story of Shaw, a man on the run… lost in time. Fleeing ancient enemies, Shaw comes to prohibition-era Chicago surrounded by gangsters and demons alike. Chin Music is a tale of mysticism and violence unlike anything you’ve seen before!

X-MEN #1
Marvel Comics

The “X-Women” finally get their own book, from critically acclaimed superstars Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel! With an apparent alien invasion and eons-spanning war between siblings looming, Storm gathers together a team of mutants to fight for our future!