Gems of the Month for PREVIEWS December 2016
Nov 30, 2016
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The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed #1
Dark Horse Comics
1941: Hellboy is conjured up by an occult Nazi ceremony, and Prof. Trevor Bruttenholm is there to take the young Hellboy under his wing. But there is another witness… a visitor sent to kill the Beast. What he saw, and why he stayed his hand, leads a most mysterious Hellboy spinoff.
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Empowered and the Soldier of Love #1
Dark Horse Comics
Adam Warren celebrates Empowered’s 10th anniversary with this new limited series! Love is tearing apart Empowered’s city as unearthly powers of an embittered “International Magical Girl of Mystery” covertly inflame the hero community’s burning passions!
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The Wild Storm #1
DC Entertainment
New York Times best-selling writer Warren Ellis returns to DC to curate Jim Lee’s WildStorm world with this debut issue, resetting the WildStorm universe with new iterations of Grifter, Voodoo, The Engineer, Jenny Sparks, and others!
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Justice League of America #1
DC Entertainment
Meet the Extremists — “saviors” from another Earth with an insatiable thirst for peace, prosperity, and total submission to their leader, Lord Havok! Can the newly assembled JLA stop this group of maniacs before they unleash their own unique brand of law and order on our chaotic world?
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Darkness Visible #1
IDW Publishing
80 years on since the arrival of demons on Earth, an uneasy co-existence has spawned an endless terrorist conflict. Detective Daniel Aston, the “thin blue line” between the two sides, is tested to the limit when he is possessed by a demon. But to save his daughter, he’ll pay any price — including genocide.
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Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Strip Volume 1 HC
IDW Publishing
The first of three volumes that present, for the first time ever, the classic Star Wars newspaper strip from 1979-1984 in its complete format — including each Sunday title header and “bonus” panels in their meticulously restored original color! Vol. 1 contains 575 strips from 1979-1980.
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The Old Guard #1
Image Comics
Eisner-winning writer Greg Rucka and critically acclaimed artist Leandro Fernandez team up to introduce The Old Guard, the story of old soldiers who never die… and yet cannot seem to fade away.
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Black History In Its Own Words HC
Image Comics
Black History in Its Own Words presents quotes of dozens of black luminaries with portraits and illustrations by Ronald Wimberly. Memorable words and depictions of Angela Davis, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kanye West, Zadie Smith, Ice Cube, Dave Chappelle, James Baldwin, Spike Lee, and more!
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Elektra #1
Marvel Comics
Running from her tumultuous past, Elektra attempts to lose herself in the neon and noise of Las Vegas. But how long can she hope to escape her violent past when Arcade sets up shop in Sin City?
