Gems of the Month for PREVIEWS May 2018
Apr 30, 2018
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!
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Farmhand #1 (MAY180011)
Image Comics
Jedidiah Jenkins is a farmer. But his cash crop isn’t corn or soy — Jed grows fast-healing, plug-and-play human organs! But that’s not the only thing growing down on the farm… From Rob Guillory, creator of Chew!
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Unnatural #1 (MAY180023)
Image Comics
Mirka Andolfo (Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn) transports you to a colorful but terrible world — full of anthropomorphic creatures, but light on personal freedoms — in this presentation of his hit Italian series!
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The Quantum Age: From the World of Black Hammer #1 (MAY180320)
Dark Horse Comics
Jeff Lemire is joined by artist Wilfredo Torres (Legion) for this new Black Hammer series set 1,000 years into the future, as a group of future heroes band together to save the planet from an authoritarian regime!
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She Could Fly #1 (MAY180322)
Dark Horse Comics
Christopher Cantwell and Martin Morazzo bring us She Could Fly, in which the short, high-flying life and death of a mysterious flying woman inspire a you girl to learn the secrets of flight… and escape her own troubled life.
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Justice League Odyssey #1 (MAY180469)
DC Entertainment
A new Justice League team made up of Cyborg, Starfire, Green Lantern Jessica Cruz, and Azrael launches into space aboard a commandeered Brainaic skull ship to stop Despero from enslaving Coluan refugees!
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Batman #50
DC Entertainment
Superstar scribe Tom King brings us the wedding of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle in this extra-length milestone issue featuring art by David Finch, Joelle Jones, Neal Adams, Andy Kubert, Frank Miller, and many more!
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Transformers: Unicron #1 (MAY180616)
IDW Entertainment
The Darkest Hour has come! Optimus Prime stages a desperate gamble as the world-eater Unicron approaches Windblade’s homeworld… with Cybertron and the Earth next on the menu! Can this really be the end?
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Big Hero 6 #1 (MAY180658)
IDW Entertainment
Based on the Disney XD TV series! Join Hiro, Wasabi, Fred, Go Go, Honey Lemon and Baymax for new adventures, new friends, and new adversaries as the Big Hero 6 team continue to fight to protect San Fransokyo!
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Amazing Spider-Man #1 (MAY180784)
Marvel Comics
As if an alien invasion of New York wasn’t bad enough, Peter Parker’s past and present collide putting everything he holds dear into jeopardy in this debut issue from Nick Spencer (Secret Empire) and Invincible artist Ryan Ottley, making his Marvel debut!
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Project Superpowers #0 (MAY181006)
Dynamite Entertainment
From Rob Williams (Suicide Squad) and Sergio Davila, this zero issue is the perfect introduction to one of the most ambitious superhero stories of 2018! Can the Death Defying Devil, Samson, Black Terror, Masquerade, Green Lama, and Scarab overcome their differences to save the world?
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Jim Henson’s Beneath the Dark Crystal #1 (MAY181174)
BOOM! Studios
The realm of Mithra is being rebuilt by the newly-crowned Ember Queen Thurma. But a long-forgotten tribe of Firelings disputes her reign… and have proof that another Fireling is the true heir to the throne!
