Gems of the Month for PREVIEWS August 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 Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, IDW Publishing, Dynamite Entertainment, and BOOM! Studios. These are the books you DON'T want to miss!

Blackbird #1 (AUG180013)

Image Comics

Sam Humphries (Nightwing) and Jen Bartel team for Blackbird, a modern urban fantasy story about a young woman who struggles against a secret society of magic masters in Los Angeles who have kidnapped her sister!

The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion #1 (AUG180314)

Dark Horse Comics

The Umbrella Academy has scattered. Number Five is a hired gun, Kraken stalks big game, Rumor’s marriage has ended, a rotund Spaceboy runs around Tokyo, and Vanya is recovering from her gunshot to the head. And Séance? Wait until issue #2!

The Whispering Dark #1 (AUG180324)

Dark Horse Comics

In this chilling new horror-thriller from Christofer Emgård and Tomás Aira, an Army pilot confronts a supernatural horror in a story steeped in the tradition of Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness and Coppola’s Apocalypse Now!

The Sandman Universe: Books Of Magic #1 (AUG180456)

DC Comics/Vertigo

From The Sandman Universe #1, it’s the return of Neil Gaiman’s magical morality fable — and Tim Hunter! — in an all-new series written by Kat Howard (Roses and Rot) and drawn by Tom Fowler (Doom Patrol)!

Wonder Woman And Justice League Dark: The Witching Hour #1 (AUG180464)

DC Comics

The witch-goddess Hecate activates her “Witchmarked” — humans secretly holding vast stores of power — to help her battle the monsters bent on her destruction. And the most powerful of the Witchmarked? Wonder Woman!

Star Wars Adventures: Tales From Vader’s Castle #1-5 (AUG180680)

IDW Publishing

The Tales from Vader’s Castle weekly event puts a spooky spin on your favorite characters from A Galaxy Far, Far Away… exploring the hidden corners of the Star Wars universe in tales by Cavan Scott, with art by the greatest talent from across the galaxy!

Shuri #1 (AUG180868)

Marvel Comics

The world fell in love with her in the movie. Now, the T’Challa’s techno-genius sister stars in her own series — written by Afrofuturist author Nnedi Okorafor, with art by Eisner-nominated artist Leonardo Romero!

Mars Attacks #1 (AUG181110)

Dynamite Entertainment

Writer Kyle Starks (Rick and Morty) and artist Chris Schweizer (The Creeps) bring you the face melting experience of a lifetime with Mars Attacks for the first time at Dynamite! Can deadbeat Spencer and his dad survive kill-happy Martians?

Adventure Time Season 11 #1 (AUG181352)

BOOM! Studios

Cartoon Network's award-winning animated series officially continues in an all-new comic series from Eisner Award-winning writer Sonny Liew (The Art of Charlie Hock Chye) and artist Marina Julia (Lumberjanes: Faire and Square)!