Featured This Week Comics, Graphic Novels, & Toys for 9/16

THE SUMMONING BEGINS. A lead-in to the biggest X-story of the summer.

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BIG IRON!
Tony Stark is looking to restart his engine. He decides he's going back to basics, putting away his high-tech toys and high-profile image so he can get his hands dirty again. It's time to dig into the guts of real machines, put on some old-fashioned metal and fly.
But can he really lay that Stark-sized ego down? Life isn't that simple, something that old friends and frustrating foes are quick to point out. If you strip down a billionaire to his bolts, does he run solid or just overheat?
Tony's going to find out once a threat to the entire universe rears its head from the past. As he suits up again, Tony remains sure of one thing: he's still IRON MAN down to his flesh and blood core.
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SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH MJOLNIR... And this is a poor time for the All-Father of Asgard to lose his primary weapon. The Golden City is in chaos after Galactus' ill-timed visit, and there are new threats on the horizon. Thor needs his hammer now more than ever...and yet the Uru grows heavier with every passing day. What will it take for the God of Thunder to hang on to one of the most powerful weapons in the Multiverse?

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SERIES PREMIERE! Nobody dies. In the town of Stillwater, that's not just a promise. It's a threat. Join superstar writer CHIP ZDARSKY (THE WHITE TREES, Daredevil) and Eisner Award-winning artist RAM N K PÉREZ (Jim Henson's Tale of Sand, Jane) as they dive into a world of horror and intrigue in this new ongoing Skybound series.

"THE MERGED," Part Four-The Great Merge continues! Megan's life has been turned upside down. Everything she's ever known has been changed or taken away...but soon, all of that will finally end, for better or for worse.

It's all led to this... the thrilling two-part epilogue to the Metal Virus Saga. The world has changed.  Heroes and villains plan for the future as reconstruction begins. But one hero remains missing...

Bad news comes in threes and so do the creatures terrorizing London - and if they're going to save the city, Gran and Duncan will need to revive a connection with an old enemy. After all, you're always better with the devil you know... right?

After a deadly attack on the Order, their youngest member Caspar must step forward to keep the world safe from the Seven Secrets with the power to destroy it. But surviving The Trials doesn't mean just becoming the next Holder of a great Secret - it also carries dangers that will change Caspar's life in unimaginable ways...

The first Umbrella Academy spin off series! When 18-year-old Séance gets himself kicked out of the Umbrella Academy, and his allowance discontinued by Hargreeves, he takes to a place where his ghoulish talents will be appreciated. After a magical high on a vampire-drug-lord's stash, Klaus needs help, and doesn't have his siblings there to save him.
* Séance gets his own miniseries!
* From Gerard Way and Shaun Simon of the True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys!

Does Vampirella have a soul? That is the question being asked by an immortal wizard-king who has come to determine her fate. If she does, she will be spared. If not, he must destroy her. No matter how charming he finds her...
  
This can't-miss standalone tale introduces the latest member of Vampi's spine-tingling rogues' gallery! Eisner Award-winning fantasy maestro Bill Willingham (Fables, Robin) brings this fable to the page with a haunting cover by Bart Sears (Turok, Blade) and interiors by Giuseppe Cafaro (Justice League vs. Suicide Squad).

It's all out pulp adventure as Mike Mignola's Hellboy teams up with Steve Mannion's legendary underground comic hero, Fearless Dawn! A misadventure in Romania drops Hellboy into the middle of the paranormal mission of Fearless Dawn's crew. But this meeting of heroes ain't no picnic when the undead 666th Panzer Division shows up. Beautifully co-illustrated by Mike Mignola and Steve Mannion. For the hardcore collectors out there, Albatross offers a special limited-edition card stock cover of Fearless Dawn Meets Hellboy with art by Mike Mignola!

Unthinkable monsters are unleashing Hell on Earth!
Surrounded by enemies, who can Bloodshot trust?

Kurt Vonnegut's classic adapted in graphic novel form for the first time!
With Kurt Vonnegut's seminal anti-war story, Slaughterhouse-Five, Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (Unbeatable Squirrel Girl) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Albert Monteys (Universe!) translate a literary classic into comic book form in the tradition of A Wrinkle in Time and Fight Club 2.
Billy Pilgrim has read Kilgore Trout and opened a successful optometry business. Billy Pilgrim has built a loving family and witnessed the firebombing of Dresden. Billy Pilgrim has traveled to the planet Tralfamadore and met Kurt Vonnegut. Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
Slaughterhouse-Five is at once a farcical look at the horror and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and die (so it goes), and a moving examination of what it means to be a fallible human.

Leading into Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, the third-person action-adventure Star Wars title from Lucasfilm and Respawn Entertainment, DARK TEMPLE follows Jedi Master Eno Cordova and his impulsive Padawan, Cere Junda, on their most dangerous mission yet! The Jedi Council has sent them to the remote planet Ontotho to oversee the peaceful excavation of a recently discovered temple. But Cordova and Junda soon learn that what surrounds the temple may be even more dangerous than the mysteries within it! Clandestine local resistance forces and ruthless corporate security troops wage a war for the fate of Ontotho - and the Jedi are caught in the middle! Who are the deadly Tomb Guardians, and what are they protecting? What secrets lie deep within the hidden temple? The race is on to find out! Collecting STAR WARS: JEDI FALLEN ORDER - DARK TEMPLE #1-5.
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128 stunning pages of nonstop thrills and intrigue! An ALL-NEW, ALL-ORIGINAL James Bond graphic novel, by a cavalcade of superstars!
* GREG PAK (Star Wars, Darth Vader)!
* ANDY DIGGLE (Daredevil, Green Arrow)!
* BENJAMIN PERCY (X-Force, Wolverine)!
* GAIL SIMONE (Deadpool, Wonder Woman)!
* MARK RUSSELL (Red Sonja, The Flintstones)!
* VITA AYALA & DANNY LORE (James Bond ongoing series)!
Six stunning stories, featuring the world's greatest spy! Moneypenny has been kidnapped, and the mystery of who has her, and what they want, will only be revealed when (if?) 007 is able to complete his incredible missions.

Alexia's father is the head of a superpowered corporate empire and one of the greatest superheroes of all time, and she desperately wants to take up his mantle. However, upon his sudden death, a woefully unprepared Alexia is confronted with a wealth of well-kept family secrets-including a villainous sister she never knew existed. Can the sisters work together to investigate their father's mysterious death? Or will they destroy each other in the process? Collects BLACKHAND & IRONHEAD #1-5 (originally published as BLACKHAND IRONHEAD on PanelSyndicate.com)

Gray wolf Legoshi begins training with giant panda Gohin in order to better protect his friends, but he faces an ethical paradox when he is told he must eat meat to grow more powerful. Meanwhile, herbivore red deer Louis is choking down the flesh of beasts to maintain his status as the leader of a carnivorous lion gang. Yet when he runs into Legoshi carrying a bag of meat, Louis feels betrayed. Legoshi continues to train, becoming more powerful in some ways yet weaker in others-and then his grades begin to drop. Even worse, dwarf rabbit Haru is mad at him!

When you are a tool of a megacorporation, can you ever escape their grip? Juzo hasn't got an answer just yet, but he's determined to live his life for himself. Too bad for Juzo that the agents of Berühren have other ideas. A man claiming to be Tetsuro's brother wants to test a new version of Berühren's Harmony device, and Juzo and Tetsuro are the guinea pigs.

There will be blood when Stanley Lau (aka Artgerm) gets ahold of Vampirella! Based on his haunting cover to Vampirella #2, this 7.5" tall resin bust is Dynamite's most unique rendering of Vampi to date! This very limited-edition bust is meticulously hand-painted, right down to the bloody "outfit!"

Active in the mid-23rd century, the U.S.S. Discovery was a Crossfield-class science vessel and was equipped with an experimental spore-drive, capable of transporting the vessel across vast distances in an instant.

Explore the Marvel Cinematic Universe like never before with these Official heavyweight statuettes of iconic Marvel Studios characters meticulously rendered as 1:18 scale metal models presented in unique collector's tin boxes. These masterfully sculpted, hand-painted, metal statues are a must-have for any true Marvel fan!
Every character has been carefully recreated as they appear in a specific movie with Marvel Studios providing detailed reference photography and digital scans that are made during the filming of each movie

Celebrate the most stellar fandom of them all with this stunning addition to Funko's POP! vinyl series based on the space western Disney+ series The Mandalorian! The titular character stands an incredible 10" tall and features chrome highlights on his Mandalorian armor. Add this figure to your Star Wars collection today! Window box packaging.