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April PREVIEWS Gems of the Month

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Here's the scoop on the April PREVIEWS Gems of the Month! Have a look at what's available to preorder now from BOOM! Studios, Dark Horse Comics, Dynamite, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, and Marvel. All shipping to comic stores starting in June.

Pre-orders for these big titles are available now at your local comic shop!

Gems:

IMAGE COMICS
JUPITERS LEGACY REQUIEM #1 (OF 12) CVR A EDWARDS (MR)
(W) Mark Millar (A/CA) Tommy Lee Edwards
SPECIAL DOUBLE-SIZED ISSUE!
The next chapter in 2021's Netflix global phenomenon begins here as MARK MILLAR returns for the sequel to one of his most critically acclaimed series. Chloe and Hutch have gotten married and had more children. The superheroes are working in harmony with humanity and creating a perfect world. But all is not well in the Garden of Eden as the Sampson family gets ripped apart and the secrets of the Netflix show's mysterious island begin to be revealed. Order big, as this will be a juggernaut!
In Shops: Jun 16, 2021
SRP: $5.99
PREVIEWS Page #50

IMAGE COMICS
SPAWN UNIVERSE #1 CVR A CAMPBELL
(W) Todd McFarlane (A) Jim Cheung, Todd McFarlane, Stephen Segovia, Marcio Takara (CA) J. Scott Campbell
IT'S HERE: THE OFFICIAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LONG-AWAITED SPAWN'S UNIVERSE!

A double-sized issue that begins a storyline so huge that three NEW SPAWN-related monthly titles will spill out from it, including...

A new SPAWN title.
GUNSLINGER SPAWN monthly.
And a new TEAM book bringing a handful of these characters together in their own book.
  
With this one-shot...the world of SPAWN changes forever! New heroes. New villains, and more importantly, new titles coming to a comic shop near you. Join this list of artists as we unveil a historic moment in the mythology of SPAWN'S UNIVERSE:

JIM CHEUNG
TODD McFARLANE
STEPHEN SEGOVIA
MARCIO TAKARA
In Shops: Jun 23, 2021
SRP: $5.99
PREVIEWS Page #52

DARK HORSE COMICS
BLACK HAMMER REBORN #1 CVR A YARSKY
(W) Jeff Lemire (A/CA) Caitlin Yarsky
The Eisner Award-winning superhero saga returns in this ongoing series picking up twenty years later with new series artist Caitlin Yarsky.  

Now, it's twenty years later, and Lucy, and the world, have moved on. Living in the suburbs of Spiral City, Lucy is married and has children. But all is not blissful. Her marriage is falling apart, her job has reached a dead end, and for mysterious reasons, she hasn't picked up the hammer in years.  But, as her domestic life begins to crumble, the secrets of the last twenty years, and the reasons Lucy really gave up being Black Hammer, begin to resurface, threatening her family, and the peace she has tried hard to find for herself.
In Shops: Jun 23, 2021
SRP: $3.99
PREVIEWS Page #104

DARK HORSE COMICS
NORSE MYTHOLOGY II #1 (OF 6) CVR A RUSSELL
(W) Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell (A) Matt Horak (CA) P. Craig Russell
#1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman and Eisner Award-winning comics legend P. Craig Russell breathe new life into the ancient Norse stories by taking readers through the creation of the Nine Worlds to the epic origin and adventures of Thor, Odin, and Loki all the way to the end of life-Ragnarök.

Explore the origins of poetry-good and bad-in this tale of malicious dwarfs, suspicious giants, and the wise god Kvasir, whose eventual fate leads to the creation of a powerful mead that many will fight and die for.

o Faithfully adapted from the original novel!
In Shops: Jun 16, 2021
SRP: $3.99
PREVIEWS Page #102

MARVEL COMICS
DEMON DAYS MARIKO #1
(W) Peach Momoko (A/CA) Peach Momoko
IN THE SHADOW OF KIRISAKI MOUNTAIN... A SECRET HISTORY COMES TO LIGHT!
The DEMON DAYS saga by STORMBREAKER PEACH MOMOKO continues! Mariko Yashida hears mysterious voices and has strange dreams that feel real. Her redheaded maid who dresses all in black might know more than she lets on. What is the connection between Mariko, the creatures called Oni and Kirisaki Mountain? Find out in the next installment of this tale of magic, monsters and Marvel characters like you've never seen them before, beautifully rendered by Peach Momoko! Book TWO of FIVE of the DEMON DAYS saga!  
40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+
In Shops: Jun 16, 2021
SRP: $4.99
MARVEL PREVIEWS Page #40

IDW PUBLISHING
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 30TH ANNIV SPEC CVR A SONIC TEAM
(W) Ian Flynn, Gale Galligan, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy (A) Aaron Hammerstrom, Reggie Graham, Mauro FoNSEca, Thomas Rothlisberger
After 30 years of going fast, it's time for fans to celebrate the speediest hedgehog of all time! It's an unbelievable birthday celebration for Sonic the Hedgehog with his first Classic Sonic special!
  
First, in "Seasons of Chaos" by longtime Sonic scribe Ian Flynn and artists Aaron Hammerstrom & Reggie Graham, Sonic goes on an adventure from pleasant spring valleys to wintry wonderlands in search of the Chaos Emeralds. But Sonic's not alone, with a little help from his friends Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, Amy Rose, Mighty the Armadillo, and Ray the Flying Squirrel, they'll race, fight, and fly their way to victory against the baddest of baddies!
  
Then, in "Dr. Eggman's Birthday", the vile, villainous Dr. Eggman takes center stage in a story written by New York Times bestseller Gale Galligan (The Babysitters Club)! And how does the bad doctor celebrate the occasion? Only his Badniks know for sure...  
  
Finally, in "TITLE TBD", XXXXXXXX! Written by the hosts of My Brother, My Brother, and Me, The Adventure Zone, and New York Times bestsellers, the McElroy Brothers!
  
Grab a slice of chili dog cake and don't get left in the dust on the most way past cool book of the year!
In Shops: Jun 23, 2021
SRP: $8.99
PREVIEWS Page #138

IDW PUBLISHING
TMNT ANNUAL 2021 CVR A CASEY MALONEY
(W) Tom Waltz (A/CA) Casey Maloney
For millennia, the Pantheon family have played a deadly chess game with humanity, willingly sacrificing innocent and guilty alike in their twisted pursuit of victory. But now, one member of the family sees the opportunity to end the eternal contest once and for all -- a final, crushing triumph over his immortal siblings and all of human- and mutant-kind. The time has arrived for the Rat King to make his most chaotic and destructive moves yet. The time has come at last for... THE ARMAGEDDON GAME! Written by Tom Waltz and illustrated by XXX XXX, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Annual 2021: "The King's Gambit" is the official prelude to the major TMNT event years in the making.
In Shops: Jul 28, 2021
SRP: $6.99
PREVIEWS Page #161

DYNAMITE
DIE!NAMITE LIVES #1 CVR A PARRILLO
(W) Fred Van Lente (A) Vincenzo Carratu (CA) Lucio Parrillo
The hit series returns, cuz you can't kill a never-ending army of zombies...you can only hope to beat the $%&# out of them! After tragically losing their first Chosen One against the zombie plague, Vampirella, Miss Fury, and what remains of the Project Superpowers look for a new savior -- but Ash Williams is an even more reluctant Deadite hunter than usual! This time, the Army of Darkness has ray guns, super powers and a brilliant new general: Evil Sonja, who takes her role of Queen of Hel quite seriously!
In Shops: Jun 09, 2021
SRP: $3.99
PREVIEWS Page #174

BOOM! STUDIOS
BASILISK #1 CVR A SCHARF
(W) Cullen Bunn (A/CA) Jonas Scharf
Who Can Stop The Chimera?

Five individuals bound by a cult-like hivemind, they terrorized small towns with their horrifying supernatural sense-based powers, leaving death and destruction in their wake.

Regan, one of the Chimera, escaped and has been in hiding, with her murderous eyes bound, overcome with guilt.

Until now... when a victim from her past forces her to hunt down the other four of her kind.

New York Times bestselling horror writer Cullen Bunn (Harrow County) and artist Jonas Scharf (Avengers Of The Wasteland) reunite to unleash a supernatural horror series for fans of Killadelphia and Stillwater rooted in the way we process the world - our senses.
In Shops: Jun 02, 2021
SRP: $3.99
PREVIEWS Page #206

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