Aphrodite IX #5
Story By: Matt Hawkins
Art By: Stjepan Sejic
Price: $2.99
Diamond ID: JUL130514
Published: September 18, 2013
DEADLY LIASONS
Aphrodite IX woke up in a new world with no memory and no idea of her true purpose. But finding out the truth about herself and how her handler Burch has been manipulating her will change everything.
Think Tank #9
Story By: Matt Hawkins
Art By: Rahsan Ekedal
Price: $3.99
Diamond ID: JUN130567
Published: August 28, 2013
“OUTBREAK,” Part OneDr. David Loren used to worry about the deadly consequences of his creations from the safety of his laboratory… but now he’s been deployed to Taiwan to oversee a field test gone awry. Will having the mysterious SEAL Team 6 as his bodyguards be enough to ensure that David returns home alive?
Aphrodite IX #4
Story By: Matt Hawkins
Art By: Stjepan Sejic
Price: $2.99
Diamond ID: JUN130530
Published: August 21, 2013
“DEADLY LIASONS”Everything changes as Aphrodite IX discovers the truth about herself and how her handler Burch has been manipulating her.
Cyber Force #5
Story By: Marc Silvestri
Story By: Matt Hawkins
Art By: Khoi Pham
Art By: Sunny Gho
Cover By: Marc Silvestri
Price: $FREE
Diamond ID: DEC120555
Published: August 7, 2013
THE END OF THE NEW BEGINNING!The Chairwoman of the massive CDI corporation will stop at nothing to get back her runaway daughter, Velocity. In her rampage, she has ordered the execution of every member of the rogue Cyber Force faction who stands in her way. But Velocity has turned and, faced to confront her mother, she doesn’t know what’s worse – being annihilated alongside her compatriots, or having her memory wiped clean with a brain box implant. If you haven’t already joined the party, don’t miss the fifth issue of Top Cow’s 20th Anniversary relaunch of CYBER FORCE to be distributed for FREE!
Aphrodite IX #3
Story By: Matt Hawkins
Art By: Stjepan Sejic
Price: $2.99
Aphrodite IX was created for a purpose, but she does not know what it is. Torn between two factions in a hostile, new world, she’s forced to choose sides in a war that she wants no part in.
The Image Comics/Skybound and Top Cow booths will be selling exclusive editions and variants of of ten titles, including four hardcover collections, at San Diego Comic-Con 2013, taking place July 17 to 21. These editions will be available in limited quantities only at the Image Comics/Skybound booth #2729, or the Top Cow booth #2629. In addition, Image Comics will be offering copies of its Image Expo variant editions for sale at their booth, as well as new T-shirts and tote bags, and a variant edition of Lazarus #2 by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark will be available at the booths participating retailers who are exhibiting at the convention.
Three #1 issues are among the variants, including Ghosted #1 by Joshua Williamson and Goran Sudzuka with a cover by Matteo Scalera, a convention exclusive edition of Satellite Sam #1 by Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin with black-and-white cover art by Chaykin, and Sidekick #1 by J. Michael Straczynski and Tom Mandrake with a cover by Whilce Portacio.
Giving some heft to Image’s Comic-Con offerings are four hardcover editions released by the Image imprints Skybound and Top Cow. At the Image imprint Skybound, Clone Volume One by David Schulner and Juan Jose Ryp, Invincible Compendium Volume One by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley, Thief of Thieves Volume Two by Robert Kirkman, James Asmus, and Shawn Martinbrough; and The Walking Dead Compendium Volume Two by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard will be for sale in limited quantities each day. The hardcover edition of Think Tank Volume One by Matt Hawkins and Rahsan Ekedal will be for sale at the Top Cow booth.
Other variants to be sold at the Image booth are a special foil-cover variant of Chew #35 by John Layman and Rob Guillory and Ten Grand #4 by J. Michael Straczynski and Ben Templesmith. In addition to the Think Tank hard cover, Top Cow will be selling an exclusive Aphrodite IX #3 “Cosplay” edition with a photo cover.
On the merchandise side, Image Comics will be selling their Image Comics logo tote bags and T-shirts, which made their debut at Image Expo in San Francisco on July 2. Also available will be the “Lying Cat” T-shirts featuring brand-new artwork of the fan-favorite character from the wildly popular Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples.
From Skybound, the four “Faction” The Walking Dead T-shirts from the upcoming story arc “All-Out War” — Survivors, Hilltop, Saviors, and Kingdom — which also went on sale first at Image Expo, will be available. Skybound will have other exclusive merchandise at their booth, including a The Walking Dead electric guitar, wristwatches for The Walking Dead and Invincible, and Todd McFarlane Toys Governor in Riot Gear action figure, and Rick, Carl, and Negan PVC figures.
Think Tank #8
Story by: Matt Hawkins
Art By: Rahsan Ekedal
Cover By: Rahsan Ekedal & Brian Reber
Price: $3.99
Accountability isn’t something Dr. David Loren worried about before. Sheltered behind the manned concrete perimeter of CED, so long as he continued to fulfill his contractual obligation to create inventions of destruction, David never had to think twice about being an arrogant jerk. But right now, David is on the wrong side of the military’s good graces. And accountability is a bitch.
Aphrodite IX #2
Story by: Matt Hawkins
Art By: Stjepan Sejic
Variant Cover by: Marc Silvestri
Price: $2.99
TOP COW’S HOTTEST CYBORG ASSASSIN RETURNS IN HER OWN SERIES!
Straight out of her Free Comic Book Day first issue debut, the saga of the cyborg assassin Aphrodite IX continues in her first original series in over a decade! Writer MATT HAWKINS (THINK TANK) and artist STJEPAN SEJIC (RAVINE, ARTIFACTS) take you to a dystopian future where technology and evolution have merged and a cyborg killer searching for meaning is the most human individual left!
Aphrodite IX #1, the Free Comic Book Day offering from the Image Comics imprint Top Cow, is being reprinted and will be offered for sale on June 12, the same day as the relaunch’s second issue. The second printing features an all-new cover by Stjepan Sejic and its cover price is $2.99.
Matt Hawkins and Stjepan Sejic have teamed up to bring back the fan-favorite green-haired, amnesiac assassin. Aphrodite IX awakes to find she must navigate an unrecognizable Earth that is being contended over by warring factions of the cybernetically enhanced and genetically enhanced.
Aphrodite IX was originally created by David Wohl and David Finch in the best-selling graphic novel published in 1996, which is being offered again as part of the relaunch in a limited edition Aphrodite Reloaded hardcover edition. The hardcover, set to be in stores this summer, features updates to the script by series co-creator and writer David Wohl.
Aphrodite IX #1‘s second printing (APR138007), Aphrodite IX #2 (APR130429) and Aphrodite IX: Reloaded (APR130445) are available now for pre-order.
Think Tank #7
Story by: Matt Hawkins
Art By: Rahsan Ekedal
Cover By: Rahsan Ekedal & Brian Reber
Price: $3.99
Dr. David Loren’s work on the 36 barrel/600 rounds per minute Metalstorm led to an epiphany that he no longer wanted to create inventions of destruction for the military. But David has lived a sheltered life behind the barricades of a government-contracted think tank and has never directly been forced to come face to face with the deadly consequences of his actions… until now.
