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Titan Comics in July 2013

A1 Annual

Writer(s): Ron Marz, Matt Wagner, Dave Johnson, Tom Raney, Rufus Dayglo, Andy Kuhn, Dave Dorman, Mark A. Nelson, W.H. Rauf and more…
Artist Name(s): Jim Steranko, Dave Wilkins, Sami Basri, Alex Horley, Tom Raney, Brian Smith, D’Israeli, Garrie Gastonny, Mark A. Nelson, Stanley ‘Artgerm’ Lau, Garry Leach, Dave Johnson, Barnaby Bagenda, Sakti Yuwono, Dave Dorman, Steve White, Kai Lim, Andy Kuhn, Philip Tan, Rhoald Marcellius, Michael T. Gilbert, Sunny Gho, Doug Braithwaite and more…
Covers: Comes with two covers to collect, including a special Diamond exclusive cover by Jim Steranko and Stanley ‘Artgerm’ Lau!
Page Count: 176pp
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Retail Price: $22.99
Street Date: October 9, 2013

A1 has always been a laboratory for creators to experiment and innovate, to break away from corporate creations and unleash their own ideas. Already proving a success with the new monthly comic book, this first all-new A1 Annual marks the thrilling return of the award-winning graphic anthology series to bookshelves everywhere!

Inside these oversized pages, a Who’s Who of comics’ talent – past, present and future – spread their imaginative wings across a gripping selection of all-new short stories. Which ones will be the breakout, creator-owned characters of tomorrow?!

  • Island in the Sky – written by JOE SIMON, penciled by JACK KIRBY and inked by AL WILLIAMSON.
  • Tales of Old Fennario – written and drawn by SANDY PLUNKETT
  • Terror of the Lesbian Nudist Colony – written by SCOTT HAMPTON and MARK KNEECE and illustrated by SCOTT HAMPTON
  • The Riddle of the Recalcitrant Refuse – written by ALAN MOORE and illustrated by MICHAEL T. GILBERT with WILLIAM LOEBS and DARCY & KEVIN HORN.
  • Emily Almost – written and drawn by BILL SIENKIEWICZ
  • A Question of Priorities – written by DAVE ELLIOTT, drawn by TOBY CYPRESS and color by SAKTI YUWONO
  • Solid Gold Death Mask – written and drawn by RUFUS DAYGLO
  • The Boston Metaphysical Society – written by MADELEINE HOLLY-ROSING and illustrated by EMILY HU
  • The Odd Ball – written with layouts and color by NORMAN FELCHE and illustrated by ALEX SHEIKMAN.
  • Where The Gods Are – written and illustrated by MARK A. NELSON.
  • Origin of Evil – written by DAVE ELLIOTT and illustrated by BARNABY BAGENDA and JESSICA KHOLINNE
  • Raging Rod – written and drawn by DAVE JOHNSON
  • Little Star – written and illustrated by DOMINIC REGAN

AVAILABLE TO ORDER FROM MAY PREVIEWS
Order Code Regular Edition: MAY131271
Order Code Previews Exclusive Edition: MAY131272

A1 Annual A1 Annual Exclusive Diamond cover

Numbercruncher #3

Writer(s): Si Spurrier
Artist Name(s): P.J. Holden
Cover Artist(s): P.J. Holden
Colorist: Jordie Bellaire
Number of Issues in Series: 4
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 32pp
Price: $3.99
Street Date: September 11, 2013

Bastard Zane is hot on the Mathematician’s heels, as the reincarnating schemer dives back through time and lifetimes to be with the woman he loves, again and again, across a hundred different incarnations!

The Divine Calculator wants the Mathematician’s mind under his contract, and Zane wants his freedom from the fulfilment of the same… so it’s time to warm up his maths-driven accident gun – and kill the bloody genius as many bloody times as he can bloody reincarnate!

But when you’re dealing with a dead man as smart as this one, things are never going to go smoothly!

AVAILABLE TO ORDER FROM MAY PREVIEWS
Order Code: MAY131275

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Chronos Commandos: Dawn Patrol #3

Writer(s): Stuart Jennett
Artist Name(s): Stuart Jennett
Cover Artist(s): Stuart Jennett
Number of Issues in Series: 5
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 32pp
Price: $3.99
Street Date: September 4, 2013

Trapped in the past, surrounded by starving velociraptors, and liberally daubed in blood, the Sarge and his squad are in their tightest spot yet!

But there’s no time to linger on their slim chance of escape – they’re sharing the Cretaceous with the Nazi time crew who’ve stolen an Allied Chronosphere – a piece of tech that could tilt the Time War in the Nazis’ favor! It’s up to the Sarge to take it back – or die trying!

Pulse-pounding painted pulpcore action, just like Mama always made!

AVAILABLE TO ORDER FROM MAY PREVIEWS
Order Code: MAY131273

Chronos Commandos Dawn Patrol #3

IT CAME! #2

Writer(s): Dan Boultwood
Artist Name(s): Dan Boultwood
Number of Issues in Series: 4
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 32pp
Price: $3.99
Street Date: September 4, 2013

Director Dan Boultwood contains his lost B-movie SF ‘classic’!

The alien robot known as GRURK has been temporarily waylaid by industrial quantities of bunting, but its inexorable march towards London cannot be stopped! In the village of Trumpington Abbey, space scientist Dr. Boy Brett and his lady-assistant Doris Night (a lady) welcome the arrival of the British Army – but do the soldiers herald a heightened level of competence… or a right royal Carry On? And what part does a field-full of mouldy turnips have to play in the enfolding cosmic drama?!

A blast for fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and classic low-budget science fiction, this gorgeous, affectionate pastiche will keep you guessing – and laughing – throughout!

AVAILABLE TO ORDER FROM MAY PREVIEWS
Order Code: MAY131274

It Came #2

Tomorrowland #2

Writer(s): Paul Jenkins
Artist Name(s): Alti Firmansyah, Beny Maulana of Stellar Labs
Number of Issues in Series: 4
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 32pp
Price: $3.99
Street Date: August 21, 2013

The music-led adventure from the Eisner award-winning writer of Wolverine: Origin and The Darkness continues!

Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike, DJs at the world-renowned Tomorrowland festival, have been pulled into an eternal war between the forces of creation and destruction. Can they turn the tide in favour of creativity over the course of just one festival – even with William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and hundreds of creators from throughout history on their side?!

Buckle in for a fantasy ride like no other!

AVAILABLE TO ORDER FROM MAY PREVIEWS
Order Code: MAY131276

Tomorrowland #2

A1 #4

Writer(s): Dave Elliot, W.H. Rauf
Artist Name(s): Barnaby Bagenda, Sami Basri, Sakti Yuwono, Jessica Kholinne, Garrie Gastony, Rhoald Marcelius
Cover Artist(s): 3 covers to collect – Sami Basri and Sakti Yuwono (Weirding Willows), Garrie Gastonny and Sakti Yuwono (Odyssey), Rhoald Marcellius and Sakti Yuwono (Carpe Diem)
Number of Issues in Series: 6 (monthly)
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 36pp
Price: $3.99
Street Date: September 4, 2013

WEIRDING WILLOWS: There’s a dinosaur from Hollow Earth loose in the Weir and she’s eating Farmer McGregor’s sheep! Can Alice and Frankenstein’s Monster stop her – before McGregor puts down this purple T-rex for good?!

What do you get when you cross soldiers, superheroes, supervillains with a truckload of guns, in a children’s hospital in Iraq?! This month’s ODYSSEY, that’s what!

CARPEDIEM: NINE IRON

Grab your woods and irons, and join the CarpeDIEm agents as they battle a haunted putt-putt golf arena – where deadly surprises wait in every hole!

AVAILABLE TO ORDER FROM MAY PREVIEWS
Order Code: MAY131270

A1 #4 cover 1 A1 #4 cover 2 A1 #4 cover 3

Titan Comics in April Previews

IT CAME! #1

AVAILABLE FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order Code: APR131246

The store that orders the highest quantity of IT CAME! #1 from April PREVIEWS will win a FREE bespoke advert in IT CAME! #4 for their store, designed and illustrated in a 1950s style by creator Dan Boultwood!

Writer(s): Dan Boultwood
Artist Name(s): Dan Boultwood
Cover Artist(s): Dan Boultwood
Number of Issues in Series: 4
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 32pp
Price: $3.99
Street Date: August 7, 2013
Witness a very British invasion!

Fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 will love this hilarious B-movie romp, a knowing throwback to the heyday of low-budget SF cinema – in comic book form!

In IT CAME!, ‘director’ Dan Boultwood has unearthed a lost classic from the forgotten Pinetree Studios.

An enormous alien robot lays waste to the English countryside, annihilating bunting, villages and diagonally-sliced sandwiches alike! Only the pipe-chomping space scientist Dr. Boy Brett and his assistant Doris Night (a lady) stand a chance of stopping it from marching all the way to London – but can they possibly escape the grasp of GRURK and get the might of the British Army on their side?!

Keep your upper lips stiff, your ties immaculately knotted, and your notions of gender equality dialled back sixty years – for the sake of the planet!

IT CAME! #1DmC Devil May Cry™: The Chronicles of Vergil (HC)

AVAILABLE FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order Code: APR131245

Writer(s): Izu
Artist Name(s): Patrick Pion / Robin Recht
Cover Artist(s): Patrick Pion / Robin Recht
Number of Issues in Series: Collection
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 52pp
Price: $9.99
Street Date: August 28, 2013

The official licensed comic to Capcom’s best-selling videogame DmC Devil May Cry, packed with secrets from the world of the game!

While his twin brother Dante rots in Hellfire, the demon prison, Vergil recruits the reluctant human psychic, Kat, who can potentially guide him through the maze of Limbo! But even with Kat as his female astral guide, can Vergil free his brother – and turn the tide against the demons who control all of reality?

DmC Devil May Cry The Chronicles of Vergil (HC)

SHARKY (HC)

AVAILABLE FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order Code: APR131249

Writer(s):  Dave Elliott
Artist Name(s): Alex Horley
Cover Artist(s): Alex Horley
Number of Issues in Series: Collection
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 144pp
Price: $14.99
Street Date: September 11, 2013

SHARKY is the Earthbound son of ODIN and the grandson of ZEUS – and he just hit puberty!

Sharky is 16 years old. All his life, he’s been raised by his mom, with no idea of who his father was.

Now he’s hit puberty, only to discover that the “no-good-S.O.B.” who contributed to his genes is none other than ODIN – not to mention his mother is a child of ZEUS!

Whenever something sets off his hormones, he transforms into the demi-god SHARKY – complete with a body The Rock would kill to have – and the strength of a superman!

When two of his long lost ‘relatives’ visit Earth and decide to create havoc by raising the dead, Sharky has to pick sides, with the fate of the planet at stake. With no time for training, it’s a case of working out Superhero 101 as he goes – and if he fails, his friends’ lives are forfeit!

With guest appearances from indie comics favorites THE MASK, VAMPIRELLA, SAVAGE DRAGON, MILK & CHEESE, MR MONSTER and FLAMING CARROT!

SHARKY (HC)Monster Massacre Vol.1 (HC)

AVAILABLE FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order Code: APR131247

Writer(s): Joe Simon, Ian Edginton, Ron Marz, Dave Elliott, Andy Kuhn, Dave Dorman, Mark A. Nelson, Vito Delsante, and more…
Artist Name(s): Jack Kirby, Dave Wilkins, Dave Dorman, Andy Kuhn, Alex Horley, Tom Raney, Mark A. Nelson, D’Israeli, Garry Leach, Sunny Gho, Steve White, Javier Aranda, Sakti Yuwono, Jerry Paris, Dave Elliott and more…
Cover Artist(s): Special Wraparound Cover by Garry Leach, Sunny Gho
Number of Issues in Series: Collection
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 176pp
Price: $22.99
Street Date: September 11, 2013

The greatest talents from around the world come together to show you how much fun creating comics can be!

Monster Massacre is an exciting new graphic anthology series for fans of science fiction, fantasy, big monsters and all-out adventure! It’s also an introduction to a Who’s Who of comics talent: past, present and future!

From all around the world, the greatest comic talents are given full and free rein to explore the universe, in all its monstrous beauty, horror and excitement!

No matter your tastes in science fiction and fantasy, you’ll find something here to love.

Monster Massacre Vol.1 comes with a special wraparound cover by Garry Leach (2000AD, Marvelman, Global Frequency, A1) and Sunny Gho (Superior, Ultimate Avengers, Stellar Labs).

Monster Massacre Vol.1 (HC)

Numbercruncher #2

AVAILABLE FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order Code: APR131248

Writer(s): Si Spurrier
Artist Name(s): P.J. Holden
Cover Artist(s): P.J. Holden
Colorist: Jordie Bellaire
Number of Issues in Series: 4
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 32pp
Price: $3.99
Street Date: August 7, 2013

Nothing worse’n a Mathematician in love. As he died, in 1969, a Mathematician glimpsed the equation that drives the universe. This allowed him to strike a deal with the Divine Calculator: to be reincarnated, with all his memories intact, for another chance with the woman he loves.

In exchange, when he dies for a second time, he’ll go straight into the workforce of the Afterlife, setting free another operative – a surly chap in a bowler hat by the name of BASTARD ZANE.

But the Divine Calculator has a horrible sense of humor, and he’s incarnated the Mathematician thirty years after his death, in a poverty pit on the other side of the planet. The Mathematician still has a plan to spin things in his favor… but Zane isn’t taking any chances with his cosmic get-out clause.

After all, they don’t call him BASTARD for nothing!

Numbercruncher #2

Chronos Commandos: Dawn Patrol #2

AVAILABLE FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order Code: APR131244

Writer(s): Stuart Jennett
Artist Name(s): Stuart Jennett
Cover Artist(s): Stuart Jennett
Number of Issues in Series: 5
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 32pp
Price: $3.99
Street Date: August 7, 2013

Nazi saboteurs have overrun Chronos Command, and made off with a Chronosphere core – a priceless piece of Allied technology that could change the course of the Time War!

Can the Sarge, his crack squad depleted after the white-knuckle events of #1, mount a daring recovery mission into the past with a unit of rookies? You’d better hope so — because all of history rides on the outcome!

It’s fully painted high-octane pulp action, just the way you like it!

Chronos Commandos Dawn Patrol #2

A1 #3

AVAILABLE FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order Code: APR131243

Writer(s): Dave Elliot, W.H. Rauf
Artist Name(s): Barnaby Bagenda, Sami Basri, Sakti Yuwono, Jessica Kholinne, Garrie Gastony, Rhoald Marcelius
Cover Artist(s): 3 covers to collect – Sami Basri and Sakti Yuwono (Weirding Willows), Garrie Gastonny and Sakti Yuwono (Odyssey), Rhoald Marcellius and Sakti Yuwono (Carpe Diem)
Number of Issues in Series: monthly
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 36pp
Price: $3.99
Street Date: August 7, 2013

WEIRDING WILLOWS: Frankenstein’s Monster is in the Weir and the angry mob greeting him with pitchforks and flaming torches are Mice, Weasels and Rabbits.

ODYSSEY: From World War 2 to Iraq, you’ll always find Blazing Glory in the thick of it. But after 60 years of combat he’s starting to question what he’s doing and why.

CARPE DIEM: ARCADE FIRE – An extremely out-of-shape video game freak assembles his own army of gamers and plans a hit on a well-loved politician. The reason? Said politician made a really disparaging comment on the nutfreak’s favorite game.

Carpediem vs an army of vengeful nerds!

A1 #3 CARPE DIEM A1 #3 ODYSSEY A1 #3 WEIRDING WILLOWS

Solid State Tank Girl #3

AVAILABLE FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order Code: APR131250

Writer(s): Alan Martin
Artist Name(s): Warwick Johnson Cadwell
Cover Artist(s): Warwick Johnson Cadwell
Number of Issues in Series: 4
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 32pp
Price: $3.99
Street Date: July 17, 2013

Tank Girl’s feeling a growing sense of terror!

The thing that Tank Girl, Jet Girl and Sub Girl snatched from inside Booga’s testicles has grown into something even more horrifying than having to write and read the contents of this sentence -an evil duplicate of Tank Girl… and she’s not alone!

The gang will have to draw on their innermost secrets and powers to defeat their disgusting doppelgängers before it’s too late!

Solid State Tank Girl #3

From X-Men: Legacy writer Si Spurrier Comes Numbercruncher, By Titan Comics!

Titan Comics LogoTitan Comics has announced the launch of Numbercrucher, a creator-owned series by writer Si Spurrier and artist P.J. Holden. Hitting stores on July 10, 2013, Numbercruncher is an off-the-wall romance mixing time-travel, life-after-death and coal-black comedy.

Utterly unusual, vaguely insane, and unexpectedly heart-warming, Numbercruncher follows a brilliant Mathematician who dies young, enters the afterlife and discovers a way to cheat the terrifying Divine Calculator. He schemes to be endlessly reincarnated within the lifespan of the woman he loves, no matter how often the violent bailiffs of the Karmic Accountancy cut short each life. It falls to one such bailiff – the surly Bastard Zane – to put a stop to the time-twisting romance once and for all, before the Mathematician can pull-off his greatest trick and escape Existential Justice forever!

Numbercruncher was originally serialized in black & white in Judge Dredd Megazine in the UK. The series is now being newly colored and expanded for the first time by Titan Comics.

Numbercruncher #1 will hit comic stores on July 10, 2013. The series will also be available to read day and date on the iPad, iPhone, Web, Android and Kindle Fire, exclusively through the comiXology app and comiXology.com

Numbercruncher #1 cover

 

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