The Authority are heroes in only the strictest sense of the word.
Ruthless and unforgiving, this group of insanely powerful superhumans face down countless menaces to Earth, protecting mankind with their cold version of justice. An invasion from an alternate Earth, an international terrorist who is laying waste to major cities and a hostile alien intelligence who calls himself God all fall under their rule.
This is THE AUTHORITY. Pay allegiance. Or get your head kicked in.
Story: Warren Ellis Art: Bryan Hitch, Phil Jimenez Ink: Paul Neary, Andy Lanning Color: Laura Martin, David Baron, Chris Garcia, Michael Garcia, Eric Guerrero Letterer: Ali Fuchs, Ryan Cline, Bill O’Neil, Robbie Robbins, Josh Reed
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(W) Al Ewing (A) Carlos Gomez (C) Frank D’Aramata (L) Clayton Cowles (CA) Adam Kubert, Laura Martin (VCA) Fanyang, Scott Koblish, Val Staples Rated T+ In Shops: Jul 02, 2025 SRP: $4.99
EIGHT-ISSUE TENTACULAR SPECTACULAR!
As Venom battles the Symbiote Squad at the Daily Bugle, the Sleeper Agent attempts a daring jailbreak on North Brother Island…neither of them knowing that S.C.A.R. has a superior new ally in the war on symbiotes! Doctor Octopus is back – and he’s more armed and dangerous than ever!
Skybound, Image Comics, and Hasbro have revealed a first look at interior pages and variant covers for G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #317, the next issue of the smash hit series from legendary series writer Larry Hama, guest artist Paul Pelletier, artist Tony Kordos, and colorist Francesco Segala.
Featuring covers bythe incomparable Andy Kubert, a new chapter of the iconic series arrives in comic book shops on June 4, 2025.
Snake Eyes strikes! The G.I. Joe ninja team has infiltrated Springfield…but nothing is as it seems. Meanwhile, Dr. Mindbender has his revenge.
In addition to the main cover by Kubert and colorist Laura Martin, issue #317 will also feature an open-to-order variant cover with a black and white version of Kubert’s main cover, and the continuation of the “Camouflage Variant” 1:10 incentive cover series by Francis Portela, with this cover featuring Scarlett.
The full list of variant covers is below:
G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #317 Cover A by Andy Kubert & Laura Martin (Lunar Code: 0425IM349)
G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #317 Cover B by Andy Kubert (Lunar Code: 0425IM350)
G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #317 Cover C (1:10 incentive) (Camouflage Variant) by Francis Portela (Lunar Code: 0425IM351)
Don’t miss the 2025 Baltimore Comic-Con on October 17-19, 2025 when it returns to the Inner Harbor’s Baltimore Convention Center. The Baltimore Comic-Con welcomes comics guests David Finch, Mike Grell, Laura Martin, Kevin Nowlan, Mark Waid, and John Workman to this year’s event!. Purchase your tickets now!
For almost 30 years, David Finch has inspired fans with his raw and gritty art aesthetic. His comic credentials include creator-owned successes Ascension and Aphrodite IX and main stream hits like Ultimate X-Men, New Avengers, Moon Knight, and Ultimatum. In addition to comics, Dave has done work for film, video games, and the music industry. Moving to DC Comics in 2010, Dave used his powerful and emotional artwork to tackle Gotham’s grittiest hero in Batman: Dark Knight. His work with Geoff Johns on Justice League of America and Forever Evil brought a fresh and exciting perspective to the DC universe of villains. November of 2014 saw another chapter begin in his career when he began working on one of comics’ most iconic characters: Wonder Woman. Finch then turned his eye for detail back to the caped crusader in the pages of Batman with comic writer Tom King. When the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns hit, David started a YouTube channel to inspire and connect with his fans. The channel was a huge hit and currently boasts more than 400,000 subscribers. These days, you can find his work on the covers of the Walking Dead and various Marvel and DC titles.
Mike Grell is a writer/artist with a uniquely cinematic style of storytelling. His creations include:
The Warlord
Starslayer
Jon Sable, Freelance
Shaman’s Tears
Bar Sinister
Maggie the Cat
These, along with successful runs on such features as Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Batman, Iron Man, X-Men Forever, James Bond: Permission To Die, the Tarzan Sunday comic strip, and the internationally acclaimed, Eisner Award- Nominated Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters, have won him the comic industry’s coveted Inkpot Award For Outstanding Achievement in Comic Art. His graphic novel series Jon Sable, Freelance was adapted for TV by ABC in 1987. Grell has been voted to Wizard Magazine’s Top Ten List of Comics Writers and was recently named to Wizard World’s Hall of Legends and the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide Hall of Fame. It was recently announced that, beginning in 2023, the widely acclaimed Shaman’s Tears will become an “audio movie” podcast on The Fantasy Network, produced in conjunction with Native Voices under the artistic direction of DeLanna Studi out of the Autrey Museum.
Laura Martin is one of the comics industry’s most lauded colorists. Recipient of Harvey, Eisner, Eagle, Squiddy, and Comics Buyer’s Guide Awards, Martin is regularly assigned high-profile and event-oriented comics on which to bring her palate to bear. Her work can be found in DC, Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, Virgin, and CrossGen comics through the years, and she is lately working on Bad Idea’s Eniac, DC’s Nubia: Queen of the Amazons, and Marvel’s Hulk.
Kevin Nowlan is a penciler, inker, colorist, and letterer, and a 40+ year veteran of the comics industry. Credits include Batman: Sword of Azreal, Batman Black and White, Tomorrow Stories, Doctor Strange, Infernal Man-Thing, Superman vs. Aliens, and, recently, Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor. Nowlan also contributed character designs to the iconic Batman: The Animated Series, most notably the Joker, Killer Croc, The Mad Hatter, and the Man-Bat.
The multiple Harvey and Eisner Award-winning Mark Waid has been the voice behind dozens of series that have resonated throughout comics fandom and the creative community alike. His more acclaimed runs include DC Comics’ The Flash, Kingdom Come, JLA: Year One, JLA, Legion of Super-Heroes, and Superman: Birthright, Marvel Comics’ Captain America, Fantastic Four, Amazing Spider-Man, The Indestructible Hulk, and Daredevil, BOOM! Studios’ Incorruptible and Irredeemable, Archie Comics’ Archie, and his creator-owned works Empire and Potter’s Field. He previously served as Publisher (U.S.) at Humanoids.
John Workman managed to turn a love for the comics form into a career. During the past five decades, he has held the position of editor, writer, art director, penciler, inker, colorist, letterer, production director, and book designer for various companies. He created (with some help from Bhob Stewart and Bob Smith) the offbeat stories in Wild Things (with much of that material having first appeared in Star*Reach and Heavy Metal) and both wrote and drew the comics series Sindy, Fallen Angels, and Roma. In 1991, he reflected on model Bettie Page in Betty Being Bad (Eros), and later produced the hardbounds Heavy Metal: 25 Years of Classic Covers and Innocent Images: The Sexy Fantasy Females of Viper and Kiss, as well as The Adventures of Roma, a reformatted graphic novel version of his earlier series. He continues to write and draw and to do a whole lot of lettering for a number of comics companies on an international level.
2025 GUESTS
This year’s confirmed guests for the show include: Kaare Andrews (Spider-Man: REIGN 2), John Beatty (Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars), Russ Braun (The Boys), Jim Calafiore (NED, Lord of the Pit), Keith Champagne (Stranger Things), Howard Chaykin (Time Squared), Jim Cheung (Young Avengers), Frank Cho (Harley Quinn), Amy Chu (Emma Frost: The White Queen), Chris Claremont (X-Men), Becky Cloonan (Somna), Steve Conley (The Middle Age), Michael W. Conrad (Manowar: Invictus), Jeff Dekal (Something is Killing the Children), David Finch (Moon Knight), Trish Forstner (Feral), Franco (Deadman Tells the Spooky Tales), Barbara Friedlander (Swing with Scooter), Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (DC Nation), Mike Grell (Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters), Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Incredible Hulk), Tula Lotay (Barnstormers), Kevin Maguire (Justice League), Laura Martin (Nubia: Queen of the Amazons), Shawn Martinbrough (Red Hood: The Hill), Ron Marz (Green Lantern), Mike McKone (Red Goblin), Bob McLeod (New Mutants), Adriana Melo (Action Comics), Josh Middleton (Aquaman), Al Milgrom (Spectacular Spider-Man), Mark Morales (Thor), Trevor Mueller (Albert the Alien), Tom Nguyen (The Switch), Kevin Nowlan (Batman: Sword of Azrael), Dan Parent (Sabrina the Teenage Witch), Andrew Pepoy (Simone & Ajax), Barbara Perez Marquez (The Cardboard Kingdom), Amy Reeder (Power Girl), Esad Ribic (Conan the Barbarian), Afua Richardson (Kahhori: Reshaper of Worlds), Craig Rousseau (Herculoids), Jim Rugg (Street Angel), Louise Simonson (The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special), Walter Simonson (Thor), Joe Staton (Dick Tracy), Mark Waid (Justice League Unlimited), Maria Wolf (Phoenix), Rich Woodall (Electric Black), John Workman (Wild Things), and Thom Zahler (Love and Capes).
Skybound, Image Comics, and Hasbro have revealed a first look at interior pages and variant covers for G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #316, the next issue of the smash hit series. In this issue, guest artist Paul Pelletier rejoins the creative team alongside legendary series writer Larry Hama, artist Tony Kordos, and colorist Francesco Segala.
Featuring covers bythe incomparable Andy Kubert, a new chapter of the iconic series arrives in comic book shops on May 7, 2025.
Cobra…defectors? When members of Cobra’s elite Crimson Guard turn to the Joes for sanctuary, it’s an opportunity for Snake Eyes, Scarlett, and their ninja team to eliminate the threat of Springfield once and for all.
In addition to the main cover by Kubert and colorist Laura Martin, issue #316 will also feature an open-to-order variant cover with a black and white version of Kubert’s main cover, and the continuation of the “Camouflage Variant” 1:10 incentive cover series by Francis Portela, with this cover featuring Dawn Moreno.
The full list of variant covers is below:
G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #316 Cover A by Andy Kubert & Laura Martin (Lunar Code: 0325IM306)
G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #316 Cover B by Andy Kubert (Lunar Code: 0325IM307)
G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #316 Cover C (1:10 incentive) (Camouflage Variant) by Francis Portela (Lunar Code: 0325IM308)
Bug Wars #2 by Jason Aaron and Mahmud Asrar has sold out completely at the distributor level. Image Comics has fast-tracked Bug Wars #2 for reprint this week in order to keep up with the swarms of reorders.
In Bug Wars #2, Slade is lost in his own backyard, prisoner of tiny bug-riding warriors known as Mytes. And in Swarm City, the most dangerous hive in all the Yard, Slade will have to learn to unleash his newfound powers…or else watch his family die.
Bug Wars follows Slade Slaymaker, a kid from Alabama suddenly lost in a vicious world beyond his imagination, a world of marauding ant armies, spellcasting spider witches, and beetle-riding barbarians. A kingdom of tiny but deadly warriors hidden in his own backyard. The same world that saw his father eaten alive by insects now plunges young Slade into the middle of a brutal Bug War to decide the fate of his family.
Bug Wars #2, second printing (Lunar Code 0125IM897) and Bug Wars #3 Cover A by Asrar and Matthew Wilson (Lunar Code 0225IM321) and Bug Wars #3 Cover B by Adam Kubert and Laura Martin (Lunar Code 0225IM322) will all be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, April 23.
Skybound, Image Comics, and Hasbro have revealed a first look at interior pages and variant covers for G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #315, the next issue of smash hit series from legendary series writer Larry Hama, artist Chris Mooneyham, and colorist Francesco Segala.
Featuring covers bythe incomparable Andy Kubert, a new chapter of the iconic series arrives in comic book shops on March 26, 2025.
The fate of Cobra Commander! Destro plots revenge against the man who injured the one woman he loves…but other enemies may not be far behind.
In addition to the main cover by Kubert and colorist Laura Martin, issue #315 will also feature an open-to-order variant cover with a black and white version of Kubert’s main cover, and the continuation of the “Camouflage Variant” 1:10 incentive cover series by Francis Portela, with this cover featuring Cobra Commander.
The full list of variant covers is below:
G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #315 Cover A by Andy Kubert & Laura Martin (Lunar Code: 0125IM370)
G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #315 Cover B by Andy Kubert (Lunar Code:0125IM371)
G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #315 Cover C (1:10 incentive) (Camouflage Variant) by Francis Portela (Lunar Code: 0125IM372)
The high-tech African nation of Wakanda has been ravaged by outside forces, its queen has fallen and the people have turned against their king. As dissidents seek violent change, two of T’Challa’s own Dora Milaje forge their own brave path. And while outside forces pour fuel on the fire, the Black Panther recruits his own crew to aid in the struggle.
Collects: Black Panther #1-12
Story: Ta-Nehisi Coates Art: Brian Stelfreeze, Chris Sprouse Finishes: Karl Story, Walden Wong, Goran Sudzuka, Roberto Poggi Ink: Karl Story, Walden Wong, Brian Stelfreeze, Scott Hanna Color: Laura Martin, Matt Milla, Larry Molinar, Rachelle Rosenberg, Paul Mounts Letterer: Joe Sabino
Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.
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Skybound, Image Comics, and Hasbro have revealed a first look at interior pages and variant covers for G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #314, the next issue of smash hit series from legendary series writer Larry Hama, rising star guest artist Andrew Krahnke, and colorist Francesco Segala.
Featuring covers bythe incomparable Andy Kubert, a new chapter of the iconic series arrives in comic book shops on February 26, 2025.
Roadblock and a team of special operatives – including Shipwreck, Tunnel Rat, and Tripwire – head out to rescue a young dissident, but nothing is what it seems!
In addition to the main cover by Kubert and colorist Laura Martin, issue #314 will also feature an open-to-order variant cover with a black and white version of Kubert’s main cover, and the continuation of the “Camouflage Variant” 1:10 incentive cover series by Francis Portela, with this cover featuring Stalker.
The full list of variant covers is below:
G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #314 Cover A by Andy Kubert & Laura Martin (Lunar Code: 1224IM285)
G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #314 Cover B by Andy Kubert (Lunar Code: 1224IM286)
G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #314 Cover C (1:10 incentive) (Camouflage Variant) by Francis Portela (Lunar Code: 1224IM287)
