IDW Publishing Previews for April 29th

By Keith Hendricks • 11 months ago • TV, Movies, Comics

In the IDW Publishing previews this week, we see several nice collections for the shelf, including the My Little Pony: FIENDship is Magic boxed set, and two large collections of classic newspaper strips. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans are no doubt waiting to see pages from #45, to see the effect of Donatello’s death, and other popular ongoing series arrive, such as Transformers, Judge Dredd, and Jem and the Holograms.

Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, Vol. 18
Chester Gould (w & a & c)
The 1950s just about come to a close as Chester Gould introduces one character after another whose crimes start off as relatively petty but who end up trapped in larger and more deadly conspiracies. New characters include the gamecock queen Miss Egghead, Cuban secret serviceman Wunbrow, the tragic Headache, and bizarre Popsie and her mother. Throw in a wacko named Pantsy, a cross-country chase after a million dollars of hidden heist loot, Tracy left for dead on a deserted island, a couple more million in slot machine coins, and a throwback to the 1940s in the Mole-lookalike named Rhodent, and it’s clear that Chester Gould is definitely not resting on his laurels. Includes all strips from December 15, 1957 through July 11, 1959.
HC • B&W • $39.99 • 276 pages • 11” x 8.5” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-241-8

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“What great cartooning… it’s time to build new bookshelves to welcome one of America’s singular artistic achievements.” –Art Spiegelman

Garbage Pail Kids: Fables, Fantasy, and Farts—SPOTLIGHT
Shannon Wheeler, Various (w & a) • Mark Pingitore (c)
Join the Garbage Pail Kids for a literally breathtaking foray into fantasy worlds, fairytale lands, and flatulent frontiers!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Revisit the pop-culture phenomenon from the minds of Art Spiegelman, Mark Newgarden, John Pound, and many others!
Featuring the most fantastical creators in alternative comics!
Classic GPK Sy Clops variant cover!

G.I. Joe #8
Karen Traviss (w) • Steve Kurth (a) • Jeffrey Veregge (c)
The war of intel and secrets reaches dangerous new heights as Scarlet’s G.I. Joe team goes deeper undercover in a country run by Cobra.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
The Fall of G.I. JOE!
Karen Traviss (Halo, Gears of War) and Steve Kurth (Ultimate Iron Man, AvX Consequences) pull no punches!

Haunted Horror #16
Various (w & a) • George Roussos (c)
The dead walk, and the living are terrorized in this selection of top never-before-reprinted full-bloody color Pre-Code comics!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Grisly artists of the Golden Age with no moral compass demonically delineate spine-tingling comics!
Guilty pleasures aplenty in each lurid tale!

Headspace
Ryan K. Lindsay (w) • Eric Zawadzki (a & c)
What if your town were the mental construct of a killer? The inhabitants of Carpenter Cove are about to find out.
TPB • FC • $19.99 • 128 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-303-3

Bullet points:
“Headspace is a phenomenal read on every level. The concept is brilliant and executed with such skill that’ll you’ll barely find time to take a breath.” –Bloody-Disgusting.com

Jem and the Holograms #2
Kelly Thompson (w) • Sophie Campbell (a) • Campbell, Amy Mebberson x 4 (c)
Truly outrageous! JERRICA BENTON is JEM—but does she have what it takes to lead her underdog band against the mega-popular MISFITS?
FC • 32 pages • $ 3.99

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Jem and the Holograms—on stage for the first time!
Five stunning rainbow foil covers, one classic Jem cover for each band member…of the Misfits by Amy Mebberson, plus one featuring the whole band by series artist Sophie Campbell!

Judge Dredd #29
Duane Swierczynski (w) • Nelson Daniel (a) • Mark Torres (c)
Dredd is back in a clean uniform and hitting the troubled streets under the command of… a kinder, gentler Chief Justice Cal?!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
Crowd Control Part One!

My Little Pony: FIENDship is Magic #5: Queen Chrysalis
Katie Cook (w) • Andy Price (a) • Amy Mebberson (c)
The ponies visit the imprisoned Chrysalis… what secret is she hiding?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Sets the stage for a future MLP story-arc!

My Little Pony: FIENDship is Magic #1 – 5 Complete Box Set
Various (w & a) • Amy Mebberson x 5 (c)
Want to collect all the covers, but don’t have the time to chase them down? Buy the entire series in a deluxe collectible box! Includes all five issues, with covers from Amy Mebberson!
FC • 32 x 5 pages • $19.99

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IMPORTANT NOTE – The FIENDship is Magic complete box set will be in stores on April 29th, hitting the same time as the fifth issue of the series!

Secret Agent X-9: By Dashiell Hammett and Alex Raymond
Dashiell Hammett (w) • Alex Raymond (a & c)
The strip was a dailies-only serial. This volume collects the complete Hammett/Raymond strips, plus the subsequent stories by Raymond and Leslie Charteris, famous himself for “The Saint” novels, as well as the Charteris stories drawn by Charles Flanders. Included are strips from January 22, 1934 through October 31, 1936.
HC • B&W • $49.99 • 304 pages • 11” x 10” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-211-1

Bullet points:
• Hammett & Raymond! Two creative giants!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New Animated Adventures #22
Paul Allor (w) • Dario Brizuela, Chad Thomas (a) • Brizuela (c)
“Natural Enemies” Part 2: Stockman-Fly and Spider Bytez have teamed up! Will the Turtles be able to escape this web of villainy?!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #45
Tom Waltz, Kevin Eastman (w) • Mateus Santolouco (a) • Santolouco, Eastman (c)
The Turtles return from Burnow Island to find unimaginable tragedy. As the family struggles to cope, an enraged Foot Clan prepares its revenge. It’s all been building to this…the start of the final storyline leading to #50!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Devastating consequences to “Attack on Technodrome”!
Mateus Santolouco returns!
Variant Cover by Zach Howard!

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #40
James Roberts (w) • Brendan Cahill (a) • Alex Milne (c)
Having saved the universe—kind of—the Lost Light crew deal with the fallout in a manner befitting the gravity of the situation. Kind of.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
The march to issue 50 begins here!
The critically acclaimed MTMTE continues its mind-blowing run!
Variant Cover by Brendan Cahill!