Image Comics Previews for May 20th

This week, at Image Comics, we see the premiere issue of the divine romp, Valhalla Mad, and numerous quality series continue, such as Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses, Kaptara, Shutter, Oddly Normal, and more.

The Fade Out 6

• Story By: Ed Brubaker
• Art By: Sean Phillips
• Art By: Elizabeth Breitweiser
• Cover By: Sean Phillips
• Cover By: Elizabeth Breitweiser

Cover Price: $3.50

Digital Price: $2.99

BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS’ best-selling series ever just keeps hitting! Charlie and his blacklisted friend Gil hunt Hollywood’s back alleys for answers to Valeria Sommer’s murder and cover-up, but the one man who might know something, ex-child star “Flapjack” Jones, has gone into hiding…unless he’s dead in a ditch by the side of the road.

Ghosted 20

• Story By: Joshua Williamson
• Art By: Vladimir Krstic
• Art By: Goran Sudzuka
• Art By: Miroslav Mrva
• Cover By: Dan Panosian

Price: $2.99

There’s no more cheating death…

Kaptara 2

• Story By: Chip Zdarsky
• Art By: Kagan Mcleod
• Cover By: Kagan Mcleod

Cover Price: $3.50

Digital Price: $2.99

MANTON! DARTOR! MOTIVATIONAL ORB! Heroes for the ages! As they set out to save Earth, our man Keith Kanga retires to a life of luxury on Kaptara! But can he resist the siren song of guilt? A perfect jumping-on point for people who’ve read issue one!

Oddly Normal 7

• Story By: Otis Frampton
• Art By: Otis Frampton
• Art By: Tracy Bailey
• Cover By: Otis Frampton
• Variant Cover By: Maryn Roos

Price: $2.99

Oddly Normal’s trip down memory lane comes to an end.

Satellite Sam 14

• Story By: Matt Fraction
• Art By: Howard Chaykin
• Cover By: Howard Chaykin

Cover Price: $3.50

Digital Price: $2.99

Who killed Satellite Sam? And why? Everybody’s cards are on the table and the table’s on fire as our grand finale rapidly approaches.

Secret Identitites 4

• Story By: Brian Joines
• Story By: Jay Faerber
• Art By: Ilias Kyriazis
• Art By: Ron Riley
• Cover By: Ilias Kyriazis

Cover Price: $3.50

Digital Price: $2.99

Punchline must uncover the truth when she and Vesuvius find themselves pulled into battle against a super-powered stalker. Meanwhile, Crosswind continues manipulating one of his new teammates, bringing him one step closer to learning the secrets of the Front Line.

Shutter 12

• Story By: Joe Keatinge
• Art By: Leila Del Duca
• Art By: Owen Gieni
• Cover By: Leila Del Duca
• Cover By: Owen Gieni

Price: $2.99

THE EXTRA-SIZED FINALE TO YEAR ONE IS HERE! NO ADS! Year One of the critically acclaimed series comes to an explosive end in a massive cover-tocover story promising to change the way you’ve viewed every single issue up ’til now. Really. I mean, look, you’re rolling your eyes, because people say that all the time, but this month it’s actually true, especially when we give you the startling answer to the series’ biggest question: WHO IS KATE KRISTOPHER? SHUTTER WILL RETURN JULY 2015

Stray Bullets: Sunshine and Roses 4

• Story By: David Lapham
• Art By: David Lapham
• Cover By: David Lapham

Cover Price: $3.50

Digital Price: $2.99

A new player has hit the streets of Baltimore. His name is Kretchmeyer, and with a single shot he’s turned the city’s underbelly inside out. Now with a manhunt underway, war threatening, and Monster roaming the city imposing his own brand of law and order, Kretchmeyer is ready for the second part of his Master Plan…find a girlfriend. Finding the woman of his dreams is not a problem, but keeping her will prove far harder than any assassination. Kretch, though, is a young man not to be deterred, and as the manhunt closes in and the noose tightens around his neck, he’s hell-bent on seeing through his grand scheme…even if it sends both of them to the grave.

The Tithe 2

• Story By: Matt Hawkins
• Art By: Rahsan Ekedal
• Cover By: Rahsan Ekedal

Price: $3.99

Another mega-church is robbed despite the FBI’s surveillance. Tension ratchets up as a member of Samaritan’s “heist” team is killed and the “Robin Hood” act isn’t quite as fun as they thought.

Trees 9

• Story By: Warren Ellis
• Art By: Jason Howard
• Cover By: Jason Howard

Price: $2.99

Beginning the second TREES story, “Two Forests.” The Orkney Tree, set among the standing stones of that remote island, seems almost like it was always meant to be there. But, following the events in Svalbard, it could be nothing but a vast unexploded bomb. Across the Atlantic, there is a new mayor in New York City, who grew up under the shadow of the Manhattan Tree. And he might be the bigger threat.

Valhalla Mad 1

• Story By: Joe Casey
• Art By: Paul Maybury
• Cover By: Paul Maybury
• Variant Cover By: Nick Pitarra

Cover Price: $3.50

Digital Price: $2.99

Their names are legend: the Glorious Knox! Greghorn the Battlebjörn! Jhago the Irritator! Three warrior gods vacationing on Earth, just looking to get their drink on and have a good time! Join the drunken festivities with toastmasters JOE CASEY (SEX) and PAUL MAYBURY (SOVEREIGN). The new mythology begins now!

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