IDW Publishing Previews for August 5th

IDW Publishing previews this week’s haul, including the last issues of Drones and Fly: Outbreak, the third installment of Thom Zahler’s Long Distance, and new chapters of Insufferable, My Little Pony: Friends Forever, Star Trek, Transformers, Transformers vs. G.I. Joe, and Zombies vs. Robots.

Official previews:

American Barbarian: The Complete Series—CERTIFIED COOL

Tom Scioli (w & a & c)

American Barbarian is a pop art odyssey from the artist and co-author of Transformers vs. G.I. JOE. A red-white-and-blue-haired hero must defend a post-post-apocalyptic world from the immortal Two-Tank Omen.

HC • FC • $29.99 • 256 pages • 6” x 9” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-332-3

Bullet points:

• “Traditional comics with all of the familiar elements turned up as loud as the knobs will go, pedal-to-the-metal, flaming, screaming, guitar-soloing, ne plus ultra COMICS with a capital C, O, M, I, C, S.” –Comic Book Resources

Berkeley Breathed’s Academia Waltz & Other Profound Transgressions—SPOTLIGHT

Berkeley Breathed (w & a & c)

A treasure-trove of Berkeley Breathed’s pre-Bloom County archives, artwork, strips, political cartoons, and much more!

HC • BW • $39.99 • 304 pages • 11” x 8.5” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-076-6

Bullet points:

• In the same format as the Eisner Award-winning Complete Bloom County Library from IDW Publishing!
• Advance solicited for a May release!
• Many of the characters from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bloom County appeared here for the first time, including Steve Dallas!

 

Drones #5 (of 5)

Chris Lewis (w) • Bruno Oliveira (a) • Brent McKee (c)

The Swords Hotel gets a whole lot hotter as unmanned aerial vehicles and well-dressed killers converge on the roof top beach club. Missiles will be launched and love professed in the conclusion to the wildest terrorism romp of all time!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

• What happens in Las Vegastan, stays in Las Vegastan!

The Fly: Outbreak #5 (of 5)

Brandon Seifert (w) • menton3 (a & c)

A disaster at Bartok Industries threatens to unleash a plague of human/fly hybrids on the world. Will Martin’s last-ditch effort stop the swarm or is the insect apocalypse upon us?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

• Part of EC Comics cover month! Homage cover by Alberto Ponticelli!

Frank Miller’s Daredevil: Artifact Edition HC—SPOTLIGHT

Frank Miller (w & a & c)

Frank Miller, multiple Eisner Award-winner, is one of the finest and most influential comics creators of his generation. From Sin City to Dark Knight Returns, to Daredevil: Born Again and Batman: Year One (both of which he wrote and collaborated on with David Mazzucchelli), his contribution to the art form is nearly peerless. But before these incredible works came his groundbreaking turn on Daredevil!

HC • BW • $75.00 net discount item • 144 Pages • 12” x 17” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-352-1

Bullet points:

• This Artifact Editions will collect more than 20 Miller covers, and a staggering display of pages—all shot from the original art—including many from key issues such as the introduction of Elektra… and the death of Elektra! Additionally, a selection of pages from Wolverine and Spider-Man will also be showcased. If you are a fan of Frank Miller’s classic storytelling then this is the Artifact edition for you!

 

Insufferable #4

Mark Waid (w) • Peter Krause (a & c)

Introducing Praetorian, Ominax, Razorjaw, and The Choice! All of St. Barrington’s super-villains have gathered together under the direction of a mysterious mastermind to destroy our heroes, Nocturnus and Galahad—if they don’t kill each other first!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Long Distance #3 (of 4)

Thomas F. Zahler (w & a & c)

Carter and Lee have hit a comfortable balance in their relationship. He flies to her, she flies to him, they text and chat and tweet all the time. But what will happen when Lee’s plan for her career is suddenly thrown a curveball?

PC • 48 pages • $4.99

Bullet points:

• From the creator of Love and Capes! 48 pages!
• “Thom Zahler needs only a few clean but well-drawn lines and a few simple but well-written words to map out all the ins and outs of two complex people in a complicated relationship.  His stuff is warm and witty – and, okay, very geeky.  But it feels right, which is all that really matters.” –Greg Weisman, Star Wars: Rebels, Young Justice

My Little Pony: Friends Forever #19

Christina Rice (w) • Brenda Hickey (a) • Amy Mebberson (c)

Rarity has a genius idea to expand the Cake’s business! However, Rarity’s big dreams may overtake the Cake’s sanity before the new venture can even get off the ground!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Powerpuff Girls: Super Smash Up, Vol. 1

(w) Derek Charm, Jeremy Whitley, Sean E. Williams, Rachel Deering, Ivan Cohen, Mariah Huehner • (a) Derek Charm, Jorge Monlongo, Paulina Ganucheau, Christine Larsen, Nneka Myers, Cat Farris • (c) Derek Charm

After their victory in the Super Secret Crisis War, the Powerpuff Girls take it easy with a rare VIP tour of Dexter’s Laboratory! But when tag-along Dee Dee accidentally activates Dexter’s newest invention, the fate of the entire multiverse is suddenly at stake!

TPB • FC • $19.99 • 120 pages • 978-1-63140-378-1

Bullet points:

• Advance solicited for August release!

 

Star Trek #48—Five-Year Mission

Mike Johnson (w) • Tony Shasteen (a & c)

In this all-new 2-part story called DEITY, the crew of Starship Enterprise discovers an uncharted world whose inhabitants worship vengeful gods… gods who now turn their wrath on Captain Kirk and his crew!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

• Features the cast of the new Star Trek films!
• “Heaven” Part 1 of 2!

TMNT Color Classics, Vol. 3 #8

Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Jim Lawson (w) • Lawson (a) • A.C. Farley (c)

In “City at War, Part Six,” the war for New York escalates as Karai and the Rat King enter the fray!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

• Originally printed as Mirage TMNT #55, Volume 1.

 

Transformers #44

John Barber (w) • Andrew Griffith (a & c)

LOVE AND HATE! Two emotions only inches from each other—and TRACKS and NEEDLENOSE have felt them both. On opposite sides of an eons-long war, what happens when they meet again? And what’s ARCEE up to on CYBERTRON?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

• The danger level rises on Cybertron, as dangerous new allegiances form!
• Arcee vs. Starscream—but not in the way you expect!

• Variant Cover by Agnes Garbowska!

Transformers vs G.I. JOE #8

Tom Scioli & John Barber (w) • Scioli (a & c)

In the interplanetary war between the TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE, anything can happen… and does.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

• Action and excitement as only Tom Scioli can deliver!
• You won’t believe your eyes!
• Variant Cover by Artyon Trakhanov!

X-9: Secret Agent Corrigan, Vol. 6

George Evans (w & a & c)

The best-selling series continues! Famed EC artist George Evans had periodically ghosted for Al Williamson on Secret Agent Corrigan and in 1980 Williamson and writer Archie Goodwin passed the strip to Evans permanently. Evans wrote and drew the strip for sixteen years until he and Phil Corrigan retired together in 1996. Evans had a long and illustrious career, from Fiction House and Fawcett to EC, where he worked along his friends Frank Frazetta and Al Williamson. This volume reprints the first Secret Agent Corriganstrips by Evans — more than 750 rarely-seen dailies from February 1980 to August 1982! It’s a must-have for all fans of adventure strips!

HC • BW • $49.99 • 276 pages • 11” x 10” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-419-1

 

Zombies vs Robots #8—Certified Cool

Chris Ryall (w) • Antonio Fuso (a) • Ashley Wood (c)

Artist Antonio “Cobra” Fuso joins Chris Ryall for the next big ZvR storyline, “War! ‘Bots!” The final battle for the Earth—and the moon—begins here!

FC • 40 pages • $4.99

Bullet Points:

• All-new storyline! Great jumping-on point!
• Cobra’s Antonio Fuso joins Chris Ryall for “War! ‘Bots!” part 1 of 3!
• Bonus: ZvR prose story included!