Image Comics has released their December solicitations and it is chock full of series on their final issues including IXth Generation, The Fade Out, and Where is Jake Ellis?. There are two debut series. The first is from Brian Schirmer and Claudia Balboni titled Black Jack Ketchum and the second is from Matt Hawkins and Raffaele Ienco title Symmetry. One notable book that is missing is Greg Rucka’s Lazarus. What will you be picking up from Image for the holidays?
8HOUSE #7: MIRROR PART 2 (OF 4)
STORY: EMMA RÍOS
ART / COVER: HWEI LIM
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
A rebellious man-made child returns home to take a dangerous gamble in the colony’s darker days.
IXth GENERATION #8
STORY: MATT HAWKINS
ART / COVER B: ATILIO ROJO
COVER A: STJEPAN SEJIC
DECEMBER 23 / 40 PAGES / FC / T+ / $4.99
SERIES CONCLUSION
The final issue of the IXTH GENERATION hits shelves in this oversized story. Will the future come to an end?
ASTRONAUTS IN TROUBLE #7
STORY: LARRY YOUNG
ART / COVER: CHARLIE ADLARD
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / BW / T / $3.99
Meanwhile, back on the moon… Hayes reveals himself to be a Lex Luthor-level bad guy.
THE AUTUMNLANDS #8
STORY: KURT BUSIEK
ART / COVER: BENJAMIN DEWEY
DECEMBER 9 / 24 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
Our heroes meet a god. Maybe. And goats, definitely. Definitely goats.
AXCEND #3
STORY: SHANE DAVIS
ART / COVERS A & B: SHANE DAVIS, MICHELLE DELECKI, & MORRY HOLLOWELL
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Everything is RUIN.
THE BEAUTY #5
STORY: JEREMY HAUN & JASON A. HURLEY
ART / COVER A: JEREMY HAUN
COVER B: MIKE HUDDLESTON
COVER C: MIKE TISSERAND
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Everybody dies sometime. Might as well look good doing it…
BIRTHRIGHT #12
STORY: JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
ART / COVER A: ANDREI BRESSAN & ADRIANO LUCAS
COVER B: BENJAMIN DEWEY
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $2.99
As Mikey and Brennan track the next mage to Seattle, Wendy and Aaron make their own deals to try to save their sons.
Plus, a new “Hero’s Journey” variant by BENJAMIN DEWEY (THE AUTUMNLANDS)!
BLACK JACK KETCHUM #1 (OF 4)
STORY: BRIAN SCHIRMER
ART: CLAUDIA BALBONI
COVER: JEREMY SALIBA
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $3.99
In a dreamlike version of the Old West, Tom Ketchum struggles to clear his name—and stay alive—when he’s mistaken for wanton outlaw “Black Jack” Ketchum. With the aid of his talking sidearm, a secretive gambler, and a mute girl with a Winchester, Tom evades the mysterious Union and its supernatural enforcers, the faceless Dusters, as he’s forced to question his identity, his sanity, and his very existence.
BLACK MAGICK #3
STORY: GREG RUCKA
ART / COVER A: NICOLA SCOTT
COVER B: AFUA RICHARDSON
DECEMBER 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
BOOK 1: “AWAKENING,” Part Three. The threat begins to reveal itself. Rowan casts twice.
BLACK SCIENCE #18
STORY: RICK REMENDER
ART / COVER: MATTEO SCALERA
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
The last surviving Dimensionaut delves deeper into the beating heart of the Godworld to uncover the secrets of the Eververse, and a lurking shadow of his own past.
BLOODSTRIKE #4
STORY / ART / COVER A: ROB LIEFELD
COVER B: ROB LIEFELD & KARL ALTSTAETTER
DECEMBER 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
BLACKSTRIKE! The Bloodstrike agents are confronted by an ominous figure from the past, a figure that threatens to expose the darkest secrets of Project Born Again.
CHEW #53
STORY: JOHN LAYMAN
ART / COVER: ROB GUILLORY
DECEMBER 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Questions. Answers. Dinosaurs.
CITIZEN JACK #2
STORY: SAM HUMPHRIES
ART / COVER A: TOMMY PATTERSON
COVER B: MING DOYLE
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
America meets Jack, as his demon plays a lethal game.
CODENAME BABOUSHKA: THE CONCLAVE OF DEATH #3
STORY: ANTONY JOHNSTON
ART / COVER A: SHARI CHANKHAMMA
COVER B: ANNIE WU
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
On the run and under siege! The odds are stacked against Baboushka, but there’s more to this situation than mere piracy—and she’s about to find out who she can really trust… !
THE COVENANT #5
STORY / COVER A: ROB LIEFELD
ART / COVER B: MATT HORAK
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
Samuel and his daring band of men in a final showdown to claim the Ark or lose it forever!
DARK CORRIDOR #5
STORY / ART / COVER: RICH TOMMASO
DECEMBER 2 / 24 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
Pete catches up with Mia’s mystery girl. Also, Rosemary’s revenge.
DEADLY CLASS #17
STORY: RICK REMENDER
ART / COVER: WES CRAIG
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
NEW STORY ARC
The Kings Dominion school grounds become a killing field, and Marcus Lopez is hunted by his classmates for their final exam. Onetime friends and lovers become hunters in the dark, brandishing blades, bullets, and a burning desire to become best in class.
Sign up with RICK REMENDER (BLACK SCIENCE, TOKYO GHOST), WES CRAIG (BLACK HAND COMICS), and JORDAN BOYD (INVISIBLE REPUBLIC, Planet Hulk) for the bloodiest year of DEADLY CLASS yet!
DESCENDER #8
STORY: JEFF LEMIRE
ART / COVER: DUSTIN NGUYEN
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $2.99
Bestselling creators JEFF LEMIRE and DUSTIN NGUYEN launch their sci-fi epic into bold new territory. TIM-21 and his companions are taken to the mind bending home world of the Robot resistance while a long lost figure from Tim’s past emerges, but will he be friend or foe?
EAST OF WEST #24
STORY: JONATHAN HICKMAN
ART / COVER: NICK DRAGOTTA
DECEMBER 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.50
Old friends reappear in EAST OF WEST #24.
THE FADE OUT #12 (OF 12)
STORY: ED BRUBAKER
ART / COVER: SEAN PHILLIPS & ELIZABETH BREITWEISER
DECEMBER 16 / 40 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
SERIES CONCLUSION
It all ends here! The dramatic wrap-up to the mystery and to Brubaker and Phillips’ bestselling and most ambitious project yet!
FASTER THAN LIGHT #4
STORY / ART / COVER: BRIAN HABERLIN
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $2.99
AUGMENTED REALITY ENHANCED
Meet The Neighbors.
What happens when you meet a highly advanced species to form a new alliance, BUT you can’t even stand to look at them? Also, Forest must root out the truth when a collection of space vagabonds try to sell him their home planet.
FROM UNDER MOUNTAINS #3
STORY: CLAIRE GIBSON & MARIAN CHURCHLAND
ART: SLOANE LEONG
COVER: MARIAN CHURCHLAND
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
SLOANE LEONG (Adventure Time), CLAIRE GIBSON and MARIAN CHURCHLAND (8HOUSE: ARCLIGHT) return with another issue of the magic war between families.
THE GODDAMNED #2
STORY: JASON AARON
ART / COVER: R.M. GUÉRA
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
“And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”—Genesis 6:6
HEAD LOPPER #2: INTO THE SILENT WOOD
STORY / ART / COVER: ANDREW MacLEAN
COVER B: MIKE & LAURA ALLRED
DECEMBER 9 / 56 PAGES / FC / T+ / $5.99
Norgal and Agatha pass through a dark forest with a particularly grim history, where they meet a strange little creature named Gnym. Is he a friend? Or does he just want to see undead giants squish the Head Lopper to meat-jelly? All this… and more!
HUCK #2
STORY: MARK MILLAR
ART / COVERS A & B: RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $3.50
Now under media scrutiny, Huck sets out to help the flood of strangers coming to him in need.
THE HUMANS #10
STORY: KEENAN MARSHALL KELLER
ART / COVER: TOM NEELY
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
The Humans’ quest for vengeance comes to its violent and bloody conclusion as Johnny and the crew overtake Flex Trucking.
Issue 10 concludes the first THE HUMANS miniseries. THE HUMANS will return in 2016.
I HATE FAIRYLAND #3
STORY / ART / COVERS A & B: SKOTTIE YOUNG
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Queen Cloudia is forced to bend the rules of Fairyland in hopes to rid their world of Gert once and for all.
IMAGE GIANT-SIZED ARTIST’S PROOF EDITION: WYTCHES #1
STORY: SCOTT SNYDER
ART / COVER: JOCK
DECEMBER 30 / 40 PAGES / BW / M / $24.99
The all-new IMAGE GIANT SIZED ARTIST’S PROOF EDITION series presents special artist achievements in their raw form in an oversized format. JOCK’s gruesomely gorgeous line work from WYTCHES #1 is presented here in glorious black and white inks, free of grey tones, at 11×17.
INVINCIBLE #126
STORY: ROBERT KIRKMAN
ART: RYAN OTTLEY, CLIFF RATHBURN, & JEAN-FRANCOIS BEAULIEU
COVER: RYAN OTTLEY & JEAN-FRANCOIS BEAULIEU
DECEMBER 16 / 24 PAGES / FC / T+ / $2.99
“REBOOT?” part three! CONCLUSION! Invincible’s world comes crashing down around him leaving him with the same question we all have… where do we go from here?
INVISIBLE REPUBLIC #9
STORY: GABRIEL HARDMAN & CORINNA BECHKO
ART: GABRIEL HARDMAN & JORDAN BOYD
COVER: GABRIEL HARDMAN
DECEMBER 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
The key to the past is literally a key. It’ll take a zero G heist to unlock it.
ISLAND MAGAZINE #5
STORY / ART: BRANDON GRAHAM, MATT SHEEAN, MALACHI WARD, SIMON ROY, & JOHNNIE CHRISTMAS
COVER: AMY CLARE
DECEMBER 16 / 112 PAGES / FC / M / $7.99
Stories of space cannibalism, future tech dependency, and volcano gods along with articles and illustration in this monthly oversized comics magazine.
JUPITER’S CIRCLE, VOL. 2 #2 (OF 6)
STORY: MARK MILLAR
ART: WILFREDO TORRES
COVER A: BILL SIENKIEWICZ
COVER B: FRANK QUITELY
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Disillusioned Skyfox tunes out with the Beat Generation, while his former teammates struggle to face social unrest.
LIMBO #2 (OF 6)
STORY: DAN WATTERS
ART / COVER: CASPAR WIJNGAARD
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
Our detective’s open and shut case takes a turn for the surreal as he discovers that in Dedande City even watching television can be deadly. Join us on a cathode ray fuelled nightmare to the centre of the televerse.
We’re through the static now…
MATERIAL #7
STORY: ALES KOT
ART: WILL TEMPEST
COVER: TOM MULLER
DECEMBER 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Cam porn, comics, gender, fracking.
MYTHIC #7
STORY: PHIL HESTER
ART / COVER A: JOHN McCREA
COVER B: GENE HA
DECEMBER 30 / 24 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
After being fired by Mythic, Nate experiences the chaos of Ragnarok as a helpless civilian.
MONSTRESS #2
STORY: MARJORIE LIU
ART / COVER: SANA TAKEDA
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Maika fights to cross the wall.
NAILBITER #18
STORY: JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
ART / COVER: MIKE HENDERSON
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
There is a new serial killer in Georgia and catching it might mean selling your soul to the Devil.
NO MERCY #5
STORY: ALEX DE CAMPI
ART: CARLA SPEED McNEIL & JENN MANLEY LEE
COVER: CARLA SPEED McNEIL
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
NEW STORY ARC
Gina finds her spirit animal. The new arc of ALEX DE CAMPI (Archie vs. Predator) and CARLA SPEED McNEIL’s (Finder) acclaimed teen survival series begins here!
ODY-C #10
STORY: MATT FRACTION
ART / COVER: CHRISTIAN WARD
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
Ene fights a monolithic beast on the outskirts of space and time as He-of-Troiia tells stories in the mad hope to save his life.
OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #14
STORY: ROBERT KIRKMAN
ART / COVER: PAUL AZACETA & ELIZABETH BREITWEISER
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
Get behind me Satan.
PAPER GIRLS #3
STORY: BRIAN K. VAUGHAN
ART: CLIFF CHIANG & MATT WILSON
COVER: CLIFF CHIANG
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $2.99
The ongoing mystery series from BRIAN K. VAUGHAN & CLIFF CHIANG charges ahead, as the girls have a close encounter with an unexpected visitor.
PHONOGRAM: THE IMMATERIAL GIRL #5 (OF 6)
STORY: KIERON GILLEN
ART: JAMIE McKELVIE & MATT WILSON
COVER: JAMIE McKELVIE
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
David Kohl. Kid-with-Knife. An Army Surplus Land Rover. An impossible mission to save a friend. It’s like 2006 again. Nothing’s changed. Except everything has, as PHONOGRAM: THE IMMATERIAL GIRL reveals while it builds towards its climax…
PLUTONA #4 (OF 5)
STORY: JEFF LEMIRE & EMI LENOX
ART: EMI LENOX & JEFF LEMIRE
COVER: EMI LENOX
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $2.99
Mie begins to suspect that one of her friends may have broken their pact to keep Plutona’s body a secret, but nothing can prepare her for what she finds next. The penultimate chapter in the breakout hit by JEFF LEMIRE and EMI LENOX.
PRETTY DEADLY #7
STORY: KELLY SUE DeCONNICK
ART / COVER: EMMA RÍOS
DECEMBER 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Deathface Ginny and Big Alice take on the Reaper of War.
RINGSIDE #2
STORY: JOE KEATINGE
ART / COVER: NICK BARBER & SIMON GOUGH
DECEMBER 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
Fact vs. Fiction.
RUMBLE #10
STORY: JOHN ARCUDI
ART / COVER: JAMES HARREN
DECEMBER 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Wrapping up the second big RUMBLE arc with battles, rescues, betrayals, and one hell of a last page!
SAGA #32
STORY: BRIAN K. VAUGHAN
ART / COVER: FIONA STAPLES
DECEMBER 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
Marko and Alana learn something.
SAINTS #3
STORY: SEAN LEWIS
ART / COVER: BENJAMIN MACKEY
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
So it’s issue three of this Crusade you want to know about? Our Saints march on in their battle with teen runaway (and telekinetic) Saint Stephen. At the same time the Archangel Michael’s soldiers on Earth continue to sacrifice the anointed. Slush puppies, talking religious paintings, and murderous rednecks abound in the third installment of Image’s new ongoing series!
SAVAGE DRAGON #210
STORY / ART / COVER: ERIK LARSEN
DECEMBER 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
Trouble in paradise. Malcolm and Maxine on their honeymoon in hell.
SIDEKICK #12
STORY: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
ART / COVER A: TOM MANDRAKE & HIFI
COVER B: BEN TEMPLESMITH
DECEMBER 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
The culmination of Barry Chase’s story ends with more revelations about his dark past, and an even darker future. With power beyond his wildest dreams at his disposal, will Barry turn back toward the path of light, or turn into the greatest menace humanity has ever known?
SOUTHERN BASTARDS #13
STORY: JASON AARON
ART / COVER: JASON LATOUR
DECEMBER 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
Coach Boss’s Running Rebs face off against their sworn enemy from Wetumpka in the most important game in Craw County history.
SPAWN #259
STORY: TODD McFARLANE
ART / COVER A: TODD McFARLANE & FRIENDS
COVER B: GERARDO SANDOVAL (PENCILS) & TODD McFARLANE (INKS)
DECEMBER 30 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $2.99
BEGINNING ”THE SATAN SAGA WARS!”—THE FOUR-PART STORY CHRONICLING THE FINAL FATE OF WANDA SIMMONS’ SOUL! THIS STORY WILL FOREVER CHANGE THE WAY SPAWN WILL LIVE HIS LIFE!
In the entire run of the SPAWN comic, our hero has never had to face his greatest threat: Satan himself!
Starting with this issue, Al Simmons will come face to face with Lucifer for the very first time. A battle of epic proportion will begin and the prize is… Wanda’s soul.
This story will forever change the way Spawn will live his life. Join us on this historic odyssey as Spawn takes on the Evil entity that gave him his powers way back in issue #1.
STRAY BULLETS: SUNSHINE AND ROSES #11
STORY / ART / COVER: DAVID LAPHAM
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / BW / M / $3.99
Three days from pulling off the crime of the century, Beth must confront the realization that she’s about to get everyone she’s ever loved killed…
SWITCH #3
STORY / ART / COVER A: STJEPAN SEJIC
COVER B: LINDA SEJIC
INCENTIVE COVER C: STJEPAN SEJIC
DECEMBER 23 / 32 PAGES / FC / T / $3.99
Mary finally learns what the Witchblade’s world is all about as she gets pulled to the other side where she has both friends and enemies…if only she know who was which!
SYMMETRY #1
STORY: MATT HAWKINS
ART / COVERS A, B, & C: RAFFAELE IENCO
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.99
Utopia is here. Hunger, sickness, work…all relics of a long forgotten past. For the greater good of the human species, all individuality, creativity, and negative emotions have been genetically bred out and medically suppressed. The population is limited to segregated areas where people lead long lives of leisure, games, and socializing. Only one man and one woman seem to notice, care, or think differently. Once they find each other, their relationship sparks a revolution…but will their love cause the salvation or destruction of mankind?
THEY’RE NOT LIKE US #11
STORY: ERIC STEPHENSON
ART: SIMON GANE
COVER: SIMON GANE & JORDIE BELLAIRE
DECEMBER 23 / 24 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
“EVERYTHING HAS A PRICE TO PAY”
TOKYO GHOST #4
STORY: RICK REMENDER
ART: SEAN MURPHY
COVER A: SEAN MURPHY & MATT HOLLINGSWORTH
COVER B: SEAN MURPHY & DAVE McCAIG
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
Life in paradise is cut short for Led and Debbie, as a snake from their past seeks vengeance on the Constable.
THE VIOLENT #1
STORY: ED BRISSON
ART / COVER: ADAM GORHAM
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $2.99
From ED BRISSON (SHELTERED) and ADAM GORHAM (Dead Drop) comes an all-new, ongoing series. Meet Mason, an ex-con and former drug addict who’s trying hard to give up his old life. He’s got more important things to live for now: a wife struggling to contain her own addiction and a young daughter who needs them both. When threatened with losing his daughter, Mason falls into old habits, stumbling through a string of desperate criminal acts whose repercussions quickly become deadly serious.
THE WALKING DEAD #149
STORY: ROBERT KIRKMAN
ART: CHARLIE ADLARD, STEFANO GAUDIANO, & CLIFF RATHBURN
COVER: CHARLIE ADLARD & DAVE STEWART
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / BW / M / $2.99
The devil on your shoulder.
WAYWARD #12
STORY: JIM ZUB
ART / COVER A: STEVEN CUMMINGS & TAMRA BONVILLAIN
COVER B: VIVIAN NG
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
No more hiding. The new gods of Japan are on the attack and Tokyo is caught in the middle.
JIM ZUB (SKULLKICKERS, Samurai Jack) and STEVE CUMMINGS (Deadshot) continue their acclaimed supernatural spectacle.
WE STAND ON GUARD #6 (OF 6)
STORY: BRIAN K. VAUGHAN
ART / COVER: STEVE SKROCE
DECEMBER 9 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
MINISERIES CONCLUSION
The smash-hit miniseries reaches its epic FINAL ISSUE with explosive battles and shocking revelations… but how will things end for the Great White North?
WHERE IS JAKE ELLIS? #5 (OF 5)
STORY: NATHAN EDMONDSON
ART: TONCI ZONJIC & JORDAN GIBSON
COVER: TONCI ZONJIC
DECEMBER 2 / 32 PAGES / FC / T+ / $3.50
The game has been changed. Jon and Jake have passed the point of no return, and now they are faced with one last thing: EVERGREEN.
THE WICKED + THE DIVINE #17
STORY: KIERON GILLEN
ART: BRANDON GRAHAM, JAMIE McKELVIE, & MATT WILSON
COVER A: JAMIE McKELVIE & MATT WILSON
COVER B: BRANDON GRAHAM
DECEMBER 16 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
In the last of our guest issues, we’re joined by BRANDON GRAHAM (PROPHET, ISLAND, MULTIPLE WARHEADS) to slink closer to the mysterious and oft-murderous Sakhmet. Plus a backup by JAMIE & MATT. Also…the end of an arc? You know WicDiv. Expect big game changers and/or Sakhmet having a nice purr.