NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM UNIVERSAL! Trench is a deep-cover DEA agent. Steadman is an undercover Naval Intelligence officer. Both think the other is a simple gun-for-hire, the perfect accomplice to help steal a bank vault full of mob money for the good guys. And neither realizes that their caper is a gigantic double-cross from the mob, who's just tricked both men into stealing $50 million from the CIA! Now Trench and Steadman race headlong across the Southwest, guns blazing, desperately outrunning Feds and mobsters alike while scrambling madly to find some way of clearing both their names before they're carved on tombstones! Written by comics legend Steven Grant (Marvel's PUNISHER: CIRCLE OF BLOOD, AVENGERS, INCREDIBLE HULK) and drawn by rising star Mat Santolouco (DC's DIAL H, AMERICAN VAMPIRE), 2 GUNS is a lightning-paced, plot-rich crime thriller perfect for fans of Elmore Leonard, Ocean's 11, and The Italian Job! Collecting the classic series for the first time in a full-size edition, featuring a new cover by Rafael Albuquerque (AMERICAN VAMPIRE) and exclusive bonus con

(W) Steven Grant (A) Emilio Laiso (CA) Rafael Albuquerque WHY WE LOVE IT: Creator Steven Grant (DAMNED, Punisher: Circle of Blood) returns along with original series cover artist Rafael Albuquerque (American Vampire) and interior artist Emilio Laiso (Hack/Slash) for more action-comedy thrills! WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: If you're a fan of the hit 2013 summer blockbuster 2 Guns starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, find out what happens next! Or if you like stories featuring reluctant, unlikely partners like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon, or Die Hard with a Vengeance, you'll like 3 GUNS! WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Trench was a deepcover DEA agent. Steadman was an undercover Naval Intelligence officer. Now, after racing headlong across the Southwest, desperately outrunning Feds and mobsters while trying to clear their names, Trench and Steadman are pulled into another impossible situation: brokering gun deals between the Russians and anti-government revolutionaries?from opposite sides. And little do they know, a Third Gun has her eyes set on the ultimate prize-and she won't go down without a fight. C

Crisara, a tough cop who's survived a terrible car accident, discovers his wife is dead and his daughter is in critical condition. Believing this was a planned hit by the city's drug loard he's been pursuing, Ray's brain injury leaves him five days before he dies to track the killer of be there for his little girl... Ray's clock is ticking!

(W) Saladin Ahmed (A) Sami Kivel? (CA) Taj Francis On the eve of the 1980s and the Reagan Administration, Detroit is burdened with an oppressive darkness-both political and supernatural. Dejected and tough tabloid reporter Elena Abbott, who previously defeated the occult forces responsible for her husband's death, must dig herself out from rock bottom if she's going to save Detroit from the Umbra, one last time. Hugo Award-nominated novelist Saladin Ahmed (Miles Morales: Spider-Man, Black Bolt) and artist Sami Kivel? (Beautiful Canvas) bring Elena into her final chapter, who will have to contend with the dark cloud hanging over Detroit? and over her personally. Collects Abbott:1979 #1 -5.

(W/A/CA) Natsume Ono When political conspiracies abound, preserving the peace is no piece of cake. It's up to one deceptively aloof hero to sniff out corruption in this atmospheric thriller by Natsume Ono (House of Five Leaves, Ristorante Paradiso)!

(W/A/CA) Natsume Ono Jean Otus, vice chairman of the ACCA government's Inspection Department, is suspected of being complicit in plans for a coup d'etat. The government sends a special agent to keep an eye on Jean--someone close to home.

(W/A/CA) Natsume Ono As the day of the coup d'etat arrives, the future of all those who have been embroiled in it hangs in the balance, not least that of ACCA. Will Inspection Department vice-chairman Jean Otus, the man who holds the key to resolution, peer through the veil of intrigue to get to the bottom of the coup and the chaos that threatens to unfold? One thing's for certain: regardless of the outcome, life in the kingdom of Dowa will never be quite the same...

Smoke and mirrors. Fake names and a web of lies. The men of the organization will be forever clad in a cloak of deception-except now. Just once, the truth of that fateful night will be revealed? For readers ages 13 and up.

(W) Ron Marz (A) Marco Castiello (CA) Rus Wooton Spies...like us? In 2008, husband-and-wife Russian intelligence operatives walked into the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic and made a deal to trade secrets for new lives. But instead of the American Dream, the Neumanns found themselves caught up in red tape, bureaucracy and turf wars between the FBI and the CIA - all while their past tries to kill them. Based on the real-life story of real-life spies, ALMOST AMERICAN is written by comics master Ron Marz in close consultation with the Neumanns, with art by rising star Marco Castiello. This volume collects the entire series, issues #1-5.

(W) Brian Azzarello (A/CA) Juan Doe writer: Brian Azzarello artist: Juan Doe cover: Juan Doe 'Epic?' BigComicPage.com 'Absolutely gorgeous?' TheFandomPost.com The ugliest side of humanity may be humanity's only hope. Collecting the first five issues of Brian Azzarello's (100 Bullets, Dark Knight III) latest masterpiece, with horrifically, beautiful artwork from Juan Doe (Fantastic Four, Joker's Asylum). In a small Midwestern town, a large man with a horribly scarred face gets off a bus, and takes a room. He spooks the locals-nobody knows him-or do they? It's impossible to say be-cause he seemingly has no face. The man's intentions remain unknown, until he takes on a corrupt sheriff and the rural crew of racist arms dealers. The town's impression of the man changes, and he's seen as a hero?until his real intentions bubble to the surface. The man isn't there to end the gang, but to take it over. And he's just getting started.

Archer Coe is a performing hypnotist with the stage name 'The Mind's Arrow.' When his nightly shows are over, he moonlights as a special consultant for the rich and powerful. His latest client is a woman who claims to know him but whom he swears he's never met. Things take a strange turn for the worse when her husband ends up dead, and police suspect Archer of not just killing him, but also of being a sinister killer nicknamed 'The Zipper.' Archer has no memory of any of this, but it's making him doubt whether or not he's got blood on his hands. Could the master of other people's minds be losing his own?

(W) Jamie S. Rich (A/CA) Dan Christensen Archer Coe, master hypnotist, is back to performing by day and consulting for the rich and influential by night. Most of his cases are mundane-save his most recent, which ended in quite a few deaths-and that's what Archer expects from his newest client, heiress Nicolette Hardy. Her mother's untimely death has sent her father into a deep depression, and a self-proclaimed mystic, Jane Collins, has taken advantage of his grief by promising him an audience with his dead wife. Archer knows Jane, and he believes she's a fraud. But he has trouble convincing Nicolette's father, and as strange happenings unfold around him, Archer soon has trouble convincing himself. It's clear Jane holds some power-but it's also clear that Jane has no idea how much. Will Archer save Jane and the Hardys before her power becomes uncontrollable? Or will this case be his final curtain?

(W) Mikage Sawamura (A) Toji Aio Naoya Fukamachi is a university student whose ability to infallibly detect lies has left him friendless and isolated. When a paper of his piques the interest of his folklore studies professor Akira Takatsuki, a handsome and eccentric man, he soon finds himself dragged into Akira's research. Now, as the assistant in charge of common sense, he must help his professor interpret an array of unexplainable phenomena?

(W) Fabien Nury (A/CA) Bruno A man forced into slavery seeks bitter revenge on those who stole his freedom! Fabien Nury, award-winning writer of the best-selling The Death of Stalin and Tyler Cross, tells a new story for fans of Django Unchained. Atar Gull is a prince among his people - until he is kidnapped by the ruthless Captain Brulart. Shipped to Jamaica and sold like livestock, he suffers pain, loss, and humiliation - but Atar Gull is a patient man, and his revenge will be served cold indeed.

(W/A) Yuji Kaku When the chairman of the Enma Syndicate-the largest criminal organization in the Kanto region-dies, his death sends shock waves throughout the entirety of the Ayashimon underworld in Japan. These otherworldly criminal organizations are now on the brink of war, and the chairman's daughter Urara plans to come out on top. She's about to find an unlikely ally in the human world?a manga fanatic who wants nothing more than to be a manga hero! For older teen audiences.

A baboon fights its way back to its rightful spot in the animal kingdom in this wonderfully illustrated, wordless graphic novel by revered Spanish writer and artist Pau, author of Atlas and Axis! After the death of its adopted leopard mother, an orphaned baboon wanders the wild in search of companionship and a sense of identity. Stumbling upon the troop of baboons from which it was originally stolen, the baboon falls in love with the troop's head female. Initially rejected, beaten, and discarded by the alpha baboon of the troop, the orphaned baboon trains to fight and earn its respect in the animal kingdom!

(W) Ryohgo Narita (A/CA) Katsumi Enami From the New York Times bestselling author of Durarara!! comes a series full of mobsters, thieves, and immortals! New York, 1927. In a corrupt city where crime rules the streets, Firo Prochainezo is Camorra, an Italian criminal syndicate distinct from the mafia. A member of the relatively small Martillo family, Firo's nevertheless got big ambitions and is determined to make his mark. But while the Martillos may not be the biggest bad guys on the block, they've got some distinct advantages working in their favor. Does Firo have what it takes to become a made man? Let the crazy ruckus begin!

(W) Ryohgo Narita (A) Shinta Fujimoto (CA) Katsumi Enami From the New York Times bestselling author of Durarara!! comes a series full of mobsters, thieves, and immortals! It's the year 1930. Three years after the Phantom Father incident, Firo is about to get a promotion within the Martillo Family. But the intricate web of fate has other plans in store for him as the elixir of immortality nears its completion, setting off a chain of events that brings together gangsters, alchemists, and everything in between!

Three years after the Phantom Father incident, Firo is about to get a promotion within the Martillo Family. But the intricate web of fate has other plans in store for him as the elixir of immortality nears its completion, setting off a chain of events that brings together gangsters, alchemists, and everything in between!

(W) Ryohgo Narita (A) Katsumi Enami After the incident at the Mist Wall, the Martillo Family's youngest capo finds himself on his way to prison to protect the one he loves. The rest are there for their own reasons-the homicidal maniac wants to taste the thrill of killing an immortal, the thief simply got himself caught, the hitman is there on a mission for Nebula, and the alchemist was incarcerated years ago. As the FBI attempts to get to the bottom of Huey's machinations, another ruckus is about erupt across the San Francisco Bay-deep in the heart of Alcatraz.

(W) Ryohgo Narita (A/CA) Katsumi Enami The year 1705, in a town on the coast of Italy. All 15-year-old Huey Laforet feels towards his life is tedium and despair, and he dreams of the day when he can destroy the world he despises. Meanwhile, there are rumors of a strange string of murders performed by a figure in a white mask-and whoever witnesses the killing is doomed to be the next target. As the serial killer shakes the town of Lotto Valentino, Huey's life is about to change, too!

(W) Ryohgo Narita (A/CA) Katsumi Enami The year 2002. The luxury cruise ship Entrance has been hijacked--and thanks to a mysterious cult, its sister ship Exit isn't faring much better. As the two ships race toward each other across the Pacific, what will happen when the two finally meet...?!

It began in the year 1707, when Maiza introduced playwright Jean-Pierre to an alchemist named Fermet. Two years later, Huey finds himself opening his heart to Elmer and Monica more than he ever expected with his troubled past, but Jean-Pierre's new play only invites trouble, and darkness falls over the trio? For readers ages 13 and up.

(W) Ryohgo Narita (A) Katsumi Enami The year 1711. The momentous voyage of the Advena Avis to the New World is near, and each passenger is boarding for their own reasons. Whether driven by determination, ambition, curiosity, or someone more powerful, the alchemists and pioneers are not motivated by anything so simple as fate. And at the center of the storm is Huey Laforet...

(W) Ryohgo Narita (A) Katsumi Enami The casino party is finally underway, and everyone involved in the Flying Pussycat and Mist Wall incidents has gathered at the new Ra's Lance hotel. Is there a shadowy figure pulling the strings behind the scenes, or is it fate? Meanwhile, the Martillo family has been hit by Melvi, the Runorata family's dealer. Amid the confusion, Firo heads to the casino fueled by anger and determination... And so the gamble begins!

(W) Christa Faust (A/CA) Mike Deodato A nerve-racking thriller from crime writer Christa Faust and blockbuster artist Mike Deodato Jr. (The Resistance, Infinity Wars). When her teenaged daughter goes missing under mysterious circumstances, suburban soccer mom April Walters embarks on a harrowing mission to find her; a journey that takes her through the underbelly of her suburban community and sets her on a collision course with a massive crime syndicate and its lethal matriarch. Tested to her limits and beyond, April discovers that hell hath no fury like a mother scorned.

(W) Steven Grant (A) Vince Giarrano (CA) Tim Bradstreet Conrad 'Connie' Bremen is an ex-con carrying the stench of a sordid, secret past. Connie just wants to get on with his life, but he's attracting the attention of all the wrong people: the mob, the CIA, and the FBI, just to name a few. They all have plans for Connie, whether he likes it or not-and some of those plans include the murder of a president. For Connie Bremen, the road to Dallas begins and ends here, in the Badlands. o This second edition features a brand new cover, illustrated by Tim Bradstreet! o From Steven Grant (2 Guns, The Rook) and Vince Giarrano (Terminator)!

(W) Paul Tobin (A/CA) Colleen Coover The most unlikely of patrons hires Bandette, the greatest thief in the world, to pilfer a painting whose brushstrokes hold centuries of hidden messages! Unfortunately, a series of felonious rivals contrive to snatch the art for themselves! Bandette and her adversaries utilize skill, romance, and murderous intent, as the canvas passes from larcenous hand to hand as they each struggle to possess . . . THE SIX FINGER SECRET!

(W) Joe Kelly (A/CA) Adrian Sibar Vinnie has a new life. New York, the mob and all its horrors are a distant memory...until Autumn blows into San Francisco. Autumn, the one who broke his heart, the one he left behind...begging Vinnie to pull one last job: Rob the sadistic mob boss who wants him dead...so she can afford the gender reassignment surgery that will make her the woman Vinnie always wanted. Remastering the provocative Vertigo series, this new volume presents Bang!Tango as it was always meant to be!

(W) Alex De Campi (A/CA) Chris Cross A past betrayal has primed Marcus King for revenge-and now that he has been given enhanced abilities, the fuse is lit! From the mountains of Ukraine to a lush tropical island, no place is safe from his vengeance! Marcus King: modern-day Robin Hood or terrorist? Maybe both? When Marcus comes face to face with an adversary who knows all of his carefully buried truths, he's forced to become the man he has always pretended to be. God help his enemies! The complete five-issue miniseries!

(W/A/CA) Max de Radigues After conducting 52 simultaneous robberies in the same city, May and Eugene are now on the run from the law, former accomplices, and their own violent past. What makes these criminals so surprising is that they are a young mother and her preteen son. Bastard traces the escape of May and Eugene as they crisscross the United States, racing to get to their stolen cash. Both bloody and tender and full of plot twists and high tension, Bastard is a hard-boiled page-turner introducing an adolescent anti-hero that you're sure not to forget.

(W) Stephanie Phillips (A) Valeria Favoccia Featuring characters from the million copy-selling novels of USA Today bestselling author Mark Dawson and written by Harley Quinn writer Stephanie Phillips! Beatrix Rose-an assassin ripped from her old life, Sapped working for the Triads in Hong Kong, and forced to protect them when a killer starts to target her bosses. They call this killer a Demon, unable to be stopped, striking at will. Beatrix has no choice but to find this Demon, to take them out, or die trying. Collects issues 1-5 of Mark Dawson's Beatrix Rose: Vigilante.

(W) Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley (A) Mike Huddleston & Various (CA) Jeremy Haun, John Rauch After the shocking events of Issue 6, we're introduced to Timo, Ezerae, and a host of new characters, as well as your favorites from the first arc, to further explore a dark and demented world tainted by THE BEAUTY, where perfection is a fatal disease, and not everyone wants a cure. The disturbing world of THE BEAUTY, from creators JEREMY HAUN and JASON A. HURLEY, expands with new stories featuring guest artists MIKE HUDDLESTON, BRETT WELDELE, and STEPHEN GREEN. Collects THE BEAUTY #7-11

(W) Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley (A) Jeremy Haun, Thomas Nachlik (CA) Jeremy Haun THE BEAUTY returns, merging characters and storylines from earlier arcs into a twisting tale of vanity, power, and the quest to obtain both at any cost. In a world where achieving pure beauty means dying for it, the question of what life is actually worth becomes more important than ever. Collects THE BEAUTY #12-16

(W) Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley (A) Matthew Dow Smith, Thomas Nachlik (CA) Jeremy Haun, Nick Filardi ADVANCE SOLICIT! Corporate espionage, government secrets, and private military contracts are uncovered as an investigative journalist looks deep into Abericorp, the most powerful pharmaceutical company in the world. Collects THE BEAUTY #17-21.

From the award-winning author of The Last Rose Of Summer and This Side Of Jordan comes a new prose novel framed within a city where gangsters murder ordinary citizens and everyone seems to have a get-rich scheme. Set as the Roaring '20s come to a thunderous close, The Big Town evokes a lost era through language and flamboyant characters reminiscent of Fitzgerald, Dos Passos and Ring Lardner, and yet it also eerily mirrors our own time with its study of the role of business, crime, morality, and love in our lives.

(W/A) Rei Hiroe Peace in Roanapur is fragile, balanced on a powder keg that could explode at any moment. When a mysterious crew of assassins shows up and starts taking out specific members of the city's underworld, the major players-the Triad, the Sicilians, and Hotel Moscow-have to get involved. The rogue hit squad also seems to have Dutch in its sights, and Rock and Revy begin an investigation. Tracking down the killers means lifting the lid on Dutch's background and perhaps exposing the true identity of the skipper of the Black Lagoon. For mature audiences.

(W) Greg Rucka (A/CA) Nicola Scott SPECIAL LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE OF $9.99 Rowan Black is a detective with the Portsmouth PD... and a witch, two aspects of her life she has struggled to keep separate. Now someone is targeting Rowan, someone who knows her secrets and means to expose her... or worse. Collects BLACK MAGICK #1-5

(W) Greg Rucka (A/CA) Nicola Scott The trap around Rowan Black continues to close, with the Hammer closing in on one side and the Ascension now in motion on the other. But the ultimate wound may not be wielded by magick, but instead delivered via the heart. New York Times bestselling creators GREG RUCKA and NICOLA SCOTT bring you the second volume of the critically acclaimed series. Collects BLACK MAGICK #6-11.

(W) Chip Mosher (A) Peter Krause & Various A disgraced ex-cop, Conrad, seeks redemption by unraveling an unsolved murder during Southern California's fire season. Conrad follows a lone clue-a discarded crucifix-to unravel the death of Karen Littleton, whose body was found amid a blaze that scorched 10,000 acres. The search leads him to clash with the victim's father and prime suspect, Robert Littleton, as well as hostile former colleagues on the local police force. All the while, Conrad combats his consuming alcoholism and fading faculties. Will his 'questionable' methods net him a murderer, or will the grizzled detective be brought to his knees by heartbreak and addiction? Find out, in this all-new edition of Blacking Out, a scorching crime noir comic set in a small town in the dry California desert.