(W) Bryan Valenza, Henry Barajas (A) Alti Firmansyah & Various (CA) Rhoald Marcellius, Bryan Valenza
The exploration of the Mystic Universe continues in the second installment of the breakthrough anthology! Still spearheaded by Indonesian visual artist Bryan Valenza and Henry Barajas, BEYONDTOPIA: LEGENDS#2 showcases more stories reimagined from a variety of folklores and legends: - Flores Man: Airplane crash survivors stranded on Flores Island must survive in a place with no inhabitants? or so they thought! - Chief of MYTH: A day in the life of legendary figure Ghatot, who, in our modern world leads MYTH is a private agency for Mystical Defense, Regulation and Research. - Stockholm: when all he experiences around him is abuse, a boy's imagination manifests a a mysterious figure who offers? a different kind of love. - Space Indigo: a Meta Monster hunter from Andromeda comes to explore an uninhabited haunted planet called.. Earth. - Help: Kunyuk is a wandering boy warrior who likes to help! But this time, it seemed like he was the one who needed help from the Mystic Beasts' attack
(W) Michele Monteleone, Giulio Antonio Gualtieri (A) Fabrizio Des Dorides, Francesco De Stena (CA) Fernando Dagnino
TWO LEGENDARY MONSTERS, ONE SCARY VOLUME! Straight out of Italy, here comes a bold new take on two classic monster stories? 'Fumetti style!' Dracula x Frankenstein is the perfect graphic novel to get this year for Halloween and beyond. Jonathan Harker, a British solicitor, arrives in Transylvania to meet his client, Count Dracula. In the Count's castle, he finds himself playing the part of the bait in a cruel game that Dracula set up for his host. July 31, 1797. During an expedition to the North Pole, Captain Walton is stuck with his ship in the ice and scans the horizon. Suddenly, someone emerges from the gloom, on a dog sled. The driver is an exhausted man, Victor Frankenstein. And once he has recovered from the cold he will have to tell the captain about his near-death experience with the mysterious creature to which he himself gave life to?
(W) Greg Burnham (A) Quinn McGowan, Marcus Williams (CA) Quinn McGowan
Straight out of the pages of the NOIR IS THE NEW BLACK hit anthology! Detective Ousley's hands are full. Between the mysterious murder of teenager that everyone loved, the sudden irruption of a younger sister he did not know about and the dirty laundry of local politicians and businessmen, there's much on his plate. But Ousley has a thick skin. And he knows Little Rock like no one else. When Black Noir meets NoirKansas? No one is safe.
(W/A) Ciro Tota (CA) Paul Renaud
Photonik is bring (sexy?) Silver Age comics back! A reluctant disabled superhero, a larger than life supervillain who wants to enslave humanity, two unlikely sidekicks and a huge dose of adventure. Photonik: Man of Life is the feel-good graphic novel of the Fall!
He was bullied so often he stopped counting. He was sometimes called a monster or an aberration. Thaddeus Tanterhook has lived with Khyphosis (hunchback) all his life, but when he becomes the flawless Photonik, the Man of Light, people only see the hero. Will his powers change the man he is inside?
Photonik is bringing the Silver Age back! Written and drawn by Ciro Tota, Photonik: Man of Light has achieved cult status in France where hundreds of thousands of readers have followed his adventures through the years. It has the charm and classic feel of X-Men, Spider-Man and Hulk. It stars a trio of outcasts ready to save the day while society rejects them... Sounds familiar?
Next to Photonik, you'll find Tom Thumb, a stray kid who never misses a shot and Dr Ziegel, a Holocaust survivor with psyc