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BOOM! STUDIOS NEW LAUNCHING SINGLES AND ONE-SHOTS

WWE #1

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writers: Dennis Hopeless, Ross Thibodeaux
• Artists: Eduard Petrovich, Rob Guillory
• Cover Artists: Â
• Main Cover A: Dan Mora
• The New Day Incentive Cover 1 B: Rob Guillory
• Razor Ramon Incentive Cover 2 C: Jamal Campbell
• Macho Man Randy Savage Incentive Cover 3 D: Oliver Barrett
• Unlockable Action Figure Variant E: TBA
• Unlockable Blank Sketch Variant Cover F: N/A
• Unlockable Royal Rumble Connecting Variant Cover G: Brent Schoonover
• Unlockable Title Belt Foil Party Gatefold Variant H: N/A
• Synopsis:
• BOOM! Studios is proud to present the most authentic line of ongoing WWE comics. Each issue will feature your favorite Superstars in stories that go beyond what you’ve ever seen on TV.
• The first story arcs detail the “Breaking of The Shield.”
• Seth Rollins. Roman Reigns. Dean Ambrose. Together they formed The Shield, one of the most dominant factions in WWE history—until the ultimate opportunist Seth chose to betray the group at the behest of Triple H, the “King of Kings” who has cemented himself as the authority in control of WWE.
• Now, eager to prove himself, Seth is on the hunt for the WWE Championship, a journey that will send him on a collision course with his former brothers…
• Includes a backup story starring The New Day by Ross Thibodeaux (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 2016 Annual) and Rob Guillory (Chew).

LADYCASTLE #1 (OF 4)

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writer: Delilah S. Dawson
• Artist: Ashley A. Woods
• Cover Artists:
• Main Cover: Ashley A. Woods
• Intermix Cover: Elsa Chatterier
• Synopsis:
• When King Mancastle and his mighty vassals ride off on crusade, the women left behind are not at all put out—that's a lot less armor polishing for them to do. Of course, when the men get themselves eaten by a dragon and leave a curse that attracts monsters to the castle...well, the women take umbrage with that.
• Now the blacksmith’s wife Merinor is King, Princess Aeve is the Captain, and the only remaining (and least capable) knight Sir Riddick is tasked with teaching the ladies of the castle how to fight, defend, build, and do all manner of noisy things the men had been doing while the women assumed they were just drunk.
• Novelist Delilah S. Dawson (Star Wars: The Perfect Weapon, As Wicked as She Wants, Wake of Vultures) brings her first original series to comics, and is joined by breakthrough illustrator Ashley A. Woods (Niobe: She Is Life) for a rollicking fantasy adventure featuring women reclaiming their lives on their terms.

KABOOM! NEW LAUNCHING SINGLES AND ONE-SHOTS

THE DEEP #1 (OF 6)

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writer: Tom Taylor
• Artist: James Brouwer
• Cover Artist: James Brouwer
• Synopsis:
• Where the hit Netflix series began!
• Journey into The Deep with the daring aquanaut family, The Nektons, aboard their state-of-the-art (and oh, so shiny) submarine, The Aronnax.
• When an earthquake off the coast of Greenland leads to strange reports of monster sightings, William and Kaiko Nekton, along with their kids, Fontaine and Ant (and of course, Ant’s pet fish, Jeffrey), dive into the mystery!
• Will they find what they're looking for? Will they teach a fish to fetch? Will they be accidentally eaten? Find out in the all-ages adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Tom Taylor (Injustice: Gods Among Us, All-New Wolverine, Star Wars: Adventures) and James Brouwer (Justice League Beyond).

BOOM! STUDIOS ONGOINGS AND LIMITED SERIES

NAMESAKE #3 (of 4)

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writer: Steve Orlando
• Artist: Jakub Rebelka
• Cover Artist: Jakub Rebelka
• Synopsis: After last issue’s world-shaking reveal, Jordan sets out on his new mission to fight through Ferrier’s multi-level stronghold, smashing faces, busting knees, and breaking arms in the process.

BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA/ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK #4 (of 6)

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writer: Greg Pak
• Artist: Daniel Bayliss
• Cover Artists:
• Main Cover: Daniel Bayliss
• Subscription Cover: Felipe Massafera
• Synopsis: Snake and Jack go undercover to join David Lo Pan's army.

WARLORDS OF APPALACHIA #4 (of 4)

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writer: Phillip Kennedy Johnson
• Artist: Jonas Scharf
• Cover Artist: Robert Sammelin
• Synopsis: Final issue! The rebel assault on the government base in Red Rock is finally underway, with Kade leading his rag-tag forces against overwhelming odds.

SKYBOURNE #4 (OF 5)

• Writer: Frank Cho
• Artist: Frank Cho
• Cover Artist: Frank Cho
• Synopsis: As Merlin takes his final steps to eliminate humanity, Skybourne must contend with not only a dragon, but an ancient unearthed evil in order to defeat the magician once and for all.

SONS OF ANARCHY REDWOOD ORIGINAL #6

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writer: Ollie Masters
• Artist: Eoin Marron
• Cover Artists:
• Main Cover: Brahm Revel
• Subscription Cover: Greg Smallwood
• Synopsis: The biker with no name continues to terrorize SAMCRO as Jax convinces Opie to help him get back in Clay’s good graces by retrieving a stolen gun shipment.

KONG OF SKULL ISLAND #7

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writer: James Asmus
• Artist: Carlos Magno
• Cover Artist: Nick Robles
• Synopsis: Now an ongoing series! As the Kongs spread through Skull Island and begin to inhabit the land on their own from the humans, they will face its true horrors.

JOYRIDE #9

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writers: Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly
• Artist: Marcus To
• Cover Artist: Marcus To
• Synopsis: The start of an all-new arc picks up one year after the galaxy-changing events of last issue. As they embark on their next wave of adventures, Uma, Catrin, and Dewydd are not the same people who fled Earth a year ago.

MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS #11

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writer: Kyle Higgins
• Artist: Hendry Prasetya
• Cover Artists: Â
• Main Cover: Jamal Campbell
• Morph Incentive Cover 1: Goñi Montes
• Incentive Cover 2: Ricardo Bessa
• Unlockable Action Figure Variant: Telmos Santos
• Unlockable Villain Variant: Artyom Trakhanov
• Synopsis: Billy and Tommy are left powerless and trapped in a strange new world. Jason and the rest of the team must do all they can to track down their missing friends and bring Zordon back.

ARCHAIA ONGOINGS AND LIMITED SERIES

JIM HENSON’S THE STORYTELLER: GIANTS #2 (OF 4)

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writer: Brandon Dayton
• Artist: Brandon Dayton
• Cover Artist: Brandon Dayton
• Synopsis: In this second issue, Brandon Dayton, creator of one of YALSA’s 2008 Top Ten Teen Graphic Novels The Green Monk, combines folklore from Russia, Norway, and France with “The Tailor’s Daughter,” a journey that follows a young woman as she outwits an unruly, cruel giant.

BOOM! BOX ONGOINGS AND LIMITED SERIES

SLAM! #3

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writer: Pamela Ribon
• Artist: Veronica Fish
• Cover Artists:
• Main Cover: Veronica Fish
• Incentive Cover: Jillian Tamaki
• Synopsis: CanCan picks up a snarky attitude from her mentor, which rubs Knockout the wrong way. Everything comes to a head in the rink, which eventually leads them to realize that the only thing holding them back from their potential...could be each other.

THE BACKSTAGERS #6 (of 8)

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writer: James Tynion IV
• Artist: Rian Sygh
• Cover Artist: Veronica Fish
• Synopsis: Aziz and Sasha take it upon themselves to dig deeper into the mystery of the backstage world, while the rest of the Backstagers get closer to the cast members of the latest show.

JONESY #9

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writer: Sam Humphries
• Artist: Caitlin Rose Boyle
• Cover Artist: Caitlin Rose Boyle
• Synopsis: Being a high schooler with magical love-inducing powers ain’t an easy job, but someone’s gotta do it! Well, she doesn’t gotta, but the gal can’t help herself. Jonesy is at it again, with all her flash and sass, in the latest issue of the hit ongoing series!

GIANT DAYS #22

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writer: John Allison
• Artist: Max Sarin
• Cover Artist: Lissa Treiman
• Synopsis: Daisy struggles with the persistent advances of Ingrid Oesterle, Esther gets the call from Dark Nebula to be a comic shop employee, and Susan finally saves up enough money to buy a scooter that she’s too afraid to ride.

MUNCHKIN #25

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writer: Andrew Hackard
• Artist: Ian McGinty
• Cover Artists:
• Main: Ian McGinty
• Incentive: Derek Freidolfs
• Synopsis: Spyke & Flower's “Final” Adventure! All good things come to an end, and so, Spyke and Flower ride off into the sunset to find their final bag of loot in the land of Munchkin. Final oversized issue!

LUMBERJANES #34

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writers: Shannon Watters & Kat Leyh
• Artist: Carolyn Nowak
• Cover Artists:
• Main Cover: Kat Leyh
• Incentive Cover: Jenn Liv
• Synopsis: The yetis are back and they need a favor from the Lumberjanes!

KABOOM! ONGOINGS AND LIMITED SERIES

MEGA PRINCESS #3 (of 5)

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writer: Kelly Thompson
• Artist: Brianne Drouhard
• Cover Artist: Brianne Drouhard
• Synopsis: Max and Justine’s search is almost all washed up when they get in over their heads with their Atlantean neighbors! Water they going to do?!

ADVENTURE TIME COMICS #7

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writers: Riley Rossmo, Kevin Jay Stanton, Kiki’ssh
• Artists: Riley Rossmo, Kevin Jay Stanton, Kiki’ssh
• Cover Artists:
• Main Cover: Eva Cabrera
• Subscription Cover: Meg Daunting
• Incentive Cover: Angela Rizza
• Synopsis: Gunter tells us his favorite story, Choose Goose gets some sweet kicks, and Finn needs to find out what’s wrong with Jake’s diet!

OVER THE GARDEN WALL #10

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writers: Danielle Burgos, Kiernan Sjursen-Lien
• Artists: Jim Campbell, Cara McGee
• Cover Artists:
• Main Cover: Lauren Duda
• Subscription Cover: Emily Osborne
• Main Cover: Lauren Duda
• Subscription Cover: Emily Osborne
• Synopsis: Greg might have finally found Hero Frog! But is he everything that Greg and Jason Funderburker hoped he would be? Wirt waxes poetically about the moon for a bit, because he has feelings.

ADVENTURE TIME #60

• Retail Price: $3.99
• Writer: Christopher Hastings
• Artist: Ian McGinty
• Cover Artists:
• Main Cover: Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb
• Subscription Cover: Cathy Le
• Synopsis: Finn gets into the dungeon-making scene and meets fellow dungeon masters, some of whom are villains from Finn’s past!

BOOM! STUDIOS TPS, OGNS, AND HARDCOVERS

BILL & TED GO TO HELL TP

• *****ADVANCE SOLICITED FOR MARCH 2017*****
• Retail Price: $14.99
• Writer: Brian Joines
• Artist: Bachan
• Cover Artist: Jamal Campbell
• Synopsis:
• Writer Brian Joines and artist Bachan, the most excellent duo behind Imagine Agents, bring you the ultimate Wyld Stallyns adventure pitting history versus hell in the most epic Bill & Ted Go to Hell.
• Bill & Ted and the Princesses will have to reunite with their historic friends to knock down the Devil's door and save Death.
• With the help of Rufus, Billy the Kid, Joan of Arc, and many more, this is the showdown that will rock the supernatural world. History vs. Hell. Too bad Hell has some surprises up its sleeve…
• Collects the complete limited series.

MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS VOL. 2 TP

• *****ADVANCE SOLICITED FOR MARCH 2017*****
• Retail Price: $16.99
• Writers: Â Kyle Higgins, Steve Orlando
• Artists: Hendry Prasetya, Thony Silas, Corin Howell
• Cover Artist: Goñi Montes
• Synopsis: As Rita enacts her plans for world domination, the Rangers are left powerless and without Zordon to call on. This is the greatest threat they have ever faced and the world hangs in the balance. Enter the age of the Black Dragon from writer Kyle Higgins (Nightwing, Batman Beyond 2.0) and artist Hendry Prasetya (Power Girl). Continue the adventure with the untold origin of the Green Ranger with art by Thony Silas (Batman Beyond 2.0), and the continuing adventures of Bulk and Skull from Steve Orlando (Supergirl) and Corin Howell (Bat-Mite). Collects issues #5-8.

THE WOODS VOL. 6

• *****ADVANCE SOLICITED FOR MARCH 2017*****
• Retail Price: $14.99
• Writer: Â James Tynion IV
• Artist: Michael Dialynas
• Cover Artist: Michael Dialynas
• Synopsis: Having been stranded in an alien wilderness for well over a year, the former students of Bay Point Preparatory High School have had to grow up fast—first simply to survive, and later to build some kind of life on this foreign moon. But conflict rears its ugly head again as The Horde begins conscripting athletes to raise an army, separating and scattering the other survivors throughout New London. And as the growing threat of an upcoming massacre approaches, time is quickly running out to salvage the society Bay Point has become. Collects the critically acclaimed sixth arc of this best-selling series, issues #21-24.

ARCHAIA TPS, OGNS, AND HARDCOVERS

RUST VOL. 2: SECRETS OF THE CELL TP

• *****ADVANCE SOLICITED FOR MARCH 2017*****
• Retail Price: $14.99
• Writer: Â Royden Lepp
• Artist: Â Royden Lepp
• Cover Artist: Â Royden Lepp
• Synopsis: After a second robot attack on the Taylor farm leaves the family picking up the pieces once again, Roman’s younger brother Oswald becomes increasingly suspicious of Jet Jones’s connection with the flesh-and-blood family that has harbored him. A new evil looms on the horizon and the Taylors will need Jet’s help to stop it if they are to keep the farm, and the family, safe. Royden Lepp’s Rust: Secrets of the Cell continues Jet Jones’s critically acclaimed adventure as the rocket boy fights to earn the trust of those he cares about most while protecting them from unexpected new threats. Available for the first time in softcover.

BOOM! BOX TPS, OGNS, AND HARDCOVERS

LUMBERJANES/GOTHAM ACADEMY TP

• *****ADVANCE SOLICITED FOR MARCH 2017*****
• Retail Price: $19.99
• Writer: Chynna Clugston Flores
• Artists: Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, Maddi Gonzalez, Jenna Ayoub, Kelly & Nichole Matthews
• Cover Artist: Mingjue Helen Chen
• Synopsis:
• BOOM! Studios and DC Comics team up to bring together Lumberjanes and Gotham Academy for the ultimate friendship-fueled crossover event.
• Written by Chynna Clugston Flores (Blue Monday), and illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me) Jenna Ayoub, Maddi Gonzalez, and Kelly & Nichole Matthews (Toil and Trouble), this is a run-for-your-life-from-skeletal-monsters mystery that leads to lifelong friendship!
• When a teacher at Gotham Academy goes missing, it’s up to Olive, Maps, Colton, Pom, and Kyle to figure out what is happening and how to get her back. With only an outdated birthday invitation as the clue, they find themselves in the middle of the woods with no idea of where to start.
• With the sudden appearance of the Lumberjanes—April, Jo, Mal, Molly, Ripley and Jen—who are on the hunt for their missing Camp Director, all clues point to an abandoned cabin with more secrets than cobwebs.

JONESY VOL. 2 TP

• *****ADVANCE SOLICITED FOR MARCH 2017*****
• Retail Price: $14.99
• Writer: Sam Humphries
• Artist: Caitlin Rose Boyle
• Cover Artist: Lissa Treiman
• Synopsis: She doesn’t sling arrows, only attitude!  The adventures of Jonesy, the teenage cupid with a penchant for plaid, continue here. Stuff still rules, high school still sucks, and getting anyone to fall in love with her is still impossible! Collects issue #5-8.

KABOOM! TPS, OGNS, AND HARDCOVERS

ADVENTURE TIME VOL. 11 TP

• *****ADVANCE SOLICITED FOR MARCH 2017*****
• Retail Price: $14.99
• Writer: Christopher Hastings
• Artist: Ian McGinty
• Cover Artists: Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb
• Synopsis: Jake just wants to have a nice relaxing weekend without any adventures. Not too much to ask for, right? Too bad the Governor of Ghost-A- Rica has plans of his own and that means releasing his ghost minions to steal the youth of all the citizens in Ooo. It’s a battle for youth, literally! Collects issues #50-54.

UNCLE GRANDPA IN UNCLEGRANDPALAND OGN

• *****ADVANCE SOLICITED FOR MARCH 2017*****
• Retail Price: $14.99
• Writer: Pranas T. Naujokaitis
• Artist: Pranas T. Naujokaitis
• Cover Artist: Aaron Alexovich
• Synopsis:
• Uncle Grandpa is given his own theme park!
• But on opening day, everything that can go wrong, starts to. Especially the genetically engineered, cyborg-Uncle Grandpa-clone-mascots that populate the park.
• It’s now up to Uncle Grandpa, Pizza Steve and the rest of the crew to get the park working again, get all the visitors to safety, and make it out in one piece!