LAUNCH PARTY ASHCAN

BATMAN 159 LAUNCH PARTY ASHCAN

H2SH WITH JEPH LOEB AND JIM LEE CONTINUES! After the shocking events of the last issue, Batman must make the hardest decision of his life! Guest-starring Nightwing, Batgirl, and Red Hood!

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C?mon, grab your friends?ADVENTURE TIME is BACK with AN ALL-NEW ONGOING SERIES from a star-studded cast of cutting-edge creative talents! ?BEST OF BUDS? starts here with a brand-new adventure nearly a decade in the making! When Finn and Jake save the newly installed Computer Princess from the clutches of the evil Ice King?he just wants a bride, OK, is that too much to ask?!?the two escort her back to the Computer Kingdom, where she gives our totally mathematical adventurers a new quest: find the powerful guide for heroes?the Enchiridion?and bring it back to her, so she can scan it for her digital archive! But where are they going to find it? And how?! An epic journey awaits Finn and Jake, but can they remain best of buds throughout their quest? Or is their friendship about to be put to the test?! Fantasy and friendship unite as the beloved animation icons of Adventure Time return to comics to pick up where their Eisner Award?winning adventures left off! It all begins in ?Best of Buds Part 1? by cartoonist and animator Nick Winn (Bloody Mary)?plus the first chapter of new monthly backup feature by classic Adventure Time writer/storyboard artist and 2024 LA Times Book Prize Finalist Derek Ballard (Cartoonshow)!

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In the borderlands between imagination and reality, horror and fantasy, master storyteller Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun, Harrow County) and visionary artist Christopher Mitten (Hellboy & the B.P.R.D.) begin one family’s labyrinthine descent through a perilous forest where the local folklore is anything but a myth . . . Bestselling author Andrew Kier found the perfect place to finish his latest dark-fantasy novel—an idyllic, remote cabin on the edge of a lush Swedish forest. His young daughters, Sommer and Winter, gleefully explore . . . until they happen upon a strange clearing of ancient statues: goblins, dwarves, elves, and a warrior queen mysteriously missing her swordhand and weapon. When something sinister follows the girls home and viciously snatches their parents in the night, the sisters’ only hope may be that ancient relic, lost in the forest underbrush, waiting for a new champion to take it up . . .

BENJAMIN 2 (OF 3) CVR A CHRISTIAN WARD

Legendary science-fiction novelist Benjamin J. Carp has just been resurrected 40 years after his death . . . and that?s not even the strangest thing that?s going to happen to him today. In an effort to unravel the mystery of author Benjamin J. Carp?s unexpected reappearance, Benjamin and his newfound companion, Marcus, travel to the arid Joshua Tree desert, where they discover the secret lair of a cabal of scientists eager to revive the minds of some of history?s greatest thinkers in an effort to save humanity from its greatest weakness: lack of imagination. Are they to be believed . . . or is this just more sci-fi hokum torn from a chapter in one of Carp?s beloved novels? Edgar Award nominee and Philip K. Dick Award?winning novelist Ben H. Winters (EC?s Cruel Universe, The Last Policeman Trilogy) teams with rising star Leomacs (EC?s Epitaphs from the Abyss, Basketful of Heads) to recite the next haunting chapter of 2025?s mesmerizing science-fiction daydream with profound implications for the fate of the universe, as delivered in a prestige, ad-free format.

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SINS OF THE PAST DON?T STAY BURIED . . . THEY ALWAYS FIND A WAY OF RISING FROM THE GRAVE! From Eisner Award?nominated writer and master storyteller Rodney Barnes (Batman: Full Moon, Killadelphia) and phenomenal artist Elia Bonetti (Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy), enter a century-spanning tale of suspense and sorrow as true crime meets shocking terror inside an infamous asylum with a tortured past in this double-sized, 48-page debut . . . Founded at the turn of the 20th century outside of Annapolis, Maryland, the Crownsville Hospital was a notoriously segregated, all-Black psychiatric institute. After decades of overcrowding and neglect?alongside darker, more-persistent rumors of patient abuse and illegal medical experiments?it was finally closed. Today, it stands condemned?a crumbling testament to a legacy of all-too-real terror inflicted on a marginalized and vulnerable community. But even as a ruin of its former self, Crownsville still casts a long shadow. . . . When an unexplained death inside the abandoned hospital is ruled a suicide, Annapolis police detective Mike Simms and journalist Paul Blairare are compelled to dig deeper, only to discover the reality of the horrors that once took place there . . . and the powerful connection they share to the anguished spirits of the dead that are still locked within its walls.

DARK REGARDS 1 (OF 4) CVR A ARTOM TOPILIN

SOMETIMES YOU BREAK THE INTERNET?AND SOMETIMES THE INTERNET BREAKS YOU! AT LAST?THE TRUE STORY OF THE VIRAL HOAX SO INSANE IT COULD ONLY BE TOLD AS A COMIC BOOK! From the honestly pretty impressive mind of multi-hyphenate writer-comedian-actor-musician Dave Hill (Tasteful Nudes) and breakout artist Artyom Topilin (I Hate This Place) comes the SHOCKINGLY TRUE, TERRIFYINGLY HILARIOUS, AND ONLY MODESTLY EXAGGERATED tale of how one stand-up comedian forged a secret online identity as America?s first true black metal icon . . . and accidentally started an international incident that almost wiped Gary, Indiana, off the map!Two decades ago, Dave Hill and his first band set out to rock their high school auditorium in a fury of heavy metal hellfire. They failed miserably. Years later, Dave has made a new life for himself as a rising star in the New York comedy scene?a career where getting laughed at on stage is the entire point and not just a tragic consequence. But when Dave?s metal ambitions are reawakened by the ?ber self-serious ?satanic? genre of Norwegian black metal, Dave creates a ridiculously hyperbolic alter ego and a band to match that, together, reignite the spark of his forgotten rock ?n? roll fantasy. But when Dave?s internet-fueled rumors of Witch Taint?a metal band ?so extreme that you must remove all sharp objects from the immediate area? when their music is played?spreads all the way to Europe, his story will spiral dangerously out of control as Norway?s most extreme black metal butchers come to reap their revenge . . . and put everything and everyone Dave holds dear in the crosshairs (of their axes, which, truth be told, don?t actually have crosshairs, but, hey, it?s a metaphor).