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Courtesy of Marvel here are preview pages for Ender’s Shadow: Battle School #5, Lords of Avalon: Knight of Darkness #6, Marvel Apes: Grunt Line Special #1, Squadron Supreme #22 and The Stand: American Nightmares #3 all scheduled to ship next week (5/28/09).

ENDER’S SHADOW: BATTLE SCHOOL #5
COVER BY: TIMOTHY GREEN II
WRITER: MIKE CAREY
PENCILS: SEBASTIAN FIUMARA
INKS: SEBASTIAN FIUMARA
COLORED BY: GIULIA BRUSCO
LETTERED BY: VC – CORY PETIT
THE STORY:
Sister Carlotta’s quest to understand Bean’s past brings unwelcome revelations about his future. Meanwhile, Bean himself faces a daunting task which will finally bring him face to face with his famous rival – but will they meet as friends or as enemies? The first chapter of Bean’s journey in Marvel’s adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi classic, Ender’s Shadow, reaches its conclusion here!
Parental Advisory …$3.99

LORDS OF AVALON: KNIGHT OF DARKNESS #6
COVER BY: TOMMY OHTSUKA
WRITER: SHERRILYN KENYON & ROBIN FURTH
PENCILS: TOMMY OHTSUKA
THE STORY:
THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR SHERRILYN KENYON’S EPIC TALE! Varian and Blaise are going up against Morgen’s entire army of Adoni, with the battle coming to a head at the Slaughter Bridge. It’s still unclear if the bridge’s protector, the spirit of Lord Sagremor, will fight for or against Varian and his friends. Meanwhile, Merewyn is under suspicion for having betrayed Varian, Blaise and the others to Morgen, when in reality, she has made a pact with Dame Fortune that has rendered her mute, unable to defend herself! Don’t miss the gripping finale of this tale of war, magic and romance!
Parental Advisory …$3.99

MARVEL APES: GRUNT LINE SPECIAL #1
COVER BY: JOHN WATSON
WRITER: KARL KESEL
PENCILS: JOE SUITOR
INKS: JOE SUITOR
COLORED BY: JOE SUITOR
LETTERED BY: JARED FLETCHER
THE STORY:
Evolution got ya down? Fear not hairless ones, because MARVEL APES are about to get HAMMERED!
When teenager Roy Reyna finds he can transform into the super-powered simian APE X, it’s more fun than a barrel of monkeys…until H.A.M.M.E.R. agents capture him. The next thing Ape X knows, he’s in a secret prison being interrogated about some strange…Ape Universe. He doesn’t have the answers they want, and they don’t believe him. But they’ll break him, one way or another…
Ape X’s only hope is Jane Potter— a young journalist working for the Front Line newspaper, hungry for her first Big Story— plus her quirky co-conspirators: the Initiative’s furry fury, Gorilla Girl, and the world’s most lovable loser, the Gibbon. All this banana bunch has to do to save Ape X is break into the secret government facility known as…PROJECT PEGASUS.
Mix in some bad puns and big guns, the Red Ghost’s Super-Apes and a sinister cyber-simian called Ooktron, and the fur really flies! But escaping from Project Pegasus is no joke— and on this front line everyone is expendable!
One-Shot/Rated T+ …$3.99

SQUADRON SUPREME #11
COVER BY: MARCO CHECCHETTO
WRITER: HOWARD CHAYKIN
PENCILS: MARCO CHECCHETTO
INKS: MARCO CHECCHETTO
COLORED BY: MATT MILLA
LETTERED BY: VC – JOE CARAMAGNA
THE STORY:
“RAISING THE BAR!”
As if all-out war between the new and old Squadrons Supreme wasn’t bad enough…America still has to endure the normal problems…terrorism, criminal geniuses, mutated astronauts…and a rising tide of superhumanity. Okay, maybe nothing’s
normal anymore, but that doesn’t make anything any easier…
Parental Advisory …$2.99

THE STAND: AMERICAN NIGHTMARES #3
COVER BY: LEE BERMEJO
WRITER: ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
PENCILS: MIKE PERKINS
INKS: MIKE PERKINS
COLORED BY: LAURA MARTIN
LETTERED BY: VC – RUS WOOTON
THE STORY:
The most harrowing chapter of Stephen King’s horror epic yet! When Larry Underwood and his new companion Rita Blakemoor decide to escape from New York, they head for the Lincoln Tunnel…little knowing that they are embarking on a nightmare journey that will unleash their deepest, darkest fears and demons, both real and imagined. Meanwhile, Harold and Frannie set off on their own great adventure–on mopeds!–and Stu Redman meets another survivor. But is he friend or foe?
Cardstock Cover/Parental Advisory…$3.99

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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN FAMILY #3

COVER BY: PATRICK OLLIFFE
WRITER: D.M. DEMATTEIS, TOM DEFALCO & MATT YOCUM
PENCILS: RAMON BACHS & TODD NAUCK
In our Untold Tales of Spider-Man, J.M. DeMatteis is back to take us through more of Peter Parker’s struggle to become a hero. In “The Punch,” Pete struggles to keep his powers in check around Flash Thompson – and discovers the negative examples a hero can set. Then, on a trip even further back in time, Matt Yocum takes us on an adventure of epic proportions with Pete’s parents, Richard and Mary Parker – international parents of mystery! Over in Mr. and Mrs. Spider-Man, during a late night hospital visit for baby May, Pete and MJ run into the Rhino – and discover even a super villain has a family. Finally in our Told Tales of Spider-Man, take a look back at the demise of Harry Osborn in Spectacular Spider-Man #200!
Rated A …$4.99

SPIDER-MAN NOIR #1

COVER BY: PATRICK ZIRCHER
WRITER: DAVID HINE & FABRICE SAPOLSKY
PENCILS: CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO
INKS: CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO
COLORED BY: CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO
LETTERED BY: ARTMONKEYS STUDIOS
With great power, there must also come great responsibility — and when those in power abuse it, it’s the people’s responsibility to remove them. The year is 1933, and New York City is not-so-secretly run by corrupt politicians, crooked cops, big businesses…and suave gangland bosses like New York’s worst, the Goblin. But when a fateful spider-bite gives the young rabble-rouser Peter Parker the power to fight the mobster who killed his Uncle Ben, will even that be enough? It’s a tangled web of Great Depression pulp, with familiar faces like you’ve never seen them before! By “Hardboiled” David Hine, Fabrice “The Spider” Sapolsky and Carmine “Carbine” Di Giandomenico!
Rated T+ …$2.99

SQUADRON SUPREME #6

COVER BY: GREG LAND & JUSTIN PONSOR
WRITER: HOWARD CHAYKIN – A
PENCILS: MARCO TURINI
INKS: MARCO TURINI
COLORED BY: MATT MILLA & CHRIS SOTOMAYOR
LETTERED BY: VC – JOE CARAMAGNA
EDITOR: JOHN BARBER
“POWER TO THE PEOPLE”
The crew of the Icarus One found something in space, something that changed them forever. Then they did the one thing good government employees never do: they went public. Now standing between these four mutated astronauts and a firing squad is Ultimate Nick Fury and his newly assembled Squadron Supreme! It’s Fury’s day of reckoning…leading up to a last page you WON’T believe! Part 6 (of 6)
Parental Advisory …$2.99

THUNDERBOLTS #127

COVER BY: FRANCESCO MATT MATTINA
WRITER: ANDY DIGGLE
PENCILS: ROBERTO DE LA TORRE
COLORED BY: FRANK MARTIN & GIOVANNI KOSOKI
LETTERED BY: COMICRAFT’S ALBERT DESCHESNE
EDITOR: BILL ROSEMANN
It’s Bullseye & Venom unleashed – and the T-Bolts will never be the same! All-out war erupts in Thunderbolts Mountain, as Songbird fights for her life against the team’s most psychotic and bloodthirsty members — and this time, they’re taking no prisoners! Old scores are settled and long-standing enmities explode into violence as Norman Osborn clears the deck to make way for his all-new, all-different Thunderbolts! And it ain’t over ’til the Songbird sings in part two of “Burning Down the House” by Andy Diggle (Losers) and Roberto De La Torre (Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.)!
Rated T+ …$2.99

ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #59

COVER BY: PASQUAL FERRY & DAVE MCCAIG
WRITER: JOE POKASKI
PENCILS: TYLER KIRKHAM
INKS: RYAN WINN WITH RICK BASALDVA & JOE WEEMS
COLORED BY: BLOND WITH LARRY MOLINAR
LETTERED BY: VC – RUS WOOTON
EDITOR: MARK PANICCIA
Ultimatum has hit the planet hard and the Baxter Building was ground zero. Johnny is still missing. Dr. Storm is dead. And Reed has taken off to parts unknown. Sue’s life hangs in the balance and rests in the hands of untested pilot Ben Grimm, a.k.a. The Thing, and Dr. Arthur Molekevic, now better known as the megalamonical Mole Man. “Journey to the Center of an Invisible Woman” begins!
Rated A …$2.99

WHAT IF? FANTASTIC FOUR #1

COVER BY: PATRICK SCHERBERGER
WRITER: PAUL TOBIN
PENCILS: PATRICK SCHERBERGER
INKS: CRAIG YEUNG
COLORS: CHRIS SOTOMAYOR
LETTERED BY: NATE PIEKOS
EDITOR: NATHAN COSBY
The original Fantastic Four are dead, and a New Fantastic Four has taken their place! But what can the team of Iron Man, Hulk, Spider-Man and Wolverine do against a foe as powerful as Thanos—bearer of the Infinity Gauntlet? When it takes all the power of Iron Man’s amazing new armor, all of Spider-Man’s attitude, all the Hulk’s brute strength, and all of Wolverine’s underhanded tricks just to survive…what can the New Fantastic Four do to win? The answer lies within this cosmically power-packed issue! Featuring Part 2 of “What If the Runaways became the Young Avengers?”
Rated T+ …$3.99