What does IDW Publishing have on the slate for genre comic book fans this week? Check out some great books featuring your favorite heroes including TMNT, Doctor Who, GI-Joe, Star Trek, Transformers, and more! So what are you waiting for??!! Start scrolling!

Spotlight Book of the Week 

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Deadworld: Restoration <#1 of 4>

Gary Reed (w) • Sami Makkonen (a & c)

The zombie classic returns in an all new series from the same creative team that brought you the acclaimed War of the Dead. The lepers have been slaughtered, the people who escaped the breeder pits head for the safety of New Washington, and now the zombies are under the control of Donna, the half-human/half-zombie hybrid. With King Zombie dead, she leads the zombies. Or does she?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Dinosaurs Attack <#5 of 5>

Gary Gerani (w) • Herb Trimpe (a) • Earl Norem (c)

This is it… the final battle between humanity and the prehistoric invaders resurrected by Prof. Thorne!  Will anchorman Bob Gowen save lives with his newscasts and ward off the attack of a monster lizard?  Can the U.S. military stop an army of flesh-hungry behemoths hell bent on mass depopulation?  And will a gun-wielding Helen Chambers make the right decision, even as a possibly mad Elias Thorne takes on a real or imagined dinosaur diety for the future of planet Earth?    These and other thrilling questions are answered in the apocalyptic conclusion of DINOSAURS ATTACK!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Doctor Who #16

Tony Lee (w) • Mike Collins (a) • Mark Buckingham (c)

Deadman’s Hand, Part 4 of 4: Series finale! The people of Deadwood fighting zombie gunfighters and cross-dimensional alien invaders! Oscar Wilde debating for Earth’s very existence! Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Clara in a suicidal stagecoach attack! Thomas Edison’s redemption! And the Doctor, sacrificing everything one last time… but is it enough?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Dungeons & Dragons: Cutter

R.A. Salvatore & Geno Salvatore (w) • David Baldeon (a) • Steve Ellis (c)

Tierflin and Doum’weille are half-Drow siblings, locked in competition for the ownership of the bloodthirsty sword Khazid’hea—the Cutter! Their father, the Drow renegade Tos’un—a veteran of battles against the Kingdom of Many-Arrows—is forced to choose his heir… but what does the powerful sword have to say on the subject?

HC • FC • $24.99 • 128 pages • 8.5” by 11” • ISBN: 978-1-61377-792-3

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Fever Ridge: A Tale of MacArthur’s Jungle War, Vol. 1

Mike Heimos (w) • Nick Runge (a & c)

The South Pacific theatre of World War II is usually seen from the perspective of the Marines fighting from Guadalcanal to Okinawa. Unsung in WWII fiction is the story of the 6th Army’s 6th Infantry Division (“the Sightseein’ Sixth”) and their jungle commandoes, the Alamo Scouts, under the command of Gen. Walter Kreuger, the trusted and savvy lieutenant of “America’s Caesar,” Douglas MacArthur. Fever Ridge is the story of a secret that could have changed the War, and the world.

TPB • FC • $17.99 • 104 pages • ISBN 978-1-61377-702-2

Expected in-store date: 8/21/13

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Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms

Ed Greenwood (w) • Lee Ferguson (a) • Tyler Walpole (c)

FORGOTTEN REALMS creator Ed Greenwood opens the adventures of an unlikely band of heroes who get into a bit more trouble than usual in the fabled port city of Waterdeep. Joined by artist Lee Ferguson, this story kicks off a deadly tale with a kidnapping that is more–and less–than it seems.

TPB • FC • $19.99 • 128 pages • ISBN: 978-1-61377-825-8

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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #197

Larry Hama (w) • S L Gallant (a & c)

THE ROAD TO #200 CONTINUES! G.I. JOE has been set-up! As most of America’s Elite are taken prisoner in Sierra Gordo, it’s up to the few support members left behind to launch an offensive. But when COBRA realizes G.I. JOE is spread so thin, they get ready to launch an offensive of their own. This just might be G.I. JOE’s darkest hour, in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #197!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero, Vol. 8

Larry Hama (w) • S L Gallant, Sergio Cariello & Larry Hama (a) • S L Gallant (c)

LADY JAYE’s team is led into the jungles of southeast Asia for a mission that will pit G.I. JOE against an enemy they thought long gone. Meanwhile, COBRA COMMANDER is ready to launch an offensive strike that will bring G.I. JOE to its knees. The mighty shall fall and COBRA will rise again.

TPB • FC • $19.99 • 124 pages • ISBN: 978-1-61377-826-5

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Judge Dredd #14

Duane Swierczynski (w) • Nelson Daniel (a) • Brendan McCarthy (c)

Dredd returns to Mega-City One—still recovering from the ravages of “The Long Fail”—only to find the Justice Department under siege! Seems that someone has snuffed 12 Judges in creative and shocking ways. Someone who is intimiately familiar the routines of your average street Judge and their sector houses… Someone who Dredd himself failed to catch just a few months ago!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Judge Dredd Classics #6

John Wagner & Alan Grant (w) • Carlos Ezquerra (a) • Jim Fern (c)

East-Meg One’s “Mad Dog” Kazan introduces the Diktatorat to a new order of command, while Chief Justice Griffin has been kidnapped and brainwashed by the Sovs! Will Dredd administer justice on Griffin as swiftly as he does with East-Meg’s soldiers? 

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Star Trek: Khan <#3 of 5>

Mike Johnson (w) • Claudia Balboni & David Messina (a) • Paul Shipper (c)

The exclusive never-before-seen origin of STAR TREK’s greatest villain continues here, in the official tie-in to the blockbuster hit STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS! The legendary Eugenics Wars lay waste to the planet as Khan fights to preserve his empire! Don’t miss this all-new epic overseen by STAR TREK writer/producer Roberto Orci!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Villain Micro-series #8: Shredder

Paul Allor (w) • Dan Duncan (a) • Tyler Walpole (c)

The Turtles’ greatest foe closes out the Villain Micro-series! A man of endless ambition, Oroku Saki harbors many secrets. This story delves into Shredder’s inner mind to reveal the demons he’s hidden from everyone. Will Shredder be his own undoing?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #24: Dark Cybertron Part 4 (of 12)

James Roberts & John Barber (w) • Atilio Rojo, James Raiz, Nick Roche, Livio Ramondelli, Robert Gill (a) • Casey W. Coller (c)

TRAPPED! Alone on a strange world, the crew of the Lost Light struggle against an unknown enemy—but what does this have to do with SHOCKWAVE’s master plan? Answer: everything. Meanwhile, OPTIMUS PRIME finds an old friend in the Dead Universe!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Transformers: Robots In Disguise, Vol. 5

John Barber (w) • Livio Ramondelli, Atilio Rojo, Dheeraj Verma & Andrew Griffith (a) • Casey W. Coller (c)

The fate of Cybertron is sealed—but what is the DECEPTICON scientist SHOCKWAVE planning? In the wastelands of CYBERTRON, he makes his move prompting SOUNDWAVE and the rest of the DECEPTICONS to step up and stop him but in the end they are faced with the ultimate choice, will the DECEPTICONS stand with SHOCKWAVE—or will they join the AUTOBOTS?

TPB • FC • $19.99 • 152 pages • ISBN: 978-1-61377-836-4

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Triple Helix <#3 of 4>

John Byrne(w & a & c)

The team reaches out to help Trio’s Rock, but soon discovers there may be a traitor in their midst—unless absolutely nothing they know is real!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

 

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