IDW Publishing Comic Book releases for Wednesday July 16th, 2014

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!

24 #4
Ed Brisson (w) • Michael Gaydos (a) • Davide Furnò (c)
Now that you’ve seen Jack Bauer’s return to television in LIVE ANOTHER DAY, read the story that sent the heroic agent spiraling into his darkest days as an international fugitive. In Odessa, Ukraine, Jack has found himself stuck between the CIA and a Russian mobster from his past. How will he get out of this one?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Borderlands: The Fall of Fyrestone #1—SPOTLIGHT
Mikey Neumann (w) • Agustin Padilla (a & c)
The epic story of Borderlands continues in part one of the new series, where fans find out what happens after Roland, Mordecai, Lilith, and Brick step out of Marcus’s bus. As soon as they arrive in the once-prosperous town of Fyrestone, they realize that Pandora is a far more dangerous planet than they first imagined. The Vault Hunters will go up against a ruthless bandit known as “Nine Toes,” but will they be able to overcome him?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Doberman #1—SPOTLIGHT
Jack Lambert, Scott Marder and Rob Rosell (w) • Brandon McKinney (a) • Bernard Chang (c)
Frank Doberman was the greatest detective of his era with the fastest car, biggest gun, and longest… um… arrest record. But after a drug bust went horribly wrong, Doberman disappeared, seeking solace in Mother Nature. Now lured back to the Force by the promise of vengeance, and an ice-cold six-pack, Doberman has to deal with a new age of computers, regulations, and an uber-villain whom the world seems to believe has changed his ways.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Gate-Way, Vol. 1: A New World
Joe Halpin, Sr. (w) • Juanfrancisco Moyano (a & c)
In a surreal setting where a red sky burns bright and the blanket of night brings a terror known only as the Dark Souls, ex-cop Jake Ryan struggles to make sense of his surroundings. Gate-Way is a story that weaves a rich tapestry of loyalty, lust, intrigue, and betrayal as beggars, thieves, priests, and murderers all vie for power in a world that rewards the bold and enslaves the weak.
TPB • FC • $17.99 • 104 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-013-1

Judge Dredd #21
Duane Swierczynski (w) • Shane Pierce (a) • David Stoupakis (c)
“To Live and Die in Deadworld”—Judge Anderson is presumed dead, her body hopelessly transformed into the most mysterious of the new Dark Judges—JUDGE BLANK. But don’t count Anderson out yet. Her consciousness is loose in the vast, cold expanse of Deadworld, and she’s desperately trying to find her way back to Mega-City One. But where she ends up just might be the most frightening place of all…
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

The Last Fall <#1 of 5>—SPOTLIGHT
Tom Waltz (w) • Casey Maloney (a & c)
Marcus Fall is a battle-hardened soldier in a long-running inter-planetary war. After multiple combat tours, Fall is finally able to leave the military and return to his beloved wife and son. But his happy homecoming comes to a tragic end when a suicide bomber murders his family. Devastated, Fall returns to the war with one bloody mission in mind: revenge against the enemy… every last one of them.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Littlest Pet Shop <#3 of 5>
Georgia Ball (w) • Nico Peña, Antonio Campo (a) • Peña (c)
Blythe’s spotless academic record is in jeopardy when she’s placed on a project with chronic under-achievers Whittany and Brittany Biskit. Meanwhile, the pets’ plan to help her out turns into a desperate search for Sunil when he’s trapped with a ball python! Everyone must find a way to work together or face dire consequences.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

LUST
Steve Niles (w) • Ben Templesmith, Menton3 (a & c)
LUST is a prose book, a comic book, and an art book all in one. The creative team explores the nature of the virtues and vices, specifically Chastity and Lust, as well as considers what it is that one may teach us about the other, concluding this exploration by meeting at the book’s middle.

The VICE Series from 44FLOOD, of which LUST is the first book, will have seven books focusing on each of the seven vices and their corresponding virtue, as well as an eighth and final book with vice herself personified.
TPB • FC • $19.99 • 72 pages • 8.5” x 12” • ISBN: 978-1-61377-997-2

Powerpuff Girls Classics, Vol. 4: Picture Perfect
Jennifer Moore, Sean Carolan, Brett Lewis, Ian Boothby, Roger Fredricks, Frank Strom, John Rozum, Trina Robbins (w) • Phil Moy, Stefanie Gladden, Christopher Cook, Bill Alger, Ricardo Garcia Fuentes (a) • Phil Moy (c)
They’re cute. They’re fun. And they’re powerful! The Cartoon Network classic Powerpuff Girls returns to comics in this collection of comic-book adventures. This fourth volume collects issues #17–22 of the DC series.
TPB • FC • $19.99 • 140 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-017-9

The Squidder #1—SPOTLIGHT
Ben Templesmith (w & a & c)
This all-new four-issue series finds an old soldier from a forgotten war in a post-apocalyptic world that has left him behind. He was one of the last of the legendary Squidder Legions. Can a discarded relic with a death wish and a rebellious Squid priestess overthrow humanity’s tentacled alien overlords? Ben Templesmith returns to his roots to finally do the tentacle/Cthulhu-orientated book he’s always promised! The Squidder mixes action, horror, science fiction, and fantasy elements with a touch of Squidly destruction.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Star Trek Special: Flesh and Stone
Scott and David Tipton (w) • Sharp Bros. (a & c)
When a Starfleet medical conference is crashed by a deadly metamorphic virus, Doctors Beverly Crusher, Julian Bashir and Katherine Pulaski have to race against time…to find a cure. The answers lie in the distant past, deep within the files of Dr. Leonard McCoy! All of Star Trek’s medical officers team up for the first time ever!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Steranko Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Artist’s Edition—SPOTLIGHT
Jim Steranko (w & a & c)
In the mid-1960s, Jim Steranko burst into the Marvel Age of comics in a BIG way, and the innovative, cinematic techniques he introduced in his brief tenure at The House of Ideas stand to this day as a high-water mark in the history of graphic storytelling.
More than any other series, Steranko is most associated with Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. This Artist’s Edition collects the first 12 stories of Steranko’s run, from Strange Tales #151 — #162, as well as all his covers from these issues. Additionally, there will be a select number of extras presented. And, as usual, nearly all the pages have been scanned from the original art, from Steranko’s private archives.
HC • BW • $95.00 net discount item • 176 Pages • 15” x 22” • ISBN: 978-1-61377-968-2

Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips, Vol. 3: 1971-1974
Russ Manning (w & a & c)
The third volume of a four-book series collecting the entire run of the Tarzan newspaper strip by Russ Manning presents the final two complete daily storylines, plus four extended Sunday adventures. In the dailies from August 2, 1971 through July 29, 1972, Tarzan returns to the Earth’s core, while Korak plays guide on the dangerous white water river. In the Sundays from January 24, 1971 through March 17, 1974, Tarzan travels to Pal-ul-don and Korak enters the City of Xuja.
HC • B&W • $49.99 • 296 pages • 11” x 8.5” • ISBN: 978-1-61377-982-8

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Animated, Vol. 4: Mutagen Mayhem
Various (w & a & c)
Re-live the action of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon with Leo, Don, Mikey, Raph, April, and Shredder in the newest volume of this popular young reader screengrab series. This volume adapts the Season 2 opener “The Mutation Situation” plus “Mutagen Man Unleashed”, which introduces Casey Jones!
TPB • FC • $7.99 • 120 pages • 5” x 7” • ISBN: 978-1-61377-983-5

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #36
Tom Waltz, Kevin Eastman (w) • Mateus Santolouco (a) • Santolouco, Eastman (c)
Leonardo and Splinter plan for the coming war with Shredder. As they meditate on what their true path must be, they are engulfed by darkness. And from that darkness emerges… the Rat King! Will his meddling with their minds lead to salvation or madness?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

The X-Files Classics, Vol. 4
John Rozum, Dwight Jon Zimmerman (w) • Alexander Saviuk (a) • Sam Shearon (c)
Mulder and Scully continue to chase down leads in the most bizarre and unexplained cases the FBI has ever seen! Collecting issues #30–41 of the Topps series, Volume 4 features stories such as “Surrounded,” “Crop Duster,” “Skybuster,” “N.D.E.,” “Devil’s Advocate,” and more.
HC • FC • $29.99 • 280 pages • ISBN: 978-1-61377-988-0

The X-Files: Year Zero <#1 of 5>—SPOTLIGHT
Karl Kesel (w) • Vic Malhotra, Greg Scott (a) • Carlos Valenzuela (c)
When a blue-collar worker from New Jersey passes prophetic messages to the FBI from a mysterious “Mr. Zero,” Mulder is convinced it is the same otherworldly entity that contacted the FBI through a suburban housewife in the 1940s. This similarly named “Mr. Xero” pointed the FBI toward many unusual cases, leading to the establishment of “the X-Files”!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Zombies vs Robots: Z-Boyz in the Robot Graveyard (PROSE)
John Shirley (w) • Daniel Bradford (a & c)
The brain infection known as the Zombie vs Robots prose program continues with this exclusive two-part novella from cyberpunk John Shirley (The Crow). Evocative full-color illustrations of distressing robot-on-zombie violence by a master of dystopian atmospherics and unease provided by Daniel Bradford (King).
TPB • FC • $19.99 • 108 pages • 6” x 9” • ISBN 978-1-63140-008-7