68: Last Rites #3 story: Mark Kidwell

art / cover B: Jeff Zornow & Jay Fotos

cover A: Nat Jones & Jay Fotos September 16 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.99 By the flickering light of a scavenged projector, the dark secret behind the zombie plague that destroyed the 1960s is revealed.

8House: Yorris #4 story: Helen Maier & Fil Barlow

art / cover: Fil Barlow September 16 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $2.99 A NEW 8HOUSE STORY ARC BEGINS! A young Baroness can see the invisible.

Absolute Proof, Vol. 1 HC story: Alex Grecian

art: Riley Rossmo & Friends

cover: Riley Rossmo September 30 / 256 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $29.99 For the first time ever, the entire cult classic Image Comics series is collected in three hardcover volumes. Book one includes the first two arcs of the original series, plus never-before-reprinted backup stories and sketchbook material.

Airboy #4 story: James Robinson

art / cover: Greg Hinkle September 2 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $2.99 The twisted, drug-fueled finale! Is this a dream, reality, or somewhere in between? All JAMES ROBINSON and GREG HINKLE know is that now that they're in Airboy's world and not the bars of San Francisco, they have to put down the bottle, put away the drugs, zip up their flies—and actually act like heroes. Except they don't know how to be heroes. And if they die, will they just wake up...or really perish?

Astronauts In Trouble #4 story: Larry Young

art: Matthew Dow Smith

cover: Charlie Adlard September 9 / 32 pages / B&W / Mature Readers / $2.99 Fifty years after Neil and Buzz's one small step, the world's richest man claims the moon as his own personal property...and Channel Seven is there!

The Beauty #2 story: Jeremy Haun & Jason A. Hurley

art / cover A: Jeremy Haun

cover B: Ben Templesmith September 16 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.50 The Beauty has transformed average people into beautiful people. But is it killing them too? Detectives Vaughn and Foster are close to learning the truth, and that puts them directly in harm's way. Sometimes the truth isn’t pretty.

Birthright, Vol. 2 TP story: Joshua Williamson

art / cover: Andrei Bressan & Adriano Lucas September 9 / 112 pages / Full Color / 15+ / $12.99 Fugitives from the law, Brennan will need all the survival skills Mikey learned in Terrenos to stay alive. But something has followed Mikey back, that’s strong enough to tear the brothers apart. Collects BIRTHRIGHT #6-10.

Bloodstrike #3 story / art / cover: Rob Liefeld September 9 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $2.99 FUGITIVE!

Bloodstrike marshals its forces to stop a deserter that threatens to expose the program and its hideous secrets.

The Covenant #4 story / cover A: Rob Liefeld

art / cover B: Matt Horak September 2 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $2.99 Disease breaks out among the Philistines as Samuel and his men pursue the Ark as it is shipped from the Capital.

Dark Corridor #2 story / art / cover: Rich Tommaso September 2 / 24 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.99 Carter burns through his money like a big-baller. Also, we see The Scalinas death at the hands of deadly daughter Nicole.

Deadly Class, Vol. 3: Snake Pit TP story: Rick Remender

art / cover: Wes Craig & Lee Loughridge September 23 / 128 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $14.99 Marcus and his girlfriend Maria are thrown to the wolves when a Mexican Cartel, the family of a classmate they were forced to kill, comes gunning for revenge. The true costs of the life he’s chosen to live are only just dawning on Marcus. The troubled teen has never been more troubled.

Descender, Vol. 1: Tin Stars TP story: Jeff Lemire

art / cover: Dustin Nguyen September 9 / 136 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $9.99 Collects DESCENDER #1-6.

Drifter #8 story: Ivan Brandon

art / cover A: Nic Klein

cover B: Daniel Krall September 9 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.50 Things get ugly.

East Of West #22 story: Jonathan Hickman

art / cover: Nick Dragotta September 16 / 32 pages / Full Color / 15+ / $3.50 The war between nations heats up in EAST OF WEST #22.

Elephantmen 2260 Book Three: Learning To Be Human TP story: Richard Starkings

art: Axel Medellin, Gabriel Bautista, Shaky Kane, Marley Zarcone, & Carlos Pedro

cover: Frank Quitely September 30 / 128 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $16.99 Collects ELEPHANTMEN issues #50, 56, 57, 63 & 64.

Empty Zone #4 story / art / cover: Jason Shawn Alexander September 23 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.50 Corinne comes face to face with the man responsible for the death of her friend during a harrowing battle above the city.

The Empty, Vol. 1 TP story / art / cover: Jimmie Robinson September 30 / 152 pages / Full Color / 12+ / $9.99 Tanoor is a hunter struggling to feed her village in an apocalyptic world of poison and decay, but Tanoor finds hope when she discovers a stranger named Lila who has the ability to grow life from death—a power that could change the world of The Empty. Collects THE EMPTY #1-6.

The Fade Out #9 story: Ed Brubaker

art / cover: Sean Phillips & Elizabeth Breitweiser September 16 / 40 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.50 NEW STORY ARC.

Act Three begins as the mystery heats up! NOMINATED FOR THE EISNER AWARD FOR BEST NEW SERIES!

The Fade Out, Vol. 2 TP story: Ed Brubaker

art / cover: Sean Phillips September 16 / 120 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $12.99 Act Two of the acclaimed Hollywood Noir from the best-selling team of Brubaker and Phillips. Collects THE FADE OUT #5-8.

Faster Than Light #1 story: Brian Haberlin

art / cover: Brian Haberlin & Geirrod Vandyke September 9 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $2.99 SPECIAL LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE: $2.99! In the very near future we discover the secret of faster-than-light travel. Suddenly the universe is wide open to us, but are we ready for it? With all the idealism of the original Star Trek and the grit and immediacy of Gravity, the story of humanity's first thrilling and terrifying adventures to the stars takes flight! Every issue features Anomaly's free cutting edge Augmented Reality app, which makes it look like interactive holograms are coming out of the book!

The Fuse #14 story: Antony Johnston

art / cover: Justin Greenwood & Shari Chankhamma September 9 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.99 "PERIHELION," Part Two The Fuse’s annual day of chaos continues! Murder, riots, theft, politics, terrorism—and a break in the “haircut killer” case for Klem and Ralph! “Terrifically thought-through SF, in collision with a Scandinavian noir police drama.”— Alan Moore

Head Lopper #1 story / art / cover: Andrew Maclean

cover B: Rafael Grampá September 9 / 96 pages / Full Color / 12+ / $5.99 Action. Adventure. Fantasy. Decapitation! ApocalyptiGirl creator ANDREW MACLEAN brings this critically acclaimed indie hit to Image Comics! The dark humored quarterly adventure begins with a double-sized first issue, with eighty pages of story and a premium pin-up gallery for the regular price of just $5.99! “HEAD LOPPER is what you’d get if Mike Mignola wrote an issue of Brian Wood’s Northlanders by way of James Stokoe’s ORC STAIN.”– Multiversity Comics.

Injection #5 story: Warren Ellis

art / covers A & B: Declan Shalvey September 9 / 24 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $2.99 Maria Kilbride goes underground to save a man from the sound of the haunted future.

Invincible #123 story: Robert Kirkman

art: Ryan Ottley, Cliff Rathburn, & Jean-Francois Beaulieu

cover: Ryan Ottley & Jean-Francois Beaulieu September 16 / 24 pages / Full Color / 15+ / $2.99 Loose ends are tied up, conflicts are brought to a resolution, a door is closed...so that a new one can open.

Invisible Republic #6 story: Gabriel Hardman & Corinna Bechko

art / cover: Gabriel Hardman & Jordan Boyd September 23 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $2.99 NEW STORY ARC. This war just got asymmetrical.

Island Magazine #3 story / art: Ludroe, Simon Roy, Brandon Graham, Matt Sheean, Amy Clare, & Malachi Ward

cover: Farel Dalrymple September 16 / 112 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $7.99 THIRD ISSUE OF THE OVERSIZED COMICS MAGAZINE! This issue introduces MATT SHEEAN & MALACHI WARD's sci-fi series ANCESTOR!

IXth Generation #7 story: Matt Hawkins

art / cover B: Atilio Rojo

cover A: Stjepan Sejic September 9 / 32 pages / Full Color / 15+ / $3.99 The nine are down to five. Who lives, who dies? The battle for total rule reaches its penultimate chapter.

Lazarus #20 story: Greg Rucka

art: Michael Lark

cover: Owen Freeman September 30 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.50 “POISON,” Part Four. Johanna makes her move.

Low #10 story: Rick Remender

art / cover: Greg Tocchini & Dave McCaig September 23 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.50 This is it: Stel Caine has risen from the depths to set foot on the surface of Earth, the first human in millennia to do so. But what she finds there will make her wish she never left the safe darkness of the deep sea.

Manifest Destiny, Vol. 3 TP story: Chris Dingess

art / cover: Matthew Roberts & Owen Gieni September 16 / 128 pages / Full Color / 15+ / $14.99 Deep in America’s heartland, Lewis & Clark’s expedition discovers a civilization unlike any they—or anyone else on Earth—has encountered. An encounter that will push their men to the brink of mutiny. Collects MANIFEST DESTINY #13-18.

Material, Vol. 1 TP story: Ales Kot

art: Will Tempest

cover: Tom Muller September 30 / 128 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $9.99 SPECIAL LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE OF $9.99! America is unwinding. The world is undergoing massive changes. MATERIAL is a journey through what it means to be alive, today. Collects MATERIAL #1-4.

Minimum Wage: So Many Bad Decisions #5 story / art / cover: Bob Fingerman September 2 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.99 An old flame rekindled.

Mythic #5 story: Phil Hester

art: John McCrea, Gerardo Zaffino, & Michael Spicer

cover: John McCrea & Rian Hughes September 30 / 24 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $2.99 The origin of Killer of Enemies.

Nailbiter, Vol. 3: Blood In The Water TP story: Joshua Williamson

art / cover: Mike Henderson September 2 / 128 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $14.99 Collects NAILBITER #11-#15. Nailbiter will return with #16 in October 2015!

No Mercy, Vol. 1 TP story: Alex de Campi

art / cover: Carla Speed McNeil & Jenn Manley Lee

cover: Carla Speed McNeil September 16 / 120 pages / Full Color / 15+ / $9.99 SPECIAL LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE OF $9.99! A group of US teenagers on a pre-college service trip are stranded in a remote part of Central America after a horrible accident. Things get worse from there. Collects NO MERCY #1-4.

Oddly Normal #10 story / cover A: Otis Frampton

art: Otis Frampton & Tracy Bailey

cover B: Matt Kaufenberg September 23 / 32 pages / Full Color / All Ages / $2.99 Oddly encounters real, live superheroes.

ODY-C #7 story: Matt Fraction

art / cover: Christian Ward September 9 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.99 He of Troiia must tell the story of his life—or face its violent end.

Outcast By Kirkman & Azaceta, Vol. 2 TP story: Robert Kirkman

art / cover: Paul Azaceta & Elizabeth Breitweiser September 30 / 144 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $14.99 In light of recent revelations, Kyle feels like he’s starting to piece together the answers he’s looking for. But while he feels a new sense of purpose...is Reverend Anderson’s life falling apart? Catch up on the new hit horror series from the creator of THE WALKING DEAD, soon to be a show on Cinemax. Collects OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #7-12.

Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl #2 story: Kieron Gillen

art / cover: Jamie McKelvie & Matt Wilson September 9 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.99 You will never look at A-Ha's "Take On Me" video in the same way ever again.

Plutona #1 story: Jeff Lemire & Emi Lenox

art / cover: Emi Lenox September 2 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $2.99 A brand new heartfelt super-hero series by JEFF LEMIRE (DESCENDER, Hawkeye) and amazing newcomer EMI LENOX! PLUTONA follows the story of five suburban kids who make a shocking discovery while exploring the woods one day after school...the body of Plutona, the world's greatest superhero. A dark and heartbreaking journey about friendship and coming of age all through the lens of the superhero genre.

Poseidon IX #1 (One-Shot) story: Tini Howard

art / cover A: Phillip Sevy

cover B: Stjepan Sejic September 2 / 32 pages / Full Color / 15+ / $3.99 FROM THE PAGES OF IXth GENERATION!

Journey to Triton, where luxury is a cyborg's reward for worship of their God-King Poseidon. But in blue oceans lurks a sleeping terror—from before the Ascension, before even civilization as we know it!

Postal #4 Comicpalooza Limited Variant story: Bryan Hill & Matt Hawkins

art / cover: Isaac Goodhart September 30 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers Limited convention variant, allocations may occur. $10 UNSIGNED, $20 SIGNED BY MATT HAWKINS AND BRYAN HILL.

Postal #7 story: Bryan Hill & Matt Hawkins

art / cover B: Isaac Goodhart

cover A: Linda Sejic September 30 / 32 pages / Full Color / 15+ / $3.99 Mark communicates with his father, exploring the darkest parts of his own nature as the Mayor brings a new threat into Eden, a newcomer that has the power to turn the town against itself.

Rasputin #9 story: Alex Grecian

art / cover: Riley Rossmo & Ivan Plascencia

cover: Riley Rossmo September 30 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.50 “Koschei the Deathless” keeps his soul in a nail locked inside an iron box. Rasputin returns it to him with a mallet.

Rat Queens #15 story: Kurtis J. Wiebe

art / cover A: Stjepan Sejic September 16 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.99 "Demons," Part Five. A betrayal changes the Rat Queens forever! Prepare to be shocked!

Rat Queens Deluxe Hardcover Volume One story: Kurtis J. Wiebe

art: Roc Upchurch, Stjepan Sejic, & Tess Fowler November 25 / 304 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $39.99 Collects RAT QUEENS #1-10 plus the never-before reprinted RAT QUEENS SPECIAL: BRAGA #1 plus extras all in an over-sized hardcover with a SILVER-FOIL stamped cover! A collector's dream package just in time for Christmas!

Revival #33 story: Tim Seeley

art: Mike Norton

cover: Jenny Frison September 23 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.99 NEW STORY ARC. An excellent jumping-on-point issue, focusing on Em Cypress...sister, daughter, mother...reviver.

Reyn #8 story: Kel Symons

art / cover: Nathan Stockman September 23 / 24 pages / Full Color / 15+ / $2.99

Roche Limit: Clandestiny #5 story: Michael Moreci

art / cover: Kyle Charles September 30 / 32 pages / Full Color / 15+ / $3.50 Conclusion of volume two of the sci-fi trilogy.

Rumble #7 story: John Arcudi

art / cover: James Harren September 23 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.50 The Esu are in full attendance as they return in a Counsel of Monsters! And Rathraq is humbled by a new foe. New for him, anyway.

Saga, Vol. 5 TP art / cover: Fiona Staples

story: Brian K. Vaughan September 9 / 144 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $14.99 While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko makes an uneasy alliance with Prince Robot IV to find their missing children, who are trapped on a strange world with terrifying new enemies. Collects SAGA #25-30.

Savior #6 story: Todd McFarlane & Brian Holguin

art / cover: Clayton Crain September 9 / 32 pages / Full Color / 12+ / $2.99 John Doe’s past is finally revealed.

Secret Identities #7 story: Brian Joines & Jay Faerber

art: Ilias Kyriazis & Ron Riley

cover: Ilias Kyriazis September 16 / 40 pages / Full Color / 12+ / $3.99 DOUBLE-SIZED SERIES FINALE! The Front Line’s world is rocked when the truth of Crosswind’s deception comes out. Will any of them survive the intruder’s final victory? It all ends here!

Self-Obsessed TP story / art / cover: Sina Grace September 30 / 160 pages / B&W / Mature Readers / $9.99 Cartoonist SINA GRACE returns to his roots with his most personal and intimate work since the 2012 charmer NOT MY BAG. Comes with FREE AUDIOBOOK download!

Sex #24 story: Joe Casey

art: Piotr Kowalski

cover: Piotr Kowalski & Sonia Harris September 23 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $2.99 For Simon Cooke, some things can get a little sticky…

Sex Criminals #14 story: Matt Fraction

art / cover: Chip Zdarsky September 23 / 32 pages / Full Color / All Ages / $3.50 Why can't we all just get along? Because then the comic would be boring.

Sex Criminals #14 XXX Katie Cook Variant story: Matt Fraction

art: Chip Zdarsky

cover: Katie Cook September 23 / 32 pages / Full Color / All Ages / $4.69 That's right. That lovely woman that did Gronk and My Little Pony goes HARD N' FILTHY for the brimpers. One print run only. Sealed in pink polybags. Horribly filthy.

Shutter #15 story: Joe Keatinge

art / cover: Leila Del Duca & Owen Gieni September 16 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.99 Secret origins and death ballads.

Sons Of The Devil #5 story: Brian Buccellato

art / cover A: Toni Infante

cover B: Francis Manapul September 23 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $2.99 The final chapter of the first arc. A traitor revealed.

Southern Bastards Book One Premiere HC story: Jason Aaron

art / cover: Jason Latour September 30 / 256 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $29.99 Welcome to Craw County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin' Rebs football team and more bastards than you've ever seen. SOUTHERN BASTARDS by JASON AARON (Scalped, Star Wars) and JASON LATOUR (Spider-Gwen, Loose Ends) gets a premiere hardcover, collecting the first eight issues of the Eisner Award-nominated (2015: Best Continuing Series) southern-fried crime series. Collects SOUTHERN BASTARDS #1-8.

Spawn #257 story: Paul Jenkins

art / cover: Jonboy September 16 / 32 pages / Full Color / 12+ / $2.99 Spawn’s enemies think they have the upper hand, but what they don’t know is that they are playing right into his hands.

Starve #4 story: Brian Wood

art / cover: Danijel Zezelj & Dave Stewart September 9 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.50 Part 1 of “Blood & Sausages,” a.k.a. Kitchen Battle, a.k.a. culinary mayhem, a.k.a. STARVE.

Strange Girl Omnibus story: Rick Remender

art: Eric Nguyen, Jereome Opena, & Peter Bergting

cover: Eric Nguyen September 30 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $2.99 The entire STRANGE GIRL saga back in print!

Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses #8 story / art / cover: David Lapham September 23 / 32 pages / B&W / Mature Readers / $3.50 Kretchmeyer must fix his shattered family or risk losing his own carefully constructed sanity.

The Mantle #5 story: Ed Brisson

art / cover: Brian Level September 2 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.99 The final showdown between The Mantle and The Plague! And someone is going to die!

The Tithe #5 story: Matt Hawkins

art: Rahsan Ekedal & Phillip Sevy

cover A: Rahsan Ekedal

cover B: Phillip Sevy September 16 / 32 pages / Full Color / 15+ / $3.99 "ISLAMOPHOBIA," Part One. Dwayne, Jimmy, and Samaritan working together? Hypocrisy and prejudice reach an all-new level with more adrenaline-fueled heists!

The Walking Dead #146 story: Robert Kirkman

art: Charlie Adlard, Stefano Gaudiano, & Cliff Rathburn

cover: Charlie Adlard & Stefano Gaudiano September 9 / 32 pages / B&W / Mature Readers / $2.99 A breaking point reached.

The Walking Dead Book 12 HC story: Robert Kirkman

art: Charlie Adlard, Stefano Gaudiano, & Cliff Rathburn

cover: Charlie Adlard & Cliff Rathburn September 30 / 280 pages / B&W / Mature Readers / $34.99 Who are the Whisperers? And how will their emergence affect the peace and stability Rick has built since the war? Find out in this oversized collected edition, just in time for the season premiere of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Collects THE WALKING DEAD #133-144.

The Wicked + The Divine #14 story: Kieron Gillen

art / cover A: Jamie McKelvie & Matt Wilson

cover B: Grimes September 9 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.50 Behind the music, Woden's stayed back from the spotlight. But in this issue? We look beneath the mask. Shall we say it's the most audacious and experimental issue of WicDiv yet? I think so.

They’re Not Like Us #8 story: Eric Stephenson

art / cover: Simon Gane & Jordie Bellaire September 30 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $2.99

Thief Of Thieves, Vol. 5 TP story: Andy Diggle

art / cover: Shawn Martinbrough & Adriano Lucas September 23 / 128 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $14.99 There’s a new thief of thieves in town—and they’re using the Redmond name to pull heists. Will stealing Conrad’s legacy be enough to pull the master thief out of retirement? Collects THIEF OF THIEVES #26-31.

Think Tank: Creative Destruction #1 story: Matt Hawkins

art / cover: Rahsan Ekedal September 23 / 32 pages / Full Color / All Ages / $3.99 “CREATIVE DESTRUCTION,” Chapter One. An unknown enemy savages the technological infrastructure of the U.S. Panic and conspiracy theories spread as David Loren and his misfit science team continue work on the TALOS project, trying to make “Iron Man” suits a reality in California.

Tokyo Ghost #1 story: Rick Remender

art: Sean Murphy & Matt Hollingsworth

cover: Sean Murphy September 16 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $3.50 The Isles of Los Angeles 2089: Humanity is addicted to technology, a population of unemployed leisure seekers blissfully distracted from toxic contamination, who borrow, steal, and kill to buy their next digital fix. Getting a virtual buzz is the only thing left to live for. It’s the biggest industry, the only industry, the drug everyone needs, and gangsters run it all.

And who do these gangsters turn to when they need their rule enforced? Constables Led Dent and Debbie Decay. This duo is about to be given a job that will force them out of the familiar squalor of Los Angeles to take down the last tech-less country on Earth: The Garden Nation of Tokyo.

Bestselling writer RICK REMENDER (BLACK SCIENCE, DEADLY CLASS) and superstar art team SEAN MURPHY (CHRONONAUTS, Punk Rock Jesus) and MATT HOLLINGSWORTH (WYTCHES, Hawkeye) examine our growing addiction to technology while thirsting for a nature we continue to destroy.

Trees #13 story: Warren Ellis

art / cover: Jason Howard September 16 / 24 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $2.99 Terrible machines have been set in motion.

Virgil OGN story: Steve Orlando

art: JD Faith

cover: Artyom Trakhanov September 9 / 96 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $9.99 Betrayed, beaten, and banished by his own, an outed cop fights his way across Jamaica for revenge!

We Stand On Guard #3 story: Brian K. Vaughan

art / cover: Steve Skroce September 2 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $2.99 What will torture look like in the future?