TITAN COMICS April 2014 Solicitations – New DOCTOR WHO!

Titan Comics has released their April solicitations.  The big news is that we will have two new Doctor Who series launching!  Each series will focus on the adventures of the tenth and eleventh Doctors! BRAND-NEW SERIES DOCTOR WHO: THE TENTH DOCTOR #1
Nick Abadzis & Elena Casagrande | 32pp | FC | $3.99 | On-sale July 30
 

THE TENTH DOCTOR IS BACK, IN AN ALL-NEW ONGOING SERIES! NEW COMPANION! NEW FOES! UNFORGETTABLE NEW HORIZONS! ALLONS-Y!
 
The Eisner Award-winning Nick Abadzis (Laika) and fan-favorite Elena Casagrande (Angel, Suicide Risk, Doctor Who, Star Trek) take control of the TARDIS for their first five-issue arc with the Tenth Doctor, as played by David Tennant!
 
Gabriella Gonzalez is stuck in a dead-end job in her family’s New York Laundromat, dreaming of college and bigger, better and brighter things.
 
So when a strange man with an even stranger big blue box barges into her life on the eve of the Day of the Dead celebrations – talking about an infestation of psychic aliens – she seizes her chance for adventure with both hands.
 
After Donna’s tragic exit, the Doctor thought he was done with new companions. But Gabby Gonzalez is going to prove him wrong… if she survives the night!

Please note: unfortunately, this title is not currently available to order in the UK and Eire.
 

AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOWFROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order code: APR141372

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 BRAND-NEW SERIES 

DOCTOR WHO: THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR #1
Al Ewing, Rob Williams & Simon Fraser | 32pp | FC | $3.99 | On-sale July 30 

THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR RETURNS IN AN ALL-NEW ONGOING SERIES, WITH A TIME-TWISTING LEAP INTO THE UNKNOWN! GERONIMO!
 
A stunning new era begins for the Eleventh Doctor, as played by Matt Smith!
 
Alice Obiefune has just lost her mother when the Doctor explodes into her life.
 
But what does this grieving young woman have to do with the career of a 70s musician, an amnesiac alien, and a terrifying cosmic threat?
 
In the wake of the second Big Bang, find out what the Doctor gets up to when Amy and Rory aren’t around!
 
Series architects Al Ewing (Doctor Who, Loki: Agent of Asgard, Mighty Avengers, Trifecta) and Rob Williams (Revolutionary War, Ordinary, Miss Fury, The Royals: Masters of War, Trifecta) kick off a whirlwind adventure through eternity with artist Simon Fraser (Nikolai Dante, Grindhouse, Doctor Who)!

Please note: unfortunately, this title is not currently available to order in the UK and Eire.
 

AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOWFROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order code: APR141379

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 BRAND-NEW SERIES  SALLY OF THE WASTELAND #1
Victor Gischler & Tazio Bettin| 32pp | FC | $3.99 | On-sale July 30She’s a gloriously-grindhouse,
gorehound, glamour girl!  Southern Louisiana, 82 years after the Fall.The apocalypse has come and gone, leaving behind a withered, ravaged landscape of wreckage and mutant crawfish. Still, you gotta laugh, and Sally does, often using her beloved shotgun, Bertha, as the punchline! Inspired more by lust than common sense, and by a teenage desire to protect Tommy, the object of her desires, Sally leaves her bar job and joins the deranged crew of the Mississippi Duchess on a mission into the remains of New Orleans. Saving the remains of civilization plays second best to keeping her sweetheart safe as our smart and sexy princess of the wild frontier runs a gauntlet of gigantic genetic freaks and roving gangs of blood-hungry barbarians!The ever-so-cute but ever-so-slightly-insane Sally is the wayward daughter of writerVictor Gischler (X-Men, Angel & Faith, Noir) and artistic up-and-comer Tazio Bettin. This first issue in a fantastic new series proves Armageddon can be fun!
 DON’T MISS OUT! VARIANT COVER FROM REVIVAL AND HACK/SLASH’S TIM SEELEY!     CHECK OUT THE TRAILER   PREVIEW ART      AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOWFROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order code: APR141392

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 BRAND-NEW COLLECTIONS  SPRINGHEELED JACK 
David Hitchcock| 128 pp | HC | FC | $19.99 | On-sale September 9 Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack has a mind twisted and sick! High above a steampunk London of Penny Dreadfuls, Jack the Ripper and pea-soup fog…stalks the legendary demon, Springheeled Jack!
 
From his quarters in Bedlam lunatic asylum, Sir Jack Rackham hunts the creature. Across the gothic rooftops of necropolis London and through the labyrinths of his tortured mind, he pursues the creature that took his beloved.
 
But just who or what is Springheeled Jack? Does the answer lie amongst the lunatics of Rackham’s sanatorium – or in the very heart of the British Empire: with Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace? 
 
For fans of From Hell to lovers of Sherlock Holmes, the wonderfully pencilled art and riveting story from David Hitchcock is a must!     
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 AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOWFROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order code: APR141390

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  BRAND-NEW COLLECTIONS  ALIEN LEGION: DEAD & BURIED
Chuck Dixon, Larry Storman & Randy Emberli |368 pp| FC | $29.99 | On-sale September 2A brand-new, blood-soaked omnibus edition of classic Alien Legion Action! When your planet is torn apart by internal strife; when your world is overshadowed by looming alien battleships; when the galaxy is threatened with war and terror, it’s time to summon the rammers and bospers of Alien Legion!
 
In this epic omnibus, collected for the first time here, Alien Legion commander, Major Sarigar, is tormented by the loss of his beloved Nomad Squad after a desperate suicide mission on the planet Quaal, and is now desperate to discover the truth of their disappearance. He resigns his commission and sets off on the trail of his missing Legionnaires!
 
The second volume of Alien Legion features gripping, galaxy-sprawling storytelling from Chuck Dixon (Punisher War Journal, Savage Sword of Conan) and the gun camera dynamism of Larry Stroman’s art!
  PREVIEW ART     AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOWFROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order code: APR141371                            

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 BRAND-NEW COLLECTIONS THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE
Michael Mendheim, Mike Kennedy, Sean Jaffe, Simon Bisley, Ivan Khivrenko | 272 pp | HC | FC | $24.99 | On-sale July 30
 Bisley’s back!Raised by the ancient Order of Solomon, Adam Cahill is one of a rare handful of highly trained warriors bound by bloodline to guard the Seven Holy Seals that contain the End of Days.
 
But ageless forces have conspired towards a prophetic event foretold by numerous cultures and multiple religions… and when that cryptic date arrives, they strike against the order without mercy!
 
The entire epic saga is collected at last, with all-new bonus features including covers, posters and concept art by the Eisner Award-winning master of painted horror himself – the BIZ!  PREVIEW ART    AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOWFROM APRIL PREVIEW
Order code: APR141387

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ALSO AVAILABLE  

ALIEN LEGION: UNCIVIL WAR #2
Chuck Dixon, Larry Stroman & Carl Potts | 32pp | FC | $3.99 | On-sale July 23

WITH ALIEN LEGION, THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS ‘PEACEKEEPING’

 The Bospers of Force Nomad return once more to the pages of Alien Legion!
 
Detailed with providing humanitarian (and all other species!) support to refugees fleeing a civil war on the planet Harkilon, Force Nomad is hoping for a push-over peacekeeping milk run.
 
Instead, smugglers are using the refugees as cover and it only takes one itchy trigger finger to turn a diplomatic mission into a SNAFU of galactic proportions!
 
This brand-new series brings together the creative giants behind the legendary original Alien Legion stories: Chuck Dixon (Punisher War Journal, Savage Sword of Conan, Batman and the Outsiders) and Carl Potts (The Punisher, The Incredible Hulk) with fantastic art by Larry Stroman! (Wolverine, The Punisher).A must-have for any fan of the original run, this is also the perfect point for new fans to hit Alien Legion’s hot LZ! Get to it, ya damn bospors!
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 AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOWFROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order code: APR141370
 

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ORDINARY #3
Rob Williams & D’Israeli | 36pp | FC | $3.99 | On-sale July 23“Surreal and lovely, one of the most beautiful books of the year.” – Warren Ellis  One day divorced plumber Michael Fisher woke up in his crummy one-bedroom apartment in Queens, New York, and discovered that everyone on planet Earth had gained super-powers… apart from him.
 
The most ordinary man alive has now made it into Manhattan, hoping to rescue his estranged son, Josh, from the creature trapping him in his school.
 
Meanwhile, the Vice-President has effectively staged a coup, taking command of an America braced for super-powered war. And he will go to any length to prevent Dr. Tara McDonald, the Scottish genome scientist, finding a cure for this plague…
 
With #3, this brilliant series by writer Rob Williams (The Royals: Masters of War, Revolutionary War, Trifecta) and artist D’Israeli(Scarlet Trace, War of the Worlds) reaches its cunning and deviously clever finale!PREVIEW ART    “Rob and D’Israeli craft an uncut diamond of a premise into a warm, witty and wonderfully illustrated gem. This is lovely comics.” – Al Ewing   AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW
FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order code: APR141389

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 DRAGONS VOL. 3 
Simon Furman |64 pp| FC | $6.99 | On-sale August 27 The all-new adventures of Hiccup and Toothless continue! Swooping in from DreamWorks Animation’s smash-hit TV series Dragons: Riders Of Berk, Titan Comics proudly presents all-new original adventures of Hiccup and Toothless! The third in a series of thrilling all-ages publications set in theDragons universe. Featuring gorgeous animation-inspired artwork and written bySimon Furman (Transformers, Doctor Who Magazine, Thundercats).AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOWFROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order code: APR141386

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  BRAND-NEW COLLECTIONS A1 PRESENTS: CARPE DIEM VOL. 1
 HATE MONDAYS
W.H. Rauf & Rhoald Marcellius| 104 pp | HC | FC | $19.99 | On-sale September 2 They’re the colorful super-assassins with a member for each day of the week – and they all hate Mondays!From the pages of A1 monthly, a fun, hilariously-twisted adventure in the vein of Chew and Tank Girl!
 
Clowns, mad chefs, living videogame characters, monstrous super-villains and giant kaiju – Carpe DIEm has them all!
 
Created by Rhoald Marcellius of super art studio STELLAR Labs (Hulk, Superman, Action Comics, Xtreme X-Men, Heavy Metal).
 
Features an all-new story, exclusive to this collection and tons of bonus features!  PREVIEW ART      AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOWFROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order code: APR141369Share on Tumblr