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17 DECEMBER 2014

Neil Gaiman fans rejoice, for SANDMAN OVERTURE #4 is here!
After you're finished hangin' out with the Dream King you also have these great comics to chose from this week: the next installment of Grant Morrison's MULTIVERSITY's retro throwback adventure, celebrate the awesomeness that is CAPTAIN MARVEL in a special anniversary anthology, epic modern myth WICKED+DIVINE begins a new storyarc, as does the feel good fun of LUMBERJANES, and Sopranos fans should pick up issue #2 of retro mob drama with a feminist twist THE KITCHEN. Also in store: DOCTOR WHO, BLACK WIDOW, JUSTICE LEAGUE, BATMAN, AVENGERS X-MEN AXIS, WYTCHES, ANNIHILATOR, ALL NEW X-MEN, INTERSECT, MS MARVEL and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY.
What are you looking forward to reading? Talk to us @DavesComics!

BOOM
ADV TIME BANANA GUARD ACADEMY #6 (OF 6)
HELLRAISER BESTIARY #5
LUMBERJANES #9

 In order to earn the coveted Gimme S'more badge, the Lumberjanes set out on a backpacking trip in the deep, dark woods. But the woods aren't so scary anymore, now that the Lumberjanes have kicked, punched, and befriended all the fearsome magical monsters out there, so they set out to find the one thing that can still scare them all: campfire stories!
PEANUTS VOL 2 #24
ROCKET SALVAGE #1

WHY WE LOVE IT: When writer/animator Yehudi Mercado (GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: UNIVERSAL WEAPON; PANTALONES, TX) came to us with a dysfunctional family drama about three clones running a rocket ship repair shop, we were already on board. Throw in some spaceport street and a few alien gangsters tell us when to start our engines!
WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: Did we mention space racing?! With blowsequences from artist Bachan (IMAGINE AGENTS), this series has both action and heart. Fans of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS, BRAVEST WARRIORS, and SPEED RACER will want to pick up a wrench and strap in for the ride.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Primo Rocket used to be the fastest speederin the galaxy, but after a crash that sealed the fate of his spacehome, Rio Rojo, Primo has resigned himself to life as a lowly spaceship salvage yard owner. However, his two "kids"clone Beta, and Beta's genius girlZetaseem to keep out of trouble. When the dysfunctional family suddenly becomes the target of an intergalactic manhunt, the family has to come together to save their home.

DARK HORSE
BPRD HELL ON EARTH #126

 A monster terrorizes a mountain where Howards finds a connection to his past as a prehistoric warlord. The Russians struggle with their own monsters, and in New York, the Zinco corporation operates under the mysterious directions of the Black Flame.
DARK HORSE PRESENTS 2014 #5

Why is Odin wielding Thor's hammer? Find out in Joe Casey and Jim Rugg's thunderous Odin's Mighty Return! Ed Brisson's gritty crime comic Murder Book comes to DHP, featuring a tale illustrated by Moon Knight artist Declan Shalvey!
Plus, new chapters of Alex de Campi and Jerry Ordway's Semiautomagic; Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, and Andy Kuhn's Wrestling with Demons; Tyler Jenkins's The Chaining; and Peter Tomasi and Keith Champagne's The Mighty, written by Champagne with art by Leonard Kirk.
EERIE COMICS #6
PREDATOR FIRE AND STONE #3 (OF 4)

DC
ARROW SEASON 2.5 #3
BATMAN #37
BATMAN AND ROBIN #37 (ROBIN RISES)

 Batman vs. Darkseid! The penultimate chapter of "Robin Rises" is here! Can Batman bring Damian Wayne back from death? Concluded in next week's ROBIN RISES: ALPHA!
BATMAN ETERNAL #37
BATMAN SUPERMAN #17

 Who is Superman's Joker? It seems it's the Unseen Terror, who makes the battle personal for Superman! How? By attacking all things related to the Man of Steel! Together, Batman and Superman start to track down suspects - and the first one is Lobo!
BATWOMAN #37
CATWOMAN #37
EARTH 2 WORLDS END #11
FABLES #147

 "Happily Ever After," part seven! Rose Red, still at her magical old home in the woods, learns why she and Snow are so special - and why they have become lodestones for the accumulation of great powers. And much to her surprise, she finds that she is truly happy here for the first time since she can remember. But can she remain there, never go back to the mundy world or Fabletown, and avoid the battle with Snow that seems all but inevitable? Plus: "The Last Story of Jack of Fables" illustrated by Russ Braun.
GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS #37 (GODHEAD)
INFINITE CRISIS FIGHT FOR THE MULTIVERSE #6
JUSTICE LEAGUE #37
KITCHEN #2 (OF 8)

 In part two of the all-new crime drama THE KITCHEN, the girls find their newly claimed criminal empire under threat when a sleazy hustler blackmails them for more money than they have. Can they get it together in time and keep control of the Hell's Kitchen underworld? Or will they have to take more drastic measures to protect their turf?
MULTIVERSITY THUNDERWORLD #1

 The fifth chapter of the greatest adventure in DC Comics history is here!
Acclaimed for their collaborations on BATMAN AND ROBIN, SEAGUY and SEVEN SOLDIERS OF VICTORY: THE MANHATTAN GUARDIAN, superstar writer Grant Morrison and renowned artist Cameron Stewart deliver some magic to THE MULTIVERSITY with a breathtaking journey to  Earth-5 - A.K.A. Thunderworld!
With a single word, Billy Batson transforms from boy reporter for Whiz Media into the world's Mightiest Mortal - Captain Marvel! Along with the other members of the Marvel Family, Captain Marvel battles dastardly villains like Mr. Mind and the Monster Society of Evil! But now, his greatest foe has attacked the Rock of Eternity - the source of the Marvel Family's power - and it could mean the end of reality as we know it! What impossible villains are Sivana teaming up with who could spell doom for the Multiverse? From where did Sivana's children get their newfound super powers? And what does the appearance of one mysterious comic book mean for the heroes of Thunderworld?
Find out all that and more in this exciting issue that acts as chapter five of THE MULTIVERSITY.
NEW 52 FUTURES END #33 (WEEKLY)
RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #37
SANDMAN OVERTURE #4 (OF 6)

 In an asylum in the City of the Stars, Morpheus comes face to face with the creature at the center of the war that will destroy the universe. Time is running out...
SENSATION COMICS FEATURING WONDER WOMAN #5
SMALLVILLE SEASON 11 CONTINUITY #1 (OF 4)
SUPERGIRL #37

 It's Supergirl's first day as a student in the Crucible Academy! What is the mystery of the Academy? Who are her fellow students? And what happens if she decides to get herself expelled before she graduates?
TEEN TITANS #5
TEEN TITANS GO #7
TRINITY OF SIN #3
WONDER WOMAN #37

 Superman arrives on Paradise Island to support Wonder Woman in her darkest hour, but their bond may be breaking apart! No time for Diana to think, though, as a mythological force seemingly tied to Wonder Woman's role as War attacks the Amazons!

DYNAMITE
BOB'S BURGERS #5 (OF 5)

 The final issue in the first-ever Bob's Burgers miniseries, featuring five original stories of the Belcher family! In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Tina finds a familiar face; Bob cultivates a list of literary classics; Louise tries to shed light on a Boyz 4 Now mystery while denying having any interest in them whatsoever; Linda imagines an alternate universe; and Gene presents a musical set at Robot College.
DAMNATION CHARLIE WORMWOOD #3 (OF 5)
DJANGO ZORRO #2 (OF 6)

 In anticipation of the Transcontinental Railroad, Archduke of Arizona Gürko Langdon has enslaved the natives for labor on a state-wide railway, while he waits for the United States to honor his claim as sovereign of the territory, per the Treaty of Hidalgo-Guadalupe. Learning of the archduke's injustice to the people of Arizona, Don Diego de la Vega enlists the bounty hunter Django as his personal bodyguard as he sets off to undo Langdon's schemes. All too familiar with the cruelties of slavery, Django is eager to assist Diego on this mission, though it is more political than the gunslinger prefers... even so, there seems to be more to the old fox than his fussy millionaire persona lets on.
FLASH GORDON HOLIDAY SPECIAL

 Deck the galactic halls! You're getting three titanic tales for the price of one, by the triple-team of Elliott Kalan, Dan McCoy and Stuart Wellington from The Daily Show and the hit podcast, The Flop House! Flash and Zarkov head back to Arboria to teach their alien friends about Christmas, only to find that Arboria...already knows what Christmas is? Then a tale on Earth, featuring an abandoned Beast-Man helped by a Jewish family during Hanukkah! And finally, Dale Arden rings in the New Year on the violent and horrifically frigid Frigia!
GAME OF THRONES #23
JUSTICE INC #5 (OF 6)
LONE RANGER VINDICATED #2 (OF 4)

IDW
GI JOE (2014) #4
GODZILLA CATACLYSM #5 (OF 5)

 As one of Godzilla's most devastating foes emerges, Hiroshi must come to terms with his role in the Cataclysm. Will his actions be enough to rectify the mistakes of the past?
GODZILLA RULERS OF THE EARTH #19
JIM HENSON'S STORYTELLER WITCHES #4

 In this final stand alone issue, Harvey Award artist Jeff Stokely (SIX GORILLA) adapts an unproduced teleplay by writers of the THE STORYTELLER television show Susan Kodicek, Anne Mountfield, and Academy Award winner Anthony Minghella that weaves together the legend of the Russian witch, Baba Yaga.
RAGNAROK #3
STAR TREK ONGOING #39
TRANSFORMERS DRIFT EMPIRE OF STONE #2 (OF 4)

 ONCE A DECEPTICON! 

DRIFT's past comes back to haunt him, as RATCHET tries to drag him back to the Lost Light. But alone on a far-off world, DRIFT's honor demands he stand his ground!
TRANSFORMERS MORE THAN MEETS EYE #36

IMAGE
ACTIVITY #16
ALEX + ADA #11

 Ada needs to find a balance between freedom and safety. Alex's friends have opinions on his relationship with Ada.
DRIFTER #2
GONERS #3
INTERSECT #2

 While a mysterious, luminous singer begins the last aria of Detroit, our travellers are witnesses to the shifting form of the city from on high. Is this collapse, or something far stranger? The intricate, mind-bending mystery of INTERSECT is unfolding...
LIL DEPRESSED BOY SUPPOSED TO BE THERE TOO #3
MANIFEST DESTINY #12
ODDLY NORMAL #4
RUMBLE #1

 Okay, so a scarecrow walks into a bar...and proceeds to wreak havoc across two worlds! After a long absence, Rathraq, Scarecrow Warrior God, is back-and very unhappy. Bad news for his old enemies, yes, but worse news for everybody else! JOHN ARCUDI and JAMES HARREN bring you a modern day action/adventure fantasy thriller where rundown dive bars, undead kitty cats, psycho skinheads, and giant mummies all play a part.  It's Louis C.K. meets Robert E. Howard in a David Fincher universe.
WAYWARD #5
WICKED & DIVINE #6

 THE FAUST ACT is over. Welcome to FANDEMONIUM.
The second arc of THE WICKED + THE DIVINE begins in its traditional manner (i.e. a ludicrous pun.) We'd say something like "nothing will ever be the same again" but if you think about it, you can say that about literally everything, ever. Er...also some comic story. Probably.
WYTCHES #3
ZERO #13

INDIE
13 COINS #3 (OF 6)
ANNIHILATOR #4 (OF 6)

 Ray Spass' life was a complete mess - a crumbling screenwriting career, a failed love life, an inoperable brain tumor - but that was before his screenplay's fictional hero, deep-space fugitive Max Nomax, showed up in real life, insisting that his tumor contains a universe of secrets. Now, the only way for Ray to save his own life (and our existence) is to extract the information, one chapter at a time. Partnering with his fictional creation, Ray drags his ex, Luna, into their vortex of chaos. As the group faces an unexpected monster, Nomax makes a shocking revelation that endangers everyone involved.
BUNKER #8
DEATH DEFYING DR MIRAGE #4
DOCTOR WHO 10TH #5

 With the Doctor half the man he should be, under the draining influence of an alien tourist trap, Gabriella is left to shoulder the burden of saving him, the planet, and the future of art in our galaxy  - and all on her first off-world trip, no less! Trapped in a terrifying creative retreat, where what was once beautiful has been rendered corrupt and horrifying, is Gabby strong enough to reverse whatever has been done to the Doctor and save an intergalactic artistic community from itself? And who, or what, are the deadly Consultants, and what plans do they have for the Doctor?
HARBINGER FAITH #0
JUGHEAD & ARCHIE COMICS DIGEST #8
MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER #9
MONO #1 (OF 4)

 "From the Boer War, through the First and Second World War, the Cold War and beyond, Mono was there...where no one else could go..." The ape-human hybrid secret agent and Queen's assassin, possessed of a deadly prehensile tail and "the strength of twelve men," made his debut in the pulps of the 1930s and enjoyed a brief revival in the late 1960s and 70s. But can it be that the fiction is closer to historic fact than was ever previously guessed? Now a series of tales, told in hand-written journals and reported first-hand by those that knew him, reveal Mono as a dual-natured and conflicted adventurer - savage and noble; civilized, but ultimately untamable.
Q2 RTN QUANTUM & WOODY #3 (OF 5)
SHERWOOD TX #5 (OF 5)
SIMPSONS COMICS #216
SONIC BOOM #2
SQUARRIORS #1 (OF 4)

 Squarriors is the epic saga of warring animals in a post-human world. Specifically a small tribe known as the Tin Kin, and their struggles building a life in the new world while confronting the hostile neighboring Maw tribe.
STUMPTOWN V3 #4
VAMPIRELLA FEARY TALES #3 (OF 5)
WORLD OF ARCHIE JUMBO COMICS DIGEST #46

MARVEL
ALL NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA #2
ALL NEW X-MEN #34

 The ALL-NEW X-MEN continue their adventure in the Ultimate Universe!
Guest-starring Miles Morales and scores of other Ultimate characters!
Will either universe ever be the same again?
AVENGERS AND X-MEN AXIS #8 (OF 9)
AVENGERS NOW

The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is back with 64 pages of all-new profiles!
Every new member: Angela! Captain Universe (Devoux)! Nightmask (Adam)! The Superior Spider-Man! And more!
Enemies: The Apocalypse Twins! The Black Order! Magnitron! A.I.M.'s Scientist Supreme, Andrew Forson! Allies: Nick Fury! Phil Coulson! Nova (Sam Alexander)! Avengers Underground's Hazmat! The entire Avengers roster makes an appearance thanks to an Update Appendix for every single member!

AXIS HOBGOBLIN #3 (OF 3)

AXIS REVOLUTIONS #4 (OF 4)

BLACK WIDOW #13

 The world has turned against Black Widow. Her web is broken. How will she deal with this?
The final path to Chaos is at her feet, but will her own demons keep her from finally taking it? What happened to Isaiah? Can Black Widow still turn to the Avengers, or even to SHIELD? The creative team celebrates the first FULL YEAR of their astonishing unbroken run!
CAPTAIN MARVEL #10

We're celebrating 100 issues of Carol Danvers' high-flying, smack-talking, and butt-kicking adventures, thanks to you our beloved Carol Corps! Join writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artists David Lopez, Marcio Takara and more as we bring you a momentous (and over-sized) issue almost 50 years in the making! 
DEATH OF WOLVERINE WEAPON X PROGRAM #4 (OF 5)
DEATHLOK #3
ELEKTRA #9

 As the Assassin's Guild closes-in, Elektra faces an old enemy one final time. But how can the master assassin survive against an unkillable enemy?
FANTASTIC FOUR #14
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #22

Part Three of The Planet of the Symbiotes! Now that Venom has led the Guardians to this devastatingly dangerous planet of alien symbiotes, will the team ever trust Flash Thompson again?
INHUMAN #10 AXIS
MARVEL UNIVERSE AVENGERS ASSEMBLE SEASON TWO #2
MILES MORALES ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #8

A MIND-BLOWING TURN OF EVENTS! THIS IS BIG!
SPIDER-MAN'S life is turned upside down!
What is the truth behind MILES' legacy?
WHO was Miles' FATHER?

MOON KNIGHT #10

MS MARVEL #10

  Kamala bands together with some unlikely heroes against the maniacal Inventor.
But has she taken on more than she can handle?
Find out why Ms. Marvel is the best new super hero of the year!
SCARLET SPIDERS #2 (OF 3) SV
SPIDER-WOMAN #2 SV
STORM #6

 Finishing her business with Yukio in Las Vegas, Storm hitches a flight home.
But unbeknownst to her, she's got some stowaways in her carry-on luggage: vengeful assassins armed to the teeth! And they intend to make sure Storm doesn't reach her destination...