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"What's on The Rack?": New Comic Book Day 17th August 2022 - Barbaric 20th C Men crash End after End
Welcome to !What's on the Rack?" for New Comic Book Day, Wednesday 17th August 2022. Click on our cover of the week below to browse the whole rack online or scroll on down to see the first issues and other highlights. If you don't see what you're looking for just email us - info@destinationvenus.co.uk - and we will sort things out for you.
EXTRA-LENGTH FIRST ISSUE!
At the end of the 20th century, superheroes, geniuses, madmen, and activists rush towards WWIII!
A Soviet 'iron' hero, a superpowered American president, an insane cyborg soldier, an Afghan woman hellbent on building a better life for her people-these strange yet familiar beings collide in a story that mixes history, politics, and comic book mythology into something totally new.
Welcome to 20TH CENTURY MEN, where the edges of our reality and fiction touch, overlap…and then explode.
It's the moment we've all been waiting for - the start of an all-new arc of BARBARIC!
Follow Owen and his magical companion, the tender, talking Axe as they spread kindness and hope in a world gone bad...
...just kidding!
Owen, Axe, and Soren are back, and so is all the mayhem and bloodshed that follows them wherever they go!
This time, they're out to settle an old score against Gladius, a wicked a$$hole who did Owen wrong way back in his barbarian days.
As always... it's just f***ing barbaric.
Intergalactic mercenaries Rex 'Crash' Ballard and Troy 3.0 find themselves in hot water after a prison break on Wexia-1 sets free the dictator of Wexia-2.
Now they must clean up their mess or find themselves locked up. This means working with Chief Fiona Alvarez of the Earth Defense Forces to recapture Supreme Leader Jongil and stop interplanetary war.
No sweat for two pros like Crash & Troy!
Life is nothing if not a series of endings.
School.
Jobs.
Friendships.
Love.
Until THE end.
Walter Willem's end was fast and unexpected. His was an unremarkable life. So, how is it that his story continues as cannon fodder in an endless war waged against an insatiable darkness hellbent on consuming all of existence?
And is Walter right in believing he's arrived in the midst of this titanic battle as the one destined to finally end it? That's the tale of the End After End.
Sanity-eating monsters ended humanity. The unlucky few who survived now hide in the cracks of a broken world.
And yet somehow, beneath the graveyard that used to be San Antonio, Rico met Lupe, the girl of his dreams.
But how did she get here?
And why is she smiling?
No one survives out in the street.
No one smiles where the monsters lurk.
A new generation of Bastards is back and bolder than ever!
A special 3-issue oversized prestige format mini-series from Jimmy's creators GARTH ENNIS and RUSS BRAUN! After the shattering events of his last adventure, Jimmy is on extended leave from British Intelligence-sliding slowly into middle age, with carpet slippers, tragic sweater and cup of cocoa to match.
The formerly sexist superspy is even reevaluating his attitude to women! His daughter (Don't say it! Don't you dare say it!) Nancy is taking up the slack in fine style, cutting a bloody swathe through the Regent rogues' gallery.
But a mysterious message starts Jimmy looking into his family's murky past…where he finds a clue to a strange and deadly new danger. JIMMY'S LITTLE BASTARDS #1, by Garth Ennis and Russ Braun. Written by Garth Ennis (A WALK THROUGH HELL, The Boys, Preacher) and illustrated by Russ Braun (Batman, Swamp Thing, Where Monsters Dwell), JIMMY'S LITTLE BASTARDS returns to a familiar world with a new spin.
(W) Brett Murphy (A) Wilson Gandolpho (CA) Niko Walter
Since the capture of King Wenceslaus IV by his half brother, King Sigismund, the Kingdom of Bohemia is in disarray.
The once peaceful Kingdom is now filled with screams of terror as King Sigismund and his army, full of Cuman mercenaries, slaughter those who oppose him.
Sigismund is aided by Istvan Toth and his bandit army, as they are able to raid the recently destroyed villages for silver and weapons while also bringing fear to Wenceslaus loyalists.
Find out what happened in the events leading to the hit video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance, in the upcoming comic series, Kingdom Come: Deliverance "Death Upon Us".
In the not-too-distant future, the world will be just as it is today…
only worse.
Evil has permeated the very fabric of society, from the halls of government to the darkened alleyways.
Will the heroes who once defended the downtrodden fail them now?
Will a new generation rise, inspired by the last of the old?
Who will be THE LAST SHADOWHAWK?
Cullen Bunn (Harrow County) and Andrea Mutti (Bunny Mask) return with their hit adventure tale of two worlds split between dreams and reality.
As the hunt for his missing son continues, our hero shifts worlds from the nightmarish Lovecraftian dreamscape to a cyberpunk metropolis where a ruthless cult continues to plague him, and reality and fantasy continue to blur.
'. . . a visually stunning dark fantasy, wearing its pulp fiction influences on its sleeve and setting up an intriguing mystery.' -But Why Tho?
MINISERIES PREMIERE! NEW STORY ARC FINALLY!
The man, the myth, the legend-SHIRTLESS BEAR-FIGHTER RETURNS to the War on Bearror in a wild new action-comedy with higher stakes, new characters, and all the heart and hilarity you expect from series co-creators JODY LEHEUP & NIL VENDRELL!
This time, Shirtless's search for his true origin sets him on a cosmic collision course with the bear god…URSA MAJOR! The battle begins this August with 32 ad-free pages of side-splitting, flapjacked fury!
Don't miss it!
Marty Tarantella has been flipping burgers for 15 years. He has no kids, no hobbies, no love interests, and, essentially, no life. But what he does have is a plan to change everything...
Years of watching the daily rhythms of the neighbouring stores has given Marty the idea for a perfect heist, but when he accidentally steals a supernatural weapon from a cult full of violent lunatics, the resulting Satanic panic will be way above his minimum-wage pay grade.
Nothing can prepare you for the coming of Trve Kvlt, a deliciously horrifying and hilarious new series!
AN 'X' CROSSING DANGEROUS LINES!
When a young X-Man breaks the laws of Krakoa and takes a life, it's up to Wolverine to track down his former student and take her down…
But Nature Girl is tired of standing by while humanity destroys her home. Can even Logan quell her fury?
Find out as a good girl breaks bad to save the planet! The hit story from Marvel Unlimited comes to print for the first time with exclusive bonus content!
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