by J. Marc Schmidt
Jill doesn't understand why she tried to eat her boyfriend's brain, and it pretty much killed their relationship. She moves to the countryside, free to discover a new way of life and new people. But she can't leave behind that odd incident. Jill has never paid much attention to the world, but when other people start turning into zombies, she realizes that she has to get involved. Eating Steve is the new graphic novel by J. Marc Schmidt, the creator of the much-loved Egg Story. Schmidt brings the same heart, wit and energy to zombies that he brought to eggs.

Writer:Christopher Long
Artist:Andy Kuhn
Writer Christopher Long conceived this crime tale during a stint in rehab. The first issue of this harrowing new miniseries follows Duncan, a desperate man at a drug rehabilitation center who becomes the reluctant participant in a harebrained scheme involving himself, three of his roommates from rehab, and a drug-sniffing dog. The dog sniffs out drug-filled storage units that the team can then rip off. Everything goes as planned until a deranged drug trafficker finds his storage unit empty and goes looking for his merchandise...and the men who took it.

Written and drawn by J. MARC SCHMIDT

These eggs talk. And in their conversations they decide that sitting in a cold, dark refrigerator waiting to get gobbled up is definitely not for them. So they stage a daring escape.

Carefree, the eggs have loads of fun. But life takes a grim turn when one of them turns into a suicidal maniac who yearns to become a soufflé, and it all ends up tragically (and messily) on the kitchen floor.

What does an egg do after witnessing so much pointless, random death and destruction? For Feather, a good-hearted boy egg, the answer is simple. He becomes a ninja.

By Dean Motter
Menlo Park is a reprogrammed janitor robot working as a private eye on the neon streets of Electra City, a town designed to generate and conduct massive amounts of electricity. Sixteen years after the apparent suicide of his human partner atop the world's tallest tower, a blond femme fatale gives Menlo some new information about the cause of death. As Menlo and his assistant, Anesta, reopen the case, their journey takes them from Electra's high society to its dark underbelly. Clues from zeppelin pilots and shadowy architects alike reveal a connection between Menlo's partner's death, a mysterious object called the Astrolabe, and the origins of the city itself.

(W) Chris Roberson
(A) Francesco Biagini
(CA) Erik Jones

Fifty years ago, Michael Moorcock introduced readers to Elric of Melniboné, the last prince of a doomed city, kept alive through the unholy sorceries of his runesword Stormbringer. Together, Elric and Stormbringer had many adventures, and Elric returns to comics in Elric: The Balance Lost! Written by Chris Roberson, with an afterword by Neil Gaiman, Elric: The Balance Lost sees the classic fantasy anti-hero Elric team with two more incarnations of the Eternal Champion - Corum and Dorian Hawkmoon - to restore the universal balance! Collects issues #1-4.

From the author of the acclaimed comic-strip autobiography Persepolis comes this comic book for grown-ups, a gloriously entertaining and revealing look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together many of the women in Marjane Satrapi's life - her beloved grandmother, her mother, an eccentric aunt, their friends and neighbours - for an afternoon of tea-drinking and talking. And as is only to be expected when a group of women reunite around cups of tea, the subjects turn to love, sex and the vagaries of men - in this case, Iranian men. As the afternoon progresses, these colourful women share their secrets about, among other things: how to fake your virginity, how to escape the husband your family has chosen for you, how to enjoy the miracles of plastic surgery and how to take advantage of being someone's mistress. By turns revealing and hilarious, these are stories about the lengths to which some women will go to find a man, to keep a man, or just to keep up appearances. We also witness tearful confessions and heavy-hearted tales of regret and betrayal, of unhappy marriages and of young women forced or choosing to marry for all the wrong reasons. And though love is mostly to blame, there's no missing the message that much of their suffering is due to a culture that prizes men above women and makes a woman's worth dependent on her virginity. Full of surprises, this introduction to the private lives of some very interesting ordinary women also demonstrates brilliantly how much women the world over have in common.

Written by Mariko Tamaki
Art and cover by Steve Rolston
A borrowed diary, a double life and identity issues fuel a teenager’s quest to find herself before she cracks and commits social suicide. Watch Emi go from dull, suburban babysitter to eclectic urban art star compliments of one crazy summer!

Rick Remender (W), Mat Broome (P/Cover), Sean Parsons (I), and Wendy Broome (C)
A thematic merging of The Lord of the Rings and Watchmen, The End League follows a cast of the last remaining super men and women as they embark on a desperate and perilous journey through a world dominated by evil, in hopes of locating the one remaining artifact that can save humanity-the Hammer of Thor. For his return to the world of comics renowned artist Mat Broome (X-Men, Batman) teams up with critically acclaimed writer Rick Remender (Fear Agent) for this, Dark Horse Comics newest superhero series.

Written by Rick Remender
Penciled by Eric Canete and Andy MacDonald
Cover by Matthew Wilson.
After the shocking events of the previous volume, in which half the cast was lost, Black and Arachnakid risk everything to take their revenge on the Smiling Man in his twisted city of Lore. Across the world in New Berlin, the fascist Wolfsangel puts a bounty on the remaining heroes in order to obtain the one item he requires to snatch lordship of Earth from Dead Lexington: An altruistic heart. Collects issues #5-#9.

by Andrew Cosby, Michael Alan Nelson & Greg Scott
Casey Williams and her fellow grad students have a rather interesting homework assignment: decrypt a recently discovered Nazi code left over from World War II. But as they begin their work, those connected with it are found dead. Casey knows that there's more to the "Enigma Cipher" than map coordinates from a sixty-year-old war, but in order to save her own life, she’ll have to crack the code!

Writer/Artist:David B.
The most acclaimed European graphic novel of the 1990s, Epileptic is author David B.'s story of his brother's battle with epilepsy, but it turns into a penetrating and sometimes lacerating self-examination on the author's part, as he delves into his own complex emotions and his family's troubled history, as well as his own youthful fantasy life. Particularly pointed in his description of the family's journey from one attempted cure to another, the book is drawn in David B.'s spare but detailed, straightforward but elegant style. One of the most extraordinarily well-received graphic novels in France and the winner of the French national cartooning award "Alph'Art."

Epileptic is author David B.'s story of his brother's battle with epilepsy, but it turns into a penetrating and sometimes lacerating self-examination on the author's part, as he delves into his own complex emotions and his family's troubled history, as well as his own youthful fantasy life. Particularly pointed in his description of the family's journey from one attempted cure to another, the book is drawn in David B.'s spare but detailed, straightforward but elegant style. One of the most extraordinarily well-received graphic novels in France and the winner of the French national cartooning award "Alph'Art."

Writer:Eric Red
Artist:Nick Stakal
On a manned NASA space ship millions of miles from Earth, a terrifying malfunction occurs in the cryogenic hypersleep pods containing the hibernating astronauts, turning most of the crew into the violently brain-dead. A handful of outnumbered astronauts awaken intact from their artificial slumber to find themselves pitted against murderous zombies running amok on the ship.
Reprints:
ERIC RED'S CONTAINMENT #1-5

Writers - Brian K. Vaughan & Michael Chabon
Art - Jason Shawn Alexander, Steve Rolston, Philip Bond and Eduardo Barreto
Inspired by Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, this is Vaughan's love letter to his chosen medium, a story about what it takes to start out with nothing in Cleveland, Ohio, and end up with a comic so hot a major corporation wants to steal it from you! Brilliantly interweaving the lives of the creators with the world of their creation, artists Steve Rolston and Philip Bond bring the comic-booking trio Maxwell Roth, Case Weaver, and Denny Jones to life, while the inimitable Jason Shawn Alexander and Eduardo Barreto illustrate the thrilling trials and exciting extrications of the new-and old-Escapist!

Writer:Joe Quesada, Jimmy Palmiotti
Artist:Amanda Conner
Reprints:PAINKILLER JANE #0-6
This trade reprints the classic 1999 zero issue of Painkiller Jane (now available from new series publisher, Dynamite Entertainment) in this essential collection! Features issues #0-6, by the creative team of Joe Quesada, Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner and Brian Augustyn, this new edition features a striking cover by Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti along with a classic cover gallery!

(W) Gene Luen Yang (A) Derek Kirk Kim
From two masters of the graphic novel come three magical tales, fantastical adventures through the worlds we live in and the worlds we create that test the boundaries between fantasy and reality, exploring the ways that the world of the imagination can affect real life. Written by the Eisner Award, Printz Award winning author Gene Luen Yang, and illustrated by the Eisner Award, Ignatz Award, Harvey award winning comics creator Derek Kirk Kim.

Written & Drawn by Luke Pearson.

Staff Pick!

Everything We Miss is a breakup story set against a darkly fantastical backdrop. A couple’s final moments together are documented alongside the events and strange occurrences that go on unseen and unheard around them (and around us).

Writer: Amanda Palmer, Jason Webley
Artist: Cynthia von Buhler

Enthusiasts of genuine tragedy and celebrity intrigue, gird your mental loins for an authentic tale of unbelievable hardship and epic catastrophe! This wholly true and accurate account details the extraordinary lives of Evelyn and Evelyn, a darling but unfortunate pair of conjoined twins who brave extreme circumstances of calamity and adversity, such as: the bizarre and bloody night of their birth and subsequent orphaning; their early years on a chicken farm; shocking encounters with depraved gentlemen; life in the circus; the terrible fates of their dearest friends; and concluding with the sisters' rise to international fame via the internet, as told with astounding eloquence by musicians Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley, and documented in gorgeous detail by the artist Cynthia von Buhler.
* Features an insightful afterword by legendary storyteller Neil Gaiman!
* Evelyn Evelyn is an elegant set of two hardbound volumes nestled within a single slipcover--a perfect gift for any lover of the exquisite, the eccentric, and the grotesque.
* Release corresponds with Palmer/Webley music album Evelyn Evelyn.
* World-renowned musicians Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley make their comics debut, with award-winning artist Cynthia von Buhler

Written by David Wohl
Art by Eduardo Francisco

She's a secretary, bodyguard, and assassin all rolled into one... Meet Iris, a loyal and ruthlessly efficient subordinate to her powerful, corporate boss Mr. Ching. In the modern, cutthroat corporate world, today's CEO needs an intimidating edge to stay on top, and Iris is more than well trained to oblige the demand of her employer, including murder. However, Iris discovers the man she has dutifully served for most of her life is far more corrupt than the people she is sworn to protect him from. Now torn between her loyalties to the only person she's ever served, and the new life she realizes she's ready to explore on her own, she must make a choice that could ultimately lead to her demise. Iris' treacherous journey for redemption is set in motion as the entire first volume of the critically acclaimed action-adventure series is collected here for the very first time!

Written and drawn by Leslie Stein

Eye of the Majestic Creature is a collection of semi-autobiographical and fantasy-based comics that combine dry humor, psychedelia, and emotion to show the viewpoint of one person’s world internally and externally. The story follows a young girl, Larrybear, and her talking acoustic guitar Marshmallow on their adventures through the countryside, Chicago, San Francisco and New York. While Larrybear struggles to connect with strangers, her friends, and her family to various degrees of success, her growing population of anthropomorphic friends have adventures of their own.