by Jennifer Hayden

Here's the wisdom that comes with wearing an underwire - and you don't have to own a bra to enjoy it! These stories are about the little things that give us the big picture. Jennifer Hayden's webcomic Underwire has gained critical attention as a fresh indie comic about womanhood, parenthood, and being-in-the-middle-of-life-hood. Here is a collection of the original strips, plus a slew of new comics and art created exclusively for this volume.

Writer:Kris Oprisko Artist:Nick Postic
Underneath the city streets, amid the labyrinth of subway tunnels and gothic ruins, the most notorious creatures of the night collide in an all-out war. It is the culmination of the bloodthirsty battle between two mortal enemies...the Vampires and the Werewolves. 2003's movie blockbuster, adapted in IDW's own unique fashion! Also included in this volume is a special prequel story, set hundreds of years before the epic movie, written by one of the movie's screenwriters, Danny McBride, with Kris Oprisko, who scripted the adaptation.

Writer - Kevin Grevioux
Art & Cover - Andrew Huerta
This special squarebound edition collects the two-part Underworld: Rise of the Lycans tale in one edition. Written by screenwriter and star Kevin Grevioux!

Written by Ryan Rubio
Art and Cover by Thomas Boatwright.
Collects the sold-out ShadowLine series "The Haunting of Hernesburg", as well as the never-before-seen series "The Curse of Wallace Manor"! Plus, it includes two unpublished tales of Ridley and Falstaff: "The Inconvenience Store" and "Let's All Die in the Lobby!" This volume truly is a must have for all fans of humor and horror.

Writer:Steve Niles Artist:Butch Adams
The classic old monsters of Creepyville are feeling their age. Media-savvy kids have turned their back on vampires, mummies and sea creatures in favor of newer, more gruesome characters – except for Theo, a boy who still believes in their ability to frigh
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Written by Joshua Dysart, art and cover by Tone Rodriguez.

Long sold out, IDW presents the newly formatted edition of Hurricane Entertainment's Violent Messiahs: The Book of Job. Violent Messiahs can only be described as a genre bending, theological, sci-fi love story about criminal politics, the nature of violence and man's search for individuality.VM is a loose and fast urban retelling of the "Frankenstein" story complete with conspiracy theories, indestructible clones, and a tragic love story.

Written by Joshua D.M. Dysart
Art and Cover by Tone Rodriguez.
One month after the disappearance of the vigilante known as Citizen Pain... another retched soul appears in Rankor Island's urban spiral of decay. As the winter snow begins to fall, riots flash across the city and police meet these acts with panicked force. Lt. Cheri Major, deeply rooted in a residual psychosis, is sent out on a new mission. The clues lead her deep into the Island's fetish culture. Now she must seek out the rubber clad murderess known only as "Scalpel" all the while trying to gain control over her demons within.

Writer:Steve Niles Artist:Chee, Milx
College student Victor works to reverse death, not knowing what a can of worms he's opening up. But he'll find out. The first issue of the miniseries collected here sold out immediately, and Dimension Films snapped up the movie rights.

by Neil Bousfield
In this uniquely beautiful wordless art book/graphic novel, a working-class family struggles to make ends meet and raise their children in a relentless world of economic challenges. The story of Walking Shadows is told through full-page woodcut engravings. Each page is a hyper-detailed Expressionist work of Social Realism suitable for framing and can be enjoyed both as graphic novel narrative and as a gift of impeccable art.

Written, art and cover by Ben Templesmith.

Raymond Delgado isn't welcome at all. Rather, he's the newest inmate at the Hoxford Correctional Facility and Mental Institution. He has no hope of release, parole, rehabilitation, or decent conversation. On a good day, he'll tell you he's Zeus and only bite your arm off. Literally. On a bad day, you won't have time to scream to the prison guard for help. And why are people always transferred into Hoxford, but no records show anyone ever transferring back out?

Dave Land (W)
Matt and Shawn Fillbach (W/A)

Through all of history, on the night of the full moon, the bloodcurdling cries of werewolves have pierced the night sky. For centuries werewolves have had to content themselves with shortened forays of feral change as dictated by the source of their power-the moon! But all that is about to change as three werewolf friends-Ted, Jeff, and Stan-leave Earth and travel to the lunar surface in a quest to become Kings of the Moon! Unfortunately, Moon Patrol captain Maggie Pilgrim has other plans . . . as does the hive of vampires living on the dark side!

o If you're wondering how in the world werewolves got to the moon, then check out the eight page prologue for the series at myspace.com/darkhorsepresents, issue #21.

o Collects the three-issue miniseries. FC, 104 pages

by Karl Stevens
Whatever is a remarkable collection of humorous and beautifully drawn short stories by Ignatz nominated and Xeric award winning artist Karl Stevens. Set in the world of young artists, dreamers, drinkers, layabouts, and dime-store deep thinkers of bohemian Allston, Massachusetts, the strips - originally published in The Phoenix, Boston's leading alternative weekly - are revealing snapshots of real-life urban America at the dawn of the 21st century. Stevens's clear eye and skillful inkwork render these pictures of local beauty and joyful squalor into a documentary of the way we live and love. In addition to The Phoenix strips, Whatever features ten exquisite color pieces expertly rendered in watercolor.

Writer/Artist:Johnny Ryan
The book includes several stories featuring Johnny Ryan’s signature creation, Loady McGee (and straight-man Synus O’Gynus), a misanthropic, acne-scarred hustler who finds himself in scams that would make Wimpy proud, and responds to almost everything with an endless stream of wisecracks, puns, and X-rated double-entendres. Loady’s ridiculous crackpot schemes serve as perfect comic set-ups, and Ryan’s art is crammed with visual gags and existential asides that bring to mind the great Will Elder (MAD Magazine). Needless to say, this is definitely not politically-correct stuff, nor is it for children. Ryan’s in-your-face humor spares no prisoners, as these stories indicate: “Hipler,” a riotous satire of our ‘extreme makeover’ era and celebrity culture; “Ku Klux Kuties,” which tests just how far the usual doe-eyed visual tropes can be taken and still make you go, Awwww; and Ryan’s most infamous strip to-date, “The Gaytriot,” which caused a PC-stir when it was included in The Comics Journal’s otherwise-sincere and serious “Cartoonists on Patriotism” volume in 2002. Find out why Johnny Ryan is the most acclaimed (and controversial) humor cartoonist to burst onto the comic scene since Peter Bagge (HATE).

Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?, the long-awaited follow-up to Mom's Cancer, is a unique graphic novel that tells the story of a young boy and his relationship with his father. Spanning the period from the 1939 New York World's Fair to the last Apollo space mission in 1975, it is told through the eyes of a boy as he grows up in an era that was optimistic and ambitious, fueled by industry, engines, electricity, rockets, and the atom bomb. An insightful look at relationships and the promise of the future, award-winning author Brian Fies presents his story in a way that only comics and graphic novels can. Interspersed with the comic book adventures of Commander Cap Crater (created by Fies to mirror the styles of the comics and the time periods he is depicting), and mixing art and historical photographs, this groundbreaking graphic novel is a lively trip through a half century of technological evolution. It is also a perceptive look at the changing moods of our nation-and the enduring promise of the future.

Writer:Greg Rucka
Artist:Steve Lieber
One of Oni Press's earliest and most acclaimed books returns in a brand new re-mastered and re-formatted edition! U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko has made Antarctica her home. In its vastness of The Ice, she found peace...until someone commits a murder in her jurisdiction and the lawwoman is forced to use her detective skills once more.

by Olivier Ka Alfred Ka
Publisher: NBM
Based on a true story of the writer's own experience, this graphic novel presents very simply the grey areas involved in child abuse. Ka explains how he kept the whole episode deep within him and how his rage and self-pity eventually let it all out - finally revisiting the man when close to death and coming to terms with what had happened. A very moving, topical and important work, sensitively presented.

Writer - Chuck Dixon
Art & Cover - Jorge Zaffino
Dixon & Zaffino's long out-of-print classic is finally collected! In a bleak and desolate future, when our world has been encased in ice from pole to pole, an amoral adventurer and an orphaned girl form an unlikely alliance - and together fight tooth and nail to stay alive. This features the stunning, groundbreaking artwork of Jorge Zaffino. As a special bonus, this hardcover also collects the never-before-published sequel, Wintersea!

Writer:Paul Chadwick
Artist:Paul Chadwick
Fifteen years ago, from a hole in the ground in rural Washington, a tiny flying machine emerged and Charles Hoy found it. From all appearances, this small vehicle wasn’t built with any existing human technology and Hoy made a fortune selling that technology to the first eager customer. Now with his fortunes dwindling and his curiosity piqued with more than a decade of questioning, Hoy has hired a team of adventurers to enter this vast, underground realm in hopes of bringing back even greater discoveries. But while the team expects the unexpected and is prepared for danger, nothing they can imagine will prepare them for The World Below.

Writer: Warren Ellis, Mike Wolfer
Art: Gianluca Pagliarani
Cover: Gianluca Pagliarani

Before history was recorded in stone and ink, some men wrote it in blood! The entire Wolfskin: Hundredth Dream six issue series is collected here. Wolfskin, a nomadic warrior, hopes to find a new purpose in life after the accidental slaughter of his own tribe while in the throes of an uncontrollable berserker rage. Hired as a guide and swordsman for a rescue mission to the volcanic ice plains, he travels north with a band of misfits and magicians whose skills and ideology is perched between prehistory and the advent of technology. What dreadful enemy will they face on the outskirts of civilization, and will Wolfskin even have a place in the world should he slay it? A new heroic legend from the darkest corridors of time, as chronicled by long-time collaborators Warren Ellis and Mike Wolfer (Gravel) with stunning art by Gianluca Pagliarani (Crossed 3D)!

A team of researchers drift on the ocean, lost, in their quest for an enigmatic island that's never been explored. Washing on its shores, they find a dense, terrifying jungle populated with animal and plant life that has evolved along a completely different path. What secret does this isle hold? Why are the life forms there so dangerous - and so alien?

Writer - Steven Grant
Art - Doug Mahnke
Cover - Frank Miller
The city of Arcadia is the dark side of the American Dream. It's the land of opportunity, if you've got the money to buy it or the muscle to take it. The police are the best trained and equipped in the country, if you can afford their protection. Crime is under control, because crime is in control. For the corrupt and the ruthless, Arcadia is paradise on Earth. But a cold storm is blowing through the streets of Arcadia, a plague wind in black leather and torn cloth, a one-eyed, one-man judge, jury, and executioner whom the papers call "The X-Killer." He has set the new rules for Arcadia. Cross the line once, you'll receive a warning. Cross them twice, and X will mark the spot . . . where they'll find your body. X Omnibus Volume 1 collects for the first time the audacious, critically acclaimed Dark Horse series that made "grim and gritty" superheroes seem like cuddly plush toys. Violent and morally ambiguous, X walks the thin line between heroism and obsession and shows that sometimes the cure may be worse than the disease. X Omnibus Volume 1 features over three hundred story pages by creators including Steven Grant, Doug Mahnke, Chris Warner, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Tim Bradstreet. Collects X #1-11; X: One Shot to the Head; "Welcome to the Jungle" from Dark Horse Comics #19, 20; X: Hero Illustrated Special #1, 2

Written by Steven Grant, art by Javier Saltares, Chris Warner, Andrew Pepoy, Tim Bradstreet, Frank Miller and Chris Brunner, cover by Dave Dorman.

Nothing in Arcadia is what it seems. Beneath its façade of order and industry lies a corrupt brotherhood of criminals, cronies, and cops all drawing from the same tainted well. But there's a wrench in this dirty machine, a leather-clad, one-eyed, one-man wrecking crew bent on tearing down the lie of Arcadia, brick-by-brick. The man known as X cares about only one thing, the rule of law. Unfortunately, that law is X.
X Omnibus Volume 2 collects for the first time the audacious, critically-acclaimed Dark Horse series. Violent and morally ambiguous, X walks the thin line between mission and madness and shows that the devil you know may be better, much better, than the devil you don't.
Includes X #12-25; "Someone to Watch Over Me" from Dark Horse Extra #28-31, all never before collected.

by Layton, Shooter, Quesada & Windsor-Smith
This digitally recolored and remastered Valiant special edition collects the full X-O Manowar origin story from issues #0-6 for the first time ever, and includes an all-new "The Rise of Lydia" story by Bob Layton and a new cover by Sean Chen! Aric Dacia is a Visigoth barbarian captured by spider aliens and enslaved aboard their starship until he steals their ultimate weapon - the X-O Manowar armor. Aric returns to Earth only to find that 1600 years have passed. Now, the most primitive man on the planet wields the most technologically advanced weapon in existence! Features explosive artwork by Barry Windsor-Smith and Marvel EIC Joe Quesada and a story by legendary creators Bob Layton and Jim Shooter!

By Willy Linthout
It had been a normal morning in the Germonprez household. Carl reading the newspaper, Simone tackling some morning chores, and their son, Jack - "Your son has jumped off the roof!" Carl, in an emotional haze, heads off to work only to discover, on the sidewalk outside their home, a chalk outline where there had been a son. No parent should have to bury a child, especially through suicide. Linthout draws an almost tangible pain with his immediate, rudimentary art and strong script which comes from personal experience. Winner of the Belgian Cultural Prize.

(W/A) Various(C) Parker Jacobs

Oni Press and W!LDBRAIN Entertainment, the award-winning entertainment company and producers of Yo Gabbba Gabba!, have teamed to bring DJ Lance Rock, the residents of his magic boombox - Brobee, Muno, Toodee, Foofa and Plex - along with their Story Time pals from their hit series and live stage show, to the wild world of comics books with the first Yo Gabba Gabba! comics project - Yo Gabba Gabba! Comic Book Time Vol. 1. Featuring an all-new cover from Gabba Animation Art Director Parker Jacobs and new stories from YGG animators, comic book superstars like Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Mike Allred, J. Torres, J. Bone, Jamie S. Rich, and many more, this book promises to be a party for the eyeballs of readers young and old!

Writer/Artist:Bob Fingerman
Is Bob Fingerman a cynical misanthrope or a disappointed humanitarian? Dare we suggest maybe both? In You Deserved It, the sensitive creator of the acclaimed graphic novel Beg the Question accesses his darker side, serving up this caustic collection of comical cautionary chronicles. What Beg the Question was to sex and romance, You Deserved It is to wanton violence and social wrongness.
From Otis Goes Hollywood, the epic saga of a homicidally puritanical meatpacker with dreams of making it big in Hollywood, to Missing Pieces, a yarn about the extracurricular activities of paramedics, to Buying Bologna, about a guy who just really, really loves his luncheon meat, to Yiffy Situation, a fuzzy fable about fornicating Furries, You Deserved It serves up enough yarns to make one hilariously misanthroic sweater, all in living - and dying - color! Dark Horse Comics

On the first day of summer vacation, teenaged sisters M’Rose, Elle, and Célina step out into the tropical heat of their island home and continue their headlong tumble toward adulthood. Boys, schoolyard fights, petty thievery, and even illicit alcohol make for a heady mix, as The Zabime Sisters indulge in a little summertime freedom. The dramatic backdrop of a Caribbean island provides a study of contrasts - a world that is both lush and wild, yet strangely small and intimate—which echoes the contrasts of the sisters themselves, who are at once worldly and wonderfully naïve.

Master storyteller Aristophane’s The Zabime Sisters takes a keen look at some of the universal experiences of children on the cusp of growing up, in the fascinating setting of Guadeloupe. Aristophane’s bold, graphic brushwork weaves a wild texture through this gentle, clear-eyed tale.

Writer: Jovanka Vuckovic

Artist: Charlie Adlard

From Haitian voodoo zombie lore and the literature of Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe to the pulp magazines and cinema of the 20th century, this is the first book to take a long, putrefying look at the entire zombie phenomenon!

With an introduction by George A. Romero (Dawn of the Dead) and original cover art by Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead).

by Scott McCloud
Comic book afficionados rejoice! The best of the cult classic series, Zot!, first created by Scott McCloud in 1984, is soon to be reprised in this arresting trade paperback compilation, with bonus material! Zachary T. Paleozogt, popularly known as Zot, is a blond-haired, blue-eyed teenage hero from an alternate Earth - this alternate reality is a retro-futuristic technological utopia where flying cars, robots and interplanetary travel are common and nearly all of its inhabitants benefit from peace, prosperity, and a marked lack of conventional social ills. Jaunting back and forth between the two worlds seems exciting for Zot at first, but there are subtle differences in the essential nature of the two planets that take some getting used to. On Zot's world, events naturally favor the "good guys" in any conflict, while on Earth, Zot is a less successful hero, reflecting the fact that our world clearly does not conform to the same rules as his. Nevertheless, Zot eagerly takes on Earth's challenges with the most amusing outcomes. New material includes sketches, designs, some of McCloud's behind-the-scenes working methods, Zot ephemera (there was a Zot watch!) and lots and lots of commentary - "the story behind the stories" as it were. This newly revised cult classic is not to be missed!