Doctor Who - Synopsis For Short Trips: Flywheel Revolution

Big Finish is releasing a new series Short Trips which is a series of short stories read by a member of that Doctor's era. The first release is a First Doctor story read by Peter Purves who played Steven .

On a planet in the far future, Frankie and his fellow robots have been consigned to the Scrapheap, doomed to explore no further than the limits of the artificial Wall. Life goes on, day after day - until a monster appears in their midst. It lives alone in a small hut on the edge of Scrapyard, and scours at night for the remains of dead robots. Frankie sets out to confront the monster in its lair. Its name? The Doctor!

Doctor Who: Short Trips Monthly is a series of new short stories read by an original cast member.

Release #1 is a First Doctor story read by Peter Purves.

Written By: Dale Smith
Directed By: Lisa Bowerman

Cast
Peter Purves (Narrator)

Valiant Unveils Complete VALIANT NEXT Variant Covers

Valiant Unveils Complete VALIANT NEXT Variant Covers by Designer Tom Muller & An All-Star Cast of Top Talents!

Following the sold-out debut of THE VALIANT #1 (of 4) – and heading into the century-spanning odyssey of IVAR, TIMEWALKER #1 in January – Valiant is proud to unveil an brand new line of variant covers pairing the talents of graphic designer Tom Muller (Zero, Drifter) with Valiant's superstar artists for an all-star collaboration in celebration of the VALIANT NEXT initia tive!

Beginning on January 21st with the release of IVAR, TIMEWALKER #1 and THE VALIANT #2 (of 4), look for each subsequent VALIANT NEXT launch – IMPERIUM #1 and DIVINITY #1 (of 4) in February; NINJAK #1 in March; and BLOODSHOT REBORN #1 in April – to include one eye-popping VALIANT NEXT variant cover by Tom Muller and some of the top artistic talents anywhere in comics today:

QUANTUM AND WOODY MUST DIE! #1 – Asmus and Lieber Take Down the World's Worst Superhero Team in January!‏

On January 28th, the world's worst superhero team is back with a vengeance…and pretty much screwed too!

Valiant is proud to present the first look inside QUANTUM AND WOODY MUST DIE! #1 (of 4) – the FIRST ISSUE of a dastardly new limited series from Harvey Award-nominated writer James Asmus (QUANTUM AND WOODY, Gambit) and Eisner Award-winning artist Steve Lieber (Superior Foes of Spider-Man)! On January 28th, jump on board here with a brand new beginning for the most nominated series of the 2014 Harvey Awards as Quantum and Woody face down a deadly gauntlet of kill-crazy enemies with only one goal – wipe the world's worst superhero team off the map!

The world's greatest assassin is about to get pulled out of retirement in SEXCASTLE‏

THE WORLD’S GREATEST ASSASSIN IS ABOUT TO GET PULLED OUT OF RETIREMENT IN SEXCASTLE 

Early extended preview of the original graphic novel that Matt Fraction calls “a perfect mix of homage and comedy” revealed

“Sexcastle is a perfect mix of homage and comedy, action and irony, loving tribute and hilarious send-up of the great, good, and ungodly-bad action movies of the ‘80s. I don’t remembe r the last time a debut book hit me this hard. Literally, this book punched me in the face. It’s THAT mean.” —Matt Fraction

-O MANOWAR #31 ("ENTER: ARMORINES" – PART 2) – On Sale December 31st!‏

ARMORINES…ATTACK!

Aric of Dacia has laid waste to entire planets and defeated the universe’s most skilled hunters, but how can he kill what he can’t see? A strange new foe with a fiendishly familiar leader has unleashed a relentless offensive on Aric of Dacia, and he doesn’t even know it yet! Be here for the deadliest foe X-O Manowar has battled yet, as the ARMORINES continue their march towards Aric’s destruction!

New Comic Book Checklist For December 31st

DC COMICS

Batman: Eternal 39
Earth 2: Worlds End 13
Futures End 35

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Doctor Who - Last Christmas Review (Minor Spoilers)

Doctor Who:
Last Christmas
By Steven Moffat

“Santa Claus does not do the scientific explanation.”

It’s Christmas and everyone is gathering together with friends and family to celebrate the festive holiday either for religious beliefs or not.  But most of all a huge number of people around the world celebrate Christmas with something altogether different in mind and that would be the annual Doctor Who Christmas Special.  In fact this is the 10th year in a row that Doctor Who fans will be watching a Doctor Who episode on Christmas day and this time will be treated to the first one with Peter Capaldi as The Doctor.   Last Christmas is also boasting a unique meet up between The Doctor and a certain resident of the North Pole.  But was it good as a Christmas pudding or will it be a Scrooge and give us a humbug.  

Doctor Who - Last Christmas

Review by Ken Parker

Despite what you might think after reading my reviews, I really want to like Doctor Who. Any other series I would have stopped watching the show because of inconsistency in quality and embarrassing silliness. Unless I was watching some strange David Lynch nightmare or an all out spoofy comedy, I would never in a million years think I would see an episode with an army of Slinkys marching into a polar base and certainly never in Doctor Who. But alas, here we are.

Doctor Who - Jenna Coleman Confirmed For All of Series Nine

For all you Clara haters,there are quite a lot of you, will be happy to know that Jenna Coleman has been confirmed to be in all of Series 9 of Doctor Who.  Steven Moffat made that announcement last week at the launch for Last Christmas.

"Jenna is in all of the next series, which we’re delighted to reveal."

I'm happy that Jenna Coleman will be coming back as she and Peter Capaldi have great chemistry together.   So she will be in 12 episodes if they continue with the same formula as this year and that will also make her the longest serving companion of the new series.
Source: Radio Times

Doctor Who Extra - Last Christmas

Doctor Who - Last Christmas Return of Samuel Anderson

Doctor Who - Series 8 - Shut Up! Supercut

Doctor Who - Radio Times Poster For Last Christmas

Doctor Who - Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from everyone at The Gallifrayan Gazette

Doctor Who - Merry Christmas to all of you at home

Thunderbirds Are Go Series Teaser

Doctor Who Extra: Last Christmas Preview Clip

Michael Troughton is featured in this preview clip for the Doctor Who Extra: Last Christmas.

Doctor Who - Robot orchestra perform Doctor Who theme

BREAKING: Theories of Foul Play Rampant Following CERN Fellow's Sudden Disappearance‏

The mystery is history in...IVAR, TIMEWALKER #1 – in stores January 21st!

NAILBITER/HACK/SLASH one-shot crossover: a bloody good read

NAILBITER/HACK/SLASH ONE-SHOT CROSSOVER: A BLOODY GOOD READ

Two hit series come together in the ultimate serial killer standoff

Bestselling writers Joshua Williamson (BIRTHRIGHT, NAILBITER) and Tim Seeley (HACK/SLASH) team up with artists Mike Henderson (NAILBITER) and Emilio Laiso (HACK/SLASH) for a crossover one-shot event of killer proportions—NAILBITER/HACK/SLASH—coming to Image Comics on March 4, 2015.

UNITY #13 ("THE UNITED" – PART 2) – On Sale December 24th!‏

A Renegade stands against The United!

Even the addition of the bright and bubbly Faith Herbert – aka Zephyr of the Harbinger Renegades – can’t solve Unity’s PR crisis in the wake of the team’s actions during the Armor Hunters’ attack. But can she help stand against the threat of the international strike force known as THE UNITED? And what secret is the US harboring that threatens to push the world to the brink of war?

New Comic Book Checklist For December 24th

DARK HORSE COMICS

Aliens: Fire And Stone 4
Buffy: The Vampire Slayer: Season 10: 10
Captain Midnight 18
Colder: Bad Seed 3
Conan: The Avenger 9
Fathers Day 3
Grindhouse Drive In Bleed Out 2
Halo: Escalation 13
Massive 30
Massive:TPB: 4-Sahara
Mind MGMT 29
Resurrectionists 2
Sundowners 5
Terminator Salvation: Final Battle 12
Tomb Raider 11


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Doctor Who - Covers For The Big Finish 200th Main Range Release Trilogy

Big  Finish will be releasing their 200th audio adventure release next June with a special trilogy that celebrates the main range and features three Doctors with companions from the Early Adventures.     Below is the covers for the special trilogy that starts off next April with audio adventure 198.

Doctor Who - Sam Anderson Answers Questions From The TARDIS Tin

It's Sam Anderson's turn to answer questions from the TARDIS Tin.  

A Snowman's Christmas Wish

Doctor Who - The Bounty of Ceres Review (Mild Spoilers)

Doctor Who:
The Bounty of Ceres
By Ian Potter

The Doctor, Steven and Vicki have landed on the asteroid Ceres which is between Mars and Jupiter. There they have encountered the crew of the Cobalt Corporation and they are anything but friendly as the end up putting Steven and Vicki in a strange type of cell and put The Doctor in suspended animation.  What makes Ceres a weird place to work is that the conditions outside are deadly but now the conditions inside have become deadly also.  It appears that the maintenance robots have turned against the crew and have started eliminated everyone one by one.  It is up to The Doctor to find a way to stop the robots and find the person responsible.

Orphan Black - Season 3 Teaser

The New Thunderbirds Are Go TV Series is renewed for a second series!!

And it hasn't even aired yet!!!

ITV Studios has announced that the WETA produced half hour TV series remake of Thunderbirds will go from 26 episodes to 52 and the second series will air in 2016 and 2017.  Meanwhile the first season has yet to air anywhere but is due this spring, 2015.

http://thunderbirds.com/

Thunderbirds Are Go is a remake of the 60's TV series by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson which was their pinnacle Supermarionation series which used sophisticated marionettes instead of real people.  Ground breaking special effects and superb action highlighted the

series and was a favorite for kids and adults like for years.

WETA (Lord of the Rings) is producing a new series which will feature CG and real models and effects.  The series stars the voices of Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) as Lady Penelope, David Graham (reprising his role as Parker) and Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Game of Thrones).

Doctor Who - Series 9 First Episode Title Revealed

At the premiere of Last Christmas Steven Moffat revealed what the title of the first episode of Series 9.  The title is The Magician's Apprentice.  Now let the over thinking speculation begin.

Doctor Who - Masters of Earth Review (Mild Spoilers)

Doctor Who:
Masters of Earth
By Mark Wright and
Cavan Scott

The Doctor and Peri land on Earth in Scotland no less in the year 2163 one year before the First Doctor appears in the events of The Dalek Invasion of Earth.   The Doctor is adamant that they get back to the TARDIS and leave after the help someone from a hanging but it is too late as the Daleks arrive and take Peri as part of the work force.   This is troublesome for The Doctor as he has to be careful not to damage the web of time and prevent the events of his first incarnation to not happen which would harm his own personal timeline. In essence he has to let the Daleks win and let history take its course.

Doctor Who - Engines of War Review (Mild Spoilers)

Doctor Who:
Engines of War
By George Mann

The Doctor crashes on the planet Moldox after he witness the decimation of a Time Lord battalion by the Daleks.  There he meets a young freedom fighter named Cinder whose life has been turned upside down by the Daleks.  Together the two weary warriors decide to find out what the Daleks are doing on Moldox and try and find a way to stop them.   What they discover would be catastrophic to the Time Lords and for every race in the universe.  Acknowledging that this is bigger than he can handle The Doctor and Cinder head to Gallifrey where The Doctor discovers that his own people, the Time Lords, are not any better than the Daleks and he discovers that the Time Lords would sacrifice billions of lives to save their own skin.  Now The Doctor has to stop two powerful races and save billions in the process.

IMPERIUM #1 – Valiant Reveals Complete Covers, First Interiors from the New Ongoing Series by Dysart & Braithwaite!‏

A psychic dictator, an inhuman robot, a mad scientist, a murderous alien, and a super-powered terrorist are about to try and take over the world…and you’re going to be rooting for them every step of the way.

Valiant is proud to present the first look inside IMPERIUM #1 – the FIRST ISSUE of the all-new VALIANT NEXT ongoing series from New York Times best-selling writer Joshua Dysart (Harbinger, Unknown Soldier) and superstar artist Doug Braithwaite (Armor Hunters, Unity)! The daring new superhero saga of the year starts here on February 4th as Toyo Harada rises from the ashes of the Harbinger Foundation to recruit a more explosive…more cunning…more ruthless army to remake the future of Earth in their own image. This is IMPERIUM!

DEAD HAND – The X-O MANOWAR Epic of 2015 Begins in March!‏

DEAD HAND is coming…and, in 2015, X-O MANOWAR is all that stands between Earth and the ultimate doomsday fail-safe!

Valiant is proud to present DEAD HAND – a devastating cosmic showdown beginning this March in X-O MANOWAR #34 from New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (ARMOR HUNTERS, The Flash) and superstar-in-the-making Diego Bernard (Red Lanterns)!

HARBINGER: FAITH #0 | THE DEATH-DEFYING DR. MIRAGE #4 (of 5) | Q2: THE RETURN OF QUANTUM AND WOODY #3 (of 5)‏

 HARBINGER: FAITH #0 | THE DEATH-DEFYING DR. MIRAGE #4 (of 5) | Q2: THE RETURN OF QUANTUM AND WOODY #3 (of 5) – In Stores December 17th!

This is Faith #0!

Her first and only boyfriend to date is a little bit of an douche, her friends are all gone, and, after her insane adventure in Mexico City, Faith Hebert is feeling a little frustrated with the direction of her life. She’s just a normal super-powered young woman in an increasingly crazy world. Here’s the story of a true innocent and kind heart in a hard world. From the comic shop of her youth to the moment she found out that she was actually light as feather, Zephyr is the western wind. Warm and kind, she blows across us all.

HARBINGER: FAITH #0
Written by JOSHUA DYSART
Art by ROBERT GILL
Cover A by JOE QUINONES (OCT141701)
Cover B by LUCY KNISELY (OCT141702)
Variant Cover by BRIAN LEVEL (OCT141703)
$3.99 | 32 pages. | ONE-SHOT | T+ | On sale DECEMBER 17

Mad science returns in THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS: THE SUN BEYOND THE STARS‏

MAD SCIENCE RETURNS IN 

THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS:

THE SUN BEYOND THE STARS

Hickman and Pitarra return to bring all-new chapter to

The Manhattan Projects series

New York Times bestselling and Eisner award-nominated writer Jonathan Hickman (EAST OF WEST, The Avengers) and artist Nick Pitarra (THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS) return to their twisted tale of science and madness with THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS: THE SUN BEYOND THE STARS #1 coming from Image Comics on March 11, 2015.

New Comic Book List For December 17

DARK HORSE COMICS
Angel + Faith: Season 10:TPB: 1-River Meets Sea
BPRD: Hell on Earth 126 (Part 17)
Brain Boy: 1 for $1
Criminal Macabre: Third Child 4
Dark Horse Presents 2014 5
Dream Logic:THC:
Eerie Comics 6
Lobster Johnson:TPB: 4-Get the Lobster
Predator: Fire And Stone 3
Trilogy USA:THC:

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Doctor Who - Meet the Master with Michelle Gomez

Doctor Who - Frank Skinner On His Favorite Doctor Who Stories

Doctor Who - The Brigadier To Star In A New Series of Books

No not the Cyberman Brigadier but a young Brigadier that was still a Colonel right after the events of The Web of Fear.  The Brigadier will be back in a new set of novels by some familiar writers who wrote Doctor Who books during the New Adventure range back in The Wilderness Years.  The authors of these new set of novels are Andy Frankham-Allen, Lance Parkin, David A McIntee and Nick Walters.  The books will be published by Candy Jar Books and will explore the life of the Brigadier after the 1968 serial The Web of Fear. These books are not released by the BBC but are fully licensed by the Executor of the Haisman Literary Estate, Mervyn Haisman’s granddaughter Hannah Haisman, and endorsed by Henry Lincoln who are the relatives of the creator of The Brigadier.  The first set of books are The Forgotten Son by Andy Frankham-Allen , Horror of Det-Sen by Lance Parkin, The Schizoid Earth by David A McIntee and Mutually Assured Domination by Nick Walters.

If you are interested in buying the books about The Brigadier you can pre order them from the link below.
http://www.freewebstore.org/Candy-Jar-Store/Lethbridge-Stewart__The_Forgotten_Son/p676602_13369335.aspx

Doctor Who - Doctor Who Magazine Yearbook 2015 Cover

Doctor Who Magazine will be releasing a special yearbook this year focusing on Series 8 of Doctor Who and also exclusive interviews.  The Yearbook will be out on Thursday 18th of December in the UK.

Doctor Who - LI Who 3 Announces Katy Manning As Their First Guest!!!

LI Who has announced its first guest for its 2015 show and to stick with the theme of it being the third convention from LI Who they went with the Third Doctor's main companion Katy Manning. Katy Manning played Jo Grant from 1971 to 1973.  Her first story was the Season 8 opener The Terror of the Autons and her last was the Green Death which ended Season 10.  Tickets are on sale for LI Who 3 on their website.
http://longislanddoctorwho.com/

Doctor Who - Last Christmas Preview Clip

Doctor Who - Big Finish Special Main Range Anniversary Release

Big Finish will be celebrating another anniversary in 2015 with the 200th release of their Main Range of Doctor Who audio adventures.  To celebrate the milestone they will be having a special three part story that will feature three Doctor's with companions from previous incarnations.  The party kicks off in April and continues into June with releases 198,199 and 200.  This story is the idea of script editor Alan Barnes and this is his reasoning of this interesting story.

‘For some time, I'd been thinking it was a shame we couldn't make more use of the first three Doctors' companions in the Main Range. Continuity permitting (or even not!), we can always have the Fifth, Sixth or Seventh Doctors meeting up with friends they said 'goodbye' to years before... but there have been a fair few School Reunion-type stories now, and they're great, but I couldn't help wondering: can't we do something different? Then I thought: what if the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors turned up bang in the middle of earlier, unseen adventures – standing in for their 'proper' selves, who've gone AWOL for some reason or other...? Locum Doctors, if you will! ‘And that's what we've done!’

The first story is The Defectors written by Nicholas Briggs. It stars Sylvester McCoy with the Third Doctor’s companion Jo Grant and Richard Franklin  as Captain Mike Yates. The synopsis for this story is a different spin on the “base under siege” scenario, set on a remote island, but still involving lots of government and UNIT shenanigans.'

Then comes Last of the Cybermen written by Alan Barnes and stars Colin Baker with Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury who are the Second Doctor's companions. The synopsis for this story finds the Sixth Doctor joining forces with Jamie and Zoe to explore a strange citadel that holds the secret of the Cybermen's ultimate destruction

The last story and the 200th release will be The Secret History written by Eddie Robson  Which stars Peter Davison, Peter Purves and Maureen O’Brien. The synopsis for the story is as follows.  The Fifth Doctor, trapped with Steven and Vicki in sixth century Constantinople, at last learns the reason why he's being dragged back into the lives of his former incarnations.

Stephen Colbert Interviews Smaug

Doctor Who - Peter Capaldi on Last Christmas

The BBC Media Centre has released some interviews with the key people involved in this years Doctor Who Christmas Special.  Today is an interview with Peter Capaldi.

Peter Capaldi - Q&A

Everyone will be pleased to see the Doctor and Clara brought together again for this Christmas special. What does bring them together?

A terrifying festive dilemma forces the Doctor back to Earth to help Clara. Then a story unfolds which is quite unexpected – I can’t really say more than that.

How does filming the Christmas special differ from the series?

It’s all very festive and even though you’re shooting in October it does lull you into the festive spirit, because there are lots of Christmassy things around. There are snow machines all the time which is lovely but they’re noisy like lawnmowers or concrete mixers. We have Christmas lights, polystyrene icebergs - which is classic piece of set dressing on Doctor Who. There’s a roast dinner going on in Clara’s house and a big Christmas tree. There were also lots of tangerines!

What was your reaction to Nick Frost being cast as Santa? What sort of Santa does he play?

Doctor Who - Special Free Comic Book Day Doctor Who Comic Revealed

Titan Comics will be releasing a special Doctor Who comic book for Free Comic Book Day on May 2nd 2015.  The book will be free as the day states and will only be available in comic book stores. Details of the special release are below.

Doctor Who Special​ ​FCBD 2015 EDITION
Writers Nick Abadzis and Al Ewing

Take a blistering trip through time and space with three stunning all-new short stories featuring the Tenth Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor and the brand-new Twelfth Doctor, written and drawn by the ongoing Doctor Who comics creative teams.

PLUS: A sneak peek of the Top Secret Summer 2015 event! Be the first to get a hint of the epic that will shake the Doctor to his very core! It's a must-read for fans, and the perfect primer for anyone looking to jump on board the TARDIS!

Doctor Who - Last Christmas Official TV Trailer

Doctor Who - Jenna Coleman on Last Christmas

The BBC Media Centre has released some interviews with the key people involved in this years Doctor Who Christmas Special.  Today is an interview with Jenna Coleman

Jenna Coleman - Q&A

What’s it like for Clara to be reunited with the Doctor in the Christmas Special?

She’s just really glad to be back with him. She’s dealing with the death of Danny Pink but happy to be back in the arms of the TARDIS again, and meeting Santa. A lot of the episode is about telling that adventure, and it’s about the Doctor and Clara resolving what they’ve just been through.

What was it like coming back to film the Christmas Special?

Doctor Who - Steven Moffat On Osgood's Fate and Orson Pink

In the latest Doctor Who Magazine Steven moffat cleared up some loose ends from Series 8 particularly with Orson Pink and Osgood.  Lot's of people who are fans of Osgood are hoping the Osgood that was killed was her Zygon duplicate. Well Steven Moffat had this to say about it is that the Zygon duplicate would have been to hard to kill and put up a bigger fight so in essence Osgood is dead.  So in the immortal words of Star Treks Doctor McCoy "She's dead Jim."

Now on Orson Pink and this is a pretty easy one to believe which I thought of and I'm sure many fans came up with this explanation themselves. It was another relative from his family and not a direct descendant of Danny as Steven Moffat explains.

“I can think of several explanations, but the obvious one is that Orson comes from another branch of the family. He knows about Danny’s heroic sacrifice, because Clara got in touch with the Pink family after the events of Death in Heaven (because you would, wouldn’t you?), and told them what he did, and why. And she gave them the little soldier, as a keepsake of a great man and a great soldier – and because she knows the toy soldier has to remain in the Pink family line. Now all that strikes me as pretty inevitable – that’s what would have happened – but I’m not saying it’s right. Nothing is actual till it’s in the show. Knowing how the season would end, we were careful, in never to define exactly what the connection was.”

So that is that and I can't wait for people to get confused when Missy shows up again in Doctor Who.

Space Travel in Cinema

Incredible just incredible - love this type of imagery

Mad Max: Fury Road - Official Teaser Trailer - Stunning!

Continuum Comes Back for One Last Season - 6 Episodes

Is this is the first word that we had that the show was even renewed?  You would think that they would have started shooting already.  Still, with only six more episodes planned for its 4th season, Continuum will be back and more than likely wrap everything up.  That is good because there is a lot to wrap up and thankfully this show will have a final ending and not just end in mid story.

This show has had a lot of excellent things going for it but I think it also has been largely directionless.  Hopefully they will put it all together for the final episodes. No word on the airing dates yet.

Doctor Who - Steven Moffat on Last Christmas

The BBC Media Centre has released some interviews with the key people involved in this years Doctor Who Christmas Special. Today is an interview with Steven Moffat.

Steven Moffat - Q&A

What can you tell us about the plot of this year’s Christmas special?

Well obviously as everyone knows from the end of Death In Heaven, it’s the ultimate meeting of Christmas heroes - Santa Claus meets Doctor Who. The buddy movie you’ve always wanted. In addition to that, it’s quite surprising - it won’t be what some people expect because it’s a thriller of an episode. The Christmas element is covered in the fairly notable form of Santa Claus and the elves and their sleigh. But the rest of it is very much Doctor Who – scary, in a polar ice cap base, scientists under threat. I keep describing it as Miracle On 34th Street meets Alien.

Viewers will be thrilled to see the Doctor and Clara brought together again - what can we expect from this and what can you say about what brings them together?

Doctor Who - What would be your dream Christmas?

Doctor Who - Jenna Coleman Answers Questions From The TARDIS Tin

Now it is Jenna Coleman's turn to answer questions from the TARDIS Tin.

Doctor Who - Doctor Who Magazine 481 Inside the Polybag Cover

For those wondering what the cover to Doctor Who Magazine 481 will look like inside the polybag here it is for you.

THE VALIANT #1 (of 4) – In Stores December 10th, 2014!‏

A battle ten millennia in the making is about to begin…with an all-new, prestige format epic from New York Times best-selling writers Jeff Lemire (Green Arrow, Animal Man) & Matt Kindt (RAI, Mind MGMT) and Eisner Award-winning artist Paolo Rivera (Daredevil)!

The Eternal Warrior has protected the Earth for more than 10,000 years. A master of countless weapons and long forgotten martial arts, he is guided by the Geomancers – those who speak for the

HACK/SLASH Returns with "Son of Samhain"‏

HACK/SLASH RETURNS WITH “SON OF SAMHAIN”

Collection of new story arc for a horror favorite out in January

After Cassie Hack was the lone survivor of the killing spree of a slasher nicknamed “The Lunch Lady” — who was also Cassie’s mother — she committed her life to hunting down killers and supernatural evil. She thought she left that life behind, but in HACK/SLASH: SON OF SAMHAIN, she’s drawn back into the slasher-fighting life when a cult of mon sters plot to unleash an ancient evil on the world. With the help of a new partner, Cassie must confront a darkness like she’s never encountered before — and the darkness in her own life.

Created by Tim Seeley, the popular HACK/SLASH series debuted in 2004. The newest chapter of Cassie’s life, SON OF SAMHAIN, written by Michael Moreci (ROCHE LIMIT, HOAX HUNTERS) and Steve Seeley (HOAX HUNTERS) and drawn by Emilio Laiso (3 Guns), will appeal to long-time fans as well as readers just jumping on the series.

DRIFTER boasts cover by Djurdjevic that fans will covet‏

DRIFTER BOASTS COVER BY DJURDJEVIC THAT FANS WILL COVET

The new science-fiction series issue #3 variant revealed

“Drifter has the makings of the next great sci-fi western. It has the best elements of both genres mixed together in a peanut bu tter cup of a comic.” —HorrorTalk

Writer Ivan Brandon and artist Nic Klein’s dark new science fiction series DRIFTER sketches the tale of an abandoned, lawless town in a strange and alien landscape. The third issue of this hit new series will have a sinister variant cover by Marko Djurdjević, ready to pass judgment on those who have yet to make the jump into DRIFTER.

Change Is the Constant in Ken Niimura's Graphic Novel HENSHIN‏

CHANGE IS THE CONSTANT IN KEN NIIMURA’S HENSHIN

Short story collection explores life

in modern Tokyo

Ken Niimura, artist on the acclaimed and award-winning graphic novel I KILL GIANTS (written by Joe Kelly), returns with HENSHIN. The short stories of HENSHIN present a unique vision of Japanese life, presented in English for the first time by Image Comics in January.

“Henshin” means "transformation" in Japanese, and in all 13 stories, Niimura shows how choices and events — whether momentous or seemingly insignificant — can change the lives of his protagonists.

LADY KILLER #1‏

LADY KILLER #1 | Joëlle Jones | Jamie S. Rich | Laura Allred

Betty Draper meets Hannibal!

Josie Schuller is a picture-perfect homemaker, wife, and mother—but she’s also a ruthless, efficient killer for hire! A brand-new original comedy series that combines the wholesome imagery of early 1960s domestic bliss with a tightening web of murder, paranoia, and cold-blooded survival.

* New original series by Joëlle Jon es!

* Dark comedy, gritty action, and killer laughs!

“[Jones] varies her style to suit the mood of each piece, and the results can be spellbinding.”—Powell’s Books

LADY KILLER #1 is on sale January 7th.

Comic Book Checklist For December 9th

DARK HORSE COMICS
Abe Sapien 18
Goon: Occasion of Revenge 4
Prometheus: Fire And Stone 4
X 20

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