Sollicitations boom! studios - juin 2016


STRANGE ATTRACTORS #1 (of 5)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Charles Soule
Artist: Greg Scott and Soo Lee
Cover Artists:
Main Cover: Greg Scott with Scott Newman
Incentive Cover: Ryan Stegman
What’s to Love: Writer Charles Soule (Daredevil, Civil War) crafted a mind-bending story about how chaos math kept New York City from collapsing under itself. Presented for the first time as a limited series, each oversized issue of Strange Attractors features 30 pages of content, including new, never-before-seen bonus story pages.
What It Is: Dr. Brownfield believes that a series of cataclysmic events are coming to New York City, and someone has to keep the city safe after he’s gone. Enter Heller Wilson, a brilliant mathematics student, who discovers that his ailing, perhaps insane, mentor has been saving New York City from societal collapse by a series of “adjustments,” a la the Butterfly Effect. But now, all signs point toward an impending disaster. Can Wilson take what little he’s learned and save the city in time?


CLARENCE: QUEST #1 (One-shot)
Retail Price: $4.99
Writer: Nick Cron-DeVico
Artist: Meg Omac, Scott Maynard, Matt Smigel
Cover Artist: Veronica Fish
What’s to Love: Well into its second season on Cartoon Network, the award-nominated and popular Clarence animated series is the perfect blend of optimism and the celebration of childhood. Our comics are the perfect extension for fans seeking even more content!
What It Is: Beauford the cat has escaped! Sumo, Jeff, and Clarence decide to help rescue him from the evil woods. Each installment of Nick Cron-DeVico’s three-part story is illustrated by a different artist as these three best friends band together to save the wily feline.


LUMBERJANES/GOTHAM ACADEMY #1 (of 6)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Chynna Clugston-Flores
Artist: Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
Cover Artists:
Main Cover: Mingjue Chen
Connecting Subscription Cover: Kelly & Nichole Matthews
Unlockable Incentive Cover: Chynna Clugston-Flores
Incentive Cover: Leila Del Duca
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What’s to Love: We adore DC’s Gotham Academy and it’s been on our wish list to have them somehow meet the Lumberjanes. From the great characters to the fun stories, we saw a world in which these two groups could coexist. Fast forward and here we are—the crossover event we’ve dreamed about and can’t wait to bring to you!
What It Is: Something sinister is happening at a mysterious building deep in the woods, drawing the Lumberjanes and the Gotham Academy kids separately to investigate. Is it a weird cabin? An abandoned asylum? The two groups band together to find out what exactly is going on. Featuring a connecting subscription cover by Kelly & Nichole Matthews (Toil and Trouble)!


THE JOYNERS #1 (of 4)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: R.J. Ryan
Artist: David Marquez
Cover Artist: David Marquez
What’s to love: The story Comic Book Resources called « a game changer » returns in an all-new, full-color serialized format! A landmark work by Invincible Iron Man & Civil War II artist David Marquez and longtime collaborator R.J. Ryan, featuring new color art by Bitch Planet’s Kelly Fitzpatrick.
What it is: In 2062 Northern California, technology mogul George Joyner stands on the brink of revolutionizing American life (again) with his latest high-flying creation. Unfortunately, his family life is a mess, and his wife Sonya has had enough. Can George pull it together before she decides to leave him for good?


MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS: PINK #2 (of 6)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Brenden Fletcher, Kelly Thompson
Artist: Daniele Di Nicuolo
Cover Artists:
Main Cover: Elsa Charretier
Incentive Cover: Kyla Vanderklugt
Incentive Cover: Kelsey J. Beckett
Synopsis: Once a Ranger, always a Ranger. Kimberly must embrace her past to become the hero the world needs. The return of Angel Grove’s original Pink Ranger is here.


WEAVERS #2 (of 6)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Simon Spurrier
Artist: Dylan Burnett
Cover Artist: Dylan Burnett
Synopsis: Sid goes deeper into the Weavers and gets more answers on the history of the family and where the spiders and their powers come from.


JOYRIDE #3 (of 4)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writers: Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly
Artist: Marcus To
Cover Artist: Marcus To
Synopsis: Uma and Catrin attempt to fix the damaged spaceship, but end up falling from orbit and find themselves on a psychic planet that takes them into each other’s memories.


MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS #4
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Kyle Higgins
Artist: Hendry Prasetya
Cover Artists:
Main Cover: Jamal Campbell
Zord Incentive Cover: Goñi Montes
Incentive Cover: Peter Nguyen
Unlockable Action Figure Variant: David Ryan Robinson
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Synopsis: Tommy must overcome his failures and hallucinations as the Rangers face an underwater attack. With Rita Repulsa’s ultimate plan in play, the power of the crystal will be revealed, bringing forth one of the greatest threats the Rangers have ever faced.


PAKNADEL & TRAKHANOV’S TURNCOAT #4 (of 4)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Alex Paknadel
Artist: Artyom Trakhanov
Cover Artist: Artyom Trakhanov
Synopsis: Final issue! The past has a way of showing up when you least expect it as Marta finally tracks down her target—but finds there’s something she didn’t expect waiting there for her.


THE WOODS #23
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: James Tynion IV
Artist: Michael Dialynas
Cover Artist: Michael Dialynas
Synopsis: Karen reveals to the leaders of The Horde and Bay Point that one of their own knows how to activate the Black City and take full control of the planet, terrifying everyone.


BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA #25
Retail Price: $4.99
Writer: Fred Van Lente
Artists: Victor Santos, Dan McDaid, Joe Eisma, Brian Churilla
Cover Artists:
Main: Jeffrey “Chamba” Cruz
Incentive: Jillian Crab
Synopsis: Final issue, featuring every artist from the entire series run! Jack Burton is thrown through time back to the events of the original film, where he’ll have to work with Winona to make sure everything goes the way it did the first time or risk exploding time!


OVER THE GARDEN WALL #3
Retail Price: $3.99
Writers: Jim Campbell & Amalia Levari
Artists: Jim Campbell & Cara McGee
Cover Artists:
Main Cover: Jim Campbell
Subscription Cover: Kevin Jay Stanton
Synopsis: Greg follows Jason Funderburker down a mysterious alley and makes new friends along the way, while Anna must decide whether she should leave the safety of her home to find her father.


THE BAKER STREET PECULIARS #4 (of 4)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Roger Langridge
Artist: Andy Hirsch
Cover Artist: Andy Hirsch
Synopsis: Final issue! The Peculiars will have to work together and be as clever as they’ve ever been if they’re to stop Chippy Kipper and his army of golems once and for all.

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ADVENTURE TIME: ICE KING #6 (of 6)
Retail Price: $3.99
Story: Emily Partridge
Writer: Pranas Naujokaitis
Artist: Natalie Andrewson
Cover Artists:
Main Cover: Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb
Subscription Cover: Jac Lynn
Incentive Cover: Nick Sumida
Synopsis: Final issue! Ice King discovers he was being used all along and gets ready to face off against the other wizards.

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REGULAR SHOW #36
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Ulises Farinas & Erick Freitas
Artist: Laura Howell
Cover Artists:
Main Cover: Terry Blas
Subscription Cover: Walter Pax
Synopsis: Conclusion of this story arc! Rigby has realized their heroism competition is a sham, but Mordecai is under the spell of some evil TV heroes and is driving everyone away.

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ADVENTURE TIME #53
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Christopher Hastings
Artist: Ian McGinty
Cover Artists:
Main Cover: Celine Loup
Subscription Cover: Mickey Quinn
Synopsis: Jake successfully fools King Ghost of the ghost realm and must escape with the cure for Finn, but could this have been a ruse all along to teach Jake a lesson?

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GOLDIE VANCE #3 (of 4)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Hope Larson
Artist: Brittney Wilson
Cover Artists:
Main Cover: Brittney Wilson
Incentive Cover: Dan Parent
Synopsis: In her continuing quest to solve the mystery of the missing necklace, Goldie gets her and her father in trouble with the hotel, is involved in a high-speed car chase, and becomes a fugitive from the cops!

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GIANT DAYS #15
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: John Allison
Artist: Max Sarin
Cover Artist: Lissa Treiman
Synopsis: Creative tensions and “mildly erotic subcurrents” proliferate as Esther and her Svengali boyfriend battle Susan and Daisy for a £5,000 Film Festival prize.

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MUNCHKIN #18
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Katie Cook
Artist: Len Peralta
Cover Artist: Katie Cook
Synopsis: To tie in with the release of Katie Cook’s Munchkin Cthulhu Guest Artist Edition card set from Steve Jackson Games, Katie will be joining us this month as the writer of a Cthulhu-themed Munchkin tale!

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LUMBERJANES #27
Retail Price: $3.99
Writers: Shannon Watters & Kat Leyh
Artist: Ayme Sotuyo
Cover Artists:
Main Cover: Kat Leyh
Incentive Cover: Miranda Harmon
Synopsis: The Lumberjanes and Barney try to figure out how to woo giant mystical birds, while the Zodiac cabin has some things to say to the Roanokes about their friend Diane, who they miss dearly.

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WILD’S END: THE ENEMY WITHIN TP
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Retail Price: $19.99
Writer: Dan Abnett
Artist: I.N.J. Culbard
Cover Artist: I.N.J. Culbard
What’s to Love: The first Wild’s End miniseries kept us in constant suspense with its unlikely mash-up of War of the Worlds and The Wind in the Willows. We’re holding our collective breaths as author Dan Abnett (Guardians of the Galaxy) and illustrator I.N.J. Culbard (The King in Yellow) are set to play with the paranoia and “enemy amongst us” conspiracy theories prevalent in stories we love like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The X-Files.
What It Is: As survivors of the alien invasion of Lower Crowchurch try to cope with what happened to their small town, the military arrives in an attempt to cover up the “incident.” Town residents are immediately detained, questioned, and treated with suspicion. Clive, Susan, and the others will need to escape imprisonment if they’re to get the word out and warn the rest of the world before the aliens return. Collects the complete limited series.

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OUT THERE VOL. 2 TP
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Retail Price: $19.99
Writer: Brian Augustyn
Artist: Humberto Ramos
Cover Artist: Humberto Ramos
Synopsis: Six people are all that remain of El Dorado City, a former bustling Metropolis. When its city leaders sold away the town’s soul, four high school students—now orphans—were all that stood between the demon and his world domination. Now, with the town’s entire population decimated, the survivors hunt for answers. Within the pages of an old comic lie the key to saving them all. From Crimson creators Humberto Ramos (Spider-Man) and Brian Augustyn (Batman: Gotham by Gaslight) comes the second volume of Out There, collected in trade paperback for the first time ever, and featuring a brand-new cover from Humberto Ramos. Collects issues #7-12.

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LAST MORTAL TP
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Retail Price: $19.99
Writers: John Mahoney & Filip Sablik
Artist: Thomas Nachlik
Cover Artist: Thomas Nachlik
What’s to Love: Would you want to live forever? What if you didn’t have a choice? That’s the premise behind Last Mortal, a story that also hammers home that every choice we make has its consequences.
What It Is: Alec King is a born loser and a career failure. When he and his criminal partner get in over their heads with an attempted assassination of a mayoral candidate, Alec hits rock bottom and takes his own life…only to discover he cannot die! Recollecting the hard-hitting noir tale of revenge, this edition offers the complete four-issue series now fully colored along with a brand-new epilogue.

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EVIL EMPIRE VOL. 3 TP
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Retail Price: $19.99
Writer: Max Bemis
Artist: Victor Santos
Cover Artist: Jay Shaw
Synopsis: How could we actually end up in a jacked up dystopian future…starting from exactly where you are, right now? The country is torn apart in a debate over the meaning of right and wrong, and Reese Greenwood is not about to stand by as the American people support the rantings of a mad man. Max Bemis’s gripping story explores a scenario in which we watch modern society gradually evolve into an evil empire. Collects issue #9-12.

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BURNING FIELDS TP
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Retail Price: $29.99
Writers: Michael Moreci & Tim Daniel
Artist: Colin Lorimer
Cover Artist: Colin Lorimer
What’s to Love: Just as Curse creators Michael Moreci, Tim Daniel, Colin Lorimer, and Riley Rossmo reinvented the werewolf tale, their modern take on military horror in Burning Fields got under our skin. A geopolitical drama with monster mythos, this is a story for both fans of Zero Dark Thirty and The Thing, as the team explores the evil that lurks when greed drives one to drill too deep into the unknown.
What It Is: Dana Atkinson, a dishonorably discharged army investigator, is pulled back to the Middle East when a group of American oil technicians disappear under bizarre circumstances. With the help of an Iraqi investigator, Dana discovers a series of unimaginable incidents at the drill site which have caused a mythic evil to be released, one that threatens both the lives of the entire region and the fragile peace that exists. Collects the complete limited series.

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PALMIOTTI & BRADY’S THE BIG CON JOB TP
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Retail Price: $19.99
Writer: Jimmy Palmiotti & Matt Brady
Artist: Dominike “Domo” Stanton
Cover Artist: Amanda Conner
What’s to Love: Comics veteran Jimmy Palmiotti (Harley Quinn) is a master at crafting humorous, snarky comics, and for The Con Job he’s teamed up with longtime comics journalist-turned-writer Matt Brady (Buck Rogers) and artist Dominike “Domo” Stanton (Deadpool) for a unique heist story. They’ve crafted a Galaxy Quest meets Ocean’s 11-style crime story set in the larger-than-life backdrop of the modern convention circuit. You thought cons couldn’t get any bigger? You have no idea.
What It Is: After working the same convention circuit for decades, a ragtag group of flabby action heroes, aging sex symbols, and sci-fi bit players become close friends as they watch their lines get shorter and their autographs get cheaper. That is, until they hire a cocky new booking agent who offers them their only chance at a comfortable retirement: robbing one of the largest cons in the country! Collects the complete limited series.

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BROKEN WORLD TP
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Retail Price: $19.99
Writer: Frank J. Barbiere
Artist: Christopher Peterson
Cover Artist: Christian Ward
What’s to Love: Broken World is a gripping sci-fi thriller and survival adventure from writer Frank J. Barbiere (Five Ghosts, Avengers World) and co-creator/artist Christopher Peterson (Grindhouse, Mayday) that explores the lives of people left behind in the apocalypse, great for fans of Y: The Last Man or The Massive.
What It Is: With a meteor days away from causing an extinction-level event on Earth, time is running out for Elena Marlowe. While most of the planet’s population and her family were approved by the government to escape on one of the giant spaceships headed to another planet, her application was denied due to her mysterious past. With the meteor fast approaching, Elena desperately tries to find a way to fake her way onto the last ship or else be left behind to die with the rest of Earth’s rejected denizens. Collects the complete limited series.

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ADVENTURE TIME VOL. 9 TP
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Retail Price: $14.99
Writer: Christopher Hastings
Artist: Zachary Sterling
Cover Artist: Chris Houghton
Synopsis: Finn and Jake find themselves in the middle of a secret war when they inaverdently take out Peppermint Butler’s secret agent Candy Bar! There is something going on with the King of Ooo and the weird bears that he’s hanging out with and it’s up to Finn and Jake to get to the bottom of the King’s dastardly plot! Now if only they weren’t being accused of treason in the process. Collects issues #40-44.

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BRAVEST WARRIORS VOL. 7 TP
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Retail Price: $14.99
Writer: Kate Leth
Artist: Ian McGinty
Cover Artist: Ian McGinty
Synopsis: The Bravest Warriors get a distress call to a planet with a giant monster problem that turns out to be more than they can handle on their own. Luckily, they befriend a brilliant local scientist named Peach who also happens to be a huge fan of the team. So much so, she’s built each of the Warriors a colossal robot to pilot and take the fight back to the monsters! It’s giant monsters versus giant robots with the Bravest Warriors at the helm! This volume features the debut of Catbug’s evil brother Bugcat! Collects issues # 25-28.

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OVER THE GARDEN WALL TP
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Retail Price: $19.99
Writer: Pat McHale
Artist: Jim Campbell
Cover Artist: Jim Campbell
What’s to Love: Pat McHale’s Over the Garden Wall was Cartoon Network’s first-ever original animated miniseries. Countless fans loved the eerily sweet story of two half-brothers trying to find their way home. We loved it so much, too that we published a companion one-shot that was quickly snapped up, and then we expanded the world of Over the Garden Wall with stories set between the episodes!
What It Is: Pat McHale and artist Jim Campbell return with more original stories that take place along with the animated show. Follow the additional adventures of Wirt and Greg as they try to find their way out of the Unknown forest. Collects the one shot and the limited series!

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AMERICATOWN HC
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Retail Price: $29.99
Writers: Bradford Winters & Larry Cohen
Artist: Daniel Irizarri
Cover Artist: Scott Newman
What’s to Love: Part social commentary, part family drama, Americatown asks: What if the American Dream gave way to the American Nightmare? In their inaugural comic series, screenwriters Bradford Winters (Oz, Boss, The Americans) and Larry Cohen (Netflix’s Borgia), give us a story great for fans of Transmetropolitan, Children of Men, and the TV show Black Mirror.
What It Is: After an economic collapse and other disasters in the near future, Americans are now the legal and illegal immigrants living abroad. They find work in cities like Buenos Aires, where their very own enclave known as “Americatown” has taken root. Owen, a recent arrival, begins a journey to support and save his splintered family divided between the enclave and home back in the U.S. His struggle is just a small part of the hardships and conflicting agendas in an immigrant community trying to build itself in the shadow of a once great nation. Collects the complete maxi-series.

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LANTERN CITY VOL. 2 HC
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Retail Price: $24.99
Writers: Matthew Daley & Mairghread Scott
Artist: Carlos Magno
Cover Artist: Benjamin Carré
Synopsis: Sander Jorve thought that infiltrating the brutal Guard of Lantern City would help his family and his cause. He was wrong. After a chance run-in with the Emperor of the city, Killian Grey, Sander finds himself promoted to the Grey Guard, working directly under Killian in the heights of Grey Towers. The luxury is unparalleled, but can Killian be trusted? Can Sander trust himself? Nowhere in Lantern City is safe…and the imperial court may just be the most dangerous place of all. Collects issues #5-8 of the steampunk epic.

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JONESY TP
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Retail Price: $14.99
Writer: Sam Humphries
Artist: Caitlin Rose Boyle
Cover Artist: Caitlin Rose Boyle
What’s to Love: Jonesy is a comic about love that makes us swoon! Sam Humphries (Legendary Star Lord, Citizen Jack) and fresh talent Caitlin Rose Boyle (Buck n’ Lou & the Night Crew) bring something special to BOOM! Box with this series about mad-cap shenanigans, friendship, pals, being a teenager, and figuring out who you are…with a teen cupid twist! If you like Giant Days, dig adorkable romance stories, or just want to smile from ear to ear after reading a comic, you’ll fall in love with Jonesy!
What It Is: Jonesy is a self-described “cool dork” who spends her time making zines nobody reads, watching anime, and listening to riot grrrl bands and 1D simultaneously. But she has a secret nobody knows. She has the power to make people fall in love! Anyone. With anything. There’s only one catch—it doesn’t work on herself. She’s gonna have to find love the old-fashioned way, and in the meantime, figure out how to distract herself from the real emotions she inevitably has to face when her powers go wrong. Collects the complete limited series.