Assassin Nation, Excellence & More This Week From Image

Here are the latest comics and trades available from Image Comics – including Assassin Nation volume 1 and Excellence #5 – out now!

 
 
Hot off her breakout success at Marvel, two-time Eisner award winner ERICA HENDERSON (The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Jughead) teams up with KYLE STARKS (SEXCASTLE, Rick and Morty) for a hilarious twist on the hitman trope. The former World’s Greatest Hitman hires the 20 best assassins in the world to be his bodyguards. These mean-as-hell hired guns and murderers must work together to keep the new crime boss safe while attempting to solve the mystery of who’s trying to off him. With the same laugh-until-you-cry spirit of action-comedies like Hot Fuzz, Tropic Thunder, and Deadpool, ASSASSIN NATION is the bombastic, side-splitting murder-fest you’ve been waiting for. Collects ASSASSIN NATION #1-5
 
 
 
Spencer’s ascension through the ranks of the Aegis comes at a cost. Plus, one of the Aegis’ rules is broken—leading to the introduction of an incredible new sorcerer!
 
 
 
Every fantasy epic ends with a war. But what happens when the war is over? After posing as a man to join the army, Jenner Faulds returns home to The Feld for a new start as a “Fairman”—a specially licensed private investigator. But sexism didn’t end on the battlefield, and as the only “Fairlady,” Jenner gets stuck with the cases nobody else wants. Hitting the streets to solve The Feld’s overlooked mysteries, Jenner finds that the smallest cases hide the biggest secrets. Collects FAIRLADY #1-5
 
 
 
Jedidiah Jenkins is a simple farmer. But his cash crop isn’t corn or soy. Instead, he grows fast-healing, highly customizable human organs—a miracle cure for all manner of ailments and injuries. Or they were, until his former patients began to transform into something not quite human. Now, these pour souls are coming to the Jenkins Farm searching for answers. But a dark figure lurks in their collective shadow—one with sinister plans for Jedidiah, his family, and the world. Collects FARMHAND #6-10
 
 
 
Norgal and Agatha have come to the city of Venoriah, finding it in utter chaos. The great egg at the center of the walled city has begun to crack. Goblins gather in the field, pike and spear in hand, to welcome their hatching doomsday god. The Sworn Swords of Venoriah line the walls to protect their city from invasion. War is imminent. Looming ever darker still, a nameless, faceless evil hunts our heroes from afar, seeking the Warrior and The Witch. Dark servants within the city have picked up its beckoning call. With perils around every corner, can our heroes find the answers to the questions in their hearts? Or will they be swallowed by the madness of Venoriah? Collects HEAD LOPPER #9-12
 
 
 
Sixteen Families fight to control the world. That’s fifteen too many. The time has come for the Cull. So begins the next phase of LAZARUS, the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling series from Eisner winners MICHAEL LARK and GREG RUCKA. Forever—the Lazarus of the Carlyle Family—has been sidelined, her loyalties thrown into question. To win her trust, her sister Johanna must reveal the Family’s most closely guarded secret—the truth of Forever Carlyle herself. Meanwhile, the effects of the Conclave War are being felt around the globe in six individual stories written by GREG RUCKA, collaborating with a roster of star-studded talent, including writers ERIC TRAUTMANN, NEAL BAILEY, and AARON DURAN, and artists STEVE LIEBER, BILQUIS EVELY, TRISTAN JONES, and others. In a world that refuses compromise, there is only complicity. Collects LAZARUS #22-26, LAZARUS: X+66 #1-6
 
 
 
A despondent Abel, carrying the weight of what he’s learned in the Winter Woods, angrily parts ways his companion. Fearing for the boy’s safety in the run-down Rust Belt city they wandered into, Fox returns just in time to find Abel snatched and in a heap of trouble!
 
 
 
As the Outpost reels from a devastating setback, Alea and Sam’s unrelenting search for answers leads them to the truth they’d most hoped—and feared—to learn.
 
 
 
In a pivotal deal with an alien business Consortium, humanity opened a Port of Earth for galactic travelers. But after countless violent—and often deadly—incidents between aliens and humans, aliens have been stationed here to help keep the peace. Now, the Earth Security Agency must contain a deadly alien outbreak, curb a growing human resistance, and navigate a delicate relationship with our alien partners—or risk planetary occupation. Collects PORT OF EARTH #9-12
 
 
 
“RUMBLINGS ANTHOLOGY,” Part One Three stories of bigger-than-life adventure written by JOHN ARCUDI and illustrated by three of the best artists in comics—ALEX HORLEY (World of Warcraft), GERARDO ZAFFINO (Conan), and rising star MATEJ STIC!
 
 
 
An artist, forced to paint swastikas on train cars for the Nazis during the Holocaust, has become an unlikely vigilante in pre-Cold War Europe. Alongside his army companion, Bruno, he hunts down the criminals responsible for murdering his wife, his family, and his people. SIMON SAYS is one part action-adventure, one part crime-noir and all high-stakes drama!
 
 
 
An artist, forced to paint swastikas on train cars for the Nazis during the Holocaust, has become an unlikely vigilante in pre-Cold War Europe. Alongside his army companion, Bruno, he hunts down the criminals responsible for murdering his wife, his family, and his people. SIMON SAYS is one part action-adventure, one part crime-noir and all high-stakes drama!
 
 
 
An artist, forced to paint swastikas on train cars for the Nazis during the Holocaust, has become an unlikely vigilante in pre-Cold War Europe. Alongside his army companion, Bruno, he hunts down the criminals responsible for murdering his wife, his family, and his people. SIMON SAYS is one part action-adventure, one part crime-noir and all high-stakes drama!
 
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Review: Hawk The Slayer #5

August 10, 2022 Michael Nimmo 0

From Rebellion comes the last in this mini-series. This is Hawk The Slayer #5. UK and DIGITAL: 10 August £3.99 NORTH AMERICA: TBC $6.50 DIAMOND: TBC Don’t miss the all new comic-book sequel to the classic eighties fantasy […]

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