#roy: it's SATIRE bro!!!

[sergeant-angels-trashcan]

and i put a minific in the tags of the post which is relevant to what's about to happen so here ya go

kate and roy may start planning a wedding that they will NOT invite clint and ollie to#SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT#kate and roy dealing with the ultimate betrayal#jason: guys you may want to rethink this plan#roy and kate cake testing: how could this possibly go wrong?#its all fun and games until the planet starts reporting on it#at which point its easier to get married and do a quickie divorce#roy: so so so cool cool cool so lian thinks we're getting married for real#kate: oohhhhhhh noooooo#jason: wow if only someone had told you this was a bad idea#kate: well we could stay married for a while and get divorced in like a year#kate six years later: roy did we forget to do something?#roy making their anniversary dinner: nope can't think of anything

@tawghasa said

BESTIE Omg???? Can I see your "forgot they got married until they go to get married for real" and raise you "forgot they got married until they go to get married for real TO EACH OTHER" !?!?!?

Clint's like ok. Gotta bite the bullet and tell Katie-Kate about me and Ollie. Brace for impact. I know how she feels about him.

Clint: Hey so Oliver and I. Are going to get married.

Kate: oh like a vow renewal?

Clint : no like regular married

Clint: you have to have vows in order to renew them weirdo

Kate: lmao I idc if you lie to Stark or whatever so he gets you a cooler present but u don't have to lie to me

Clint: Katie wtf are you talking about

Kate: you don't get to gaslight me

Clint: KATE WTFFFF ARE YPU TALKING ABOUT

Kate: [image attached; it's a picture of Clint and Oliver with an Elvis impersonator and a marriage license] you guys literally got married and didn't invite me or Roy why did you think he and I got married?!?!

Clint: because you LOVE EACH OTHER? TAX REASONS???? NOT THAT????

Kate: Clint are you fucking serious right now

Kate: Clint you had better be fucking with me

Clint: Kate is that picture real oh my god KATE

It's important to know that Oliver has texted Roy and is like "clearly I have more functional friendships" and the only reason Roy hasn't gotten back to him is because it is Pedicure Day, and Roy is painting Kate's toenails while the polish dries on Lian's. So Kate is trying to REMAIN CALM but Roy could you check your phone? Could you talk to Ollie and see if Clint is just being a complete a-hole?

Which is when Ollie CONFIRMS that no, he and Clint sure didn't realize they got married! Or that ROY AND KATE GOT MARRIED AS AN ELABORATE REVENGE PLOT??? YOU'VE BEEN MARRIED FOR FOUR YEARS??? ROY??????

And Kate and Roy are PIs so they're like frantically digging through emails and papers "I have a contact who is an Elvis impersonator, they work some chapels!?!" "I think I know someone in the records office?!?!?!" "HOW DID THEY NOT FUCKING KNOW?!?!?!" (Lian: no swearing)

Clint: omg is that why you kept saying all that weird shit about being left out and how did I like not knowing anything until the last minute????

Clint: IM SORRY YOU GOT MARRIED TO DUNK ON ME????

Clint: WHY ARE YOU STILL MARRIED????

Kate: well at first we forgot and then we realized we actually were kind of in love with each other SHUT UP IM NOT TAKING SHIT FROM A MAN WHO IS GETTING READY TO REMARRY HIS OWN HUSBAND BECAUSE HE FORGOT THEY WERE ALREADY MARRIED

Kate: Clint we can never tell anyone about this ever

Clint: too late Barry overheard me and ollie talking

Jason swings by Roy and Kate's. He's having the GREATEST day. He got to be there when Dick found out that Roy is happily married because of a drunken bender that WASN'T EVEN HIS. This is the DUMBEST thing Jason has ever witnessed and it's added at least five years to his life.

Jason: you are all idiots

Roy: watch it pal, keep talking like that and you'll wind up IN this marriage

Jason: that is absolutely not the threat you think it is

Kate, in an aside to Roy: are we, like. Positive he's not already married to us?

Oliver Queen marries Clint Barton. For real? For a mission? On a drunken bender in Vegas? Doesn't matter. The point is, they do not inform Kate or Roy who are LIVID.

[iphoenixrising]

Masterlist v3

(It’s been a few months, so I thought this might be in order. Updated yet fricking again gaaaah!

AO3: Fracture (fanart!); Distractions, Forward Momentum (Avengers)

Tumblr

Poison-Basil’s Art:

iPhoenixrising (my wonderfully talented artist/writer babe literally made my spirit animal)

Fracture Chapter 1: It’s Tim asleep on the bathroom floor where Dick and Jay find him (God, it’s amazing >.<)

Fracture Chapter 29: The intense almost between Dick and Red

BABE MADE ME A WHIRLYBIRD

Detective!Dick, Red Hood!Tim au Art

Dr!Tim Art!!

No Home for Dead Birds: (Eventual Conner/Bart/Tim maybe)

Chapter I

Chapter II

Drabble

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X p1

Chapter X p2

Kon’s Drabble

Warning for mentions of suicide

NHDB What-If

The Red Hood

Dick Grayson

The Last Titan Standing

Redux (NSFW)

Tumblr Ask: Tim/Kon/Bart; warning for abuse of TTK, super-powers, and literally making Tim scream. All kinds of NSFW.

Chapter XI

What’s In a Name?

Tumblr Ask: Pride Parade

*Night Call (Tim/Jay Stripper Verse AU):

Part 1

Part 2 (NSFW)

Final Part: 3

*DC AOB Attempt (Omega Tim/ Alpha Dick/ Alpha Jay. Very Porn with Plot and Angst):

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6: The Demon’s Head: (Warnings: Tim/Ra’s non-con but the journey and subsequent revenge are oh so sweet.)

Part 7: Probably Finale with @satire-please

Ask from Tumblr: The Heat Fallout: (I wrote a follow-up to this…but it’s terrible and sweet, and I just never posted it >.<)

Ask from Tumblr: Two Alphas in Rut and one cute Omega (Very NSFW)

Ask from Tumblr: Pregnancy Scare

Ask from Tumblr: Bonding and Shit

Shameless PWP from Tumblr: Vibrators and whatnot      

Tim wearing the ‘Eat Me’ shirt Ask  

AOB Ask: Two Times Tim’s Alphas Needed Him and the One Time He Needed Them (some smut ensues; also part of the 500 Follower Post)

*Marvel AOB Attempt (Omega Tony/ Alpha Bucky/ Alpha Steve):  

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Night Sky (Possible future to the Fracture Verse, Tim/Older!Dami)

Ask

Drabble

Part 1

Part 2 (NSFW)

Part 3

Finale ( Warnings for things like Robinpiles and NSFW; that said, I’m absurdly proud of this smut)

Destroyed (a multiverse conglomeration of Bad Ass!Tim in a world where the Insurgents took over the planet):

Part 1

Part 2  (NSFW)

Part 3

(What if Tim doesn’t leave from Tumblr)

Justice is Blind AU (Blind!Tim):

Part I

Part II

Drabble

Ask fic

Part V

Drabble (beware of Superbats)

Angsty stuff that kind of goes together? (Before NHDB, this is the ‘Tim isn’t forgiving your ass’ realm from my brain pan):

Clean

Drabble

Realize

Meeting

Mistake

Forward Momentum Things

(MCU Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes; eventual Steve/Bucky/Tony)

Forward Momentum Drabble

Coffee

Observation

Dr!Tim:

Dr!Tim au: How it all Began (light NSFW) 

Follow-Up Drabble

Dr!Tim Drabbles: The Mentor; The Suit; Med School drab

Dick Grayson’s acrobatic talent (surprise, it’s smut)

Dr!Tim Drabbles: Stephanie Brown and Batgirl

Dr!Tim Drabble: The Joker (I really enjoy playing around with the baddies sometimes and the Joker was an interesting character)

Playing around with Submissive Dr!Tim (so much NSFW)

Dr!Tim Safewords out Ask;  Follow-up: Drabble: Sub-Drop (adult themes)

Dr!Tim: London Bridge is Falling Down (Bad ass Tim and a little hurt/comfort at the end)

Missing Scene from “London Bridge” (cute and a little angsty with Hurt Dr.!Tim and the L-word)

Post London Bridge Ask (guest starring Tony Stark)

Meet and Greet

Cute Dr. Tim taking care of overwrought Dick Ask (NSFW; adult themes)

Dr!Tim Ask: Arkham Riot      

Dr!Tim and Fracture!Tim Ask  

Dr!Tim and Overly Protective Robin      

Dr!Tim PTSD Ask (on the 500 Followers post)        

Dr!Tim Drabble: Robin (also on the 500 Followers post. I’m absurdly proud of this nsfw and Dr!Tim getting one night in the cape. Bad ass Dr. Drake is no slouch.) Also with the help of THIS ASK!

Follower Posts!

100 Followers! Night Sky Drabble with Tim and Older! Dami; Sleeping Tim Drabble; MCU Steve/Bucky/Tony drabble Hurt/Comfort; Cross-over au! Where Dick and Jay admit their feelings to Tim; NHDB depressing drabble (Dick/Tim);  

200 Followers! Tumblr Ask about Tim having scars from his childhood rather than as a vigilante; Justice is Blind Drabble: Tim and Lady Shiva; NHDB Prompt, sad Dick/Tim; Sick!Tony ask; Sad Ask: Red Robin Posthumous Award

300 Followers!: AOB Drabbles: The Pack (Cass and Fear Toxin) and Mating Bite; Body Swap: The Follow-Up (which I wasn’t really happy with but oh well); Fracture What-If Continuation for Anon; Dr!Tim Drabbles: Jay/Tim Fluff and Smut

400 Followers! : Dr. Tim: The Birthday Present, Robin’s Redemption (such a play on them both), Cross-Over AU! (Marvel Universe and Tim gets a second chance at being Robin), The Suit (shameless Dick/Tim)

500 Followers! Masterpost

Future au!

Part I: Pre-Fracture Tim and a little bit of time travel. How is going to take the “Night Sky” verse? (An attempt at making Fracture go full circle)

Part II: Continuation of lost Future Bats, mentions of Superbats, and attempts at coddling.  

Bat Prompts and Drabbles:

Hard Fracture What-If (featuring BatDad and intense feelings; what if B had picked up Red after the Insurgents Battle and brought him back to the Cave right then and there? Watch your feels)

Space Salvagers AU (Jay/Tim)             

Soulmate thing: Robins

Bodyswap (Dick & Tim); Body Swap: The Fallout                         

Concussion Confessions

The night the Flying Graysons Died     

Firefly Cross-Over for Tim Drake Week (Jason is Mal; Dick is Inara; Tim is Simon; Cass is Tam; Steph is Wash; Roy is Zoe, etc)

Of Owfucks and Accents

Worth the Wait (for Travelallover’s birthday): Based on Robin #10 NSFW Dick/Tim

De-Aged Jay (based on fanart)

Stalker Photos  

Dick/Jay/Tim Fluff: Tim being Tim Ask                            

 Graduation (maybe Fracture Verse)

Hilarity ensues

Jay/Tim Praise Kink  (NSFW)

Soulmate Ask (from the 500 Follower Post) and follow-up long post

Venom/Demon! Jay (Warning: it’s smut. Tim/Dick/Jay)

Detective!Dick, Red Hood!Tim au (for my babe @poison-basil)

NSFW Drab based of @curdleddoodle​ amazing art

Dick/Tim/Dami: (Older!Dami, some angst, some fluff)

Drabble 1 Lazy Mornings

Drabble 2: Left Standing (Tim angst and feels)

Drabble 3 Ra���s al Ghul gets the memo

Drabble 4 (Dami feels)

Old Fracture Drabbles:

Superbats What-If

Convergence: Bringing together all the Tims. (Just an idea I played around with: Dr!Tim, Fracture Tim, Destroyed Tim, Justice is Blind Tim, and Detective Comics Tim)

Injury/Healing for Tim Drake week (hilarity ensues; Tim is thwarted by Dick’s Sixth Sense)                                  

Holidays:

Cute Holiday Cheer,

Sad What-Could-Have-Happened Prompt based off this

Angst:

A NHDB kind of Verse,

'What if Dick didn't catch Tim when he fell through the window' Prompt (aftermath of Character Death), 

Jason v. the Pit and then I saw this

Tim is going to keep kicking ass

“I’ve already forgiven you, but I won’t make the same mistake twice” Ask (Dick Grayson & Tim Drake)

Fooled You Tim/Ra’s Valentine’s Day thing

Subdue (Tim/Ra’s non-con; be careful if you read this, tagged for triggers)

Silence: (Dark!Jason Todd, Tim Drake. Warning: Major Character Death)

Heavy in Your Arms Part I  Jason Todd angst; Based off the song with the same title by Florence + the Machine

Heavy in Your Arms Part II  

Kid!Tim fics (The Tiny!Tim universe):

Window Seat

Kid!Tim is discovered

Tiny!Tim and the Fever

Tiny!Tim and the Secret (From the 500 Follower Post)

Talon!Tim

Ask in which the idea of Talon!Tim became a thing

Talon!au Ask (in which babe wrote most of the thing)

Mer!Dick, Mer!Jay

Ask 1 (Mainly NSFW)

Ask 2 (in which I like it better if they speak Mer language they can’t understand each other; breeding kink, NSFW)

Crossover: Avengers/Bats

Tim stays in the MCU

And goes out as Robin                    

Tony Stark being a bro

Early NSFW (Please be advised):

Need (first in the DCU)

Prompt:  “ Here’s a nice image for you. Jason has Tim bent over the counter...” (I was so new to Tumblr, I just threw it up as quote LOL)

Voltron: (They all stink, please see @satire-please for better stuff)

Team Dynamics

Left Behind

Waking

You Not the Lion

Miraculous Ladybug

Play : Shameless Adrien/Ladybug, MariChat, and Adrinette (if only I covered LadyNoir. Damn) with fake identity porn and hetero smut.

The Way to His Heart: Not smut! But, an adorb reveal fic. Since Marinette is the first to realize how starved Adrien is and sets herself on rectifying that problem. Cue the same for Chat Noir. The ensuing revelation is sweet with a touch of angst.

Non-Fiction stuff (I guess?)

Writing

Writing Choices

A little bit about Jason Todd’s mouth (just some ramblings about how his accent kind of evolved

[berniesrevolution]

In the heyday of the internet message board, let’s say in the 1990s, a certain species of idiot materialized. He was male, aggressively pedantic, self-professedly logical, committed to the hard sciences, prone to starting sentences with “actually,” and almost always devoted to the notion that his disbelief in God imbued him with intellectual superiority. This archetype’s golden years were the 2000s, a decade that saw George W. Bush’s politicized creationism and the use of web forums peak in unison. Once that decade ended, the internet tired of his antics and made him central to a series of in-jokes —“neckbeard” described his less-than-stellar grooming habits; and his hat of choice, the fedora, became the butt of innumerable jokes during Obama’s first term. No longer needed or tolerated, this misunderstood paragon of Enlightenment-core values began a journey that brought him to the worst possible destination: the Republican Party.

The Bush years provided militant atheists and amateur debate enthusiasts adequate fodder for their performative condescension. It seems almost quaint in retrospect, but newish, performative Christianity was being lab-tested at the time. Bush himself was a born-again Christian who cited a vision from God when justifying the disastrous invasion of Iraq, and his leadership inspired zealots across the country to up the ante. In 2001, Jerry Falwell, who had recently accused the show Teletubbies of “modeling the gay lifestyle” to children, blamed 9/11 on pagans and abortionists. In 2003, Judge Roy Moore installed a 5000-pound Ten Commandments monument outside the Alabama Supreme Court, refused to comply with court orders to take it down, and was eventually removed from office as a result.

The Bush presidency was a fantastic moment in which to be a self-satisfied dork with a penchant for explaining things to people.

Richard Dawkins’s 2006 The God Delusion and Christopher Hitchens’s 2007 God Is Not Great each sold millions of copies, and Bill Maher’s Religulous was the highest grossing documentary of 2008. South Park lampooned Mormons, and internet trolls declared war on easy targets like the Westboro Baptist Church and the Church of Scientology. Until his disbarment in 2008, gamers mobilized to stop evangelical lawyer Jack Thompson from filing frivolous obscenity lawsuits against the makers of Grand Theft Auto. Atheists invented a religion around the “Flying Spaghetti Monster,” and demanded it be given equal weight in textbooks, to satirize the teaching of intelligent design in public schools. This subculture was dubbed “New Atheism.” It had a nice jaunt.

Once Bush left office, the promoters of “intelligent design” curricula retreated from the public sphere, and millennials asserted themselves as the least religious generation to date; the group that had coalesced around the practice logically refuting creationists needed new targets. One of the targets they chose was women. Militant atheism had always been male-dominated, but it took several years and a sea change in American politics for the sexism within its ranks to fully bloom. In 2011, skeptic blogger Rebecca Watson described in a YouTube video how a male fellow attendee of an atheist conference had followed her into an elevator at 4 a.m. in order to ask her on a date—behavior that, understandably, made her uncomfortable. The community erupted into what was later remembered as “Elevatorgate.” A forum was created to harass Watson, and Richard Dawkins himself wrote a comment telling her to “stop whining” because she had it better than victims of honor killings and female genital mutilation.

This dynamic played out again and again. In 2012, the popular atheist vlogger Thunderf00t (real name Phil Mason) aimed his sights at Watson in a video titled “Why ‘Feminism’ is poisoning Atheism,” thereby reigniting the previous year’s controversy. This time it took off, leading him to create several follow-up videos accusing women of destroying the paradise that was New Atheism for their own gain. In 2013, Mason inaugurated his “FEMINISM vs. FACTS” series of videos, which attacked Anita Sarkeesian, a feminist video game critic who was then receiving an onslaught of harassment and violent threats for daring to analyze Super Mario Bros. This sort of idiocy, combined, again, with the growing popularity of jibes associating outspoken atheists with fedoras, neckbeards, and virginity, led to an exodus of liberals and leftists from the “atheist” tent. Those who remained for the most part lacked in social skills and self-awareness, and the results were disastrous.

New Atheism and the Gamergate movement of 2014—which sicced vicious online mobs on female journalists and game designers based on spurious allegations of media corruption—overlapped in several ways. They were both male-dominated, the latter almost exclusively so, and they both festered on nerd-oriented internet forums. Both movements resented women and minorities who asserted themselves within those spaces, ostensibly because it provided an unimportant distraction from their respective goals of destroying religion and uncritically consuming entertainment products. The difference, though, was that Gamergate had no basis in reality. The central allegation of that controversy, that a developer slept with a Kotaku writer in order to secure a positive review of her game, was blatantly untrue. No such review existed, which posed a problem for anyone who viewed himself as the protagonist in a battle “vs. FEMINISM.” In order to continue this all-out war on feminists—the curious replacement creationists for a new decade that lacked for them—these New-New Atheists had to break with reality altogether.

The heirs to New Atheism may have a new target and a remodeled ethos, but their rhetorical crutches remain the same. They announce at every opportunity that they revere logic, evidence, and science, even if the opposite is plainly true. We saw this play out with James Damore, the engineer who was fired from Google after spreading a memo critiquing the company’s pro-diversity policies. Damore argued in his memo, titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” that biological differences between men and women, not sexism, could account for the lack of gender parity in the tech industry. In the memo, he repeatedly used the favored buzzwords of atheist pedants. He wrote that he “strongly value[s] individualism and reason,” claimed that “the Left tends to deny science” and asked that Google “be open about the science of human nature.” The repetition of these sentiments failed to strengthen his case, which was made from gut feeling and justified retroactively with garbled logic and irrelevant studies. An investigation by Wired found that two of the researchers Damore cited disagreed with the conclusions he drew from their work, with one telling them that “It is unclear to me that this sex difference would play a role in success within the Google workplace (in particular, not being able to handle stresses of leadership in the workplace. That’s a huge stretch to me).”

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[naaradpr]

A Star-Studded Premiere of Coconut Theatre's Play 3Cheers! Directed By Paritosh Painter Writer-Director Paritosh Painter, known for his rustic yet contagious laughter-filled comedy and theatrics, is back with his next mega-production, Coconut Theatre’s 3Cheers!, a satirical comic rollercoaster, produced by Rashmin Majithia and written-directed by Paritosh Painter. Starring Sangita Ghosh, Shweta Gulati, Paritosh Painter, Balwinder Singh Suri, Jayesh Thakkar and Vishal Kotian, Coconut Theatre’s 3Cheers! is a play about Shree, Aditya and Manav; three friends who are Blind, Deaf and Dumb respectively… The characters are financially broke with a long list of creditors behind their back and the problem begins when the creditors hire a goon called Salim Supari to retrieve their money from the 3 friends. Besides, Mr.Rashmin Majithia, Mr.Keyur Sheth and Mr.Ritesh Lalan of Coconut Theatre, director Paritosh Painter, cast Sangita Ghosh, Shweta Gulati, Jayesh Thakkar, Balvinder Singh Suri and Vishal Kotian, the premiere of Coconut Theatre's play 3Cheers!, held at Vile Parle's Mukesh Patel Auditorium, witnessed many stars from television industry, like Vatsal Sheth, Ishita Dutta Sheth, Harmeet and Manmeet of Meet Bros, Aamir Ali, Ananth Mahadevan, Varun Badola, Indra Kumar, Juhi Babbar, Annup Sonii, Dheeraj Kumar, Ayub Khan, Deepshikha Nagpal, Karanuday Jenjani, Ritoo K Jenjani, Rajendra Chawla, Rupali Ganguly, Ruslaan Mumtaz, Shalin Bhanot, Tannaz Irani, Sai Deodhar, Tushar Hiranandani, Umesh Pherwani, Shweta Pherwani, Vipul Roy, Anusha Srinivasan Iyer, Rishi Bhutani and Krishna Hegde among many many others. Rashmin Majithia, Producer of Coconut Theatre’s 3Cheers! averred, “We are expecting an overwhelming response from the audience. The plot of play is very funny and suitable for people of all the age groups. It shows situational comic moments and reactions of each character in in a fun, light-hearted manner. I’m hoping that an appealing set and music, neatly incorporated in the narrative, will definitely entice and captivate the viewers.” Keyur Sheth – CEO of Coconut Media Box echoed the same! The team is now all set to embark on a tour starting March 14 at St. Andrews in Bandra and March 15 at Mukkti Cultural Hub in Andheri. Paritosh Painter’s association with the Indian entertainment industry goes back to the 90’s as an actor, producer, director and writer, previously having directed hit theatrical comedy plays like Double Trouble, Whose Wife Is It Anyway?; See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil; Get Rid of My Wife, SELFIE, Women Decoded, Liar Liar, Madhouse, Amar Akbar Ann Tony; I Do, I Don’t and I love You 2 among others. He has also delivered hit films like Total Dhamaal, Dhamaal, All The Best et al while creating and writing iconic TV shows like Tenali Rama, Akbar Birbal and Partner among others.

[moosterrecords]

FRANK ZAPPA’S LEGENDARY HALLOWEEN NYC 1977 RESIDENCY TO BE RELEASED AS MASSIVE HALLOWEEN 77 COSTUME BOX SET FEATURING 158 TRACKS ON USB DRIVE IN 24-BIT AUDIO AND RETRO ZAPPA MASK AND COSTUME

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 20 VIA ZAPPA RECORDS/UMe TO CELEBRATE HISTORIC CONCERT RUN’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY

CLASSIC ALBUM ZOOT ALLURES REISSUED ON 180-GRAM VINYL

  By 1977, Frank Zappa’s Halloween shows were already the stuff of legends. While the shows began in the late ‘60s, around 1972, these monumental performances would become annual events, initially in Passaic, NJ and Chicago, IL before moving to New York City in 1974, where they’d remain.  NYC (and its audience) had become a special place for Zappa and the synchronization of Halloween in NYC proved to be the perfect match. From October 28-31, 1977, Zappa and his band played six historic shows at the 3,000 capacity Palladium. All the performances were recorded with four being filmed, resulting in Zappa’s mammoth film project, “Baby Snakes.”

  Following the news that Frank Zappa will be going back on tour, the Zappa Family Trust and Universal are proud to announce that Zappa’s legendary Halloween residency of 1977 will be released for the first time in its entirety on October 20 via Zappa Records/UMe just in time for the 40th Anniversary of these shows. The Halloween 77 box set will include all six concerts with 158 tracks (mixed in 2016 from original vault masters) loaded onto a “Zappa’s Oh Punky” fun size candy bar-shaped USB drive in 24-bit WAV audio. The package will also include a 28-page digital booklet featuring never-before-seen photos and liner notes from Vaultmeister Joe Travers, co-producer of the box alongside Ahmet Zappa, and personal firsthand accounts from many of Zappa’s bandmates, crew and fans who were there, including guitarist Adrian Belew, percussionist Ed Mann, keyboard tech Thomas Nordegg, tour manager Phil Kaufman, and fan Janet “The Planet” Walley. In the spirit of Zappa’s favorite season, the specially designed, limited run box will include a retro Halloween mask and costume of the maestro himself. In addition to the box set, a 3CD version will also be available featuring the entire Halloween night show plus select tracks from the October 30th gig.  Fans looking for a specific show will be able to purchase the concert of their choice digitally on release day.

  Preorder Halloween 77 box set: http://ift.tt/2hx4Y69

Preorder Halloween 77 3CD: http://ift.tt/2hx1C6W

“This box set was a very special experience for me to work on,” said Ahmet Zappa. “I wanted to make sure we honored these legendary shows, so it was important to me that this box set felt of the era. It was a blast working with our partners to create the late ‘70s-inspired Frank Zappa Mask and costume and the candy-shaped USB stick filled with tons of Zappa goodness. It was yet again a labor of love gathering up all the archival materials, reading notes by people who were there, and most importantly making sure the audio was up to par. All of us at Zappa Records are mighty pleased with it, and hope that fans of Frank Zappa and of Halloween will be too.”

  Originally scheduled for four shows from October 28-31, Zappa added two more shows due to intense popular demand, with the final total tallying six shows in four days. The full residency is presented as it happened with no overdubs or additional tinkering. The audio was remixed from scratch using fresh transfers from the master multi-track tapes, which all had to be heat treated for transfer by Travers.

  The 1977 lineup of the band featured Terry Bozzio on drums, Tommy Mars and Peter Wolf on keyboards, Adrian Belew on guitar and vocals, Ed Mann on percussion and Patrick O’Hearn on bass; this band could really burn. Over the six shows, the ensemble averaged 25 songs per night with exciting improvisations and audience participation from “New York’s Finest Crazy Persons” at every show, making each uniquely different. At these shows Zappa really got into the spirit with Halloween antics including bringing tech Thomas Nordegg on stage to perform some magic tricks and the band’s tour manager, the “Road Mangler,” Phil Kaufman, performing as the human trombone. Original Mothers’ bassist Roy Estrada also joined the festivities.

  The songs performed at this musical marathon spanned Zappa’s then 11-year career with tracks from Hot Rats, Over-Nite Sensation, Bongo Fury, One Size Fits All, and his most recent album at the time, Zoot Allures. Many of the songs played were previously unreleased and would go on to be recorded for Zappa’s acclaimed 1979 album, Sheik Yerbouti, including “Flakes,” “Broken Hearts Are For Assholes,” “Jones Crusher,” “Bobby Brown Goes Down,” “City Of Tiny Lites,” “Tryin’ To Grow A Chin,” and “Wild Love.” The October 30th show notably featured the world premiere of the Grammy-nominated Disco satire “Dancin’ Fool,” and the one and only performance of Zappa’s infamous “Jewish Princess.” The basic tracks from this performance were used on Sheik Yerbouti’s controversial studio version which ultimately attracted attention from the Anti-Defamation League who asked the FCC to ban the record from being played on the air.

  Halloween 77 is not only rife with fan favorites but also includes many rare and unreleased performances and arrangements. This box set includes the first official release of the instrumental version of “Conehead.”  These five versions are vastly different than the song that would be included on Zappa’s 1981 record, You Are What You Is. The rarely played “Läther” was performed at all six shows and immediately followed by the equally rare, “Wild Love,” which became a solo workout each night. This one-two punch was followed by the comedic song “Titties ‘N Beer,” ultimately released on Zappa In New York, made especially memorable each time for the caustic improv dialog Zappa spewed about a then ongoing legal battle with Warner Bros. Other highlights include six extended guitar workouts of “The Torture Never Stops” and the combustible Halloween night finale of “Black Napkins.” 

  Continuing the Zappa Family Trust and UMe’s Zappa on-going vinyl initiative, Zoot Allures will be reissued on 180-gram vinyl on October 20. Zoot Allures features two of Zappa’s signature guitar pieces, “Black Napkins” & “Zoot Allures.” The album became a fan favorite since its release in 1976. Originally conceived as a double-disc, Zappa re-edited it to a single record after pressure from his record company. This 180-gram reissue was mastered and cut directly from the analog tape master by Bernie Grundman in 2017.

  Frank Zappa

Halloween 77 (Costume) Box Set

10-28-77 Show 1

1.  10-28-77 Show 1 Start/Introductions  3:28

2.  Peaches En Regalia  2:42

3.  The Torture Never Stops  13:05

4.  Tryin’ To Grow A Chin  3:37

5.  City Of Tiny Lites  6:04

6.  Pound For A Brown  8:05

7.  Bobby Brown Goes Down  4:33

8.  Conehead (Instrumental)  9:19

9.  Flakes  4:03

10. Big Leg Emma  1:47

11. Envelopes  2:29

12. Terry’s Solo #1  4:42

13. Disco Boy  3:53

14. Lather  3:36

15. Wild Love  24:05

16. Titties N Beer  7:16

17. Audience Participation #1  :48

18. The Black Page #2  3:02

19. Jones Crusher  2:48

20. Broken Hearts Are For Assholes  3:52

21. Punky’s Whips  9:43

22. Encore Audience #1  1:21

23. Dinah-Moe Humm  4:55

24. Camarillo Brillo  3:35

25. Muffin Man  4:36

  10-28-77 Show 2

1.  10-28-77 Show 2 Start/Introductions  3:13

2.  Peaches En Regalia  2:42

3.  The Torture Never Stops  12:33

4.  Tryin’ To Grow A Chin  3:37

5.  City Of Tiny Lites  8:00

6.  Pound For A Brown  9:19

7.  Bobby Brown Goes Down  5:36

8.  Conehead (Instrumental)  9:18

9.  Flakes  4:10

10. Big Leg Emma  1:48

11. Envelopes  2:33

12. Terry’s Solo #2  4:17

13. Disco Boy  3:54

14. Lather  3:42

15. Wild Love  26:01

16. Titties N Beer  7:50

17. Audience Participation #2  2:37

18. The Black Page #2  3:14

19. Jones Crusher  2:58

20. Broken Hearts Are For Assholes  3:54

21. Punky’s Whips  9:51

22. Encore Audience #2  2:13

23. Dinah-Moe Humm  4:01

24. Camarillo Brillo  3:36

25. Muffin Man  6:20

  10-29-77 Show 1

1.  10-29-77 Show 1 Start/Introductions  4:06

2.  Peaches En Regalia  2:42

3.  The Torture Never Stops  12:59

4.  Tryin’ To Grow A Chin  3:34

5.  City Of Tiny Lites  7:15

6.  Pound For A Brown  8:26

7.  Bobby Brown Goes Down  6:06

8.  Conehead (Instrumental)  5:50

9.  Flakes  3:53

10. Big Leg Emma  1:52

11. Envelopes  2:42

12. Terry’s Solo #3  3:51

13. Disco Boy  3:57

14. Lather  3:40

15. Wild Love  22:51

16. Titties N Beer  6:01

17. Audience Participation #3  2:42

18. The Black Page #2  3:05

19. Jones Crusher  2:53

20. Broken Hearts Are For Assholes  3:50

21. Punky’s Whips  9:18

22. Encore Audience #3  1:46

23. Dinah-Moe Humm  5:12

24. Camarillo Brillo  3:29

25. Muffin Man  5:09

  10-29-77 Show 2

1.  10-29-77 Show 2 Start/Introductions  4:21

2.  Peaches En Regalia  2:42

3.  The Torture Never Stops  11:30

4.  Tryin’ To Grow A Chin  3:36

5.  City Of Tiny Lites  7:01

6.  Pound For A Brown  9:05

7.  Bobby Brown Goes Down  9:12

8.  Conehead (Instrumental)  6:29

9.  Flakes  3:28

10. Big Leg Emma  1:49

11. Envelopes  2:52

12. Terry’s Solo #4  4:07

13. Disco Boy  3:54

14. Lather  3:56

15. Wild Love  27:33

16. Titties N Beer  8:12

17. Audience Participation #4  5:02

18. The Black Page #2  2:57

19. Jones Crusher  2:49

20. Broken Hearts Are For Assholes  3:48

21. Punky’s Whips  9:36

22. Encore Audience #4  2:23

23. Dinah-Moe Humm  6:19

24. Camarillo Brillo  3:30

25. Muffin Man  6:02

  10-30-77 Show

1.  10-30-77 Show Start  1:40

2.  Stink-Foot  7:45

3.  The Poodle Lecture  5:10

4.  Dirty Love  2:32

5.  Peaches En Regalia  2:40

6.  The Torture Never Stops  12:53

7.  Tryin’ To Grow A Chin  3:32

8.  City Of Tiny Lites  7:36

9.  Pound For A Brown  10:03

10. I Have Been In You  8:35

11. Dancin’ Fool (World Premiere)  4:50

12. Jewish Princess (Prototype)  4:41

13. King Kong  8:45

14. Terry’s Solo #5  5:07

15. Disco Boy  4:01

16. Envelopes  2:19

17. A Halloween Treat with Thomas Nordegg  6:17

18. Lather  3:47

19. Wild Love  25:19

20. Titties N Beer  7:01

21. Audience Participation #5  8:28

22. The Black Page #2  2:59

23. Jones Crusher  2:53

24. Broken Hearts Are For Assholes  3:52

25. Punky’s Whips  12:36

26. Encore Rap  1:11

27. Dinah-Moe Humm  6:06

28. Camarillo Brillo  3:27

29. Muffin Man  5:18

30. San Ber’dino  6:20

  10-31-77 Show

1.  Halloween 1977 Show Start/Introductions  3:11

2.  Peaches En Regalia  2:42

3.  The Torture Never Stops  13:54

4.  Tryin’ To Grow A Chin  3:35

5.  City Of Tiny Lites 8:17

6.  Pound For A Brown  13:40

7.  The Demise Of The Imported Rubber Goods Mask  8:33

8.  Bobby Brown Goes Down  3:49

9.  Conehead (Instrumental)  8:21

10. Flakes  3:04

11. Big Leg Emma  1:58

12. Envelopes  2:25

13. Terry’s Halloween Solo  4:38

14. Disco Boy  3:55

15. Lather  3:58

16. Wild Love  30:11

17. Titties ’N’ Beer  7:24

18. Halloween Audience Participation  7:04

19. The Black Page #2  2:55

20. Jones Crusher  2:58

21. Broken Hearts Are For Assholes  3:52

22. Punky’s Whips  11:23

23. Halloween Encore Audience I  2:07

24. Dinah-Moe Humm  6:41

25. Camarillo Brillo  3:24

26. Muffin Man  5:21

27. San Ber’dino  5:01

28. Black Napkins  9:19 

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The Titan of Comics sent us the briefs and covers for their upcoming titles and we’re sharing with you. Here’s the Titan Comics Solicits for July 2017.

ROBOTECH #1

Writer: Brian Wood Artist: Marco Turini

FC • 32pp • $3.99 • On Sale July 26, 2017

Harmony Gold’s cult ‘80s TV series, ROBOTECH returns for all-new adventures!

Comic written by BRIAN WOOD (DMZ, BRIGGS LAND, NORTHLANDERS) and illustrated by MARCO TURINI!

Comic features classic characters RICK, LISA, MINMEI, ROY, CLAUDIA AND GLOVAL!

New comic series will delight original fans and newcomers alike!

COVER A: STANLEY ‘ARTGERM’ LAU COVER B: KARL KERSCHL COVER C: BLAIR SHEDD ACTION FIGURE VARIANT COVER D: MICHAEL DIALYNAS COVER E: WALTRIP BROS. RETRO VARIANT COVER F: BLUE LINE VERITECH SKETCH VARIANT COVER G: 1:10 VARIANT – KARL K​E​RSCHL (MINMEI)

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THE DEATH OF STALIN

Writer: Fabien Nury Artist: Thierry Robin HC, 120pp, $24.99

On Sale: June 28, 2017 ISBN: 9781785863400

The graphic novel that inspired the new Armando Iannucci movie which includes an all-star cast – Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin, and Jeffrey Tambor.

Fear, corruption and treachery abound in this political satire set in the aftermath of Stalin’s death in the Soviet Union in 1953.

When the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, has a stroke – the political gears begin to turn, plunging the super-state into darkness, uncertainty and near civil war. The struggle for supreme power will determine the fate of the nation and of the world. And it all really happened.

Doctor Who Ghost Stories #4 (part 4 of 4)

Writer George Mann Artists Dennis Calero & Dijjo Lima

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 5, 2017

FINAL ISSUE OF THE HIT STORY featuring the doctor, Lucy, and the super-powered grant from the 2016 Christmas special! What part of grant’s secret past has returned to threaten the universe?

COVER A: SIMON MYERS

COVER B: PHOTO COVER

COVER C: FER CENTURION AND CARLOS CABRERA

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Tenth Doctor #3.7 (part 2 of 3)

Writer Nick Abadzis Artists Giorgia Sposito & Arianna Florean

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 12, 2017

SECOND INSTALLMENT OF THE BRAND-NEW STORY ARC!

NEW ADVENTURES OF THE TENTH DOCTOR, AS PLAYED BY DAVID TENNANT!

COVER A: ROBERT HACK

COVER B: PHOTO COVER

COVER C: BLAIR SHEDD

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Eleventh Doctor #3.9 (part 1 of 1)

Writer Alex Paknadel Artists  I.N.J. Culbard and Triona Farrell

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale August 30, 2017

The Sapling continues to  grow, under the influence of the Doctor and Alice – but can it suppress its programmed instincts for mass-destruction? When the three take a trip to the most inhospitable spot in the universe, the truthwill come out!

COVER A: BLAIR SHEDD

COVER B: PHOTO COVER

COVER C: ANTONIO FUSO

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Twelfth Doctor #3.6 (part 2 of 3)

Writer Richard Dinnick

Artists Brian Williamson & Hi-Fi

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale August 2, 2017

NEW ADVENTURES FEATURING THE TWELFTH DOCTOR, AS PLAYED BY PETER CAPALDI, AND FEATURING ALL-NEW TV COMPANION BILL, PLAYED BY PEARL MACKIE!

COVER A: BLAIR SHEDD

COVER B: PHOTO COVER

COVER C: ARIANNA FLOREAN

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Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen TPB

Writers George Mann & Cavan Scott

Artists Alessandro Vitti, Walter Geovanni, Nicola Righi, & Comicraft

SC • 128pp • $16.99

On Sale Sept 5, 2017

ISBN 9781785856853

For the Cybermen’s 50th Anniversary…

YOU WILL BE DELETED!

Exiled from Gallifrey at the very end of Time, Rassilon, fallen leader of the Time Lords, has been captured by the last of

the Cybermen.

Now the Cybermen have access to time travel. With it, every defeat is now a victory. Every foe is now dead — or Cyberised.

Twelfth Doctor Vol 07 HC The Terror Beneath

Writers George Mann & James Peaty

Artists Mariano Laclaustra

& Warren Pleece

HC • 112pp • $22.99

On Sale August 30, 2017

ISBN 9781785860829

Fan-favorite comics companion (and space bassist of the far future) Hattie returns for a story involving nightmarish denizens of the deep, shambling seaweed, creepy British seaside towns, and the best fish and chips of the 1970s!

Torchwood Archive Vol 02

Writers Nick Abadzis, Roger Gibson, Oli Smith, Gary Russell, Paul Grist

Artists Paul Grist, Vince Danks, Adrian Salmon, John Ridgway,

Brian Williamson

HC • 104pp • $16.99

On Sale Sept 13, 2017

ISBN 9781785861628

Captain Jack Harkness and the rest of the Torchwood team face a series of strange and

terrifying cases that test their abilities!

INCLUDES PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED WEB-COMICS!

COVER: IAN CHURCHILL

SHERLOCK: THE BLIND BANKER TPB

Writer Steve Thompson

Artist Jay.

Co-creators Mark Gatiss and

Steven Moffat

SC • 224pp • $12.99

On Sale Sept 13, 2017

ISBN 9781785856167

Collection of the brilliant manga adaptation of the fanatically followed TV show, starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange) and Martin Freeman (The Hobbit). 

PENNY DREADFUL #4

PART 4 (OF 4)

Writer Chris King

Artist Jesús Hervás

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 5, 2017

Written by Penny Dreadful TV series Co-Executive Producer Chris King, with art by Jesús Hervás(Sons of Anarchy). 

Concluding the story directly after the shocking events of Penny Dreadful’s Season Three TV finale! 

COVER A: ELENORA CARLINI

COVER B: PHOTO

COVER C: ABIGAIL HARDING

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NORMANDY GOLD #2

PART 2 (OF 5)

Writers Megan Abbott & Alison Gaylin

Artists Steve Scott & Lovern Kindzierski

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 12, 2017

Brand new Hard Case CrimeSeries!

When her younger sister becomes the center of a brutal murder case, tough-as-nails SHERIFF NORMANDY GOLD is forced to dive headfirst into the seedy world of 1970s prostitution.

COVER A: CLAUDIA IANNICIELLO

COVER B: STEVE SCOTT

COVER C: CLAUDIA CARANFA

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO – MILLENNIUM #2

PART 2 (OF 2)

Writer Sylvain Runberg

Artist Jose Homs

FC • 68pp • $5.99

On Sale July 26, 2017

Stieg Larsson’s scandi-noir thriller in a brand-new comics adaptation!

JUST ANNOUNCED! Sequel to the critically acclaimed 2011 movie adaptation! 

THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB is due to hit cinemas in 2018!

COVER A: CLAUDIA IANNICIELLO

COVER B: JOSE HOMS

RIVERS OF LONDON: DETECTIVE STORIES #2

Writers Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmel

Artist Lee Sullivan

Colorist Luis Guerrero

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 12, 2017

Self-contained magical crimes, as recounted by DETECTIVE PETER GRANT to his superiors, as he takes the detective exam!

If you’ve ever wanted to try the mysterious world of RIVERS OF LONDON, this is the perfect opportunity to get on board

COVER A: GARY ERSKINE AND YEL ZAMOR

COVER B: LEE SULLIVAN

ANNO DRACULA #5

PART 5 (OF 5)

Writer Kim Newman

Artist Paul McCaffrey

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 26, 2017

Conclusion to the all-new comic series based on the best selling ANNO DRACULA novels by Kim Newman!

Written by creator Kim Newman with art by Paul McCaffrey (THE THIRD DOCTOR).

COVER A: PAUL MCCAFFREY

COVER B: JEFF ZORNOW

COVER C: TOM MANDRAKE

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THE LOST FLEET: CORSAIR #2

PART 2 (OF 4)

Writer Jack Campbell

Artists Andre Siregar and Bambang Irawan

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 5, 2017

The critically acclaimed sci-fi novel series comes to comics!

Written by JACK CAMPBELL (THE LOST FLEET) and illustrated by ANDRE SIREGAR (MARTIAN COMICS, SEVERA) and SEBASTIAN CHENG (REVOLUTION, ORPHAN BLACK)!

COVER A: ALEX RONALD

COVER B: WRAP-AROUND COVER

COVER C: MARC LAMING

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THE FOREVER WAR #6

PART 6 (OF 6)

Writer Joe Haldeman

Artist Marvano

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 19, 2017

Conclusion of the series based on the award-winning THE FOREVER WAR NOVEL by JOE HALDEMAN, who wrote this series!

COVER A: STEVE KURTH

COVER B: NICK PERCIVAL

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IAN LIVINGSTONE’S FREEWAY FIGHTER #3

PART 3 (OF 4)

Writer Andi Ewington

Artist Simon Coleby

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 12, 2017

New story based on the cult-favorite series of game books written by ANDI EWINGTON (Exmortis, Sunflower) and illustrated by SIMON COLEBY (Judge Dredd, The Royals)!

COVER A: BEN OLIVER

COVER B: SIMON COLEBY

COVER C: BEN WILLSHER

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MYCROFT HOLMES AND THE APOCALYPSE HANDBOOK TPB

Writers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Raymond Obstfeld

Artist Joshua Cassara

SC • 128pp • $16.99

On Sale Aug 9, 2017

ISBN 9781785853005

NBA all-star legend KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR brings his best selling MYCROFT HOLMES to comics!

BEST OF CROCK HC

Writer/Artist Bill Rechin, Don Wilder

FC & B&W • 13 x 13 • 240pp • $29.99

On Sale Sept 6, 2017

ISBN 9781785862120

Featuring the best of the CROCK sundays and dailies published between 1975 and 2011!

Crock chronicles the adventures of COMMANDANT CROCK and the assortment of hilarious Legionnaires stationed at a grim, desolate outpost. The greatest and longest-running parody of the Foreign Legion classic, BEAU GESTE.

BLOOD BOWL: MORE GUTS, MORE GLORY! #3

PART 3 (OF 4)

Writer Nick Kyme

Artist Jack Jadson

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 12, 2017

Bone-crunching sports action in the fantasy world of WARHAMMER! WRITTEN BY NICK KYME (WARHAMMER 40,000) WITH ART BY JACK JADSON (TEEN TITANS, BIRDS OF PREY)!

COVER A: CONNOR MAGILL

COVER B: TAZIO BETTIN & LUIS GUERRERO

WARHAMMER 40,000:  DAWN OF WAR III #4

Writer Ryan O’Sullivan

Artists Daniel Indro & Kevin Enhart

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale August 2, 2017

WRITTEN BY RYAN O’SULLIVAN (TURNCOAT, EISENHORN: XENOS) & ILLUSTRATED BY DANIEL INDRO (VIKINGS, DOCTOR WHO)!

NEW WARHAMMER 40,000: DAWN OF WAR III VIDEO GAME RELEASING SOON!

COVER A: DAVID SONDRED

COVER B: PASQUALE QUALANO

COVER C: CONNOR MAGILL

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WARHAMMER 40,000 VOL 2 TPB

Writer Ryan O’Sullivan

Artists Daniel Indro & Kevin Enhart

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale August 2, 2017

BY SUPERSTAR WRITER GEORGE MANN (WARHAMMER 40,000 NOVELS; DARK SOULS), WITH ART BY TAZIO BETTIN (INDEPENDENCE DAY)!

COVER: CONNOR MAGILL

DARK SOULS: THE BREATH OF ANDOLUS – ARTIST’S EDITION HC

Writer George Mann

Artist Alan Quah

HC • 11 x 7 • 128pp • $29.99

On Sale Sept 6, 2017

ISBN 9781785861642

Marvel at the breathtaking artwork by alan quah in this phenomenal Black & White oversized hardcover edition of Dark Souls, Vol.1: The Breath of Andolus!

Join Fira – a battle-hardened warrior – as she embarks upon a perilous quest to save her ailing kingdom, fighting countless hoards of demonic foes along the way!

LITTLE NIGHTMARES #3

PART 3 (OF 4)

Writer John Shackleford

Artist Aaron Alexovich

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 12, 2017

Inspired by the smash hit video game of 2017, adventurer ‘Six’ – trapped in the mysterious, deadly Maw – encounters others captured by The Ferryman… but do their stories offer a way out?

VIDEOGAME DUE FOR RELEASE APRIL 28, 2017!

COVER A: AARON ALEXOVICH

COVER B: RYAN HALL

COVER C: THOMAS BOATWRIGHT

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TEKKEN #3

PART 3 (OF 4)

Writer Cavan Scott

Artist Andie Tong

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 12, 2017

ALL NEW COMIC SERIES BASED ON THE ICONIC FIGHTING GAME FRANCHISE!

VIDEOGAME DUE FOR RELEASE JUNE 2, 2017!

COVER A: ANTON K – NOT FINAL COVER

COVER B: PAOLO VILENELLI – NOT FINAL COVER

COVER C: ANDIE TONG – NOT FINAL COVER

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ASSASSINS CREED: UPRISING #7

PART 3 (OF 4)

Writers Dan Watters and Alex Paknadel

Artist Jose Holder

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale Sept 6, 2017

SECOND INSTALLMENT OF THE BRAND-NEW STORY ARC IN THE CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED UPRISING SERIES!

WRITERS ALEX PAKNADEL (ARCADIA, DOCTOR WHO) AND DAN WATTERS (LIMBO, DARK SOULS) ALONG WITH ASSASSIN’S CREED STORYBOARD ARTIST JOSE HOLDER!

COVER A: SUNSETAGAIN

COVER B: GEORGE CALTSOUDAS

COVER C: VERITY GLASS

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ASSASSIN’S CREED: REFLECTIONS VOL 1 TPB

Writer Ian Edginton

Artist Valeria Favoccia

SC • 112pp • $16.99

On Sale August 23, 2017

ISBN 9781782763147

MINI SERIES WRITTEN BY IAN EDGINTON AND ILLUSTRATED BY VALERIA FAVOCCIA!

FEATURING FAN-FAVORITE ASSASSIN’S CREED GAME CHARACTERS ALTAÏR, EZIO AUDITORE, EDWARD KENWAY, CONNOR, AND MORE!

COVER: SUNSETAGAIN

THE BOOK OF BALLADS THE ORIGINAL ART EDITION HC

Writers: Emma Bull, Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, Elaine Lee, Sharyn

McCrumb, Delia Sherman, Jeff Smith, Lee Smith, Midori Snyder, Jane

Yolen

Artist: Charles Vess

HC • 10 x 15 • FC & B&W • 160pp

On Sale Sept 13, 2017

ISBN 9781783294428

ARTIST CHARLES VESS COMES TOGETHER WITH AN ALL-STAR ENSEMBLE OF GROUNDBREAKING WRITERS TO PRODUCE A SPECIAL ART EDITION BASED UPON SONG AND FOLKTALES OF ENGLISH, IRISH, AND SCOTTISH TRADITION!

FEATURING WORK BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS, AWARD WINNERS, AND MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY. TOP NAMES INCLUDE: NEIL GAIMAN (SANDMAN), JANE YOLEN (LOST GIRLS, BRIAR ROSE), SHARYN MCCRUMB (THE BALLAD OF FRANKIE SILVER), JEFF SMITH (BONE), AND CHARLES VESS (STARDUST)!

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN: THE FRED FREDERICKS DAILIES

VOL 01 HC

Writer Lee Falk

Artist Fred Fredericks

HC • 9 x 11 • 160pp • $49.99

On Sale Sept 13, 2017

ISBN 9781785862908

TRUE CLASSIC AND A STANDARD AMONG COMIC STRIPS, MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN HAS BEEN MYSTIFYING READERS SINCE 1934! MANDRAKE USES HIS LEGENDARY POWERS OF HYPNOTISM AND

ILLUSION TO COMBAT CRIME, AND HAS WORKED HIS DEBONAIR MAGIC TO FIND A PLACE IN THE HEARTS OF COMIC STRIP FANS EVERYWHERE!

DRAWN BY THE LEGENDARY FRED FREDERICKS, THIS FIRST HARDCOVER COLLECTION BRINGS TOGETHER THE CLASSIC STRIPS DRAWN BY FREDRICKS FROM 1965 – 1967!

TOTAL TANK GIRL OMNIBUS

Writer Alan Martin

Artists Jim Mahfood, Warwick

Johnson-Cadwell and Rufus Dayglo

FC • 288pp • $24.99

On Sale Sept 13, 2017

ISBN 9781785863059

A HIGHLY TOXIC 288-PAGE SPILLAGE OF TANK GIRL CORRUPTION. COLLECTING THREE GRAPHIC NOVELS – EVERYBODY LOVES TANK GIRL, SOLID STATE TANK GIRL, AND BAD WIND RISING – TOTAL TANK GIRL PRESENTS A NOXIOUS TOUR THROUGH TANK GIRL LAND; A PLACE WHERE SAVING THE UNIVERSE WITH DIRTY UNDERWEAR AND PILOTING A SPACESHIP INSIDE YOUR BOYFRIEND’S TESTICLE ARE EVERYDAY EVENTS. TIMES ARE TOUGH. IF YOU WANT TO SURVIVE, YOU NEED THIS BOOK.

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ROBOTECH and THE DEATH OF STALIN Spotlight the Titan Comics Solicits for July 2017

The Titan of Comics sent us the briefs and covers for their upcoming titles and we’re sharing with you.

ROBOTECH and THE DEATH OF STALIN Spotlight the Titan Comics Solicits for July 2017 The Titan of Comics sent us the briefs and covers for their upcoming titles and we're sharing with you.

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The Titan of Comics sent us the briefs and covers for their upcoming titles and we’re sharing with you. Here’s the Titan Comics Solicits for July 2017.

ROBOTECH #1

Writer: Brian Wood Artist: Marco Turini

FC • 32pp • $3.99 • On Sale July 26, 2017

Harmony Gold’s cult ‘80s TV series, ROBOTECH returns for all-new adventures!

Comic written by BRIAN WOOD (DMZ, BRIGGS LAND, NORTHLANDERS) and illustrated by MARCO TURINI!

Comic features classic characters RICK, LISA, MINMEI, ROY, CLAUDIA AND GLOVAL!

New comic series will delight original fans and newcomers alike!

COVER A: STANLEY ‘ARTGERM’ LAU COVER B: KARL KERSCHL COVER C: BLAIR SHEDD ACTION FIGURE VARIANT COVER D: MICHAEL DIALYNAS COVER E: WALTRIP BROS. RETRO VARIANT COVER F: BLUE LINE VERITECH SKETCH VARIANT COVER G: 1:10 VARIANT – KARL K​E​RSCHL (MINMEI)

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THE DEATH OF STALIN

Writer: Fabien Nury Artist: Thierry Robin HC, 120pp, $24.99

On Sale: June 28, 2017 ISBN: 9781785863400

The graphic novel that inspired the new Armando Iannucci movie which includes an all-star cast – Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin, and Jeffrey Tambor.

Fear, corruption and treachery abound in this political satire set in the aftermath of Stalin’s death in the Soviet Union in 1953.

When the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, has a stroke – the political gears begin to turn, plunging the super-state into darkness, uncertainty and near civil war. The struggle for supreme power will determine the fate of the nation and of the world. And it all really happened.

Doctor Who Ghost Stories #4 (part 4 of 4)

Writer George Mann Artists Dennis Calero & Dijjo Lima

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 5, 2017

FINAL ISSUE OF THE HIT STORY featuring the doctor, Lucy, and the super-powered grant from the 2016 Christmas special! What part of grant’s secret past has returned to threaten the universe?

COVER A: SIMON MYERS

COVER B: PHOTO COVER

COVER C: FER CENTURION AND CARLOS CABRERA

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Tenth Doctor #3.7 (part 2 of 3)

Writer Nick Abadzis Artists Giorgia Sposito & Arianna Florean

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 12, 2017

SECOND INSTALLMENT OF THE BRAND-NEW STORY ARC!

NEW ADVENTURES OF THE TENTH DOCTOR, AS PLAYED BY DAVID TENNANT!

COVER A: ROBERT HACK

COVER B: PHOTO COVER

COVER C: BLAIR SHEDD

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Eleventh Doctor #3.9 (part 1 of 1)

Writer Alex Paknadel Artists  I.N.J. Culbard and Triona Farrell

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale August 30, 2017

The Sapling continues to  grow, under the influence of the Doctor and Alice – but can it suppress its programmed instincts for mass-destruction? When the three take a trip to the most inhospitable spot in the universe, the truthwill come out!

COVER A: BLAIR SHEDD

COVER B: PHOTO COVER

COVER C: ANTONIO FUSO

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Twelfth Doctor #3.6 (part 2 of 3)

Writer Richard Dinnick

Artists Brian Williamson & Hi-Fi

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale August 2, 2017

NEW ADVENTURES FEATURING THE TWELFTH DOCTOR, AS PLAYED BY PETER CAPALDI, AND FEATURING ALL-NEW TV COMPANION BILL, PLAYED BY PEARL MACKIE!

COVER A: BLAIR SHEDD

COVER B: PHOTO COVER

COVER C: ARIANNA FLOREAN

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Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen TPB

Writers George Mann & Cavan Scott

Artists Alessandro Vitti, Walter Geovanni, Nicola Righi, & Comicraft

SC • 128pp • $16.99

On Sale Sept 5, 2017

ISBN 9781785856853

For the Cybermen’s 50th Anniversary…

YOU WILL BE DELETED!

Exiled from Gallifrey at the very end of Time, Rassilon, fallen leader of the Time Lords, has been captured by the last of

the Cybermen.

Now the Cybermen have access to time travel. With it, every defeat is now a victory. Every foe is now dead — or Cyberised.

Twelfth Doctor Vol 07 HC The Terror Beneath

Writers George Mann & James Peaty

Artists Mariano Laclaustra

& Warren Pleece

HC • 112pp • $22.99

On Sale August 30, 2017

ISBN 9781785860829

Fan-favorite comics companion (and space bassist of the far future) Hattie returns for a story involving nightmarish denizens of the deep, shambling seaweed, creepy British seaside towns, and the best fish and chips of the 1970s!

Torchwood Archive Vol 02

Writers Nick Abadzis, Roger Gibson, Oli Smith, Gary Russell, Paul Grist

Artists Paul Grist, Vince Danks, Adrian Salmon, John Ridgway,

Brian Williamson

HC • 104pp • $16.99

On Sale Sept 13, 2017

ISBN 9781785861628

Captain Jack Harkness and the rest of the Torchwood team face a series of strange and

terrifying cases that test their abilities!

INCLUDES PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED WEB-COMICS!

COVER: IAN CHURCHILL

SHERLOCK: THE BLIND BANKER TPB

Writer Steve Thompson

Artist Jay.

Co-creators Mark Gatiss and

Steven Moffat

SC • 224pp • $12.99

On Sale Sept 13, 2017

ISBN 9781785856167

Collection of the brilliant manga adaptation of the fanatically followed TV show, starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange) and Martin Freeman (The Hobbit). 

PENNY DREADFUL #4

PART 4 (OF 4)

Writer Chris King

Artist Jesús Hervás

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 5, 2017

Written by Penny Dreadful TV series Co-Executive Producer Chris King, with art by Jesús Hervás(Sons of Anarchy). 

Concluding the story directly after the shocking events of Penny Dreadful’s Season Three TV finale! 

COVER A: ELENORA CARLINI

COVER B: PHOTO

COVER C: ABIGAIL HARDING

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NORMANDY GOLD #2

PART 2 (OF 5)

Writers Megan Abbott & Alison Gaylin

Artists Steve Scott & Lovern Kindzierski

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 12, 2017

Brand new Hard Case CrimeSeries!

When her younger sister becomes the center of a brutal murder case, tough-as-nails SHERIFF NORMANDY GOLD is forced to dive headfirst into the seedy world of 1970s prostitution.

COVER A: CLAUDIA IANNICIELLO

COVER B: STEVE SCOTT

COVER C: CLAUDIA CARANFA

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO – MILLENNIUM #2

PART 2 (OF 2)

Writer Sylvain Runberg

Artist Jose Homs

FC • 68pp • $5.99

On Sale July 26, 2017

Stieg Larsson’s scandi-noir thriller in a brand-new comics adaptation!

JUST ANNOUNCED! Sequel to the critically acclaimed 2011 movie adaptation! 

THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB is due to hit cinemas in 2018!

COVER A: CLAUDIA IANNICIELLO

COVER B: JOSE HOMS

RIVERS OF LONDON: DETECTIVE STORIES #2

Writers Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmel

Artist Lee Sullivan

Colorist Luis Guerrero

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 12, 2017

Self-contained magical crimes, as recounted by DETECTIVE PETER GRANT to his superiors, as he takes the detective exam!

If you’ve ever wanted to try the mysterious world of RIVERS OF LONDON, this is the perfect opportunity to get on board

COVER A: GARY ERSKINE AND YEL ZAMOR

COVER B: LEE SULLIVAN

ANNO DRACULA #5

PART 5 (OF 5)

Writer Kim Newman

Artist Paul McCaffrey

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 26, 2017

Conclusion to the all-new comic series based on the best selling ANNO DRACULA novels by Kim Newman!

Written by creator Kim Newman with art by Paul McCaffrey (THE THIRD DOCTOR).

COVER A: PAUL MCCAFFREY

COVER B: JEFF ZORNOW

COVER C: TOM MANDRAKE

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THE LOST FLEET: CORSAIR #2

PART 2 (OF 4)

Writer Jack Campbell

Artists Andre Siregar and Bambang Irawan

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 5, 2017

The critically acclaimed sci-fi novel series comes to comics!

Written by JACK CAMPBELL (THE LOST FLEET) and illustrated by ANDRE SIREGAR (MARTIAN COMICS, SEVERA) and SEBASTIAN CHENG (REVOLUTION, ORPHAN BLACK)!

COVER A: ALEX RONALD

COVER B: WRAP-AROUND COVER

COVER C: MARC LAMING

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THE FOREVER WAR #6

PART 6 (OF 6)

Writer Joe Haldeman

Artist Marvano

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 19, 2017

Conclusion of the series based on the award-winning THE FOREVER WAR NOVEL by JOE HALDEMAN, who wrote this series!

COVER A: STEVE KURTH

COVER B: NICK PERCIVAL

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IAN LIVINGSTONE’S FREEWAY FIGHTER #3

PART 3 (OF 4)

Writer Andi Ewington

Artist Simon Coleby

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 12, 2017

New story based on the cult-favorite series of game books written by ANDI EWINGTON (Exmortis, Sunflower) and illustrated by SIMON COLEBY (Judge Dredd, The Royals)!

COVER A: BEN OLIVER

COVER B: SIMON COLEBY

COVER C: BEN WILLSHER

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MYCROFT HOLMES AND THE APOCALYPSE HANDBOOK TPB

Writers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Raymond Obstfeld

Artist Joshua Cassara

SC • 128pp • $16.99

On Sale Aug 9, 2017

ISBN 9781785853005

NBA all-star legend KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR brings his best selling MYCROFT HOLMES to comics!

BEST OF CROCK HC

Writer/Artist Bill Rechin, Don Wilder

FC & B&W • 13 x 13 • 240pp • $29.99

On Sale Sept 6, 2017

ISBN 9781785862120

Featuring the best of the CROCK sundays and dailies published between 1975 and 2011!

Crock chronicles the adventures of COMMANDANT CROCK and the assortment of hilarious Legionnaires stationed at a grim, desolate outpost. The greatest and longest-running parody of the Foreign Legion classic, BEAU GESTE.

BLOOD BOWL: MORE GUTS, MORE GLORY! #3

PART 3 (OF 4)

Writer Nick Kyme

Artist Jack Jadson

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 12, 2017

Bone-crunching sports action in the fantasy world of WARHAMMER! WRITTEN BY NICK KYME (WARHAMMER 40,000) WITH ART BY JACK JADSON (TEEN TITANS, BIRDS OF PREY)!

COVER A: CONNOR MAGILL

COVER B: TAZIO BETTIN & LUIS GUERRERO

WARHAMMER 40,000:  DAWN OF WAR III #4

Writer Ryan O’Sullivan

Artists Daniel Indro & Kevin Enhart

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale August 2, 2017

WRITTEN BY RYAN O’SULLIVAN (TURNCOAT, EISENHORN: XENOS) & ILLUSTRATED BY DANIEL INDRO (VIKINGS, DOCTOR WHO)!

NEW WARHAMMER 40,000: DAWN OF WAR III VIDEO GAME RELEASING SOON!

COVER A: DAVID SONDRED

COVER B: PASQUALE QUALANO

COVER C: CONNOR MAGILL

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WARHAMMER 40,000 VOL 2 TPB

Writer Ryan O’Sullivan

Artists Daniel Indro & Kevin Enhart

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale August 2, 2017

BY SUPERSTAR WRITER GEORGE MANN (WARHAMMER 40,000 NOVELS; DARK SOULS), WITH ART BY TAZIO BETTIN (INDEPENDENCE DAY)!

COVER: CONNOR MAGILL

DARK SOULS: THE BREATH OF ANDOLUS – ARTIST’S EDITION HC

Writer George Mann

Artist Alan Quah

HC • 11 x 7 • 128pp • $29.99

On Sale Sept 6, 2017

ISBN 9781785861642

Marvel at the breathtaking artwork by alan quah in this phenomenal Black & White oversized hardcover edition of Dark Souls, Vol.1: The Breath of Andolus!

Join Fira – a battle-hardened warrior – as she embarks upon a perilous quest to save her ailing kingdom, fighting countless hoards of demonic foes along the way!

LITTLE NIGHTMARES #3

PART 3 (OF 4)

Writer John Shackleford

Artist Aaron Alexovich

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 12, 2017

Inspired by the smash hit video game of 2017, adventurer ‘Six’ – trapped in the mysterious, deadly Maw – encounters others captured by The Ferryman… but do their stories offer a way out?

VIDEOGAME DUE FOR RELEASE APRIL 28, 2017!

COVER A: AARON ALEXOVICH

COVER B: RYAN HALL

COVER C: THOMAS BOATWRIGHT

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TEKKEN #3

PART 3 (OF 4)

Writer Cavan Scott

Artist Andie Tong

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale July 12, 2017

ALL NEW COMIC SERIES BASED ON THE ICONIC FIGHTING GAME FRANCHISE!

VIDEOGAME DUE FOR RELEASE JUNE 2, 2017!

COVER A: ANTON K – NOT FINAL COVER

COVER B: PAOLO VILENELLI – NOT FINAL COVER

COVER C: ANDIE TONG – NOT FINAL COVER

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ASSASSINS CREED: UPRISING #7

PART 3 (OF 4)

Writers Dan Watters and Alex Paknadel

Artist Jose Holder

FC • 32pp • $3.99

On Sale Sept 6, 2017

SECOND INSTALLMENT OF THE BRAND-NEW STORY ARC IN THE CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED UPRISING SERIES!

WRITERS ALEX PAKNADEL (ARCADIA, DOCTOR WHO) AND DAN WATTERS (LIMBO, DARK SOULS) ALONG WITH ASSASSIN’S CREED STORYBOARD ARTIST JOSE HOLDER!

COVER A: SUNSETAGAIN

COVER B: GEORGE CALTSOUDAS

COVER C: VERITY GLASS

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ASSASSIN’S CREED: REFLECTIONS VOL 1 TPB

Writer Ian Edginton

Artist Valeria Favoccia

SC • 112pp • $16.99

On Sale August 23, 2017

ISBN 9781782763147

MINI SERIES WRITTEN BY IAN EDGINTON AND ILLUSTRATED BY VALERIA FAVOCCIA!

FEATURING FAN-FAVORITE ASSASSIN’S CREED GAME CHARACTERS ALTAÏR, EZIO AUDITORE, EDWARD KENWAY, CONNOR, AND MORE!

COVER: SUNSETAGAIN

THE BOOK OF BALLADS THE ORIGINAL ART EDITION HC

Writers: Emma Bull, Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, Elaine Lee, Sharyn

McCrumb, Delia Sherman, Jeff Smith, Lee Smith, Midori Snyder, Jane

Yolen

Artist: Charles Vess

HC • 10 x 15 • FC & B&W • 160pp

On Sale Sept 13, 2017

ISBN 9781783294428

ARTIST CHARLES VESS COMES TOGETHER WITH AN ALL-STAR ENSEMBLE OF GROUNDBREAKING WRITERS TO PRODUCE A SPECIAL ART EDITION BASED UPON SONG AND FOLKTALES OF ENGLISH, IRISH, AND SCOTTISH TRADITION!

FEATURING WORK BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS, AWARD WINNERS, AND MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY. TOP NAMES INCLUDE: NEIL GAIMAN (SANDMAN), JANE YOLEN (LOST GIRLS, BRIAR ROSE), SHARYN MCCRUMB (THE BALLAD OF FRANKIE SILVER), JEFF SMITH (BONE), AND CHARLES VESS (STARDUST)!

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN: THE FRED FREDERICKS DAILIES

VOL 01 HC

Writer Lee Falk

Artist Fred Fredericks

HC • 9 x 11 • 160pp • $49.99

On Sale Sept 13, 2017

ISBN 9781785862908

TRUE CLASSIC AND A STANDARD AMONG COMIC STRIPS, MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN HAS BEEN MYSTIFYING READERS SINCE 1934! MANDRAKE USES HIS LEGENDARY POWERS OF HYPNOTISM AND

ILLUSION TO COMBAT CRIME, AND HAS WORKED HIS DEBONAIR MAGIC TO FIND A PLACE IN THE HEARTS OF COMIC STRIP FANS EVERYWHERE!

DRAWN BY THE LEGENDARY FRED FREDERICKS, THIS FIRST HARDCOVER COLLECTION BRINGS TOGETHER THE CLASSIC STRIPS DRAWN BY FREDRICKS FROM 1965 – 1967!

TOTAL TANK GIRL OMNIBUS

Writer Alan Martin

Artists Jim Mahfood, Warwick

Johnson-Cadwell and Rufus Dayglo

FC • 288pp • $24.99

On Sale Sept 13, 2017

ISBN 9781785863059

A HIGHLY TOXIC 288-PAGE SPILLAGE OF TANK GIRL CORRUPTION. COLLECTING THREE GRAPHIC NOVELS – EVERYBODY LOVES TANK GIRL, SOLID STATE TANK GIRL, AND BAD WIND RISING – TOTAL TANK GIRL PRESENTS A NOXIOUS TOUR THROUGH TANK GIRL LAND; A PLACE WHERE SAVING THE UNIVERSE WITH DIRTY UNDERWEAR AND PILOTING A SPACESHIP INSIDE YOUR BOYFRIEND’S TESTICLE ARE EVERYDAY EVENTS. TIMES ARE TOUGH. IF YOU WANT TO SURVIVE, YOU NEED THIS BOOK.

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ROBOTECH and THE DEATH OF STALIN Spotlight the Titan Comics Solicits for July 2017 The Titan of Comics sent us the briefs and covers for their upcoming titles and we're sharing with you.

[iphoenixrising]

Master List Update

I...didn’t even realize how much crap I’ve written since the last one >.< Also didn’t realize what a pain in the ass it was to click on when you’re on mobile. Here’s one that’s a little easier, I hope.

AO3: Fracture (fanart!); Distractions, Forward Momentum (Avengers)

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Poison-Basil’s Art:

*iPhoenixrising (my wonderfully talented artist/writer babe literally made my spirit animal)

*Fracture Chapter 1: It’s Tim asleep on the bathroom floor where Dick and Jay find him (God, it’s amazing >.<)

Fracture Chapter 29: The intense almost between Dick and Red

BABE MADE ME A WHIRLYBIRD

 *No Home for Dead Birds: (Eventual Conner/Bart/Tim maybe)

This is the amalgamation of comments from Fracture. A whole what if Tim didn’t forgive them and go back? Au. It’s right after the epic planning of Red Robin to keep Ra’s al Ghul from killing everyone Batman loves from the Red Robin series. Just a little bit of a twist on how the story would go if Tim didn’t stay.

Chapter I 

Chapter II

 Drabble

 Chapter III

Chapter IV 

Chapter V 

Chapter VI 

Chapter VII 

Chapter VIII 

Chapter IX

Chapter X p1 

Chapter X p2 

Kon’s Drabble 

Warning for mentions of suicide

NHDB What-If

The Red Hood 

Dick Grayson

The Last Titan Standing 

Redux (NSFW)

Tumblr Ask: Tim/Kon/Bart; warning for abuse of TTK, super-powers, and literally making Tim scream. All kinds of NSFW.

Chapter XI

What’s In a Name?

*Night Call (Tim/Jay Stripper Verse AU): 

Based on an Ask. Just your standard Bouncer!Jay working at a strip club where Super CEO Tim Drake secretly moonlights when the stress of his life gets a little hard to handle and stripping gives him freedom. Of course, there’s probably identity porn and a little bit of smut.

Part 1 

Part 2 (NSFW) 

Final Part: 3 

*DC AOB Attempt (Omega Tim/ Alpha Dick/ Alpha Jay by request):

This was seriously a try at the whole Omegaverse thing. I write it on it occasionally when I get asks and whatnot. Premise: Tim is making his way back to the Bats after a little hiatus after he lost the Robin mantle and brought back B from time.  He’s in Gotham being part of the crew when his suppressants might have…worn off and the scent of a male Omega in heat makes the Bats a little more than concerned. To make matters worse, he gets a little more than he bargained for when Dick follows him back to Titan’s Tower to take care of his pack’s Omega.

Smut ensues. 

Part 1 

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6: The Demon’s Head: (Warnings: Tim/Ra’s non-con but the journey and subsequent revenge are oh so sweet.)

 Part 7: Probably Finale with @satire-please

Ask from Tumblr: The Heat Fallout: (I wrote a follow-up to this…but it’s terrible and sweet, and I just never posted it >.<)

Ask from Tumblr: Two Alphas in Rut and one cute Omega (Very NSFW)

(Ask from Tumblr: Pregnancy Scare) 

(Ask from Tumblr: Bonding and Shit)

*Marvel AOB Attempt (Omega Tony/ Alpha Bucky/ Alpha Steve):  

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

*Night Sky (Possible future to the Fracture Verse, Tim/Dami) 

Ask

Drabble

Part 1

Part 2

 Part 3

Finale ( Warnings for things like Robinpiles and NSFW; that said, I’m absurdly proud of this smut)

Destroyed (a multiverse conglomeration of Bad Ass!Tim in a world where the Insurgents took over the planet):

Part 1

Part 2  (NSFW)

Part 3

Justice is Blind AU (Blind!Tim):

Part I 

Part II

Drabble

Ask fic

Part V

Drabble (beware of Superbats)

Angsty stuff that kind of goes together? (Before NHDB, this is the ‘Tim isn’t forgiving your ass’ realm from my brain pan): 

Clean

Drabble

Realize

Meeting

Mistake

Forward Momentum Things

(MCU Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes; eventual Steve/Bucky/Tony) 

Forward Momentum Drabble 

Coffee

Observation 

Dr!Tim:

Dr!Tim au: How it all Began  

Follow-Up Drabble

Dr!Tim Drabbles: The Mentor (with Tony Stark); The Suit (shameless Jay/Dick loving him in a suit); Med School (how he Met Steph, etc)

Dick Grayson’s acrobatic talent (surprise, it’s smut)

Dr!Tim Drabbles: Stephanie Brown and Batgirl

Dr!Tim Drabble: The Joker (I really enjoy playing around with the baddies sometimes and the Joker was an interesting character)

Playing around with Submissive Dr!Tim

Dr!Tim Safewords out Ask;  Follow-up: Drabble: Sub-Drop

Dr!Tim: London Bridge is Falling Down (Bad ass Tim and a little hurt/comfort at the end)

Missing Scene from “London Bridge” (cute and a little angsty with Hurt Dr.!Tim and the L-word)

Post London Bridge Ask (guest starring Tony Stark)

Meet and Greet

Cute Dr. Tim taking care of overwrought Dick Ask: (The muse for Jason died a hard death >.<  comments that make me sad do that tho)

Scary things:

Subdue (Tim/Ra’s non-con; be careful if you read this, tagged for triggers)

Fooled You Tim/Ra’s Valentine’s Day thing

Follower Posts!

100 Followers! Night Sky Drabble with Tim and Older! Dami; Sleeping Tim Drabble; MCU Steve/Bucky/Tony drabble Hurt/Comfort; Cross-over au! Where Dick and Jay admit their feelings to Tim; NHDB depressing drabble (Dick/Tim);  

200 Followers! Tumblr Ask about Tim having scars from his childhood rather than as a vigilante; Justice is Blind Drabble: Tim and Lady Shiva; NHDB Prompt, sad Dick/Tim; Sick!Tony ask; Sad Ask: Red Robin Posthumous Award

300 Followers!: AOB Drabbles: The Pack (Cass and Fear Toxin) and Mating Bite; Body Swap: The Follow-Up (which I wasn’t really happy with but oh well); Fracture What-If Continuation for Anon; Dr!Tim Drabbles: Jay/Tim Fluff and Smut

400 Followers! : Dr. Tim: The Birthday Present, Robin’s Redemption (such a play on them both), Cross-Over AU! (Marvel Universe and Tim gets a second chance at being Robin), The Suit (shameless Dick/Tim)

Future au!

Part I: Pre-Fracture Tim and a little bit of time travel. How is going to take the “Night Sky” verse? (An attempt at making Fracture go full circle)

Part II: Continuation of lost Future Bats, mentions of Superbats, and attempts at coddling.

Bat Prompts and Drabbles:

Hard Fracture What-If (featuring BatDad and intense feelings; what if B had picked up Red after the Insurgents Battle and brought him back to the Cave right then and there? Watch your feels)

Space Salvagers AU (Jay/Tim)             

Soulmate thing: Robins

Bodyswap (Dick & Tim); Body Swap: The Fallout                         

Concussion Confessions

The night the Flying Graysons Died      

Of Owfucks and Accents

De-Aged Jay (based on fanart)

Fam Stuff (Bats)                                    

Dick/Tim/Dami: 

Drabble 1

Drabble 2

Drabble 3

Drabble 4

Time Travel Ask I, Drabble Continuation  (Fracture Verse)          

Dick/Jay/Tim Fluff: Tim being Tim Ask                             

Graduation (maybe Fracture Verse)

Stalker Photos                                       

Holidays: Cute Holiday Cheer, Sad What-Could-Have-Happened Prompt based off this

Angst: A NHDB kind of Verse, 'What if Dick didn't catch Tim when he fell through the window' Prompt (aftermath of Character Death), Dark!Jay and Tim: Silence (Character Death)

Jason v. the Pit and then I saw this

Hilarity ensues

Jay/Tim Praise Kink

Tim is going to keep kicking ass

Worth the Wait (for Travelallover’s birthday): Based on Robin #10

“I’ve already forgiven you, but I won’t make the same mistake twice” Ask (Dick Grayson & Tim Drake)

 Kid!Tim fics:

Window Seat

Kid!Tim is discovered

Old Fracture Drabbles: Superbats What-If

Convergence: Bringing together all the Tims. (Just an idea I played around with: Dr!Tim, Fracture Tim, Destroyed Tim, Justice is Blind Tim, and Detective Comics Tim)

Firefly Cross-Over for Tim Drake Week (Jason is Mal; Dick is Inara; Tim is Simon; Cass is Tam; Steph is Wash; Roy is Zoe, etc)

Injury/Healing for Tim Drake week (hilarity ensues; Tim is thwarted by Dick’s Sixth Sense)

Heavy in Your Arms Part I;   Heavy in Your Arms Part II  Jason Todd angst; Based off the song with the same title by Florence and the Machine

Crossover: Avengers/Bats

Tim stays in the MCU 

And goes out as Robin                     

Tony Stark being a bro

Early NSFW (Please be advised): 

Need (first in the DCU)

Prompt:  “ Here’s a nice image for you. Jason has Tim bent over the counter...” (I was so new to Tumblr, I just threw it up as quote LOL)

Voltron: (They all stink, please see @satire-please for better stuff)

Team Dynamics

Left Behind

Waking

You Not the Lion

Miraculous Ladybug

Play : Shameless Adrien/Ladybug, MariChat, and Adrinette (if only I covered LadyNoir. Damn) with fake identity porn and hetero smut.

 Non-Fiction stuff (I guess?)

Writing

Writing Choices

A little bit about Jason Todd’s mouth (just some ramblings about how his accent kind of evolved