Broken Frontier

Image Comics has provided BF with interior previews of titles, coming to stores July 14, 2010. Titles include Invincible, Atom Eve, Pug, The Bulletproof Coffin, Chew, Fractured Fables, Lady Robotika, The Light, Officer Down, Orc Stain, Sword, Sweets.

INVINCIBLE PRESENTS: ATOM EVE & REX SPLODE, VOL. 1 TP

story ROBERT KIRKMAN & BENITO CERENO
art NATE BELLEGARDE
cover CORY WALKER

JULY 14
144 PAGES / FC
$14.99

INVINCIBLE co-creator ROBERT KIRKMAN teams up with writer BENITO CERENO and illustrator NATE BELLEGARDE to reveal the secret history of his famed superhero’s most beloved allies, Atom Eve and Rex Splode. This collection is a direct tie-in to the ongoing adventures of INVINCIBLE!

Collects INVINCIBLE PRESENTS: ATOM EVE #1-2 and INVINCIBLE PRESENTS: ATOM EVE & REX SPLODE #1-3

PUG OGN (RES)

story DEREK McCULLOCH

art & cover GREG ESPINOZA
104 PAGES / BW

$14.99

Six years ago, the Darlinger fight ended Jake's career, cost him his family, and put him in a downward spiral that looked like it had no end.  Now he's doing collections for a small-time loan shark and thinking maybe it's time he set a few things straight in the world.

From award-winning writer DEREK McCULLOCH (writer of the Eisner-nominated Stagger Lee) and artist GREG ESPINOZA, Pug is an unsparing tale of a good man trapped in a life of brutality – 15 rounds of blood and bad memories.

 THE BULLETPROOF COFFIN #2 (of 6)

story DAVID HINE & SHAKY KANE

art & cover SHAKY KANE

32 PAGES / FC

$3.99

ITEM! Another Golden Nuggets Classic—The Shield of Justice brings swift and bloody retribution to the city’s streets! ITEM! In Steve Neuman’s attic, four smelly, wrinkled old farts in ill-fitting costumes are seeking the mysterious Shadow Men! ITEM! Steve learns that, “A rat’s cage is a beautiful thing!”

CHEW #12

story JOHN LAYMAN

art & cover ROB GUILLORY

32 PAGES / FC

$2.99

“JUST DESSERTS,” Part Two

The killer cock Poyo returns! Feathers will fly, and blood will spill! Plus: Tony Chu undercover!

RETAILER WARNING: NOT SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES

 FRACTURED FABLES HC

story & art VARIOUS

cover MIKE & LAURA ALLRED

160 pages / FC

$29.99

Some of the comic book industry’s best and brightest use their talents to welcome the next generation of comic book readers with the kid-friendly anthology, FRACTURED FABLES! Features all-new, humorous takes on our most beloved fairy tales, with stories by award-winning creators like JILL THOMPSON, BRYAN TALBOT, PETER DAVID, BEN TEMPLESMITH, TERRY MOORE, SCOTT MORSE, DOUG TENNAPEL, TED McKEEVER, BILL MORRISON, LARRY MARDER, JIM VALENTINO, PHIL HESTER, SHANNON WHEELER and many more!

LADY ROBOTIKA #1

story JANE WIEDLIN & BILL MORRISON

art BILL MORRISON & TONE RODRIGUEZ

cover BILL MORRISON

32 PAGES / FC

$3.50

Aliens from a distant planet abduct rock star JANE WIEDLIN (The Go-Go’s) and force her to play a concert for their Earth-obsessed emperor. On the trek back to their planet, they implant Jane’s body with nanobots as she sleeps. But their plan to turn her into one of their cyborg slaves backfires when Jane learns to control the nanites within her and becomes the super-powered cyborg liberator, LADY ROBOTIKA!

A new out-of-this-world shock sensation! Jane Wiedlin (The Go-Go’s) teams up with Bill Morrison (The Simpsons) to create a sexy and fun cosmic Rock and Roll fantasy!

THE LIGHT #4 (of 5)

story NATHAN EDMONDSON

art & cover BRETT WELDELE

32 PAGES / FC

$2.99

"REUNION"

The company arrives in Portland to find that the cataclysm is complete. Avery's only hope lies in finding her mother alive, and that search yields a family truth that changes everything.

OFFICER DOWNE (ONE-SHOT)

story JOE CASEY

art & cover CHRIS BURNHAM

48 PAGES / FC

$4.99

FROM THE DEVIANT MINDS WHO BROUGHT YOU THE CULT HIT, NIXON’S PALS — A TWISTED NEW KIND OF CRIME COMIC!

He walks the eternal beat…and delivers the eternal beat-down! Much more than man…he is policeman! It’s hyper-violence on the mean city streets, from JOE CASEY (Avengers: The Origin) and CHRIS BURNHAM (X-Men: Manifest Destiny)—an all-new special in which a lone Badass With A Badge takes on the scourge of the criminal underworld: Headcase Harry! The Fortune 500! Zen Master Flash! Not even death itself can stop this powerhouse of justice! You’ve never experienced “command presence” like this! This is one cop that’ll keep coming back for more…even from beyond the grave!
RETAILER WARNING: MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES

ORC STAIN #4

story JAMES STOKOE

art & cover JAMES STOKOE

32 PAGES / FC

$3.99

"BOWIE THE POISON THROWER"

After collapsing from the effects of a strange poison, One-Eye finds himself in the clutches of a dreaded Swamp Ramba; a notorious nymph-witch known to perform bizarre and deadly experiments on any stray orc that crosses their path.
RETAILER WARNING: MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES

SWEETS #1 (of 5)

story, art & cover KODY CHAMBERLAIN

32 PAGES / FC

$2.99

A spree killer terrorizes New Orleans days before Hurricane Katrina makes landfall. Detective Curt Delatte just buried his only daughter, and he’s in no condition to work. But when the bodies pile up, he masks his grief and joins the hunt through the bowels of the Big Easy. It won’t be long until his city—and his evidence—gets washed away.

CHAMBERLAIN, a native of southern Louisiana, makes his writing debut with this dark and gritty miniseries.

RETAILER WARNING: MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES

THE SWORD, VOL. 4: AIR TP

story JOSHUA LUNA

art & cover JONATHAN LUNA

168 PAGES / FC

$14.99

Three powerful siblings entered Dara Brighton's home and brutally murdered her family right before her eyes. With the help of a powerful sword and her two friends, she has vowed to exact revenge on the three.

 

Dara's epic quest concludes in this final volume, and her last target is Malia, the air-goddess who murdered Dara's father. Dara has already fought Malia's brothers—Zakros, the water-god, and Knossos, the earth-god—but nothing can prepare Dara for the wrath of the last god standing.

 

RETAILER WARNING: MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES