TRADE WAITING: Week of July 1, 2015

It’s Monday, which means another look at some of the hottest trade paperbacks, collected editions, and graphic novels in this week’s “Trade Waiting” – your weekly spotlight of five noteworthy comic book collections that are being released to stores this Wednesday and why you should watch out for them!

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WICKED & DIVINE TP VOL 02 FANDEMONIUM
Written by Kieron Gillen
Art by Jamie McKelvie
Published by IMAGE COMICS
Price: $14.99

The critically-lauded best-selling hyphen-abusing series of stardom, divinity, and death returns with a second volume that’s even grander than the first, because it contains six issues instead of five. THE FAUST ACT is over. Welcome to FANDEMONIUM. Includes cover gallery and anything else we’ll cram in the back, because we just can’t help ourselves.

Collects THE WICKED + THE DIVINE #6-11

WHY TO WATCH FOR IT: Gillen and McKelvie have been creating one of the coolest runway/stage performances in comic book form. That’s it. Read it.

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SUPREME BLUE ROSE TP
Written by Warren Ellis
Art by Tula Lotay
Published by IMAGE COMICS
Price: $14.99

Unemployed reporter Diana Dane is hired by a mysterious intelligence broker to solve the biggest mysteries of 21st Century America: what fell on the town of Littlehaven, and who or what is “Supreme?”

Collects SUPREME: BLUE ROSE #1-7

WHY TO WATCH FOR IT: Warren Ellis and Tula Lotay extends the Supreme storyline with this series. Ellis is classically cryptic and Lotay is ethereal in her aesthetics, to make it worth checking out.

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AUTUMNLANDS TP VOL 01 TOOTH & CLAW
Written by Kurt Busiek
Art by Ben Dewey
Published by IMAGE COMICS
Price: $9.99

SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE OF $9.99!
The debut collection of the hit epic-fantasy series. When the wizards of the Autumnlands reach through time to bring back a legendary hero, they don’t get the savior they expected. But in a shattered, besieged city, he’s their only hope of survival-and possibly their entire world’s, as well.

Collects THE AUTUMNLANDS: TOOTH & CLAW #1-6

WHY TO WATCH FOR IT: Busiek manifests an epic, fantasy story that is complimented so succinctly by Dewey’s detailed art, that it captures your attention and leaves you breathless. The story is grand in it’s scale and the stakes are high. Read this series.

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SHIELD TP VOL 01 PERFECT BULLETS
Written by Mark Waid
Art by Various
Published by MARVEL COMICS
Price: $17.99

High-tech weapons. High-stakes missions. High-octane adventure! Special Agent Phil Coulson and his S.H.I.E.L.D. team bring together the best and the brightest, the gifted and the elite from across the Marvel Universe to confront, combat and curtail dangers beyond the scope of any conventional peacekeeping force! Coulson and Agents Melinda May, Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons face a possessed Heimdall! Simmons goes undercover at Ms. Marvel’s New Jersey high school! When magical terrorists strike, Coulson and Spider-Man must lead a strike team into Dr. Strange’s mansion! S.H.I.E.L.D. reveals its most secret agent yet: Sue Richards, the Invisible Woman! The team’s super-science is useless when a mystical threat rears its head – luckily, the Scarlet Witch might be able to help! But can a battered and broken S.H.I.E.L.D. team protect Earth from the Mindless Plague? Welcome to level eight! Collecting S.H.I.E.L.D. (2015) #1-6.
Rated T+

WHY TO WATCH FOR IT: Fans of the TV show, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. have a great jumping on point here for comics as Mark Waid pairs up favorite characters from the TV series with some unlikely Marvel heroes. It’s fun, suspenseful and a solid reading experience in each issue.

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ABSOLUTE Y: THE LAST MAN HC VOL 01
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra & Various
Published by DC COMICS
Price: $125.00

This is the saga of Yorick Brown, the only survivor of a plague that kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied by his pet monkey, Ampersand, a mysterious government agent and a brilliant young geneticist, Yorick travels the world in search of his lost love and the answer to why he’s the last man on earth.

WHY TO WATCH FOR IT: I personally have the trade paperback collection of Y: The Last Man, as well as hardcover editions, and I’m assuredly getting the Absolute versions. This long-awaited edition for this highly acclaimed series is a great way for fans of Saga to explore other works from Brian K. Vaughan.

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