October is definitely the month of JOKER and HARLEY QUINN! DC VILLAINS GIANT #1, HARLEY QUINN & POISON IVY #2, JOKER HARLEY CRIMINAL SANITY #1, JOKER YEAR OF THE VILLAIN #1 and SECRETS OF SINISTER HOUSE #1 this week alone!! It’s like they have movies coming out or something!
     --HIGHLY RECOMMENDED--
BATMANS GRAVE #1
The World's Greatest Detective must try to inhabit the mind of a murder victim to solve a case-without filling the empty grave next to those of his parents. Can Batman imagine the life of a corpse with a half-eaten face without dying himself? Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, one of the most legendary creative partnerships of the modern age, reunite in this maxiseries about life, death and the questions most are too afraid to ask.
GINSENG ROOTS #1
From ages 10 to 20, Craig Thompson (Blankets) and his brother Phil, toiled in Wisconsin farms. Weeding and harvesting ginseng funded Craig's youthful obsession with comic books. Now, for the first time in his career, Thompson is working in serial form, in a bimonthly comic book series. Ginseng Roots explores class divide, agriculture, holistic healing, the 300 year long trade relationship between China and North America, childhood labor, and the bond between brothers.
     --NEW TITLES OF NOTE--
BUFFY VAMPIRE SLAYER ANGEL HELLMOUTH #1
Buffy Summers, the Slayer, has one job... keep the forces of hell from coming to Earth through the Hellmouth-- and she just failed. The Mistress Drusilla and Spike have found a weapon to open the Hellmouth and unleash unspeakable evil across the world. With time running out, Buffy must team up with a new ally that she doesn't trust, the vampire vigilante known as Angel!
DOCTOR DOOM #1
From Christopher Cantwell (HALT AND CATCH FIRE, SHE COULD FLY) comes the first-ever monthly ongoing Doctor Doom series. A catastrophic act of terrorism kills thousands, and the prime suspect is... DOOM? Left with no homeland, no armies, no allies, indeed, nothing at all, will the reign of Doctor Doom come to an abrupt halt?
JOKER HARLEY CRIMINAL SANITY #1
Written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kami Garcia (Teen Titans Raven) with art by Mico Suayan and Mike Mayhew , JOKER/HARLEY: CRIMINAL SANITY introduces readers to a Joker and Harley Quinn unlike any they've seen before, utilizing forensic psychiatry, behavior analysis (profiling) and psychological profiles to create a true-to-life take on these iconic characters that is more terrifying than any psychotic fantasy.
JOURNEY TO STAR WARS RISE SKYWALKER ALLEGIANCE #1
Hounded by the FIRST ORDER across the galaxy, the RESISTANCE is in dire need of ships, weapons and recruits to make a final stand against KYLO REN'S forces. Desperation drives a delegation led by GENERAL LEIA ORGANA and REY to entreat the Rebel veteran's one-time allies, THE MON CALAMARI, to join the fight - but decades after Imperial occupation enslaved their planet, there are those willing to stop at nothing to prevent another war from bloodying the waters of Mon Cala.
JOKER YEAR OF THE VILLAIN #1
In the Year of the Villain, what's a Clown Prince of Crime to do when the world has started to accept doing bad as the only way to live? Out-bad everyone else, of course! Co-written by legendary film auteur John Carpenter (The Thing, Halloween) and Anthony Burch (the Borderlands video games)!
MOONCAKES GN
Nova Huang is still young, but she's one of the most powerful witches in New England. She spends her days working in her grandmothers' spell book shop and her nights hunting down the supernatural. Tam Lang, a genderqueer werewolf, was Nova's childhood crush. Tam has been wandering from place to place for years until the one fateful night they find themselves back in their hometown... battling a giant horse demon in the woods. Tam turns to Nova for help, and their latent feelings are rekindled against the backdrop of witchcraft, untested magic, occult rituals, and family ties both new and old in this enchanting tale of self-discovery.
RWBY #1
In a world rife with monsters known as Grimm, the prestigious Beacon Academy trains the next generation of hunters and huntresses. Follow the adventures of team RWBY, comprising bruiser Yang Xiao Long, elegant Weiss Schnee, stealthy Blake Belladonna and courageous leader Ruby Rose, as they protect the world from all manner of Grimm!
SECRETS OF SINISTER HOUSE #1
Don't miss this year's DC Halloween special-because if you do, it'll haunt you! Witness what hides within the Sinister House-the DCU's most horrific secrets and mysteries! Travel alongside Harley Quinn, John Constantine, Detective Chimp, Zatanna, the Atom and others as they face this macabre devastation firsthand! And in the bowels of this dark mansion...we return to the world of the legendary Red Rain to meet once again with the dreaded vampire Batman.
     --DON’T OVERLOOK--
POWERS OF X #6 (x8 covers), SPAWN #301 (x16 covers), BATTLEPUG #2, EDGAR ALLAN POES SNIFTER OF TERROR 2 #1, EVENT LEVIATHAN #5, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #31 and SUPERMAN #16.
Why so serious? Oh wait, that’s the wrong movie. Sorry. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Ya gotta love all these new horror releases now that it’s October (or, you know, it WILL be when these come out next week). And don’t think we didn’t notice the huge crush of new books just in time for this year’s New York Comic Con!!
     --RECOMMENDED GRAPHIC NOVELS--
ARE YOU LISTENING
From Eisner Award winner Tillie Walden. Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou. The duo embarks on a long drive to nowhere, but strange happenings-some whimsical, some terrifying-seem to follow them no matter where they go. Bea and Lou are both looking for something on the road, and the journey itself may turn out to be exactly what they need.
STARGAZING
After Moon moves in next door to Christine, these unlikely friends are soon best friends. Moon even tells Christine her deepest secret: that she has visions, sometimes, of celestial beings who speak to her from the stars. Who reassure her that Earth isn't where she really belongs. Moon's visions have an all-too-earthly root, however, and soon Christine's best friend is in the hospital, fighting for her life. Can Christine be the friend Moon needs, now, when the sky is falling?
OLIVIA JAIMES NANCY HC COLL VOL 01
In 2018, Olivia Jaimes became the first woman to write and illustrate the classic comic strip Nancy. Her fresh, irreverent take on the classic comic strip has become a sensation with readers and has earned praise from dozens of media outlets, several of which have named it the best comic of the year. This hardcover collection includes the first nine months of Jaimes' run on Nancy, along with an introduction, essay, interview with the author, and a special gallery of Nancy fan art by the author.
     --NEW TITLES OF NOTE--
COPRA #1
Acclaimed comics auteur MICHEL FIFFE picks up where his band of mercenary misfits left off, reintroducing the entire cast of his Suicide Squad-esque revenge machine in a brutal standoff against their own leader. Jump right into the thick of it with the world's greatest action team in this extra-length debut milestone-36 pages for just $3.99!
VAMPIRE STATE BUILDING #1
The newest horror series from the artist of The Walking Dead, Charlie Adlard! Think DREDD or RAID REDEMPTION, but with vampires and in the Empire State Building. See? Now you want this!!
NOMEN OMEN #1
No matter how fast you run, sooner or later your past will catch up with you. Enter Becky Kumar, a geeky twenty-year-old from New York City who is about to cross the veil between our reality and a realm of otherworldly truths. A tale of tales, witchcraft, and secrets for mature readers that rewires the rules of urban fantasy. #doyouwannaknowasecret
GHOST RIDER #1
The Brothers Ghost Rider are back! Johnny Blaze is the first line of defense between the demonic hordes trying to escape Hell and the lords of other hells making a play for his throne! Meanwhile, Danny Ketch never wanted to be a Ghost Rider. Now that his brother's in charge downstairs, Ketch must take on the duty of Earth's Spirit of Vengeance full-time-no matter how much he'd rather be doing anything else.
GRENDEL DEVILS ODYSSEY #1
Sci-fi, fantasy, and horror combine. Grendel Prime searches the stars for a new home for mankind, and Matt Wagner returns to his darkest creation! As civilization comes to an end on Earth, the final Grendel Khan gives Grendel Prime a new directive: Find a perfect planet to be the new home for the human race. But will the deadly and relentless paladin ultimately save humanity... or destroy it?
RUBY FALLS #1
Ruby Falls is a sleepy town. But sleep brings nightmares, and Lana is about to wake up in the middle of her hometown's biggest secret: the "disappearance" of infamously progressive Betty Gallagher during the mobster-ruled heyday of the old mining town. When details of the cold-case murder start to come out through her grandmother Clara's foggy, dementia-jumbled memories, Lana becomes obsessed with cracking the case, even if it splinters the peaceful town-and endangers everything she loves.
SPIDER-VERSE #1
Miles Morales finally feels like he GETS this Spider-Man stuff... and then falls through a portal! But isn't the WEB OF LIFE & DESTINY destroyed? Maybe not, True Believer. But who spun this new web? Regardless, Miles finds himself at the center of a multiversal adventure that will feature a who's who of creators and characters as the series spins forward!
VENGEANCE OF VAMPIRELLA #1
Vampirella is Dead!? Long Live Vampirella! Humanity holds on, but barely, the playthings and slaves of a multitude of supernatural monstrosities that have made the earth their own. That is, until a small, but determined rebellion finds what could be their savior or seal their doom!
     --DON’T OVERLOOK--
HOUSE OF X #6, LEGION OF SUPER HEROES MILLENNIUM #2, DIE #8, MARVEL COMICS #1001, BATMAN #80, WICKED + DIVINE VOL 9, DCEASED #5 and LOIS LANE #4!
Gotta make sure everything is out in time to be sold on the convention floor!!

As September draws to a close, we realize 2019 has the most releases in September of any year, ever!
     --NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS OF NOTE--
CHRIS WARE'S RUSTY BROWN HC
A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, Rusty Brown literately and literally aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence into a single museum-quality picture story, expertly arranged to present the most convincingly ineffable and empathetic illusion of experience for both life-curious readers and traditional fans of standard reality.
FROGCATCHERS GN
From Jeff Lemire. A man wakes up alone in a strange room with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. The padlocked doors and barren lobby reinforce the strangeness of this place. This is the Edgewater Hotel. Even worse, something ominous seems to be lurking in one of the rooms. But when he meets a young companion-the only other soul in this vast, enveloping emptiness-his new friend begs him not to unlock the door...
HEROES IN CRISIS HC
How does a superhero handle PTSD? Welcome to Sanctuary, an ultra-secret hospital for superheroes who've been traumatized by crime-fighting and cosmic combat. But something goes inexplicably wrong when many patients wind up dead, with two well-known operators as the prime suspects: Harley Quinn and Booster Gold! This collected edition features the entire miniseries.
     --NEW TITLES OF NOTE--
BLOODSHOT (2019) #1
Bloodshot is back with a few new thrilling tricks up his sleeve! No amount of high-octane explosions can keep Bloodshot from completing his new mission. Who is the mysterious BLACK BAR, and what do they want with Bloodshot?
ETHER DISAPPEARANCE OF VIOLET BELL #1
From New York Times-bestselling Mind MGMT creator Matt Kindt and Black Hammer's David Rubín comes a fantasy adventure that's Sherlock Holmes meets Dr. Seuss. The Faerie King's daughter is missing, and only portal jumper Boone Dias can track her down. Jumping from one magical crime scene to another, he uncovers a bizarre plot featuring assassin eggs, weird pirates, ice deserts, and more noir absurdities.
HARLEEN #1
Dr. Harleen Quinzel has discovered a revolutionary cure for the madness of Gotham City-she just needs to prove it actually works. But with the criminal justice and mental health establishments united against her, the brilliant young psychologist must take drastic measures to save Gotham from itself. By Stjepan Šejic.
NEW MUTANTS WAR CHILDREN #1
When Warlock experiences a nightmare, he begins going haywire, and it's up to his friends to save him! But as Warlock grows more frenzied, they should be worrying about being able to save themselves...and doubly so when Magik's inner demon, Darkchylde, threatens to break free! Legendary creators CHRIS CLAREMONT and BILL SIENKIEWICZ reunite to share this never before told story.
THE PLOT #1
When Chase Blaine's estranged brother and sister-in-law are murdered, he becomes guardian to McKenzie and Zach, the niece and nephew he hardly knows. Seeking stability for the children, Chase moves his newly formed family to his ancestral home in Cape Augusta... which overlooks a deep, black bogland teeming with family secrets. Grab #1 now and come to our MICHAEL MORECI "Plot" Signing on Saturday, October 12!
RELICS OF YOUTH #1
Nat Rodrigues keeps dreaming of an island. Soon, the dreams become waking visions. Alone and concerned, Nat manages to locate other teenagers across the globe who share her intense obsession with the unmapped enclave. And then, the strangest part: Every one of them wakes one morning with a mysterious tattoo. A tattoo only the six of them can see. Now, each of them knows-no matter the obstacles in their way... they must discover this unknown paradise.
SFSX (SAFE SEX) #1
In a draconian America where sexuality is bureaucratized and policed, a group of queer sex workers keep the magic alive in an underground club called the Dirty Mind. Using their unique bondage skills, they resolve to infiltrate the mysterious government Pleasure Center, free their friends, and fight the power! Written by notorious kink writer TINA HORN.
STRIKEFORCE #1
A new threat is secretly taking over the planet -- and the more people who know about it, the more powerful the threat becomes. Blade recruits a team of heroes accustomed to darkness -- a strikeforce. Blade, Angela, Spider-Woman, Wiccan, the Winter Soldier, Monica Rambeau and Daimon Hellstrom join forces to fight the fights that no other Marvel team can take on!
TRANSFORMERS GALAXIES #1
Cybertron, a planet of vast beauty and extraordinary cities, wasn't always so perfect. After the War Against the Threefold Spark, Cybertron was decimated, and new bots-the Constructicons-emerged to help rebuild it grander and more amazing than ever before. But where are these bots now? Why have they been erased from Cybertron's history? And what are they planning to do about it?
WOLVERINE ANNUAL #1
Wolverine's lived many lives - X-Man, Avenger...movie star? Not exactly. But he's followed an aspiring young actress to Los Angeles for a little sunshine and some semblance of a normal life. But behind the gilded golden façade of 1930s Hollywood lurks an unholy cult led by MORGAN LE FAY. Their prey...the young Hollywood hopefuls - including Logan's lady!
     --DON’T OVERLOOK--
POWERS OF X #5, BATMAN SUPERMAN #2, CRIMINAL #8, FAITHLESS #6, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #30, ACTION COMICS #1015, and the KAIJUMAX SEASON FOUR collection.
And now we wonder what quantity (and quality!!) October will bring…