We carry many titles, both mainstream and independent. Monthlies, trade paperbacks, graphic novels, anthologies, art books, and instructionals are all available in the store or by special order. Please follow the links below for more information concerning new releases, reviews, and ordering.
Ordering
Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc., is our main source for comics, toys, games, apparel, and animation. Diamond publishes the monthly catalog Previews, which lists items for preorder, their release dates, and prices. Copies of the catalog are available in our store at no charge, although supplies are limited. You can use the following documents to order items from Previews, and also keep up with new releases and cancellations. Once you have completed your order form, bring it to Cyborg One before the stated deadline to ensure timely processing.
Consumer Order Form
The Previews Consumer Order Form lists every item in this month's Previews. This form is very lengthy -- about 55 pages when printed; if your order is only one or two specific items, you may want to use the Short Order Form below instead.
Short Order Form
This version of the Order Form offers space for you to write in the specific items you want. Remember to include the page number you found each item on.
Cancellation List
A list of product cancellations; these items were solicited in a previous catalog but will no longer be released.
New Titles List
This list contains every comic or magazine with a #1 or #0 issue in Previews this month, allowing you to find new series quickly and easily! The list is arranged by publisher, and offers you the item code, title, and Previews page number for each item in question.
Previews Adult
The physical catalog of adult-oriented comics and graphic novels is no longer published; rather than post the PDF file of it here (where it might reach young eyes), we ask that you stop by the store and give us your email address, so we can confirm your age and send you the file. Thanks!
Young Readers
Check out our Young Readers section located in the rear right section of the store, next to the New Releases section. We do not stock all of the titles that are available to us, so check out the complete list of what is shipping each week to see what we'll have. We can order additional titles and put them on hold for you and your young reader!
New Releases
The Previews Consumer Order Form lists every item in this month's Previews. This form is very lengthy -- about 55 pages when printed; if your order is only one or two specific items, you may want to use the Short Order Form below instead.
Short Order Form
This version of the Order Form offers space for you to write in the specific items you want. Remember to include the page number you found each item on.
Cancellation List
A list of product cancellations; these items were solicited in a previous catalog but will no longer be released.
New Titles List
This list contains every comic or magazine with a #1 or #0 issue in Previews this month, allowing you to find new series quickly and easily! The list is arranged by publisher, and offers you the item code, title, and Previews page number for each item in question.
Previews Adult
The physical catalog of adult-oriented comics and graphic novels is no longer published; rather than post the PDF file of it here (where it might reach young eyes), we ask that you stop by the store and give us your email address, so we can confirm your age and send you the file. Thanks!
Follow this link for a complete list of items shipping from our distributor this week, May 23, 2012.
Note that we will not necessarily carry every item on this list. Please contact us at comments@cyborg1.com with any questions.
Featured Books
Hellboy
When strangeness threatens to engulf the world, a strange man will come to save it. Sent to investigate a mystery with supernatural overtones, Hellboy discovers the secrets of his own origins, and his link to the Nazi occultists who promised Hitler a final solution in the form of a demonic avatar.
we say: Geez, what can we say, uh, Hellboy is a weird, awesome hybrid comic book -- like if Jack Kirby made sweet love to H.P. Lovecraft and had a child named Mike Mignola. Hellboy is funny, frightening, and quirky -- and it's spawned two movies and two cartoons! Totally recommended. gallery |
Black Summer
A rogue super-hero walks into the Oval Office and kills the president. Hijinks ensue. Oh, and the reason the super-hero decides to kill the president? Seems the prez led his country into a disastrous war with fake intel. Which leads the super-hero to conclude that if you intentionally cause the deaths of tens of thousands... well, that makes you as dangerous as any super-villain.
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Anna Mercury
Dancing amid the spires of a city called New Ataraxia, there is a woman who can cloud men's minds, leap across buildings as if weightless, unerringly fire twin automatic pistols in the most insane conditions, and disappear in a crowded room. She fights against the political repression of an insane technocratic society, and she comes from a place that no-one in New Ataraxia has ever heard of. And she' got one hour to save the city from itself.
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Thor
Returning to the pantheon of great Marvel heroes, the Asgardian God of Thunder is reunited with the mortal form of Dr. Donald Blake. Together, they must reckon with the legacy of the mythic Norse kingdom and the awakening of its immortal heroes �Ebut in a world that may not want them back!
we say: Written by Amazing Spider-Man and Rising Stars scribe J. Michael Straczynski and illustrated by star artist Olivier Coipel, this is a really premier relaunch for Thor. He�s been resurrected along with the Norse pantheon, and in the first ten issues he�s stopped a war in Africa (metaphorically Darfur), threatened to KTFO Iron Man, rebuilt Asgard, and somewhat bitterly refused to resurrect his father Odin, who is trapped in the afterlife fighting Surtur. Basically it�s still got that delicate, almost impossible balance between the modern and ancient worlds; a Norse god fighting challenges like the Superhero Registration controversy juxtaposed with frost giants. Loki is exceptionally well written as a master manipulator, and even the Warriors Three are funny and cool looking! gallery |
Daredevil
For the past few years, Matt Murdock�fs life has been teetering on the edge of destruction. Now, pushed beyond the limit, Matt finds himself behind the eight ball with no clear way out, the people he calls friends slowly deserting him, and Hell�fs Kitchen gradually slipping out of control. The question is, when his back is against the wall, just how far will Daredevil go to get back what is his? Spinning out of the stunning finale of Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev�fs ground-breaking run, Brubaker and Lark pick up the billy club and run as hard and as fast as they can to leave their own mark on one of comics�f most enduring legends. Longtime DD fans will not be disappointed!
we say: DD has always been one of the most grounded Marvel heroes; his public persona and career is a huge part of what makes him so interesting. A great Daredevil story, which has been almost every issue for like the last six years (both Bendis and Brubaker runs, plus Kevin Smith), is like a great crime or courtroom drama, just that the main character lawyer also happens to put on a costume and roam the streets in search of justice. Michael Lark�fs art is so perfect for DD�fs street-level world; if only Gotham Central had attracted more attention during his run, but it�fs Batman�fs loss and Daredevil�fs gain! gallery |
The Immortal Iron Fist
Orphaned as a child and raised in the lost city of K�fun-Lun, Daniel Rand returned to America as the mystical martial artist Iron Fist �Ebut all his kung fu skills can�ft help him find his place in the modern world. Hunted by the government as Iron Fist and overwhelmed by the multi-billion dollar corporation he inherited as Danny Rand, the young warrior struggles not only to save himself, but to find himself �Ea duel quest made all the more dangerous after Danny learns that the centuries-spanning legacy of the Iron Fist holds more secrets than he ever dreamed possible.
we say: Kung fu! gallery |
Watchmen
It all begins with the paranoid delusions of a half-insane hero called Rorschach. But is Rorschach really insane or has he in fact uncovered a plot to murder super-heroes and, even worse, millions of innocent civilians? On the run from the law, Rorschach reunites with his former teammates in a desperate attempt to save the world and their lives, but what they uncover will shock them to their very core and change the face of the planet! Following two generations of masked superheroes from the close of World War II to the icy shadow of the Cold War comes this groundbreaking comic story �Ethe story of The Watchmen.
we say: It's hard to say much about this book that hasn't already been said, but let me start by just adding that it really is as good as it's supposed to be! It's a really tightly-scripted, multilayered story with great character depth, and it asks deeper questions of "superheroes" and the cliches of the genre than we might have been prepared to answer. Many imitators, poor ones, have tried to duplicate this book, or have been derivative of it, but there's only one Watchmen! gallery |
The Walking Dead
An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months, society has crumbled: There is no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. Rick Grimes finds himself one of the few survivors in this terrifying future. A couple months ago he was a small town cop who had never fired a shot and only ever saw one dead body. Separated from his family, he must now sort through all the death and confusion to try and find his wife and son. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally begin living.
we say: (special guest reviewer Jack Sanders) The Walking Dead is an Image Comics book created and written by Robert Kirkman. Its a zombie story. Nothing special there, right? Wrong. I am a veteran comic book geek with over 20 years of reading funnies, all packed into a very small place (my head) and this story, The Walking Dead, is one of the most emotionally charged books I have ever read. The basis of the book is nothing new. Zombies just show up one day and no one knows why. Its just time to start surviving. But surviving an onslaught of shambling flesh-hungry undead is a cinch compared to dealing with the rest of the survivors and trying to get your brain fixed in a position that will allow it to handle what has become of life. Kirkman touches on the frailty of the human psyche and the delicate social balance we live in by showing us his interpretation of hell on Earth. It is a zombie story, yes. However, it is more a human story. Exploring, through the mind of Kirkman, just how well a group of strangers, family, friends, and coworkers cope with the end of days. He doesn't get bogged down with the how and why of the zombie situation. The attention is focused on the "What do we do?" and "How will I keep my sanity?" aspect of things. There is death behind every character. It looms in the pages of these books like a gallows waiting for a neck. There are moments of great humor punctured my moaning terror. There is the crushing boredom solitude upturned by maniacal savagery. Then just when you think the characters are getting to used to the viscera, ichor, and doom, something happens, usually horrible, that pulls them back to humanity in a brutal and violent way. If you are a zombie fan, pick this up. If you are a well written B&W comic book fan, check this title out. If you are a soap opera fan, drop whatever you are reading and go pick up volume one. gallery |
Frank Miller's Sin City
Legendary artist Frank Miller opened a noir opus in Sin City. This critically acclaimed triumph - honored by both an Eisner Award and the prestigious National Cartoonists' Award - combines the pulp intensity of writers like Spillane and Cain with the gritty graphic storytelling that only Miller can deliver. Sin City is the place - tough as leather and dry as tinder. Love is the fuel, and the now-infamous character Marv has the match ... not to mention a "condition." He's gunning after Goldie's killer, so it's time to watch this town burn!
we say: (special guest reviewer Jack Sanders) Frank Miller is to violence what DaVinci was to the Renaissance as well as bringing a Renaissance to the comic and movie industry. He wrenches gripping violence from his imagination, forces it onto paper or film and rams it down the throats of eager fans and horrified critics. It's not just the usual violence either. It's a visceral geyser of pain. It breaths down your neck and crawls back up your spine. It severs you from what you are seeing and makes you beg for more. If you are a fan. If not. Then it touches places that you fear in yourself. Seething primal crannies that you want to pretend do not exist. It will trigger anxiety because you just can't pry your attention away. Why can't you get up and walk away? Because, Frank Miller has also defined bad-assery. ANd every boy and girl loves a bad-ass. He hammers legendary resolve on a forge made of pure grit and mettle (pardon the pun). The kind of grim 'It's only a gut shot. I have hours to live.' determination that we all wish existed in real life. Real hero stuff. Then there are his villains. Nightmares in print. Soulless demons thankfully bound to 32 8x11s or frighteningly real in the celluloid dimension. Yet not so far out of the realm of reality as to let you detach yourself from their horror. Their sneers or total lack of emotion pick at your marrow and you fear them. You revel in their defeat because then you know you're safe. These aren't the kind of bad-guys and gals you identify with or feel for. You want them stopped dead, totally unable to leap from the medium and inflict their horrors on you. Then there are the Gals, Miller does the female form like I would. That is if I had more artistic talent than a lump of concrete. He obviously has girl issues that need addressing. But he transforms His issues to fill his books with flowing, carnal, voluptuous temptresses of raw sexual drive and desire. Hard case harlots, golden hearted whores and succubi, all summoned from the liquid black inside Miller. Each one a broad. Each one a dame to kill for. Where I given the choice of super-powers or a Miller broad, I'm not sure where my ultimate decision would fall. No, not everything borne of the torrential imagination barely contained within Mr. Miller is gold. But most of it is and with a resume as long and celebrated as his, the paltry few stinkers out there are drowned in an ocean art, literature and ballsy-ness. Thank you, Mr. Miller. Thank you. gallery |
Star Wars Legacy
The future of Star Wars is here in an all-new adventure set more than a century after Return of the Jedi and the New Jedi Order!
The Jedi Temple is attacked, an Emperor is betrayed, and the Sith are born anew! A lot can happen in a hundred years, but that's just the beginning of the story! Not since Luke Skywalker first stepped aboard the Millennium Falcon has the galaxy seemed like such a vast, exciting, dangerous place!
Readers will meet a host of new characters, see fleets of new spaceships, and visit scores of exotic locations-some new and some familiar.
we say: At least one of our staff is an ultra Star Wars geek, and he happens to think that this is the best SW book ; ) Basically, it's set so long after the original trilogy that they can break new ground without messing up continuity or anything like that. Lots of cool new stuff, a few throwbacks for fans who need cameos (Luke's ghost!), and great monthly art from Jan Duursema! gallery |
Umbrella Academy
In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born by women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, "To save the world."
These seven children form The Umbrella Academy, a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers. Their first adventure at the age of ten pits them against an erratic and deadly Eiffel Tower, piloted by the fearsome zombie-robot Gustave Eiffel. Nearly a decade later, the team disbands, but when Hargreeves unexpectedly dies, these disgruntled siblings reunite just in time to save the world once again.
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Maus
A seminal work of comics, Maus tells the story of the author's father, who survived Auschwitz, using a running visual metaphor of mice versus cats. The only Pulitzer-Prize-winning comic book or graphic novel -- so far! Should be on only comic fan's short list of books most groundbreaking or important to the medium.
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The Sandman
THE SANDMAN, written by New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman, was the most acclaimed comic book title of the 1990s. A rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction, historical drama and legend are seamlessly interwoven, THE SANDMAN is also widely considered one of the most original and artistically ambitious series of the modern age. By the time it concluded in 1996, it had made significant contributions to the artistic maturity of comic books and become a pop culture phenomenon in its own right.
we say: Another complete must; one of the most artistic, literary, and heartfelt comics ever. A great introduction to non-superhero books for friends and loved ones! gallery |
Tin Tin
Tintin is a reporter, and Hergé uses this to present the character in a number of adventures which were contemporary with the period in which he was working, most notably, the Bolshevik uprising in Russia and World War II, and sometimes even prescient, as in the case of the moon landings. Hergé also created a world for Tintin which managed to reduce detail to a simplified but recognisable and realistic representation, an effect Hergé was able to achieve with reference to a well-maintained archive of images
Though Tintin's adventures are formulaic — presenting a mystery which is then solved logically — Hergé infused the strip with his own sense of humour and created supporting characters who, although predictable, were filled with charm that allowed the reader to engage with them. This formula of comfortable, humorous predictability is similar to the presentation of cast in the Peanuts strip or The Three Stooges.
we say: A classic in every sense of the word. Truely a masterpiece of the comic form and accessable to people of all walks and ages. A must read. |
Northlanders
Brian Wood’s Viking epic Northlanders mixes the modern sensibilities of his DMZ and Demo with the appeal of a colorful pre-modern era, as in 300. Published by DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint. Drawn by Italian newcomer Davide Gianfelice, the series focuses on the action you’d expect from a Viking series, but also the political, social and cultural issues oft the time.
we say: Always entertaining and some of the grittiest stories out there. The perfect Viking comic which isn't afraid to completely change it's presentation at anytime. |
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- Silver Age Bags
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