DC Comics In January 2013: Vertigo & Others

[ENGLISH] DC Comics tells us: DC Comics In January 2013, Part 2: Vertigo & Others – Fairest, Fables, Unwritten, Hellblazer, Saucer Country, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Django Unchained, He-Man And The Masters of the Universe, Insurgent…

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INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US #1
Written by TOM TAYLOR
Art and cover by JHEREMY RAAPACK
On sale JANUARY 30 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T
• Based on DC’s latest highly anticipated video game from the makers of Mortal Kombat!
• The first time in print for these digital-first stories.
• This prequel explains the events leading up to the start of this epic game!

INSURGENT #1
Written by F.J. DeSANTO and TODD FARMER
Art and cover by FEDERICO DALLOCCHIO
On sale JANUARY 16 • 32 pg, FC, 1 of 6 • $2.99 US • RATED T+
• In the near future, the American government, using a powerful new form of nanotech, builds a secret military force composed of unknowing ordinary citizens…what would happen if a mysterious terrorist group started ACTIVATING these sleeping super soldiers for something far more sinister?
• Former government-sanctioned bounty hunter John Ravane is the one man who could possibly stop the second American Civil War…but that’s ONLY if he can be convinced—or coerced—into returning to active duty!
• Cutting-edge science fiction and hi-tech military action collide in this explosive new original miniseries!

HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE #6
Written by KEITH GIFFEN
Art by PHILIP TAN and RUY JOSE
Wraparound cover by DAVE WILKINS
On sale JANUARY 30 • 32 pg, FC, 6 of 6, $2.99 US
• The epic battle between He-Man and Skeletor comes to an explosive conclusion!
• As the dust settles, who will be left holding the Power of Grayskull?

LOT 13 #4
Written by STEVE NILES
Art and cover by GLENN FABRY
On sale JANUARY 30 • 32 pg, FC, 4 of 5, $2.99 US • MATURE READERS
• As the mystery deepens, family members turn to each other for support.
• Will even strong family ties be enough to save them?
• Then things take a turn for the (even more) gruesome!

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE: THE ORIGIN OF HE-MAN #1
Written by JOSHUA HALE FIALKOV
Art and cover by BEN OLIVER
One-shot • On sale JANUARY 30 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
• Learn how Prince Adam first harnessed the Power of Grayskull!
• Witness the first battle between He-Man and Skeletor!

DJANGO UNCHAINED #3
Based on the screenplay by QUENTIN TARANTINO
Art by R.M. GUERA and JASON LATOUR
Cover by MASSIMO CARNEVALE
1:25 Variant cover by GUILLEM MARCH
On sale JANUARY 30 • 48 pg, FC, 3 of 5, $4.99 US • MATURE READERS
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the Order Form for details.
• The adaptation of the screenplay for award-winning director Quentin Tarantino’s latest film continues!
• This is the only way to read the entire, uncut story, including scenes that may not appear in final film!
• Django and Dr. Schultz search for Django’s wife and encounter a ruthless plantation owner!

ANIMAL MAN VOL. 4: BORN TO BE WILD TP
Written by PETER MILLIGAN and TOM VEITCH
Art by CHAS TRUOG, MARK FARMER and STEVE DILLON
Cover by BRIAN BOLLAND
On sale FEBRUARY 13 • 288 pg, FC, $19.99 US • MATURE READERS
Continuing Buddy Baker’s surreal adventures, this volume features stories from ANIMAL MAN #27-37! In these tales, Animal Man becomes trapped in a prehistoric jungle in his bathroom, saves his daughter from the villainous Notational Man, and explores the mystery of the dead birds that seem to be everywhere.

AMERICAN VAMPIRE VOL. 5 HC
Written by SCOTT SNYDER
Art by RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE and DUSTIN NGUYEN
Cover by RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE
On sale MARCH 13 • 272 pg, FC, $29.99 US • MATURE READERS
In this new AMERICAN VAMPIRE collection, Skinner Sweet, Pearl and company return to Hollywood in the ‘50s during the Red Scare. In a time when America was on the lookout for the next Communist threat, was the real danger far more insidious? Plus: Retired vampire hunter Felicia Book gets called back into action to kill the most powerful vampire of all time. Collecting #28-34 of the monthly series, plus the 5-issue miniseries AMERICAN VAMPIRE: LORD OF NIGHTMARES.

FABLES #125
Written by BILL WILLINGHAM
Art by MARK BUCKINGHAM and STEVE LEIALOHA
Cover by MARK BUCKINGHAM
On sale JANUARY 23 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • MATURE READERS
So Snow White is finally getting an arc of FABLES named after her? That’s too bad, since it always means the title character is about to be put through the ringer. And she has to go through these trials and tribulations alone, because Bigby is off learning to drive (which leads to its own harrowing implications). But she’s made of pretty stern stuff, our Snow, and she’s never been a wilting flower in the face of adversity, so let’s see what she’s made of.

FAIREST #11
Written by LAUREN BEUKES
Art by INAKI MIRANDA
Cover by ADAM HUGHES
On sale JANUARY 9 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • MATURE READERS
Dark history and high court intrigue are revealed as Rapunzel hatches a desperate plan to steal Tomoko’s soulfire back from the conniving shogun Ryogan. There’s murder, scheming, poisonings, safe-cracking, vengeful ghosts, treachery revealed in porcelain and a terrible, bloody invasion.

THE ANNOTATED SANDMAN VOL. 3 HC
Written by LESLIE S. KLINGER
THE SANDMAN written by NEIL GAIMAN
Art by JILL THOMPSON, VINCE LOCKE, P. CRAIG RUSSELL and others
Cover by DAVE McKEAN
Advance solicited • On sale JUNE 19 • 520 pg, B&W, 11.5” x 11.75”,
$49.99 US • MATURE READERS
In THE ANNOTATED SANDMAN VOL. 3, Leslie Klinger provides historical insights into issues #40-55 of THE SANDMAN, along with THE SANDMAN SPECIAL #1 and “How They Met Themselves” from VERTIGO: WINTER’S EDGE #3.

THE NEW DEADWARDIANS TP
Written by DAN ABNETT
Art and cover by I.N.J. CULBARD
On sale FEBRUARY 6 • 176 pg, FC, $14.99 US • MATURE READERS
In this collection of the 8-issue miniseries, nearly every member of upper class, post-Victorian England has voluntarily become a vampire in order to escape the lower classes – who are all zombies! Into this simmering cauldron is thrust Chief Inspector George Suttle, a lonely detective who’s got the slowest beat in London: investigating murders in a world where everyone is already dead!

SAUCER COUNTRY #11
Written by PAUL CORNELL
Art by MIRKO COLAK
Cover by RYAN KELLY
On sale JANUARY 16 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • MATURE READERS
Michael desperately needs to know what’s causing him to slip between different realities. To save his sanity, he and Arcadia must return to the places of his childhood, and survive a terrifying encounter with “The Things at The Bottom of The Garden.” Don’t miss the done-in-one tale featuring art by Mirko Colak (Conan)!

THE UNWRITTEN #45
Written by MIKE CAREY
Art and cover by PETER GROSS
Cover by YUKO SHIMIZU
On sale JANUARY 23 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • MATURE READERS
As the old stories die, new stories wake and stretch — without Leviathan to rein them in. And detective Didge Patterson gets pulled into a messy homicide case that brings together a strange, young boy with a wicked imagination, a pack of zombies and one very hungry vampire journalist.

HELLBLAZER #299
Written by PETER MILLIGAN
Art by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI and STEFANO LANDINI
Cover by SIMON BISLEY
On sale JANUARY 23 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • MATURE READERS
In part 2 of “Death and Cigarettes,” it’s the funeral to end all funerals! Epiphany finds herself alone, in basic black, mourning the loss of her husband, urban occultist John Constantine.