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One year on from the launch of the British Comic Award-nominated black comedy Beast Wagon from writer Owen Michael Johnson (Raygun Roads, Reel Love), illustrator John Pearson, and letterer Colin Bell (Curb Stomp, The Fiction, And Then Emily Was Gone), the second chapter will debut at this year's Thought Bubble festival in Leeds, continuing the story's spiral into anthropomorphic madness.

We at ComicsAlliance are suckers for a good mystery, and over the past six issues Peter Milligan and Leandro Fernandez's The Names has proven to be exactly our cup of tea – this high-suspense psychological financial thriller follows Katya Walker, a woman seeking information about her husband’s sudden death, who comes into conflict with a world-dominating techno-financial cabal called The Names, and finds herself in an uneasy partnership with her stepson Phillip, fighting for her life while searching for answers. It's a story full of brutal action, advanced technology, hairpin plot twists, and carefully layered concepts, populated by psychopathic murderers, mind-controlling financiers, corrupt cops, and mysterious digital beings known only as "The Dark Loops" – and, courtesy of DC/Vertigo, we're excited to bring you this exclusive first look at pages from issue #6, which hits comic shops next week!

Developer Beenox has been releasing Spider-Man video games like clockwork each year since 2010's well-received Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. With this summer's release of The Amazing Spider-Man movie, though, they've been charged with bringing Marc Webb's cinematic reboot into playable video game form with The Amazing Spider-Man video game...

A couple of weeks ago, DC released a four-page unlettered preview of "Batman and Robin" #14 by Grant Morrison and Frazer Irving, and I promptly flipped right out about how awesome it is. Today, though,they've gone a step further, as the Source has put up five new lettered pages from the same issue, and seriously...

Marvel has released a preview of the first issue of "Wolverine: The Best There Is" coming in December from Charlie Huston and Juan Jose Ryp. It features a throwdown between Wolverine and a new villain called Contagion, who stands out notably for having pubic hair that wreaths his junk in a Cthulu-like beard of tendrils that look like they could come to life at any moment and attack you

As you might expect, we here at ComicsAlliance staff sees a lot of previews come across our desks, to the point where it's pretty easy to get jaded, even with things that are acutely designed to get us interested in upcoming comics. But every now and then, we get one that just knocks our socks off...

This week, IDW releases "Kill Shakespeare" #1, a series from writers Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col and artist Andy Belanger that's being touted as "Fables," but with Shakespeare's heroes and villains instead of the fairy-tale standards...

Our friends at Top Cow have provided Comics Alliance with a 7 page preview of the new Witchblade #110. Witchblade #110 (W) Ron Marz(P) Steve Sadowski(I) Kevin Nowlan(Cov) Mike Mayhew FIRST BORN tie-in issue! Patience, the current Magdalena is suddenly drawn into the events of FIRST BORN as Sara Pezzini and new Witchblade bearer Dani Baptiste struggle to survive the battle ...

Top Cow has provided Comics Alliance with a 5 page preview of the new The Darkness Level 4. The Darkness: Level 4(W) Paul Jenkins and David Wohl(P) Patrick Blaine(Cov) Dale Keown, Stjepan Sejic Welcome to the world of The Darkness. In this special issue, find out what it means to be not the bearer of The Darkness, but part of the power itself ...

Devil's Due has provided Comics Alliance with a 5 page preview of the new Storm Shadow #1. The first issue is due in stores May 16. Storm Shadow #1by: Larry Hama & Mark Robinson The life of Thomas Arashikage has taken him down paths that have allied him with both G.I. ...