Carnival Comics has started taking submissions for a new artist to work on some Carnival titles. "I got a couple of artists who have made my head spin," says creator and writer Jazan Wild, "but in the end it's about being able to work over a long period of time [and] not just a page. If you think that's you, please send your best to carnivalcomics@gmail.com".
 

A separate note from creator and writer Jazan Wild:

Just to clarify, the Carnival Artist will be signing a two year contract to complete the series. No stepping stones. No excuses. This is business, and I don't play around. My last release "It's Murphy's Law" on Nokia phones alone, had over 125,000 downloads in over 180 countries. I am represented by William Morris Endeavor. We are looking for the next big art star to show to the World! This time no fun games... Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time to Work Hard.

HONEY WEST #1
Story: Trina Robbins
Art: Cynthia Martin
Colors: Mark Simmons
Covers: David Lloyd, Malcolm McClinton
32pgs, color, $3.99
Special color photo variant: $5.99

The return of the world’s first female private eye in fiction and on TV!
As tough as Mike Hammer and as sultry as Marilyn Monroe!
Gloria Fickling’s creation has solved mysteries in 10 novels, and was also the star of the TV series Honey West starring Anne Francis!

Danger lurks in them thar Hollywood hills when topless piano player Mimi Malloy walks into Honey West's office.  There's been a double homicide at her nightclub, the Purple Pussy, and Mimi suspects she's the next victim! Join us as our favorite girl detective goes undercover as a go-go dancer and mixes it up with Hollywood hippies to uncover the "Killer on the Keys."
(Covers A ,B, & C available separately)

**RETAILER INCENTIVE#1: for every 4 copies purchased, you can order 1 copy of the Anne Francis photo cover(cover –D) ($3.99 retail)
**RETAILER INCENTIVE#2: If you order a total of 8 or more (any combination of A,B,C), you can receive one FREE copy of BOTH the b/w cover and the color photo cover!

CAPTAIN ACTION: SEASON 2 #1
Story: Steven Grant, Rafael Nieves
Art: Manuel martin, Steve Scott
Colors: James Brown
Covers: Mark Texiera, Mike Allred

32pgs, color, $3.99

Back in Action!  The”original action figure” is back for more thrills, more intrigue, more heroes and even more villains, as award-winning writer Steven Grant hits the ground running in this new ongoing series. Picking up right after the first mini, the reluctant, new Captain Action finds himself fighting a war that the world doesn’t realize already has already been lost! 
Each issue showcases a full-length Captain Action adventure and one back-up tale featuring characters such as Lady Action and Dr. Eville! First-up: a glimpse into the early days of Action Boy. (Each cover available separately)

**RETAILER INCENTIVE#1: for every 5 copies ordered, get one FREE!
**RETAILER INCENTIVE #2: for every 5 copies ordered, you can order one Texiera variant cover version: $3.99 retail.

ROTTEN #7
Story: Mark Rahner, Robert Horton
Art: Dan Dougherty
32pgs, color, $3.99
Featured in USA Today!  With this month’s TPB, this issue marks a GREAT jumping on point!
The acclaimed zombie Western epic with the topical bite returns! Agent Wade is fully recovered, lethal and armed with new tricks as he travels to an undead outbreak in the Pacific Northwest. But who could be prepared for the species he encounters?
Agent Flynn looks for answers at a Chicago university where a hate-monger is whipping up a crowd against a new concept called "evolution." Oh, and the making of sausages is involved. NO ADS- ALL STORY!

**RETAILER INCENTIVE: for every 4 copies purchased, receive one FREE!

The SPIDER: The Iron Man War #2 (of3)
Story: Norvell W. Page, Howard Hopkins, Art: J. Anthony Kosar
32pgs, b/w, $3.99

A continued HISTORIC UNVEILING!
Read the story that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster used for the 1940 SUPERMAN Sunday comic strip adventure “Bandit Robots of Metropolis” and Stan Lee/Larry Lieber used for the 1963 story in TALES OF SUSPENSE #39!!
THE SPIDER—cloaked, fanged nightmare in black—delivers swift justice with a pair of .45 automatics. Midnight shadows cast doom over exclusive Sutton Place—under attack by new evil in terror warfare—a sinister criminal mastermind in power armor named The Iron Man!
Destructive giant armored men have the city held in a grip of terror, and only one man made of just flesh and blood stands in their path: THE SPIDER!
Cinematic NOIR painted art by J. Anthony Kosar!

Second of a three-part Wide-Vision comic book mini-series based on the novel published in the THE SPIDER magazine.

CAPTAIN ACTION: “A Call to Action” TPB
story: Fabian Nicieza, Marv Wolfman, Steven Grant
Art: Mark Sparacio
Cover: Paul Gulacy

120 pages, color, squarebound, softcover, 7 x 10, $13.95
ISBN: 10: 1-933076-77-1    13: 978-1933076-77-5

The super spy master of disguise is back again for the first time!
Collects issues #0-6 plus lots more!
Based on the IDEAL TOY action figure from the late 1960’s, but set in today’s world!
Led by the original Captain Action, the A.C.T.I.O.N. Directorate fought the Red Crawl for decades.
The alien threat was thought long vanquished, so no one notices when Earth is conquered.
Literally, no one notices it!
He wakes up to learn the father who fired him is dead, and the job he never wanted is his.
He has to save a world that doesn't know it needs saving.
He has to reclaim his identity while impersonating others.
He has to become the very thing he tried his entire life to avoid…
CAPTAIN ACTION!

Buckaroo Banzai: “No Matter Where you go, There you are...” TPB
story: Earl Mac Rauch, WD Richter
Art: Chew Chan, Shawn Van Briesen
160 pages, color, squarebound, softcover, 7 x 10, $15.95
ISBN: 10: 1-933076-79-8---13: 978-1933076-79-9

The 1984 film starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin,
Jeff Goldblum, & Christopher Lloyd is a cult classic loved the world over!
writer Mac Rauch and director WD Richter return to their creation with BRAND NEW STORIES!
“…a bold, titillating mix of particle physics, rock n roll, super-sonic speed, beautiful women, and villains beyond redemption.”
Everyone’s favorite adventurer/surgeon/rock star is back again just in time to save the world!
-Get the low down on the events that transpired BEFORE the movie!
-See for the first time a good look and Buckaroo’s beginnings!
This volume reprints the 2 issue “Prequel” series, the two issue “H.O.T.H.” series, and the “Origin” and “Big Size” issues.

ROTTEN: “Vol.1:Reactivated.” TPB
story: Mark Rahner, Robert Horton
Art: Dan Dougherty

184 pages, color, squarebound, softcover, 7 x 10, $15.95
ISBN: 10: 1-933076-79-8---13: 978-1933076-79-9

“It’s genius!” – FHM.
A must-buy … Five George Romeros out of five.” – Ain’t It Cool News 
A super-cool approach … a horror comic to be excited and intrigued by.” – Fangoria.

Collecting the first six issues of Moonstone’s acclaimed zombie-Western epic with an edgy topical bite. An Army vet is “stop-lossed” back into service to investigate a terror crisis, by a president in office without the popular vote. Meet William Wade, Civil War vet, reluctant secret agent answering to President Rutherford B. Hayes, and zombie-hunter.

In “Reactivated,” Agent Wade begins his mission with partner J.J. Flynn in a mining town locked down in a labor dispute and siege of the undead. He becomes prisoner of a family whose “sick” and ravenous daughter has created a political and religious firestorm. And the two agents go undercover in an isolated, snowbound, debauched Army fort under slow attack by the undead – uncovering a Donner-like party and the fact that the wretched things are arising in different species everywhere.

Catch up on what Newsarama calls “one of those best kept secrets in comics.”
Comic legend Mark Waid raves, “It’s Deadwood by way of Stephen King. It’s Undeadwood. It’s witty, it’s disturbing, and it’s a must-read.”
And Eisner-winner Ed Brubaker calls it “One of the strongest and strangest concepts I’ve ever heard, executed with horrific precision.” 2010 is going to be one ROTTEN year.

Sherlock Holmes & Kolchak the Night Stalker: “Cry for Thunder” TPB
story: Joe Gentile
Art: Andy Bennett, Carlos Magno
Cover: Leonardo Manco

104 pages, color, squarebound, softcover, 7 x 10, $11.95
ISBN: 10: 1-933076-76-3   13: 978-1933076-76-8

BASED ON TRUE EVENTS…a historic unveiling
This volume contains the entire hard to get best-selling 3 issue mini series!
Not a dream, not a hoax, not a parallel universe!
Two of the most unique investigators of all time try to untangle the same mystery…
one hundred years apart from each other!

The lawless wild west- the hidden world of Victorian London- the present day hell of Hollywood…there…and back again.
Follow Holmes’ trail of a man who was wrongfully-and willingly- imprisoned, to shocking New World Order anarchy, to a beautiful woman who needs Kolchak to delve into the surreal past, to the shunned man who has the key to it all.
…one of the strangest stories never told…

“Gentile's characterization for Carl and Sherlock rings true. Carl's purple-prose laden narration and his underlying cynicism is a tailor fit seersucker suit.
Every word Gentile gives to Holmes reveals intellect and wry wit; the easy banter between Holmes and Watson is a pleasure to read…”-ComicsBulletin.com

“This story needed Holmes and Kolchak. Gentile did not merely paste them into the tale. They must be here. Gentile's characterization for Kolchak is masterful. He exhibits a study of his subject, and the subplot romance between Carl and his client bears the echoes of the original Night Stalker pilot.”-ComicsBulletin.com

In Murciélaga She-Bat #8, hidden secrets of America's foremost Latin heroine will be revealed at last in "A Night in the Life," with story and artwork by Dærick Gröss Sr., featuring guest appearances by Murciélaga's Reiki Warriors partner, Soliloquy Jones, and her oldest enemy, Mister Slimey.

Also in this issue, for the first time in color, Murciélaga finds herself caught up in a conspiracy of mystery involving six mystic rings and the occult criminal organization, DEMON.
Chapter One of "Rings for a Demon" is by Martin Powell, Patrick Oliffe, and Rob Lansley, with color work by Dærick Gröss Sr. himself.

The eight-part "Rings for a Demon" sequence, which originally saw print in the mid-1990s as black-and-white back-up features in various Heroic Publishing titles, will be serialized in color in Murciélaga She-Bat #8-15, and lead directly into issue #16, with a book-length adventure featuring the return of Dærick Gröss's Reiki Warriors.

The goal of this new Murciélaga series is to bring America's foremost Latin heroine to the attention of a new generation of comic book readers. In addition to her classic adventures, the series will present at least two completely new Murciélaga tales written and drawn by Dærick Gröss Sr.

More interior previews can be found via http://www.heroicpub.com/previews.

Heroic Publishing's full-color comic book titles are now distributed exclusively through the new ComicsMonkey distribution service, www.comicsmonkey.com.
Single copy purchases can be made from the Heroic Publishing website at www.heroicpub.com, or from IndyPlanet at www.indyplanet.com.

Zombo: Zombo’s Eleven by Al Ewing & Henry Flint – When Flight 303 carrying government experiment ZOMBO crash landed on the lethal death world of Chronos, the flesh eating ghoul was the only survivor not picked off by the planet. Having joined forces with the eleven Suicide Boys – teens looking for spectacular ways to die – Zombo is on his way to becoming a TV star...

The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael by Rob Williams and Dom Readon -  In the Old West, back in the days of the War Between the States, there lived an outlaw named Ichabod. One day, the folks of the city of Corinth decided he’d caused them one funeral too many – and so Bloody Bill Sterling and his boys were hired. A reckoning was coming for Ichabod – but not in a way he’d have ever expected...

Damnation Station: To the Dark and Empty Skies by Al Ewing and Simon Davis
Welcome to Earth Station One, from where the brave volunteers of the host Auxiliary Legion fight alien incursions into our galaxy! Or so the propaganda goes. But life on ‘Damnation Station’ is rather different. All alone in the terrible emptiness, the volunteers have nothing. Nothing but their code...

“It’s been quite a ride, and I couldn’t have gotten here without the support of the fans and the retailers,” said O’Malley. “It feels great to be in the home stretch, and I think this is going to be the best Scott Pilgrim book ever!”

Nozemack :

“I’m convinced that Scott Pilgrim will go down as one of those series that changed comics forever. When I’m out and see someone wearing a Scott Pilgrim t-shirt or sitting in a cafe reading one of the books, I get so excited about comics entering the mainstream and to know that Oni Press’ books are helping lead the way, it’s an indescribable feeling. I can’t wait to see the reaction to the final volume!”

Invincible is off fighting the Viltrumite War, so who's watching the shop while he's away? Guardians Of The Globe, a new six-issue miniseries coinciding with Invincible: The Viltrumite War, tells Earth's story.
 
In Guardians Of The Globe -- cowritten by superstar Robert Kirkman (Invincible, The Walking Dead, The Astounding Wolf-Man) and Benito Cereno (Invincible Presents: Atom Eve, Invincible Presents: Atom Eve & Rex Splode) and drawn by gifted newcomer Ransom Getty -- heroes both familiar and new struggle to protect Earth in Invincible's absence.
 
"Needless to say, Invincible, Spawn, Rick Grimes, President Obama, and a certain boy wizard aren't Guardians Of The Globe," jokes Robert Kirkman. "The teasers released this week have been all in fun, but next week's teasers will get down to business, revealing who's a Guardian. Invincible's absence due to the Viltrumite War has left people vulnerable, and Guardians Of The Globe will answer the question, 'What's up on Earth?'"
 
Tune in next week to find out who protects Earth while Invincible is away as the Guardians Of The Globe teasers continue!
 
Guardians Of The Globe, a six-issue miniseries written by Robert Kirkman and Benito Cereno and drawn by Ransom Getty, will start its run in August 2010.

Paperfilm, which consists of Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray and Amanda Conner, responded that Conner was dedicated on the book for a year, but could not be on the book longer. Adding a new artist to the team after Conner left wasn't something Palmiotti or Gray wanted to consider. So, they decided it was best to bow out as well and let a completely new creative team take over!

The DCU Source blog made the announcement that the new team consists of writer Judd Winnick and artist Sam Basri and made more than one hint to Justice League Europe (of which Kara was also a member off), Justice League International and the new Winick-written Justice League: Generation Lost.

Or as Winick said himself:

“It is with GREAT fear and excitement that Sami and I leap into this gig. Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, and Amanda Conner have bought an amazing, fresh, and inventive rebirth to this character. Our greatest challenge will be to remain faithful to what they’ve created and also take Power Girl to a new place. As far as the course that the story will take, I’ll be uncharacteristically forthcoming : The story is tied to JUSTICE LEAGUE: GENERATION LOST. Not CHAINED to it, but tied. Power Girl has a history with the JLI that will be explored. A lot.”