September Previews 2019 – Indies Spotlight Books


Blade Runner 2019 #1 (Sdcc 2019 Variant) Cover
– Titan
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San Diego Comic Con 2019 Variant Cover: Virgin Art by Stanley ‘Artgerm’ Lau!

Return to the world of Blade Runner in all-new ongoing comic series from Michael Green (screenwriter for Blade Runner 2049) and Mike Johnson (Star Trek), illustrated by Andres Guinaldo (Justice League Dark, Captain America)!

Great cover. For those that couldn’t make it to SDCC, now you can grab a copy for yourself for this book.


Folklords #1 (of 5) (Cover A – Smith)
– BOOM!
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From Narnia to Harry Potter, we’ve seen our hero leave the real world for a fantasy world-but in Ansel’s world of monsters and magic he’s haunted by visions of our world with tailored suits and modern technology!

Folklords #1 (of 5) (Cover B - Fegredo)Ansel embarks on his Quest to find the mysterious Folklords, hoping they can explain his visions…but looking for the Folklords is punishable by death. What will Ansel risk to find out about the world he has never truly belonged in?

Eisner Award-nominated writer Matt Kindt (Grass Kings, Black Badge) teams with acclaimed artist Matt Smith (Hellboy And The B.P.R.D.) challenge everything you know about the line between fantasy and reality in a new series for fans of Die, Middlewest and Fables.

Matt Kindt is a great writer. With a lot of fantasy books heating up lately, this book should not be overlooked in my opinion.


Heist How to Steal a Planet #1 Cover A
– Vault Comics
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Welcome to planet Heist! It’s the cutthroat capital of the entire Nehring System, home to billions of the worst men and women in the galaxy.

Heist How to Steal a Planet #1 (Cover B - Hernandez Homage)The Pan-Galactic government has no idea what to do with the planet, but conman Glane Breld and his band of thieves know exactly what to do with Heist-they’re going to steal it.

It’s Ocean’s Eleven in space, brought to you by writer Paul Tobin (Colder and Bandette) and Arjuna Susini (The Replacer)-the only minds crazy enough to steal an entire world.

I like a good sci fi space read. Vault is hit or miss though but this one has my interest for a definite check out.


Black Stars Above #1 (Cover A – Cha)
– Vault Comics
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A young fur trapper flees her overbearing family only to get lost in a dreamlike winter wilderness that harbours a cosmic threat.

Black Stars Above #1 (Cover B - Miller Homage)The year is 1887 and a storm brews. Eulalie Dubois has spent her entire life tending to her family’s trapline, isolated from the world. A chance at freedom comes in the form of a parcel that needs delivering to a nameless town north of the wilderness.

Little does Eulalie know, something sinister hides in those woods and it yearns for what she carries.

A chilling historical cosmic horror tale of survival from the deranged minds of Lonnie Nadler (The Dregs, Marvelous X-Men) and debut artist Jenna Cha.

Looking forward to this book. I almost got that vibe of Manifest Destiny, just has a different goal other than to just explore but this time it’s a cosmic threat in the unknown woods.


Niobe She Is Death #1 (Cover A – Nam)
– Stranger Comics
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With a world divided, who do you turn to? In the sequel to Niobe: She is Life, a bounty has been put on the young savior’s head. When bad men come to collect, innocent girls are caught in the crossfire, and Niobe must go on the offensive.

Niobe She Is Death #1 (Cover B - Lee)This series saw some heat originally and then with the HBO media news, sent this into demand briefly again.

Now it’s back with a new story. She is life is now she is death. It’ll be interesting to see how the story unfolds.

There’s also a pretty sweet looking cover B by Jae Lee. You can also pre-order the virgin variant of this one as well.


Last Stop #1
– Scout Comics
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The newest entry in the new NONSTOP! Imprint where Scout releases a World Premiere issue followed by the entire story a few months later in one volume.

Time is ticking for the World’s last superhero. Disillusioned, Lincoln Adams (AKA Unstoppable) must make peace with the changing world around him-can there truly be a place for him in a world without Supers? After learning of his terminal disease, Lincoln sees an easy way out; however, the re-emergence of an old Arch-Nemesis, and a new shadowy masked figure, turn Lincoln’s plans of an easy passing on their head.

Can Lincoln stop this new threat before the disease stops him?

These try before you buy and read is interesting. I like the idea. Buy the first issue, if you like, we just release the entire first arc or story in trade form. I think this works pretty well for the small publishers where if a book out of a series does heat up, it’s usually just the first issue anyways. So they still give you the collectible option of the first floppy issue and then the rest is just in reading format. Because you know, we’re still suppose to read these things, not just buy to flip and collect, right?


Machine Girl #1 Cover A
– Red 5 Comics
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In a galaxy far, far away… There is a planet full of exotic interplanetary people. All of them living together in a dangerous multicultural world. And right there in the middle there is Megan!

A young human girl fighting her way up on the deadly arena of the Intergalactic Mixed Battling Arts as she searches for her origins and other beings like her while she is obsessed with a mysterious, long forgotten planet: Earth.

Pretty girl on cover. Check. Planet full of exotic people. Check. I’m sure some are going to pick this up just because of those two things in the solicitation.

There’s also a 1:10 Variant but no cover art released as of yet.


Wretches #1
– Scout Comics
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Alone on the tough streets of an alien city, far from the lifeless planet they once called home, siblings Shea and Sean spent their youth struggling to survive.

Still suffering emotionally from the loss of everything they’d ever known and loved, Shea and Sean have nothing else in the universe but each other. Forever outrunning the horrors of their past, they survive the only way they know how- by hunting and killing sentient robots for profit!

Now, when the rough path that they had no chance to follow finally catches up to them, will they be able to keep each other safe or will they lose the only important thing they have left, each other?

People hunting and killing sentient robots? Sign me up, this could be fun.


Rai #1 (Cover A – Ryp)
– Valiant
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Welcome to the 41st century: New worlds, new characters, new adventures.

Valiant’s critically celebrated cyborg ronin named Rai embarks on a thrilling quest to save the future.

Multiple New York Times bestselling and award-winning writer Dan Abnett (Guardians of the Galaxy) joins forces with breathtaking artist Juan José Ryp (X-O MANOWAR) to begin the essential sci-fi series of the next two thousand years!

We need a good Rai series again. I was an original reader back in the early 90s of this character but they haven’t done much with him since. Hoping this new volume changes that.

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2 thoughts on “September Previews 2019 – Indies Spotlight Books”

  1. Hey, nice stuff here. Breathers sounds really interesting to me. Finally, a post-apocalyptic world without zombies.

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