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Gone Amazon Fishing – DC Mad Libs, Neil Gaiman, Walking Dead And Jim Henson

It wasn't that long since we did a spot of Amazon fishing. But there's always plenty of fish in the sea…

DC gets a DC Comics Super Hero Mad Libs, published by Price Stern Sloan.

DC Comics Superhero Mad Libs features 21 original stories based on everyone's favorite DC superheroes–Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and many more! This book includes 21 stories for only $3.99.

Batman: Blink looks to be an expanded edition of a story originally reprinted in a one-shot in 2011 with Legends Of The Dark Knight #156-158 and Action Comics #847)

Batman: Dark Night, Dark City

In this epic tale written by Peter Milligan (RED LANTERNS, JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK, SKREEMER), Batman is led through a labyrinthine urban maze by his old nemesis the Riddler, who seems to have changed into an abominable monster with one purpose: to drive Batman insane. In his quest, the Riddler is working with an occultist who has summoned a demon to stop Batman—but in the process, the Riddler himself is slowly changing into a nightmarish beast!

Collects BATMAN #452-454 and DETECTIVE COMICS #629-633.

There's Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti's Hansel & Gretel of which Neil says,

I had been fascinated by "Hansel and Gretel" since I was 5, hearing the story on a radio adaptation. And I remember getting really irritated in my 20s, around the time when those books on psychological interpretations of fairy tales started coming out. I would read these things explaining that "Hansel and Gretel" was all about sex. From my perspective, it's about a famine that is bad enough that the parents are basically having to go, "O.K., we can abandon our children, and we parents have a chance of living, or we all four die because there is no food." It's about leaving clues that are then eaten. It's about a gingerbread house, the desire for sweets.

Savage Dragon Ultimate Collection Volume 1 gets a new collection format for the series,

Sixteen years ago, Image Comics Founder Erik Larsen began his long-running, creator-owned superhero saga. Now readers new and old can experience it from the very beginning in this series of deluxe, oversized, ultimate collection hardcovers! The Savage Dragon Ultimate Collection Volume 1 contains the entire mini-series introducing the world's first superpowered police officer, The Dragon #1-5, and the very first arc of his ongoing series, Savage Dragon #1-7.

In case you had thought this one was long and gone, the repeatedly cancelled, now lined up for January 2015… The Walking Dead Cutting-Room Floor hardcover.

NEVER BEFORE SEEN WALKING DEAD PLOTS! For the first time ever: an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look at Robert Kirkman's original, hand-written plot lines for the early issues of the Eisner-award winning series, The Walking Dead! See what plot lines were left on the cutting-room floor and get an in-depth look at how the series came together. This collection includes commentaries on Kirkman's original plots with never-before-seen material. This is The Walking Dead collector's item of the year!

DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke gets a trade paperback.

Superman: Earth One Vol. 3 is out in February.

After defeating villains terrestrial and beyond, Superman faces a threat that he can't simply outmuscle. A threat smarter, more cunning and deadly than he can imagine: the Luthors!

JMS says

It closes up the story of the first two where we introduced Lex Luthor and his wife Alexandra. We take the threads in the first book and pay them all off now. We know that someone in book one arranged for a hit on Krypton. It didn't just blow up, someone killed that planet. In issue three we're going to find out who that person is, what happened, and why. If you are a Shakespeare fan look up Tyrell who was the main bad guy in Superman Earth One Volume 1. You'll find that's the guy that worked for Richard III to go off to kill the young princes. That raises the question- who is Richard III in our story? Who is that guy?

In this new, value-priced collection of tales from the early 1970s, Batman returns his roots as the Dark Knight Detective, operating on his own in the shadows of Gotham City. With Robin away in college, Batman faces new foes and old including Two-Face, Man-Bat and Ra's al Ghul. This collection features stories by the renowned GREEN LANTERN/GREEN ARROW team of writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Neal Adams, who brought a new sense of purpose to comics' greatest detective.

Collects BATMAN #229-244 and stories from DETECTIVE COMICS #408-426.

A second Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender: The Complete Collection Volume 2

There are new HC editions for Marvel Masterworks: Fantastic Four, Incredible Hulk, Mighty Thor, Amazing Spider-Man and for Not Brand Echh vol. 1, separate from the Masterworks Library boxset.

Hawkeye Volume 4: Rio Bravo  collects, and get ready for this, issues 17, 12-13, 15, 19, 21-22. How's your math?

And adapting Jim Henson's unused TV special screenplay, from Roger Langridge we get Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow.

In the spring of 1968, Jim Henson and his longtime writing partner were working together to create an original Thanksgiving TV special called The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow, which was to be directed by Jim and feature original songs by Joe Raposo of Sesame Street fame. Henson went as far as building the puppets for the special, but no network committed to the project and the script was filed away in the Jim Henson Company Archives. After the success of Archaia's Eisner Award-winning graphic novel Jim Henson's Tale of Sand, we are proud to partner with the Jim Henson Company to bring to life another previously unknown piece of the Jim Henson Legacy. The only thing more exciting than finding the script for the project was securing the talents of the amazing Roger Langridge (writer and illustrator of the Eisner Award-winning Snarked) to adapt and illustrate the project! Eisner and Harvey-Award winner Roger Langridge is the mastermind behind Snarked and the beloved run of The Muppet Show comics, and now he gets to bring to life hilarious, never-before-seen puppet creations by Jim Henson in an oversized all-ages adventure. Turkey Hollow is a picturesque town where hundreds of years ago, unbeknownst to the citizens, a meteorite landed nearby a small brook on the outskirts of town. One Thanksgiving, while young Timmy Henderson practices his guitar, he's accompanied by strange, unearthly, musical sounds. That meteorite wasn't a rock at all but an egg holding seven furry, goofy monsters, each with a unique musical sound. After the initial shock, Timmy befriends the lovable creatures following him all around Turkey Hollow. Not everyone takes a liking to the visitors though and it's up to Timmy to protect his new friends and save Thanksgiving!

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