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Written by PLAYBACK:stl Tuesday, 20 July 2010 00:00

This week in Image comics: peace and tranquility are shattered in The Walking Dead #75, the latest landmark issue in Robert Kirkman's long-running survival horror series (soon to be a TV series on AMC). Plus, Maddie sends the team against an alien menace in Dynamo 5: Sins of the Father #2, plus previews of Ted McKeever's Meta 4 #2, Shadowhawk #3, and the final issues of Fade to Black and Red Mass for Mars.

 

DYNAMO 5: SINS OF THE FATHER #2 (of 5)

story JAY FAERBER

art JULIO BRILHA

cover MAHMUD A. ASRAR & RON RILEY

incentive cover MARCIO TAKARA & RON RILEY

32 PAGES / FC

$3.99

GUEST-STARRING INVINCIBLE!

Maddie sends Dynamo 5 up against an alien menace with a serious grudge against Captain Dynamo. But is she sending them on a suicide mission? Not if a certain special guest-star has anything to say about it.

Plus, the exclusive back-up series, NOTORIOUS, continues!

 

 

 

 

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FADE TO BLACK #5 (of 5)

story JEFF MARIOTTE

art & cover DANIELE SERRA

32 PAGES / FC

$3.50

Against all odds, the cannibal cultists succeed in their destructive plan! It's too late for the surviving actors to turn things around. All that remains for them is life or (more likely) grisly death. The choice might be out of their hands as Fade to Black thunders toward its terrifying and explosive conclusion...

 

 

 

 

 

 

META 4 #2 (of 5)

story & art TED McKEEVER

cover TED MCKEEVER & DANA MORESHEAD

32 PAGES / BW

$3.50

By turns beautiful and ugly, funny and horrifying, the composed, if not peculiar, daily lives of the amnesiac "astronaut" and the heavily muscled woman Gasolina begin to unravel as the riddle of his disturbing physical scars and her oddly disjointed thoughts become a shared preoccupation of "patterns."

RETAILER WARNING: MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RED MASS FOR MARS #4 (of 4)

story JONATHAN HICKMAN

art & cover RYAN BODENHEIM

32 PAGES / FC

$3.50

"FRATERNITY"

The smashing conclusion to the tale of Mars as the fate of the world hangs in the balance and the one person who could save the Earth must make his decision.

  

  

  

  

  

  

SHADOWHAWK #3

story DAN WICKLINE

art TONE RODRIGUEZ

cover WHILCE PORTACIO

variant cover TONE RODRIGUEZ

32 PAGES / FC

$3.50

"RESURRECTION," Part Three

Paul Johnstone discovers the only clue to the identity of the masked maniac, but how does it tie to a magician from a decade-old television show? As he and Captain Nieves work to piece the puzzle together, a third vicious massacre is about to take place...how many more innocent deaths will it take to push ShadowHawk to his breaking point?

THE RETURN OF IMAGE COMICS' FIRST VIGILANTE CONTINUES!

RETAILER WARNING: MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE WALKING DEAD #75

story ROBERT KIRKMAN

art & cover CHARLIE ADLARD, CLIFF RATHBURN & RYAN OTTLEY

retailer appreciation variant CHARLIE ADLARD & CLIFF RATHBURN

40 PAGES / BW

$3.99

Lines are crossed, rules are broken and the peace and tranquility of the community is shattered. After months of safety and security, are Rick and the crew even prepared for what they now face? As an added bonus: a very special back-up story drawn by RYAN OTTLEY in FULL COLOR-a first for THE WALKING DEAD! This issue is not to be missed!

RETAILER WARNING: MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES