Rounding out our selection of new Subscriptions for December, we’ve got Kelly Sue DeConnick‘s women-in-prison sci-fi exploitation Bitch Planet, Captain Kirk facing off against the Planet Of The Apes in Star Trek / Planet Of The Apes: Primate Directive and our personal favourite, Hellboy And The BPRD, which sees Red‘s first mission with the BPRD in Brazil!
More info on each title below…
DARK HORSE COMICS, First Issue: 30/12/14
Mike Mignola’s Hellboy is celebrating twenty years of publication, and Dark Horse Comics caps off the year with Hellboy and the BPRD, a new mini-series that teams Mignola and Alex Maleev and reveals the story behind Hellboy’s first mission for the BPRD!
A series of mysterious murders in a Brazilian village catches the attention of Professor Trevor Bruttenholm and prompts him to dispatch the BPRD team — as well as his adopted son, Hellboy — to investigate. There, Hellboy will gain his first experience in field work, uncover sinister secrets in the shadow of a 16th-century fortress from the Age of Colonization, and begin the path toward becoming the World’s Greatest Paranormal Detective!
Mignola and cowriter John Arcudi are joined by Alex Maleev for a dark, moody, and essential chapter in the Hellboy mythos — Hellboy and the BPRD!
Preview Hellboy And The BPRD #1 at AV Club.
2014 Best Writer Eisner Award nominee Kelly Sue DeConnick (Pretty Deadly, Captain Marvel) and Valentine De Landro (X-Factor) team up for the very third time to bring you Bitch Planet, their highly-anticipated women-in-prison sci-fi exploitation riff. Think Margaret Atwood meets Inglourious Basterds.
Kelly Sue DeConnick: “The book follows five women prisoners as they go from Earth to a prison planet populated by those labelled Criminally Non-Compliant — too difficult, too dangerous not just for society but for our world. There, they not only have to figure out how to survive lockup and each other but also compete in gladiatorial sport for their lives.
It’s not for children or the squeamish, but other than that…? Angry and difficult women and people who are fans of angry and difficult women.
Visually, tonally… everything-ally, is completely different from either Captain Marvel or Pretty Deadly.” (PreviewsWorld)
IDW Publishing, First Issue: 31/12/14
It’s the crossover nobody ever expected! Star Trek: The hope for the best of mankind’s future! Planet Of The Apes: A chilling look at the fall of humanity! How could these worlds possibly collide? What could possibly cause Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise to side with Dr. Zaius to protect Ape City? And what does Colonel George Taylor have to say about it? It’s a madhouse! A madhouse!!
Scott Tipton: “When we were asked if we had an idea for a Star Trek/Planet of the Apes crossover, we jumped at the chance. Both of those properties at their inception are so uniquely rooted in the tenor of the times in which they were created, we thought they’d fit together perfectly if given the right narrative framework, and were extremely pleased to discover it worked out better than we could have imagined. Star Trek’s optimism and Planet Of The Apes’ nihilism counter each other perfectly.”
David Tipton: “The original Star Trek and Planet of the Apes were both very much products of the late 1960s, and I think you’ll see in the story many of the key themes of both, set alongside each other. As far as the creative process goes, we worked closely with IDW, BOOM! Studios, CBS, and FOX to make sure we had a vision that worked for everyone.”
Scott Tipton: “Captain Kirk versus Colonel Taylor. Shatner versus Heston. Epic. Stay tuned.”
David Tipton: “Lots of apes.” (PreviewsWorld)