Comics Final Order Cutoff – 20th May 2023 | Proud Lion Comics and Games

This is your weekly reminder that Final Order Cutoff (FOC) orders are due by 10am on Saturday! Send an email over to shop@proudlion.co.uk to add any of these titles to your orders or pull list. This week’s FOC includes a new must-see series from Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici, ghosts, monsters, mute assassins, hijinx with the Bat-family, and the long-awaited return of Battle Chasers!

Some publishers are no longer offering later printings, and some titles sell out on release. Orders placed after FOC rely on extra stock being available, so get your order in today so you don’t miss out!

VOID RIVALS #1 – The blockbuster Oblivion Song team of Robert Kirkman & Lorenzo De Felici return with the launch of AN ALL-NEW SHARED UNIVERSE and a SURPRISE you won’t see coming! War rages around the Sacred Ring, where the last remnants of two worlds have collapsed around a black hole in a never-ending war. When rivals Solila and the pilot Darak crash on a desolate planet, these two enemies must find a way to escape together. But are they alone here? And what dark forces await that threaten the entire universe?

BATTLE CHASERS #10 – JOE MADUREIRA’s beloved fantasy series returns in an action-packed new story, with art by game and comics sensation Ludo Lullabi! “Martial Law” tells the bloody tale of retired swordsman Garrison and the fugitive Red Monika as they face off against Maestro’s gang of supernatural killers – the Martial Paladins! It’s been 22 years since issue #9, but after a successful video game in 2017, the excitement has never faded for this intense arcanepunk story and these beloved characters!

You can catch up on the first nine issues with the Battle Chasers Anthology TP – available in store now!

HAUNT YOU TO THE END #1 – In the near future rife with climate disasters and worldwide instability, an eccentric billionaire and his crew – a disgraced journalist, a radical doctor, a TV demonologist, and a squad of hard-bitten military contractors – set out to prove the existence of life after death. But the truth behind the “most haunted place on earth” may not be a comforting revelation! It’s a ghost story for the end of the world!

KLIK KLIK BOOM #1 (OF 5) – Doug Wagner is back with the story of Sprout – a mute assassin who communicates exclusively through polaroid pictures. Raised by her doomsday-prepping grandfather in the rolling hills of Idaho, Sprout has never been around other people, watched TV, or seen clothes outside of Army fatigues. But now he’s been murdered and she’s headed to the big lights of New York City to avenge him. Will the city’s mesmerizing glitz and glam help her succeed – or be the death of her?

BATMAN WAYNE FAMILY ADVENTURES VOL 01 TP – Wayne Manor is pretty crowded – Batman has his hands full! Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood, Orphan, Spoiler, a few Robins. and now, with new vigilante Duke Thomas, a.k.a. the Signal has joined the family. Collects the first 25 episodes of Webtoon’s Eisner-nominated series full of wacky, heart-warming adventures, optimized for a brand-new reading experience in print.

VIXEN NYC VOL 01 TP – Things are going to get wild in this collection of the first nine episodes of the hit Webtoon, optimized for a print reading experience. Concrete jungle meets actual jungle in this brand-new origin story for Mari Jiwe aka Vixen! Before going off to college in New York City, Mari is gifted an ancestral totem that gives its wearer the powers of the animal kingdom. Arriving in the Big Apple, Mari finds herself in over her head, big time, as both a college freshman and the bearer of new animal abilities beyond her wildest dreams! She’ll have to battle to keep her grades up and fight the dark forces that will stop at nothing to take away her magic totem.

WONDER WOMAN #800 – An extra-special celebration for this landmark 800th issue! From Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad, Tom King Joelle Jones, Todd Nauck, Daniel Sampere, and more!

XINO #1 – A new anthology of subversive, surrealist science-fiction from Oni Press’ brightest talents (past, present, and future)! In this issue, rising stars Melissa Flores (The Dead Lucky, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) & Daniel Irizarri (Judge Dredd) surgically activate the hidden dimensions of the human senses; cult phenoms Christopher Condon (That Texas Blood) and Nick Cagnetti (Pink Lemonade) debut the world’s first intravenous video game system; Underground radicals Jordan Thomas (Weird Work) and Shaky Kane (Bulletproof Coffin) surveil the suburbs for signs of covert infiltration, and master cartoonist and foundational Oni creator Phil Hester (Gotham City: Year One, The Coffin) returns to the fold to leave his deepest mark yet!

INCREDIBLE HULK #1 – An enraged Hulk is trying to take control of Bruce Banner’s body permanently, and a mysterious immortal is turning every monster in the Marvel Universe against Banner in an attempt to free their creator, the primordial Mother of Horrors. The Age of Monsters begins in this terrifying new series from Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Nic Klein!

SKINNER HC – Stranded deep in the remote Canadian wilderness, six internet celebrities and a superstar survivalist are stalked by a mountain man of local legend known as Skinner – who tracks, murders and skins his victims. But there is much more to the Skinner myth than any of them could have imagined – it’s a nightmare-creature that can assume any form!

TALES OF SYZPENSE #1 – A brand-new split book anthology series from Image, initially featuring the lead-off mystery of “Les Mort 13” from Lore co-creators T.P. Louise & Ashley Wood set on a surreal and mysterious island of Southport after a run-in with Eris, the goddess of strife. Then “Dreamweaver,” from Chris Ryall & Nelson Daniel presentsthe story of an aging adventurer with a mystical secret who looks to pass on his abilities to the next generation of hero… until they have much greater success than he did, and he decides he wants those abilities back at any cost…

The second issues of the following titles are also due for final orders this week. If you want them added to your pull list, make sure to let us know now so you don’t miss out!