Comics Final Order Cutoff – 22nd July 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 ME, Hades, and no one else worth mentioning! Jean Grey, Magick and some other X-Men? The Pet Avengers? Frankenstein’s great-great-great-granddaughter? Pfffft! Almost as irrelevant as five young friends making a short film together, or some team of fictional nobodies trying to save unpublished stories! Step aside chumps, the Lord of the Underworld is here!

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!

DISNEY VILLAINS HADES #1 – The Lord of the Underworld takes centre stage, and as far as he’s concerned, it’s about damn time! Especially as he wasn’t invited to the weekly brunch of the Gods at Mount Olympus! Seeking retribution, the hot-tempered Hades needs the magical Golden Fleece of Colchis as part of his scheme to totally destroy his insufferable peers! Since the Fleece is guarded by a sleepless dragon and soldiers made out of teeth, Hades needs a ragtag group of morally questionable adventurers to help him steal the it. And they need to get it before some dude named Jason and his Argonaut bros swoop in and ruin this perfect plan!

THE CULL #1 (OF 5) – Something is Killing the Children meets The Goonies in this adventure-horror story from Eisner-winning writer Kelly Thompson (Black Cloak) and superstar artist Mattia De Iulis team up for their first creator-owned work together! Five friends enjoying their last summer before they all go their separate ways decide to shoot a short film on a forbidden rock near their home. But one of them has lied about why they’re really there. And that lie will change all of their lives forever…

PLOT HOLES #1 (OF 5) – Superstar artist Sean Gordon Murphy (Batman: White Knight) delivers an all-new tale of world-hopping adventure! The Plot Holes are a squad of fictional warriors who transport themselves into the pages of other books, using their unique skills to save the plots in order to stop them from being destroyed. Their newest recruit is Cliff, a comic creator who’s just realised his world is actually a complete fiction that only exists inside a novel. His fellow members are misfits like him – refugees from unpublished fiction that couldn’t be saved, including a manga samurai, a barbarian tiger, a kid from a comic strip, and a vampire assassin. Outclassed by the others, Cliff sets out to prove his worth to the rest of team as they fight to save as many books as possible.

JEAN GREY #1 (OF 4) – This year’s Hellfire Gala has left Jean’s life in shambles. There’s nothing this founding X-Man can do can save the rest of mutantkind – she has to save herself first. That means delving into her past to find the moment when it all went wrong! Can Jean overcome heartrending revelations and pulse-pounding devastation to save herself and all of Krakoa’s future, or will this desperate attempt end in tragedy? Legendary writer Louise Simonson returns to the X-Men with a story full of fan-favourite moments!

REALM OF X #1 (OF 4) – After the astonishing events of this year’s Hellfire Gala, Magik, Mirage, Marrow, Dust and Typhoid Mary find themselves stranded in…Vanaheim? And the locals seem to believe that this unlikely team hold the key to fulfilling a prophecy that can either raise the realm to riches – or cause it to fall to ruin. There’s a mysterious figure amassing power on the outskirts of the realm – and Magik’s powers are malfunctioning – so it’s up to these mutants to band together to survive and find their way home!

MARVEL UNLEASHED #1 (OF 4) – Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers return, with a few new members! Throg the Frog of Thunder, Redwing the Falcon, Chewie the Cat Flerken, Lucky the Pizza Dog, Bats the Ghost Dog and their scrappy new ally D-Dog must assemble to save Lockjaw from Kraven the Hunter! Can feathers, fangs and claws stand against one of the deadliest foes in the Marvel Universe, especially when something infernal lurks in the shadows…

SHELLEY FRANKENSTEIN BOOK 01 COWPIGGY TP – Shelley is the great-great-great-granddaughter of a pretty famous mad scientist. She loves to be scared, and wants to make creepy creatures to spook all her friends… but all her experiments seem to backfire. The other kids aren’t scared of her creations – they love them and think their adorable!What a disappointment! When Shelley and her little brother/assistant, Iggy, stumble upon a haunted graveyard, she quickly gets an idea for the ultimate monster. Throw in a couple abandoned toy animals, and behold… Cowpiggy! Will this new creation send everyone running in terror, like a proper monster? Or will love and cuteness triumph? Colleen Madden launches a new graphic novel series for young pre-teen readers!

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!