Comics Final Order Cutoff – 4th March 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 samurai rabbits, ninja turtles, intelligent apes, strange heroes, robotic boys, masked murderers, and more!

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!

PLANET OF THE APES #1 – A new era of apes kicks off at Marvel! The ALZ-113 virus has decimated humanity. Well-meaning researchers are hunting for a cure, but a group of fanatical have their own solution: Kill all apes. Peacekeeper Juliana Tobon stands against them, but in face of this rampant crisis the apes will soon witness the true depths of human cruelty. Eisner-winning writer David F. Walker (Luke Cage, Bitter Root) joins forces with artist Dave Wachter (Iron Fist: Heart of the Dragon, Star Wars: The High Republic – Trail of Shadows) to bring Planet Of The Apes back to Marvel in spectacular style!

UNSTOPPABLE DOOM PATROL #1 (OF 6) – The world’s strangest heroes are back! Robotman, Elasti-Woman, and Negative Man are joined by their brand-new teammates Beast Girl and Degenerate – now led by Crazy Jane’s mysterious new alter, the Chief, on a mission of saving the world by saving the monsters!

TMNT USAGI YOJIMBO WHEREWHEN #1 – Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai presents a cross-time caper as theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pursue the evil cyborg genius Dr. WhereWhen through a time portal… and emerge in feudal Japan! The mad Doctor arrived decades before and has carved himself a fiefdom using clockwork samurai robots. Now the TMNT have to team-up with Usagi Yojimbo to stop these evil machinations!

AMBASSADORS #1 (OF 6) – Imagine you could gift superpowers to six people. In a world of eight billion, who do you choose? Join six of the greatest artists in the comic book industry for an enormous story about ordinary people from around the world explaining why it should be them. Hailed by creator Mark Millar as the most ambitious comic book of all time! This first story features artwork by superstar FRANK QUITELY!

GRIMM SPACE P1 NOCHHIO #1 – A science-fiction reimagining of classic fairy tales begins with P1-Nocchio!Rescued, repaired and upgraded by a tinkerer named Petto, P1-Nocchio is so grateful that he dreamed of one day becoming a real boy to give Petto the son he always wanted. Sadly, the wide-eyed robot would soon learn that wishes made upon a star don’t come true so easily.

ASTRONEER COUNTDOWN GN – An all-new, all-ages adventure set in the universe of the hugely successful Astroneer videogame! When bored Astroneer Seven plucks a mysterious crystal from the planet Boreas, he is catapulted across time and space! The very fabric of the planet starts to unravel, threatening to start a chain reaction that could destroy the entire universe! Now, Seven and his ragtag crew of Astroneers must get the crystal back to Boreas before it’s too late! Each graphic novel comes with a unique, exclusive cosmetic game code!

FANN CLUB BATMAN SQUAD THE JUSTIEST JUSTICE OF ALL TP – Ernest Fann is the world’s biggest Batman… FAN! And it’s up to Ernest to recruit the finest crime-fighters on Earth! Together with his babysitter, Harriet, his best friend, Jack, and his faithful fido, Ernest is ready to teach his recruits all about secret identities, the best ways to lurk, and how to stop crime… maybe? Join New York Times bestselling writer-illustrator Jim Benton (Catwad, Franny K. Stein) for the laugh-out-loud all-ages adventure of a lifetime!

DON’T SPIT IN THE WIND #1 (OF 4) – One man’s trash is another man’s living. Long ago, humanity escaped the now inhospitable Earth to live in a space station floating above the atmosphere. Today, Travis and his crew of garbage men are tasked with cleaning up mountains of toxic waste, working for a company called Atomic Bros Inc., to create a ‘Clear World’. Now, one of Travis’ crew members has gone missing near an old nuclear facility. Travis’ job has just become waymore complicated…

NASTY #1 – It’s Scotland in the Nineties and 18-year-old Thumper Connell still has an imaginary friend: the masked killer from his favourite slasher film. He fills his time with scary video rentals and hanging out with his fellow fans, The Murder Club. But everything changes when his local video store acquires one of the notorious films known as “video nasties” – films so scary, they’re the target of the British Moral Decency League’s crusade to ban and burn. But it’s only a movie, right? Isn’t it all just imaginary?

INDIGO CHILDREN #1 – 15 years ago, the extraordinarily gifted INDIGO CHILDREN vanished. Now journalist Donovan Price is determined to hunt them down in this action-packed sci-fi/mystery epic – think Radiant Black meets The Department Of Truth!

MARVEL’S VOICES SPIDER-VERSE #1 – A new one-shot featuring new spiders from across the Marvel Multiverse in an all-new selection of interdimensional adventures from some of Marvel’s freshest and finest creators – each bringing their own unique perspectives and stylings to the Web of Life and Destiny!

FRANK FRAZETTA TALES OF SCIENCE FANTASY #1 – A new quarterly anthology series, each issue focusing on another masterpiece by the godfather of fantasy art, Frank Frazetta. This first story is inspired by the painting “Alien Crucifixtion,” as New York Times bestselling author Denton J. Tipton and exciting Spanish newcomer Miguel Ángel Ruiz chronicle the final days of a brutal planetary dictator pursued by enemies and allies alike.

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!