Here are the BOOM! Studios titles that are solicited in April Previews 2008 and will be in-Store June 2008.

Enjoy!



BLOOD BOWL: KILLER CONTRACT #3 (Cover A)
BLOOD BOWL: KILLER CONTRACT #3 (Cover B)
Written by Matt Forbeck
Drawn by Lads Helloven
Diamond Code (Cover A): APR083652
Diamond Code (Cover B): APR083653
24pgs, FC SRP: $3.99

Welcome to the hyper-violent hilarity of BLOOD BOWL, the miniseries that puts the fantasy (as in elves, dwarves, orcs, and ogres) back into football! As the Bad Bay Hackers face off against the hated Underworld Creepers, they discover a traitor within their midst, a teammate hired to kill their star player! The assassin soon learns a hard lesson that every Blood Bowl veteran knows by heart: Just wanting to kill someone on the pitch doesn't mean you can do it - even if he's on your team!



CTHULHU TALES: THE SERIES #4 (COVER A)
CTHULHU TALES: THE SERIES #4 (COVER B)
Written by Mark Waid & Mark Sable
Drawn by Various
Diamond Code (Cover A): APR083640
Diamond Code (Cover B): APR083641
24pgs, FC SRP: $3.99

52 writer Mark Waid makes his Cthulhu Tales debut with a macabre story that gives retailers and fans a glimpse of the future of BOOM!’s entire horror line! Plus: writer Mark Sable (GROUNDED, FEARLESS) creeps in with his take on the Lovecraft mythos, and the terrors he’s seen will take your breath away!




CTHULHU TALES VOL. 1 TPB
Written by Keith Giffen, Andrew Cosby, John Rogers, Johanna Stokes, Michael Alan Nelson, Casey Grey, Hans Rodinoff, and Brendan Hay
Illustrated by Various
SC, 6x9, 128pgs, FC, SRP: $15.99
ISBN-13: 978-1934506158
Diamond Code: APR083642

Collecting the critically acclaimed trio of one-shots: Cthulhu Tales, Cthulhu Tales: The Rising, and the sold-out Cthulhu Tales: Tainted. Featuring Lovecraftian-laden stories by Keith Giffen, Andrew Cosby, John Rogers, Johanna Stokes, Michael Alan Nelson, Casey Grey, Hans Rodionoff, Brendan Hay, and more. Lovecraft lives again!


DOMINION TPB
Created by Keith Giffen
Written by Michael Alan Nelson
Illustrated by Tim Hamilton
SC, 6x9, 128pgs, FC, SRP: $15.99
ISBN-13: 978-1934506424
Diamond Code: APR083655

From the creator of 52 and ANNIHILATION, Keith Giffen! An alien microbe, traveling through space, arrives on Earth and discovers humanity. As it enters an array of innocent human bodies, it remakes them into something new, something powerful…but, most ominously, something wanting its own homeland -- its own dominion. This trade paperback collects the critically acclaimed mini-series showing the battle between ordinary humans and this new, alien invader that takes over mortal bodies and infuses them with untold power!



FALL OF CTHULHU #14 (COVER A)
FALL OF CTHULHU #14 (COVER B)
Written by Michael Alan Nelson
Illustrated by Mateus Santolouco
24pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99
Diamond Code (Cover A): APR083643
Diamond Code (Cover B): APR083644

The final showdown between the Gray Man and Lucifer over the fate of mankind and the otherworldly conflict that could consume us all! What horrible price has the Sheriff paid to tip the balance in our favor? Will it be enough to save humanity? The answers are here—but the ongoing adventures of the FALL OF CTHULHU cast will continue next month in FALL OF CTHULHU: GODWAR!

Bonus: Text stories from FALL OF CTHULHU fiction contest winners, the Roncoli Brothers!


FALL OF CTHULHU VOL. 2: THE GATHERING TPB
Written by Michael Alan Nelson
Illustrated by Various
SC, 6x9, 128pgs, FC, SRP: $14.99
ISBN13: 9781934506493
Diamond Code: APR083645

A war is brewing as the Dreamlands is in upheaval and Mister Arkham plots his strategy on Earth. With only mankind standing in the way of a godwar, players and pawns move into place, choose new allegiances, and struggle with their role in Mister Arkham’s plans for universal domination. Who will survive? Secrets are revealed as the next chapter in the war of Lovecraftian gods continues! Collecting issues 6-10 of the critically acclaimed ongoing series!


HIGH ROLLERS #1
Written by Gary Phillips
Drawn by Sergio Martín Carrera
Covers by Brett Weldele
24pgs, FC SRP: $3.99
Diamond Code: APR083634
Scarface has nothing on Cameron Quinn, a ruthless upstart out to make a name for himself in this tale of crime and destiny from critically acclaimed mystery novelist Gary Phillips (HIGH HAND, BANGERS)! Phillips shines a harsh light on the action and drama of the L.A. underworld with this inner-city spin on THE SOPRANOS! A potent mix of AMERICAN GANGSTER and THE WIRE, for fans of Brubaker's CRIMINAL!


NORTH WIND TPB
Written by Dave DiGilio
Illustrated by Alex Cal
SC, 6x9, 128pgs, FC, SRP: $15.99
ISBN-13: 978-1934506448
Diamond Code: APR083656

As seen on MySpace Comic Books! Written by David DiGilio, best known for the movie EIGHT BELOW and TV's TRAVELER, the NORTH WIND TPB collects the five-issue mini-series set in a future Los Angeles. A new ice age has covered the Earth. In this dystopian future, people burn books for fuel and Skinrunners trade valuable pelts for rations and warmth. From this violent, damaged world, a hero will rise! For fans of MAD MAX ,THE ROAD WARRIOR and Antony Johnston's WASTELAND.


SALEM: QUEEN OF THORNS #2
Written by Chris Morgan and Kevin Walsh
Illustrated by Wilfredo Torres
24pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99
Diamond Code: APR083636

The controversial series continues! The Queen of Thorns has set her sights on Hooke and his accomplices and will not rest until he is captured—and forced to face the truth about who and what he is! A new hero in the tradition of Robert E. Howard's SOLOMON KANE and Clint Eastwood's The Man with No Name, from the screenwriter of WANTED and THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT!


SCREAM QUEEN #2
Written by Brendan Hayes
Illustrated by Nate Watson
24pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99
Diamond Code: APR083637

BOOM!’s first horror-romance continues! The Terror of Rumson continues to stalk high-schooler Molly, intent on making her dreams come true—and eager to use a chain saw to do it! THE DAILY SHOW staff writer Brendan Hay continues to bring a FRIDAY THE 13TH-meets-AMERICAN PIE sensibility to his horror series debut!


STATION #1
Written by Johanna Stokes
Illustrated by Leno Jefferson
24pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99
Diamond Code: APR083635

Two hundred and twenty miles doesn’t seem that far…unless you’re looking down. Five nations have sent their finest astronauts to operate Earth’s first multinational space station…but now one of them is dead. Is it sabotage…an accident…or murder? A thriller in the vein of WHITEOUT, from the writer of the EUREKA TV episodes “Right as Raynes” and “Purple Haze."



WARHAMMER 40,000: EXTERMINATUS #1 (COVER A)
WARHAMMER 40,000: EXTERMINATUS #1 (COVER B)
Written by Ian Edginton and Dan Abnett
Drawn by Daniel Lapham
24pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99
Diamond Code (Cover A): APR083649
Diamond Code (Cover B): APR083650

In this series, we focus on the Inquisitors of Warhammer 40,000. The most insidious and dangerous threat in the 41st Millennium is the one you cannot see. It is this thought that spawned the Inquisition, an organization devoted to rooting out traitors, heretics, mutants and aliens that undermine Humanity. They scour the Imperium searching for threats without, and within.

Immediately following the events of WARHAMMER 40,000: DAMNATION CRUSADE, Inquisitor Delius Alastor is dispatched to investigate why a pair of dormant Titans has gone undetected beneath the city of Carrion Gulf?

After a mission that saw his retinue slaughtered and left him terribly scarred at the hands of a Thousand Sons Chaos Space Marine, Alastor is stricken with nightmares - but knows he cannot yield to the fear. The eyes of the Inquisition are on him, curious as to how deep his wounds truly go. Is Alastor capable of meeting what lurks beneath Carrion Gulf?

Warhammer 40,000 novelist Dan Abnett, multiple Eisner Award-nominee Ian Edginton, and rising star artist Chad Hardin bring you another tale of savage Warhammer 40,000 action.



ZOMBIE TALES: THE SERIES #3 (COVER A)
ZOMBIE TALES: THE SERIES #3 (COVER B)
Written by Joe R. Lansdale, Karl Kesel
Drawn by Eduardo Barreto, Jon Reed
24pgs, FC SRP: $3.99
Diamond Code (Cover A): APR083638
Diamond Code (Cover B): APR083638

Experience the fatal finale of Joe R. Lansdale’s zombie-battlefield epic, “THE WAR AT HOME”! Plus, what’s hungrier after the apocalypse than a zombie? Writer Karl Kesel (FANTASTIC FOUR) is more than happy to show you…at your own risk. ZOMBIE TALES—bringing out your undead every month!