CELEBRATE PRIDE 2021

Pride is always a momentous time of year to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. To bring people together and support those we love, whilst we continue the fight for inclusion and representation. We recognise that being represented in the media that you love is a really important step for the community, so we’d like to introduce you to some awesome titles with characters and creators that support the LGBTQ+ cause.

Life Is Strange: Coming Home #2 (Pride Variant)

Celebrate Pride Month in style with this brand-new limited edition cover

New arc featuring backup strips with the first comic appearance of Alex Chen - lead character from the NEW GAME - LIFE IS STRANGE: TRUE COLOURS! Max’s attempt to return home enters a thrilling new phase! A shocking discovery offers unexpected hope, and the epic cross-country trip with Chloe and Rachel reveals a new ally. Life is Strange Remastered Edition of original game series is also set to be released Fall 2021!

On sale 4 August 2021 – Pre-order this cover from your local comic store (ORDER CODE: MAY218296) and in the UK/Europe from Forbidden Planet

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Life is Strange Vols 1-4:

Life is Strange Vol 1 – Dust

A graphic novel set in the world of the award-winning smash hit video game, Life is Strange! One year after their home was destroyed, the story continues for beloved heroines and lovers Max and Chloe, as they face fate and twist timelines in the emotional reunion fans never thought they’d see!

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Life is Strange Vol 2 – Waves

Beloved heroines Max and Chloe return! Three years after the events of Life Is Strange: Dust, Max Caulfield has been left stranded on the shores of an unfamiliar reality. Her new world seems too good to be true: Rachel, a girl who suffered a terrible fate in Max’s timeline, is alive and well, and in a relationship with this worlds Chloe. But as echoes of other timelines ripple through past and future, a mysterious boy named Tristan reveals the harsh reality behind Max’s blissful new world…

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Life is Strange Vol 3 – Strings

What lies in store for Max, Chloe, and Rachel in the third arc of this time-twisting video game tie-in? Max continues to search for ways to get back to her timeline where her own beloved Chloe waits for her. Could Tristan be the answer to her prayers?

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Life is Strange: Partners in Time - Tracks Vol 4

Time-rewinding photographer Max has spent the last couple of years in a reality parallel to her own. Lately, she realised she was running from her responsibilities… and from the Chloe she left. Now… there may be a way for her to get home. With the universe against her, it’s time for the coast-to-coast road trip of multiple lifetimes to find it - following the band The High Seas towards an uncertain destiny!

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Minky Woodcock: The Girl That Handcuffed Houdini Vol 1:

Unappreciated at her father’s detective agency, the fabulous, rabbit and lady-loving Minky Woodcock straps on her gumshoes in order to uncover a magical mystery involving the world-famous escape artist, Harry Houdini. Created by acclaimed artist, author, director, and playwright Cynthia Von Buhler (Speakeasy Dollhouse, Evelyn Evelyn, Emily and the Strangers)!

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Minky Woodcock: The Girl That Electrified Tesla Vol 2:

A stylish, glamorous feminist take on the classic gumshoe! Private investigator Minky Woodcock becomes involved in an investigation of maverick genius and reclusive pigeon-fancier, Nikola Tesla, and discovers a horrifying conspiracy involving corrupt politicians and Nazis.

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**Spandex: **

Prowler, Liberty, Glitter, Indigo, Butch, Mr Muscles, Diva all superpowered, all British, and the first all gay super-hero team there ever was!

Created by independent creator Martin Eden, Spandex charts the highs and lows of a group of Brighton-based heroes, doing battle with 50-foot lesbians, a group of deadly pink ninjas, as well as their own complicated love lives! A super-hero book like no other!

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The O Men:

From Martin Eden, the creator of Spandex… Doctor O gathers a new superteam to fight his nemesis, Anathema. But can they stop Anathema before she takes her revenge on their friends and family - and finally, on themselves?

Comixology/Kindle

Blade Runner 2019 and 2029:

Blade Runner 2019 Vols 1-3

Blade Runner 2019 Vol 1 –

The first original comic series set in the iconic neo-noir world of Blade Runner! Detective Ash is a veteran Blade Runner (and Replicant-curious) set on the trail of a kidnapped child in the streets of Los Angeles, 2019 – but as the bodies mount and Replicants crawl from the shadows, Ash’s own secrets come under fire! From writer Michael Green (screenwriter for Blade Runner 2049) and Mike Johnson (Star Trek), and illustrated by Andres Guinaldo (Justice League Dark, Captain America)!

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Blade Runner 2019 Vol 2: Off World –

In 2019, the Blade Runner Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina rescued Cleo Selwyn, daughter of business tycoon Alexander Selwyn, from a plot to give the to the Tyrell Corporation for genetic experimentation. Ash and Cleo left Los Angeles and disappeared.

Now, seven years later, Ash and Cleo have resurfaced on one of the Off-world mining colonies, living under assumed identities. But Cleo’s father has never stopped looking for his daughter, sending out dozens of bounty hunters and search parties to find them and bring them home. Now, following a bloody replicant revolt, Ash and Cleo have become separated and a ruthless new Blade Runner called Hythe has Ash in her sights.

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Blade Runner 2019 Vol 3: Home Again, Home Again –

The sins of the father are coming home. Ex-Blade Runner Ash and rain-soaked her charge, Cleo, have returned from the Off-World colonies to the dystopic future of Los Angeles, for a confrontation that will expose shocking secrets and reveal a terrifying conspiracy that could bring down an empire.

**Blade Runner 2029 Vol 1 – Reunion: **

Continuing Ash’s story - it is 2029 and Blade Runner Ash continues to hunt the streets of the rain-soaked dystopian world of Los Angeles for renegade Replicants, but this time she’s trying to protect as many as she can find…

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**Blade Runner Origins: Vol 1 **

Set ten years before the events of the first Blade Runner film, this is the world on the cusp of environmental collapse, and the beginning of the mass Off-world migration to the Off-world colonies. Through its rain-soaked streets, LAPD Detective CAL MOREAU, a PTSD sufferer, must travel as he attempts to unravel the truth behind a seemingly routine suicide that soon reveals itself to be just the thin end of a vast conspiracy, one that runs to the very top of the Tyrell Corporation tower.

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