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A1 has been a laboratory for creators to experiment and innovate. Already proving a success with the new monthly comic, this first all-new A1 Annual marks the thrilling return of the award-winning graphic anthology series to bookshelves everywhere!

Screenwriter CHRISTOS GAGE takes his network television hardboiled crime sensibilities back to the violent world he created to reveal the fate of police superhero turned vigilante, John Dusk.

As the world struggles to accept the emergence of a new kind of human species known as alterations, or "Alters," a young woman must navigate the path to becoming her true self, while struggling with the complications of her civilian life and the responsibilities of her newfound power.

With her nemesis, Matter Man, finally under control, Chalice begins a new chapter of her life as spokeswoman and primary recruiter for the Gateway Army. Sensing that time is running out on the safety of the world's newest Alter, Chalice expands her search.

18 years ago, a strange crystal touched down in San Francisco and every pregnant woman in the area gave birth. These were no ordinary children, though, as each but one was gifted an extraordinary power. Used by society for entertainment, these special children live in a form of slavery with no rights, except the ability to compete in the Games.

Academy Award-winning author John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Three Kings) presents an alternate U.S. history with the Civil Defense Corps, a team of superheroes, and their handlers, the FDAA (Federal Disaster Assistance Administration).

It's been a decade since the Civil Defense Corps was exposed as a fraud created by the U.S. Government for propaganda purposes. While most of the heroes who survived the catastrophe have retired or disappeared, the New American still carries on, trying to keep communities safe amid the social turmoil of the 1970s.

A New Heroine Takes Flight! Danielle Baptiste is trying to find her place in the world, like so many other twentysomethings, but unlike most girls her age Dani is also the bearer of one of the primal forces in the Universe - the Angelus!

Warren Ellis introduces you to the sultry Anna Mercury in this collection of first action-packed series!

Paragon is Rainier City's greatest super-hero. Callum Finney is a lowly henchman in mobster Liam Quinlan's organization. When Callum stumbles upon Paragon's secret identity, both of their lives change forever. Callum sees his ticket to true power. Paragon sees his life-and the lives of his ex-wife and children-in jeopardy.

Hundreds of years after a cataclysmic event scorched the surface, Earth and its inhabitants have been forever altered and a new landscape and political struggle has taken hold between two distinct factions fighting for control. Aphrodite IX is both anachronism and advanced technology in a world that she no longer recognizes. 

Thick-headed Ethan has no idea that his roommate, Vincent, is the megalomaniacal Underlord.

Discover the series that has everyone buzzing with this introductory priced trade paperback collection released to coincide with the beginning of the second chapter of the yearlong event! Separately, thirteen mystical Artifacts will guide the fate of the Universe.

Over a year in the making, the final act of Top Cow's landmark ARTIFACTS is finally collected. The mysterious Survivor has been revealed and his plan exposed, but with the Artifact bearers evenly split is it possible for anyone to truly triumph? And what role will the deadly Thirteenth Bearer play in the final battle?

To wage war with the Darkness, Rapture bearer Tom Judge will need to amass an army of Artifact bearers to back him up.

When Gary Hampton is mauled and left for dead--his life takes a drastic turn.

After the Earth-Shattering events of volume one we find Gary Hampton, The Astounding Wolf-Man on the run from the law - his very life hanging in the balance.

Locked down!  Gary Hampton, the Astounding Wolf-Man has been tried and convicted of murder!  Now, locked away in Stronghold Prison he comes face to face with the very enemies he put away.

The elder's master plan is revealed! Zechariah's final fate is decided! Wolf-Man's astounding adventure comes to a close. Every moment from the beginning of the series to now has been leading to this. After this volume, the world of the Astounding Wolf-Man will never be the same again!

In a hidden fortress near the North Pole, the greatest heroes of a past age live secluded from the world that rejected them.

In a hidden fortress near the North Pole, the greatest heroes of a past age live secluded from the world that rejected them.

The deepest dive yet into Atomic Robo's history! Constantinople is the setting for the crime of the century. The 11th century, that is! On the eve of the First Crusade, the fate of the world rests in the hands of a disgraced soldier, an assassin, an orphan, a scribe, and a thief who have no idea they're pawns in a clash of civilizations.

When a group of gamers mistakenly set loose a virtual reality game into the real world, they risk everything to save an existence they always sought to escape.

Hard as nails and hot as hell, badass bounty hunter Barb Wire rides the meanest streets of America's toughest town: Steel Harbor, USA. Barb tracks gangsters who can punch through walls and crush cars like beer cans, but it's a living. Call her a bitch-just don't call her babe!

A bold new hero finds her feet in the second of two action-packed graphic novels revealing the origin story of Battling Boy's Aurora West! Aurora West is on the verge of solving the mystery of her mother's death, but it's hard keeping her efforts a secret from her grieving father, the legendary monster-hunter Haggard West.

Fillmore Press, formerly the maniacal crime lord Madder Red, is trying to protect the city he once terrorized - but what happens when the city turns on itself? No one is safe when a new killer emerges, pulling unseen strings and wreaking chaos on every corner.