BOOM Studios releases for August 5, 2009

IRREDEEMABLE #5

Written by Mark Waid
Drawn by Peter Krause
SC, 24 pgs, FC, SRP: $0.99

ONLY .99 CENTS! This is your chance to hop on board the superhero event of 2009 that dares to ask: What if the world’s greatest hero decided to become the world’s greatest villain? Buy issue #5 for .99 cents and get the trade of the first four issues for only $9.99 and experience what everyone has been talking about. A “twilight of the superheroes”-style story that examines super-villains from Mark Waid writer of KINGDOM COME and EMPIRE!

IRREDEEMABLE VOL 1 TPB

Written by Mark Waid
Drawn by Peter Krause
SC, 112 pgs, FC, SRP: $9.99

ONLY $9.99! It’s a comic book industry event: the first four issues of the new original ongoing superhero series from Mark Waid! IRREDEEMABLE dares to ask the question: what if the world’s greatest hero decided to become the world’s greatest villain? A “twilight of the superheroes”-style story that examines super-villains from the writer of KINGDOM COME and EMPIRE! Pick up IRREDEEMABLE VOL. 1 for $9.99 and buy the start of the next arc with issue #5 for an additional .99 cents. That’s 11 bucks for 5 issues of the best superhero comic you will read in 2009

DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP #2

Written by Philip K. Dick
Drawn by Tony Parker
SC, 32 pgs, FC, (2 of 24), SRP: $3.99

Worldwide best-selling sci-fi author Philip K. Dick’s award-winning DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? - the basis for the film BLADE RUNNER – comes to comics in an innovative, ground-breaking 24-issue maxi-series with the full text fully illustrated. In 2021 Earth is a far uglier place. Most humans are on Mars but Deckard’s back home, among the wretched. See San Francisco as its denizens try to live in the aftereffect of World War Terminus. If they think human life is hard, try being an android among the masses…

DEAD RUN #3

Written by Andrew Cosby, Michael Alan Nelson
Drawn by Francesco Biagini
SC, 24 pgs, FC, (3 of 4), SRP: $3.99

“All Speed. No Limits.” The end isn’t near, it’s here. America has become a wasteland, leaving the few cities that remain transformed into impenetrable fortresses. NICK MASTERS is a driver, the best there is. If you need something picked-up, delivered, or disposed of, Nick’s your man. But when he fails to deliver all hell breaks loose. Part 3 of the epic saga that redefines the sci-fi action genre. From the writer of HEXED and FALL OF CTHULHU, Michael Alan Nelson, collaborating for the first time with EUREKA creator Andrew Cosby!

FINDING NEMO: REEF RESCUE #2

Written by Marie Croall
Drawn by Erica Leigh Currey
SC, 24 pgs, FC, (2 of 4), SRP: $2.99

The biggest selling DVD of all time comes to comics! Nemo, Dory and Marlin embark on a journey to save their dying reef. Facing dangerous waters and incredible odds, Nemo travels the great blue sea to save the one thing that matters most of all—home. In this issue, Nemo’s old friend Gil lends a helping fin! Series ‘A’ covers by Amy Mebberson with ‘B’ covers by Erica Leigh Currey.

MUPPET ROBIN HOOD #3

Written by Tim Beedle
Drawn by Armand Villavert Jr.
SC, 24 pgs, FC, (3 of 4), SRP: $2.99

The Muppets tell the Robin Hood legend for laughs, and it’s the reader who will be merry! Robin Hood and his band of outlaws steal from the rich and give to the poor. But much to the Merry Men’s disbelief, Maid Marian has stolen Robin’s most valuable possession—his heart! Series features “A” covers from David Petersen, the Eisner Award-winning creator of Mouse Guard!