The nominees....
Avengers Assemble #12

KELLY SUE DECONNICK (W) • PETE WOODS (A)
Cover by NIC KLEIN
Variant Cover by MICHAEL MCKONE
• The sins of Black Widow’s past have resurfaced and threaten the safety of not only the Avengers, but also the entire world!!
• Widow, Spider-Woman and Hawkeye must travel to Siberia to search for a missing girl with ties to an old Soviet assassination.
• But the truth behind this girl’s disappearance may be more than the Avengers are prepared to handle!
• Acclaimed writer Kelly Sue DeConnick teams with Pete Woods for an all new Avengers Assemble epic!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Cyber Force #3

story MARC SILVESTRI & MATT HAWKINS
art KHOI PHAM & SUNNY GHO
cover MARC SILVESTRI
DECEMBER 5
32 PAGES / FC / T+
FREE
CYBER FORCE CONTINUES IN ITS GROUND-BREAKING RELAUNCH!
The massive corporation CDI continues to engineer technologically enhanced humans. Opposing CDI is a lone group of rebels. Will the public perceive the newly formed Cyber Force as resistance fighters battling for public good – or terrorists who must be stopped?
Not content in pushing the envelope just in terms of story and art, Top Cow will be the first major US comic publisher to launch one of their biggest properties with top tier creators concurrently for the traditional print market and exploding worldwide digital market for FREE. That’s right, thanks to the support of fans through Kickstarter and participating comic shops, you can get the first FIVE issues of CYBER FORCE at no cost.
Katana #1

Written by ANN NOCENTI
Art by ALEX SANCHEZ
Cover by DAVID FINCH
1:50 Variant cover by DAVID FINCH
On sale FEBRUARY 13 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the order form for more information.
• From the pages of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA and BIRDS OF PREY!
• KATANA is a former assassin on a noble quest to restore the OUTSIDERS to their former glory!
• Will she succeed, or will she be overcome by the power of her sword, the SoulTaker?
Secret Avengers #1

NICK SPENCER (W)
LUKE ROSS (A)
TOMM COKER (C)
Variant Cover by LEINIL YU
Variant by JOE QUESADA
Sketch Variant by JOE QUESADA
Blank Cover Variant Also Available
“The Most Dangerous Secrets We Have... Are The Ones We Keep From Ourselves.” The new Nick Fury leads a covert Avengers strike team including but not limited to Hawkeye, Black Widow, The Hulk, The Winter Soldier, Maria Hill and Phil Coulson on missions so dangerous, even the team members themselves can’t know about them!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Uncanny X-Men #1

BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W)
CHRIS BACHALO (A/C)
Variant Cover by GABRIELLE DELL’OTTO
Variant by JOE QUESADA
Sketch Variant by JOE QUESADA
Blank Cover Variant Also Available
The true flagship book of the X-Men returns. In the wake of the Phoenix, the world has changed and is torn on exactly what Cyclops and his team of X-Men are – visionary revolutionaries or dangerous terrorists? Whatever the truth, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magneto, and Magik are out in the world gathering up new mutants and redefining the name UNCANNY X-MEN.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Wolverine and the X-Men #25

Jason Aaron (W) • RAMON PEREZ (A/C)
“Things to Come” Variant by ED MCGUINNESS
• The hottest new X-Book turns 25!
• Jason Aaron (THOR:GOD OF THUNDER) and Eisner-Award winner Ramon Perez (Tale of Sand, JOHN CARTER) kick off the mega story that will define WXM in 2013!
• Wolverine and the students go to the Savage Land!
• Wolverine’s brother Dog, from the super hit ORIGIN, returns and becomes the biggest new X-Villain in years.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
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