Image Comics April 2021 Collection Solicitations
Image’s April 2021 solicitations are out and we’re here to look at the collected editions. So, lets take a look at what’s coming.
This month’s solicitations are good in general but are particularly interesting when it comes to deluxe hardcovers. Decorum, Hack/Slash, Middlewest, Sex Criminals, and Outcast are all getting hardcover collections. Plus, there is also a wide range of trade paperbacks coming too. This creates a nice mix of releases that should work for most fans out there.
- Commanders in Crisis Volume 1: The Action TP
- Collects Commanders in Crisis #1-6.
- Release Date: May 4, 2021
- Solicitation Details:
- The last survivors of the Multiverse live among us under new, superheroic identities, five survivors of doomed worlds…taking a second chance to ensure our world lives on. A new twist on strange superhero comics, with a bleeding-edge eye on the modern moment, COMMANDERS IN CRISIS follows in the footsteps of Doom Patrol and Thunderbolts as five unexpected heroes come together to solve a murder unlike any other. The victim? Compassion itself…This is ideacide! A new series by acclaimed writer STEVE ORLANDO (Wonder Woman, Doom Patrol: Milk Wars, Martian Manhunter) and artist DAVIDE TINTO (Marvel Action: Spider-Man), an intense, weird action thriller reminding us about the importance of compassion and hope in the present moment, and putting fists to faces along the way!
- Decorum HC
- Collects Decorum #1-8.
- Release Date: June 1, 2021
- Solicitation Details:
- There are many assassins in the known universe, this is the story of the most well-mannered one.
- Hack/Slash Deluxe Edition Volume 1 HC
- Collects Euthanized, Girls Gone Dead, Comic Book Carnage, Land Of Lost Toys #1–3, Trailers, the Slice Hard prequel and Slice Hard. Also includes the “hellish crossovers” with Chucky and Evil Ernie.
- Release Date: May 4, 2021
- Solicitation Details:
- At the end of every horror movie, one girl always survives…in this case, Cassie Hack not only survives, she turns the tables by hunting and destroying the horrible slashers that would do harm to the innocent! Alongside the gentle giant known as Vlad, the two cut a bloody path through those who deserve to be put down…hard! Fans have asked for YEARS, and we’re finally delivering a fancy oversized hardcover edition, with a new cover and a never-before-seen nine-page story written and drawn by series creator TIM SEELEY!
- Middlewest: The Complete Tale HC
- Collects Middlewest #1-18, with exclusive bonus features.
- Release Date: July 13, 2021
- Solicitation Details:
- When a violent storm levels his sleepy Middlewest town, Abel and his childhood companion, Fox, must hastily flee into a world of mystical carnies and soothsayer hobos, bridge trolls and wilderness spirits, endless forests and forgotten children. SKOTTIE YOUNG (Strange Academy, I HATE FAIRYLAND) and JORGE CORONA (NO. 1 WITH A BULLET, Feathers), with colorist JEAN-FRANCOIS BEAULIEU and letterer NATE PIEKOS, collect the complete Eisner Award-nominated tale of Abel, a boy who must navigate a strange and mysterious land in order to discover who he can become.
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- Big Hard Sex Criminals, Volume 3 Deluxxxe HC
- Collects Sex Criminals #21-30, 69.
- Release Date: July 27, 2021
- Solicitation Details:
- When Suzie and Jon have sex, time stops—literally. Suzie and Jon break up and come together one last time in this gorgeous hardcover climax of the award-winning, bestselling, ground-breaking sex comedy/love story, SEX CRIMINALS—complete with flashforward epilogue, bonus content created exclusively for this volume, and a modesty cover beneath the dust jacket to enable shame-free public consumption—in the biggest, hardest SEX CRIMINALS yet.
- Gideon Falls, Vol. 6: The End TP
- Collects issue #27, plus bonus material.
- Release Date: May 4, 2021
- Solicitation Details:
- The mind-bending conclusion to the Eisner Award-winning series by New York Times bestselling writer JEFF LEMIRE and artist ANDREA SORRENTINO (the creative team behind Green Arrow and Old Man Logan), with the talents of Eisner Award-winning colorist DAVE STEWART (Hellboy)! As all the universes of Gideon Falls finally converge, can the combined forces of this rag-tag band of adventurers be enough to stop the Laughing Man and his limitless legions of evil?! Find out the answers to all your questions! This volume includes loads of behind-the-scenes extras from this ground-breaking series.
- Norroway Book 2: The Queen on the High Mountain TP
- Collects the Norroway Book 2 original graphic novel.
- Release Date: April 20, 2021
- Solicitation Details:
- Happiness is an illusion when unfinished business awaits. Seven years have passed since the disastrous events of BOOK ONE, and now it’s time for Sibylla to face her curse-breaking destiny. When Troll Kingdom soldiers arrive in the once safe town of Fiskeby, she’s forced to flee up the Glass Mountain. But the moment she steps foot on Troll lands, she’s thrown into a jail cell, where she discovers her amnesiac ex-fiancé is set to wed the Troll Queen’s daughter. Using all of her wits, she must convince the princess to turn against her own mother, or else face execution on the day of the wedding—and doom the kingdom to remain cursed forever.
- Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta, Book 4 HC
- Collects Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta #37-48.
- Release Date: July 6, 2021
- Solicitation Details:
- This hardcover features twelve issues of the hit comic book series, along with covers and a sketchbook, in one oversized hardcover volume. Perfect for long-time readers and fans of the TV show. The beginning of the end is upon us. Allison has been possessed, but it’s unlike any possession we’ve seen before. How will this affect Kyle’s mission to save the world now that the Great Merge has begun? Find out in the thrilling final volume of OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA!
- Sunstone, Volume 7 TP
- Collects the Sunstone Vol. 7 graphic novel.
- Release Date: April 27, 2021
- Solicitation Details:
- “MERCY,” Part Two The tale of kink and metal continues as Ally and Alan ride their rollercoaster of sexual exploration. Meanwhile, Anne and Laura enjoy their little slice-of-heaven relationship. Good times all around. Sure would be a shame if addictive behavior and trust issues ruined all that fun. I mean, that would be terrible.
- Tartarus, Vol. 2: Threading The Infinite TP
- Collects Tartarus #6-10.
- Release Date: May 4, 2021
- Solicitation Details:
- The stakes are turned all the way up when blood enemies Surka and Hisa are stranded together on a mysterious, far-off world. Can they survive an epic journey across space and time, fraught with pleasures and peril? Can they survive each other?
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