Tensions mount as the body count rises in VERTIGO's newest urban-horror monthly! After her run-in with the rampaging Knight in last month's THE CRUSADES: URBAN DECREE, Venus begins to doubt her own senses and seeks out professional help. Meanwhile, as the violence in the streets continues, the manic radio talk-show host Anton Marx fans the reactionary flames of San Francisco public opinion.

Big Daddy is a rich hotelier who, in a cracked echo of King Lear, appoints his youngest descendant to manage The Suites, a peculiar hotel located behind the Black Crown Pub. Affectionately known as Kid, his good looks and swagger can't hide a rough childhood of strange therapies and brain operations that have awakened inner demons and psychodramas. This of course makes him eminently qualified to perform lobotomies. A failed rockstar/successful madman gets one last change to prove his worth and regain his sanity by turning the hotel that was once his childhood sanctuary into a lucrative business, despite a host of obstacles including his own sister who would love nothing more than to see him fail miserably.

Jeff Smith, the visionary writer and artist behind the epic fantasy Bone and Shazam: Monster Society of Evil, unveils his newest series, the stark sci-fi series, Rasl! Meet Rasl, an art thief searching for his next big score - and trying to escape his past! Where other thieves plan their heists with breathtaking precision, Rasl has an ace up his sleeve - he can travel through the light between dimensions, affording him access to museums that no ordinary thief could access! In this issue Rasl faces an assassin's bullet and stumbles across a mystery that not only threatens to expose his own illicit activities, but could also uncover one of the world's most dangerous and sought after secrets. Smith's first major independent work since the critically acclaimed and award-winning Bone will be 32 pages long.

This is the second spinoff book featuring New York City police detectives Sam Burke and Twitch Williams, popular characters originally introduced in the core Spawn title. Casefiles: Sam and Twitch takes the crime noir world of Sam and Twitch to a darker level, feature unique artwork and storytelling from Marc Andreyko and Paul Lee.

'KILLER INSIDE' - THE ORIGIN OF THE SHIELD OF JUSTICE Back from the grave! The cult hit of 2011 returns with a tale of treachery, murder and unrequited lust. When headless corpses start to appear on the first night of the full moon, ace detective Johnny P. Sartre smells a rat... Contains profanity, nudity, violence and the graphic depiction of alcohol abuse.

The legendary comics creator Dean Motter returns with Mister X: Razed! In the retro-futuristic metropolis of Radiant City, its mysterious creator, Mister X, must protect the city and its residents from themselves as the architecture of the city itself is a danger to all those within it.

The psychetecture upon which Radiant City was built is driving its residents insane, and only Mister X can help! If that wasn't enough, a government coup has thrust Radiant City into turmoil, initiating a countdown that could embroil everyone Mister X holds dear in a deadly new conflict! This volume collectsMister X: Eviction#1-#3,Mister X: Hard Candy, and the rarely seen short storyMister X: The Vanishing Breed. A great jumping-on point to the classic series! What is the secret behind Radiant City's pyschetecture?

Batman discovers how Penguin is manipulating the market, captures him and brings him in.

A 5-issue Elseworlds miniseries that brings the World's Greatest Detective together with the inventor of the modern detective story: Edgar Allan Poe! In Baltimore in the late 1800s, a number of high-ranking citizens' have been murdered in ways that defy explanation. The only thing linking the murders are sightings of a giant raven fleeing each crime scene…

Some say it's like seeing Bill Gates turn into Che Guevara... But it ain't that simple. Let me explain how it all began... Sam TimelHe would become one of the world's wealthiest men, dedicated to fighting for the oppressed, the ones lacking voice or power. But his tactics would prove far different from that of the charities and other humanitarian organizations of his time. He was to wage a ruthless war, fraught with great victories and just as great defeats.

Batman's investigation into a series of recent macabre murders leads him to the past and an old case file of similarly horrific killings. As the murders continue with intensifying horror, the Dark Knight is driven to the edge of self-control. Coming to blows with his longtime ally, Commissioner Gordon, Batman must find a way to regain his senses and solve this disturbing case. But when confronted with the vengeful killer and their demonic powers, Batman finds himself in a showdown that he cannot possibly win.

Betrayed, beaten, and banished by his own, an outed cop fights his way across Jamaica for revenge!

Collected in Batman: Gordon of Gotham.

In 1828, two Irishmen named William Burke and William Hare murdered 16 people and disposed of the bodies to Dr Robert Knox at Edinburgh University for dissection, setting in motion a scandal that would rock the world's medical establishment. Writer Martin Conaghan and artist Will Pickering deliver a ghoulishly true story of of medicine, murder and money set at the height of Edinburgh's enlightenment. In addition to the full length comic story, the book is also fully annotated.. Introduction by Judge Dredd writer Alan Grant. Bonus gallery featuring Frank Quitely and Gary Erskine. Cover by Rian Hughes.

Two women from Batman's life together at last! In the first of a two-part series, Batgirl and Catwoman join forces to thwart a murderer who preys on prostitutes...but what they uncover is a greater evil than either of them could hope to defeat alone!

Collects SWEETS #1-5!A spree killer terrorizes New Orleans days before Hurricane Katrina makes landfall. Detective Curt Delatte just buried his only daughter, he's in no condition to work. But when the bodies pile up, he masks his grief and joins the hunt through the bowels of the Big Easy. It won't be long until his city, and his evidence, gets washed away.

The often-turbulent partnership of Black Canary and Oracle comes to an end in this one-shot issue as interpersonal tensions lead the pair to go their separate ways. On their own, they end up finding love in all the wrong places and face deadly foes--with no partner to help!

This one-shot issue introduces a team of villains that will cause big problems for Black Canary and Oracle! Cheshire assembles a crew of mercenaries to steal a weapon...but they may be scarier than the weapon itself! Termina, Vicious and Pistolera--together, they are the Ravens!

In one-shot issue, the trail of a slave ring leads Black Canary and Oracle to the corrupt island-nation of Santa Prisca, now the site of a military coup with the Birds right smack in the middle of it. Just your typical vacation for our heroines--sun, surf, and smoking wreckage!

Magic slowly returned to Nivarria after a millennium of nonexistence. Finding themselves in the hub of magical activity, the Mega-Shammark city police formed two special departments to deal with the rise in magic-related crimes: the Mana Police and their detectives, the Bureau of Mana Investigation.