Various holiday stories in the Batman Adventures universe from Christmas to New Year's Eve.

In return for the theft of a small, unspecified item, the Joker provides the Penguin with a new plan: rob the banks of Gotham, and then turn around and use the money to garner public acclaim by becoming a millionaire philanthropist. Penguin enjoys his new status, until Batman catches wise.

What's to Love: Roger Langridge (Abigail and the Snowman, The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow), who has delighted us with his imaginative all-ages work for years, is teaming up with Andy Hirsch (Adventure Time) to bring us a new twist within the world of Sherlock Holmes. What if the world's greatest detective wasn't quite what he—or she—seemed? What It Is: It's a lovely day in 1930s London, right up until a giant stone lion comes to life and starts wrecking the city! It seems like the perfect case for the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. Of course, Sherlock Holmes doesn't actually exist; he is a fictional character created by housekeeper Mrs. Hudson, who has been the real detective all along, writing Holmes' adventures under the pen name of John Watson and running around the city in disguise. With an overwhelmed case load she'll need the help of a precocious bunch of young detectives-in-training to solve the mystery of the living statues. Baker Street will never be the same!

Fans have demanded it and now, at long last, the Badger returns! A brand new story ripped from today's headlines, from the inimitable Mike Baron! Badger as you've never seen him: Raw! Furious! Crazier than Randy Quaid! Jim Fern's art will astonish!

James Tynion IV (Batman Eternal, The Woods) teams up with artist Rian Sygh (Munchkin, Stolen Forest) for an incredible yet earnest story about finding a place to fit in when you're kinda an outcast. When Jory transfers to the private, all-boys school St. Genesius, he figures joining the stage crew would involve a lot of just fetching props and getting splinters. To his pleasant surprise, he discovers there's a door backstage that leads to different worlds, and all of the stagehands know about it! All the world's a stage...but what happens behind the curtain is pure magic!

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Huge hit The Amory Wars comes to BOOM! this spring - right on the heels of creator Claudio Sanchez's band Coheed and Cambria's hot new album release Year Of The Black Rainbow this April! For the new The Amory Wars series, Eisner Award-winner Peter David joins this science fiction franchise, so don't miss out! Heard about the ground-breaking The Amory Wars but never had a chance to get into it? This is a great entry point for new readers - also solicited this month, The Amory Wars Ultimate Edition, collecting the previous two trades published by Image! Created by Claudio Sanchez, lead-singer of Coheed and Cambria! Covers by Scott Keating and Tim Bradstreet.

MARVELS and ASTRO CITY writer KURT BUSIEK returns to Image Comics with rising-star artist BEN DEWEY for an all-new ONGOING SERIES! Conan meets Game of Thrones meets Kamandi in an original high-fantasy epic for mature readers, as a secret conclave of wizards brings a legendary champion back through time to save the world, with disastrous consequences.

Grant Morrison, the universally acclaimed writer of ALL-STAR SUPERMAN, BATMAN and FINAL CRISIS, brings his talents to the new bimonthly series THE AUTHORITY, featuring art by Eisner Award-winner Gene Ha (TOP 10)! Morrison and Ha deliver an unparalleled sense of drama and dynamic storytelling to THE AUTHORITY that will leave readers gasping for breath. The first issue starts with a bang and goes up from there, reintroducing the team with intriguing new twists and revelations!

The Authority has settled into its role as the governing body of the U.S. But with many unhappy Americans and a powerful foe working behind-the-scenes, can a second American Revolution be far behind? How long can tyranny stand, before heroes will rise up?

Fan-favorite creators Christos Gage (StormWatch: PHD) and Darick Robertson (The Boys) bring their incredible talents to The Authority — and it's a match made in heaven! StormWatch Prime has finally managed to crack the infamous Henry Bendix's encrypted "memory tower" and located a mysterious bunker hidden the Southwest desert. Knowing that anything springing from Bendix's brilliant, twisted mind could prove either invaluable or catastrophic, they immediately head for the bunker. But The Authority are watching, too, and want what's in the bunker for themselves. Will the Authority's desire to build a "finer world" come into conflict with StormWatch's goal of protecting humanity from the super-humans of the world? You bet it will!

Saving the world is an everyday occurrence for the Authority...but not for Kev Hawkins! An alien armada stands poised to assault Earth, bent on destruction and genocide. When the Authority lost their initial encounter with the invaders, Kev must fight them off--alone. Is the world doomed?

Fed up with the Authority's meddling in world affairs, the government brings on a killer-for-hire named Kev who dismantles the team with ridiculous ease. But, believe it or not, Kev may have even bigger problems than the Authority. In fact, the entire world has a big problem. And it's all his fault.

After the events of Number of the Beast, The Authority team is a shadow of its former self. The mighty truly have fallen as The Carrier has crashed into, and fused with, the city of London. Jenny Quantum and The Doctor are both missing. Apollo can no longer survive beneath the dark cloud that blankets most of Europe and Asia so he must exist high in the atmosphere where the sun still shines. Jack Hawksmoor is severely crippled having experienced the simultaneous destruction of all the world's cities. The Engineer has been striped of her powers thanks to the EM Pulse. Only Swift and Midnighter escaped major injury. Now they must regroup and try to help as many of the survivors as they can while trying to find a way to restore the world.

This series is continued under the volume titled The Authority: The Lost Year. The two issues were also collected in a single issue to catch new reader's up, The Authority: The Lost Year Reader.

The Authority returns and they now have Jenny Quantum-the Spirit of the 21st Century on their side! The team continues their mission to fend off massive threats to the Wildstorm Universe. But they may find that the biggest threat of all lies on their home turf. After an incident involving the United States government that threatens to bring about the end of the world, The Authority decide that it's not enough to simply police their world. So they decide the only way to help the world is to take control of it, starting with the United States of America. Needless to say, there are forces that are not going to allow this to happen.

Out of the ashes of Stormwatch comes The Authority - a group of superheroes who take a zero tolerance approach with any threats that come their way. They police The Bleed, the space between space, in their colossal sentient ship - The Carrier. The Authority goes up against foes that threaten our universe, parallel universes, and even existence itself!

Fresh off the biggest bomb in Hollywood history, disgraced and desperate producer Nathan T. Rex enters a downward spiral of drugs and depravity in a quest to resurrect his career and save his soul. Over budget and behind schedule on the latest installment of the horror franchise, PRESIDENTS DAY, T. Rex is backed into a corner by bad publicity, a crap project, and a jerk studio exec, but finds salvation at a strip club by huffing glue, and a chance encounter with cable news. Welcome to the most deranged, notorious, and hilarious comic of 2014! We apologize in advance.

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