The Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave returns for an all-new chapter in his alternate history of The American Way! In 1962 Jason Fisher was given astonishing powers by the United States government—powers he used to defend the nation as the New American. He and his teammates in the Civil Defense Corps were real-life superheroes. Except that it was all a fraud. A conspiracy. And now, 10 years after the CDC was torn apart by racism, infighting and murder, the Corps' surviving members find themselves pulled in very different directions. Missy Devereaux—a.k.a. Ole Miss—is transitioning from the First Lady of Mississippi into a candidate for governor and defender of a vanishing and hateful way of life. Amber Eaton—formerly known as Amber Waves—has become a domestic terrorist, using her powers to infiltrate and destroy the country's centers of power. Somewhere in the middle stands Jason Fisher, who has remained a crime-fighter even as evidence mounts that he is accomplishing nothing besides propping up a system that's rigged against him as a black man in America. In a nation being torn apart, what does it mean to fight for the American way? A decade after the debut of their groundbreaking WildStorm series The American Way, Academy Award-winning writer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, American Crime) and artist Georges Jeanty (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8) revisit their parallel Earth for a look at its gritty 1970s—a time frighteningly like our own—in The American Way: Those Above and Those Below. Collects issues #1-6.

Chondra Jackson is a star who fell to Earth. A preteen actress who was an idol to millions, she solved space crimes before dinnertime, playing Bebe Soma on the smash-hit kids' TV show Star Cops. But all stars fade, and after Chondra aged out of the spotlight, the sex tape she made in an attempt to extend her 15 minutes wound up destroying her career. Now she works as a beat cop in her hometown of Effigy Mound, Ohio, where she's about to catch a case as crazy as anything the Star Cops ever faced. Chondra's fans, it turns out, are still obsessively dedicated to her, having built a close-knit community through message boards, conventions and cosplay. And someone is killing them, one by one. Someone who knows the strange truth behind Star Cops' fiction and the reclusive writer who created it. Someone who knows that fandom is the new true religion. Someone who knows that God is an alien life-form, and that real stars shine on forever… Co-creators Tim Seeley and Marley Zarcone put the "cult" back in "pop culture" with EFFIGY: IDLE WORSHIP-a small-town supernova of sex, sci-fi and celebrity! Collects EFFIGY #1-7.

Ciara O'Dwyer is a young woman raising a daughter alone in the Five Points slums of 1870; Johnny McCormack is a struggling actor drawn to the nascent folk music movement in Greenwich Village 1960; and Lewis Healy is a successful Irishman who's come to present-day Manhattan on his wife's anniversary-present promise to reveal the connection between him and them. The mystery originates with Ciara's runaway husband, who disappeared after promising to join her in America, and carries into midcentury when Johnny, devastated by an unexpected romance and a lost shot at musical fame, gets a supernatural visitor.

This ongoing, high-octane, psychological thriller kicks off with an extra-sized first issue! Christopher Chance has been living as Frank White, but that idyllic new existence is about to come crashing down around him as the line between reality and illusion becomes increasingly blurry.

When Jonny Double agrees to keep tabs on a rich man's wayward daughter, Faith, he becomes ensnared in a tangled web of deceit, murder, and double-cross after he decides to help Faith and her friends with a get-rich-quick scheme involving a long-forgotten bank account belonging to Al Capone!

Wes Cutter is a wanted man running from a violent past. Now he's on a quest for the one thing in short supply: peace. Joining him is his beautiful wife Ruth, a woman who has been to hell and back herself. The road they travel will be a bloody one, leaving a trail of bodies stretching from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean.

Comics acclaimed writer Jason Aaron (Thor, Original Sin, Wolverine) and artist R.M. Guéra (BATMAN ETERNAL, DJANGO UNCHAINED) take the crime genre to a whole new corner of the world with their tale of violence, betrayal, mysticism, despair, hope and the terrible things history leads men to do to one another in SCALPED BOOK ONE. Fifteen years ago, Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse ran away from a life of abject poverty and despair on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation. Now he's back, but this time he's got something to hide: Dash is an undercover FBI agent sent to investigate tribal leader Lincoln Red Crow, former "Red Power" activist and current crime boss. Surrounded by the same mess of meth labs, murder and organized crime he thought he'd left behind, Dash must decide how far he's willing to go-and how much he's willing to lose-to uncover the bloody secrets of the Rez. Collects issues #1-11.

ALL FALL DOWN L.A. was once the City of Angels, but that was before the Great Quake came and shattered everything about her that was civilized. In the aftermath, two new cities grew up from the rubble-one of gleaming towers and untold luxury for the haves, and one of barbed wire and grinding misery for the have-nots. Ringed by high walls and merciless guards, New Angeles is now an island of wealth in a sea of poverty. Outside its borders, a new generation of Angelenos fights for scraps in the rubble while trying desperately to find a way through the fences. Inside, the privileged few have refined their brutality and fused it with old Hollywood's greatest invention: celebrity culture. Broadcast in ultra-high definition, biomechanically enhanced gladiators known as Suiciders battle to the death in high-tech arenas. Their duels are a visceral reminder to the world of the power wielded by New Angeles' corporate masters. For rich and poor alike, the Suiciders are legends. But like the city they inhabit, their glory is built on a graveyard-and as those bodies rot, the foundations they carry threaten to crack and splinter back into chaos. Collects SUICIDERS #1-6 and SUICIDERS: KINGS OF HELL.A. #1-6.

Dive into this first issue featuring four fantastic stories from author Alan Moore! Meet inventor Jack B. Quick as he creates a galaxy in his ownhometown—terrorizing the family cow in the process! See a madman cornered and captured by Greyshirt...with a twist! The First American and U.S. Angel face off against an insidious enemy—daytime talk shows! And finally, meet sultry crimefighter The Cobweb. Will she be able to free captured beauties, even as she's turned into a doll?

Baghdad, 2003. The reign of Saddam Hussein is over. The Americans are in command. And no one is in control. Former cop turned military contractor Christopher Henry knows that better than anyone. He's in the country to train up a new Iraqi police force, and one of his recruits has just been murdered. With civil authority in tatters and dead bodies clogging the streets, Chris is the only person in the Green Zone with any interest in finding out who killed him-and why. Chris' inquiry brings him first to Sofia, an American-raised Iraqi who now sits on the governing council, and then to Nassir, a grizzled veteran of Saddam's police force-and probably the last real investigator left in Baghdad. United by death but divided by conflicting loyalties, the three must help each other navigate the treacherous landscape of post-invasion Iraq in order to hunt down the killers. But are their efforts really serving justice-or a much darker agenda? Inspired by his real-life experiences as a CIA operations officer in Iraq, writer Tom King (BATMAN) teams with artist Mitch Gerads to deliver a wartime crime thriller like no other in THE SHERIFF OF BABYLON VOL. 1: BANG. BANG. BANG., collecting issues #1-6 of their groundbreaking Vertigo series.