Angel and Faith #1 will be one of the comics shipped in August 2011. Featuring 40 pages, this interesting comic will be available at a cost of $2.99. It will be on sale from August 31^st, 2011.

Baltimore: The Curse Bells #1 will be another Dark Horse comic that will be ready for shipping in August 2011. With 32 exciting pages featuring perfect graphics and an interesting story, this comic will be priced at $3.50 from August 10^th, 2011 onwards.

Hellboy: The Fury #3 will also be available at comic stores from August 10^th, 2011. You will need to spend $2.99 to buy this comic for an interesting time pass. This comic too will comprise of 32 pages.

Criminal Macabre Omnibus Volume 1TP is also a Dark Horse comic that will be ready to shipment in August 2011. This 392 pages comic book will be on sale from August 31^st, 2011 at a price of $24.99.

The art by Pier Gallo is also not up to the mark for the issue. In fact, since the beginning of this series, the art of Gallo has been on and off as far as its creativity is concerned. In the first issue, it was too good, whereas the next issue was quite unpleasing.

Though Gallo has a history of framing and telling story interestingly, but being a story revolving around a Superboy, the style and dressing etc. are quite unlikely, which he couldn’t much match up to. Especially, the s-shield on Superboy’s shirt is quite confusing. In addition, the color scheme of skin tones of the characters by Jamie Grant makes things further complicated. The story doesn’t interest much to keep you glued to.

However, the interesting part is that this issue is a break from the crazy calamity of the past four issues that has fallen upon Smallville. Many subjects in this story are expected to bloom in the next issues of Superboy and the writer even suggested some upcoming troubles in the next issue.

The Army Of Darkness is the next discount comic available. In this offer, you get to read the Army of Darkness Vol. 3 #1-13. The Product Code for the book is JUL052769, and it is available at a price of US$ 0.74. Whereas, the actual price of the comic is US$ 2.99. Thereby, again you get a discount of over 75%, which is great.

The Army of Darkness #6 is the third option of the discount comic offered here. With a product code DEC052943, you get this comic at US$ 0.74. But, the regular price of the book is US$ 2.99, which makes it a discount of 75%. In this issue, Army of Darkness follows the old-style and revisits its roots. This issue is a tribute to arduous horror concepts of storytelling.

The Action Comics is back with a new story in its latest volume with some new twists and turns. In this issue, DC Comics brings together Secret Six with Action Comics and Paul Cornell opens the story in two-parts. This is, may be the first time, that a all villain-led comics is packed in one issue.

Since, Lex Luthor’s contribution was there in creating the secret six team in the earlier issue so it was not very difficult to get the connection. The first part of the story in this series involves super six team in action with Vandal Savage in a fight, which is quite interesting and engaging. The sequence involves a lot of minute details along with a lot of fun and excitement.

Again, with this issue, the closing of the The Black Ring is also approaching. Now there are mere 3 installments remain for the series to end. Moreover, you can see the coming back of few previous enemies in this issue and a conflict between Luthor’s Lois-bot and an previous rival. Overall, it a very interesting and entertaining to see most of villains from the last seven issues coming together and to know their additional roles.

Pete Woods has done a great job along with his team as far as art is concerned. Colors by Brad Anderson and team is also very interesting and catchy. The cover done by David Finch is also worth appreciation. On the whole, you would definitely miss something if you miss the issue of Action Comics vol. 896.

One disappointing thing for the followers of the series is that Geoff Johns and Francis Manapul are heading towards handling “The Flash” and would leave Adventure Comics in a few months. On the other hand Paul Levitz is expected to take charge of “Adventure Comics” and would give his best to retain, the exciting times for the reader ahead. Nevertheless, with so many untold stories being planned ahead, it would be difficult for the readers not to miss the work done by the duo so far.

In this issue, the Adventure Comics has brought Superboy in the living world again. Moreover, the series also sees the coming together of Superboy and Robin without much of a melo-drama.

The interesting thing about John’s story is that it is mixes humor with drama. Besides, the use of ink by Manapul and Buccellato’s use of colors gives great looks of watercolor painting.

Now it is to be seen as to how Levitz deals with the plot and the story in the coming issues. Lets just hope that Levitz and company create the same magic as created by the this creative team so far.

One of the most liked and read comics in the web is the ‘Garfiled Minus Garfield’ series. Interestingly, this series doesn’t have Garfield, the cat, but has its owner as the main character. Created by Dan Walsh of Ireland, Jon Arbuckle is of a young man who is lonely and talks to his own self while making funny facial expressions.

‘Tootpaste For Dinner’ is another such comics strip that portrays hand drawn characters covering many weird and peculiar issues. This series deals in sarcastic and humor. Moreover, it deals with individual topic each time.

‘Indexed’ is another all time favorite of all. This unique web comic portrays humorous and bizarre topics with graphs, charts and diagram that really make sense and are interesting.

‘User Friendly’ is again a comic strip that focuses on Columbia Internet, an imaginary internet service provider and the day-to-day things in life of the employees of this company. Created by J.D. Frazer, the humor here deals with technology related issues.

The last in our list today is the ‘PHD’ or ‘Piled Higher and Deeper’. This strip mainly talks about graduate students. Created by Jorge Cham, this comics portrays the hazards of student life and the problems they suffer in light humor.

Many comic lovers are surprised that how can Dark Horse offer comics at such low price? The company will create and manage its own digital publishing program with the name Dark Horse Bookshelf App. With this it will eliminate the need to pay third party fees on its digital editions. As a result, the readers will get comics at lower prices and the comic creators will get higher profits.

The new soon to be launched Dark Horse Bookshelf app will be made available on iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone. Readers can also buy or read Dark Horse comics on modern web browsers at the Dark Horse Digital Store. This application will provide comics at $1.49 per issue that is considered to be 50 cents lower than the industry standard.

In the beginning, this app will launch with over 150 titles including, Felicia Day’s The Guild, Gerard Way’s Umbrella Academy, Eric Powell’s The Goon, BioWare’s Mass Effect, Mike Mignola’s Hellboy and many more comics.

The great news is that some of the most popular series of Marvel with new printings would now be available to the readers and that too for just $1. Isn’t that exciting? Marvel expects to set the retailer’s shelves on fire with titles like Wolverine #66, New Avengers #1, Hulk #1 and Civil War #1; all of which are expected to be available to the readers in April this year.

David Gabriel who is the Senior Vice President of Sales and Circulation of Marvel made clear the strategy of the comic book publisher saying that they wanted to ensure that everyone gets an opportunity to read the best titles of Marvel keeping in view the increased attention on comics apart from the new readers who come visiting the stores. He also said that the reduction in the price of the comic books would ensure that more and more fans would now be able to discover the new series and this would also give the retailers a chance to pile up their stocks for a long period.

Unlike the motion picture Troy (2004), Roy Thomas’s adaptation is much closer to the original epics in the sense that he does not leave out the portrayal and the activities of the mythological Greek gods. He does not fail to mention the jealousies and squabbles of Greek gods and goddesses who had a great influence on the war.

Thomas’s epic tells the tale of the dispute between Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. The dispute is over the fact as to who is the most justifiable choice for the Golden Apple. It then continues with the story of Paris who runs away with Helen which results in the Trojan War.

Roy Thomas has used the Epic Cycle as his guide when narrating the story; however, it lacks an artistic interpretation and is very straightforward. The first issue of the mini series is otherwise excellent. The plot is brilliantly detailed and all the characters are correctly named. The issues 2 to 5 can also be summed up as idealized just like the first issue. The issue covers the events that preceded and succeeded and also the events during the war. This work by Roy Thomas is definitely going to stand its own test of time.

Like the previous years, 2008 too also saw the publication of many new comics and it was again the action genre that fascinated the comic readers most. So, here is a list of top 5 action comics of 2008.

When talking about the top 5 action comics of 2008, one can’t forget Return of the Legion. Readers just loved the way Johns took them to the far-flung future of the 31^st century in this comic that reunited with the long lost classic Legion of Super-Heroes.

Death in the Family is yet another top action comic book of 2008. Readers got fascinated reading about the Brainiac triumphing in the end by kicking Superman’s family. The devious actions in this comic really thrilled the readers in 2008.

Third most popular action comic of 2008 was Substitute Heroes that was about polishing of the Man of Steel. Characters in this comic like Rainbow Girl and Chlorophyll Kid really got the nerve of all kinds of comic readers.

Brain Power was yet another popular action comic of 2008. In this comic, Johns introduced a new alien version of Big Blue’s cerebrally enhanced foe, named Brainiac. Reading about this character, that was stronger than the Man of Steel, was amazing.

Last of all, A New Home was also seen as an interesting action comic by the readers in 2008. The story of this comic was much more exciting and thrilling than the comics that described Superman.