New Releases by Bob Layton

That Dirty Yellow Mustard: Part 2 of 4. An eight issue series consisting of two four part stories. ""Internal Conflicts"" - The ""inside story"" of the Bad Eggs' prehistoric world is revealed! Join the perilous adventures of Colin the Tapeworm as he gets all the inside poop on our cast of demented dinosaurs. It's a ""worm's eye-view"" of the Cretaceous Era as Colin passes from one host to another, piecing together a chain of ridiculous events that spell trouble for the rebellious raptors Ript and Claude, and tons of fun for you! So take a peek into a gastro-intestinal world you never knew existed, and hope that you never have the opportunity again! Hey, it doesn't say ""Number 2"" on the cover for nothing. Featuring a Really Neat Cover that has nothing to do with the story, but Bob made Don draw it anyway!

As one of the greatest X-Men of all makes her triumphant return, one of mutantkind's deadliest threats debuts! When Jean Grey is found alive -- with a little help from the Avengers and the Fantastic Four -- she reunites with the rest of Xavier's original class to form X-Factor! But as Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Angel and Iceman face new enemies Tower and Frenzy, little do they know the villains are part of an Alliance of Evil led by ... Apocalypse! Collecting: AVENGERS (1963) #263; FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #286; X-FACTOR (1986) #1-9; X-FACTOR ANNUAL #1; Material from CLASSIC X-MEN #8, 43.

Following in the footsteps of the X-O MANOWAR CLASSIC OMNIBUS VOL. 1, it?s the complete, oversized omnibus collection of the series Ain?t It Cool News calls ?the best buddy team book of all time""""! Obadiah Archer, left for dead as a boy by his corrupt evangelist parents, has spent the last decade honing his innate abilities in a monastery deep in the mountains of Ladakh before emerging now as the world?s greatest hand-to-hand fighter and marksman. His body a temple, his every movement in harmony and his mind perfectly serene? except for the overriding desire to avenge his own murder. Armstrong is a 10,000-year-old libertine who may be as strong as a battalion, but abandoned idealism millennia ago. Now he spends his days drinking, carousing and telling tales of outrageous adventures throughout history to anyone who will listen ? that is, when he?s not on the run from an ancient cult whose bumbling agents have been hunting him for two thousand years. But Armstrong counts as the worst day of all his days the one when Archer turned up and decided that they were partners ? a team chosen by fate to save the world! Featuring work from iconic Valiant creators Barry Windsor-Smith (Conan,?Weapon X), Jim Shooter (Secret Wars), Bob Layton (Iron Man), Mike Baron (Nexus), and more, the groundbreaking adventures of the original conspiracy-smashing duo are brought together in their entirety for the very first time right here in this massive, oversized volume. Collecting?ARCHER & ARMSTRONG (1992) #0?26?and?ETERNAL WARRIOR (1992) #25,?CHAOS EFFECT: OMEGA?along with?ARCHER & ARMSTRONG: THE FORMATION OF THE SECT.

Meet 2015's silver screen sensation in waiting -Scott Lang, the astonishing Ant-Man! To save his daughter Cassie's life, Scott is forced to return to a life of crime, stealing Hank Pym's original costumed identity. But when his noble intentions win the Avengers' approval, he takes over as the all-new Ant-Man, full-time! Electronics whiz Scott secures a job with Tony Stark, but the size-changing super hero must save Iron Man after a brutal battle with the Hulk. No shrinking violet, Scott holds his own in astonishing adventures with Spider-Man, the Thing and the Avengers...and when Ant-Man and Hawkeye join forces, somebody' gonna get it! Collecting Avengers #195 (May 1980) Marvel Comics, Avengers #196 Avengers #181 (Mar 1979) Marvel Comics, Marvel Premiere #47-48, Iron Man (1968) #131-133 and #151, Avengers (1963) #223, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #103.

After a near-death experience, Claude swears off meat-eating forever. To Ript's disgust, he joins a cult of simple-minded herbivores and becomes what he eats! Poking fun at life, its foibles and the comic industry all in one fell swoop in this latest installment of Ript and Claude's black-humored adventures set in Jurassic times.

Out of the pages of history and into one extremely sick comic book! Prepare to meet Ript and Claude, the Dinosaur Bad Boys of the Jurassic, as they thumb their noses at T. Rex, Brontosaurs, Pterodons...basically anything bigger than they are. They're rude, crude, and have vile personal habits. You've never met anything quite as bad as the Bad Eggs!

Ript and Claude, the stars of this title are two ignorant, belly-scratching, lazy, disrespecting reptiles with no manners, no culture, no socially redeeming value whatsoever...so who better than them to instruct the granddaddy ancestor of us all -- the world's first proto-human? Being mentors to the human race is no picnic, of course, and to our two heroes, this little mammal is one big pain in their sphincters.

""The Volcano's coming, the Volcano's coming!"", echo the words from Ript and Claude this issue, as Panaam collects his debt from our primordial heroes and forces them to spread the word to evacuate the jungle inhabitants to safety. But the rub, as they say, is that due to Ript and Claude's past behavior, everybody thinks they're trying to scam them. Jeez, and you thought Chicken Little had it bad.

Doctor Tomorrow closes out the 70s in a POW camp! After five years of eating bugs, it's time to hang up the super-threads and make some dough! The Doctor hits Wall Street during the biggest rush since 1929. Knowledge of th future can make Doc rich, but can it save his soul?

The good Doc trashed on Sally Jesse Raphael?! It's true! In the late 1980s, Bart Simms' daughter has written a tell-all book about his exploits, and since she's hated him from birth, it's probably not going to be good for his reputation! As impostors emerge from the woodwork to claim his name as theirs, Tomorrow is faced with his final battle...the one for his legacy!

We continue Doc's final battle as he comes face-to-face with the people he's been dreading to meet ? his creators from the future! Plus, more of Bart's grandson Jason as he comes one step closer to meeting his destiny.

Bart must recover from his heart-wrenching betrayal quickly, or the future may just go up in smoke! More consequences of the Simms family's activities in the forties! And something BIG may be coming to Earth, and it ain't Orson Welles!

Doctor Tomorrow goes in an entirely new direction to deal with a new generation. Using his new contacts, he seeks out the daughter he never knew. But she's not what he was expecting and he expects that she'll hate him! Journey into the Space Age as the Race for Tomorrow continues...

The Doctor goes to war for the third time. Here he'll meet a man he hasn't seen in thirty years. Gilad the Warmaster from Eternal Warriors! They're allied once again, but this time their agendas may not mesh - Gilad wants to free Vietnam from the aggression of a superstate, while Tomorrow wants to ease America out of the war! But if Gilad doesn't like what Doc's doing, how will Tomorrow stop a man who can't die?

Asteroid A-271 is plummeting towards Earth, and President Eisenhower has made a personal plea for Doctor Tomorrow to itnervene. But Tomorrow smells a set-up. Using his incredible future technology he breaks into the top secret computer databases of the fifties. But here he'll find more than just files and tape-drives. He runs smack into the most dangerous person he will ever meet - a twelve year-old Native American from the future named Mushroom Cloud!

The conclusion of Doctor Tomorrow's battle against the Teutonic Knight, the Nazis' greatest warrior. It'll take more brains than brawn for the good Doctor to deal with this alien-armored Aryan!

Spurred by visions of nuclear disaster, Doctor Tomorrow races to dismantle the Nazi atomic program. But guarding it is the X-O of the 40s, the Teutonic Knight! Can Tomorrow's future tech defeat a threat from beyond our world? Can he even survive intact?

Doctor Tomorrow is dragged into the 1950s kicking and screaming! Despite Doc's heroic efforts in Korea and commie busting back in the states, ""Tailgunner"" Joe McCarthy sets his sights to expose Doc as a dyed-in-the-wook Communist. Besieged on all sides, Tomorrow is then betrayed by one of his closest allies, threatening his future technology and even his life!

Collected for the very first time – the debut adventures of the H.A.R.D. Corps in the original Valiant Universe by legendary creators Jim Shooter (Secret Wars), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), David Michelinie (Amazing Spider-Man), Bernard Chang (Green Lantern Corps) and more! The most important technological breakthrough of the century might also be its most dangerous. After years of trial and error, multinational conglomerate Omen Enterprises has finally perfected a cybernetic brain implant that will change the face of modern warfare forever. With a legion of ex-soldiers at their disposal, Omen is building the private army of the future – a squadron of enhanced commandos that calls itself the H.A.R.D. Corps! But even with the powers of flight, telekinesis, and mind control at their command, not everyone is willing to volunteer for service…but Omen has ways of making you fight for a paycheck. Collecting HARBINGER (1992) #10-11 and H.A.R.D. CORPS (1993) #1-6 for the first time anywhere, VALIANT MASTERS: H.A.R.D. CORPS VOL. 1 – SEARCH AND DESTROY also comes complete with process art, sketches and more rarely seen back-up material from the depths of the Valiant vault!

Aric has been set adrift in time to confront again the awesome force of Mothergod! Or has he? The ultimate secrets of the legend of Aric of Dacia revaled in this explosive final issue!

Unable to control the armor any longer, Aric finds himself lost, his world slipping away. Is this truly the final fate of the armored Visigoth, or is there something more sinister at play that is making him relive his early days as X-O Manowar in strange and vivid dreams?

In a lethal fight with the machine-controlling villain, Ax, Aric learns that his control over the X-O armor is slipping. Fearing it is the lingering influence of Master Darque, Aric turns to Dr. Mirage to help cleanse the armor of the necromancer's taint.

The Geomancer brings the secrets of the 41st century back to the 20th century, and unleashing the Blood of Heroes and the legacy of the Rai with it!

The team holds off the Malev Robots and forces them to retreat. Rai unites the Future Force to preserve humanity's future.

Carmen pays a visit to an old friend, soap opera star and stand-up comedian Walt Willey. Little does she realize a Gaelic astrological cult has targeted Willey as the perfect ritual sacrifice. Can Dr. Mirage overcome his collegiate rivalry with Walt in time to thwart the druidical menace before he winds up a Welsh-worshipped write-off in T?r na n?g?

It's H.A.R.D. Corps versus the Armorines, Round 1! When the Armorines lure the team to an abandoned airfield in the swamps outside Miami, the two powerhouses face off.

Learn the secrets of Grandmother's millennia long rule of Japan, the long lost Blood of Heroes, and long untold episode of Unity, in this tale of Shu Sugino...the rebel Rai!

To distract her from their marital frustrations, Carmen takes on a consulting job investigating a possessed man. In the mean time, Dr. Mirage's mother decides now is the perfect time to visit her son. How will Dr. Mirage be able to break the news to his mother that he's become a phantom?!

At a ski resort in Aspen, Colorado, Carmen and Hwen are stalked by a deadly, protean servant of Master Darque looking for a reservoir of necromantic power to feed on.

While Carmen struggles to make Hwen corporeal again, Master Darque lures the couple into his latest nefarious plan involving a strong man, a demolitions expert -- and Shadowman!?