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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!

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?

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.

Bloodshot''s pursuit of Don Carboni leads to a confrontation with the H.A.R.D. Corps team. Mistaking the nanite-powered Bloodshot for a Harbinger, their mission is to study the ultimate killing machine in action...then capture him! But when Carboni''s ambush pits Bloodshot against impossible odds, the team is forced to intervene.

Aric returns his space to find danger on the home front?Orb Industries scientists are breeding dinosaurs! When Aric learns that the tissue samples they''ve cloned are only weeks, and not millions of years, old, he''ll set out on a hunt for the time-lost monsters that must be leaving them behind. But he''ll need help if he wants to track down these cretaceous killers!

“TO SERVE AND PROTECT.” As the exciting miniseries nears its conclusion, Blue Beetle manages to shake the ghosts of his past-specifically the ghost of original Blue Beetle Dan Garrett-to help the other “living assault weapons” engineer nothing less than the riotous rescue of the JLA!

""Takeover"" Aric wakes from centuries of subterranean slumber to return to his corporate kingdom and the era he now calls home. And back in the modern day, Ken schemes to take the X-O armor for himself, while aliens lurk, but soon both will earn that here and now, Aric rules!

Dr. Mirage is on the case at...the rodeo?! Called in to investigate a mysterious death, Dr. Mirage and his wife Carmen discover a terrifying evil from the far away streets of Calcutta!

Archer and his peculiar partner are drafted by Armstrong''s brother, the Eternal Warrior, to fight in war on the far side of time and space! But who and what they find there offers ominous clues about what the future may hold for Archer & Armstrong and the final fate of the Valiant Universe...

While trying to sort out their shambled home, the Chaos Effect begins and makes Dr. Mirage corporeal again! Could the evil Master Darque be behind this strange phenomenon? Or is the cause something even more terrifying?

Dr. Mirage saved the world from the Chaos Effect, but at the loss of his restored physical form. Having done it once before can Dr. Mirage now figure out how to make his necromantic energy form physical again?

Written by Paul Levitz Art by Joe Staton, Bob Layton, Joe Giella and Dave Hunt Cover by Brian Bolland A new volume collecting classic Silver Age Justice Society adventures! This volume - featuring stories from ALL-STAR COMICS #68-74 and ADVENTURE COMICS #461-466 - includes the Justice Society''s battles with the Psycho-Pirate, the immortal Vandal Savage, the Injustice Society and more. Advance-solicited; on sale February 7 - 224 pg, FC, $14.99 US

The Elseworlds miniseries continues! Suffering a serious injury to the head, actor Byron Wyatt is now convinced he has always been his most famous role...Batman. Now ÒBatmanÓ is set on getting revenge against studio mogul Jack Òthe JokerÓ Napier for WyattÕs Òmurder.Ó

""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.

The team travels to the Oregon wilderness to infiltrate a nest of alien arachnids and their strange machines. Meanwhile, Hotshot is inducted into the corps.

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!

That Dirty Yellow Mustard: Part 3 of 4. An eight issue series consisting of two four part stories. ""When You Whiz Upon A Star..."" Guess who''s coming to dinner! When Earth is visited by travelers from beyond the stars, those bad boys of the Jurassic, Ript and Claude, step up to the plate...as goodwill ambassadors. But will the raunchy raptors wind up as specimens in an interplanetary zoo, or will E.T. be added to Ript and Claude''s menu? Comics'' ""galactic sacred cows"" are about to be milked for all they''re worth!

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!

Back home in Miami, the Carmen and Dr. Mirage are facing the difficulties of a life together: how can one hold a ghost? Meanwhile, Master Darque begins to plot his revenge...

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?

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?!

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...

""Power Play"" The showdown with the machine-controlling villain Ax continues, but with his control of the X-O Manowar armor scrambled can Aric still prevail? Aric will show Ax what he does to bandits and Ken what he does to traitors!

“MARTIAL L.A.W.” The heroes of the L.A.W. struggle to rescue the JLA before time runs out for all the world’s heroes! In the midst of a world-threatening conflict, we look back at the life of Hadley Jagger-also known as the legendary martial artist Judomaster! Forged in the fires of World War II, his origins contain the beginnings of Avatar-the being that, in the present day, threatens the entire world!

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

The Elseworlds miniseries concludes! In the Golden Age of Hollywood, studio-magnate-turned-actor Byron Wyatt has lost himself in his on-camera character: the Batman! Meanwhile, rival studio chief Jack Òthe JokerÓ Napier makes an all-out play to take over his business. ÒBatmanÓ and ÒJokerÓ collide in the not-to-be-missed conclusion.

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.

""Crossroads"" Aric''s will to live is tested to its absolute limit as he leads his army of time-tossed barbarians to war against a trans-temporal empire!

King''s Crossing"" Toyo Harada wants to make a deal with the new head of Orb Industries, but nobody told him to expect X-O Manowar! Featuring Peter Stanchek, the Harbinger renegades and the first appearance of Jack Boniface.

""Seed of Destruction - Part 2"" From fitful dreams, Aric wakes to discover the good skin is taking him into the far reaches of space! There Rexo and the last of Aric''s one-time captors lie in wait, desperate to claim the Manowar armor as their own!

With one of their own dead at the hands of one Harada''s Eggbreakers, things are getting desperate for the team when the Harbinger Foundation tracks the team to their base of operations. But it''ll take more than that to keep the H.A.R.D. Corps down as the team goes on an unauthorized excursion to get payback for Maniac!

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!

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!

The secrecy of Omen Enterprises'' mission starts to take its toll on Gunslinger. Will that distraction prove fatal when the team is sent on a raid to find out what''s on board the secret and heavily armed Harbinger Foundation freighter Toyo Harada is running to countries in the former Eastern Bloc?

It''s the finale to ""The Seeds of Destruction"" saga! Aric and Maka will fight to the death-- on the moon! But without the aid of the X-O armor, what chance does Aric have against a killer with blood colder than space? One will fall and one will claim the prize: the seed of Shanhara!

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!

""Darque Daze"" It''s Archer VS. Armstrong! Under the influence of a mystical spell, Armstrong embarks on a mission to kill the Eternal Warrior! Desperate to stop Gilad''s assassination, Archer must put his friendship with Armstrong aside and stop his partner by any means necessary. But just how do know you stop an un-killable immortal - and what happens when two of them come to blows?

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.