The award-winning anthology makes a thrilling return! A1 has always been a laboratory for creators to experiment and innovate, to break away from corporate creations and unleash their own ideas. This first all-new A1 Annual marks the thrilling return of the award-winning graphic anthology series to bookshelves everywhere! Inside these pages, a Who's Who of comics talent - past, present and future - spreads their imaginative wings across a gripping selection of all-new short stories. Which ones will be the breakout creator-owned characters of tomorrow?!

WIth EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL CONTENT including original art and sketches! Bursting out of the revived, award-winning anthology created by Dave Elliott, THE WEIRDING WILLOWS introduces Alice (of Wonderland fame), who is now a guardian of the Wild Woods -- a place riddled with portals into other worlds of fantasy and literature! Alice's father, Dr. Moreau, is a scientist who sells his animal-splicing know-how to the highest bidder. But what terrifying secrets will Alice uncover about his new client -- one who commissions him to produce a race of flying monkeys?! From The Wind in the Willows to Frankenstein's Monster, the worlds of fantasy are about to collide like never before!

WIth EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL CONTENT including original art and sketches! The worlds of fantasy and literature are about to collide like never before! This issue, THE WEIRDING WILLOWS get even weirder, as Alice is led to the heart of the Wild Wood to face a destructive new visitor!

WIth EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL CONTENT including original art and sketches! This issue, Frankenstein's Monster is in the Weir! Death and destruction will follow for Alice and her allies -- right?! Plus: Doctor Moreau makes his deal with the Wicked Witch -- and Doctor Jekyll may already be regretting his!

WIth EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL CONTENT including original art and sketches! There's a dinosaur from the Hollow Earth loose in the Weir, and she's eating Farmer McGregor's sheep! Can Alice and Frankenstein's Monster stop her - before an irate McGregor puts this purple T-rex down for good?!

WIth EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL CONTENT including original art and sketches! At last, a hint of what lies beneath the Weir. The secret of talking animals and dimensional portals - revealed! Plus, one of our cast dies... and, we promise you, they will never return!

There's a WEREWOLF loose in the house of Dr Moreau, and she may be too much for even Frankenstein's Monster to handle! Maybe Mowgli might have better luck?!

ALL-NEW DIGITAL-EXCLUSIVE CHAPTER! See the worlds outside the Weir for the first time, as Alice and her new allies take an epic journey to lay their fallen comrade to rest - in the smouldering caldera of a huge volcano! An ending and an epic new beginning, all in one! (Note, this all-new chapter is included in the Weirding Willows Vol. 1 Collected Edition, and is a digital-exclusive bonus issue for those readers picking up the series in single issues)

"Dave Elliott has taken this book to a whole new level of brilliance." - Comics Bulletin IF YOU GO INTO THE WOODS TODAY... When she was nine, Alice wandered into the Wild Woods and discovered a portal to another world. A world called Wonderland! Now a young woman, she has spent her childhood discovering just some of the wonders the dimensional nexus of the Weir has to offer - a place where the worlds of Earth, Wonderland, OZ, Neverland, Mars, Pelucidar and Elysium collide, and where anything, and anyone, could turn up when least expected! From Frankenstein's Monster to a giant purple T-rex, from talking rabbits to winged monkeys, from a kidnapped Mowgli to a werewolf with a secret, there's never a quiet day in the Weir - and Alice and her friends are all that stand between these worlds, and those who would exploit them. In this first mysterious collection, Alice's father, Doctor Moreau, strikes a deal with the Wicked Witch of the West, and Alice must uncover the truth behind the Witch's request before her father commits to something he will regret! Collects The Weirding Willows story from A1 #1-6 - with AN ALL-NEW CHAPTER, character designs, bonus content and commentary. Don't miss this stunning first step into an amazing collision of worlds!

Another classic collection from Chris Claremont (Spider-Woman, Fantastic Four, Excalibur, Wolverine) and John Bolton (Books of Magic, Evil Dead: Army of Darkness), the acclaimed creators of Marada the She-Wolf! This thrilling mix of swordplay and mythological terror finds exiled knight James Dunrith - the Black Dragon - banished for necromancy and heresy. He returns home to find England in turmoil and is recruited by the beautiful Eleanor of Aquitaine to rally the powers of Nature against a ghastly tied of evil!