Highlights This Week: Everybody’s favorite “Merc With a Mouth” reaches a milestone with Deadpool #50. Creators Daniel Way and Carlo Barberi bring you “Dead”, Part 1 (of 5) which has Wade Wilson feeling that there is only one grand adventure left for him in: death. Expect lots of guest stars and surprises! Writers Robert Kirkman and Nick Spencer pool their writing talents for Image Comics’ Thief of Thieves #1 about a master thief who yearns for the family life he left behind; Detectives Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim return for their first outing in almost a year in Powers #8; Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan’s Conan The Barbarian #1 will adapt Robert E. Howard’s “Queen of the Black Coast,” while weaving new adventures into Conan’s journey with the female pirate Bêlit; Dynamite’s Jennifer Blood gets its first spinoff in Garth Ennis’ Ninjettes #1;
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Sugar & Spike. One of KC's favorite comics.
KC Carlson on the connection between comics and illness. Plus,
Before Watchmen!
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Watchmen
DC Comics has announced “Before Watchmen,” seven miniseries that are a prequel to the classic series.
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New Teen Titans by Wolfman & Perez
Westfield’s Roger Ash talks about some of his favorite creative teams.
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Highlights This Week: Steve Rogers is back being Captain America and Bucky Barnes is alive, but not very many people know that! Now, Ed Brubaker and Butch Guice give us Winter Soldier #1. The first storyline of the stylish, spy-thriller reveals that Bucky wasn’t the only Winter Soldier, and in more Ed Brubaker news, his Fatale #2 is released along with Fatale #1 2nd Printings, in case you missed it the first time; J. Michael Straczynski and Chris Weston’s mini-series of Golden Age heroes revived in present day is finally being finished beginning with The Twelve #9 (of 12); the origins of the Star Wars universe are explored in Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi #0; Venom #13 begins a weekly, six-part event that guest-stars X-23, Ghost Rider and Red Hulk who find themselves trying to stop the spread of Hell on Earth; Dark Horse Presents #8 features a brand-new BPRD story and the beginning of Brian Wood’s new series The Massive; Ape Entertainment begins reprinting classic Harvey comics in the Richie Rich Gems Winter Special and IDW brings us Magic The Gathering #1, the first Magic comic since 1996!
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Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles
Westfield’s Wayne Markley recommends some collections of classic adventure strips.
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*Roger Langridge, writer of Marvel’s acclaimed Thor: The Mighty Avenger all-ages series and writing and drawing Boom! Studios’ Muppet Show and Snarked! series, has been tapped by IDW to create a new Popeye ongoing series with artist Bruze Qzella beginning in April!
*AMC has upped their order on Season 3 of The Walking Dead from 13 to 16 episodes.
*Following February’s Ralph Wiggum one-shot, Bongo Comics has announced a Bart Simpson’s Pal, Milhouse one-shot for this April co-written by Gail Simone!
*According to a recent Rob Liefeld tweet, his Image Comics book with Robert Kirkman, The Infinite has come to an early end.
*Sergio Aragones, Mark Evanier and Thomas Yeates’ Conan VS Groo 4-issue mini-series begins in April from Dark Horse!
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Amazing Spider-Man #129
Beau Smith talks about Wolverine, The Punisher, and the future of comics.
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Highlights This Week: Geoff Johns and Jim Lee’s Justice League #5 is released a week later than scheduled, and continues the origin of the team as they come together to battle the New 52 version of Darkseid; IDW’s Infestation event now spawns Infestation 2 #1 (of 2) that begins another crossover of its licensed titles to fight a threat of Lovecraftian proportions; Rick Remender (Uncanny X-Force) and Patrick Zircher (Mystery Men) are the new creators beginning with Secret Avengers #21.1 as Hawkeye is made the team leader; Bone: Quest For the Spark Book 2 continues the prose trilogy by creator Jeff Smith and Tom Sniegoski; The Walking Dead #93 begins the new A Larger World story arc that will lead up to the highly anticipated issue #100; Transformers: Robots In Disguise #1 is another ongoing series telling of Bumblebee and his fellow Autobots struggle to maintain control without the leadership of Optimus Prime;
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