Highlights This Week: History is made this week as the BBC allows for the first-ever crossover involving their long-lived Time Lord in IDW’s Star Trek The Next Generation / Doctor Who Assimilation Squared #1 ( of 8 ). It’s a mashup of cosmic proportions when the crew of the Enterprise-D joins forces with Amy, Rory and The Doctor to foil the combined villainy of the Borg and the Cybermen! The long tradition of Summer Annuals begins: Batman Annual #1 is the final release of this month’s Night of the Owls crossover, but the story continues in next month’s Batman #10; Animal Man Annual #1 expands on the storyline in recent issues of Animal Man and Swamp Thing; Amazing Spider-Man Annual #39 finds our hero stuck in a world where Peter Parker never existed; Avengers VS X-Men tie-ins can be found in Wolverine and the X-Men #11 and X-Men Legacy #267; Superman Family Adventures #1 continues the fun of Art Baltazar and Franco’s much-missed Tiny Titans; Batman: Death By Design Hardcover is an original graphic novel written by Chip Kidd in which Batman must find out who is responsible for a spate of construction catastrophes;
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Highlights This Week: Another new “New 52″ joins the lineup this week as Grant Morrison returns to write Batman Incorporated #1, continuing Batman’s conflict with Talia Al Ghul, a.k.a. Leviathan; in the rest of the bat-titles this week, the Night of the Owls event continues in All-Star Western #9 and Batman: The Dark Knight #9; Avengers VS X-Men tie-ins can be found in Secret Avengers #27 and, if you missed it the first time, Avengers #25 2nd Printing; Astonishing X-Men #50 continues Marjorie Liu and Mike Perkins’ current arc, but this issue features a surprise marriage proposal that is supposed to garner big media attention; Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison #1 (of 5) details the first assassination attempt on the life of the Emperor; an all-new Nexus story by Mike Baron and Steve Rude begins in Dark Horse Presents #12; Felicia Day’s creation returns to comics with The Guild: Fawkes One-shot starring the rival Guild leader played in the web series by Will Wheaton;
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Highlights This Week: Jim Lee returns to doing the interior artwork on Justice League #9 that begins Part One of an all-new story arc The Villain’s Journey introducing a new, original nemesis for the Leaguers; Avengers VS X-Men continues in Avengers VS X-Men #4 (of 12), AVX VS #2 (of 6) and with tie-ins in Avengers #26, Avengers Academy #30 and Uncanny X-Men #12; the Night of the Owls crossover event is the following bat-titles: Birds of Prey #9, Catwoman #9, Nightwing #9 and Red Hood & The Outlaws #9; the Ends of The Earth story line in Amazing Spider-Man spins off an all-new Amazing Spider-Man: Ends of the Earth Special #1; DC Universe Presents #9 begins a 3-Part Vandal Savage arc by James Robinson and Bernard Chang; Alison Bechdel’s award-winning Fun Home spawns a second autobiographical tale in Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama Hardcover and
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Highlights This Week: To followup his star turn in Marvel Studios’ Avengers Movie, Marvel Comics releases the weekly Hulk Smash Avengers #1 (of 5) that has the Green Goliath taking on the Avengers from a different decade each issue! Issue #1 features the 1960s cast and #2 (also out this week) is set in the 1970s; Avengers VS X-Men continues in the pages of New Avengers #26, Wolverine and the X-Men #10 and X-Men Legacy #266; the Bat-titles’ Night of the Owls event is spotlighted in Batgirl #9, Batman #9 and Batman and Robin #9; John Byrne creates an all-new, original superteam for IDW in Trio #1; Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson team again for Frankenstein Alive Alive #1, a sequel to Mary Shelly’s original novel; DC gives us another one-shot anthology, this time a collection of SciFi/Fantasy stories called Mystery In Space #1 featuring Andy Diggle, Paul Pope and Mike Allred among others; Fury MAX #1 finds Garth Ennis returning to write a harder-edged, post-WWII Nick Fury trying to find his place in the world;
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Highlights This Week: DC’s New 52 line launches 6 new titles this month with 4 of them this week alone! World’s Finest #1 finds Power Girl and The Huntress trapped on an Earth that’s not their own by Paul Levitz, George Perez and Kevin McGuire, James Robinson and Nicola Scott are the creative team on Earth 2 #1, the two heroes’ original world, Dial H #1 updates the 1960s Dial H For Hero concept of a device that can give its owner super powers, and G.I. Combat #1 is a new war anthology featuring new chapters of the classic war comics War That Time Forgot and Unknown Soldier; the first title in the new Valiant Comics revival is X-O Manowar #1; Avengers VS X-Men #3 (of 12) has the 2 teams searching the globe for the mutant know as Hope and AVX crosses over into Avengers Academy #29; the Night of the Owls continues in Detective Comics #9; the hit CW series continues on in comic form with Smallville Season 11 #1; The Tick #100 celebrates its anniversary with a special appearance by Robert Kirkman’s Invincible;
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Highlights This Week: Been enjoying Avengers VS X-Men so far? Well, get ready for some action as this week sees the release of AVX VS #1 (of 6). This once-a-month book will see two “bouts” per issue expanding on the name-calling and hair-pulling between two rival characters. The first issue spotlights Iron Man VS Magneto and The Thing VS Namor, The Sub-Mariner! Other AVX crossovers this week include: New Avengers #25, Secret Avengers #26 and Uncanny X-Men #11; All-Star Western #8 is part of the Night of the Owls crossover; Star Wars: Blood Ties – Boba Fett Is Dead #1 (of 4) finds one of the galaxy’s most feared bounty hunters being declared dead, but then finds the team taking credit being picked off one by one; Daredevil #11 is the final part of The Omega Effect crossover; Eisner Award-winning Roger Landridge teams with artist Bruce Ozella for Popeye #1 (of 4), the first original comic of E.C Segar’s classic sailor man in over 30 years;
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Highlights This Week: Writer Garth Ennis brings his usual grim and gritty style to one of the original, and best, of the classic crime-fighting pulp heroes in Dynamite’s return of The Shadow #1; Jim Lee’s got one more issue of R & R, but ’til then, guest artist Carlos D’Anda (Arkham City) teams with regular writer Geoff Johns for Justice League #8 where Green Arrow tries to crash the team; Avengers VS X-Men #2 (of 12) continues as Iron Man takes on Magneto with crossovers this week featured in Avengers #25 and Wolverine and The X-Men #10; Punisher #10 is Part 2 of The Omega Effect crossover with last week’s Avenging Spider-Man #6 and next week’s Daredevil #11; the Ice Age: Playing Favorites One-Shot is the second, all-new Kaboom! comic based on the hit FOX Animated movies and Reset #1 (of 4) is a brand new mini-series from creator Peter Bagge (Hate, Neat Stuff) about a washed up actor and comedian who signs up to be the main research subject for a virtual reality experiment!
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Highlights This Week: Mark Millar, the writer of Kick-Ass and Dave Gibbons, the artist of Watchmen collaborate on The Secret Service #1 (of 7) detailing the education of a 21st Century super-spy ala James Bond; Bryan Hitch arrives at Image Comics with his “widescreen” style of art on America’s Got Powers #1 (of 6) mashing up Super Heroes with Reality Television; the current Daredevil storyline involving his possession of the highly sought-after Omega Drive escalates into The Omega Effect crossover beginning in this week’s Avenging Spider-Man #6 and continuing in Daredevil #11 and Punisher #10; Batman: Arkham Unhinged #1 is a new prequel series to the hit Arkham City video game; Secret #1 is a new ongoing espionage thriller from writer Jonathan Hickman that takes a deep look into the shadow world existing between the government and private security firms;
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Highlights This Week: It’s finally here! After months of waiting and last week’s prologue in issue #0, Avengers VS X-Men #1 (of 12) gets the ball rolling with the initial conflict and more on the return of the Phoenix Force; the relaunch of Extreme Studios titles through Image Comics continues with the first of some unpublished scripts by Alan Moore in Supreme #63; Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s Doom Patrol spinoff is finally collected in the Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe Hardcover; Boom! Entertainment’s Fanboys VS Zombies #1 depicts a zombie outbreak at Comic-Con; the Legends of the Dark Knight: Jim Aparo Hardcover collects Aparo’s classic run on The Brave and the Bold from the 1970s for the first time; Chris Bachalo resumes his role as regular artist on Wolverine and the X-Men #8, and Steve Niles’ Criminal Macabre: Die! Die! My Darling one-shot features the return of monster hunters Cal and Mo’loch as they make a final stand in the war between good and evil!
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Highlights This Week: It hasn’t been getting as much press as issue #1 coming out next week but Avengers VS X-Men #0 (of 12) officially kicks off Marvel’s “next big thing”. We won’t know much about it ’til we get it in our hot little hands, but we DO know that it involves the Scarlett Witch, the mutant known as Hope, the return of the Phoenix Force and that it’s by the talents of Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron and Frank Cho. You must have it! the latest Extreme Studios relaunch, Bloodstrike #26, by Hack/Slash writer Tim Seeley and artist Franchesco Gaston; Gone to Amerikay Hardcover is Derek McCulloch and Colleen Doran‘s century-spanning graphic novel exploring the history of Irish immigrants to America via three intertwined tales beginning in 1870 New York City; the last of this month’s new DC/Vertigo titles is New Deadwardians #1 (of 8 ) by the creative team of Dan Abnett and I. N. J. Culbard where, in a post-Victorian England, the upper classes has voluntarily become vampires to escape the lower classes who are all zombies, and Marjorie Liu and Mike Perkins are the new creative team on Astonishing X-Men #48. Wolverine, Warbird, Gambit, Northstar, Ice Man, Cecilia Reyes and Karma return to New York City to take on the Marauders. Cool!
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