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 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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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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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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Highlights This Week: Dynamite Entertainment releases the first “Tarzan” comic in quite some time, Lord of the Jungle #1 for only $1.00! The copyright on the original Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes novel has expired in the United States, but the name “Tarzan” is still protected as a trademark of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., so no “Tarzan” in Dynamite’s title; Daredevil #8 concludes the Spider-Man/Black Cat story line began in last week’s Amazing Spider-Man #677; we gots lots of spy stuff this week: IDW’s all-new Danger Girl: Revolver #1 (of 4) introduces a new Danger Girl to the team and their Danger Girl: Danger-Sized Treasury Edition reprints the first half of J Scott Campbell’s original run in an affordable over-sized format, and Boom! Studios’ Steed and Mrs Peel #1 (of 6) re-releases Grant Morrison and Ian Gibson’s comic continuation of the classic 1960′s British TV show, The Avengers; Walt Simonson is the guest artist on Legion of Super Heroes #5;
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Highlights This Week: Spinning out of the recent Spider-Island storyline is the all-new Scarlet Spider #1. Kaine finds himself on the run in Texas after helping to save New York City. The new book redefines the use of power and responsibility when he encounters a super-powered crime syndicate, and in other Spider news…Mark Waid is the guest writer on Amazing Spider-Man #677 which begins the 2-part crossover with his Daredevil #8 (coming next week!) that finds Matt Murdock teaming up with Peter Parker after the Black Cat is accused of a crime she “probably” didn’t commit; Bruce Jones (Incredible Hulk) and Sam Kieth (The Maxx) are the creative team behind the original, hardcover graphic novel Batman: Through the Looking Glass which re-envisions the Dark Knight’s first surreal encounter with The Mad Hatter; a second all-new ongoing series Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #1 reunites the creative team behind Last Stand of the Wreckers and sends Rodimus, Ultra Magnus, Drift and Ratchet on an epic quest to find the Knights of Cybertron;
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Highlights This Week: Kick off the New Year with Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Fatale #1 from Image Comics. The new series has been described as a combination of crime noir and Lovecraftian horror; the Annotated Sandman Volume 1 Hardcover is the first in a 4-Volume set that gives an in-depth look at Neil Gaiman’s best-selling series including a panel-by-panel look at issues #1-#20 including commentary, historical and contemporary references, hidden meanings and more; Avengers Annual #1 finally continues the Wonder Man story begun in New Avengers Annual #1 back in early September; The Lone Ranger #1 is an all-new ongoing series from Dynamite Entertainment set in the early days of the legendary hero’s career; Boom! Studios’ all-ages imprint Kaboom! launches the first comic book starring Charles Schulz’ characters in almost 50 years in Peanuts #1 (of 4);
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Highlights This Week: The end of the year used to always mean not a lot of new books being released…but that ain’t the case this year! Marvel is even releasing two, count ‘em, two issues of Captain America! Captain America #5 wraps up Ed Brubaker’s “American Dreamers” story arc with artist Steve McNiven and Captain America#6 begins a new arc featuring a revitalized Hydra with veteran artist Alan Davis; DC finally releases DC Comics Presents: Elseworlds 80-Page Giant #1, a parody book that was originally published in 1999 but immediately pulped by the publisher for unknown reasons. It was always speculated that the publisher was unhappy with the un-PC quality of the content; the penultimate issues of: Kick -Ass 2 #6 (of 7 ), Avengers: Children’s Crusade #8 (of 9 ) and Alpha Flight #7 (of 8 ); the final 2011 release of character-driven one-shots based on Felicia Day’s popular webseries The Guild: Zaboo #1 and Roman Dirge gives us the all-new Lenore Volume 2 #4.
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Highlights This Week: Aspen Comics and Joe Benitez give us a last minute Christmas gift with Lady Mechanika #3. The best-selling steampunk comic finds our heroine infiltrating a Masquerade Ball held aboard Lord Blackpool’s airship; Grant Morrison’s run on Batman Incorporated was cut short by the introduction of DC’s New 52 relaunch, but the unreleased issues #9 & 10 are now collected in the Batman Incorporated: Leviathan Strikes #1 One-shot that will set the stage for Morrison’s Batman finale in early 2012; find out more about the fate of Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four #601; Aquaman joins the team in Justice League #4; the Transformers: Death of Optimus Prime One-Shot celebrates 125 issues of IDW’s Transformers and sets a new direction for the Autobot leader; Chris Roberson and Rich Ellis are the creators of IDW’s Memorial #1 (of 6) about a young amnesiac woman who inherits a Magic Shop and Dan Brereton supplies the gritty artwork for Image’s The Last Battle One-Shot!
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Highlights This Week: Image Comics’ Witchblade #150 not only reaches a numerical milestone, but also is the end of an era as long time writer Ron Marz and artist Stephan Sejic put their final stamp on the series with this issue. The multiple covers includes an unpublished piece by the late co-creator, Michael Turner. Next issue sees the beginning of a new story arc by writer Tim Seeley; Nathan Summers (a.k.a. Cable) was supposedly killed at the end of the X-crossover Second Coming, but now returns in Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness’ Avengers X-Sanction #1 (of 4) where his new mission is to destroy the Avengers in a single day; The Sigh is the newest English-translated work of the award-winning author of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, and concerns the daughter of a rich merchant who accidently conjures up a mystical being; another legendary artist’s work on the Dark Knight is collected in Tales of The Batman: Don Newton Volume 1 Hardcover;
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Highlights This Week: Marvel relaunches a team book from the 1970s in Matt Fraction and Terry Dodson’s all-new Defenders #1. Doctor Strange assembles a new team of heroes to face a new kind of threat that will threaten the very fabric of reality! Joining the good Doctor this time around are Iron Fist, Namor, Red She-Hulk, Silver Surfer and more; the Fourth issues of DC’s New 52 begin this week including Action Comics, Detective Comics, Red Lanterns, Animal Man and Swamp Thing; nothing says Happy Holidays like the Deadpool Max X-Mas Special; Following in the tradition of the original TMNT microseries comes the first of four stand-alone tales,Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro Series #1: Raphael; Dynamite brings to comics another 80′s anime icon featuring the young pilots of Voltron Force in Voltron #1;
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