Highlights This Week: DC/Vertigo’s Fairest #1 is the new Fables spinoff, starring the female fables in their own story arcs. First up is a six-issue tale by Bill Willingham and Phil Jimenez featuring what happened to Briar Rose after being taken away by the goblin army in Fables #107; also spinning out of recent events in Uncanny X-Force is a new monthly return to The Age of Apocalypse #1; the popular cast of The Runaways finally return for a 2-issue appearance in Avengers Academy #27; actor Joshua Jackson writes Beyond the Fringe #1, exploring untold events that take place between seasons three and four of the popular FOX TV show; the creators of Image’s The Red Wing now give us Manhattan Projects #1;
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Highlights This Week: Justice League #6 is released a couple of weeks later than scheduled to give Jim Lee a little more time on the art, as well as to guarantee a New 52 title for this last week of February, thanks to Leap Year (Happy Leap Year!) This issue ends the first story arc as the various members of the League come together for their first encounter with Darkseid; Amazing Spider-Man #680 finds Peter Parker trapped in space as he tries to rescue John Jameson from the clutches of Doctor Octopus; Darkness #100 celebrates the long-running series‘ centennial with a 48-page issue, which also marks writer Phil Hester’s final issue and accompanies the release of The Darkness II video game from 2K Games and Digital Extremes; Terry McGinnis returns to the printed page with the over-sized, monthly Batman Beyond Unlimited #1 also featuring the return of the Justice League of the future; Ralph Wiggum Comics #1 is the first of Bongo Comics’ Simpson Comics One-Shot Wonders
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Highlights This Week: Start your countdown to the release of the new Dark Knight Rises movie (but count slowly because the release date is currently July 20) with the first New 52 appearance of the backbreaking Bane in Batman: The Dark Knight #6 and the release of the Batman VS Bane Softcover; Spider-Man: The PSAs Softcover is a collection of most of the “Public Service Announcement” comics done by Marvel over the years like Adventures in Reading and When Plaque Attacks! ; Ted McKeever’s Mondo #1 (of 3) is the tale of a quiet man that works at a chicken processing plant who finds himself changed due to “enhancements”; Image Comics and Dynamite Entertainment pool their resources for Witchblade/Red Sonja #1; the new Venom joins the team in Secret Avengers #23
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Highlights This Week: Legendary father and son writers unite for the first time in Stephen King and Joe Hill’s Road Rage #1 (of 4) paying tribute to Richard Matheson’s classic tale of Man VS Truck, Duel; Army of Darkness Ongoing #1 finds the evil of the Necronomicon spreading across the universe and the man known as Ash finds a new ally in a woman also named “Ash”; Amazing Spider-Man #679.1 features the return of the science-made vampire known as Morbius; Art Baltazar gives a second helping of his all-ages DC Super Pets; Avenging Spider-Man #4 is a one-off story featuring Spidey and Hawkeye with guest art by Greg Land; Explorer: The Mystery Boxes is a new all-ages anthology of short graphic stories by a variety of artists, collected by Kazu Kibuishi (Amulet), told on a central theme: a mysterious box and its contents; DC Universe Presents #6 begins a new feature starring the Challengers of the Unknown;
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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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