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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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Westfield’s Josh Crawley looks at cool items in the new
Previews including DC’s
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Dark Horse’s
Alabaster: Wolves, and Valiant’s
Bloodshot.
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The Monolith HC
Robert Greenberger recommends Image’s
The Monolith HC and speaks with the book’s co-writer, Jimmy Palmiotti!
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The Lone Ranger: Snake of Iron
Chuck Dixon discusses his upcoming work on Dynamite Entertainment’s
The Lone Ranger: Snake of Iron.
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The Judas Coin
KC Carlson looks at books in the new
Previews including DC’s
The Judas Coin, Marvel’s
Captain Marvel, and TwoMorrows’
Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics.
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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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Hoax Hunters #1
Writers Michael Moreci & Steve Seeley discuss their new book from Image Comics,
Hoax Hunters. Plus, every copy of
Hoax Hunters #1 pre-ordered through Westfield will be signed by Moreci & Seeley!
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The Metabarons Ultimate Collection
Westfield’s Wayne Markley recommends some titles from Humanoids Publishing.
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Cartoon Monarch: Otto Solglow and The Little King
Westfield’s Roger Ash takes a look at
Cartoon Monarch: Otto Soglow and The Little King from IDW and The Library of American Comics.
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"Some guys have all the luck."
Beau Smith asks if you have a passion for comics.
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