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WEDNESDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER

I can't remember the last time we had a 4 way collision of events.

 I certainly can't remember a time when DC and Marvel both had two a piece colliding on one shipping week.

DC launch Villain Month on the heels of the cataclysmic shenanigans that went down in Justice League # 23 prepare to be spoiled here.

September is now officially Villain Month in the DCU with every title sporting a 3D cover and showcasing a villain. You can read our views on this here.
 Every issue is self contained but will inform and enrich to differing degrees DC's first proper EVENT book in the New 52, Forever Evil.

Marvel launches the 10 part X-MEN X-over in  Battle of the Atom #1 and we also have the second issue of  Infinity.
Here we go then,
deep breath and deep pockets required.

DC
Forever Evil #1

Creative teams for the one shots here
Warning there are spoilers at this link

VILLAIN MONTH WEEK 1
Yes I found all the gifs*
Just to remind all our lovely standing order customers not to worry 
about getting the 3D versions of this weeks books.
We covered 99.9% of all orders.
If your not on standing order and you want 3D covers
don't leave it until Friday.
Remember we are open until 7pm tonight so if your really keen
 on getting these covers, come on down.

ACTION COMICS #23.1 CYBORG SUPERMAN

3D & STANDARD COVER

BATMAN #23.1 JOKER

3D & STANDARD COVER

BATMAN AND ROBIN #23.1 TWO FACE

3D & STANDARD COVER

BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT #23.1 VENTRILOQUIST

3D & STANDARD COVER

DETECTIVE COMICS #23.1 POISON IVY

3D & STANDARD COVER

EARTH 2 #15.1 DESAAD

3D & STANDARD COVER

FLASH #23.1 GRODD

3D & STANDARD COVER

GREEN ARROW #23.1 COUNT VERTIGO

3D & STANDARD COVER

GREEN LANTERN #23.1 RELIC 

3D & STANDARD COVER

JUSTICE LEAGUE #23.1 DARKSEID

 3D & STANDARD COVER

JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #23.1 CREEPER

 3D & STANDARD COVER

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #7.1 DEADSHOT 

3D & STANDARD COVER

AME COMI GIRLS #7

BATMAN BLACK &WHITE #1 (OF 6)

What a silly week for DC to release this title.
Going head to head with 4 other Batman related books and a deal breaking $4.99 price point to boot.
Neal Adams offers up a Denny O'Neil/Bob Haney sermonizing mash up in exquisite tones of graphite for starters.

The legendary, Eisner Award-winning series BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE returns in a brand-new six-issue miniseries featuring tales of The Dark Knight by some of comics’ greatest writers and artists!

“It's been great fun to relaunch BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE, it's a series I'm quite proud of,” said editor Mark Chiarello. “As with the original, I knew the key was to work with the best of the best writers and artists again. I mean, how can you go wrong with the greatest comic character of all time? PLUS talent like Neal Adams, Marc Silvestri, Sean Murphy, Chip Kidd, and all the rest!”

Void of color but full of action, BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE #1 kicks off with the talent of Chip Kidd and Michael Cho, Neal Adams, Joe Quinones and Maris Wicks, John Arcudi and Sean Murphy, and Howard Mackie and Chris Samnee.


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DC VS MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE #1 (OF 6)

DJANGO UNCHAINED #7 (OF 7) (MR)

FAIREST #19 (MR)

LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #12

SCOOBY DOO WHERE ARE YOU #37

TRILLIUM #2 (OF 8) (MR)

MARVEL

I liked this a lot.
X-MEN BATTLE OF ATOM #1 PART ONE

ALL NEW X-MEN #16 BATTLE OF THE ATOM PART 2

Marvel.com: As a writer and as a reader and a fan, what’s got you most excited about this event?

 Jason Aaron: I think it’s the future X-Men that are in the mix. They’ve been fun to explore. Some will be surprising and some will be familiar. There’s a lot of surprises there and a lot of cool stuff that we’re setting up, not just for this story, but for what we’ve got going on down the road.

Brian Wood: I think events get a bad rap for all sorts of reasons, but people always buy them anyway. I think events can create situations that can't happen in a book's regular story, and that right there makes it appealing. Events can show you new things, and in this case, there [are] a lot of new things going on. There's this whole extra layer of story in BOTA that hasn't even been hinted at yet.

More on Marvel.com:battle_of_the_atom_plans_with_brian_wood

More on Marvel.com:battle_of_the_atom_plans_with_jason_aaron

Here's a few advance reviews 

IGN REVIEW

CBR REVIEW

COMICS ALLIANCE REVIEW

COMIC VINE REVIEW

Battle of the Atom

Checklist

September 2013

• Part 1: X-Men Battle of the Atom #1
• Part 2: All-New X-Men #16
• Part 3: X-Men vol. 4 #5
• Part 4: Uncanny X-Men vol. 3 #12
• Part 5: Wolverine and the X-Men #36

October 2013

• Part 6: All-New X-Men #17
• Part 7: X-Men vol. 4 #6
• Part 8: Uncanny X-Men vol. 3 #13
• Part 9: Wolverine and the X-Men #37
• Part 10: X-Men: Battle of the Atom #2

AVENGERS AI #3

DAREDEVIL DARK NIGHTS #4 (OF 8)

DEADPOOL KILLS DEADPOOL #3 (OF 4)

DEXTER #3 (OF 5) 

EMERALD CITY OF OZ #3 (OF 5)

INFINITY #2 (OF 6)

IRON MAN #15

SUPERIOR FOES OF SPIDER-MAN NOW #3

SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #17

TAKIO #4

VENOM #40

X-FACTOR #262

X-MEN LEGACY #16

ARCHIE

ARCHIE #647  BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #215 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #252   AVATAR ABSOLUTION RUBICON #3  GOD IS DEAD #1 (OF 6)   Like the DC 3D cover allocation wasn't proof enough... Jonathan Hickman launches his latest book over at Avatar.   Like a thunderbolt from heaven, the epic launch issue of GOD IS DEAD is here!  East of West and Fantastic Four author JONATHAN HICKMAN launches a fierce new series that stomps where others fear to tread.  Mankind has argued over the existence of gods since the dawn of time.  In modern eras it’s been fashionable to mock religious believers with taunts of scientific testimony and fact.  But when the gods of old begin to reappear on earth and claim the domain of man for their own, the world is thrown into a state of utter anarchy.  Now Horus walks the streets of Egypt, Zeus has taken over the Sistine Chapel, and Odin is coordinating the dissection of the earth among the returned deities.  Mankind held sway over the world for thousands of years and their hubris over that time has made them powerful but when faced with the divine, can mortal weapons put an end to the second coming of the gods? UBER #5  UBER #5 PROPAGANDA POSTER COVER UBER #5 WRAP  BOOM 12 REASONS TO DIE #3 DEATHMATCH #9 GARFIELD #17  HIT #1 (OF 4) Los Angeles. It’s 1955. It’s dark; it’s sexy. It’s dangerous. Everyone has an angle. And while infamous gangster Mickey Cohen rots in a prison cell, Los Angeles ignores the blackest parts of the city’s heart…where clandestine groups of LAPD detectives moonlight as sanctioned hitmen knows as “Hit Squads.” “This is literally a dream come true. I’ve always been a big crime fiction fan so the fact that I get to contribute to the genre with my first original comic book series is pretty surreal,” says Bryce Carlson. “And people aren’t ready for Vanesa’s comic debut…she’s going to blow everyone away with her art. I couldn’t be happier showcasing her tremendous talents on HIT.” DARKHORSE BALTIMORE INFERNAL TRAIN #1 (OF 3) CATALYST COMIX #3 (OF 9) DARK HORSE PRESENTS #27 MICHAEL AVON OEMINGS VICTORIES #5(MR) REALITY CHECK #1 STAR WARS #1 (OF 8) LUCAS DRAFT  Before Star Wars, there was The Star Wars! This is the authorized adaptation of George Lucas’s rough-draft screenplay of what would eventually become a motion picture that would change the world. Annikin Starkiller is the hero . . . Luke Skywalker is a wizened Jedi general . . . Han Solo is a big green alien . . . and the Sith . . . Well, the Sith are still the bad guys. High adventure and derring-do from longer ago, in a galaxy even further away! * Official adaptation of George Lucas’s original screenplay for Star Wars! PREVIEW  Original opening scrawl! Until the recent GREAT REBELLION, the JEDI BENDU were the most feared warriors in the universe. For one hundred thousand years, generations of JEDI perfected their art as the personal bodyguards of the emperor. They were the chief architects of the invincible IMPERIAL SPACE FORCE which expanded the EMPIRE across the galaxy, from the celestial equator to the farthest reaches of the GREAT RIFT. Now these legendary warriors are all but extinct. One by one they have been hunted down and destroyed as enemies of the NEW EMPIRE by a ferocious and sinister rival warrior sect, THE KNIGHTS OF SITH. "I'm having a blast adapting George Lucas' prototypical ideas into sequential storytelling. It's a dream task to help bring to life Annikin Starkiller, General Luke Skywalker, the first Sith Knights, a Space Fortress (that's attacked twice), Imperial troopers on dune birds, the very first Princess Leia (from the planet Aquilae)… And there's so much more in The Star Wars."   ―J. W. Rinzler "While researching in the Lucasfilm Archives I've found many treasures—but one which truly astounded me was George's rough draft for The Star Wars. His first complete imaginings were hallucinating to read—mind blowing. While working with George on another book project, I once asked if we could adapt his rough draft. He was hesitant. Years later, with Dark Horse’s invaluable help, we showed him a few drawn and colored pages of what it might look like. He gave us the okay." ―J. W. Rinzler DYNAMITE ARMY OF DARKNESS VS HACK SLASH #2 (OF 6)  LORDS OF MARS #2 (OF 6)  MOCKING DEAD #1 (OF 4) SHADOW YEAR ONE #5 (OF 10)  WARLORD OF MARS DEJAH THORIS #29  IDW DANGER GIRL THE CHASE #1 (OF 4) GI JOE COBRA FILES #6 HAUNTED HORROR #6 SUICIDE RISK #5 IMAGE A DISTANT SOIL #41 BLACKACRE #10 (MR) CHEW #36 (MR) INVINCIBLE #105 INVINCIBLE UNIVERSE #6 SATELLITE SAM #3  SHELTERED #3 SPAWN #235 WITCHBLADE #169  OTHER PUBLISHERS CODENAME ACTION #1 (OF 6) MOUSE GUARD LEGENDS O/T GUARD VOL 2 #2  SHAHRAZAD PROLOGUE VALIANT QUANTUM &WOODY #3 SHADOWMAN #10 MAGAZINES 2000 AD PROG #1848  MAD MAGAZINE #523 SONIC SUPER SPECIAL MAGAZINE #8

* the gifs are perhaps a wee misleading regarding the kinetic nature of the covers. Lower expectations now.