NEW COMICS
30 APRIL 2014
It's finally here - yes, that's right, after the sensational end of the Superior Spider-Man, the Amazing Peter Parker returns at last! Are you ready? I certainly hope everyone in the Marvel Universe is.
But wait, there's so much more Good Stuff out this week:
It's Annual time at DC, with BATWOMAN, BATGIRL, GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS and THE FLASH offering stand out storylines in each issue, plus the premiere of FOREVER EVIL AFTERMATH: BATMAN VS BANE (okay, so technically we still have to wait another month for the final issue Forever Evil #7, but the fight against villainy waits for no publishing schedule! ;-) and CYAN, the first in Vertigo's new quarterly anthology CMYK, where comic creators use colour as inspiration for their stories. I'm really looking forward to seeing all the different interpretations that result throughout this series!
The buzz surrounding new Image series SOUTHERN BASTARDS is fantastic, and is sure be the hottest debut of the week (apart from Spidey, of course), and J Michael Straczynski's new fantasy detective series DREAM POLICE looks great too. Also debuting this week are BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: SIX, STAR WARS: REBEL HEIST, and a special Fionna and Cake story for the ADVENTURE TIME ANNUAL #1!
Also arriving: DEADLY CLASS, SERENITY: LEAVES ON THE WIND, SILVER SURFER, BATMAN ETERNAL, AVENGERS, BLACK SCIENCE, UMBRAL, and the conclusion to WHAT IF: AGE OF ULTRON!
WHY WE LOVE IT: A very special issue by dynamite creators Becky Dreistdat and Frank
Gibson bring you the cutest thing imaginable...Baby Fionna and Cake!
WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: Not only does this issue feature fully painted pages by the
amazing Becky Dreistdat, but a beautiful and sweet story featuring Cake as a kitten...does
it get any cuter?
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Cake is a sweet little kitten gettin' into magical mischief with her
best friend...little adventurer Fionna!
With help from the New Resistance, Mal and Serenity's crew are crashing the secret Alliance facility from which River was rescued. She is certain they need to go there-now. Meanwhile, Zoe is in Alliance custody where she discovers that there is more immediate danger from fellow prisoners than anyone else . . .
A young Rebel meets one of the Alliance's best for his first mission. But the young man's hero worship is crushed by the reality of Han Solo. A botched escape, a ship that doesn't work-could it be that Solo is just a lucky bumbler whose luck has run out?
It's the start of a new story arc as Batgirl must unravel a mystery centred around her former BIRDS OF PREY teammate, the woman who betrayed her trust - POISON IVY! BATMAN 66 #10
BATMAN BEYOND UNIVERSE #9
BATMAN ETERNAL #4
BATWOMAN ANNUAL #1
FLASH ANNUAL #3
The start of a major new arc for the Fastest Man Alive! In the future, The Flash is a broken man. His powers have failed him time and again at great cost to him and the city he has sworn to protect. Now he's coming back to 2014 to stop the one event that destroyed his life. Meanwhile, in the present, Barry Allen must contend with thieves trying to capitalize on the devastation of FOREVER EVIL. It's a tale of two timelines that ushers in one of DC's most storied characters - featuring The New 52 debut of WALLY WEST!
The title says it all - FOREVER EVIL is over!
The four colours that are the basis of comics colouring serve as the jumping-off point for creators to push the boundaries of short graphic fiction in the new VERTIGO QUARTERLY: CMYK series. Starting with stunningly simple, bold covers, CMYK will defy all conventions of traditional comics anthologies. The unifying colour could suggest a mood, a plot point, a colouring technique - limited only by the imagination of the fantastic creators we've lined up. And starting with CYAN, we have tales by some of the best talents in comics - a who's who of creative minds. Jock, Fabio Moon, James Tynion IV, Robert Rodi, Shaun Simon, Amy Chu, Joe Keatinge, Cris Peter, Tony Akins and more will take on the challenge of telling compelling stories that scream cool "blue." VERTIGO QUARTERLY: CMYK will continue through 2014 with MAGENTA in summer, YELLOW in fall and finally BLACK in winter. Be prepared to see colour as only Vertigo can deliver!
IDW
GHOSTBUSTERS #15
GI JOE #15
JUDGE DREDD MEGA CITY TWO #4 (OF 5)
Welcome to Crimeland! Dredd's mission brings him to the West Coast's most exciting vacation spot, a theme park dedicated to old-fashioned street crime, singing animated creatures, and total anarchy! But he and his film crew find more than they counted on there-including a rogue Judge who gave up the law to serve the people!
The shifting sands of Saudi Arabia have attracted pilgrims, consumed armies, and made men rich beyond their wildest dreams. But when an ancient weapon is discovered beneath a newly tapped oil field, Agents Mulder and Scully find themselves pulled back into a black game as slippery as the X-Files have ever revealed... and you won't believe who's turning up to join them.
Dream Police Detectives Joe Thursday and Frank Stanford have been partners for as long as they can remember, patrolling the alternate universe of dreams, nightmares, and the great void beyond, an alternate but very real dimension of changelings, echoes, wisps, ethers, and nightwalkers, those who died in their sleep and wander the dreamscape forever. They've seen it all. But when Frank steps away and disappears...and the woman who returns says she's Joe's partner, that she's always been Joe's partner...he begins a journey into the unknown that will shake the dreaming down to its very foundations.
It's "exactly the kind of pulp goodness I live for" according to bestselling writer Ed Brubaker and it has bestselling writer Matt Fraction "both terrified and homesick."
Welcome to Craw County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin' Rebs football team...and more bastards than you've ever seen. When you're an angry old man like Earl Tubb, the only way to survive a place like this is to carry a really big stick.
From the acclaimed team of JASON AARON and JASON LATOUR, the same bastards who brought you Scalped and Wolverine: Japan's Most Wanted, comes a southern fried crime series that's like the Dukes of Hazzard meets the Coen Brothers...on meth.
"You need Southern Bastards. Jason Aaron is back to southern-fried grit and Jaston Latour is showing he's one of the best cartoonists of our generation." -Rick Remender
"The gushing about Southern Bastards is completely on point. Jason Aaron nails it (as usual), but Jason Latour is the rocketship here." - Jonathan Hickman
There was an explosion, some crystals, a lot of lava, and several nuclear warheads. Plus, a crazy time-traveling dinosaur. Now it's 1884 and Atomic Robo is up against the notorious "Butcher Boys." The fate of the West is at stake, but can Atomic Robo save the day before his nuclear fuel runs dry?
Don't miss this exciting chapter in Battlestar Galactica lore as the early origins of Number Six are explored. In developing the next generation of Cylons, getting the models to look human was the easy part. But acting human is another story. Witness the evolution of Number Six as she learns live, to love, and to hate.
Spring has come to Manson and the thoughts of men turn to love, but Rachel doesn't know who to trust until she finds the man who murdered her and left her in a shallow grave. Unfortunately, in a town like Manson, she finds more suspects than allies. This issue begins a new story arc in Terry Moore's critically acclaimed series.
MARVEL
ALL NEW X-MEN #26
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 ANMN
The Greatest Super Hero of All Time RETURNS!
The world may have changed since Spidey's been gone, but so has Peter Parker. This is a man with a second chance at life, and he's not wasting a moment of it. Same Parker Luck, new Parker attitude. Putting the "friendly" back in the neighbourhood, the "hero" back into "super hero," and the "amazing" back into "Spider-Man!"
Three Avengers' lives depend on Manifold breaching the unbreachable.
What is Manifold's true destiny?
Who is the NEVER QUEEN? How is the entire future of the Marvel Universe tied into her very existence? And why is she trying to DESTROY the Silver Surfer?!
Are these questions important? Sure. But you know what's just as important? Lunch. Because what Earth girl Dawn Greenwood has for lunch today could change the fate of EVERYTHING! Not kidding here. This is a very important lunch.
AVENGERS INFINITY!
What if Hank Pym never created Ultron at all?
Could a world without Ultron survive a world without Ultron's own weapon-turned-Avenger, the Vision? Can the very idea of the Avengers survive without each other?
In the darkest of all realities, can the Avengers ever hope to Assemble?
But wait, there's so much more Good Stuff out this week:
It's Annual time at DC, with BATWOMAN, BATGIRL, GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS and THE FLASH offering stand out storylines in each issue, plus the premiere of FOREVER EVIL AFTERMATH: BATMAN VS BANE (okay, so technically we still have to wait another month for the final issue Forever Evil #7, but the fight against villainy waits for no publishing schedule! ;-) and CYAN, the first in Vertigo's new quarterly anthology CMYK, where comic creators use colour as inspiration for their stories. I'm really looking forward to seeing all the different interpretations that result throughout this series!
The buzz surrounding new Image series SOUTHERN BASTARDS is fantastic, and is sure be the hottest debut of the week (apart from Spidey, of course), and J Michael Straczynski's new fantasy detective series DREAM POLICE looks great too. Also debuting this week are BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: SIX, STAR WARS: REBEL HEIST, and a special Fionna and Cake story for the ADVENTURE TIME ANNUAL #1!
Also arriving: DEADLY CLASS, SERENITY: LEAVES ON THE WIND, SILVER SURFER, BATMAN ETERNAL, AVENGERS, BLACK SCIENCE, UMBRAL, and the conclusion to WHAT IF: AGE OF ULTRON!
BOOM
ADVENTURE TIME 2014 ANNUAL #1
ADVENTURE TIME 2014 ANNUAL #1
WHY WE LOVE IT: A very special issue by dynamite creators Becky Dreistdat and Frank
Gibson bring you the cutest thing imaginable...Baby Fionna and Cake!
WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: Not only does this issue feature fully painted pages by the
amazing Becky Dreistdat, but a beautiful and sweet story featuring Cake as a kitten...does
it get any cuter?
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Cake is a sweet little kitten gettin' into magical mischief with her
best friend...little adventurer Fionna!
GARFIELD PET FORCE 2014 SPECIAL
DARK HORSE
CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT #10
KING CONAN CONQUEROR #3 (OF 6)
SERENITY LEAVES ON THE WIND #4 (OF 6)
DARK HORSE
CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT #10
KING CONAN CONQUEROR #3 (OF 6)
SERENITY LEAVES ON THE WIND #4 (OF 6)
With help from the New Resistance, Mal and Serenity's crew are crashing the secret Alliance facility from which River was rescued. She is certain they need to go there-now. Meanwhile, Zoe is in Alliance custody where she discovers that there is more immediate danger from fellow prisoners than anyone else . . .
STAR WARS REBEL HEIST #1 (OF 4)
A young Rebel meets one of the Alliance's best for his first mission. But the young man's hero worship is crushed by the reality of Han Solo. A botched escape, a ship that doesn't work-could it be that Solo is just a lucky bumbler whose luck has run out?
VANDROID #3 (OF 5)
DC
BATGIRL ANNUAL #2
DC
BATGIRL ANNUAL #2
It's the start of a new story arc as Batgirl must unravel a mystery centred around her former BIRDS OF PREY teammate, the woman who betrayed her trust - POISON IVY! BATMAN 66 #10
BATMAN BEYOND UNIVERSE #9
BATMAN ETERNAL #4
BATWOMAN ANNUAL #1
FLASH ANNUAL #3
The start of a major new arc for the Fastest Man Alive! In the future, The Flash is a broken man. His powers have failed him time and again at great cost to him and the city he has sworn to protect. Now he's coming back to 2014 to stop the one event that destroyed his life. Meanwhile, in the present, Barry Allen must contend with thieves trying to capitalize on the devastation of FOREVER EVIL. It's a tale of two timelines that ushers in one of DC's most storied characters - featuring The New 52 debut of WALLY WEST!
FOREVER EVIL AFTERMATH BATMAN VS BANE #1
The title says it all - FOREVER EVIL is over!
Now, Batman has returned to take Gotham City back - by force! The only thing standing in his way? BANE! Get ready for the grudge match of the year!
GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS ANNUAL #2
HE MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE #12
INJUSTICE GODS AMONG US YEAR TWO #4
SCRIBBLENAUTS UNMASKED CRISIS OF IMAGINATION #4
VERTIGO QUARTERLY #1 CYAN
HE MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE #12
INJUSTICE GODS AMONG US YEAR TWO #4
SCRIBBLENAUTS UNMASKED CRISIS OF IMAGINATION #4
VERTIGO QUARTERLY #1 CYAN
The four colours that are the basis of comics colouring serve as the jumping-off point for creators to push the boundaries of short graphic fiction in the new VERTIGO QUARTERLY: CMYK series. Starting with stunningly simple, bold covers, CMYK will defy all conventions of traditional comics anthologies. The unifying colour could suggest a mood, a plot point, a colouring technique - limited only by the imagination of the fantastic creators we've lined up. And starting with CYAN, we have tales by some of the best talents in comics - a who's who of creative minds. Jock, Fabio Moon, James Tynion IV, Robert Rodi, Shaun Simon, Amy Chu, Joe Keatinge, Cris Peter, Tony Akins and more will take on the challenge of telling compelling stories that scream cool "blue." VERTIGO QUARTERLY: CMYK will continue through 2014 with MAGENTA in summer, YELLOW in fall and finally BLACK in winter. Be prepared to see colour as only Vertigo can deliver!
IDW
GHOSTBUSTERS #15
GI JOE #15
JUDGE DREDD MEGA CITY TWO #4 (OF 5)
Welcome to Crimeland! Dredd's mission brings him to the West Coast's most exciting vacation spot, a theme park dedicated to old-fashioned street crime, singing animated creatures, and total anarchy! But he and his film crew find more than they counted on there-including a rogue Judge who gave up the law to serve the people!
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC #18
TRANSFORMERS MORE THAN MEETS EYE #28 DAWN OF THE AUTOBOTS
V-WARS #1
X-FILES SEASON 10 #11
TRANSFORMERS MORE THAN MEETS EYE #28 DAWN OF THE AUTOBOTS
V-WARS #1
X-FILES SEASON 10 #11
The shifting sands of Saudi Arabia have attracted pilgrims, consumed armies, and made men rich beyond their wildest dreams. But when an ancient weapon is discovered beneath a newly tapped oil field, Agents Mulder and Scully find themselves pulled back into a black game as slippery as the X-Files have ever revealed... and you won't believe who's turning up to join them.
IMAGE
BLACK SCIENCE #6
CHEW #41
DEADLY CLASS #4
DREAM POLICE #1
BLACK SCIENCE #6
CHEW #41
DEADLY CLASS #4
DREAM POLICE #1
Dream Police Detectives Joe Thursday and Frank Stanford have been partners for as long as they can remember, patrolling the alternate universe of dreams, nightmares, and the great void beyond, an alternate but very real dimension of changelings, echoes, wisps, ethers, and nightwalkers, those who died in their sleep and wander the dreamscape forever. They've seen it all. But when Frank steps away and disappears...and the woman who returns says she's Joe's partner, that she's always been Joe's partner...he begins a journey into the unknown that will shake the dreaming down to its very foundations.
ELEPHANTMEN #56
SOUTHERN BASTARDS #1
SOUTHERN BASTARDS #1
It's "exactly the kind of pulp goodness I live for" according to bestselling writer Ed Brubaker and it has bestselling writer Matt Fraction "both terrified and homesick."
Welcome to Craw County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin' Rebs football team...and more bastards than you've ever seen. When you're an angry old man like Earl Tubb, the only way to survive a place like this is to carry a really big stick.
From the acclaimed team of JASON AARON and JASON LATOUR, the same bastards who brought you Scalped and Wolverine: Japan's Most Wanted, comes a southern fried crime series that's like the Dukes of Hazzard meets the Coen Brothers...on meth.
"You need Southern Bastards. Jason Aaron is back to southern-fried grit and Jaston Latour is showing he's one of the best cartoonists of our generation." -Rick Remender
"The gushing about Southern Bastards is completely on point. Jason Aaron nails it (as usual), but Jason Latour is the rocketship here." - Jonathan Hickman
TALES OF HONOUR #2
TEN GRAND #9
UMBRAL #6
INDIE
ATOMIC ROBO KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE #1 (OF 5)
TEN GRAND #9
UMBRAL #6
INDIE
ATOMIC ROBO KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE #1 (OF 5)
There was an explosion, some crystals, a lot of lava, and several nuclear warheads. Plus, a crazy time-traveling dinosaur. Now it's 1884 and Atomic Robo is up against the notorious "Butcher Boys." The fate of the West is at stake, but can Atomic Robo save the day before his nuclear fuel runs dry?
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA #10
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SIX #1 (OF 5)
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SIX #1 (OF 5)
Don't miss this exciting chapter in Battlestar Galactica lore as the early origins of Number Six are explored. In developing the next generation of Cylons, getting the models to look human was the easy part. But acting human is another story. Witness the evolution of Number Six as she learns live, to love, and to hate.
BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #223
DOC SAVAGE #5
GRIMM #12
HACKTIVIST #4
JUGHEAD & ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #1
MEGA MAN #36
RACHEL RISING #25
DOC SAVAGE #5
GRIMM #12
HACKTIVIST #4
JUGHEAD & ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #1
MEGA MAN #36
RACHEL RISING #25
Spring has come to Manson and the thoughts of men turn to love, but Rachel doesn't know who to trust until she finds the man who murdered her and left her in a shallow grave. Unfortunately, in a town like Manson, she finds more suspects than allies. This issue begins a new story arc in Terry Moore's critically acclaimed series.
SHADOWMAN END TIMES #1 (OF 3)
UBER #12
KIERON GILLEN has changed the face of war comics forever with the introduction of Uber. After the World-changing events of the previous issue, everything is different. As the true power of the Battleships is just settling in, Uber Year II begins with a deeper look at some of the players left standing.
UBER #12
KIERON GILLEN has changed the face of war comics forever with the introduction of Uber. After the World-changing events of the previous issue, everything is different. As the true power of the Battleships is just settling in, Uber Year II begins with a deeper look at some of the players left standing.
MARVEL
ALL NEW X-MEN #26
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 ANMN
The Greatest Super Hero of All Time RETURNS!
The world may have changed since Spidey's been gone, but so has Peter Parker. This is a man with a second chance at life, and he's not wasting a moment of it. Same Parker Luck, new Parker attitude. Putting the "friendly" back in the neighbourhood, the "hero" back into "super hero," and the "amazing" back into "Spider-Man!"
Also returning: The recharged and re-energized ELECTRO!
AVENGERS #28
AVENGERS AI #12
AVENGERS WORLD #5
AVENGERS AI #12
AVENGERS WORLD #5
Three Avengers' lives depend on Manifold breaching the unbreachable.
What is Manifold's true destiny?
DISNEY KINGDOMS SEEKERS OF WEIRD #4 (OF 5)
HULK #2 ANMN
NEW AVENGERS #17 ANMN
ORIGIN II #5 (OF 5)
SILVER SURFER #2 ANMN
HULK #2 ANMN
NEW AVENGERS #17 ANMN
ORIGIN II #5 (OF 5)
SILVER SURFER #2 ANMN
Who is the NEVER QUEEN? How is the entire future of the Marvel Universe tied into her very existence? And why is she trying to DESTROY the Silver Surfer?!
Are these questions important? Sure. But you know what's just as important? Lunch. Because what Earth girl Dawn Greenwood has for lunch today could change the fate of EVERYTHING! Not kidding here. This is a very important lunch.
UNCANNY AVENGERS ANNUAL #1
The first appearance of the Avengers of the Supernatural!
When the producers of the Mojoverse can't make a hit series they call on Mojo to gather an all-new, all-creepy Avengers! Can the Uncanny Avengers survive the wrath of an unleashed Spirit of Vengeance?
WHAT IF AGE OF ULTRON #5 (OF 5)
When the producers of the Mojoverse can't make a hit series they call on Mojo to gather an all-new, all-creepy Avengers! Can the Uncanny Avengers survive the wrath of an unleashed Spirit of Vengeance?
WHAT IF AGE OF ULTRON #5 (OF 5)
AVENGERS INFINITY!
What if Hank Pym never created Ultron at all?
Could a world without Ultron survive a world without Ultron's own weapon-turned-Avenger, the Vision? Can the very idea of the Avengers survive without each other?
In the darkest of all realities, can the Avengers ever hope to Assemble?
WOLVERINE #5
X-FORCE #4
X-FORCE #4
