Final Order Cut-Off is the last day that shops can guarantee their orders for comics. After Final Order Cut-Off, or FOC, these books will only be available to retailers on Advance Reorder. And that is not guaranteed. So here are the highlights for Monday, 2/24/20’s FOC list.
INDY
ARTEMIS & ASSASSIN #1 – Cool looking new Aftershock series. What happens when a time-traveling assassin and a spy from 1944 try to kill each other? For a price, a top-secret assassination organization will travel through time and interfere with watershed moments. Trained as the agency’s top assassin, Maya is sent to kill Virginia Hall, the deadliest spy of WWII. Charged with carrying important plans about the invasion of Normandy to the Allied troops, Virginia’s death would have a cataclysmic effect on WWII as we know it.
HOTELL #1 – AWA books begin to roll out this week. This is a cool anthology style horror series, a good read, which can be said about all these AWA books.
RED BORDER #1 – Second of three AWA books launching this week, this one is political/horror. A young Mexican couple narrowly escapes the Juarez Cartel by fleeing across the border into Texas, only to be run down in the desert by the Cartel’s most brutal thugs. Rescued by a mysterious local who takes them to the safety of his family’s ranch, the couple soon realize their hosts have more than just skeletons in their closet. Trapped in a house of horrors beyond their wildest imagination, the army of assassins on their trail might be the least of their problems.
RESISTANCE #1 – Third of three new AWA books. J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5 and writer of beloved runs on The Amazing Spider-Man, Thor, and Superman: Earth One, returns to comics teaming with Mike Deodato Jr., the blockbuster artist of The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, and Infinity Wars. Together they plant the flag for a new universe of heroes and villains. A global disaster leaves hundreds of millions dead in its wake. Shortly after, a few thousand suddenly manifest superhuman powers. Are they harbingers of more perils to come or Earth’s last hope?
X-RAY ROBOT #1 – I am a huge Mike Allred fan, absolutely love Madman. Max is a family man seeking a more interesting life. While conducting a new experiment at work, the fabric of his reality is torn before his eyes, and a robotic figure appears, claiming to be his 277-year-old self. The robot is able to ”X-Ray” multiple dimensions and battles a nihilistic entity from another dimension who wants to take all life to its ”Pre-Big Bang” status. Max and the robot embark on an interdimensional roadtrip through past and future to take down the ”Nihilist” and save the universe! * Mike Allred’s new bizarre superhero character X-Ray Robot!
MARVEL
CAPTAIN MARVEL #16 PANOSIAN SPIDER-WOMAN VAR – Always loved Dan Panosian’s art. Great looking cover. Last Avenger final chapter.
GHOST-SPIDER #8 – Gwenom returns this issue.
MORBIUS #5 PYEONG JUN PARK SPIDER-WOMAN VAR – I try not to like the theme of the month covers but this one is pretty awesome.
SPIDER-WOMAN #1 – Some great covers. I am excited for a new Spider-Woman series and she gets a new uniform this time around.
OUTLAWED #1 – Think Civil War for the side-kick crowd. In the wake of a devastating tragedy, the United States passes a law that will shake the Marvel Universe to its core. The world has had enough of teen heroes. The crackdown has begun. And the lives of Marvel’s next generation will never be the same again. EVE L. EWING and KIM JACINTO launch a new era in this game-changing event one-shot that will send shockwaves across the Marvel Universe! You won’t want to miss this one!