Welcome to this weeks spec. This is where we pick the winners each week we (or shall I say myself) think will be spec worthy, a great read or just cool looking art on the cover.
Marvel Picks
A.X.E. Judgment Day #2 has a pretty awesome Brooks regular cover. Already sold out at TFAW. Still available at Midtown. I haven’t checked other online shops but probably available at most.
Avengers Moon Girl #1 might be fun.
Avengers Moon Girl #1 (Lindsay Variant)
Avengers Moon Girl #1 (Randolph Connecting Variant)
Ghost Rider Vengeance Forever #1 brings us a pretty awesome Barends regular cover for this one shot.
Iron Cat #1 (of 5) (2nd Ptg) gets the additional print treatment.
If you haven’t watched Prey on Hulu yet, it’s great and how Predator movies should be done. Just in time for it to get released, we also get Predator #1.
Lots of variants, some of the ratio’s still available at TFAW:
Predator #1 (Ron Lim Variant)
Predator #1 (Inhyuk Lee Variant)
Predator #1 (Young Variant)
Predator #1 (Rahzzah Variant)
Predator #1 (Finch Launch Variant)
Predator #1 (Momoko Variant)
Predator #1 (1:25 Brown Variant)
Predator #1 (1:50 Tan Variant)
Predator #1 (Wraparound Camoflage Variant)
Predator #1 (Inhyuk Lee Virgin Variant) – Ignore the image on TFAW for this one, obviously it’s wrong.
Star Wars Bounty Hunters #26 (Sprouse Choose Your Destiny Variant) is already sold out at Midtown.
Another Sprouse variant for Star Wars Han Solo Chewbacca #5 Sprouse Choose Your Destiny. Lots of folks collecting these and must have them all.
Venom Lethal Protector #5 has a pretty slick looking Jonboy Meyers variant that’s sold out at Midtown and TFAW. I just wish the tongue was shorter, these artists are getting carried away with Venom’s damn tongue.
DC Picks
Not a lot stands out from DC this week for me, very light week.
Harley Quinn #19 (Cover C – Ryan Sook Homage Card Stock Variant) is a cover I like. Great homage variant.
Indie and Small Publisher Picks
Star Wars: Rebels TPB is a new trade out from Dark Horse, for you Star Wars fanatics.
Eight Billion Genies #2 (of 8) (2nd Ptg) is already sold out at Midtown.
Eight Billion Genies #4 (of 8) (Cover A – Browne) is also out this week and already sold out at Midtown, both A and B covers.
Eight Billion Genies #4 (of 8) (Cover B – Ward)
Cover The Dead With Lime #1 is a new Blood Moon title. I love a good plague story but the writing has to be top notch to keep me coming back for more. Might be hard to come by, doubt a lot of shops went heavy on this one or likely just skipped entirely if they didn’t have any pre-orders.
Parker Girls #1 is a new Terry Moore title. If anyone puts thought into their stories from beginning to end, it’s Moore. Focusing on what seems one story at a time to bring us pure entertainment for our reading pleasure (along with great art as well).
Samurai Doggy #1 (Cover A – Santtos) sounds so ridiculous yet I want to pick this one up to read for some odd reason.
“During the Fourth War of the Sun, a small dog named DOGGY experienced an irreparable trauma: his mother was brutally murdered, and his eight brothers, still puppies, were kidnapped by a mysterious man. To save them, Doggy fought bravely against the terrible killer, but all his efforts were in vain, and he was left for dead. What nobody imagined was that a technological vulture scavenging the region for corpses would be the one to rescue the dying dog from death’s scythe.
Now, Doggy has become Samurai Doggy, and his only goal is to quench his thirst for revenge. Written by Chris Tex (BlackOut) and illustrated by Santtos (LAND OF THE LIVING GODS, BlackOut, Night Shift), SAMURAI DOGGY is a story of loss, revenge and the journey to defeat the greatest empire of machines and robots that has ever existed.”
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