Every week, tons of new books hit the stands, each with potential. Some live up to that potential. We pick the ones we think have the best shot at heating up. Here are the picks of the week for delivery this Wednesday
What is up Wednesday Warriors? More action this week than the previous few. That’s good. Here is what is on tap:
New Series/New #1’s
Addams Family Charlatans Web #1 – IDW – everyone’s favorite Creepy and Kooky family return for a new series.
Beyond Real #1 – Vault Comics – New series, new #1. Free from many stores, others will charge, but free money to help them out. Worth trying for free. When struggling artist June is injured in a severe car accident that leaves her boyfriend in a coma, she begins to experience strange visual phenomena. Soon, she’s able to see that we are all actually living in a computer simulation. June must set out on a journey of possibility and peril into the metaphysical layers of the simulation to reach the world’s creator and save her true love from death
Bloody Dozen A Tale Of The Shrouded College #1 – Image – MINISERIES PREMIERE SPACE VAMPIRES! In this new installment of THE SHROUDED COLLEGE, CHARLES SOULE WILL SLINEYs supernatural horror-adventure saga, three down-and-out astronauts are tasked with the ultimate heist—breaking a group of deadly vampires out of a space prison orbiting the Sun. **Apollo 13 **meets Blade in this killer thriller!
Charred Remains #1 – Mad Cave – A dark entity made of fire, smoke, and ash-“The Fire Man”-blazes through a young girl’s home, killing her entire family. Amy Durant swears she saw this supernatural creature, but no one ever believed her. Unfortunately, these past fears reignite a decade later as her city goes up in flames. With no one else to rely on, Amy is forced to battle both past trauma and the face of the inferno.
Gumaa The Beginning Of Her #1 – Jee Jyung Lee story and art. YOUNG KHALIDA escapes from a drug syndicate and discovers an ancient blade in a long-abandoned temple. Using its power, she becomes the GODDESS OF THE CITY, controlling the citizens through dark magic and fear. But events are being manipulated against her from the shadows, targeting Khalida. A final action-packed confrontation will reawaken the ancient war and change the balance of power between HEAVEN AND HELL…FOREVER.
Masterpiece #1 – Dark Horse – Bendis and Maleev new series.
Space Usagi Death & Honor #1 – Dark Horse – New series following Space Usagi.
Spider-Gwen Smash #1 – New Spider-Gwen series with more variants.
Underheist #1 – New supernatural crime series from David Lapham.
Notable Reprint
Batman #428 Robin Lives – Reprinting the classic Batman 428 with the never before published alternate ending. (two endings were completed but the life of Robin hung in the balance of people voting, hating Robin, most voted for him to die at the hands of the Joker)
Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees #1 2nd Ptg – Hit indy box gets second print. Anthropomorphic slasher series. Dexter meets Paddington Bear.
For the Cover
Miles Morales Spider-Man #13 Peach Momoko Nightmare Cover – Miles Morales Spider-Man made of spiders. Creepy and fun.
Small Press Pick of the Week
Invasive #1 – One Press – Cullen Bunn, Beyond excess, beyond ethics, beyond science . . . Enter a terrifying new experiment in pain from Eisner Award nominee Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun, Basilisk) and acclaimed illustrator Jesús Hervás (The Empty Man)! Dr. Carrie Reynolds was a veteran trauma surgeon with a godlike mastery of muscle and bone. But outside the operating room, her rigidly ordered life spiraled into chaos when her daughter, Heather-a recovering plastic surgery addict-suddenly disappeared, only to mysteriously reemerge in a catatonic state, her vocal cords removed . . . the latest in a series of victims scarred by a battery of brazenly cruel medical procedures that have baffled police and left an alarming number of once-ordinary citizens maimed, mutilated, or dead on arrival. Deep beneath the streets of Carrie’s city, a new kind of underground hospital has just opened its doors . . . and, once inside, there are no rules, no oaths, and no taboos too deep to not to be broken. Together, a new class of surgeon has sworn to pierce the final threshold of accepted medical orthodoxy one incision at a time. The scalpel is their tool. The alleys are their operating theater. Murder is their medicine. And only Carrie can stop what they’re planning next . . .
Pick of the Week
Moon Knight #30 – End of Moon Knight launching into a new Moon Knight, not sure if that is going to be the end of Marc Spector, or just a new costume, but looking forward to this. Spoilers later.
Just so everyone knows, the pages for Batman 428 where robin survives have been published before, in collected editions, just not as “finished” work in a comic form.
“Collected editions of the storyline such as Batman: A Death in the Family – The Deluxe Edition has showed off unfinished pages where Bruce stumbles upon the bleeding, but still alive Robin. However, as a completed story, fans have never been privy to the complete alternate issue to one of the most controversial Batman comics ever published. “