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
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What’s up Wednesday Warriors? Some cool new series. A couple of must grabs (for me). Pretty good week though this week, especially for horror fans, here is what is on tap.
New Series/#1’s
Absolute Power Origins #1 – DC – Discover the untold story of what led Amanda Waller to form the TRINITY OF EVIL and take down Earth’s Super Heroes! It’s the Suicide Squad’s founder as you’ve never seen her before, in an all-new companion miniseries to the Absolute Power event.
Addiction Death Of Your Life #1 – Addiction Comics – She can drug you with her touch. For daring to help recovering addicts-with radical success-Dr. Niki Tino was shot up with a cocktail of drugs by a NYC drug cartel capo “to put her out of business.” Niki died… and was reborn, with stunning new chemical powers. Now, haunted by the trauma of her rebirth, Dr. Niki Tino struggles to master “The Touch,” undercover in Mexico battling cartel soldiers desperate to steal her blood, the secret of her power!
Big Burn #1 – DSTLRY – Owen and Carlie are the Bonnie and Clyde of the 21st century – a smooth, slick duo who pull off impossible heists, and have the time of their lives doing it. But when justice finally catches up to them, they think it’s all over. Until the Devil himself offers them a deal – their freedom for their very SOULS. But they soon find that without their souls, their love is missing too. So they set out to recruit a crew of the damned for the ultimate heist: break into Hell and steal their souls back.
Nemesis Rogues Gallery #1 – Dark Horse – New Nemesis series following the events of the finale of Big Game.
Nice House By The Sea #1 – DC – Follow up to Nice House by the Lake. No one who was invited to the House knew Max–but she knew each and every one of them. Masters of their fields, titans of industry and knowledge, they all represented the best and brightest of humanity. So when Max whispered to each of them the truth of what they deserved–to be saved from disaster, to carry on the flame of civilization in a paradise built just for them–they all leaped at the chance. Why not? Why shouldn’t they be the ones to live forever? Isn’t it their destiny to survive the culling of the lesser herd? Wouldn’t being named the future of humanity be…nice?
NYX #1 – Marvel – This isn’t a book about X-Men. This is a book about mutants living past the end of their world and into a new beginning. This is MS. MARVEL embracing her mutant life in the neon streets of the Lower East Side. This is ANOLE trying to keep his head above water. This is WOLVERINE in the shadows of Bushwick, protecting her own. This is PRODIGY writing history as it happens – and SOPHIE CUCKOO finding her own way. The news reports are bleak. The streets feel dangerous. There’s something lurking underground. Evil coming from every direction. But they’re determined to make it. This is mutant community. This is mutant pride. This is NYX.
Spawn Kills Every Spawn #1 – Image – What happens when you find out you’re not the only Hellspawn? What if you also find out you’re not the coolest Hellspawn? Easy-you kill them all!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 – IDW – IDW kicks off a new TMNT series with Jason Aaron and Joelle Jones.
New Character
Annihilation 2099 #4 – Silver Surfer 2099 debuts. MEPHISTO offers JONAH MARLO a deal, now he collects souls for his master
Notable Reprints
Wolverine #88 Facsimile Edition – Reprints first meeting of Wolverine and Deadpool.
Small Press Pick of the Week
Hello Darkness #1 – Boom Studios – Horror fans rejoice in cadaverous delight, because Hello Darkness is a brand new monthly anthology series featuring what BOOM! Studios is known for – the best in modern Horror, Fantasy, and Mystery, not to mention the darkest stories yet from an all-star cast of creators! With a spine-tingling lineup of industry legends including Garth Ennis, Becky Cloonan, James Tynion IV, Werther Dell’Edera, Brian Azzarello, Vanesa R. Del Rey, John Arcudi, Ryan Sook, and more, everything from primal fears to modern political horrors will be awakened, in the classic style of Creepy and Eerie and the contemporary chills of Black Mirror. In addition, a deadly new Something is Killing the Children story unfolds in the first 6 issues, along with a bone-rattling new serialized tale by Garth Ennis and Becky Cloonan for the first 7!
Pick of the Week
Epitaphs From The Abyss #1 – EC Comics returns (through Oni Press). From the publisher that drove Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, and many more into the depraved hearts of an unsuspecting world, the immortal EC COMICS returns . . . with its first ALL-NEW series in nearly 70 years! In our first extra-sized, 40-page dose of fear, witness shocking tales of torment and tension in the undying EC tradition-as wrenched from the grave by the vile intentions of acclaimed writers Brian Azzarello (Batman: Damned, 100 Bullets), Chris Condon (That Texas Blood, Night People), J. Holtham (FX’s The Handmaid’s Tale), and Stephanie Phillips (Harley Quinn, Grim) and realized into bloody reality by “all-slaughter” artists Jorge Fornes (Rorschach, Danger Street), Phil Hester (Family Tree), Peter Krause (Irredeemable), and more!