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’s up Wednesday Warriors? A pretty big week this week. Lots of great books. Not spec heavy but worth picking up. Check out what is on tap:
New Series
Blade Red Band #1 – Bloody and violent new Blade series.
Conquest 2099 #1 – DRACULA has conquered a world determined to quash him! Now, with an army at his back, he sets his sights on the new vampire homeworld – DOMUS DRACONUM! What he discovers will shatter his dark heart!!! What tragic event sets him on a collision course with NOVA, SPIDER-MAN…and the SPIDER-WOMAN of 2099?! Featuring the first appearance of SPIDERCIDE 2099
Murder Kingdom #1 – Once upon a time, in a strange land called Florida, a masked psycho starts murdering cast members of the Storybook Kingdom theme park in ways identical to the gory original Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Princess-turned-detective Tanith is the only person who can unmask the killer before she and her friends are all Dying Unhappily Never After!
Night Of The Slashers #1 – Hill Creek is a lovely place to visit… except the one night of the year its citizens transform into bloodthirsty maniacs! Of course, that’s the very night Lara’s bus breaks down, stranding the disillusioned teen and her classmates in the secluded town. Secrets uncovered, terror at every turn-will anyone survive the night?
Seance In The Asylum #1 – 1865. Defrauded spiritual medium Alicia Wilkinson is brought to The Ashcroft Hospital at the behest of Dr. John James Templeton. He offers Alicia a second chance to revive her once-thriving career: Perform a séance amongst the patients in order to drawing out their mental maladies. Alicia performs her first series of séances with the patients-including traumatized soldiers returning from the Civil War, women whose sanity has slipped through their fingers-only to realize their sessions might work all too well. What no one knows is Alicia is a fake. A liar. A cheat… So why are the patients suddenly acting possessed?
Sentinels #1 – The original Sentinel Program was human supremacy and fear coded into circuitry. But now their legacy falls into the hands of mutantkind! Powered by cutting-edge nanotech, this new generation of Sentinels protects a fragile peace between mutants and humans. But when being a Sentinel is your job – your life – is it possible to stay human?
Shi Return Of The Warrior #1 – Manhattan is gripped a series of gruesome copycat “Shi” killings as escaped murderer Masahiro Arashi once again continues his notorious crimes of 25 years earlier. This forces single mother Ana Ishikawa to pick up the naginata once again and stop the psychotic samurai before he can consummate a murderous destiny. A destiny that ends with Ana’s own daughter.
Terminator #1 – The plans to kill Sarah Connor and her son John have failed, but the genocidal Skynet isn’t out of options yet. There are still a few more avenues into the past that will allow it to destroy the human resistance that is poised to smash its processors into silicon shrapnel – it just needs to expand its theater of operations. Opening a new front in the war, Terminators are dispatched across the globe and throughout time to target current resistance fighters, their ancestors, and anyone else unlucky enough to be in the strike zones. And while none of these secondary assignments are as straightforward as the missions of the first T-800 and T-1000, time is literally on the machines’ side. When all of history becomes a war zone, nowhere – and nowhen – is safe!
Notable Reprint
Batman #237 Facsimile Edition – For once, others are wearing superhero costumes as Dick Grayson and friends head to Vermont to attend the annual Rutland Halloween Parade. But when a costumed “Batman” is murdered and the real Robin injured, the real Caped Crusader crashes the party in the “Night of the Reaper!” Featuring cameos, both real and imagined, that are sure to please any Bronze Age comics fans.
First Appearances
Batman And Robin #14 – New villain appears.
Exceptional X-Men #2 – First appearance and cover for Axo
Ultimates #5 – In the early issue of Ultimates, Clint Barton threw away the bow, arrows, and costume, a new Hawkeye emerges from this event.
Halloween Pick of the Week
Fantastic Four #26 – Fantastic Four halloween issue featuring Johnny and Reed
Pick of the Week
Absolute Batman #1 – Without the mansion…without the money…without the butler…what’s left is the Absolute Dark Knight! Sure, this will have a huge print run and not sneaking up on anyone, however, already sold out and going to a second print, should be a fantastic read, and a new and different Batman book seems sorely needed.