Hello CHU fans. It’s the last day of Comicon. It’s been quite an event. I was fortunate enough to attend the first two days and grab some cool exclusives. I hope many of you were able to attend as well…judging by the crowd, I’m thinking just about all of you were there…hard to imagine so many people crammed into one location…with not a lot of elbow room (although some elbows may have been thrown while lining up for a certain Spawn exclusive…?).
Anyway, there’s a NYCC 2024 thread running in the forums that’s been quite active and informative of the events. Feel free to join in with your experiences if you have any to share.
But not even NYCC can stop FOC from happening this week! So I hope you saved a little cash…you shouldn’t need too much. Some bigger books coming in the following weeks and months as revealed at NYCC, but this week is a little on the lighter side.
COVERS
Hard to beat a good Baroness cover…Sozo has memorable one, with her as a member of the Joe’s (she’s “good girl” now…). There’s a NYCC exclusive virgin foil as well, but I prefer the trade dress….foils don’t always make better covers also. And then there’s the price being 1/20th of the exclusive….
FAC CHECK
Special all-villain issue featuring five thrilling tales of Batman fighting his greatest enemies, reprinted for the first time ever and in its original size as a full facsimile edition. A Batman tabloid extravaganza with pinups, puzzles, activity pages, and a back cover tabletop diorama that you can cut out and display.
Now you don’t have to destroy the original to pull out the pin-ups and complete the puzzles! Hopefully you waited 49 years for this facsimile to do so!
This is one you’ll want to order ahead. The foil particularly is $20 (retail), but many places discount 25-35% which basically pays for shipping. And throw in a few extra books to take further advantage of the shipping discount.
FIRST APPEARANCES (Sort of)
Featuring the first appearance of GHOST-SPIDER 2099!
No. Not really. There was another Ghost Rider 2099 back in the 90s.
The time is nigh to end the war, decimate all the forces arrayed against them, and set the stage for an all-new Venom the likes of which no one has ever seen!
Wait…didn’t we talk about this new host for Venom last week? Yea, we did! But this book comes out a whole week earlier…!
SPOILER ALERT
Transformers #14 (Cover B – Spoiler Variant)
I don’t think there spec here. I’ve seen the cover (you can see it over at Lunar Distribution). Let’s just say this could be the first appearance of a Transformer/GI Joe mashup “character”…not a new character though.
INDY SPOTLIGHTS
From the World of Minor Threats: The Brood #1 (Cover C)
Napoleon Archimedes confronts his own mortality, and he’s forced to name a successor from his three extraordinary children: Athena, Benjamin, and Spookshow. Each brilliant, cunning … and unlucky enough to be the child of the world’s greatest supervillain. Napoleon believed he was smart enough to have it all: Raise a family AND conquer the world. Then he thought: Why not combine them? Take the kids on as partners. Create a dynasty… None of it went according to plan. Who will rise above the betrayal, failure, and dysfunction to seize the family business?
Sounds like an interesting concept. I like how the C cover highlights several of the characters.
In 1925, Juan Calavera died a hero. After a career spent outside the law defending the Chicano barrios where the police refused to operate, he earned a reputation for fearlessness . . . and a gunshot in the stomach. Now, five years later, on Dia de los Muertos, his restless spirit has been summoned from the grave to help a desperate former colleague unravel a kidnapping all too close to home. With only days to solve the case before he is called back to the underworld, can Calavera reveal the identity of the masked human trafficker known as La Fantasma before tragedy strikes again . . . and solve the mystery of his own murder in the process?
A little Ghost Rider / Dick Tracy mash-up? I’m interested!
PICK OF THE WEEK
It’s not really much of a spoiler variant if you reveal the cover a week before FOC…it’s like someone at marvel changed their mind because they could sell more books revealing the character…and call it a first appearance variant…but then forgot to drop “spoiler” from the title…
Anyway…with not much spec this week, this cover/book is the winner. Granted Hulkette (I like to call her Hulk-Girl) has a prior cover appearance, this looks to be her official debut. So have at it!
Parting Thoughts
I hope everyone enjoyed NY Comic Con and stayed out of trouble (if you attended). I had a blast and look forward to next year. See you all next week!