Hey CHU-sers. Long day in the heat today. Pretty tired. Going to make this quick.
I’ll be honest, not much to get excited about this week. Blind bags and NYCC is around the corner though.
REPRINTS & FACSIMILES
The mashup covers keep coming.
Captain America #2 (2nd Print)
I believe this was the first David Colton as a super soldier. Not sure if this is the final cover art.
Unlikely to be a 4th print, I would think. Would imagine this would be a low print run if you’re spec’ing on this book.
NUMBER ONES
BOBA FETT finds himself trapped in a situation he seemingly can’t get out of! The EMPIRE and an extreme REBEL faction are after the same bounty! Fett needs to track down a deadly individual who has played both sides, and – to make things even more impossible – his target is hiding out in a volatile volcanic system!
The year is 1940. Most of the Western world is embroiled in a war against a fascist regime whose march across Europe shows no sign of defeat. With the specter of global war looming, it’s a time of fear and paranoia for those living in Gotham. It’s only been a few months since the city was rescued from undead monsters by the masked vigilante known as The Bat-Man, but a vicious killer has been on a murder spree that’s taking the city to its breaking point. Bodies are turning up in theatrically gruesome ways…all staged with the killer’s calling card: a hangman’s noose. While The Bat-Man endeavors to solve the spate of murders, a young reporter from the Daily Star named Lois Lane arrives in Gotham. Meant to cover a movie premiere, it doesn’t take long for Lane to find herself caught in the grips of a new villain in Gotham. One whose mastery of fear will plunge the city into chaos!
Follow up to the First Knight series.
For centuries, an elite force known as the Camelot Corps has protected ancient secrets, waiting for the day when these myths are needed by the world. That day is today. Young Fel, Connor, and their friends are stunned when they’re almost crushed by a giant stone falling from the sky. Their lives are changed forever when they find a sword stuck fast in the stone. These children of destiny will soon face a great evil. But they won’t do so alone. For these friends have been chosen to wield ancient, magical weapons. Great weapons bonded to knights of legend. Weapons that…speak? Weapons that argue. With the evil Mordred’s power growing, the fate of the world rests in the hands of the Children of the Round Table. New York Times #1 bestseller Tom Taylor (Superman, Star Wars, The Deep TV series, Neverlanders) and Daniele Di Nicuolo (Seven Secrets, Nightwing) team up to bring a new kind of hero to DC Comics
Probably more for younger readers, but you never know.
Jason Todd has left Gotham and Batman behind him. All he’s taking with him is his costume, his bike, and a metal briefcase containing two handguns (and lots of bullets). New Angelique seems like the perfect place for Red Hood to put down roots. There’s crime, vice, and corruption everywhere. When Jason discovers a superpowered serial killer who is targeting the city’s police, he finds himself sucked into a terrible and bleak conspiracy with seemingly no end in sight. But Jason isn’t the only person on the scene. Following his trail is Helena Bertinelli a.k.a. Huntress. Is she here to stop him or help him? What will happen when the two black sheep of the Bat-Family start working together? Get ready for Red Hood like you’ve always wanted to see him.
New ongoing series. New superpowered villain.
SERIES PREMIERE FOR FANS OF INVINCIBLE UNIVERSE: BATTLE BEAST COMES YOUR NEW FAVORITE SERIES! ** The dream team of ROBERT KIRKMAN** (THE WALKING DEAD_, _INVINCIBLE) and superstar artist DAVID FINCH (Batman, New Avengers) present a visionary action epic unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Enor has led his tribe for many seasons, but his time as Chieftan is coming to an end. He wields the mighty SKINBREAKER, but at his age, he can barely lift it. Will Enor’s reluctant heir, Anok, take over before their world falls to ruin? As a bloody power struggle begins, an even bigger threat lurks in the darkness beyond their village. SKINBREAKER tells the story of a people on the verge of collapse and their fight for survival as the many threats they face close in for the kill.
Been hearing some buzz about this book. Lots of variants. I’d stick with Cover A.
Return to the Twilight Zone in this all-new anthology series featuring stories by some of the best creators in comics today! Each issue is a new tale in the vein of the iconic original television series that’s captivated audiences for over 60 years. And like the show, these stories will be revealed in terrifying black and white! THIS ISSUE: Writer Dan Watters (Batman: Dark Patterns, Home Sick Pilots) and artist Morgan Beam (Swamp Thing: Twin Branches) present “Blank.” A terrified citizen regales a detective with a story about people suddenly frozen like statues. A once-bustling metropolis becomes quieter by the minute as people are replaced by featureless versions of themselves. Where one would have found hopes, laughter, tears, and struggles, one can now only find BLANKS…here in The Twilight Zone.
READS
Mary Jane Watson is finally in the swing of things as the new Venom host, using their powers in all-new ways to be the hero the symbiote never knew it could be! But as she cleans up the streets of New York, she remains blissfully unaware of the strands of darkness leading off into the darkness of the void. Knull, the creator of all symbiotes, was killed by Eddie Brock. Nothing could bring him back… but Knull rules over nothing. Knull has returned, and word is racing across the stars to the one who took him down before to prepare to do it again. Will Venom be ready? Join us for a huge celebratory issue as ALL-NEW VENOM becomes VENOM once more and shifts back to the legacy numbering with issue #250
Knull is back.
THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH Celebrates its 5th Anniversary with an Extra-length #0 Issue! A new day has dawned at the Department of Truth. Lee Harvey Oswald and his ruthless new recruits are ready to do whatever it takes to make the agency great again. Don’t miss this critical turning point in the Eisner-nominated series! And—for the first time ever—DoT welcomes celebrated guest writer SCOTT SNYDER (Absolute Batman) and acclaimed artist JOSHUA HIXSON (THE DEVIANT) to tell the secret history of Elvis in the first of a three-part back-up story!
I’m expecting an aschan of this book at NYCC…
**END OF STORY ARC ** OPTIMUS PRIME VS MEGATRON This is it. And the new era of TRANSFORMERS begins with the most shocking ending to ANY comic book this year!
Are we going to witness the death of Optimus Prime and Megatron, shades of the summer of 1986? Don’t let your kids read this book until you’ve screened it, lol. Dan Mora and Robert Kirkman will be the new creative crew starting with issue #25, so the current team may look to go out with a bang.
Parting Thoughts
And that it, folks. No picks of the week…no drek. Just an average week, mostly looking like reads.
Have a great week!