FOC PICKS FOR 8/10/26
Quick one this week. Went to Terrificon on Friday, the. Prepping for company. So keeping it short. Have a great week!
COVERS
Sometimes these Dan Mora celebrity variants are too spec plays. MJF actually attends comic conventions so makes this book a little more appealing versus other celebrities who are much more difficult.
Although I don’t see this cross over having much spec value, this cover stands out from them all to me. And that wa before I even knew it was a SY cover. Dirty D Cover of the Week.
NOTABLE REPRINTS
Cool classic Joker cover gets the facsimile treatment.
NEW ONES
All is dark. But all is not lost… Rose isn’t special. She works in the Factory just like everyone else—a dark, sprawling monolithic structure that runs along the coast and cuts the world in two. All that’s left now are desolate settlements that exist in its shadow, made up of submerged villages, derelict woods, and deadly swamps. No one knows what’s left of the world on the other side…
But when Rose’s young daughter Ava is violently taken from their shanty town home a year before she is meant to join the work force, Rose will come face-to-face with the surreal, harrowing forces outside the Factory’s walls—including a terrifying figure called the Scarecrow Queen, who has an offer: one last chance to save her daughter, in exchange for her soul. Part post-apocalyptic neo-Western, part southern gothic, part dark fantasy, CROWBOUND spins a heart-wrenching and violent story about mortality, holding onto hope in the darkest of worlds and the bonds that make us human. A noncompliant mother makes a dark pact with an ancient, violent Scarecrow Queen to stop a totalitarian government from taking her daughter.
Ugh…if it takes this many words to explain the concept, makes me wonder if it will hook people in. There is an Ashcan edition Image released a few weeks back if you want to check it out.
The Doom Patrol is broke. Adopting a heroes-for-hire business model to stave off financial and emotional ruin, the team finds itself responding to a simple case—a missing cat. But when this case proves to be far from simple, the world’s strangest heroes find themselves pulled into a truly out-of-this-world situation! And elsewhere, beyond the view of Robotman, Elasti-Girl, and Negative Man—and perhaps even beyond the veil of our reality—a ghost of the team’s past is preparing to cross into their world.
JACK OF HEARTS, NOVA, STAR-LORD AND…BULLSEYE!? THANOS has hired BULLSEYE to pull the trigger… and this time, the shot could end everything! As the DEADLIEST ASSASSIN IN THE MARVEL UNIVERSE hunts his target through New York City, STAR-LORD, NOVA and JACK OF HEARTS clash with Bullseye in a brutal, zero-room-for-error fight against the inevitable.
Step into the Golden Age and witness the first adventures of Superman! During the day, Clark Kent does what he can to make ends meet in the bustling city of Metropolis, but when the sun goes down, he leaps into action to keep the city streets safe! As Superman, Clark fights for a better tomorrow, but he feels like he’s not affecting change. The rich keep getting richer, and the poor struggle to survive. Can Superman truly save the downtrodden?
Being a black label book, probably going to touch upon some more mature or dark topics. Could be a good read.
Stu and Jake’s friendship was forged in WW II, but the one thing it couldn’t survive was the comic book industry. As their Wonder Comics creations grew from four-color sensations to a global phenomenon, everything changed… Now, these two legendary comic creators have reunited to launch the America’s Freedom Force cinematic universe, only to discover the make-believe superheroes and monsters from their stories are very, very real. Can Stu and Jake overcome decades of bad blood and stolen credit? They better if they’re going to help save our world!
Mini-series premiere.
ONE AND DONE
Batman of Two Worlds #1 features an all-new Batman story by writer Matt Fraction and artist Javi Fernández, with colors by Tomeu Morey and letters by Clayton Cowles, alongside an all-new Absolute Batman story by writer Scott Snyder and artist Nick Derington, with colors by Frank Martin and letters by Tom Napolitano.
“You have two different looks at Batman,” said Matt Fraction. “The moral structures, the ethical structures, the political structures. A chance to put them side by side and see the similarities and differences.”
“This is just such a unique moment,” added Scott Snyder. “The mission was to show what’s special about each interpretation. The two stories are both about Batman’s form of justice.”
Available exclusively on Batman Day 2026 for $2.99.
GIMMICK OF THE WEEK
Every night at midnight, the Graveyard Shift clocks in. From an abandoned funeral home known as The Office, the mysterious Boss brings the dead back to life by punching their time cards and sending them out to battle the horrors that emerge after dark. By sunrise, their shift is over, and they die once again. As the nights grow longer, the team begins to question who they once were and what it will take to finally earn their retirement from the Graveyard Shift.
Each Body Bag contains one randomly inserted Time Card trading card selected from a 15-card set, including 5 Base Time Cards, 5 Rare Foil Time Cards (1:100), and 5 unique One-of-One Time Cards.
Every Body Bag also contains one randomly inserted comic selected from a lineup of Body Bag Exclusive covers available only through the GRAVEYARD SHIFT Body Bag. Eight unique Body Bag Exclusive covers are available to collect, each featuring original artwork and available only through the Graveyard Shift Body Bag. None of these covers are available as standard open-order editions. Body Bag Exclusive Cover H Secret Exclusive Cover (1:50) Cover I Foil Exclusive Cover (1:100) Cover J Glow-in-the-Dark Exclusive Cover (1:200) Cover K Secret Exclusive Cover (1:500) Cover L Signed Chrome Signature Exclusive Cover (1:1,000) Cover M Signed Gold Signature Exclusive Cover (1:5,000) Cover N Hand-Signed & Sketched Exclusive Cover (1:20,000) Cover O Rare covers are randomly inserted throughout the print run at the stated ratios.
Just when you think the Spears train had derailed, it decides to combine blind bags AND randomly inserted trading cards…let the madness begin again…