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 is up Wednesday Warriors? Not a massive winner week. Pretty small week, but some banger books. Especially the pick of the week. Keep seeing winners week after week, which has made selling easy. Here is what is on tap:
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New Series
Crimes Against Nature #1 – TWO BEST FRIENDS. A MAN AND HIS APE AGAINST THE WORLD. A famous Hollywood Animal Trainer, Doctor Kermit Groeden, and his only client/best friend—Amigo the Ape, the first gorilla ever nominated for an Academy Award—are framed for a crime they didn’t commit. Now they’re on the run. And to clear their names and save their lives, Kermit and Amigo will be forced to reveal their darkest secrets and confront each other’s hidden past. Will their friendship be able to survive? A story about secrets, sins, and simians. Koko the Gorilla meets The Usual Suspects and Pineapple Express in this Hollywood neo-noir buddy crime comedy.
Escape From New York Escape From Chicago #1 – Once you go in, you don’t come out— —unless your name is Snake Plissken! Plissken now survives as a coyote, smuggling people and contraband across the dangerous dead zones between prison territories like Chicago. It’s a hard and bitter job. But when he’s hired to extract a woman wanted by the city’s warlord, Snake sees one more chance at redemption—or one more chance for the universe to kick his ass. Introducing new settings and characters with all the dystopian insanity you know and love, superstar writer & film director Kyle Higgins teams with artist Val Rodrigues for an explosive new series revamping the beloved film franchise!
Gambit Gone #1 – A saga spinning directly out of the shocking conclusion of X-MEN OF APOCALYPSE: OMEGA — one which will demand more of the man called GAMBIT than ever before! In two intertwined tales, REMY LEBEAU will face his demons…and the demons of all mutantkind…in a story which will see the limits of the reformed Gambit pushed to their breaking point. What kind of man—what kind of husband—what kind of hero—will emerge?!
Smile Any Given Smile #1 – Comic book sequel to the hit horror movie continues. January 1995. All eyes are on the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The Sharks gear up for the most significant event in the AAL’s 20-year history, and Maximillian Dupree—their sudden-star backup quarterback—is feeling the pressure from his teammates, his fans, and his debts to the city’s gambling underworld. A string of suicides hits the community hard, drawing a desperate sports journalist to examine their connection to the big game. No one can trust anything they see as a mind-bending entity and its frightful visions threaten their payouts, their sanity, and their lives…vBased on the critically acclaimed Smile film franchise, writer Stephanie Williams (Nubia, Roots of Madness) and GLAAD Media Award–winning artist Pablo Collar (Avengers Academy) are sure to run fear across the goal line. Time to place your bets. Kickoff approaches for a Sunday ritual that will have you ready to win…or die smiling.
One and Done
Clive Barkers Hellraiser Resurrections Hells Council #1 – We saw the fall of Butterball at the end of Hellbound: Hellraiser II. Now we’ll witness his rise as the wounded Cenobite is taken in by a mysterious do-gooder who slowly nurses him back to health, all while worming her way into his brain…and maybe even his heart?
Muppets Take The Marvel Universe #1 – To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of THE MUPPET SHOW…we bring you a crossover no one saw coming! Join EISNER-winning writer and one of the world’s greatest Muppet fans CHIP ZDARSKY along with a cadre of Marvelously talented creators as they unleash The Muppets’ trademark chaos on the MARVEL UNIVERSE. ROWLF THE DOG kidnapped by MOJO? KERMIT THE FROG, MISS PIGGY, FOZZIE BEAR, SPIDER-MAN, BLACK PANTHER and EMMA FROST to the rescue? DR. BUNSEN HONEYDEW and BEAKER experimenting with GAMMA RAYS and PYM PARTICLES? What could go wrong? Find out in this epic tale told in the MIGHTY MARVEL MUPPET MANNER!
For the Cover
Rocketeer Infiltrator #3 Ito Cover – Ito has grown a loyal group of fans.
Notable Reprints
Superman #141 Facsimile Edition – The Man of Steel finds himself thrown back in both space and time to the planet Krypton before its destruction! There (now a normal Kryptonian with no special powers), Kal-El must resign himself to building a life on the world of his birth before he is even born! Luckily, he will have two caring friends to help him—newlyweds Jor-El and Lara! But when Kal-El also finds love with the glamorous Lyla Lerrol, will he decide to rewrite Krypton’s future as well as his own? It’s the astounding three-part comic novel by Superman creator Jerry Siegel, “Superman’s Return to Krypton”!
Pick of the Week
Absolute Batman #24 – Rumors coming in of damages, but this is the big book of the week. Absolute Batgirl making her appearance with an homage to Absolute Batman #1. Winner.