Hey Towelites, it’s Wednesday once again! AND that means we get a bunch of new comics to pick up and get our geek on with!
Original Sin is heating up as we see The Punisher and Doctor Strange team-up! Some great variants on the shelves this week, including: Mark Millar’s MPH gets 2 Leinil Francis Yu variant covers featuring the entire Millarworld cast! DC’s Bombshells continues this week with two heavy hitters! Remember the classic TMNT video game Turtles in Time? Well this week sees a new mini series from IDW based on the popular story!
So let’s find out what’s going on over at Marvel, DC, IDW, Dark Horse, Zenoscope, Image, Dynamite, and more!! Check out TFAW for the latest titles, popular back-books, preorders and more!
Featured Book(s) of the Week
MPH <#2 of 5> (Cover C & D – Yu): Image Comics: A good guy dealt a tough hand, Roscoe’s found the perfect Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card in the form of super-speed pills called MPH. Now that he knows who put him away, he’ll find that revenge is a dish best served…lightning fast! The all-new Millarworld Universe zooms ahead at breakneck speed with Millar and Fegredo’s urban adventure tale.
Batman And Ras Al Ghul #32: DC Comics: ‘The Hunt for Robin’ concludes! Batman has caught up to Ra’s al Ghul, and the battle for the bodies of Talia and Damian begins!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Ten #4: Dark Horse: Getting help from Dracula seemed like a good idea, until he stole the Vampyr book-and Xander! Now Buffy, Spike, Dawn, Willow, and Giles must save Xander and retrieve the book before it’s too late. Dracula has already begun to study how the lack of magical rules can work in his favor . . .
Daredevil #4: Marvel Comics: The Owl is back! But he’s not working alone! Watch as the Daredevil team permanently redefines one of DD’s oldest enemies deadlier than ever! Plus–whatever happened to Foggy Nelson?
George Romeros Empire Of Dead Act One <#5 of 5>: Marvel Comics: IT’S ZOMBIES VS VAMPIRES-WITH HUMANS CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE- AS THE LEGENDARY GEORGE ROMERO UNLEASHES HIS NEXT UNDEAD EPIC! Beware NYC’s growing zombie evolution-and its new leader . . . Xavier! Meanwhile, which strange bedfellows are scheming to take down Mayor Chandrake? Plus: It’s a terrorizing team-up in variant cover form when the Zombie Godfather George Romero unites with the Zombie King Arthur Suydam!
Harley Quinn #7 (Bombshells Variant Cover Edition): DC Comics: Welcome to Ladies’ Night, where Harley gets her butt kicked by Big Bertha Bensonhurts at the roller derby, starts a massive bar fight and teams up with Poison Ivy to find out who hired all those pesky assassins!
SPOTLIGHT- Kill Shakespeare Mask Of Night <#1 of 4>: IDW Publishing: The award-winning series returns with a high seas tale of pirate battles, vengeance and lost love. Hamlet, Juliet, Othello and Shakespeare become pawns in a deadly game of survival between the legendary masked pirate Captain Cessario, his first mate Viola, and the new terror on the water, Titus Andronicus’ forbidding war ship The Lavinia. An excellent companion peice to the new Kill Shakespeare board game released by IDW Games!
Manhattan Projects #21: Image Comics: ‘SPACE DOG’ Ever wonder what happened to our deep space explorer for the Mars Project? Find out now as the Cosmohundin Laika boldly goes where no Russian dog has gone before.
Nova #18: Marvel Comics: Everybody has has one…
Original Sin <#4 of 8>: Marvel Comics: TRUST NO ONE. NOT EVEN YOURSELF. One hero goes rogue. Another loses his head. Dr. Strange and the Punisher team up for a daring raid. And all trails now lead to one suspect. But he… how is that even possible?
Punisher #7: Marvel Comics: The international best-selling author of NOT A GOOD DAY TO DIE, KEVIN MAURER joins Nathan Edmondson to tell a story of Punisher in jungle warfare! A group of American soldiers are being held prisoner by a South American drug lord, and suddenly a new prisoner arrives…Frank Castle! But not all is as it seems on EITHER side of the bars in this jail tale!
Star Trek City on the Edge Of Forever <#1 of 5>: IDW Publishing: For the first time ever, a visual presentation of the much-discussed, unrevised, unadulterated version of Harlan Ellison’s award-winning Star Trek teleplay script, ‘The City on the Edge of Forever!’ This Hugo- and Writer’s Guild of America Award-winning teleplay has been much discussed for decades but only here can you see the story as Mr. Ellison originally intended!
Star Wars: Darth Maul – Son of Dathomir #2: Dark Horse: With his Shadow Collective army stalled, Darth Maul calls on Mother Talzin for help and is sent reinforcements-the deadly Nightbrothers! Maul is ready again to take on the Separatist droid army, Count Dooku, and General Grievous-in a trio of simultaneous battles! Adapted from un-aired episodes of The Clone Wars TV show!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtles In Time <#1 of 4>: IDW Publishing: A brand new mini-series from Paul Allor, Erik Burnham and some of the best IDW TMNT artists ever! The Turtles become unstuck in time and go spinning into the past! First stop: the prehistoric age, where they are far from the most dangerous reptiles around! Will the Turtles be able to find their way home without damaging history?
Thor God Of Thunder #23: Marvel Comics: THE LAST DAYS OF MIDGARD Part Five Thor’s war to save the earth comes to its epic conclusion. In the far future, King Thor makes a dark decision that may save the day, but at what cost? And in present-day Broxton, Oklahoma, Thor makes a final stand against the forces of ROXXON, but not even a god can save everyone.
Wonder Woman #32 (Bombshells Variant Cover Edition): DC Comics: The casualties are mounting as Wonder Woman’s divine family tears itself apart – and Diana prepares to make everyone feel her power as the God of War!
Hope that satisfied your craving!
~CynicNerd
