Happy new comic book day Towelites! Some great new books hitting comic shops today so get down there are pick up your favorite funny book! Here are my pulls and highlights!

Book of the Week

Powers Of X #1 (Of 6)(Cover F Joshua Cassara Character Decades Variant) (Marvel) Jonathan Hickman, R. B. Silva

FEAR THE FUTURE! Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman (INFINTY, NEW AVENGERS, FF) continues his revolutionary new direction for the X-Men. Intertwining with HOUSE OF X, POWERS OF X reveals the secret past, present and future of mutantkind, changing the way you look at every X-Men story before and after. You do not want to miss the next seminal moment in the history of the X-Men!

 

Fight Club 3 #7 (Cover A David Mack) (Dark Horse) Chuck Palahniuk, Cameron Stewart, Dave McCaig, David Mack

Tyler Durden confronts online dating and postmodern romance, forcing Balthazar to take desperate measures.

Stranger Things SIX #3 (Of 4) (Dark Horse) Jody Houser, Edgar Salazar, Keith Champagne, te Piekos, Marissa Louise, Aleksi Briclot

Discover the origins of Project MK Ultra! Francine and the other gifted young people are being held in the Hawkins Laboratory by Dr. Brenner. Francine believes he will stop at nothing to harness their collective powers. Increasingly grueling experiments unlock dark visions of the future, convincing her and her friends that they must somehow escape with the rest of the children–but will their opportunity arrive too late?

Batman Last Knight On Earth #2 (Of 3)(Cover B John Romita Jr.) (DC) Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion, Jock

The world has been destroyed, and Batman is on a quest to find out who’s responsible. But when villains from his past begin to complicate things for the Dark Knight, he finds an unlikely ally in a place known as ‘the Plains of Solitude.’

Batman Who Laughs #7 (Of 7)(Cover B David Finch) (DC) Scott Snyder, Jock, David Finch

It’s the final showdown between Batman and the Batman Who Laughs… but how do you defeat a foe who knows your every instinct and every move? Bruce Wayne will have to outsmart Bruce Wayne in this ultimate test of good versus evil. You can’t miss this finale to the epic miniseries that will tear up the very foundations of Gotham City!

Green Lantern Annual #1 (DC) Grant Morrison, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Guillem March

A Green Lantern tradition is reborn when the annual Jordan family reunion takes a turn for the bizarre, leaving Hal and his nearest and dearest on the front line of a terrifying invasion from an impossible reality that’s closer than you think! There’s only one way for intergalactic lawman Hal ‘Green Lantern’ Jordan to prevent the ultra-crime of the millennium-but what will be the outcome when Green Lantern takes on a young superhero sidekick? And who will it be? Also featuring an incredible guest appearance by the strangest Lantern of all-you must not miss THE GREEN LANTERN ANNUAL!

Canto #2 (Of 6) (IDW) David M. Booher, Drew Zucker

Canto’s adventure begins! Enslaved for generations, Canto’s people once had hearts. Now they have clocks. When slavers damage a little tin girl’s clock beyond repair, Canto must brave his strange and fantastic world to bring back her heart. Can he overcome the dangers that await to save the one he loves? An all-ages fable inspired by Wizard of Oz and Dante’s Inferno. Part fantasy. Part adventure. All heart.

Crow Hack Slash #2 (Of 4) (IDW) Tim Seeley, Jim Terry

With Vlad in a coma, Cassie has to side with one of the two Crows to stop the other from getting revenge upon an entire city. But can the legendary killer of undead killers stomach working side by side with the one thing she hates the most? From writer/artist Tim Seeley (Green Lanterns, Nightwing, Shatterstar). Featuring an all-new Crow unlike any you’ve read before!

Paper Girls #30 (Image) Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson

SERIES FINALE! DOUBLE-SIZED FINAL ISSUE! It’s all been leading up to this-the deeply emotional series finale of PAPER GIRLS! No spoilers here, but our epic conclusion features 44 PAGES OF ORIGINAL STORY WITH NO ADS, and we can’t wait for you to read it. Thanks so much for riding with us! ~ Brian, Cliff, Matt & Jared

Spawn #299 (Image) Todd McFarlane, Jason Shawn Alexander

THE LAST ISSUE BEFORE SPAWN #300! ‘WAR TO 300,’ Part Two: Witness the debut of TODD McFARLANE’s newest creation-The Rapture! Heaven’s answer to the mythic Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, these eternal warriors are tasked with eliminating the plague called humanity from the face of the Earth. The WAR TO 300 rages! Next month, new allegiances will form, new enemies will rise, and history will be made!

Captain America #12 (Marvel) Ta-Nehisi Coates, Adam Kubert, Alex Ross

‘CAPTAIN OF NOTHING’ CONCLUDES! Captain America is a fugitive! So Captain America must disappear! But that doesn’t mean that Steve Rogers has to give up the fight to prove his innocence and bring the true murderer to justice! It’s time for Cap to try something new!

Fantastic Four #12 (Marvel) Dan Slott, Sean Izaakse, Esad Ribic

Ben and Alicia are off on their dream honeymoon in a remote tropical paradise…until someone decides to crash it. Or should we say SMASH IT?! Get ready for the biggest HULK VS. THING FIGHT OF THE CENTURY! PLUS: The saga of the Future Foundation by Jeremy Whitley and Wil Robson!

Star Wars Age Of Resistance Special #1 (Cover A Phil Noto) (Marvel) Tom Taylor, Elsa Charretier, Phil Noto and more! 

A ONE-SHOT SPECIAL FEATURING YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTERS FROM THE NEW STAR WARS TRILOGY! Star Wars fans first met Resistance leader and confidante of Leia Organa VICE ADMIRAL AMILYN HOLDO at the end of her story in 2017’s The Last Jedi-now, witness her triumphant beginning! This July, Hugo Award-winning writer G. Willow Wilson (MS. MARVEL) explores a pivotal conflict in Holdo’s early career that will start the young woman down the path to heroic infamy for the rebellion! With her ship at the mercy of a dangerous enemy, it’s up to Holdo to outsmart their foe and win the confidence of her compatriots in the process. With art by Elsa Charratier! The infamous ‘pirate queen’ of Takodana, MAZ KANATA, thought she’d seen everything in her thousand-plus years of running a bar and hiring smugglers. But it turns out that the criminal underworld is always full of new surprises…especially when she hires HAN SOLO and CHEWBACCA for a job! Story by Tom Taylor (AGE OF RESISTANCE)! o And Poe Dameron’s loyal companion, the astromech droid BB-8, just can’t seem to stay out of trouble. His missions always seem to escalate into a full-blown adventures! And if it means a win for his friends and the heroic Resistance freedom-fighters the little droid will stop at nothing to get the job done! Story by CHRIS ELIOPOULOS!

Killers #1 (Of 5)(Cover B Diego Bernard) (Valiant) B. Clay Moore, Fernando Dagnino, Diego Bernard

Five deadly assassins are recruited into a game of cat and mouse by the mysterious Jonin! But what does the Jonin want from them, and what do they gain out of helping him? Each of these assassins can channel their ki in different ways, granting them incredible abilities!

Punk Mambo #4 (Of 5) (Valiant) Cullen Bunn, Adam Gorham, Daniel Brereton

Punk Mambo faces off against Azaire’s right hand, Renaud! What does Azaire want with the loa he’s collected? Punk Mambo and Josef’s relationship continues to evolve! Sex magic may or may not be involved. But voodoo dolls definitely are.

 

See you next time! 

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