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It's a STRANGE week to be sure!
It's a STRANGE week to be sure!
After finally moving out of Tony Stark's shadow, Pepper Potts finally has control over her own life and found her own place in the world. So naturally, this is when Tony chooses to have his meltdown, resulting in a war between humanity and AI, which means in 2020 RESCUE #1 (OF 2), from Dana Schwartz and Jacen Burrows, that Pepper must once again don the Rescue armor and save the day.
When Alex Ross had an idea thirty years ago to show Marvel superheroes in a unique way, it led to the classic Marvels, with Kurt Busiek. But now, Alex Ross finally brings his original idea to life, beginning with MARVEL #1 (OF 6), featuring work from Ross himself, as well as other creators, such as Adam Hughes, Bill Sienkiewicz, Dan Brereton and more. Each creator presents their own, unusual story featuring characters you love, such as Spider-Man and the Avengers, and ones you may not know quite as well, such as Nightmare. All these stories are then linked together with a story from Ross and Steve Darnall, and brings to you a comic book experience unlike any you've had before.
Step back into the world of Spider-Man Noir, in the year 1939, with the whole world at the brink of war, in SPIDER-MAN NOIR #1 (OF 5), from Margaret Stohl and Juan Ferreyra. With plenty of crime about in New York City, Spider-Man Noir is content cleaning the streets of his own neighborhood. But when a murder occurs in the Black Cat nightclub, and all the leads continue to point overseas, Spider-Man will have to journey out to Europe to find the truth.
Following too many weird changes in the Marvel Universe, Dr. Stephen Strange has finally done what he thought he would never have to do: open up a school for magic. Based down in New Orleans and open to youngsters with an aptitude for the mystic arts, find out how Dr. Strange fares as a teacher in STRANGE ACADEMY #1, from two Marvel veterans, Skottie Young and Humberto Ramos.
The comic that's been in the making since Jay Garrick became the Flash in the 1940s finally arrives with FLASH #750, a major celebration of the Scarlet Speedster's legacy, featuring work from creators such as Geoff Johns, Francis Manapul, Marv Wolfman, Bryan Hitch, Joshua Williamson, David Marquez and many more. The Flash Age begins, as Paradox releases Godspeed to wreak havoc on the Flash timeline, and Barry Allen already has to contend with the supercharged Speed Force that is ruining his life. Then enjoy a variety of tales set throughout the Flash timeline from a variety of all star creators.
If you've been looking forward to Tom King, Mitch Gerads and Evan Shaner's Strange Adventures but you don't know much about Adam Strange, then be sure to pick up a copy of MYSTERY IN SPACE #75 FACSIMILE EDITION, a book length classic from Gardner Fox, Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson. Reprinting the first time Adam Strange teamed up with the Justice League of America, get a little more insight into the character during his prime, and enjoy some ads from the 1960s too.
After the overwhelming success that was Mister Miracle, Tom King and Mitch Gerads reunite and team up with Evan 'Doc' Shaner to take another little-known DC character and thrust them into the spotlight. This time, DC's sci-fi hero of two worlds, Adam Strange, is centre-stage for STRANGE ADVENTURES #1 (OF 12), which sees Adam and his wife, Alanna, heroes of Rann, retired from the hero business and living life on Earth. But after his best-selling autobiography starts to stir up trouble, is there a dark secret behind the legacy of Adam Strange that is about to rise to the surface? Or is it just more of the lies, deceit and fake news that pollutes our world today?
You know how his fellow superheroes have taken the news, now find out how not just Superman's, but all of the DC Universe's villains will react to the revelation that Superman and Clark Kent are one and the same in SUPERMAN VILLAINS #1. Featuring a big line-up of creators, such as Brian Michael Bendis, Bryan Hitch, Matt Fraction, Steve Lieber and more, see how villains like Lex Luthor, Mongul, Toyman, the Joker and many more change with this shocking revelation.
W. Maxwell Prince and Tyler Jenkins begin a new series that looks at what happens when the weird and the mundane come together in KING OF NOWHERE #1 (OF 5). Denis, a lovable drunken lowlife, wakes up to find himself on the outskirts of a town called Nowhere. Unsure of how he got there, Denis tries to navigate his way through the town full of unusual, mutant citizens who aren't quite all there, only to find his memories and his past catching up to him.
Mirka Andolfo returns to Image with a brand new series full of Victorian gothic horror, and it all begins with MIRKA ANDOLFO MERCY #1. In the mining town of Woodsburgh, the people are in distress after a series of brutal, unsolved murders. Things start get chillier as the snow sets in, and even more so when a woman in black, Lady Hellaine comes to town and turns up the terror in the people another notch. But what is Lady Hellaine's true agenda, and is she really the monster everyone suspects her to be?
It's not every day you get a crossover at Image as big as this one, as two of John Layman's greatest creations meet for the first time in OUTER DARKNESS CHEW #1 (OF 3), written by Layman, and reuniting him with his Chew series artist, Rob Guillory and also featuring his current Outer Darkness partner, Afu Chan, on the artwork. What's going to happen when Tony Chu, the modern day cop who gets psychic impressions from what he eats, meets the 28th century starship captain, Joshua Rigg, who has survived multiple encounters with demons, monsters and ghosts in the depths of uncharted space? Something epic, we hope!
From the creator of Head Lopper, Andrew MacLean, comes the story of a girl at the end of the world and her quest to find a powerful relic, which you can check out in APOCALYPTIGIRL AN ARIA FOR THE END TIMES HC. So far, Aria's quest has seemingly been in vain, for neither she, nor her cat Jelly Beans, can locate this mysterious source of power. But after she chances upon a creepy savage in an overgrown city, Aria may finally have the clue she needs to bring her lifelong journey to fruition.
Sean Gordon Murphy's unique take on the Batman mythos, and the relationship between Batman, the Joker and Gotham City receive the deluxe treatment with the release of BATMAN WHITE KNIGHT DELUXE EDITION HC. Collecting the eight issue miniseries, along with heaps of bonus material including Murphy's sketches, designs, inked pages and a brand new cover design, this is the definitive release of a modern classic that dared to ask: what if the Joker went sane?
When a Flerken invasion hits the Earth, and people can't tell a friendly cat from a sinister alien, a quiet night in for Carol Danvers and Jessica Drew will have to be postponed in MARVEL ACTION CAPTAIN MARVEL TP VOL 01 CAT-TASTROPHE, from Sam Maggs and Sweeney Boo. In their identities as Captain Marvel and Spider-Woman, the two BFFs will have to figure out which four-legged felines are cats and which are the destructive aliens that plot to take over Earth.
The ultimate celebration of a comic book universe that began 80 years ago with a little book called Marvel Comics #1, check out two comics that celebrated this tremendous milestone with MARVEL COMICS 1000 HC, curated by Al Ewing and featuring several of the very best creators to have ever graced the comic book medium. Collecting both Marvel Comics #1000 and #1001, explore every corner of the Marvel Universe and see all your favourite heroes, and a few you might not know about, in action done the Marvel Way.
After a gunshot wound leads to the paralysis of her lower body, Barbara Gordon must find a way to adjust to her new lifestyle and find renewed purpose in ORACLE CODE TP, a young adults graphic novel from Marieke Nijkamp and Manuel Preitano. As Barbara tries to recuperate in both body and mind at the Arkham Center for Independence, she feels ill at ease by the weird noises she hears at night, and the disappearance of some of the patients only worsens her fear. Is it all in her head, or is there something more sinister at work? Now Barbara must come to terms with herself and her new life so she can put together the pieces and solve the mystery.
Following the events of Batman: Dark Victory, Dick Grayson begins his life-changing career as Robin in ROBIN YEAR ONE TP NEW EDITION, from Chuck Dixon, Scott Beatty, Marcos Martin and more. It isn't long before Two-Face hears about Batman's new teen protege, and Alfred Pennyworth fears what could happen to Dick if he is exposed to the same traumatic dangers as the Batman, but they all don't yet know what Robin is capable of.
In Archer's Peak, the children are disappearing and there seems to be no hope in finding the ones still lost, or restoring the childhoods of those who do return in the grim series, which has its first issues collected in SOMETHING IS KILLING CHILDREN TP VOL 01 DISCOVER NOW, from James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera. Their only hope lies in the mysterious stranger, Erica Slaughter, who claims to be able to see the monster that is behind this evil, but are even her gifts enough to save the children of Archer's Peak?
When the villains require a more lethal lesson than the X-Men can be seen teaching, they send in Wolverine and his elite black ops team of mutants to take care of things. Now, you can read all of Rick Remender's run featuring the Uncanny X-Force in UNCANNY X-FORCE BY REMENDER OMNIBUS HC NEW PTG, which features unforgettable art from creators such as Esad Ribic, Jerome Opena, Phil Noto and more.
The secret past of Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow, comes to the fore at last in WEB OF BLACK WIDOW TP, from Jody Houser and Stephen Mooney. As a mysterious new threat surfaces and begins exploiting the shady past of the Black Widow, Natasha will have to go off the grid and recount her past to find the culprit in her present. What shocking secrets await us, and what lies in the future for Black Widow?
Wonder Woman's part in Paul Dini and Alex Ross' World's Greatest Superheroes one-shot series gets a deluxe hardcover treatment with WONDER WOMAN SPIRIT OF TRUTH HC
He's the man who feels no pain, he's the man who can shock and wow and audience in the bloodiest way possible, he's Null Narcos and the star attraction of the Freak-Chic Circus Sideshow, as well as the star of CROW LETHE #1 (OF 3), from Tim Seeley and Ilias Kyriazis. Outside of these horrific performances, Narcos is a blank slate, drifting on autopilot, with little memories of his early life. However, when other performers are mysteriously murdered, memories begin to stir within Narcos, and he's not going to like what he remembers.
From the writer of Rat Queens, Kurtis Wiebe and artist Justin Osterling comes a fantasy story involving family legacies and facing your dark past which begins in DRYAD #1. In the sleepy Frostbrook, an elf and a human have settled down to start a family, but while they've retired from adventuring, it's only the beginning for their children. Their twins, Griffon and Rana, are inextricably drawn to adventure when they turn thirteen, but this adventure will force them to face the dark secrets hidden in their parents' past.
While Marvel's take on Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian is the most well known, it is considerably toned down in terms of graphic content. But if you want your Conan full of unrestrained violence and more adult themes, then check out CIMMERIAN QUEEN OF BLACK COAST #1, from Jean-David Morvan and Pierre Alary. Join Conan and his companions as they try to hide from the authorities after killing a judge, before finding themselves face-to-face with Belit, the dreaded Queen of the Black Coast.
It's californication on steroids in the pages of JOIN THE FUTURE #1, from Zach Kaplan and Piotr Kowalksi, as megacities eat up the land of North America, but there are still some small rural settlements standing. With the people in the cities getting every last commodity they want or need for nothing, it's tempting to join them, but there are those who still wish to toil for their rewards and their independence. When Clem, a resident of one of these small towns, is being pressured to join a megacity, how far will she go to retain her individuality?
Following the 20th anniversary release of Paul Pope's cyberpunk classic Heavy Liquid, Image now reprints Pope's follow-up series in 100 PERCENT TP. Returning to the alternate New York City of the 2030s, 100 Percent revolves around the lives of six characters who either work at or are patrons at the Catshack strip club. With each of them having their own goals, struggles, hopes and loves, see how these six different people connect and react with each other in a world full of mixed martial arts, sex work and urban menace, which define this dystopic future metropolis.
One of the defining creative partnerships of the last decade, Mark Waid and Chris Samnee have produced many series worth of magic at Marvel Comics. Now you can own all twelve-issues of their Black Widow run in one volume with the BLACK WIDOW WAID SAMNEE COMPLETE COLLECTION TP. After some of her dark secrets are made public, Black Widow is forced to go on the run to find the answers she needs to save herself from the pursuing forces of SHIELD and other megalomaniacs.
When you take two of the comic book industry's most irreverent creators, Gerry Duggan and John McCrea, and let them run loose on an Image book, you get yourself black comedy crime series DEAD EYES TP VOL 01. When former hitman Martin Dobbs is forced to come out of retirement, it will be far from a comic book version of John Wick, it will be far more hilarious and bleedingly violent.
Life after college isn't always what you might expect it to be, which is a lesson that friends Rory and Angela are both learning in EMBARRASSMENT OF WITCHES GN VOL 01, from Sophie Goldstein and Jenn Jordan. After being dumped at the gate of her flight to Australia, Rory is trying to figure out what she can do in the world, armed only with a degree in communications and a minor in Southeast Asian Spellcraft, all the while pretending she isn't still in town to avoid her mother. Angela, meanwhile, is working for Rory's demanding and controlling mother in a cryptopharmacology lab, and must keep her friend's secret, but Angela is terrible at keeping things hidden. What are these two friends to do?
Noelle Stevenson, the acclaimed creator of Nimona, presents a series of personal essays and mini comics in her graphic memoir FIRE NEVER GOES OUT MEMOIR IN PICTURES HC GN. Covering a period of eight years during her young adult life, see as Noelle goes from an ambitious student graduating high school to a National Book Award finalist for her creation of Nimona, and all the moments, both small and big, that occur in between.
If you've checked out our 2020 Comic Book Forecast, then you'll be glad to know that another book from the list finally hits the shelves, and this week it's Moa Romanava's GOBLIN GIRL HC. Telling the story of a struggling young artist, Moa, and how her life changes after she's matched to a 53 year old celebrity on Tinder, things start off well as Moa gets the support, both emotional and financial, she seeks. But soon the young artist starts to see that the celebrity is not being motivated by philanthropy and the story starts to take a much darker, more sinister turn.
When Chase Blaine's estranged brother and sister-in-law are murdered, he becomes the legal guardian of their children, Mackenzie and Zach, in a story of family and horror in PLOT TP. Trying to do his best to raise a niece and nephew he barely knows, Chase moves them all to the ancestral family home in Cape Augusta, which overlooks a dark bog-land. A bog-land that is laden with old family secrets that are ready to haunt the latest members of the Blaine family.
If you ever plan to traverse the final frontier, you have to be ready to defend yourself against any hostile forms of alien life. Lucky for you, you can learn all you need to know with STAR TREK KIRK FU MANUAL HC, from Dayton Ward and Christian Cornia, which presents combat tactics from none other than the legendary captain of the USS Enterprise, James T. Kirk. Don't leave the safety of Earth without a copy
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So until we see you next, have a great week, live life and read comics!
So until we see you next, have a great week, live life and read comics!
MARVEL
2020 RESCUE #1 (OF 2)
BLACK CAT #10
BLACK PANTHER AND AGENTS OF WAKANDA #7
CONAN BATTLE FOR SERPENT CROWN #2 (OF 5)
DAREDEVIL #19
DOCTOR DOOM #6
DR STRANGE #4
EXCALIBUR #8 DX
IRON MAN 2020 #3 (OF 6)
MAGNIFICENT MS MARVEL #13
MARAUDERS #9 DX
MARVEL #1 (OF 6)
MILES MORALES SPIDER-MAN #16
ROBERT E HOWARDS DARK AGNES #2 (OF 5)
RUNAWAYS #30
SAVAGE AVENGERS #11
SPIDER-MAN NOIR #1 (OF 5)
SPIDER-VERSE #6 (OF 6)
STRANGE ACADEMY #1
STRIKEFORCE #7
SWORD MASTER #9
TRUE BELIEVERS EMPYRE MANTIS #1
TRUE BELIEVERS EMPYRE MAR-VELL #1
DC
BATMAN #90
DAPHNE BYRNE #3 (OF 6) (MR)
DOLLAR COMICS JLA YEAR ONE #1
DOLLAR COMICS SWAMP THING #57
DREAMING #19 (MR)
FLASH #750
GEN LOCK #5 (OF 7)
HARLEY QUINN #71
JUSTICE LEAGUE #42
JUSTICE LEAGUE ODYSSEY #19
LOIS LANE #9 (OF 12)
MYSTERY IN SPACE #75 FACSIMILE EDITION
STRANGE ADVENTURES #1 (OF 12)
SUPERMAN GIANT #2
SUPERMAN VILLAINS #1
BOOM
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #13
KING OF NOWHERE #1 (OF 5)
MAGICIANS #5 (OF 5)
DARK HORSE
BUTCHER OF PARIS #4 (OF 5)
CRONE #5 (OF 5)
DYNAMITE
RED SONJA #14
IDW
CROW LETHE #1 (OF 3)
GHOSTBUSTERS YEAR ONE #2 (OF 4)
PANDEMICA #4 (OF 5)
RAGNAROK BREAKING OF HELHEIM #4 (OF 6)
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #26
TMNT URBAN LEGENDS #22
TRANSFORMERS GALAXIES #5
WELLINGTON #3 (OF 5)
IMAGE
BIRTHRIGHT #42
FARMHAND #14
MAN-EATERS TOMORROW BELONGS TO YOU
MARKED #5
MIRKA ANDOLFO MERCY #1
OUTER DARKNESS CHEW #1 (OF 3)
UNEARTH #6
ONI
DRYAD #1
MISC
CIMMERIAN QUEEN OF BLACK COAST #1
DOCTOR WHO 13TH SEASON TWO #3
GOON #9
JOIN THE FUTURE #1
MONEY SHOT #5
NOBODY IS IN CONTROL #4 (OF 4)
PINK LEMONADE #2
SHERLOCK SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA #4
VAMPIRONICA NEW BLOOD #3
WHITE ASH #2
MAGAZINES
2000 AD PROG PACK JANUARY 2020
TRADES
100 PERCENT TP
APOCALYPTIGIRL AN ARIA FOR THE END TIMES HC
ASTER & ACCIDENTAL MAGIC SC GN
BATMAN WHITE KNIGHT DELUXE EDITION HC
BEN 10 ORIGINAL GN MANCHESTER MYSTERY
BIG NATE BLOW THE ROOF OFF TP
BLACK WIDOW WAID SAMNEE COMPLETE COLLECTION TP
BPRD 1946 - 1948 TP
CORTO MALTESE GN BALLAD OF THE SALTY SEA
CROW HACK SLASH TP VOL 01
DEAD EYES TP VOL 01
DRIFTING DRAGONS GN VOL 03
EDENS ZERO GN VOL 06
EMBARRASSMENT OF WITCHES GN VOL 01
EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL & IM NOT AFRAID SC
FAIRY TAIL 100 YEARS QUEST GN VOL 03
FAMILIAR FACE HC
FIRE NEVER GOES OUT MEMOIR IN PICTURES HC GN
FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST FULLMETAL EDITION HC VOL 08
GIGANT GN VOL 01
GLEIPNIR GN VOL 06
GOBLIN GIRL HC
GRASS KINGS TP VOL 03
JACK OF FABLES THE DELUXE EDITION HC BOOK 03
JUDGE DREDD MECHANISMO TP MACHINE LAW
KNIGHTS TEMPORAL TP VOL 01
MAN WITHOUT TALENT GN
MARVEL ACTION CAPTAIN MARVEL TP VOL 01 CAT-TASTROP
MARVEL COMICS 1000 HC
ORACLE CODE TP
PLOT TP
POWER PACK CLASSIC OMNIBUS HC VOL 01
PRINCESS PRINCESS EVER AFTER SC GN
RELICS OF YOUTH TP COMPLETE
RICK AND MORTY VS D & D TP VOL 02 PAINSCAPE
ROBIN YEAR ONE TP NEW EDITION
SOMETHING IS KILLING CHILDREN TP VOL 01 DISCOVER N
STAR TREK KIRK FU MANUAL HC
TRANSFERENCE TP
TRANSFORMERS GHOSTBUSTERS TP VOL 01 GHOSTS OF CYBE
UNCANNY X-FORCE BY REMENDER OMNIBUS HC NEW PTG
UNCLE SCROOGE TP VOL 12 CURSED CELL PHONE
WEB OF BLACK WIDOW TP
WONDER WOMAN SPIRIT OF TRUTH HC
WYRD TP
BACK IN STOCK
STAR WARS RISE KYLO REN #1 (OF 4) 3RD PTG CRAIN VAR
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