Marvel rings in the new year with new number ones, an Avengers weekly epic and the return of a classic cosmic character.
Here are our top new comic picks for January 2018:
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #150, 151 The team’s hunt for the Infinity Stones leads to the Return of ADAM WARLOCK! How is he back? Is he an ally or enemy and will he seize the Stones for himself? Gerry Duggan, Marcus To and Aaron Kuder bring back the cosmic legend.
AVENGERS #675 NO SURRENDER Begins! A 16-part weekly series continuing in U.S. Avengers, Occupy Avengers and Uncanny Avengers. The earth is stolen. Earth’s Mightiest Heroes must ASSEMBLE as mysterious objects crash across the planet. The action picks in AVENGERS #676 with The Black Order and The Lethal Legion in a war on Earth and “the secret of a lost Avenger.” The first Avenger falls in chapter 4. Mark Waid, Al Ewing and Jim Zub chronicle a game-changing epic that could be a seismic as Avengers Dissemble. Plus the secret of Voyager, the founding Avenger we never knew existed? How does it all tie into the mysteries revealed in Marvel Legacy #1?
ASTONISHING X-MEN #1 “A Man Called X” begins with Professor Xavier’s plan to save the world and a long lost mutant returns in Act III by writer Charles Soule joined by Phil Noto.
RISE OF THE BLACK PANTHER #1 The early days of the Wakandan Prince, secrets of his parents and his destiny. Evan Narcisse in his comics debut with Ta-Nehisi Coates and artist Paul Renaud on T’Challa’s rise to power.
OLD MAN HAWKEYE #1 In a future ruled by villains, Clint Barton is aiming for revenge…before he goes blind. Ethan Sachs and Marco Checchetto team up for a return to the future wasteland before Old Man Logan.
LEGION #1 Daniel fights to control his multiple personalities and mutant powers. A new personality emerges threatening to seize control of them all. Daniel’s doctor may need her own psychotherapy in a new mutant mindbender. Professor Xavier’s troubled son is back in a new book by veteran X-Men writer Peter Milligan and Wilfredo Torres.
ROGUE & GAMBIT #1 Remy & Rogue together again seraching for kidnapped mutants. Will the mission spark their romance again if they survive the new threat to mutantkind? Kelly Thompson and Pere Perez team up for this X-couple’s reunion.
INHUMANS: JUDGEMENT DAY #1 The Inhumans found the source of the element that could save their race but must confront ancient powerful beings. The Progenitors are head for Earth to wipe out the Inhumans and the entire planet. Al Ewing and Mike Del Mundo bring the next big event in the Inhumans saga.
X-MEN GOLD ANNUAL #1 Excalibur reunion! Once upon a time Kitty Pryde, Rachel Summers and Kurt Wagner teamed up with Captain Britain (Psylocke’s brother) and Meggan to form Europe’s mutant super group. An alien hero returns, a Braddock family surprise and Kitty back as Shadowcat! Marc Guggenheim, Leah Williams, Alitha Martinez and original Excalibur artist Alan Davis team up for the 20th anniversary reunion.
X-MEN BLUE ANNUAL #1 In the Venomverse aftermath, the original X-Men and Lethal Protector team up to take on a new alien enemy. Venom & the X-Men by Cullen Bunn and Edgar Salazar.
ICEMAN #9 Iceman vs Daken begins. Rematch! Bobby Drake wants to head west but Wolverine’s son has other plans for Iceman, his former student and the X-Mansion. Sina Grace and Robert Gill set up the mutant brawl of Ice and Steel.
By Editor