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Top 5 Comic Book Picks & Scott Snyder Week!

Let’s just call this Scott Snyder week! In a new twist on the top 5 comic book picks of the week let’s begin in the first position with 3 highly anticipated books by one of the best writers in comics today:

American Vampire: The Long Road to Hell #1 courtesy DC Comics
American Vampire: The Long Road to Hell #1 courtesy DC Comics

American Vampire: The Long Road to Hell #1 Vampire killer Travis Kidd is back hunting the “Heartbreak Killers!” Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque reunite for this horrific tale of vampire lovers caught on a road trip from with Kidd and a pack of vamps after them.

Batman #21 courtesy DC Comics
Batman #21 courtesy DC Comics

Batman #21 Zero Year begins! The New 52 origin of the Dark Knight! Snyder and Greg Capullo reveal Bruce’s first year in his war on crime.

Superman Unchained #1 courtesy DC Comics
Superman Unchained #1 courtesy DC Comics

Superman Unchained #1 13 satellites come crashing to Earth in one day. Lex Luthor is locked up. If the Man of Steel didn’t stop the final satellite’s deadly descent – who did? Superstar creators Snyder and Jim Lee launch a brand new series with a decades old mystery that will haunt and hurt Superman!

So for this week indulge me and let those three count as one!

Doomsday.1 #2 Astronauts watched the Earth scorched by massive solar flares. What do they find after the Apocalypse? How will they survive in a new world ruled the worst of humanity?

Harbinger Wars #4  Las Vegas is burning in the war between Bloodshot, the Renegades and Harbinger Foundation! Project Rising Spirit unleashes a new army to control the chaos: the H.A.R.D. Corps make their Valiant comeback!

True Lives of Fabulous Killjoys #1 Who says rock stars can’t write comic books? Did you not devour Umbrella Academy? Gerard Way and Becky Cloonan team up for this sci-fi fantasy!

Wolverine & the X-Men #31 courtesy Marvel
Wolverine & the X-Men #31 courtesy Marvel

Wolverine and the X-Men #31 A school rivalry like you’re never seen before! The Hellfire Saga begins! One young mutant is risking their life going undercover at the evil academy. The Hellfire brats have recruited Logan’s students and teachers from Hell! Wonder what subject Mystique, Sauron and Sabretooth are teaching?!

By Editor

Karen Berger Steps Down From Vertigo Comics

American Vampire: Lord of Nightmares #1 courtesy DC/Vertigo

This is the end of an era!

Karen Berger is stepping down from her position at Vertigo Comics.

Let’s just take a moment:

  The Sandman, V for Vendetta, Preacher, Fables, 100 Bullets, Y The Last Man, The Invisibles, American Vampire.

The Executive Editor and VP of DC’s Vertigo line is stepping down after nearly 20 years and an incredible run of publishing groundbreaking comic titles like the ones you see above.

Comics and pop culture are better because of the daring and visionary Karen Berger. Comics needs Karen Berger!

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American Vampire Team Go Deep With THE WAKE for Vertigo

courtesy DC Comics

  The minds behind American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest reunite for a new Vertigo limited series next year. Scott Snyder (Batman) and Sean Murphy (Joe the Barbarian, Punk Rock Jesus) create The Wake for Vertigo Comics, an underwater sci-fi story.

  “I couldn’t be more excited about The Wake!” Snyder tells the Source, “This is a story Sean and I have actually been developing together for more than a year, a big, twisted, sprawling science fiction and horror epic, all of which begins with a single, terrifying discovery at the bottom of the ocean. It’s one of the most ambitious stories I’ve ever done, and there’s no one I’d rather be creating it with than Sean Murphy. Sean’s a great friend and we had a blast together on American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest; luckily, he’s also one of the industry’s brightest new stars, someone with unrivaled abilities as a world-builder—every scene he draws is so fully realized, so richly imagined, it’s hugely inspiring working with him, and I’m grateful to him for signing on to be my partner at the end of the world, here.”

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Batman Back-up Stories Reveal Gotham’s Secret History

Batman courtesy DC The Source

  One of my favorite new DC New 52 series is Batman by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. Batman is plagued by the Court of Owls and the Talon, their enforcer. Snyder’s revealed the entwined dark history of his secret society, Bruce Wayne’s family and Gotham City.

  Batman #8 will feature the first of a series of back-up stories exploring the secret group’s past and agenda. The back-up tales will unite Snyder with his American Vampire partner Rafael Albuquerque.

 “The first backup, in issue eight will give a sense of the terrifying scope of the Court of Owls’ attack on Gotham. This really will be the first shot in a war for the soul of Gotham City,” said Snyder. “And then, starting in issue nine, we’ll begin a three part story called ‘The Fall of the House of Wayne’ that will investigate the secret history of the Court of Owls and its relationship to the Wayne family – particularly to Thomas and Martha Wayne, Bruce’s parents. The story will be told from the point of view of Jarvis Pennyworth, Alfred’s father, and offer some big surprises and shocks about the forces that shaped the bat-mythology as we know it. Can’t wait for you all to see these stories!”

 

Batman #8 courtesy DC The Source

  Snyder will co-write these stories with James Tynion IV.

  “I’m also excited to be co-writing with my friend, James Tynion IV, a young writer I’m extremely excited about. Especially in the spirit of the New 52, it’s a real thrill to get to give someone new and talented a chance to get his foot in the door, and James is a writer to watch and expect great things from!”

 The back-up stories will build up to May’s huge cross-over with all the Batman titles,  Night of the Owls, which will reveal the impact of the society’s master plan.

  You can find more preview images and Snyder’s interview on DC’s The Source.