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?!

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Doomsday from John Byrne!

courtesy IDW Publishing
courtesy IDW Publishing

Legendary creator John Byrne (X-Men, Fantastic Four, She-Hulk, Next Men) goes apocalyptic in a brand new series from IDW Publishing this May. What if you could watch the world burn but were helpless to stop it? Astronauts watch as the Earth is torched by solar flares in Doomsday.1.

“I’ve been thinking for some time that I would like to revisit a post-apocalypse kind of scenario, such as was seen in my very first ‘dramatic’ work in comics, but this time without the more obvious fantasy elements of that original series (mermaids, alien robots, frozen mammoths, etc.),” said Byrne. “When bits and pieces of this new series first started to percolate around in my head, I knew almost at once the shape that ‘revisit’ would take; something in the ‘All-New, All-Different’ vein. And the first time I doodled some images of my ‘crew,’ I knew I was there!”

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