Top New Comics Picks August 26, 2015

We Are Robin #3 courtesy DC Comics
We Are Robin #3 courtesy DC Comics

An all-star S.H.I.E.L.D. anniversary issue, an army of Robins and Beasts and Deathstroke finally goes too far?

It’s all part of this edition of our top new comics picks of the week:

Book of Death: The Fall of Ninjak #1 Colin King is the last living member of Unity when he gets an offer that could break the cycle of death – if he betrays his old allies. Matt Kindt and Trevor Hairsine continue the Valiant event that reveals the final days of the universe. Continue reading Top New Comics Picks August 26, 2015

MAGNETO’S NEW X-MEN In E IS FOR EXTINCTION

E Is For Extinction #1 courtesy Marvel
E Is For Extinction #1 courtesy Marvel

This is Magneto and his New X-Men courtesy Marvel.

One of the most radical reinventions of the Children of the Atom is born again in as the Secret Wars event continues this week.

X-Men in black leather, Professor X’s evil twin sister “outed” him, Emma Frost joined the team, Beast went feline and kids with some of the weirdest mutations and appearances join the school.

It was the New X-Men era by writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely. E is for Extinction was the first game-changing arc (Cassandra Nova emerges and kills millions of mutants on Genosha) and the title of the new Secret Wars tie-in book this week. Continue reading MAGNETO’S NEW X-MEN In E IS FOR EXTINCTION

X-MEN: E IS FOR EXTINCTION in SECRET WARS

E is For Extinction #1 courtesy Marvel, a Comic Vine first
E is For Extinction #1 courtesy Marvel, a Comic Vine first

It was a modern take on mutants with X-Men in leather, freaky new students and when Emma Frost officially joined the team.

Writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely radically evolved the mutants with New X-Men and their first arc E is for Extinction.

Marvel announced the next Secret Wars book: E is For Extinction #1 via Comic Vine.

Morrison’s Batman, Incorporated and Nameless artistic collaborator Chris Burnham will write the tie-in book. Ramon Villalobos will be the artist. Burnham describes the world we jump back into: Continue reading X-MEN: E IS FOR EXTINCTION in SECRET WARS