New Comics Picks for January 20, 2016

Captain Marvel courtesy Marvel via Fast Company
Captain Marvel courtesy Marvel via Fast Company

The women behind Agent Carter take Captain Marvel into orbit and Poison Ivy gets her own book! These two women take the lead in our new comic picks of the week.

Captain Marvel #1 Carol Danvers leads Alpha Flight?! The fan-favorite Avenger is the new head of S.W.O.R.D. with her own team and satellite headquarters. Danvers is Earth’s first of defense against alien threats in a new series by the team behind Marvel’s Agent Carter and Uncanny X-Men artist Kris Anka.

Poison Ivy: The Cycle of Life and Death #1 The Batman femme fatale in her own limited series. Dr. Isley gets a new start but when a fellow scientist is killed, all evidence points to Ivy. Writer Amy Chu and artist Clay Mann get the bad girl entangled in a new Gotham conspiracy. Continue reading New Comics Picks for January 20, 2016

STAR WARS Reveals BEN KENOBI’S SECRET PAST

Star Wars #7 courtesy Marvel
Star Wars #7 courtesy Marvel

Marvel shared a look inside Star Wars #7 by guest artist Simone Bianchi. The hit comic book series by writer Jason Aaron picks up after the events of A New Hope.

Luke Skywalker has gone home to uncover the secrets of his mentor with Darth Vader in pursuit.

Here’s the official description with more of Bianchi’s art:

“Luke Skywalker has uncovered the journals of his departed mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi. Now, experience Kenobi’s harrowing accounts of days long gone by! It is a time when injustice reigned on Tattooine. As villainous scum runs rampant over the blistering sands, only a Jedi Master stands any hope of liberating the planet from the grasp of gangs, thieves and thugs. But would Ben risk everything to do what was right? Even if it meant revealing himself to those searching for his whereabouts?” Continue reading STAR WARS Reveals BEN KENOBI’S SECRET PAST