Batman Incorporated #11 Bruce has literally become the Bat in his war against Talia! Will Batman forsake his humanity for revenge?
Bounce #1 The super slacker super hero debuts in a brand new comic from Joe Casey and David Messina. Casey has been on a creative streak (Sex #3 comes out this week)
The Green Team #1They are the One Percent with the power and money to fund your dreams and control your lives. The second book (Gail Simone’s The Movement focuses on the disenfranchised 99 percent) in DC’s politically charged series on the haves and have-nots.
Avengers #10 Omega Flight is back only to be lost in a Garden Origin site! What happens when Earth’s Mightiest attempt to rescue them? New Avengers #5 Jonathan Hickman continues to weave story threads from both books as we get closer to the big Infinity event! This issue focuses on the secret history of Black Swan! Will members of the Illuminati do the unthinkable in the search for answers to save the planet?
Batman Incorporated #10 The vengeance of Bruce Wayne continues! Damian is dead. Will Bruce sacrifice his soul for revenge against Talia and Leviathan? The march to Grant Morrison’s final Batman monthly issue continues.
East of West #2 Jonathan Hickman’s supernatural, science fiction epic of a broken America and Four Horsemen in an apocalyptic future continues.
Jupiter’s Legacy #1 Mark Millar. Frank Quitely. What else do you need to know? OK, here’s more: “The world’s greatest heroes have grown old and their legacy is a poisonous one to the children who will never live up to their remarkable parents.” Just go ahead and declare this the comic book game-changer of the year!
The Massive #11 Mutiny on the Kapital! After losing crew members, Callum and his remaining shipmates face an aggressive school of great white sharks! High seas adventure in a post apocalyptic world with pacifists trying hold their moral ground in a ruthless new world with no rules.
The Massive may be my favorite non-superhero comic book. Brian Wood tells action packed, thought provoking stories and perhaps offering a dire prediction of what our world could become if we don’t take better care of it.
This week Dark Horse is offering The Massive #1 for $1. Get it.
Deadpool Killustrated #1 A bizarre mash-up as the Merc with a Mouth targets some of the biggest icons of literature? Maybe Cullen Bunn and Wade Wilson can influence kids to read the classics?
The Massive #8 The crew discovers a new nation built upon oil platforms. Is this new “country” the hope Callum and company have been hoping for in the post-Crash world?
Nightwing #8 Will Dick Grayson survive the Joker’s revenge? A critical tie-in before next month’s Death of the Family finale.
Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness #1This all-new series leads into the next Star Trek movie!
Uncanny Avengers #3 The biggest threats to mutants is…the Red Skull? The Captain America villain has been reborn! How will Scarlet Witch and Rogue strike now that they know the horrific secret of the Skull’s new power?
Uncanny X-Force #1 Psylocke, Storm, Spiral, Cluster and Puck? Sam Humphreys and Ron Garney relaunch the book with a brand new covert team in a deadly mission against a former X-Man!
Young Avengers #1 Kid Loki assembles Marvel’s mightiest teens in a brand new series by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie!
Think you’re old to read superhero comics? You want something else out of literary escapes besides or instead of costumed heroes? Here are 5 of my favorite non-superhero genre series that gripped me in 2012 and wouldn’t let go.
The Walking Dead #100 courtesy Image/Skybound Comics
The Walking Dead This year it was time to stop just surviving and start living. One beloved survivor is on longer living in the larger world. The Walking Dead #100 ended with one of the most gripping, sick and painful moments of the year as “Lucielle” changed the survivors forever. I almost hope the television series doesn’t last long enough for me to have to watch that moment again. 100 issues and this series is just as provacative and powerful as ever.
Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 courtesy IDW Publishing
Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 The Time Lord (along with Amy and Rory) beamed aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise at a time when Federation worlds are under attack from Cybermen working with the Borg. Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Doctor must find a way to work together to save the Federation. The creative team captures the spirit of each franchise and demonstrates how each character would react, relate, bond and clash with each other.
The Massive #6 courtesy Dark Horse Comics
The Massive How do you remain a conversationist when you world you hoped to save has gone to hell? How do you remain a pacifist when you must dodge ruthless pirates to get food and supplies you must have to survive. Welcome to a new world where cities have sank, economies have tanked and civilization is crumbling. The crew of the Kapital sail the oceans in search of their friends on their sister ship, the Massive, and for necessary supplies in order to stay alive. Brian Wood has created a thrilling morality tale while building a dangerous new world that serves a a cautionary tale for humanity.
Manhattan Projects Jonathan Hickman’s gripping story of twisted history and weird science shocked and challenged me with every new issue. Building the atomic bomb was nothing compared to the staggering creations of this government think tank.
Fatale #1 cover courtesy Image Comics
Fatale Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s mixed crime noir with supernatural horror in two tales of a woman who may be immortal and the men who die for her. The second arc just wrapped. An actor crosses Josephine’s path and all hell runs wild in 1970’s Hollywood with killer cults.
Teen romance, horror, crime, western? Visit your local comic book shop in 2013 and ask for a book to fit your genre tastes!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 Freefall #14 A new kind of slayer joins the fight against evil in a world without magic. A young gay man proves you don’t have to be chosen to be a hero.
The Massive #5 In a world gone to hell Mary leads the desperate crew to a remote station in Antartica. A supply run goes horribly wrong and becomes a fight for survival.
Uncanny Avengers #1 courtesy Marvel
Uncanny Avengers #1 A brand new kind of team for a dangerous old enemy! Can Captain America, Thor, Wolverine, Rogue, Scarlet Witch and Havok heal the wounds of AvX? The Red Skull is reborn with new powers and a deadly agenda against the mutant race.
X-Men #37 Storm’s team unravels. Colossus challenges her leadership and questions her real intentions. Pixie is on her own trying to find the last living Proto-Mutant.
Avenging Spider-Man #12 Spidey and Deadpool go back to high school? I’m sure there’s something much more sinister going on but the idea of Peter Parker and the Merc With a Mouth in detention is too good to pass up!
Avengers vs. X-Men #11 courtesy Marvel.com
Avengers vs. X-Men #11X-Men join the Avengers in a last stand against the cosmic might of the Phoenix Two. What happens when Cyclops and Emma Frost turn on each other? What is Professor X prepared to do to save humanity? Marvel is teasing a fatality – who will pay the ultimate price to defeat the Phoenix Force?
Batman #0A look into the past. Bruce Wayne returns from his global quest ready to launch his war on crime. See how the gadgets, Batcave, costume and more were born.
Manhattan Projects #6 Some of the most famous scientific geniuses in history as you’ve never seen them before. Creating the atomic bomb was nothing compared to what this American think tank was really up to. You can catch up with the first 5 issues in a new collection. Now see the other side of this twisted alterate history and weird science. Go back into the Cold War days and inside the Russia’s scientific counterpart to the Manhattan Projects.
The Massive #4How you continue to have the moral companss of a pacifist when the world has gone to hell? A crew of environmentalists sail the poison oceans in search of their friends and trying to survive modern day pirates. What happens when the Captain meets a ghost from his past when he was a corporate mercenary.
I could have written a top 15 this week there are so many good books out there! Here’s my previews of the Doctor Who Annual, more Batman Family Zero issue books and a legion of X-Men books!
