Avengers #20 The aftermath of last week’s blockbuster Infinity #3! Who will surrender or die fighting? Jonathan Hickman has created the creepiest aliens in the Ex Nihilos. (Think Hannibal Lecter, Alex from A Clockwork Orange, Evil from Time Bandits and whatever Tim Curry was in Legend!) I’m excited to see what happens when rival Ex Niholos on opposite sides of the war come face to face!
Batman/Superman #3Bruce and Clark battle the Batman and Superman of Earth 2 in the latest chapter of Greg Pak and Jae Lee’s smashing story of the early days of The New 52.
Justice League #23The big conclusion to The Trinity War! The secret of Pandora’s Box could mean the end of the Justice Leagues and paves the way for Forever Evil. Continue reading Comic Book Picks for August 28, 2013
What a week! Milestone issues! Creators at the the top of their game on exciting new projects or reaching major finales! It was extremely hard to pick this week but….here we go:
Batman, Incorporated #13 Bruce vs. Talia – one final battle! Will Batman’s obsession with revenge for Damian’s murder make him kill the woman he once loved? Grant Morrison’s Batman finale is sure to be controversial, game-changing and gripping!
Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time #7 All of the Time Lord’s companions are kidnapped. The Seventh Doctor makes a strange house call in a Scottish castle and all 11 Doctors appear in this latest chapter celebrating the Time Lord’s 50th Anniversary. Continue reading Top 5 Comic Book Picks for July 31, 2013
This week is packed with incredible super hero books from DC and Marvel so I’d like to make this week’s Top 5 picks a salute to other books that might be under your radar!
Fatale #15 A new arc begins in this crime noir horror monster of a book by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Josephine has been haunted by her powers and supernatural forces throughout the decades. The new arc is set in the modern day but old enemies are back to stalk Fatale!
The Wake is terrifying hybrid of science fiction and horror sure to give fans of The X-Files chills. Acclaimed creators Scott Snyder (Batman, Superman Unchained) and Sean Murphy (Punk Rock Jesus) gave us a great heroine, intriguing premise and one shocking cliffhanger in the premiere.
DC Comics shared a preview of this week’s second chapter:
After arriving at a “Ghost Rig” under the Arctic Circle, marine biologist Lee Archer is confronted with a discovery challenging humanity’s Continue reading THE WAKE #2 Preview
Spare the tights and turn up the creep factor! The Wake #1 surfaced at comic book shops this week. No superheroes here. This is the kind of graphic storytelling you share with non-comic book fans to demonstrate why you love the medium. This is highly recommended for fans of horror stories.
Scott Snyder (Batman, American Vampire, Superman Unchained) and Sean Murphy (Punk Rock Jesus) create a tense science fiction thriller worthy of The X-Files twisted with Torchwood for Vertigo.
The creators of American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest reunite for a new Vertigo series out this week. 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.”
The Wake #1 courtesy Vertigo
The story begins with a marine biologist recruited by Homeland Security to investigate a new threat leading to a mysterious oil rig and horrors under the Arctic Ocean.
