Top Comic Book Picks for April 2, 2014

Action Comics #30 courtesy DC Comics
Action Comics #30 courtesy DC Comics

Action Comics #30 Superman Doomed begins here! In the aftermath of Forever Evil – Superman is the villain, Lex Luthor is the hero? As if Clark didn’t have it bad enough – Doomsday is coming! Who’s bringing the Kryptonian monster to Earth?

 

Detective Comics #30 Batman and Harvey Bullock in a race to find a killer, the 52 debut of two obscure Bat-villains and more as a brand new team takes on the book the launched the Dark Knight. Continue reading Top Comic Book Picks for April 2, 2014

DARK HORSE COMICS Reveals EMERALD CITY COMICON Plans

 

Buffy Season 10 #1 courtesy Dark Horse Comics
Buffy Season 10 #1 courtesy Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics revealed the master plans for fans at the sold out Emerald City Comicon in Seattle next week. After revealing the four cover variants creators for the pop culture event, the publisher has revealed creator signings and panels.

 

SIGNING SCHEDULE:
Friday, March 28
11:00 MIND MGMT, STAR WARS: REBEL HEIST Matt Kindt
12:00  SERENITY: LEAVES ON THE WIND #1 EMERALD CITY COMICON VARIANT  Jenny Frison
1:00  COLDER Paul Tobin
2:00  DREAM THIEF Jai Nitz  NEVER ENDING Adam Knave and D. J. Kirkbride
3:30  PROJECT BLACK SKY Joshua Williamson (Captain Midnight), Christopher Sebela (Ghost), Joshua Hale Fialkov (Skyman), Frank Barbiere (Blackout), and Fred Van Lente (Brain Boy)
4:30  THE WHITE SUITS Frank Barbiere
BATTLEPUG Mike Norton
5:30  MASS EFFECT: FOUNDATION Tony Parker
DRAGON AGE Chad Hardin Continue reading DARK HORSE COMICS Reveals EMERALD CITY COMICON Plans

DARK HORSE REVEALS EMERALD CITY COMICON Variants

Veil #1 courtesy Dark Horse Comics
Veil #1 courtesy Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse announces revealed four variant covers exclusively for Seattle’s Emerald City Comicon.

 

Dark Horse is celebrating the launch of several new series with Emerald City variants for Serenity #1, Buffy #1, Veil #1, and a very special variant of Witcher #1.

 

Veil, the new, original series by Greg Rucka and Toni Fejzula. Dark Horse tapped J. H. Williams III to create the variant cover. Limited to 500 copies, Veil #1 could go fast and writer Greg Rucka will be appearing at ECCC. Continue reading DARK HORSE REVEALS EMERALD CITY COMICON Variants

Top 5 New Comic Book Picks For March 5, 2014

Forever Evil #6 courtesy DC Comics
Forever Evil #6 courtesy DC Comics

Forever Evil #6 DC Comics, DON’T KILL NIGHTWING! Batman and Lex Luthor’s strange alliance of rogues takes the fight to the Crime Syndicate while a hero’s life is in the balance! It’s the penultimate issue by Geoff Johns and David Finch that promises the “final fate of Nightwing.”

Also this week: Forever Evil: Arkham War #6 is Bane vs. Scarecrow’s army for control of Gotham City by Peter Tomasi.

 

 

Magneto #1 The Master of Magnetism is doing things his way! Young mutants are under attack. S.H.I.E.L.D. has their own Sentinels. Erik has severed ties with Cyclops, refused Mystique’s alliance offer and gone solo in his fight to save mutantkind. Continue reading Top 5 New Comic Book Picks For March 5, 2014

Greg Rucka’s VEIL

Veil courtesy Dark Horse Comics
Veil courtesy Dark Horse Comics

Greg Rucka is acclaimed for the way he writes female characters (he even led a panel on it at GeekGirlCon) and he’s unleashing his new heroine with Dark Horse Comics. The writer who gave us Tara Chace in the Queen & Country series, Batwoman: Elegy and Lazarus, one of the best new series of this year gives us VEIL.

 

Here’s how Dark Horse Comics describes the upcoming series: Continue reading Greg Rucka’s VEIL