Weekly Top Picks 3.14.2012

Top Books

SAGA #1

BRIAN K. VAUGHAN!

THIEF OF THIEVES #2

KIRKMAN & SPENCER

ADVENTURE TIME #2

JAKE THE DOG AND FINN THE HUMAN!

 

SAUCER COUNTRY #1

PAUL CORNELL

  

Heroes

AVENGERS ASSEMBLED #1

BENDIS!

GREEN LANTERN #7

GEOFF JOHNS!

Graphic Novels

FLASHPOINT BATMAN

BRIAN AZZARELLO!

FLASHPOINT SUPERMAN

SCOTT SNYDER!

Crossed C-Day

CROSSED BADLANDS #1 

  
GARTH ENNIS!

 CROSSED PSYCHOPATH

DAVID LAPHAM!

New Releases 3.7.2012

Top Books

AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1

Quantum leaping out of Uncanny X-Force, DAVID (CROSSED) LAPHAM does THE BOYS in the AOA universe! Brutally violent humans vs their Mutant masters!

ANIMAL MAN #7

It's the road to the Rot! Last issue we got back story, this time it's vertigo visions of the future! Where's the green?

 

SWAMP THING #7

Moss fills lungs.
Leaves scrape across skin, wood against bone.
Swamp Thing is rising.

 

ACTION COMICS #7

The bottled city of Metropolis! It took pre-boot Supes about 60 years to get around to expanding Kandor. Maybe Steel can do?

  

Indy

FAIREST #1

Willingham & Jimenez! The secret histories of the female Fables, and the the answer to who really is the fairest of them all!

MANHATTAN PROJECTS #1

Hickman does it again! Oppenheimer and his Communist twin brother along with Einstein and other great thinkers find and fabricate weapons far worse than that atom bomb cover story! Shut up and take my money!

HELL YEAH #1 

Their parents were the worlds first and greatest super heroes, they just wanna street fight and see the All New All Differents in concert! Its written by someone who grew up reading the first Image comics for people who grew up reading those comics, but now want to make Image their own. 

SUPURBIA #1

The Stacktastic Grace Randolph answers, What goes down when the capes come off? It's like the Real Housewives of the Justice League. Seriously, this sounds like fun!

Graphic Novels

FLASHPOINT 

  
GEOFF JOHNS wrote DC's Age of Apocalypse type dystopian saga where super friends are at war and Batman is a generation back gun totting badass! ALSO THIS IS WHAT REBOOTED THE DCU!
 

 BOYS VOL 10 BUTCHER BAKER CANDLESTICKMAKER

GARTH ENNIS kept us wondering about Butcher's origin for 9 volumes! Now see the boy as a boy!

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CROSSED GET INFECTED "FREE"

C-DAY is coming March 14th! Get Garth Ennis' issue zero is NOW! It's reverse healthcare, you get infected and it's FREE!
 

New Releases 2.29.2012

Top Books

JUSTICE LEAGUE #6

GEOFF JOHNS' DARKSEID IS AWESOME! The last part of the first arc, but will the end of the beginning be the beginning of the end?

BATMAN BEYOND UNLIMITED #1

Or as I like to call it "Bed Bath and Batman Beyond Unlimited"! Yes "beyond" and "unlimited" are almost synonyms, but it's referring to the JLU back-ups! 

Graphic Novels

ULTIMATES BY HICKMAN VOL 1

Hickman did more in one volume than the 616 Avengers do all year (with multiple books). And Sam (Our Love is Real, Sacrifice) Humphries is joining him as co-writer! <3

UNCANNY X-FORCE DARK ANGEL SAGA VOL 2

REMENDER finished Dark Angel strong, and even though he wrapped up the entire four volume Archangel epic, we still have AGE OF APOCALYPSE! Thanks for making me feel like a 14 year old fanboy again Mr. Rick!

PUNISHER BY RUCKA VOL 1

Crime master GREG RUCKA gives us a Punisher in the Marvel Universe that's part MAX and part classic, but none of that crazy Frankencastle. Who wrote that monster mash-up anyways?

New Releases 2.21.2012

Top Books

AQUAMAN #6

GEOFF JOHNS' Aquaman outsold EVERY Marvel comic in January! February= Make Mine Mera!

UNCANNY X-FORCE #22

Captain Britain used to hunt dragons, but then he took an arrow to the knee. 

WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN #6

Wolverine has always been a surrogate father to little mutant girls, but there's something off about him and Kid Omega. Logan's a founder of wolfdads.org

 

SECRET AVENGERS #23

DAT SYMBIOTE, DEM LEGS! RICK REMENDER's Venom joins his Secret Avengers!

  

Indy

DUNGEONS & DORITOS #1

TRIFORCE MIKE PANDEL wrote this fantasy comedy book, it's his first and last comic, and it is freaking AWESOME! Enjoy feeling close to our fallen brony between these pages, then CRIFORCE a little over what could have been.

CROSSED GET INFECTED "FREE"

C-DAY is coming March 14th! Get Garth Ennis' issue zero is NOW! It's reverse healthcare, you get infected and it's FREE!*

*THIS WASN'T IN OUR BOXES. SHORTED BY DIAMOND COMICS AT THE WAREHOUSE. WILL BE IN  NEXT WEEK. SENTENCE FRAGMENT.

PROPHET #22

This book is insanely original. The art is is enough to justify the purchase, but the story is just as raw. EXPERIENCE CREATIVITY!

Graphic Novels

SUPERIOR BY MARK MILLAR

  
This is a beautiful, magical coming of age story in the vein of your favorite 80's movies, but it has a ton more profanity and violence. A moral cautionary tale that will bring on laughter and tears, at it's heart it's a relevant Captain Marvel SHAZAM. I really wish this had been a DC New 52 Shazam...but DC would of probably screwed it up.  

New Releases 2.15.2012

Top Books

BATMAN #6

SCOTT SNYDER gave us vertigo last issue and left the bat broken by Talon."The Night of the Owls" is coming! B vs O > A vs X!!!

WONDER WOMAN #6

After Zeus, Diana the God Slayer must protect the realm of man from both Poseidon and Hades! Anime fans, Buffy fans, anyone who enjoys rich genre mythology with a strong female protagonist will LOVE the new WW!

AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #4

ZEB WELLS is done with Red Hulk, it's only team-ups with MOVIE Avengers from now through May!

 

GREEN LANTERN CORPS #6

Their power rings are ineffective against the Keepers, so Guy gets some guns that shoot power rings!

  

Indy

SACRIFICE #3

SAM (OUR LOVE IS REAL) HUMPHRIES! The Spanish are coming, but our favorite epileptic time traveler will help the Aztecs reign forever!

GLORY #23

JOE KEATINGE's an Eisner winner, and THIS IS HIS 1st COMIC! Figure that one out!? He does for GLORY what ALAN MOORE did for Supreme! It's like "What if Wonder Woman really fought NAZIS"? In the DCU WW was the JSA's secretary, Glory's the Secretary of Smackdowns! HELL YEAH!

STEPHEN KING & JOE HILL'S ROAD RAGE #1

This heartwarming family tale could only be told by a father and son team!
 

Graphic Novels

ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN BY BENDIS VOL 1

Peter Parker is DEAD! He's also the new Spidey's Uncle Ben! Seriously, this is what ULTIMATE should have always been, new modern mythology using the same themes that make the myths work so well. Also, new Spidey is black, I only mention that to tie in to Black History Month!  

 

PIGS VOLUME 1 

Ben McCool! In 1962, a KGB sleeper cell was placed in Cuba. Half a century later, the cell's children are assigned to overthrow the American government. But why...and why now? The Cold War meets modern day terrorism!

UNCANNY X-FORCE VOL 2

      

RICK REMENDER's X-Force is the best X-book on the stands! You can read it without any of the others, IN FACT it's so damn good the other X-books reference it! Volume 1 is finally back in print, volume 2 is so good I'm spotlighting it's softcover release! EVERY DEADPOOL fan will love it, and even people who hate Deadpool will find it impossible not to enjoy him and Phantomex here!

New Releases 2.8.2012

Top Books 

DEADPOOL #50 

The Death of Deadpool! We were going to have Daniel Way down for "Wade's Wake", but I didn't want to insult Deadpool after recent events. There's no way even a third of the people who came out for Triforce Mike's tribute would show up for Wade!

  

GREEN LANTERN #6 

Everyone's focusing on the buddy cop aspect of this book, but really GEOFF JOHNS' "Hal-without-ring" is a metaphor for the new economy and high unemployment. How many of us identified so much with our career (ring), that when it was taken away we were rudderless? If you think Hal's being written out of character chances are you are living an unexamined life! 

SECRET AVENGERS #22 

RICK REMENDER'S here to make this book exactly like his Uncanny X-Force! Where X-Force is secretly the best book of the mutant line, this book will be the Avenger's SECRET best book!

  

CARNAGE USA #3

If you think the Republican Primary is bad, just wait until the 2012 general election. Carnage USA is coming!

WOLVERINE AND X-MEN #5 

So what if JASON AARON's ripping off ALIENS, he said this about my friend, "I loved knowing Mike was out there on the front lines, madly loving comics and spreading that love every chance he got. With him gone, the rest of us will definitely need to step it up and follow his example as best we can." Challenge accepted!

 

Indy

 THIEF OF THIEVES #1

ROBERT KIRKMAN & NICK SPENCER answer "Who cons the conmen"? If you like Walking Dead, Morning Glories, or any of Brubaker's crime comics, this books is for you!

ADVENTURE TIME #1

One of Triforce Mike's favorite cartoons is now a comic! Mathematical! Seeing this made him want a My Little Pony comic that much more!

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #1


By BRIAN WOOD & BECKY CLOONAN of DEMO! You know he can do vikings, barbarians aren't that much of a stretch!

Graphic Novels

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES VOL 1  

Collecting the first sold out issues of IDW's new TMNT comic! While it's awesome that they're doing new content, It's even better that they're putting out the original TMNT too!