GEEKLY WEEKLY COMIC GUIDE (July 13, 2011)

GEEKLY WEEKLY COMIC GUIDE (July 13, 2011)

Our picks of comics (singles, TPBs, HCs OGNs) and what not that will be released weekly . We know that comic books are expensive and its hard to spend cash these days. We are here to guide you what books are great and worthy to buy.

50 Girls 50 #2 (of 4)

story FRANK CHO & DOUG MURRAY art AXEL MEDELLIN cover FRANK CHO
As New Ultimates’ FRANK CHO and The Nam’s DOUG MURRAY continue their galaxy-spanning sci-fi epic, the crew of the ESS Savannah is forced to do battle on a savage war-world unlike any other! Captured and held prisoner by hostile aliens, the crew must out wit, out run and out fight their way back to the ship and, hopefully, the way back home.
Format: LIMITED SERIES
Price: $2.99

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30 Days of Night: Night, Again #3 (of 4)

Joe Lansdale (w) o Sam Kieth (a & c)
Refugee cannibals? Maruading vampires? Attacking, wild bears? A homicidal golem, asleep for ages yet read to rise once again, and out for blood? An unforgiving, icy tundra? Yes, all this insanity and more in this issue, all from twisted tale-spinners Joe Lansdale and Sam Kieth! Believe it… believe it all.
Format: LIMITED SERIES
Price: $3.99

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Alpha Flight #2 (of 7)

Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by DALE EAGLESHAM Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ Variant Cover by DALE EAGLESHAM
FEAR ITSELF TIE-IN! Alpha Flight… traitors??? After saving their country from the hammer-wielding XXXXX, The Flight are captured by?the newly risen Unity Party and branded as traitors. Now they must escape from the bowels of the top-secret facility, Department H, they once called home. In doing so they must confront the shocking betrayal of one of their core members — and discover an imprisoned hero readers have clamored to see since this series was announced! The red-hot writing team of Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente and artistic legend Dale Eaglesham continue their highly-anticipated resurrection of one of Marvel’s most beloved super hero teams in a story that absolutely cannot be missed!
Format: FC, 32pg., LIMITED SERIES
Price: $2.99

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Amazing Spider-Man #665

Written by DAN SLOTT Penciled by RYAN STEGMAN Cover by Paolo Rivera Infested backup by DAN SLOTT & GIUSEPPE CAMMUNCOLLI I Am Captain America Variant by MICHAEL LARK
‘INFESTED’ ENDS WITH SPIDEY AT THE ‘CROSSROADS’ As Spider-Man, he’s a member of the FF and TWO different Avengers teams. As Peter Parker, he works all hours on his dream job at Horizon Labs. That doesn’t leave him with much time for anything or anyone else. This is where he pays the price. In this landmark issue, one of Peter’s greatest sins– comes back to haunt him. And the life of someone dear to him hangs in the balance. Plus: With New York’s Infestation complete, the run-up to Spider-Island is over. Prepare for hell to break loose.
Format: FC, 40pg., COMIC
Price: $3.99

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American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest #2 (of 5)

Written by SCOTT SNYDER Art and cover by SEAN MURPHY
Vampire hunters Cash McCogan and Felicia Book get shot down over the mountains of Romania and find themselves trapped between Nazi patrols – and vampires.
Format: FC, 32pg., LIMITED SERIES
Price: $2.99

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Batgirl #23

Written by BRYAN Q. MILLER; Art by PERE PEREZ; Cover by DUSTIN NGUYEN
“Screwed” takes on a whole new meaning for Stephanie Brown as The Reapers speed up their nefarious plan, going toe-to-toe with Batgirl in the heart of Blackgate. But who are the Reapers working for, and why? Answers to both those questions and more await Batgirl as “The Lesson” concludes.
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Birds of Prey #14

Written by MARC ANDREYKO; Art and cover by BILLY TUCCI
When the original Phantom Lady returns to Gotham City for a mini-reunion with Lady Blackhawk, a forgotten, decades-old evil wakes from its slumber and plans twisted revenge on our heroines! Can Canary, Huntress, and Oracle unravel the mystery and save their comrades?
This special issue by the guest team of Marc Andreyko (MANHUNTER) and Billy Tucci (Shi) also guest-stars Manhunter!
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Black Panther: The Man Without Fear #521

Written by DAVID LISS Penciled by FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA Cover by PATRICK ZIRCHER
FEAR ITSELF TIE-IN You’ve read about it, and may have even argued about it…but here it is: The debut of the American Panther! What does his arrival mean to Hell’s Kitchen? Find out in the series that Aint It Cool News hails as ‘one of the best titles Marvel is putting out!’
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Captain America #1

Written by ED BRUBAKER Pencils & Cover by STEVE MCNIVEN Cover by STEVE MCNIVEN Variant Cover by OLIVIER COIPEL Variant Cover by JOHN ROMITA SR. Variant Cover by NEAL ADAMS Movie Variant Cover also available Blank Variant Cover also available
Bestselling Cap writer Ed Brubaker and superstar artist Steve McNiven bring you the next huge chapter in Steve Rogers life, and it’s a perfect jumping-on point for fans of the Cap movie. A funeral for a fallen friend turns into a race against time as the original Captain America makes his explosive return!
Format: 32pg., COMIC
Price: $3.99

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Deadpool #40

Written by DANIEL WAY Penciled by CARLO BARBERI Cover by DAVE JOHNSON
‘Institutionalized’ Part One After the fallout (nuclear and otherwise) of Deadpool’s antics out in Arizona, the federal government is faced with an impossible question: What to do with Deadpool? Luckily, Deadpool’s gamma-powered legal defense team provides an answer: Stick him in an institution! When you think about it, it might be the only solution – after all he really does need some professional help as well as protection from the enemy; himself.
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Detective Comics #879

Written by SCOTT SNYDER; Art by JOCK and FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA; Cover by FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA
For years, Jim Gordon has been tormented by the possibility that his son, James Jr., might be a killer. Tonight, he’ll get the answers he’s been after. But is the truth about James even darker than the Commissioner, or even Batman, could have guessed?
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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B.P.R.D.: Hell On Earth Monsters #1 (of 2)

Mike Mignola (W), John Arcudi (W), Tyler Crook (A), Dave Stewart (C), Ryan Sook (Cover)
While the Bureau’s off fighting giant bat-eared beasts in Texas, Liz Sherman is kicking hillbilly ass in a trailer park! ‘The acronym ‘B.P.R.D.’ has become for us synonymous for a good read . . . Keep up the good work Dark Horse!’-MTV Geek
Format: LIMITED SERIES
Price: $3.50

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FF #6

Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN Pencils by GREG TOCCHINI Covers by MARK BAGLEY
The Return of the King. Black Bolt is back and is determined to reclaim his throne.
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Ghost Rider #1

Written by ROB WILLIAMS Penciled by MATTHEW CLARK Cover by ADAM KUBERT Variant Cover by NEAL ADAMS Wraparound Variant Cover by Arturo Lozzi Blank Variant Cover also available
FEAR ITSELF TIE-IN IN THE WAKE OF ‘FEAR ITSELF’, THE SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE GETS A NEW LEASE ON DEATH! The hottest, most rocking thing on two wheels returns! Start pumping your fists and banging your head for GHOST RIDER # 1, by writer ROB WILLIAMS (DARK WOLVERINE) and featuring the long-awaited return of superstar artist MATT CLARK (Outsiders, Superman, INHUMANS). Witness the violent birth of the all-new Ghost Rider… come to cleanse the earth in a firestorm of Blood, Oil, and Vengeance! Johnny Blaze has been chained to Hell long enough. With the world thrown into chaos in the events of FEAR ITSELF he is given a chance to rid himself of the Spirit of Vengeance forever… and he takes it. The curse is passed onto a new host but Blaze has no idea what nightmares his action has wrought upon the world. Will the new Spirit of Vengeance bring us salvation…or send this world of sinners to a flaming death? 40 PGS./Rated T+
Format: 40pg., COMIC
Price: $3.99

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Gladstone’s School For World Conquerors #3

story MARK ANDREW SMITH art / cover ARMAND VILLAVERT
The Skull Brothers pay their mother a visit in a maximum-security prison where villains keep the worst of their own kind; those who have turned on other villains. But, whose side are the Skulls really on? The delicate armistice between superheroes and villains is threatened and nothing is as it seems.
Format: COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Graveyard of Empires #2

story MARK SABLE art / cover PAUL AZACETA
The new C.O. of a remote outpost in Afghanistan has his hands full. If the terror of the Taliban and the mutiny of a Marine sniper weren’t bad enough, his squad is now under attack by the undead! GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES doesn’t just show you the face of modern warfare – it rips it right off.
Format: 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Green Lantern #67

Written by GEOFF JOHNS; Art by DOUG MAHNKE and CHRISTIAN ALAMY; Cover by DOUG MAHNKE; Variant cover by SCOTT CLARK and DAVID BEATY
“War of the Green Lanterns”
The blockbuster “War of the Green Lanterns” comes to a universe-shattering conclusion! How will Krona’s rampage ultimately affect the Green Lantern Corps? All we can say is it will change EVERYTHING!
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Green Lantern Corps #61

Written by TONY BEDARD; Art and cover by TYLER KIRKHAM and MATT BANNING; Variant cover by SCOTT CLARK and DAVID BEATY
War of the Green Lanterns
In the aftermath to “War of the Green Lanterns,” John Stewart and Kyle Rayner’s world is left completely shattered. And they start to pick up the pieces starting right here and now. It won’t be pretty.
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Green Wake #4 (of 5)

story KURTIS J. WIEBE art / cover RILEY ROSSMO
The revelation of Green Wake’s next murder victim sends Morley on a frantic mission against time. All the events in Green Wake begin to converge, combining together to reveal the darkest of its mysteries. But for Morley, there is more than time working against him, and allies aren’t always what they seem.
Format: LIMITED SERIES
Price: $3.50

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Hellboy: The Fury #2 (of 3)

Mike Mignola (W/Cover), Duncan Fegredo (A), and Dave Stewart (C)
While Hellboy makes one last stand against the Queen of Blood the war between the forces of good and evil rages on the battlefield with heaps of dead monsters and knights!
Format: LIMITED SERIES
Price: $2.99

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Journey Into Mystery #625

Written by KIERON GILLEN Penciled by DOUG BRAITHWAITE Cover by STEPHANIE HANS
FEAR ITSELF TIE-IN Loki’s search for allies against the Serpent in the depths of the underworld has gone somewhat awry. Paranoia reigns in the pits, as the forces of Mephisto’s Hell and Hela’s Hel totter on the edge of open war. Thankfully, Loki has a carefully considered, planned and proportionate response: assassination and perhaps a little torture to follow. Can Loki escape the suspicion that we’re all flies to this wanton boy?
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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The Li’l Depressed Boy #5

story S. STEVEN STRUBLE art SINA GRACE cover ROB GUILLORY
story S. STEVEN STRUBLE art SINA GRACE cover ROB GUILLORY ‘HISTORY OF A BORING TOWN’ Even when the sun doesn’t shine on the Li’l Depressed Boy, he can count on his Drew Blood to cheer him up. Pack your bags! It’s time for a road trip. Featuring a cover by fan favorite and CHEW artist extraordinaire ROB GUILLORY!
Format: COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Marineman #6

By: Ian Churchfill
‘CHAPTER SIX: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEPTH’
Still reeling from the startling truth, an angry Steve ‘Marineman’ Ocean heads back to Marine Base Alpha to confront his father and Admiral Brookes before returning to the ‘Leviathan’ for the final showdown! Don’t miss it!
Format: COMIC
Price: $4.99

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Mystery Men #3 (of 5)

Written by DAVID LISS Pencils & Cover by PATRICK ZIRCHER
INTRODUCING MARVEL’S ALL-NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN HEROES OF THE ’30s! On the hunt to solve the brutal murder of a Broadway starlet, The Operative, The Revenant and The Aviatrix smash their way from the gleaming penthouses of privilege to the squalid alleyways of Manhattan, as the full horror of their enemies’ schemes unfolds! Plus: experience the power of the mighty Achilles and the bizarre tactics of the syringe-wielding Surgeon! Award-winning historical thriller novelist David Liss (Black Panther: The Man Without Fear) and acclaimed artist Patrick Zircher (Spider-Man Noir) weave an edge-of-your-seat and in-continuity adventure intertwined with America’s most scandalous crimes! Before the Invaders — before the Twelve — who were the Mystery Men?
Format: FC, 32pg., LIMITED SERIES
Price: $2.99

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New Avengers #14

Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Pencils & Cover by MIKE DEODATO
FEAR ITSELF TIE-IN It won’t take some of the Avengers to fight the madness of Fear Itself it will take ALL OF THEM!! The New Avengers and Avengers join forces in the face of true fear! And who will join the New Avengers for the?first time EVER? Stay tuned, True Believer! This is a can’t-miss Avengers event!
Format: 32pg., COMIC
Price: $3.99

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New Mutants #27

Written by DAN ABNETT & ANDY LANNING Pencils by LEO FERNANDEZ Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC I Am Captain America Variant by TBA
‘UNFINISHED BUSINESS’ Part 3 (of 3)-The New Mutants have found X-Man, but in the clutches of Sugar Man! What is Sugar Man doing with Nate? And what is Nate going to do to Sugar Man once the New Mutants get him freed. It’s not every day you get an Omega Level Mutant angry…
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Northlanders #42

Written by BRIAN WOOD Art by PAUL AZACETA Cover by MASSIMO CARNEVALE
Kicking off the next big NORTHLANDERS story, ‘The Icelandic Trilogy,’ Brian Wood and Paul Azaceta (Daredevil, BPRD, Spider-Man) take on the history of the mythic island nation, starting with its settlement in 874 and ending with civil war in 1262. This brutal crime drama is the most ambitious NORTHLANDERS story to date!
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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PunisherMax #15

Written by JASON AARON Penciled by STEVE DILLON Cover by DAVE JOHNSON
The Punisher is locked in a high-security prison, with every inmate in the place out for his blood. When the convicts begin banding together to stage a full-scale prison riot, how will the Punisher survive when all the hate, rage and violence contained within these walls comes bearing down on him alone? 32 PGS./Explicit Content
Format: 32pg., COMIC
Price: $3.99

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Rasl #11

By: Jeff Smith, Jeff Smith & Steve Hamaker
Something is happening to the world around him – maybe to the Universe itself – and RASL is forced to return to the scene of his earlier crime to investigate.
But could it be a trap? RASL #11 begins the countdown to the series’ conclusion in RASL #15!
Format: COMIC
Price: $3.50

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Red Robin #25

Written by FABIAN NICIEZA; Art and cover by MARCUS TO and RAY MCCARTHY
If he’s going to avoid a fight against a psycho Super-Villain, end the 7 Days of Death, win the Assassination Tournament and discover ancient knowledge over life and death, Red Robin will have to survive a final battle against one of the world’s deadliest assassins. Her name? Cassandra Cain!
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Red Wing #1 (of 6)

story JONATHAN HICKMAN art & cover NICK PITARRA & RACHELLE ROSENBERG
‘LEARNING TO FLY’
To stay alive in the future, the best fighter pilots in the world not only have to perfect their skills and master their aircraft, they also have to know how to travel through time. Brought to you by award winning writer JONATHAN HICKMAN and possibly the best new talent of the year, NICK PITARRA, the Red Wing is the story of the greatest battle in the history of the history of three worlds.
Format: FC, 32pg., LIMITED SERIES
Price: $3.50

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Samurai’s Blood #2 (of 6)

story OWEN WISEMAN art NAM KIM, MATTHEW DALTON & JESSICA KHOLINNE cover JO CHEN
Revenge should never be left to the young. As our three teenage samurai leave their ravaged home behind they search for ways to sustain themselves and execute their vengeance. But as young blood boils, rash decisions are made and the consequences can only bring hardship. There are reasons for the laws of Bushido…and Katashi is about to learn more than one of them at the expense of the one he loves most.
Format: LIMITED SERIES
Price: $2.99

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Terry Moore’s How To Draw #1: Women

(W/A) Terry Moore

Terry Moore is well known for his highly expressive comic art depicting realistic characters. Now his drawing secrets are revealed in a series of lessons discussing everything from anatomy to drawing tools, from body language to Photoshop, with comprehensive notes, tips and observations from the Eisner award-winning artist. The first lesson in this new quarterly series is Moore’s specialty: drawing realistic women. Highly recommended for both amateurs and working professionals.
Format: MAGAZINE
Price: $3.99

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Ultimate Avengers vs. New Ultimates #6 (of 6)

Written by MARK MILLAR Pencils by LEINIL FRANCIS YU & STEPHEN SEGOVIA Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU Variant Cover by BRYAN HITCH
THE LAST CHAPTER! The explosive battle between the Ultimate Universe’s most powerful super hero groups comes to a close…but who will be left standing?
Format: 32pg., LIMITED SERIES
Price: $3.99

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Ultimate Comics: Fallout #1 (of 6)

Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, JONATHAN HICKMAN & NICK SPENCER Art by by MARK BAGLEY, SARA PICHELLI & MORE Issue #1 Cover by MARK BAGLEY Issue #2 Cover by BRYAN HITCH Issue #3 Cover by ED McGUINNESS Issue #1-6 Variant Covers by MARKO DJURDJEVIC
Following the tragic events of DEATH OF SPIDER-MAN, prepare for the birth of the new Ultimate Comics Universe.
Format: 32pg., LIMITED SERIES
Price: $3.99

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The Unwritten #27

Written by MIKE CAREY Art by PETER GROSS Covers by YUKO SHIMIZU
‘Teratogenesis,’ part 1 of 3. Armed with his father’s journals, Tom Taylor begins a journey across the United States that also takes him into the past – to the Golden Age of a new artistic medium and the birth of a new type of hero. But following in Wilson’s footsteps creates dangerous echoes.
Format: FC, COMIC
Price: $2.99

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The Walking Dead Survivors’ Guide #4 (of 4)

story TIM DANIEL & ROBERT KIRKMAN art / cover CHARLIE ADLARD & CLIFF RATHBURN
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the cast of THE WALKING DEAD. The Survivor’s Guide is a handy checklist of all the characters who have appeared in the series thus far, alive or dead. This series is a can’t miss supplement to the hit comic book series that is now a hit TV series on AMC!
Format: LIMITED SERIES
Price: $2.99

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The Walking Dead Weekly #27

story ROBERT KIRKMAN art / cover CHARLIE ADLARD & CLIFF RATHBURN
Life goes on as the bold new direction for THE WALKING DEAD continues.
Format: COMIC
Price: $2.99

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The Walking Dead Weekly #28

story ROBERT KIRKMAN art / cover CHARLIE ADLARD & CLIFF RATHBURN
Things get worse.
Format: COMIC
Price: $2.99

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X-Men: Schism #1 (of 5)

Written by JASON AARON Pencils and Cover by CARLOS PACHECO Variant Cover by FRANK CHO Variant Cover by NICK BRADSHAW Blank Variant Cover also available
After a mutant-triggered international incident, anti-mutant hatred hits new heights. Now, when the X-Men need one another more than ever, a split among their ranks threatens to tear the mutant team in two. Teammates will become enemies in SCHISM!
Format: 48pg., LIMITED SERIES
Price: $4.99

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Avengers By Brian Michael Bendis Premiere Vol. 2 HC

Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Penciled by JOHN ROMITA JR. & BRYAN HITCH Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR.
Marvel’s super-secret brain trust, the Illuminati, reunites – and the Avengers team up with the incredible Red Hulk – as the Hood makes a crazy power move to bring the Infinity Gauntlet together once more! But the Hood has no idea of the power he’s toying with and who’s coming to earth to challenge him for it. Plus: the Avengers vs. the Intelligencia, the return of S.W.O.R.D. and the disappearance of Spider-Woman in a prologue to the Avengers saga that will rock the entire Marvel Universe. Guest starring the New and Secret Avengers! Collecting AVENGERS (2010) #7-12 and #12.1.
Format: 168pg., HARD COVER
Price: $24.99

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Black Panther: The Man Without Fear Vol. 1: Urban Jungle TP

Written by DAVID LISS Penciled by FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA Cover by SIMONE BIANCHI
In the wake of SHADOWLAND, there’s a new protector of Hell’s Kitchen! He has no kingdom, no Vibranium and no high-tech safety net – just bloody knuckles and the will to prove himself in a foreign land where the fiercest of jungle predators stalks the most dangerous urban prey! His name is T’Challa – and in the aftermath of Shadowland, he will create a new life, a new identity, and learn what it is to be a different kind of hero. But with Daredevil gone, the bad guys are coming out to play, and a new nemesis – Vlad the Impaler – plots his bloody rise to power. Be there as national best-selling author and Edgar Award-winner David Liss and pulp master Francesco Francavilla (Zorro, Green Hornet) craft a shocking new chapter for the world’s most dangerous man! Guest-starring Luke Cage and Spider-Man! Collecting BLACK PANTHER: THE MAN WITHOUT FEAR #513-518 and material from X-MEN: CURSE OF THE MUTANTS SPOTLIGHT.
Format: 144pg., TRADE PAPERBACK
Price: $16.99

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Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps TP

Written by PETER J. TOMASI; Art by PATRICK GLEASON, REBECCA BUCHMAN and others; Cover by RODOLFO MIGLIARI
Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardner and John Stewart join the rest of the GL Corps in the struggle to preserve the Central Power Battery and Oa itself from being consumed by the Black Lanterns in stories from GREEN LANTERN CORPS #39-47.
Format: FC, 264pg., TRADE PAPERBACK
Price: $19.99

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Blackest Night: Green Lantern TP

Written by GEOFF JOHNS, Art by DOUG MAHNKE, ED BENES and others, Cover by IVAN REIS and RODOLFO MIGLIARI
The Black Lanterns descend on a spectrum of Corps across the universe in this trade paperback collecting GREEN LANTERN #43-52. Plus: Black Hand’s connection to the Black Lantern Corps is explained.
Format: FC, 272pg., TRADE PAPERBACK
Price: $19.99

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Blackest Night TP

Written by GEOFF JOHNS; Art by IVAN REIS and OCLAIR ALBERT; Cover by IVAN REIS and RODOLFO MIGLIARI
The prophecy of The Blackest Night descends in this trade paperback collecting the best-selling BLACKEST NIGHT #0-8. Now, Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps lead DC’s champions into battle to save the universe from an army of Black Lanterns made up of the DCU’s deceased heroes and villains!
Format: FC, 304pg., TRADE PAPERBACK
Price: $19.99

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Casanova: Gula TP

Written by MATT FRACTION Penciled by FABIO MOON & GABRIEL BA Cover by FABIO MOON
Casanova Quinn is a secret secret agent, and a pawn in a game of espionage-chess played by his father Cornelius and the forces of E.M.P.I.R.E. against alllll the bad guys in the whole wide world. When a mission goes haywire and Casanova disappears, all hell breaks loose across the span of the space-time continuum itself. As archrival Newman Xeno conspires to break both the laws of man and physics, the fabric of all-that-is begins to fray. Clearing the way for that delightful little Armageddon is Casanova’s twin sister, Zephyr, killing her way through a blood-soaked hit list that ends with their father. All this as a super-vixen from the future scrambles to unravel the mystery at the heart of it all: WHEN IS CASANOVA QUINN? The sex is sexier and the violence is violent-ier in this, the second breathtaking volume of CASANOVA, the comic that Entertainment Weekly calls ‘Sexy… gripping and darkly funny.’ Collecting CASANOVA: GULA #1-4.
Format: 160pg., TRADE PAPERBACK
Price: $14.99

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DC Comics Presents: Batman Gotham Noir #1

Written by ED BRUBAKER Art by SEAN PHILLIPS and SCOTT MCDANIEL Cover by SEAN PHILLIPS
Don’t miss this Elseworlds set in a stylish Gotham City straight out of classic mystery films, starring a down-on-his luck cop called Jim Gordon and the mysterious Bat! Plus, from BATMAN #604, The Dark Knight returns to Crime Alley for an encounter with Catwoman!
Format: FC, 96pg., COMIC
Price: $7.99

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Incognito: Bad Influences TP

By ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS with VAL STAPLES on colors
Zack Overkill has been out of the life for years, pretending to be an average civilian when he’s anything but. Now he’s tasked with a possible suicide mission back into the super-criminal underworld he came from… And it’ll be a season in hell even if Zack survives. INCOGNITO: BAD INFLUENCES goes to the darkest corners of a hard-edged pulp world, and just keeps on punching. The sequel to last year’s best selling INCOGNITO.
Format: TRADE PAPERBACK
Price: $17.99

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Sam & Twitch Complete Collection Vol. 1 HC

By: Brian Michael Bendis, Todd McFarlane
The Spawn Universe’s favorite detectives come at you full-force in their own groundbreaking series. Featuring an all-star cast of creators, the bar was set high for gritty crime fiction when Sam and Twitch first came on the scene. Follow the exploits of NYPD’s two most dedicated public servants as they try to uncover the secrets behind the Central Park ‘Witchcraft’ murders and also solve the mystery of ‘Udaku.’ Collected in an all-new size and format, SAM AND TWITCH: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION, VOL. 1 brings you the art and stories that made this series a classic. Extra features include a cover gallery and behind-the-scenes art. Collects SAM and TWITCH #1-13
Format: HARD COVER
Price: $29.99

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New Avengers By Brian Michael Bendis Vol. 1 TP

Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Penciled by STUART IMMONEN Cover by STUART IMMONEN
The Siege is over, and the Heroic Age has begun. So what’s next for Luke Cage and the New Avengers? Steve Rogers thinks he has the answer, offering Cage the reins of his own team and the keys to Avengers Mansion. Which heroes will Luke choose to join him, assuming he even wants the gig to begin with? He’d better decide soon, because the forces of evil are literally dropping out of the sky – and even a formidable trio of master mystics like Dr. Strange, Dr. Voodoo and Daimon Hellstrom are at a loss to stop it. It’s time for Luke Cage and his New Avengers to step up, or their first mission may well be their last! Collecting NEW AVENGERS (2010) #1-6.
Format: 160pg., TRADE PAPERBACK
Price: $19.99

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New X-Men By Grant Morrison Book 3 TP

Written by GRANT MORRISON Penciled by FRANK QUITELY, ETHAN VAN SCIVER & IGOR KORDEY Cover by FRANK QUITELY
As protesters lay siege to the Xavier Institute, mutant mentor Professor X lies in a coma – dying, trapped within the shattered form of his evil twin! Cassandra Nova inhabited Xavier’s body and escaped to the stars in the wake of her initial encounter with the X-Men; now, the psionically empowered psychopath is returning to Earth – possessed of the most powerful mutant mind on the planet, and with the might of the Shi’ar Imperium at her back! She brought an interstellar empire to its knees. Can even the X-Men hope to halt her mad rampage? Collecting NEW X-MEN (2001) #122-126.
Format: 136pg., TRADE PAPERBACK
Price: $14.99

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Batman Arkham Asylum Series 2: Weighted Case Asst AF

It’s a madhouse… and the lunatics are running the asylum! After arriving on Arkham Island, Batman is greeted by Warden Sharp and security personnel. Although the Joker is securely strapped to a handcart for transfer to the deepest bowels of Arkham, he escapes nonetheless. This is going to be the worst night of Batman’s life. With the Joker free, inciting unrest among the inmates, Batman faces a riot from a cadre of Gotham City’s most wanted: killers and psychopaths who are screaming for vengeance and out for blood. Batman’s blood. His mission? Stop the Joker — and his accomplices — at all costs. Welcome to the asylum. Arkham Asylum. BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM SERIES 2 ACTION FIGURES are based on the game designs of the ‘Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game Ever.’ All foru figures feature multiple points of articulation and include a display base. Character-appropriate accessories are also included. 4-color clamshell blister card packaging. * Zsasz – 6′ high * Poison Ivy – 6.5′ high * Bane – 6.75′ high * Batman (Armored) – 7′ high (to top of ears)
Format: ACTION FIGURE
Price: PI