GEEKLY WEEKLY COMIC GUIDE (June 1, 2011)

GEEKLY WEEKLY COMIC GUIDE (June 1, 2011)

Our picks of comics (singles, TPBs, HCs OGNs) 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. We will release this every Tuesday.

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50 Girls 50 #1 (of 4)

By: Frank Cho, Doug Murray, Axel Medellin
Hot on the heels of his blockbuster New Ultimates run, FRANK CHO teams with Co-writer DOUG MURRAY (The ‘Nam) and artist AXEL MEDELLIN (ELEPHANTMEN) to unleash a new universe-spanning sci-fi epic! Join in the fantastic voyage of the Space Vessel ESS Savannah and her beautiful crew as they fight their way from hostile aliens and exotic worlds, searching for the wormhole that will take them to their ultimate destination: Home.
Format: LIMITED SERIES
Price: $2.99

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Avengers Academy #14 Point One

Written by CHRISTOS GAGE
Penciled by SEAN CHEN
Cover by BILLY TAN
Special POINT ONE issue. START READING with this Point One issue! During his dark reign, Norman Osborn attempted to mold super-powered teens to further his twisted agenda. So the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes created the Avengers Academy to reverse his influence on these impressionable, would-be heroes. But what happened to the young men and women who weren’t enrolled? Will friendship bloom or will fists fly when this year’s Avengers Academy students meet the kids who didn’t make the cut?!
PREVIEW
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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B.P.R.D.: The Dead Remembered #3 (of 3)

Mike Mignola (W), Scott Allie (W), Karl Moline (P), Andy Owens (I), Dave Stewart (C), and Jo Chen (Cover)
Liz Sherman relives the fate of an accused woman who was tortured three hundred years ago, but she has to rein in her own fire power, or an entire New England town will be forced to relive the day when Liz burned her own family to death.
Liz’s first mission comes to a horrifying end, presenting the details of her parents’ death for the first time!
* Drawn by Fray artist Karl Moline!
* Liz Sherman’s first mission!
Format: LIMITED SERIES
Price: $3.50

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Criminal: The Last of the Innocent #1 (of 4)

By ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILIIPS with VAL STAPLES on colors
The best-selling crime comic finally returns, and with their most ambitious story yet. Obsession, sex, money, murder, and nostalgia for days long past all collide in THE LAST OF THE INNOCENT. Riley Richards got it all… The hottest girl in school and a ticket to the big time… so why isn’t he happy now? Why is he getting involved in gambling and drugs and shady characters in the city? Why can’t he forget the life he left behind in small town Brookview? And why is he suddenly plotting murder?And as always, each issue of Criminal contains unique back-up features, articles and artwork, which are only available in the single issues.
PREVIEW
Format: LIMITED SERIES
Price: $3.50

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Dark Tower: The Gunslinger – The Battle of Tull #1 (of 5)

Written by PETER DAVID
Pencils & Cover by MICHAEL LARK
Penciller: Tim Bradstreet
In a saloon in the town of Tull, the last gunslinger is approached by a bizarre figure that has a message for him. The message is terrifying. What’s worse, it is delivered by a dead man named Nort whose corpse was animated to serve this very purpose. And that is only the beginning of the horrors awaiting the gunslinger in this strange place deep within Mid-World. We continue Roland Deschain’s quest for the Man in Black that has become his obsession. Featuring the artistic talents of Michael Lark, whose fine pencils have graced the pages of Daredevil and Spider-Man.
Format: 32pg., LIMITED SERIES
Price: $3.99

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Fear Itself #3 (of 7)

Written by MATT FRACTION
Penciled by STUART IMMONEN
Cover by STEVE McNIVEN
Variant Cover by STUART IMMONEN
Variant Cover by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI
The blockbuster Marvel event of the year continues! Sin leads the most audacious attack on American soil the world has ever seen as global panic sets in and we fall sway to the power of fear itself. On Asgard, Loki hatches the scheme to end all schemes. And everywhere, the Serpent’s presence is felt…never moreso than when a major Marvel hero falls at his hands. The shock ending to end all shock endings…as the cycle of evil stretching millennia is at last completed.
PREVIEW
Format: 32pg., LIMITED SERIES
Price: $3.99

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Flashpoint #2 (of 6)

Written by GEOFF JOHNS; Art and cover by ANDY KUBERT and SANDRA HOPE; Black and White Variant cover A by ANDY KUBERT; Variant cover B by IVAN REIS and GEORGE PEREZ
The world-changing miniseries continues! Where are the World’s Greatest Super Heroes? Barry Allen is on a mission to find out or die trying – and that may be what’s happening as he tries to make lightning strike twice! Meanwhile, around the submerged Paris, the pirate Deathstroke confronts Emperor Aquaman!
Format: FC, 40pg., LIMITED SERIES
Price: $3.99

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Flashpoint: Abin Sur – The Green Lantern #1 (of 3)

Written by ADAM SCHLAGMAN; Art and covr by FELIPE MASSAFERA
FLASH FACT! He survived the crash!

Format: FC, 32pg., LIMITED SERIES
Price: $2.99

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Flashpoint: Batman – Knight of Vengeance #1 (of 3)

Written by BRIAN AZZARELLO; Art by EDUARDO RISSO; Cover by DAVE JOHNSON
FLASH FACT! He spends his days running Wayne Casinos!
PREVIEW
Format: FC, 32pg., LIMITED SERIES
Price: $2.99

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Flashpoint: Secret Seven #1 (of 3)

Written by PETER MILLIGAN; Art by GEORGE PEREZ and SCOTT KOBLISH; Cover by GEORGE PEREZ
FLASH FACT! One among them will betray them all!
PREVIEW
Format: FC, 32pg., LIMITED SERIES
Price: $2.99

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Hellboy: The Fury #1 (of 3) Mike Mignola Cvr

Mike Mignola (W/Cover), Duncan Fegredo (A), Dave Stewart (C), and Francesco Francavilla (Variant Cover)
War ensues between the forces of good and evil as Hellboy finally confronts the Queen of Blood one on one, setting the stage for a new chapter in Hellboy’s life!
* Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo conclude an epic collaboration that began in 2007’s Darkness Calls!
* Hellboy faces his demons!
“Once The Fury hits the shelves . . . $#!T. IS. GOING. TO. GO. DOWN.” –Comic Impact
PREVIEW
Format: LIMITED SERIES
Price: $2.99

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Heroes For Hire #8

Writer: Tim Bradstreet
Penciled by BRAD WALKER
Cover by DOUG BRAITHWAITE
THE CONCLUSION OF THE HEROES’ TEAM-UP WITH SPIDER-MAN! With Paladin in deep trouble, Misty Knight’s operation only has one agent in the streets: Spider-Man! But the wise-cracking wall-crawler is up to his neck in trouble with the all-new, all-deadly Scorpion! Who else can Misty deploy? And what other shocks can she reveal about the lies upon which the Heroes outfit was built? Find out in the next chapter of the series that has Aint It Cool News raving ‘Just buy it already!’
PREVIEW
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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House of Mystery #38

Written by MATTHEW STURGES; Art by LUCA ROSSI, DAVID LAPHAM and JOSE MARZAN, JR.; Cover by ESAO ANDREWS
Byzantium Mack’s granddaughter, Lotus Blossom, is a violent and cunning would-be conjuror. Now, she’s taken over the House of Mystery and turned it into something…strange. But not everyone is taking this lying down. And why is Harry sleeping with – well, we can’t say who.
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Hulk #34

Writer: Jeff Parker
Pencils & Covers by CARLO PAGULAYAN
Commander Steve Rogers has a new mission for Red Hulk… in outer space! A rescue mission goes wrong and Big Red finds himself pulled into a strange planetary system at war. Epic monster battles! Brazen warrior women! Space intrigue! And… King Red Hulk?! Is it cosmic Deja vu, a cruel joke of fate, or are there other hands at work??? Find out in PLANET RED HULK, an epic two-part adventure from Planet Hulk’s Carlo Pagulayan and Hulk master scribe Jeff Parker!
PREVIEW
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Irredeemable #26

(W) Mark Waid (A) Peter Krause
Make way for the brand new Paradigm! Survivor has put together a motley crew of supposedly reformed criminals and villains – and now they face their first threat! But can a group this dangerous and unstable actually make it through a mission without killing each other first? All this and an unlikely duo team-up to decide the fate of Plutonian! Covers by Drew Johnson and Peter Krause.
Format: COMIC
Price: $3.99

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Jonah Hex #68

Written by JUSTIN GRAY and JIMMY PALMIOTTI; Art and cover by RAFA GARRES
When a man in a small town turns up dead, all evidence points to Jonah Hex as the shooter! On trial for his life in the backroom of a saloon, Hex must play detective if he’s to prove his innocence. Artist Rafa Garres returns to illustrate this stand-alone potboiler!
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Moon Knight #2

Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Pencils & Cover by ALEX MALEEV
Moon Knight’s startling true nature as a one-man Avengers team stands revealed! Now, in the guises and identities of Spider-Man, Wolverine and Captain America, Marc Spector wages war against organized crime in Los Angeles. But who is the Kingpin of crime in L.A. and how does Moon Knight plan to bring him down?
PREVIEW
Format: 32pg., COMIC
Price: $3.99

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Ozma of Oz #7

Written by ERIC SHANOWER
Pencils & Cover by SKOTTIE YOUNG
Penciller: Tim Bradstreet
It’s Billina, the Yellow Hen, to the rescue! To everyone’s surprise, Billina breaks the enchantments that the Nome King cast on Ozma of Oz and her followers. But the wicked Nome King refuses to let his captives leave his underground kingdom. The battle begins-between the twenty-seven soldiers of Ozma’s army and the countless, armed hordes of the Nomes.
PREVIEW
Format: 32pg., LIMITED SERIES
Price: $3.99

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Reed Gunther #1

By: Shane Houghton, Chris Houghton
‘REED GUNTHER AND THE STEAK SNACKING SNAKE!’
The bear-riding cowboy returns in full-color! The previously self-published all-ages indie book by the Houghton brothers gets the Image treatment. In the exciting first issue, follow Reed Gunther and his trusty grizzly bear steed, Sterling, as they bumble their way through battling one of the wild west’s most ferocious creatures: a giant, cow-hungry snake!
Format: COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Secret Six #34

Written by GAIL SIMONE; Art by J. CALAFIORE; Cover by DANIEL LUVISI
He’s been a man of honor seeking his righteous path. But now, Bane has looked into the abyss and seen only the futility of his quest. His one lifeline has been Scandal Savage, but will she be enough to stop his descent – or has the obsession taken over Bane again?

Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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S.H.I.E.L.D. Vol. 2 #1

Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN
Penciled by DUSTIN WEAVER
Cover by GERALD PAREL
Historical Variant Cover by DUSTIN WEAVER
The most acclaimed book of 2010 is back in 2011!
The second volume of S.H.I.E.L.D. has arrived and Jonathan Hickman (FANTASTIC FOUR) and Dustin Weaver (X-MEN) are making the second volume of S.H.I.E.L.D. even better than the first! In this issue, the secret history of Michelangelo. He has been pulling the strings for years and is now becoming the prime mover.
Can he keep Da Vinci and Newton from killing each other and destroying the Brotherhood of the Shield? Don’t miss this new start of the book that everyone is talking about!
PREVIEW
Format: 40pg., COMIC
Price: $3.99

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Sweet Tooth #22

Written by JEFF LEMIRE; Art and cover by JEFF LEMIRE
“Endangered Species”
“Endangered Species” continues as Gus and Jepperd discover the dam and the amazing secrets it holds. But when Jepperd and Walter Fish butt heads, it threatens to tear the group apart. Meanwhile, Singh and Johnny come face to face with the foot soldiers of the mysterious “Haggarty,” and new secrets of “Project Evergreen” begin to surface.

Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Thunderbolts #158

Written by JEFF PARKER, FRANK TIERI, JEN VAN METER & JOE CARAMAGNA
Penciled by KEV WALKER, DECLAN SHALVEY, MATTHEW SOUTHWORTH
Cover by KEV WALKER
FEAR ITSELF TIE-IN! When the Fear Itself hammer falls, The Raft is raised by one of its most powerful prisoners with a newfound weapon of the gods! Now the Thunderbolts will begin to learn the true meaning of FEAR ITSELF! Frank Tieri, Jen Van Meter & Joe Caramanga join series writer Jeff Parker to give us all side of the story as the Thunderbolts try to hold themselves and their world together against tide of anarchy!
PREVIEW
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Uncanny X-Force #11

Written by RICK REMENDER
Penciled by MARK BROOKS
Cover by ESAD RIBIC
Variant Cover by MARK BROOKS
Dark Angel Saga pt. 1
Apocalypse is dead. His heir, Archangel, has picked up where his predecessor left off, amassing an army of En Sabah Nur’s greatest servants! The only hope X-Force have of saving Warren Worthington from the dark entity that inhabits his soul, rests in a dimension where Apocalypse, and his technology, took over the world, the solution lies in-The Age of Apocalypse! However, before X-Force can obtain the thing capable of saving their friend, they must defeat The Amazing X-Men!

Format: 32pg., COMIC
Price: $3.99

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The Walking Dead Weekly #22

By: Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, Tony Moore
With the dangers of this zombie filled world safely on the other side of the prison walls our band of survivors finally has time to explore their new home. Unfortunately there’s still more than enough conflict on the inside of the walls.
Format: COMIC
Price: $2.99

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Witchfinder: Lost and Gone Forever #5 (of 5)

Mike Mignola (W/Cover), John Arcudi (W), John Severin (A), and Dave Stewart (C)
A fierce storm beats down on the land, as Edward Grey takes on Eris the witch and her gang of cowboy zombies!
EC Comics legend John Severin (Two-Fisted Tales) rejoins the Hellboy line after his stellar debut in B.P.R.D. War on Frogs!
* Art by EC artist and Eisner Hall of Famer John Severin!
* A final showdown erupts between Grey and Eris the witch!
* From the pages of Hellboy!
PREVIEW
Format: LIMITED SERIES
Price: $2.99

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Wonder Woman #611

Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI and PHIL HESTER; Art and cover by DON KRAMER and JAY LEISTEN; 1:10 Variant cover by ALEX GARNER
The penultimate chapter of “Odyssey”! Who is behind Diana’s altered reality? Who made the world forget that she is Wonder Woman? Who wants the Amazons dead? And, most importantly, why? The answers start to come right here!
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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X-Factor #220

Written by PETER DAVID
Penciled by PAUL DAVIDSON
Cover by DAVID YARDIN
‘Forgive Me, Father, For I Have KILLED!’
Hoping to be absolved of recently committed sins before she gives birth, Wolfsbane goes to confess…but it isn’t forgiveness that awaits her. In fact, she’s going to have to face her demons head on. Literally! (Oh, and that baby she’s carrying? Turns out that it’s not quite what she expected either.) The next X-citing chapter of X-FACTOR begins here!
PREVIEW
Format: FC, 32pg., COMIC
Price: $2.99

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X-Men #12

Written by CHRISTOPHER YOST
Penciller: Paco Medina, Juan Vlasco, Dalibor Talajic
Covers by ED McGIUNNESS
Variant Covers by PACO MEDINA
‘FIRST TO LAST’
Who are the Evolutionaries and why doesn’t anyone remember when they fought Xavier and his original five X-Men? Cyclops and his crew on Utopia better figure out quick or the Evolutionaries are going to wipe out every human on the planet. That’s right, every HUMAN. Two issues of this huge story this month both showing X-Men/Evolutionary actionin the past and in the present. And it’s all thanks to Christopher Yost (X-FORCE), amazing regular artist Paco Medina and the always classic Dalibor Talijic (HITMONKEY)! Parts 2 and 3 (of 5)
PREVIEW
Format: 32pg., COMIC
Price: $3.99

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Osborn: Evil Incarcerated TP

Written by KELLY SUE DeCONNICK with WARREN ELLIS
Penciled by EMMA RIOS with JAMIE McKELVIE
Cover by BEN OLIVER
BIG TIME HITS SPIDER-MAN’S GREATEST ENEMY! The world’s most dangerous felon is in the world’s top supermax prison – an institution so secret even the vice president doesn’t know it exists. But can any cell contain Norman Osborn? After the events of SIEGE, the former Green Goblin, Iron Patriot and power-mad director of worldwide security isn’t allowed to have a toothbrush – and he’s surrounded by the world’s deadliest criminals. Lucky for Osborn, they’re fans. Rising stars Kelly Sue DeConnick (SIF) and Emma Rios (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) throw Osborn in the darkest hole the public’s never seen! Featuring a bonus story written by Warren Ellis (THUNDERBOLTS)! Collecting OSBORN #1-5.
Format: 128pg., TRADE PAPERBACK
Price: $16.99

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The Tooth HC

By: Cullen Bunn, Shawn Lee, Matt Kindt
Face front, horror hounds!
The greatest of ghoulish gladiators gouges a gruesome gangway through your gust in the Grand Guignol tradition!
CREEPY Cullen Bunn, SINISTER Shawn Lee, and MURDEROUS Matt Kindt bring you the most spectacular of horrifying heroes — The Tooth! Be the first kid on your block to follow the off-beat adventures of the Incredible Inciscor… the Monstrous Molar… the Courageous Carnassial… as he squares off against vicious demons, hell-bent sorcerers, vengeful spirits, and undead dragons!
This new macabre myth cycle springs to life soon as only Oni Press can bring you!
Format: HARD COVER
Price: $24.99

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Wonder Woman: Odyssey Vol. 1 HC

Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI and PHIL HESTER; Art by DON KRAMER, MICHAEL BABINSKI, EDUARDO PANSICA, ALLAN GOLDMAN and JAY LEISTEN; Cover by ALEX GARNER
Wonder Woman gets a new costume in this start to bestselling writer J. Michael Straczynski’s run on the iconic character’s series, collected from issues #600-606.
Diana must track down the truth behind what’s happened to her timeline and face the biggest stunner of all: Who destroyed Paradise Island? All bets are off as Wonder Woman embarks on an odyssey to find her past, getting a new costume, a new set of foes, and a new tone from the ground up!
Format: FC, 168pg., HARD COVER
Price: $22.99

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Green Lantern Mega Mini Kit

By: Brandon T. Snider
There are 3,600 Green Lanterns, each granted a Power Ring along with a duty to join the universal quest to protect a specific sector of space. Now you can join the continuum and become a Green Lantern too. DC Comics presents the Green Lantern Mega Mini Kit, which includes a booklet describing the background of the Green Lantern, the ring, the Green Lantern Oath, and a bio of Hal Jordan. The kit also includes a special Power Ring that lights up.
Format: NOVEL
Price: $8.95

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Green Lantern Rebirth Collectors Set AF

Green Lantern Hal Jordan battles the entity known as Parallax, controlling and conquering the fear threatening to consume him whole. Included in this set are action figures of Green Lantern and Sinestro (boasting brand new decos) as well as the 192-page reprint of the GREEN LANTERN REBIRTH trade paperback by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver. Each figure stands approximately 6.75′ high. On sale June 22, 2011 * Collector Set
Format: ACTION FIGURE
Price: PI

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Planet Hulk Hulk Mini Bust

A Bowen Designs Sculpt! The Hulk, banished from Earth to a distant world by a cabal known as ‘the Illuminati,’ became a gladiator and a heroic champion on that barbaric alien world in Greg Pak and Carlo Pagulayan’s ‘Planet Hulk’ storyline. The barbarian Hulk is sculpted digitially by the story’s artist Carlo Pagulayan for this 8 1/2″ tall mini-bust. The battle for the planet Sakaar has begun!
Format: BUSTS
Price: $80.00