“And on Wednesday… He gave us Comics!”

This week I wanted to point out some of the REALLY good books I figured you would enjoy. Let me know your thoughts on what you like, what I should add and what you think I’m crazy for posting in this blog!

Enjoy!!

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Batman Incorporated #1

Grant Morrison continues his earth-shattering run on the Batman titles with this exciting, new ongoing series! Featuring; Art by the remarkable Yanick Paquette (SEVEN SOLDIERS: BULLETEER), BATMAN, INC. marks the next stage of evolution for The Dark Knight. This can’t-miss series will star not just Bruce Wayne as Batman, but also a huge number of guest-stars! Don’t miss out on this all-new start to a stunning direction for Batman!

Written by GRANT MORRISON
Art by YANICK PAQUETTE
Inks by MICHEL LACOMBE
Colors by NATHAN FAIRBAIRN
Letters by JOHN J. HILL
Cover by J.H. WILLIAMS III
Variant cover by YANICK PAQUETTE

Size: 32 Pages

Price: $3.99

Flash #6

BRIGHTEST DAY dashes on with the stunning conclusion of “The Dastardly Deaths of the Rogues!” With Barry caught between the Rogues and the Renegades, the resurrected Captain Boomerang’s role in the adventure is revealed! You won’t believe how this leads to the upcoming FLASHPOINT…

Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art and Cover by FRANCIS MANAPUL
Variant cover by ALE GARZA & SANDRA HOPE

Size: 32 Pages

Price: $2.99

Batman The Return #1

The event of the year is here! Bruce Wayne made his long journey back through the timestream in RETURN OF BRUCE WAYNE, Dick Grayson and Damian uncovered important secrets in BATMAN and ROBIN, Gotham City’s bravest heroes made their mark in BRUCE WAYNE – THE ROAD HOME…and now it’s time for BATMAN to return! What happens to Dick Grayson now that the “real” Batman is back? How will Bruce Wayne handle a reunion with his son, Damian? This special one-shot bridges two exciting eras of The Dark Knight and sets up a surprising new status quo that’s just on the horizon.

Featuring the talents of Batman mastermind Grant Morrison and superstar artist David Finch providing interior art, this issue is a can’t-miss for comics fans!

Written by GRANT MORRISON
Art by DAVID FINCH and SCOTT WILLIAMS
Cover by DAVID FINCH

Size: 56 Pages

Price: $4.99

Green Lantern #59

BRIGHTEST DAY blazes on as the New Guardians seeking the Indigo Entity are shocked to discover a sedated Black Hand. Can Hal Jordan trust the Indigo Tribe to house the herald of Nekron?

Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art and cover by DOUG MAHNKE and CHRISTIAN ALAMY
Variant cover by GENE HA

Size: 32 Pages

Price: $2.99

Brightest Day #14

Don’t miss the hottest event in comics as BRIGHTEST DAY continues with the search for a new White Lantern. And Martian Manhunter returns to Mars as we discover the origin of the creature mysteriously stalking him. Plus, the evil within Firestorm now haunts Professor Stein! And Hawkman: betrayed!

Written by GEOFF JOHNS & PETER J. TOMASI
Art by IVAN REIS, PAT GLEASON, ARDIAN SYAF, SCOTT CLARK and JOE PRADO
Covers by DAVID FINCH
Variant covers by IVAN REIS

Size: 32 Pages

Price: $2.99

Avengers #7

I AM AN AVENGER!

Plus: another chapter in the oral history of the Avengers!

WRITER: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
PENCILS: JOHN ROMITA JR.
COLORED BY: DEAN WHITE
LETTERED BY: NEUROTIC CARTOONIST, INC
COVER BY: JOHN ROMITA JR.

Size: 32 Pages

Price: $3.99

Morning Glories #4

With one of their own in danger, the rest of the Glories come together secretly and hatch a plan to rescue her – and escape from the sinister clutches of the Academy together! The teacher versus student showdown starts here!

story NICK SPENCER
art JOE EISMA
cover RODIN ESQUEJO

Size: 32 Pages

Price: $3.50

Green Lantern Corps #54

The new ongoing art team of rising star Tyler Kirkham and dynamic inker Batt kicks this BRIGHTEST DAY tie-in into high gear as Kyle Rayner attempts to recruit Sinestro in a mission to save his daughter Soranik Natu! But the leader of the Yellow Lanterns is more concerned with exterminating the “alley rat” Emerald Warrior, and the pair face off in hand-to-hand combat!

Written by TONY BEDARD
Art and cover by TYLER KIRKHAM & BATT
Variant cover by PATRICK GLEASON

Size: 32 Pages

Price: $2.99

Batman #704

Welcome back Tony Daniel as regular writer/artist on BATMAN!

Bruce Wayne may have returned, but when an aging but wealthy technology developer comes to Gotham with his beautiful daughter, it turns out he’s in search of a joint project with WayneTech. DNA tracking is the name of his game, and there are others interested in his proposal. But when the developer goes missing, Batman finds that his tracks stop in the city’s violent Chinatown neighborhood, where a new deadly Triad gang has taken root.

Guest-starring I-Ching!

Written by TONY DANIEL
Art and cover by TONY DANIEL

Size: 32 Pages

Price: $2.99

Superior #2 (OF 6)

Who is – what is – SUPERIOR? And what the hell is he doing breaking into Jonah’s room in the middle of the night? Superior’s just a guy from comics and movies, anyway, so what did this tights-wearing maniac done to Ollie, Jonah’s wheelchair-bound best friend? But as Superior shows off his powers, Jonah learns that things aren’t all they seem.

MARK MILLAR (KICK-ASS, NEMESIS, OLD MAN LOGAN) and his ULTIMATE AVENGERS 2 collaborator LEINIL FRANCIS YU (SECRET INVASION, NEW AVENGERS, ULTIMATE WOLVERINE VS. HULK) continue to bring us a new age of superhero comics!

WRITER: MARK MILLAR
PENCILS: LEINIL FRANCIS YU
COVER BY: LEINIL FRANCIS YU

Price: $2.99

Thunderbolts #150

Iron Man, Thor and the original Captain America guest-star in this 96-page 150th blow-out issue!

First, in the 40-page lead story, The Thunderbolts reach their milestone as loudly as possible, when the golden figures of the Marvel Universe come to their gray world–none other than the Armored Avenger, the God of Thunder and the Super-Soldier! Thor has come to hold court with one of his people held in the women’s wing of The Raft, and when his fellow Avengers join him, things go to a realm no one expected! Iron Man comes face-to-face with Ghost, the man who almost killed him, and Steve Rogers confronts the man who did kill him, Crossbones!

Plus: character bios, key reprints and more surprises in the book that has IGN.com exclaiming: “Parker and Walker are injecting a bit of fun and excitement into the title…This is the most consistently enjoyable title with the Heroic Age banner and anyone looking for a great team book would do well to give Thunderbolts a read.”

WRITER: JEFF PARKER
PENCILS: KEV WALKER
INKS: KEV WALKER
COLORED BY: KLEBS DEMOURA JR.
LETTERED BY: RICHARD STARKINGS
COVER BY: GREG LAND

Size: 96 Pages

Price: $4.99

X-Men #5

“CURSE OF THE MUTANTS,” PART 5

The Vampire Nation’s army is unleashed on Utopia, with vampire Wolverine leading the charge – and, boy, does he have a bone to pick with Cyclops! Meanwhile, the newly resurrected Dracula is nowhere to be found. So why is Cyclops smiling?

WRITER: VICTOR GISCHLER
PENCILS: PACO MEDINA
INKS: JUAN FRANCISCO VELASCO
COLORED BY: MARTE GRACIA
COVER BY: ADI GRANOV

Size: 32 Pages

Price: $3.99

Hulk #27

SCORCHED EARTH, PART III

The oceans will boil! Red goes into deeply unfamiliar territory to stop the next contingency, and the best ally for the mission is Namor, King of Atlantis! Take a dangerous doomsday scenario and insert two of the most powerful overbearing egos on Earth and… what could go wrong?

MEANWHILE…in the Pacific, A-Bomb finds out where giant monsters go after they’ve been driven out, and finds…MORE giant monsters!!

WRITER: JEFF PARKER
PENCILS: GABRIEL HARDMAN & MARK ROBINSON
INKS: GABRIEL HARDMAN
COLORED BY: ELIZABETH BREITWEISER
COVER BY: ED MCGUINNESS

Size: 40 Pages

Price: $3.99

Superman #705

J. Michael Straczynski’s “Grounded” storyline, which has made headlines in USA TODAY, THE NEW YORK TIMES and ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, continues right here as Superman visits the Chicago area! In this issue, Superman discovers that there is a darkness even more immense than outer space: the darkness of the human heart turned against…

Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Art by EDDY BARROWS & J.P. MAYER
Cover by JOHN CASSADAY
Variant cover by YANICK PAQUETTE & MICHEL LACOMBE

Size: 32 Pages

Price: $2.99

Dc Universe Legacies #7 (OF 10)

The unthinkable happens at the heart of the DC Universe when the world’s most beloved hero – Superman – dies defending us all from Doomsday!

Meanwhile, Brian Bolland takes us into the Time Pool with The Atom, leaving him face-to-face with the Demon in Camelot!

Written by LEN WEIN
Art by DAN JURGENS & JERRY ORDWAY and BRIAN BOLLAND with SCOTT KOLINS
Cover by DAN JURGENS & JERRY ORDWAY
Variant cover by BRIAN BOLLAND

Size: 40 Pages

Price: $3.99

Zatanna #7

Zatanna just doesn’t like L.A. Never did, never will. Attending the opening of Hollywood’s new Magic Museum, filled with artifacts and costumes from the world’s greatest sorcerers, is more of a chore than a vacation. But she’ll be surprised by what she finds there – both a connection to her father, and a truly bizarre threat that she never saw coming! They say the clothes don’t make the man… but what happens when the clothes have other ideas? It’s one of Zatanna’s weirdest adventures yet, in a done-in-one by Adam Beechen (BATMAN BEYOND)!

Written by Adam Beechen
Art by Chad Hardin and Wayne Faucher
Cover by Jesus Saiz

Size: 32 Pages

Price: $2.99

X-Factor #211

It’s a battle royale in the streets of Vegas, as Madrox and Longshot discover that sometimes the only thing worse than a plan that doesn’t work…is a plan that works all too well. And when that plan is to try and get the attention of a death goddess, and that attention consists of her sending her undead warrior hordes against you, well…what’s happening in Vegas may well extend to staying there for eternity…

WRITER: PETER DAVID
PENCILS: EMANUELA LUPACCHINO
INKS: PAT DAVIDSON
COLORED BY: CHRIS CHUCKRY
LETTERED BY: NEUROTIC CARTOONIST, INC
COVER BY: DAVID YARDIN

Size: 32 Pages

Price: $2.99

Supergirl #58

Cat Grant is in trouble. And not just “missed her deadline and Perry White’s furious” trouble. Really bad trouble. And the only hero who she can turn to for help is the one she’s been bad-mouthing in the Daily Planet for months – Supergirl! Will the Girl of Steel let bygones be bygones? Or should this Cat hope she still has at least one more of her nine lives left?

Written by STERLING GATES
Art by JAMAL IGLE & JON SIBAL
Cover by AMY REEDER & RICHARD FRIEND
“DC 75th Anniversary” Variant cover by AMANDA CONNER

Size: 32 Pages

Price: $2.99

Power Girl #18

Going toe-to-toe with her equal. Power Girl finds out that life isn’t always divine! Meet Divine: a powerhouse of a woman gunning to become Power Girl’s replacement!

Written by JUDD WINICK
Art and cover by SAMI BASRI

Size: 32 Pages

Price: $2.99

Spider-Girl #1

Spinning from the GRIM HUNT in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN!

Not every fight can get resolved by punching someone in the face…but Spider-Girl’s gonna punch somebody anyway, just to make sure. Follow the swinging adventures of Anya Corazon, the Splendiferous Spider-Girl, as she balances the daily grind of teenage life with the bumps and bruises brought by banging ‘bows with bad guys!

Guest-starring the FANTASTIC FOUR and a villain that our hero could NEVER, EVER, EVER defeat.

Paul Tobin (SPIDER-MAN, SUPER HEROES) and Clayton Henry (UNCANNY X-MEN) present an all-new hero for an all-new era!

WRITER: PAUL TOBIN
PENCILS: CLAYTON HENRY
INKS: CLAYTON HENRY
COLORED BY: BRAD ANDERSON
LETTERED BY: NEUROTIC CARTOONIST, INC
COVER BY: BARRY KITSON

Size: 40 Pages

Price: $3.99

Superman Batman #78

It’s open season on the World’s Finest as it looks like all their worst enemies have joined forces to take down both Batman and Superman. Who could possibly be behind this carefully coordinated attack?

Written by JOE KELLY
Art and cover by ED BENES

Size: 32 Pages

Price: $2.99

Stan Lee Soldier Zero #2

STAN’S BACK! THE PUBLISHING EVENT OF THE YEAR!

Stan Lee, the most colossal force in the history of comics, teams up with BOOM! Studios to deliver a brand new line of superhero comics! The great innovator of our industry brings his inimitable talents back to the direct market in an explosive line of comics that nobody is prepared for! His epic superhero series with Paul Cornell (ACTION COMICS, DOCTOR WHO) and Javier Pina (SUPERMAN, BATMAN) continues in SOLDIER ZERO! Half man. Half alien. All weapon! Stewart Travers struggles to understand his Trauttmann power as he battles against an enemy alien force that has turned Earth into a battlefield!

Writer: Paul Cornell
Artist: Javier Pina

Price: $3.99

Hack Slash Trailers Part 2

An all-star cast of comic creators donate ALL-NEW short tales of comicdom’s favorite slasher killers, and all of the proceeds go toward paying off previously stiffed artists! SCOTT ALLIE, J. TORRES, B. CLAY MOORE, GAIL SIMONE, TIM SEELEY and many others unite to tell HACK/SLASH stories – THEIR WAY – in a stand-alone volume that will never be collected in trade!

story & art VARIOUS
cover TIM SEELEY & NEI RUFFINO

Size: 64 Pages

Price: $6.99