Yes there are many highlights this week - especially some interesting new starting series...
Those of you torturing yourselves with the new Dark Souls release get a chance to kick back and watch the horror unfold without having to reload constantly as Titan release a new ongoing DS series.
Aftershock continue their impressive release schedule with B.E.K (again at at low risk price point of £1.75
Image have demon chickens and criminals, Dynamite have the Twilight Zone, Valiant start Divinity II from the excellent Matt Kindt who has had a busy month also releasing Dept H from Dark Horse.
New starts next with all this week's releases following on below.
NEW SERIES AND ONE-SHOTS
ALOHA HAWAIIAN DICK #1 (OF 4)
Publisher: IMAGE COMICS
(W) B. Clay Moore (A) Jacob Wyatt (CA) Sean K. Dove
The critically-acclaimed tropical noir returns for a brand new series! While Byrd remains in 1954 Hawaii, we meet another Byrd back in the States, and his impending arrival on the scene is destined to change the landscape of HAWAIIAN DICK forever.
BLACK-EYED KIDS #1 (COVER A FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA)
Publisher: AFTERSHOCK COMICS
(W) Joe Pruett (A) Szymon Kudranski (CA) Francesco Francavilla
It's dark. You're alone. Then there's a knock. You open the door to find two seemingly normal kids. They ask to come in, to borrow your phone to call for a ride. You find yourself overcome with an intense fear that you can't explain. And then you notice their eyes... black... SOLID black. You want to run, but now they're inside. It's too late. They have you. Eisner Award winner Joe Pruett (X-Men Unlimited, Cable) is joined by artist Szymon Kudranski (Spawn, Penguin: Pain and Prejudice) for this terrifying new horror series.
CAPTAIN AMERICA ROAD TO WAR #1 (RON LIM REGULAR COVER)
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Will Pilgrim (A) Andrea Di Vito (CA) Ron Lim
• CAPTAIN AMERICA and BLACK WIDOW must train the new Avengers recruits to work together as a team.
• Their first mission: stop the giant robot, ULTIMO!
• Featuring SCARLET WITCH, VISION, FALCON and WAR MACHINE!
• Bonus TALES OF SUSPENSE #58 included.
CHEW DEMON CHICKEN POYO #1 (COVER A ROB GUILLORY)
Publisher: IMAGE COMICS
(W) John Layman (A/CA) Rob Guillory
The final episode of the groundbreaking and historic Poyo trilogy: DEMON CHICKEN POYO. Hell wants him. Heaven won't take him. Earth needs him. That was also the tagline for that godawful Constantine movie. But Poyo is so badass, he stole it from Keanu Reeves!
CRIMINAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL (SEAN PHILLIPS REGULAR COVER)
Publisher: IMAGE COMICS
(W) Ed Brubaker (A/CA) Sean Phillips
BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS return ten years later to the world of CRIMINAL for one of their darkest and strangest tales yet. Teeg and Tracy Lawless co-star in this one-shot, a twisted 70s noir about a father and son on the run. Also includes articles, illustrations, and behind-the-scenes extras.
DARK SOULS #1 (COVER A GAME ART COVER)
DARK SOULS #1 (COVER E BLANK)
DARK SOULS #1 (PREVIEWS UK VARIANT)
Publisher: TITAN COMICS
(W) George Mann (A) Alan Quah
Welcome to the world of Dark Souls; a landscape bathed in arcane fantasy, where primordial forces govern the tides of time, bonfires flicker in the darkness, and the undead stalk the earth in search of impossible redemption. From Titan Comics and Doctor Who scribe George Mann comes this original tale of adventure and visceral horror that throws readers deep into the twisted myth of Namco-Bandai's award-winning video-game franchise.
DARK TOWER THE DRAWING OF THE THREE BITTER MEDICINE #1 (OF 5)
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Robin Furth, Peter David (A) Jonathan Marks (CA) Nimit Malavia
THE GUNSLINGER has taken Odetta Holmes to Midworld to join his quest to reach the DARK TOWER!
But little do ROLAND and EDDIE know that Odetta has a dark side that poses a threat to all of Midworld!
Mature
DEPT. H #1 (COVER A MATT KINDT)
Publisher: DARK HORSE COMICS
(W/A/CA) Matt Kindt
From New York Times best-selling MIND MGMT creator Matt Kindt comes an exciting new undersea sci-fi mystery.
Mia is a special investigator hired to uncover possible sabotage taking place at a deep-sea research station. What she finds is a mind-blowing crime scene filled with suspects with terrible secrets, strange deep-sea creatures, and an impending flood!
DIVINITY II #1 (OF 4) (COVER A JELENA KEVIC-DJURDJEVIC)
Publisher: VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC
(W) Matt Kindt (A) Trevor Hairsine (CA) Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic
The much-anticipated follow-up to the five-time sold-out series that The Onion/A.V. Club calls the "Best New Superhero of 2015" is here! The acclaimed creative team returns for a perfect new jumping-on point into the expansive sci-fi saga that shook the world!
At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union - determined to win the Space Race at any cost - green lit a dangerously advanced mission. They sent three cosmonauts farther than anyone has gone before or since. Hand picked orphans with no connections to Earth, trained as devout Communists, and restricted from having families, they became lost in the stars and encountered something Unknown... Something that changed them.
Long thought lost and erased from the history books, Abram Adams was the first to return. The few that have been able to reach him believe him to be a deity. They say he can bend matter, space, and even time to his will. But, even with limitless powers, he is concerned only with the secret love he hid away from his superiors and the unborn child he never met.
Now, Miska, the female co-pilot of the group, has also returned to Earth...but, unlike Abram she had no secret family. Unlike Abram, she still believes in the Communist ideal. And, unlike Abram, she intends to play a very real role in the return of Soviet glory.
Earth is about to meet a new god. And she's a Communist. How long can it be before the nations of Earth bend before DIVINITY?
JOYRIDE #1 (OF 4) (COVER A MARCUS TO)
Publisher: BOOM! STUDIOS
(W) Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly (A/CA) Marcus To
What's to Love: After working together on Hacktivist and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials original graphic novel, the writing duo of Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly (Batman and Robin Eternal) join forces once again with artist Marcus To (New Warriors, The Flash: Season Zero) for their first creator-owned series that takes readers to the stars in this space epic with a punk-rock attitude, perfect for fans of Young Avengers and Runaways.
What It Is: In the future, Earth sucks. The stars have been blocked out for so long that people have forgotten there was anything else besides the dumb World Government Alliance watching over them, training children to join the militarized Allied Youth and eliminating all resistance with a giant ray gun. Uma Akkolyte is a girl who shoots first and leaps before she looks, and when she gets a strange message from outside the barricades of SafeSky, she jacks a spaceship and punches through the stratosphere with an unlikely crew of teens who are totally not ready for what they're about to find.
TWILIGHT ZONE THE SHADOW #1 (OF 4) (COVER A FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA)
Publisher: D. E.
(W) David Avallone (A) Dave Acosta (CA) Francesco Francavilla
He knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men... but who knows what lurks in the heart of The Shadow? Find out, in the first issue of this mind-blowing four-part storyline entitled "Shadow of a Doubt", as the Master of Men takes a fateful step into that wondrous land bounded only by imagination: an area which we call... The Twilight Zone.
NEW COMICS
2000 AD PROG 1978
ADVENTURE TIME ICE KING #4 (OF 4) (COVER A SHELLI PAROLINE & BRADEN LAMB)
ALL-NEW HAWKEYE #6
ASTONISHING ANT-MAN #7 (MARK BROOKS REGULAR COVER)
B.P.R.D. HELL ON EARTH #140 (COVER A DUNCAN FEGREDO)
BACK TO THE FUTURE #7 (COVER A MARCELO FERREIRA)
BACK TO THE FUTURE #7 (COVER B TIMONTHY LIM)
CAPTAIN AMERICA SAM WILSON #8 AVENGERS STANDOFF (PAUL RENAUD REGULAR COVER)
CAPTAIN MARVEL #4 (KRIS ANKA REGULAR COVER)
CRY HAVOC #4 (COVER A RYAN KELLY & EMMA PRICE)
CRY HAVOC #4 (COVER B DECLAN SHALVEY & JORDIE BELLAIRE)
DEADPOOL #10 (MIKE ALLRED REGULAR COVER)
DEADPOOL AND THE MERCS FOR MONEY #3 (OF 5) (DECLAN SHALVEY REGULAR COVER)
DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY A SPOON TOO SHORT #3 (OF 5) (COVER A ILIAS KYRIAZIS)
DISNEY PRINCESS #2
DONALD DUCK #12 (COVER A DAVE ALVAREZ)
DRAGON AGE MAGEKILLER #5 (OF 5)
EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN #9 APOCALYPSE WARS (HUMBERTO RAMOS REGULAR COVER)
FLASH #50 (IVAN REIS & JOE PRADO REGULAR COVER)
FLASH #50 (DUNCAN FEGREDO VARIANT COVER)
GODZILLA OBLIVION #2 (OF 5) (COVER A BRIAN CHURILLA)
GRUMPY CAT AND POKEY #3 (OF 6) (COVER A STEVE UY)
GUARDIANS OF INFINITY #5
GUTTER MAGIC #4 (OF 4) (COVER A BRETT BARKLEY)
HARLEY'S LITTLE BLACK BOOK #3 (AMANDA CONNER REGULAR COVER)
HAUNTED MANSION #2 (OF 5) (E. M. GIST REGULAR COVER)
HOWARD THE DUCK #6 (JOE QUINONES & ERICA HENDERSON REGULAR COVER)
HUCK #6 (COVER A RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE)
HUCK #6 (COVER B RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE)
HYPERION #2 (EMANUELA LUPACCHINO REGULAR COVER)
INJUSTICE GODS AMONG US YEAR FIVE #8
INVINCIBLE #127
JAMES BOND #6 (COVER A DOM REARDON)
JONESY #3 (OF 4) (COVER A CAITLIN ROSE BOYLE)
LEGENDS OF TOMORROW #2, €7.99
LUCIFER #5
MARVEL UNIVERSE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #7
MIGHTY THOR #6 (RUSSELL DAUTERMAN REGULAR COVER)
MIRROR #3
NEW AVENGERS #10 AVENGERS STANDOFF
OBI-WAN AND ANAKIN #4 (OF 5)
PAKNADEL AND TRAKHANOV'S TURNCOAT #2 (OF 4) (COVER A ARTYOM TRAKHANOV)
POISON IVY CYCLE OF LIFE AND DEATH #4 (OF 6)
POWER MAN AND IRON FIST #3 (SANFORD GREENE REGULAR COVER)
RED SONJA VOLUME 3 #4 (COVER A MARGUERITE SAUVAGE)
SECOND SIGHT #3
SHADOW GLASS #2 (OF 6)
SILK #7 SPIDER-WOMEN (YASMINE PUTRI REGULAR COVER)
SNOWFALL #3
SPIDER-MAN DEADPOOL #4
SUPERMAN AMERICAN ALIEN #6 (OF 7) (RYAN SOOK REGULAR COVER)
TOKYO GHOST #6 (COVER A SEAN MURPHY & MATT HOLLINGSWORTH)
TOKYO GHOST #6 (COVER B MATTEO SCALERA)
TOMB RAIDER #3
TOTALLY AWESOME HULK #5 (FRANK CHO REGULAR COVER)
TRANSFORMERS #52 (COVER A ANDREW GRIFFITH)
WONDER WOMAN #51 (DAVID FINCH REGULAR COVER)
WONDER WOMAN #51 (JOHN ROMITA JR. & SCOTT HANNA VARIANT COVER)