Another busy week here at CGC towers, both Civil War and DCU Rebirth events move up a notch with Civil War II #1 and DC releasing the first tranche of Rebirth titles to follow up on the successful release of the special last week (As an aside it was out biggest ever order and sold out in three days! A reprint is incoming for 8th June)
Elsewhere the Spider-women event draws to a close, Andy Diggle (The Losers) comes back to crime thrillers with Control #1 and Aftershock's excellent release slate has time travelling shenanigans added with The Re-visionists #1
NEW STARTS AND ONE-SHOTS
BATMAN EUROPA #1 (OF 4) (DIRECTOR'S CUT)
Publisher: DC COMICS
(W) Matteo Casali, Brian Azzarello (A) Giuseppe Camuncoli, Jim Lee (CA) Jim Lee
Superstar artist Jim Lee returns to the Dark Knight with this premiere issue, now presented in pencil form in this new DIRECTOR'S CUT Special! The impossible has happened and Batman is on the verge of being taken down by an enemy he cannot defeat: a virus for which there is no cure! And the only hope for his salvation is The Joker! Who infected Batman, what does the Clown Prince of Crime know, and how will the Dark Knight get that information?
BATMAN REBIRTH #1 (MIKEL JANIN REGULAR COVER)
Publisher: DC COMICS
(W) Tom King, Scott Snyder (A/CA) Mikel Janin
Longtime Batman and Eisner Award winning writer Scott Snyder co-writes with rising star writer Tom King!
EVIL 365: Gotham City faces the threat of the Calendar Man!
CIVIL WAR II #1 (OF 7) (MARKO DJURDJEVIC REGULAR COVER)
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Brian Michael Bendis (A) David Marquez (CA) Marko Djurdjevic
IT'S HERE!
The explosive first chapter in the comic event EVERYONE will be talking about. And we come out swinging with a blistering double-sized first issue from the creative team behind last year's best-selling debut of INVINCIBLE IRON MAN and Miles Morales. A new Inhuman, with the ability to profile the future, emerges and the ramifications ripple into every corner of the Marvel Universe. Lines are drawn, bodies fall, and the Marvel Universe will be rocked to it's very core. The action starts here!
CONTROL #1 (OF 6) (COVER A BEN OLIVER)
Publisher: D. E.
(W) Andy Diggle, Angela Cruickshank (A) Andrea Mutti (CA) Ben Oliver
Detective-Sergeant Kate Burnham isn't making any friends in the Washington DC Police Department. That makes her the perfect scapegoat when a routine homicide investigation threatens to blow open a criminal conspiracy that reaches to the upper echelons of the DC power elite. Kate makes it go away, or they make her go away. Cop or criminal, power is all about control, applied top-down from the penthouse elite to the hustlers on the street. But what happens when the street pushes back...?
GREEN ARROW REBIRTH #1 (JUAN FERREYRA REGULAR COVER)
Publisher: DC COMICS
(W) Ben Percy (A) Otto Schmidt (CA) Juan Ferreyra
Together again for the first time, the Emerald Archer meets Black Canary. Questioning everything Green Arrow believes in, Dinah Lance throws the hero's world upside down, forcing him to question what he cares about more: his morals or his money?
BULLSEYE: "Readers are aching for the reunion of Green Arrow and Black Canary, and we're finally going to give it to them." says writer Benjamin Percy. "Also returning? Green Arrow's goatee."
GREEN LANTERNS REBIRTH #1 (ETHAN VAN SCIVER REGULAR COVER)
Publisher: DC COMICS
(W) Geoff Johns, Sam Humphries (A/CA) Ethan Van
Creative powerhouse Geoff Johns puts the ring on again as he, cowriter Sam Humphries and artist Ethan Van Sciver debut a new era of emerald greatness! Rookie Green Lanterns Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz tackle the universe's toughest beat: Earth.
HOT TICKET: Geoff and Ethan brought Hal Jordan to epic status with the original GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH.
MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS PINK #1 (COVER A ELSA CHARRETIER)
Publisher: BOOM! STUDIOS
(W) Brendan Fletcher, Kelly Thompson (A) Daniele Di (CA) Elsa Charretier
We're so thrilled by the response to our Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comic series that we wanted to focus on some of the individual Rangers and let them shine in their own stories. First up is a series centered around Kimberly Hart, the Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger, and who better than Batgirl and Gotham Academy writer Brenden Fletcher and A-Force and Jem and the Holograms writer Kelly Thompson to bring it to us!
NIGHT TRAP #1
Publisher: LION FORGE
(W) Cullen Bunn (A) J.B. Bastos (CA) Phil Hester
When a group of college kids rent a lake house for the weekend, they're hoping for some relaxation and fun. Instead, they find an inescapable death trap! From one of the most critically acclaimed horror writers in comics comes a chilling tribute to the genre's most memorable slasher classics!
REVISIONIST #1 (COVER A GARRY BROWN)
Publisher: AFTERSHOCK COMICS
(W) Frank Barbiere (A/CA) Garry Brown
New series! How far would you go to save reality? Martin Monroe is The Revisionist-a time-traveling assassin tasked with repairing our fractured timeline. Forced to place his trust in his estranged father, Martin will have to overcome his troubled past to save the future-but can he live with his decisions?
Join the all-star creative team of writer FRANK J. BARBIERE (Five Ghosts, Avengers World), artist GARRY BROWN (Black Road, The Massive), and colorist LAUREN AFFE (The Paybacks, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter) for the first chapter of an all-new action/sci-fi adventure about fathers, sons, and time travel!
SHADOW THE DEATH OF MARGO LANE #1 (OF 6) (COVER A MATT WAGNER)
Publisher: D. E.
(W/A/CA) Matt Wagner
Legendary creator Matt Wagner returns to both write and draw an all-new tale for the first and most famous of all pulp heroes, The Shadow! Following his critically-acclaimed work on The Shadow: Year One and Grendel vs. The Shadow, Wagner once again lends his masterful talents to unveil "what evil lurks in the hearts of men." In a storyline that is sure to rock The Shadow's relentless crusade against crime, Dynamite is proud to bring readers The Death of Margo Lane, a five-issue series written and drawn by Wagner and colored by his talented son, Brennan Wagner. For years, Margo Lane has served as The Shadow's faithful "friend and companion," the closest and most intimate of all his many agents. But when will that proximity to The Shadow's dark and violent world take its ultimate toll on her? And what effect will his lover's loss have on the driven and brooding Master of Darkness? This series presents a powerful and resonant tale in the sort of pulse-pounding pulp style that only Matt Wagner could deliver!
SPIDER-WOMEN OMEGA #1 (YASMINE PUTRI REGULAR COVER)
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Various (A) Nico Leon (CA) Yasmine Putri
THE TITANTIC CONCLUSION TO THE SPIDER-EVENT OF 2016!
• Silk is out of commission and Spider-Woman and Spider-Gwen return to Earth-65 for an impossible final battle.
• They are out-gunned, out-manned, out-numbered and out-planned. But it's a fight they have to fight.
• Don't miss this conclusion that will shake all three Spider-Women to the core!
STRANGE ATTRACTORS #1 (OF 5) (COVER A GREG SCOTT & SCOTT NEWMAN)
Publisher: BOOM! STUDIOS
(W) Charles Soule (A) Greg Scott, Soo Lee (CA) Scott Newman, Greg Scott
What's to Love: Writer Charles Soule (Daredevil, Civil War) crafted a mind-bending story about how chaos math kept New York City from collapsing under itself. Presented for the first time as a limited series, each oversized issue of Strange Attractors features 30 pages of content, including new, never-before-seen bonus story pages.
What It Is: Dr. Brownfield believes that a series of cataclysmic events are coming to New York City, and someone has to keep the city safe after he's gone. Enter Heller Wilson, a brilliant mathematics student, who discovers that his ailing, perhaps insane, mentor has been saving New York City from societal collapse by a series of "adjustments," a la the Butterfly Effect. But now, all signs point toward an impending disaster. Can Wilson take what little he's learned and save the city in time?
SUPERMAN REBIRTH #1 (DOUG MAHNKE REGULAR COVER)
Publisher: DC COMICS
(W) Peter J. Tomasi (A) Doug Mahnke, Jaime Mendoza (CA) Doug Mahnke
The world needs a Man of Steel, but can Superman protect the world while raising a super-son with his wife, Lois Lane?
IT BEGINS: Now it's Clark's turn to be Pa Kent and teach his son what it means to be super, but who is hunting Superman's son-and why?
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES BEBOP AND ROCKSTEADY DESTROY EVERYTHING #1 (COVER A NICK PITARRA)
Publisher: IDW PUBLISHING
(W) Ben Bates, Dustin Weaver (A) Ben Bates (CA) Nick Pitarra
After their defeat in TMNT #50, the dull-witted Bebop and Rocksteady, everyone's favorite warthog and rhino mutants, are feeling dejected and without purpose. However, when they stumble across a time-travel scepter, they realize that their craziest, most destructive adventure awaits! Will the universe survive?
This Week's Other Comics
2000 AD PROG #1983
3 DEVILS #3 (OF 4)
4001 A.D. #2 (OF 4) (COVER A CLAYTON CRAIN)
A-FORCE #6
ALL-NEW ALL-DIFFERENT AVENGERS #10
ALL-NEW WOLVERINE #9 ROAD TO CIVIL WAR II (BENGAL REGULAR COVER)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #13
BALTIMORE EMPTY GRAVES #3 (OF 5)
BATMAN BEYOND #13
BLOODLINES #3 (OF 6)
CINEMA PURGATORIO #2
CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS #9 (SKAN REGULAR COVER)
DARK SOULS #2 (COVER A ALAN QUAH)
DC COMICS BOMBSHELLS #14
DEUS EX CHILDREN'S CRUSADE #4 (OF 5) (COVER A MARTIN SABRAN)
GODZILLA OBLIVION #3 (OF 5) (COVER A BRIAN CHURILLA)
HELLBOY IN HELL #10
INDEPENDENCE DAY #4 (OF 5) (COVER A XERMANICO)
INJUSTICE GODS AMONG US YEAR FIVE #11
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #10 ROAD TO CIVIL WAR II (MIKE DEODATO REGULAR COVER)
LAST GANG IN TOWN #6 (OF 6)
MOON KNIGHT #3 (GREG SMALLWOOD REGULAR COVER)
NOWHERE MEN #10
OLD MAN LOGAN #7
PAPER GIRLS #6
POWER LINES #3 (OF 6)
PREDATOR LIFE AND DEATH #4 (OF 4)
PROVIDENCE #9 (OF 12)
PUNISHER #2 (DECLAN SHALVEY REGULAR COVER)
ROUGH RIDERS #3 (COVER A PAT OLLIFFE)
SATELLITE FALLING #2 (COVER A STEPHEN THOMPSON)
SPIDER-MAN 2099 #11
SPIDER-WOMAN #8
SUPERMAN THE COMING OF THE SUPERMEN #5 (OF 6)
UNFOLLOW #8
WALKING DEAD #155
X-MEN '92 #4