NCBD 17th Feb - A Most Excellent Week of Releases

Another week of awesome new comics and there is something for everybody.

For fans of 80s films there is a new Bill and Ted comic, (yes Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is 27 years old).

Grumpy Cat's own special brand of misery comes back to haunt us with a new #1.

Lara Croft's adventures continue in Tomb Raider #1, not a reboot, but a new jumping on point following on from Rhianna Pratchett's excellent series of Graphic Novels.

The latest title of Image's excellent new year roster Snow Fall #1 is out this week (don't forget Si Spurrier's amazing 'Cry Havoc', or the enigmatic 'Mirror').

Marvel prepare for the dramatic events of March with a Pleasant Hill one-shot and a new ongoing Power Man & Iron Fist series.

All new starts and one shots are below with all this week's releases after that.

As always let us know if you would like titles put aside for you and we look forward to seeing you in store :)

New Starts & One-shots

AVENGERS STANDOFF WELCOME TO PLEASANT HILL #1 (DANIEL ACUNA REGULAR COVER)
AVENGERS STANDOFF WELCOME TO PLEASANT HILL #1 (SKOTTIE YOUNG VARIANT COVER)
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Nick Spencer (A) Mark Bagley (CA) Daniel Acuña
The prelude to the Spring's blockbuster AVENGERS event!
Hello there and welcome, new resident. You've sure made the right choice in moving to Pleasant Hill-- a friendly small town where burdens are lifted and the sun is always bright... so hide your eyes. Don't let it see you looking its way. Hide if you must. Otherwise it will burn right through you. Pleasant Hill is the kind of place where folks look out for one another. Everyone knows who their neighbours are. But who are you, neighbour?

BILL AND TED GO TO HELL #1 (OF 4) (COVER A JAMAL CAMPBELL)
BILL AND TED GO TO HELL #1 (OF 4) (COVER B LOGAN FAERBER)
Publisher: BOOM! STUDIOS
(W) Brian Joines (A) Bachan (CA) Jamal Campbell
What's to Love: It's time again to be excellent to each other! We showed just how much we love Bill & Ted with 2015's Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return, and since 2016 is the 25th anniversary of Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, why not celebrate with a new mini-series that sends the lovable duo to Hell? Plus, all Subscription covers in this mini-series will feature a unique Wyld Stallyns album cover created by some of the industry's top talents!
What It Is: Bill & Ted are back for a brand-new miniseries, this time with the Imagine Agents team of Brian Joines and Bachan at the helm. It's time to get the band back together! Bill & Ted and the Princesses will have to reunite with some historic friends to knock down the Devil's door and get their friend Death back. With the help of Rufus, Billy the Kid, Joan of Arc, and more, this is the showdown that will rock the supernatural world. History vs. Hell. Too bad Hell has some surprises up its sleeve...

GRUMPY CAT AND POKEY #1 (OF 6) (COVER A STEVE UY)
Publisher: D. E.
(W) Ben McCool & Various (A) Agnes Garbowska & Various (CA) Steve Uy
Grumpy Cat, the internet's cutest curmudgeon, took the comic world by storm with the misadventures of her 2015 miniseries... and now she's back for more! You'll laugh yourself silly as the killjoy kitten brings her hilarious brand of sass to comic books once again, joined by her high-spirited brother Pokey. What fun-loving escapades will Pokey dream up, and how will that adorable scamp Grumpy Cat rain on everyone's parade? Be sure to pick up this fantastic first issue, perfect for cat lovers of all ages!

POWER MAN AND IRON FIST #1 (SANFORD GREENE REGULAR COVER)
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) David Walker (A/CA) Sanford Greene
THE ORIGINAL HEROES FOR HIRE, BACK ON THE CLOCK!
We KNOW you've been waiting to see LUKE CAGE and DANNY RAND back together and back to STREET-STOMPING basics! POWER MAN and IRON FIST are tracking a mystery with all the ingredients of a classic Heroes-for-Hire tale. Expect old friends, hired goons, crime lords, weird magic, plenty of power, a flurry of fists and as much bromance as you can handle! It's Power Man and Iron Fist reunited, and writer DAVID WALKER and artist SANFORD GREENE are making it feel so GOOD!


SNOWFALL #1
Publisher: IMAGE COMICS
(W) Joe Harris (A/CA) Martin Morazzo
Writer JOE HARRIS (The X-Files) and artist MARTÍN MORAZZO (Vertigo Quarterly), creators of GREAT PACIFIC, reunite for a brand new ongoing science-fiction series and an OVERSIZED DEBUT ISSUE featuring thirty-two pages of story!

In the year 2045 it no longer snows. A catastrophic crash has left the climate ravaged, society splintered, and the newly-christened "Cooperative States of America" propped up and administered by the powerful Hazeltyne Corporation. Only one man wages an all-out weather war against the system, wielding the forces of nature themselves as weapons. He is the White Wizard. The ghost in the night. Genius. Terrorist. Outlaw. Hero?

TOMB RAIDER #1 (COVER A AGUSTIN ALESSIO)
TOMB RAIDER #1 (COVER B JOELLE JONES)
Publisher: DARK HORSE COMICS
(W) Mariko Tamaki (A) Phillip Sevy (CA) Agustin Alessio
After Rise of the Tomb Raider, Lara Croft's adventure continues in a new comic series by Eisner Award winning writer Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer)!

Lara Croft is pursuing a lost truth about the world that just might unlock the secret to defeating death! She becomes entangled in a search for a rare mushroom said to grant immortality and a lethal new enemy that just won't die! Continuing where the Rise of the Tomb Raider game left off!

COMICS


ADVENTURE TIME ICE KING #2 (OF 6) (COVER A SHELLI PAROLINE & BRADEN LAMB)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #8
BATMAN AND ROBIN ETERNAL #20


BITCH PLANET #7
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 10 #24 (COVER A STEVE MORRIS)


DEADPOOL AND CABLE SPLIT SECOND #3 (OF 3)

DEVOLUTION #2 (OF 5) (COVER A JAE LEE)
DRAGON AGE MAGEKILLER #3 (OF 5)
EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN #7


HARLEY QUINN #25 (AMANDA CONNER REGULAR COVER)

HUCK #4 (COVER A RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE)
HUCK #4 (COVER B RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE)

I HATE FAIRYLAND #5 (COVER A SKOTTIE YOUNG)
I HATE FAIRYLAND #5 (COVER B LESLEY-ANNE GREEN)
INJUSTICE GODS AMONG US YEAR FIVE #4
LUCIFER #3


MIGHTY THOR #4 (RUSSELL DAUTERMAN REGULAR COVER)


RED SONJA VOLUME 3 #2 (COVER A MARGUERITE SAUVAGE)
RED THORN #4


SEX CRIMINALS #14 (COVER A CHIP ZDARSKY)
SEX CRIMINALS #14 (COVER B KATIE COOK)

SILVER SURFER #2 (MIKE ALLRED REGULAR COVER)
SPIDER-WOMAN #4


STAR WARS #16 (TERRY DODSON REGULAR COVER)


SUPERMAN AMERICAN ALIEN #4 (OF 7) (RYAN SOOK REGULAR COVER)
SYMMETRY #3 (COVER A RAFFAELE IENCO)
SYMMETRY #3 (COVER B RAFFAELE IENCO)
UNCANNY INHUMANS #5 (BRANDON PETERSON REGULAR COVER)