This week brings perhaps our most pre-ordered comic of all time to the store, yes Neil Gaiman's multi-award winning and dearly loved "American Gods Shadows" is finally here in a comic format. If you know nothing of American Gods fear not, this is a retelling of the novel so jump in and enjoy!
Warhammer 40k fans lamenting the end of the excellent Will of Iron storyline need fear not, because Warhammer 40k Revelations in here to make it all better. This arc will follow the Dark Angels into more strange space, Necron tombs and Harlequin intrigue. Will the recent 40k Gathering Storm start to impact the general 40k narrative?
Valiant continue their very successful Stalinverse storyline with Escape from Gulag 396. They have created a very compelling universe and it's great to see new people jumping on board with something so original.
We also see Batwoman return with her own number one, Vampirella return once again and MASK join forces with GI Joe to take on Venom!
Exciting times!
Have a great week everyone and see you Wednesday!
Tom and Owen
NEW #1 COMICS & ONE-SHOTS
JAN170246
(W) Marguerite Bennett, James TynionIV (A/CA) Steve Epting
"The Many Arms Of Death" part one! At last - Batwoman is back in her own ongoing series! On the island nation of Coryana, anything goes for members of the criminal underworld... and during her lost years after being drummed out of the military, Kate Kane found a kind of refuge there. But now, a deadly new bioweapon is available in the markets of Coryana, and Batwoman will have to face up to the things she did in those days... and the people she left behind, some of whom would be happier to see her dead than alive! Writer Marguerite Bennett (DC BOMBSHELLS) is joined by James Tynion IV (DETECTIVE COMICS) and superstar artist Steve Epting (Captain America, Velvet) to present an epic Batwoman story that will alter the course of her life forever! This one's unmissable!
DEC161234
(W) Samantha Beck (A) Samantha Beck
Antarctic Press presents a true tale for the ages, a gorgeous retelling of a classic Greek myth. When his sister Europa is kidnapped from his home of Phoenicia, Cadmus is sent by his father to retrieve her. Unable to find her yet forbidden to return without her, his fortunes seem to turn when an oracle reveals how he shall sow the first seeds of a mighty city of his own!
JAN172130
(W) Elliot Rahal (A) Francis Portela (CA) Adam Gorham
Archer & Armstrong: Enemies of the State!In the Soviet-controlled world of the Stalinverse, there is a place where liberty is sentenced to die...and it's Gulag 396. A maximum-security prison where the only escape is through death, the gulag is the final stop for all enemies and detractors of the world's oppressive authority. But when public enemy Obadiah Archer is admitted as the latest inmate, could his gospel of goodwill and optimism be the spark that ignites a new faith in the prison's population...including the immortal undesirable known as Aram Addi-Padda?
DEC160469
(W) David Rodriguez (A/CA) Andrew Griffith
The M.A.S.K and G.I. Joe teams are put to the ultimate test as they join forces in a desperate, world-spanning, quest to keep V.E.N.O.M from harnessing the power of a stolen meteorite before its strange power can be used to dominate the world!• The Annual Offensive is here!
• Re-imagining the original television pilot, "The Deathstone", for the new comic book age!
• The origin of Cliff Dagger revealed!
JAN170096
(W) Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell (A) P. Craig Russell (CA) Glenn Fabry
NEIL GAIMAN! P. CRAIG RUSSELL! SCOTT HAMPTON! Shadow Moon just got out of jail, only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain as to where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard - thrusting Shadow into a deadly world of the supernatural, where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a brewing war between old and new gods hits a boiling point. The Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula award-winning novel and upcoming Starz television series by Neil Gaiman is adapted as a comic series for the first time!
JAN171350
(W) J. T. Krul (A/CA) Giuseppe Cafaro
Aspen's premiere action-adventure fantasy epic returns in this all new jumping-on point for new readers! Following the events of ASPEN UNIVERSE: REVELATIONS, the world of SOULFIRE has a new status quo, as magic and technology have intertwined as never before! Meanwhile, Soulfire's Grace, Malikai and friends now must also discover that things are not as they seem in the year 2211-including new-and old-dangers that seek to eliminate them! Nearly fifteen of the best-selling series created by superstar artist, the late Michael Turner, have culminated in this brand-new SOULFIRE adventure by Aspen's talented creative team! Please join writer JT Krul, artist Giuseppe Cafaro, and colorist Wes Hartman as they bring readers back to the magic, myth, and everything you loved about SOULFIRE!
JAN170431
(W) Donny Cates (A/CA) Josh Hood
In a world where the Romulans discovered Earth before the Vulcans, Earth is now a brutal penal colony. Resistance fighter William Riker has uncovered a vast conspiracy, and together with his band of prisoner outlaws (you just might recognize a few!), must fight to rescue a mysterious prisoner in the darkest level of the Romulan dungeons. The only man on Earth that still holds the key to humanity's return to the stars!
JAN171615
(W) Paul Cornell (A) Jimmy Broxton (CA) Philip Tan
After a sleep of over a thousand years, Vampirella finds herself back among the land of the living, but in a world far different than the one she remembers, where hope is laced with fear and blood has a far different taste. And speaking of taste, finding an appropriate outfit for the era leads our fanged fatale to a chance encounter that will garner her not one but two potential allies.
JAN172001
(W) George Mann (A) Tazio Bettin (CA) Connor Magill
The mighty ongoing series returns with a brand-new story arc! By superstar writer George Mann and illustrated by Tazio Bettin. Featuring Eldar Harlequins... and a Necron tomb! Baltus and the Dark Angels prepare for the next stage of the war!
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