Month: August 2011

Choose Your X-Men Team This November!

With the upcoming Regenesis event coming from Marvel, it looks like there will be another reshuffling of the line-ups and which mutant is on what team. With just a few reveals to date, fans are wondering just who will make it out of the current Schism storyline alive. Here is a look at the interconnecting image celebrating that drawn by Dale Keown for November’s UNCANNY X-MEN #1, GENERATION HOPE #13, X-MEN #20, and NEW MUTANTS #33!

Image Comics Previews for 8/31/11

Tomorrow is comic day and Image has given us a little something to hold us over!

(Also, click HERE for a list of all the other releases and look for my review of 8/31/11’s releases coming at the end of the week)

Savage Dragon #173
By: Erik Larsen
Price: $3.50

It’s Malcolm Dragon vs. Mr. Glum – and Angel vs. Angel as the gates to Dimension-X are thrown wide open and all hell descends on Earth!






Butcher Baker, The Righteous Maker #6 (MR)
Story by: Joe Casey
Art By: Mike Huddleston
Price: $2.99

Think we’ve pushed the envelope in this series so far? Well, this issue goes all the way! Learn the hidden secret of Jihad Jones! Discover Butcher Baker’s happy place! And Arnie B. Willard is still in hot pursuit! Do you need to read this comicbook? Absolutely!






Epoch #1 (of 5) (MR)
story KEVIN McCARTHY art PAOLO PANTALENA & JORGE FARES cover PAOLO PANTALENA &
PAOLO BARBIERI
Price: $3.99

THE GREATEST TOURNAMENT THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN BEGINS ANEW! Top Cow Productions and Heroes and Villains Entertainment proudly present a dark and intensely kinetic tale from writer KEVIN McCARTHY (Red Sonja, The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist) and newcomer PAOLO PANTALENA (What If?: House of M, War of Kings: Darkhawk). Jonah Bishop is an NYPD detective assigned to a mysterious murder case that threatens to rip the reality he knows and plunge him into the shadow world of his heritage–the Supernatural. Jonah’s quest will drop him deep in the middle of a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society.






Haunt #17
Written by: Robert Kirkman
Art By: Greg Capullo
Price: $2.99

In a moment of desperation, Haunt turns to the one who told him what he was. Andressa knows much about the supernatural, she knows about the existence of Haunt and about The Apparition, but more importantly… she’s knows how to kill it.






Invincible #82
Written by: Robert Kirkman
Art By: Ryan Ottley
Colored By: Fco Plasencia
Price: $2.99

Face-to-face with Universa. She came from a distant planet, wielding unimaginable power, seeking to drain our planet dry of all energy. Invincible was able to stop her. But how long can she be contained… and what can be done with her?






Vescell #1 (MR)
Story by ENRIQUE CARRION, Art & Cover JOHN UPCHURCH
Price: $2.99

The International Company known as Vescell specializes in what is commonly known as ‘Vtrans’, the transferring of a person’s mind and spirit from one body into another. Former Icarus City Detective, Mauricio ‘Moo’ Barrino is now Vescell’s best agent, handling the most high profile and dangerous cases. In the seedy world of a high end corporate espionage, where mysticism and guns clash, and money is tainted with sin, Agent Mauricio Barrino fights against the demons of fate while trying to reach the heaven of his destiny. Be prepared for the bar-raising, sci-fi noir epic that is VESCELL.






Dynamite Entertaiment Previews 8/31/11 Releases

The kind folks over at Dynamite have provided us with a look at what they have releasing in comic shops this week!

WARLORD OF MARS: FALL OF BARSOOM #2
32 pages FC • $3.99 • Teen +
Written by ROBERT PLACE NAPTON
Art by ROBERTO CASTRO
Covers by JOE JUSKO (main), FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA (1-in-10)
“Black & White” Retailer incentive cover by JOE JUSKO
“Virgin Art” Retailer incentive cover by FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA
Scientist Tak Nan Lee resumes work on the desperately needed Atmosphere Plant as he tries to befriend the Red Martian woman he rescued from the Green Horde. Meanwhile, thousands of Greens march on the White Martian city of Thark! The story that tells the fall of Barsoom 100,000 years before John Carter continues!






KATO ORIGINS #11: THE HELLFIRE CLUB
32 pages FC • $3.99 • Teen +
Written by JAI NITZ
Art by COLTON WORLEY
Covers by COLTON WORLEY (main) & FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA (1-in-10)
The conclusion of the whodunit murder mystery comes to a shocking end. Everyone is disguised and everyone is hiding something, even Kato! Can the masked master of martial arts bring justice to society’s elite? Or will it get pinned on the butler? Final issue of the series!!






RED SONJA #57
32 pages FC • $3.99 • Teen +
Written by ERIC TRAUTMANN
Art by NOAH SALONGA
Covers by FABIANO NEVES (50%) & WALTER GEOVANI (50%)
Red Sonja’s wanderings have brought her to Koth and a gathering blood feud amongst that kingdom’s ruling families. With deception lurking in every shadow, and the fate of a nation at stake, what better place is there for a sword for hire?






VAMPIRELLA #9
32 pages FC • $3.99 • Teen +
Written by ERIC TRAUTMANN
Art by FABIANO NEVES
Covers by PAUL RENAUD (25%), FABIANO NEVES (25%), ALÉ GARZA (25%), Jelena Kevic Djurdjevic (25%)
“Black & White” Retailer incentive cover by FABIANO NEVES
“Blood Red” Retailer incentive cover by PAUL RENAUD
On a lonely stretch of highway, Vampirella faces off against her most murderous foes yet: a trio of demonic assassins, drunk on newfound freedom and bloodlust and intent on making the vampiric heroine’s death something special…






ZORRO RIDES AGAIN #2 (of 12)
32 pages FC • $3.99 • Teen +
Written by MATT WAGNER
Art by ESTEVE POLLS
Cover by MATT WAGNER
“Black & White” Retailer incentive cover by MATT WAGNER
Matt Wagner’s return to Zorro continues! This storyline introduces some
major new characters but also represents significant and catastrophic changes in Zorro’s world—events that cause him to call question everything he does and everything for which he stands. There’re thrilling times ahead as ZORRO RIDES AGAIN!