Wednesday 3 September 2014

Comic Shop Corner: September 2014

September's Donny-Approved Series:

Marvel's Hawkeye Vs. Deadpool

Biggest Storylines:

Dark Horse Comics: Fire And Stone

Dark Horse has 2 miniseries launching this month with the Fire And Stone subtitle, they are Prometheus and Aliens. When the Prometheus never returned from her fateful journey to LV-223, the questions surrounding the origins of man went unanswered. Now a new team of explorers seeks to uncover the dark mystery that holds not only the fate of the original mission, but possibly their own damnation. In Aliens a vicious xenomorph outbreak is happening and terraforming engineer Derrick Russell leads a desperate group of survivors onto a rickety mining vessel. They hope to escape the creatures overrunning their colony -- but they'll face horrors both in space and on the strange planet they crash on. Best of all these series tie in with the Prometheus and Aliens films!

DC Comics: The Future's End

DC Comics will publish 41 stand-alone issues tying into The New 52: Futures End. In each of the one-shots, creators will put DC characters through a prospective five-year time jump that will give a sense for where the heroes might stand in that time. The world of Futures End is already starting to fall apart at its seams in five years, so it's distinctly possible that most of these stories will be pretty dire -- and as it is whenever time travel is involved, there can be some pretty big, surprising and even wacky ideas at play. Plus Booster Gold gets a one-shot! Trapped out of time on a world that defies reason, Booster Gold struggles to escape the fate that has held him and so many forgotten heroes captive!

IDW Publishing: Rot & Ruin

Brand new adventures set in the world of Rot & Ruin! Written by NY Times best-selling author and multiple Bram Stoker award-winner, Jonathan Maberry - writer of the breakout hit V-Wars, this all-new storyline continues events from the award-winning series of novels. In Rot & Ruin: Warrior Smart we meet Benny, Nix, Lilah and Chong as they travel through the Sierra Nevada mountains just one faltering step ahead of zombie hordes and one giant leap behind the plane flying through the sky that set them on their journey of discovery. For those looking for something a little less horror-ry check out G.I. Joe which regroups with a new #1.


Image Comics: God Hates Image Comics


I don't mean that literally... I'm sure God has more important things to do, but with a title like God Hates Astronauts it makes you wonder... RYAN BROWNE’s (THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS, BEDLAM) farcical cult-sensation returns with a new story perfect for new readers! A NASA funded group of arrogant "super people" must stop a rash of farmers that have been using rocket-powered silos to launch themselves into outer space! As these Astro-Farmers fire themselves all over the galaxy, NASA must utilize their every resource (a guy with a ghost-cow head, a bunch of magic bears, and a Chicago cop with robot arms) to avoid an intergalactic incident!

Marvel Comics: Death Of Wolverine

The beginning of the end is now here … THE DEATH OF WOLVERINE!
THREE MONTHS TO DIE, the loss of Wolverine’s healing factor--all led to this, the single most important X-Men event of the decade. Logan has spent over a century being the best there is at what he does...but even the best fade away eventually. Over the years, Logan has been a warrior, a hero, a renegade, a samurai, a teacher—and so much more. But now, the greatest X-Men hero will play a role he’s never played before in this special weekly event brought to you by industry superstars Charles Soule and Steve McNiven. Issues 1 to 4 are released on a weekly basis through September and with Soule and his Marvel exclusive contract in hand this is a can't miss event.

Other Top Titles:

EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE #1 (OF 5)
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
Creative Team: (W) Fabrice Sapolsky (A/CA) Richard Isanove
Estimated Release Date*: 9/10/2014
Description: SPIDER-MAN NOIR RETURNS! The Peter Parker of the 1930′s finds himself not only up against Mysterio, but knee-deep in the Spider-Man event of 2014!

NAMES #1 (OF 8)
Publisher: DC COMICS
Creative Team: (W) Peter Milligan (A) Leandro Fernandez (CA) Celia Calle
Estimated Release Date*: 9/3/2014
Description: New York City. Forty-year-old Kevin Walker is a successful trader. He’s incredibly rich. He has a young, sexy wife and a son he adores. He has everything. Until… The mysterious man known as the Surgeon walks into Kevin’s office. He takes a seat and tells Kevin to write a suicide note. Trembling but obedient, Kevin does what the Surgeon says. Then, at a word from this well-dressed figure, Kevin jumps out his window and falls fifty stories to his death. Thus begins THE NAMES, an 8-issue miniseries by writer Peter Milligan (HELLBLAZER, SKREEMER) and artist Leandro Fernandez (Wolverine, Punisher: Max). THE NAMES is a dark, contemporary thriller set in the world of Big Money: hedge funds, leveraged buyouts, market raids, flash crashes. High-end finance that can ruin entire economies, run by a cabal of the world’s richest (and sickest) people. Now, it’s up to Katya Walker – the beautiful and deadly wife of the late Kevin – to take on this hidden power structure and find out who killed her husband, and why. No matter what it takes. No matter who she has to kill. It’s The Wolf of Wall Street meets Kill Bill. And heaven help the 1%.


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