Recommended Picks for March 2, 2011

Hot Pick!
Axe Cop: Bad Guy Earth #1
Dark Horse Comics
(W) Malachai Nicolle
(P) Ethan Nicolle
(I) Various

The amazing and hilarious comic is making its debut as an all-new Dark Horse mini-series this spring! Comics fans and fancy news blogs aren’t the only ones to take notice of Axe Cop; now the so-called “real” police know about him, too. And if there’s one thing police don’t like, it’s a guy with an axe who’s better than they are at catching and dispatching bad guys! Now Axe Cop and his partner Dinosaur Soldier are being treated like bad guys, not only by the police, but by the president and the army, too! But when a pair of nasty villains barge in from outer space and turn the army into actual bad guys, who gets the call to set things right? Axe Cop!

Price: $3.50

Recommended Pick!
Annihilators #1
Marvel Comics
(W) Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning
(A) Tan Eng Huat & Timothy Green II
Cover by Alex Garner

Because you demanded it: Marvel’s all-star cosmic team — and cult faves Rocket Raccoon & Groot — in one massive mini! The Silver Surfer! Beta-Ray Bill! Gladiator! Quasar! Ronan! When the Dire Wraiths strike, Cosmic Masters DnA (The Thanos Imperative, Thor/Iron Man) and Tan Eng Huat (Silver Surfer, Thor: First Thunder) assemble the heaviest hitters in all the universe to save the day! And there’s more! Plus: the demented duo of Rocket Raccoon and Groot return for their own, new-reader-friendly adventure! What do you do after you’ve saved the galaxy? DnA and the fabulous Timothy Green II (Star-Lord) answer that with madcap SF combat and swashbuckling, space-faring mayhem!

Price: $4.99

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DARK HORSE COMICS

JUN100102 60TH ANNIV CLASSIC PEANUTS STATUE #4 LINUS $49.95
JAN110079 AXE COP BAD GUY EARTH #1 (OF 3) $3.50
JUN100103 CLASSIC UNCLE SCROOGE STATUE VOL 02 #4 HUEY DEWEY LOUIE $49.95
OCT108144 CONAN TP VOL 01 FROST GIANTS DAUGHTER $15.99
DEC100080 USAGI YOJIMBO #135 $3.50
JAN110088 WITCHFINDER LOST & GONE FOREVER #2 (OF 5) $2.99

Trailer For X-Men Anime

X-Men Legacy #245

X-Men Legacy #245
Marvel Comics
(w) Mike Carey
(a) Clay Mann & Jay Leisten
FC 32 pgs w/ ads, $2.99 US / Higher in Canada

Mike Carey’s Age of X arc starts here. It’s a crossover between X-Men Legacy and New Mutants for the next three months and Carey is writing all of it. It’s a vastly different world where mutants are feared and hated (wait a minute…). Anyway the X-Men have never existed in this world and the remaining mutants have banded together to make a final stand.

There isn’t any explanation for this world – yet. Magneto is leading the mutants. Cyclops is called Basilisk – his eyelids were removed so he has to where a special mask to contain his power. And Rogue is called Legacy or Reaper depending on the mutant. Every time a mutant dies, Rogue absorbs all their powers and memories – thus Legacy.

It’s an interesting start for what is essentially another Age of Apocalypse story. I’m not sure what Mike Carey has planned but I’m trying to have faith that this is going somewhere.

Recommended Picks for February 23, 2011

Hot Pick!
FREAKANGELS TP VOL 05 (MR)
AVATAR PRESS INC
(W) Warren Ellis
(A/C) Paul Duffield

Volume Five of award-winning author Warren Ellis’ ongoing web comic, FREAKANGELS, is here! This installment collects the entire fourth arc of the post-apocalyptic saga into 144 gorgeous, full-color pages. Twenty-three years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. Six years ago, the world ended. Today, eleven strange 23-year-olds are living in and defending Whitechapel, maybe the last real settlement in flooded London. They’ve made a new friend, and together they’ve successfully defended their home from outside attackers, a ghost from the past, and threats from within. In FREAKANGELS: VOLUME FIVE, everything you thought you knew about the ‘Angels is wrong. In fact, much of what *they* thought was true simply hadn’t been sufficiently examined. While Alice keeps watch over Whitechapel from the watchtower, the twelve Freakangels — that’s right, *twelve* — down below are forced to re-examine their lives… and their deaths. Ellis’ ongoing story of a flooded London is beautifully illustrated in jaw-dropping detail by Paul Duffield, and every page is as much a work of art as it is a compelling and multi-layered story. This fourth collection is also available as a Hardcover edition with an all-new cover by series artist Paul Duffield that is limited to just 2000 copies, and a Dual Signed Hardcover edition, limited to only 1,000 copies, signed by both Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield!
MATURE THEMES
$19.99 US

Recommended Pick!
SCALPED TP (MR)
DC COMICS
Written by JASON AARON
Art by R.M. GUERA, DAVIDE FURNO and DANIJEL ZEZELJ
Cover by JOCK

In this volume collecting issues #35-42 of the acclaimed series, Red Crow sends his right-hand man, Shunka, to sort out a feud with a rival Native American casino, but Shunka becomes embroiled in a murder. He knows he should walk away, but something inside won’t let him – which means things are about to get bloody.
192 pg $17.99 US

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NOV100032 CHRONICLES OF KULL TP VOL 04 BLOOD OF KINGS OTHER STORIES $18.99
OCT100029 DOCTOR SOLAR MAN OF ATOM #5 $3.50
AUG100067 EERIE ARCHIVES HC VOL 06 $49.99
NOV100044 JOHN CARTER OF MARS WARLOARD OF MARS TP $29.99
DEC100051 KING CONAN SCARLET CITADEL #1 DARICK ROBERTSON CVR $3.50
DEC100057 KULL THE HATE WITCH #4 (OF 4) TOM FLEMING CVR $3.50
NOV100041 LITTLE LULU GIANT SIZE TP VOL 03 $24.99
OCT100018 METALOCALYPSE DETHKLOK #3 (OF 3) ERIC POWELL CVR (MR) $3.99
DEC100068 STAR WARS DARTH VADER & LOST COMMAND #2 (OF 5) $3.50
DEC100070 STAR WARS LEGACY WAR #3 (OF 6) $3.50

Recommended Picks for February 16, 2011

Hot Pick!
Silver Surfer #1
Marvel Comics
(W) Greg Pak
(A) Stephen Segovia
(Cover) Carlo Pagulayan

A new beginning for the Silver Surfer! The sentinel of the spaceways walks the Earth once more, a stranger feared by many. Only the High Evolutionary understands his true potential, but the Evolutionary’s mysterious grand design may cost the Surfer everything and change the cosmic balance forever! He’s traded blows with Thor and matched wits with Mephisto, but can the herald of Galactus survive the judgment of Norrin Rand, the man within the Silver Surfer? It’s a character-defining epic showing the Silver Surfer as you’ve never seen him before.

Price: $2.99

Recommended Pick!
Jennifer Blood #1
Dynamite Entertainment
(W) Garth Ennis
(A) Adriano Batista
(Cover) Tim Bradstreet

Jennifer Blood is a suburban wife and mom by day, and a ruthless vigilante by night! Every day she makes breakfast, takes the kids to school, cleans the house, naps for an hour or two, makes dinner, puts the kids to bed, and kisses her husband goodnight. This suburban punisher is ready to be unleashed in a story that can only be told by the legendary Garth Ennis!

Item Code: DEC100864
Price: $3.99

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OCT100041 FINDER GN VOL 01 VOICE $19.99
SEP100112 HEART TRANSPLANT LTD ED HC $99.99
DEC100063 LET ME IN CROSSROADS #3 (OF 4) SEAN PHILLIPS CVR $3.99
AUG100022 MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER #3 (OF 4) $3.50
DEC100073 MASS EFFECT EVOLUTION #2 (OF 4) MASSIMO CARNEVALE CVR $3.50
DEC100066 MIGHTY SAMSON #2 $3.50
DEC100069 STAR WARS KNIGHT ERRANT #5 (OF 5) AFLAME $2.99
NOV100045 TARZAN THE JESSE MARSH YEARS HC VOL 08 $49.99

Comic Movie Trailer Madness

Captain America!

Thor!

X-Men First Class!

Cowboys &  Aliens!

Recommended Picks for February 9, 2011

Hot Pick!
ULTIMATE AVENGERS VS NEW ULTIMATES #1 Of (6)
MARVEL COMICS
Written by MARK MILLAR
Pencils & Cover by LEINIL YU
Variant Cover by BRYAN HITCH & FRANK CHO

DEATH OF SPIDER-MAN BEGINS! The Ultimate showdown starts  here!

 

32 PGS./Rated T+
$3.99

 

Recommended Pick!
CINDERELLA FABLES ARE FOREVER #1 (OF 6) (MR)
DC COMICS
Written by CHRIS ROBERSON
Art by SHAWN MCMANUS
Cover by CHRISSIE ZULLO

Hot on the heels of her breakout miniseries CINDERELLA: FROM FABLETOWN WITH LOVE, Fabletown’s favorite secret-agent and bon vivant Cinderella is back on the job again in an all-new 6-issue miniseries, alongside writer Chris Roberson and artist Shawn McManus!

Someone is killing sorcerers out on the Farm, and all signs point to Cinderella’s archnemesis from the old days. The only problem is, Cinderella has always believed that her nemesis has been dead for years. So who is the assassin from Cinderella’s past – the only person who ever came close to defeating her? Find out in the pages of CINDERELLA: FABLES ARE FOREVER!

32 pg, FC
$2.99