Recommended Picks For July 18, 2012

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Captain Marvel #1
Marvel Comics

(W) Kelly Sue DeConnick
(A) Dexter Soy
(Cover) Ed McGuinness

She’s Back! The “Mightiest” of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! Ace pilot. Legendary Avenger. 100% pure bad-a$$. Carol Danvers has a new name, a new mission …and all the power she needs to make her life a living hell. Guest starring Captain America.

Price: $2.99

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Saga #5
Image Comics

(W) Brian K. Vaughan
(A/Cover) Fiona Staples

The smash hit ongoing series from Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples continues, as Prince Robot IV’s hunt for Hazel and her parents takes a deadly turn.

$2.99

Recommended Picks For July 11, 2012

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The Walking Dead #100
Image Comics

(W) Robert Kirkman
(A/Cover) Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn

“Something To Fear” Continues! This extra-sized chapter contains one of the darkest moments in Rick Grimes’ life, and one of the most violent and brutal things to happen within the pages of this series. 100 issues later, this series remains just as relentless as the debut issue. Do not miss the monumental 100th issue of The Walking Dead! Mature Readers.

Price: $3.99

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Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score
IDW Publishing

(W/A/Cover) Darwyn Cooke

Fresh from his Eisner Award-winning efforts on The Hunter and The Outfit, Darwyn Cooke now sets his steely sights on The Score, the classic Richard Stark Parker novel from 1964. Parker becomes embroiled in a plot with a dozen partners in crime to pull off what might be the ultimate heist-robbing an entire town. Everything was going fine for a while, and then things got bad. Considered one of the best in the Parker series, The Score is the perfect vehicle for Darwyn Cooke to pull out all the stops and let loose with a book that has all the impact of a brutal kick to the solar plexus!

Price: $24.99

Recommended Picks For July 4, 2012

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BATMAN EARTH ONE HC
DC COMICS
(W) Geoff Johns
(A) Gary Frank, Jonathan Sibal
(CA) Gary Frank

From GEOFF JOHNS and GARY FRANK, the acclaimed team behind SUPERMAN: SECRET ORIGIN and the SHAZAM! stories in JUSTICE LEAGUE!
In the tradition of SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE, this spectacular original graphic novel gives new insight into BRUCE WAYNE’S transformation into BATMAN and his first year as THE DARK KNIGHT

$22.99

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FABLES TP VOL 17 INHERIT THE WIND (MR)
DC COMICS
(W) Bill Willingham
(A) Mark Buckingham & Various
(CA) Joao Ruas

The tights and capes have been stored away forever, but where do the Fables go from here? Bigby and Snow White’s cubs try to move forward after learning a hard lesson about life and death in this collection featuring issues #108-113 of the acclaimed series.

$14.99

Recommended Picks For June 27, 2012

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LOEG III CENTURY #3 2009 (MR)
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(W) Alan Moore
(A/CA) Kevin O’neill

The narrative reaches its cataclysmic conclusion in London 2009. The magical child whose ominous coming has been foretold for the past century has now been born and has grown up to claim his dreadful heritage. His promised age of unending terror can commence, the world can now be ended, and there is no League, extraordinary or otherwise, to stand in his way. The bitter, intractable war in Q’umar crawls bloodily to its fifth year, away in Kashmir a Sikh terrorist wages a holy war against Islam that must push the world into a nuclear holocaust, and in a London asylum there’s a patient who insists she has all the answers.

$9.95

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Fatale: Volume 1 Death Chases Me TP
Image Comics

(W) Ed Brubaker
(A/Cover) Sean Phillips, Dave Stewart

The first arc of Image’s surprise hit is collected just in time for new readers to jump on board with issue 6! Secrets, lies, horror, lust and monsters from the time before time all collide in Fatale: Death Chases Me. In present day, a man meets a woman who he becomes instantly obsessed with, and in the 1950s, this same woman destroys the lives of all those who cross her path, on a quest for… what? Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips best-selling series will leave you craving more! Mature Readers.

Price: $14.99

Recommended Picks For June 20, 2012

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Before Watchmen: Comedian #1
DC Comics

(W) Brian Azzarello, Len Wein
(A) J. G. Jones, John Higgins
(Cover) J. G. Jones

“I’m a funny guy…” Plus, don’t miss the Crimson Corsair backup story by writer Len Wein and artist John Higgins! This issue is also offered as a combo pack edition with a redemption code for a digital download of this issue. Mature Readers.

Price: $3.99

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Baltimore: Dr Leskovar’s Remedy #1
Dark Horse Comics

(W) Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden
(A) Ben Stenbeck
(Cover) Dave Stewart, Ben Stenbeck

An army of malformed vampires controls a small Croatian town, but Lord Henry Baltimore arrives to put an end to this madness, fighting his way to their creator-a twisted surgeon akin to Moreau and Mengele!

Price: $3.50

Recommended Picks For June 13, 2012

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Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1
DC Comics

(W) Darwyn Cooke & Various
(A) Amanda Conner, John Higgins
(Cover) Amanda Conner

“Oh sweetie, you’re too young to hate. Wait until you’re older and the world gives you a good reason. Trust me, it won’t let you down.” Plus: Don’t miss the Crimson Corsair backup story by writer Len Wein and artist John Higgins! This issue is also offered as a combo pack edition with a redemption code for a digital download of this issue. Mature Readers.

Price: $3.99

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The Massive #1
Dark Horse Comics

(W) Brian Wood
(A) Kristian Donaldson
(Cover) Brian Wood & Various

In a post-war, post-crash, post-disaster, post-everything world, the environmental-action trawler Kapital scours the earth’s oceans for its mysteriously missing sister ship, The Massive. Captain Callum Israel, a man who has dedicated his life to the ocean, now must ask himself-as our planet dies — what it means to be an environmentalist after the world’s ended. Callum and his crew will come up against pirates, rebels, murderers, and thieves as they struggle to remain noble toward their cause. Can you save a planet that’s already doomed?

Price: $3.50

Recommended Picks For June 6, 2012

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Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1
DC Comics

(W) Darwyn Cooke, Len Wein
(A) Darwyn Cooke, John Higgins
(CA) Darwyn Cooke

“Little did we know that poor boy would lead to the end of us all.” Plus: Don’t miss the Crimson Corsair backup story by writer Len Wein and artist John Higgins! This issue is also offered as a combo pack edition with a redemption code for a digital download of this issue. Mature Readers.

Price: $3.99

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The Walking Dead Volume 16: A Larger World TP
Image Comics

(W) Robert Kirkman
(A/Cover) Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn

Rick discovers that there are communities of survivors nearby, and begins to explore a larger world. Collects The Walking Dead #91-96.

Price: $14.99

Recommended Picks For May 30, 2012

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Ravagers #1
DC Comics

(W) Howard Mackie
(A/CA) Ian Churchill

First issue of a new series spinning directly out of “The Culling!” Fairchild, brother and sister Thunder and Lightning, the monstrous Ridge, Beast Boy and Terra are being pursued by Rose Wilson and Warblade, who want them dead at any cost! No one’s survival is certain each month in The Ravagers!

Price: $2.99

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Batman: Death By Design Deluxe Edition HC
DC Comics
(W) Chip Kidd
(A/Cover) Dave Taylor

In this new, original graphic novel from superstar writer/designer Chip Kidd and artist Dave Taylor, Gotham City is undergoing one of the most expansive construction booms in its history. The most prestigious architects from across the globe have buildings in various phases of completion all over town. As chairman of the Gotham Landmarks Commission, Bruce Wayne has been a key part of this boom, which signals a golden age of architectural ingenuity for the city. And then, the explosions begin.

Item Code: JAN120285
Price: $24.99

Recommended Picks For May 23, 2012

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Batman Incorporated #1
DC Comics

(W) Grant Morrison
(A/Cover) Chris Burnham

Batman Incorporated makes its NEW 52 debut with an all-new first issue! Grant Morrison is back to once again blow your head off with this new series that hits the ground running. Sit back and watch as Batman and Robin face off against the assassin Goatboy. Plus, Leviathan’S sinister mission revealed!

Price: $2.99

 

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MIND MGMT #1 KINDT CVR
DARK HORSE COMICS
(W/A/CA) Matt Kindt

Matt Kindt, the most original voice in genre comics, outdoes himself in this bold new espionage series!

Reporting on a commercial flight where everyone aboard lost their memories, a young journalist stumbles onto a much bigger story, the top-secret Mind Management program. Her ensuing journey involves weaponized psychics, hypnotic advertising, talking dolphins, and seemingly immortal pursuers, as she attempts to find the flight’s missing passenger, the man who was Mind MGMT’s greatest success-and its most devastating failure. But in a world where people can rewrite reality itself, can she trust anything she sees?

$3.99

Recommended Picks For May 16, 2012

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Green Lantern Volume 1: Sinestro HC
DC Comics

(W) Geoff Johns
(A) Doug Mahnke & Various
(CA) Ivan Reis, Joe Prado

The first six issues of the star-spanning series from DC Comics – The New 52 are collected in hardcover, with stories by superstar writer Geoff Johns and artist Doug Mahnke! There’s an unexpected new Green Lantern in town: Sinestro. And now, this renegade GL has set a course for Korugar with one purpose: To free his homeworld from the scourge of his own Sinestro Corps – with the not-so-willing help of Hal Jordan!

Price: $22.99

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B.P.R.D. — Hell On Earth: The Devils Engine #1
Dark Horse Comics

(W) Mike Mignola, John Arcudi
(A) Tyler Crook
(CA) Dave Stewart, Duncan Fegredo

Caught between bat-faced monsters, a devastating earthquake, and the mad science experiments of Zinco, Devon and Fenix form an uneasy alliance in order to get to safety!

Price: $3.50