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A series of five one-shots reunite the original Defenders: Doctor Strange, Namor, Silver Surfer and Hulk. “‘THE BEST DEFENSE’ STARTS HERE. Stephen Strange is dead. A charred skeleton in an abandoned barn on the edge of a deserted town. Bruce Banner wants to know why. And he won’t stop until he has the truth in his hands…with or without THE IMMORTAL HULK. Rated T+.” Buy It Now Related shopping tags: HULK, HULK (BRUCE BANNER), HULK FAMILY TITLES

If you were waiting for the trade compilation of DARK NIGHTS: METAL, it starts with this volume. Enjoy! “For years, Batman has been tracking a mystery. He’s quietly been pulling a thread, conducting research in secret laboratories across the globe and stowing evidence deep in the Batcave, hidden even from his closest allies. Now, in an epic story spanning generations, the heroes and villains of the DC Universe, including Green Lantern, The Joker, Wonder Woman and more, are about to find out what he’s discovered-and it could threaten the very existence of the Multiverse. This trade paperback edition collects Dark Days: The Forge #1 and Dark Days: The Casting #1, as well as classic DC stories that built the foundations […]

Mark Millar puts up another cool-looking mini-series. This one doesn’t have a Netflix project attached…yet, anyway. “Edison Crane’s not content being the world’s smartest man and most successful businessman-his brilliant mind needs to be constantly challenged. He’s a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, genius composer, Olympic athlete, an expert in the occult, and now international governments are calling on him to fix problems they just can’t handle.” Buy It Now Related shopping tags: MARK MILLAR (W), MILLARWORLD

The success of the Black Panther movie spawns yet another mini-series starring one of its other more interesting characters…Killmonger! “THE BRUTAL TALE OF A MAN WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHING FOR FREEDOM… One day, Erik Killmonger will rise up and attempt to steal the throne of Wakanda. The throne he believes he is owed. But long before he became ‘Killmonger,’ there was a boy known as N’Jadaka. A boy who was stolen from his home and taught only the world’s cruelties. A boy who knew the Black Panther only as a fairy tale, a whisper from strangers. This is the story of a man who driven by revenge. This is the legend of Killmonger. PARENTAL ADVISORY.” Buy It Now Related […]

Collected out of EXIT STAGE LEFT: THE SNAGGLEPUSS CHRONICLES is…Sasquatch Detective. The name says it all, but, you know, it’s one of those boiler-plate stories where a sasquatch joins the Los Angeles police department. “Before Tonya Lightfoot became Los Angeles’ most decorated detective, she was a wee sasquatch roaming the Appalachian mountains, fed a steady diet of tennis and golf (as both of her parents are pros at the local country club) and CSI episodes. But her idyllic life of pranking campers and squatching around the local golf course hits a bump in the fire road when Bigfoot hunters come to the dense forest. Would Tonya back down in the face of adversity? Not yeti. But experiencing this abominable anti-sasquatch […]

Kieron Gillen started his career as a computer game journalist and moved on to writing comics. So, this new series from him at Image is squarely in his lane, and I expect it will be an outstanding ride! “THE WICKED + THE DIVINE writer KIERON GILLEN teams up with artist supernova STEPHANIE HANS (THE WICKED + THE DIVINE 1831, Journey Into Mystery) for her first ongoing comic. DIE is a pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning unearthly horror they barely survived as teenage role-players. If Kieron’s in a rush, he describes it as ‘Goth Jumanji.’ That only captures a sliver of what you’ll find in oversized debut issue-where fantasy gets all too […]

A new, presumably ongoing, series from IDW about one of the most popular Planeswalkers, Chandra. Check out this new Magic: The Gathering comic series. “The boundless multiverse of Magic: The Gathering returns to comics. In the wake of tragedy, Planeswalker and pyromancer Chandra Nalaar strikes out on her own, looking for new challenges and seeking justice. From the towers of Ravnica to the graveyards of Innistrad and beyond, she’ll find plenty of the former. The justice she’ll have to make for herself.” Buy It Now Related shopping tags: MAGIC: THE GATHERING

Unless you’ve got a deep knowledge of the DC Universe, you may not recognize the “Great Disaster” as the focal event for some of DC’s less well-known characters, Kamandi and OMAC, inhabiting an alternate timeline known as Earth-AD. Well, this new mini-series ties in to that alternate timeline. I know, mind-blowing, right? “A new tale of the future DC Universe, set in a previously unexplored timeline-the Cosmic Dark Age. Years after the Great Disaster, the Earth has started to rebuild and rejoin the universal coalition. In order to prevent a galactic war, different worlds throughout the known cosmos have created a new system of competitive combat to give each participating planet their own voice in the intergalactic struggle. Each world […]