Monday 25 July 2011

What to Read on Wednesday - 27/07/2011

Solicitations for the ten comics to check out this week. (Plus this week - a special bonus)

Amazing Spider-Man #666 (Marvel Comics)
Written by Dan Slott
Art by Stefano Caselli
Cover by Mike Del Mundo
'Spider-Island Prelude.' New York has been infested and the web grows as it gets ready to explode into Spider-Island Normal people are getting Spider-Powers! But not all of them realize that with great power must also come ....you know the rest. Okay, sure we often say Peter Parker's life will never be the same. But listen, pal, we've never been more serious. Heroes and villains are crawling all over Manahttan and no one knows why. This will change everything for Pete, for Spidey.




Captain America and Bucky #620 (Marvel Comics)
Written by Ed Brubaker & Mark Andreyko
Art by Chris Samnee
Cover by Ed McGuinness
Think you know the story of Cap and Bucky's origins? Well, think again! The secret story of the early days of Captain America, told from Bucky Barnes's point of view. 












Criminal: The Last of the Innocent #2 (of 5) (Marvel Comics)
Written by Ed Brubaker
Art & Cover by Sean Phillips
Things are going from bad to worse... One-time All-American Boy, Riley Richards is caught in a brutal murder and double-cross that may be his only way out of the trap his life has become!









Detective Comics #880 (DC Comics)
Written by Scott Snyder
Art by Jock & Francesco Francavilla
Cover by Jock
It all comes down to this! The Joker is on the loose in the catacombs beneath Gotham City, more vicious and frightening than ever. But even as Batman closes in on The Clown Prince of Crime, he begins to suspect that the city may be the target of an even deadlier threat – one that could shake Gotham City to its core.








Flashpoint: Project Superman #2 (of 3) (DC Comics)
Written by Scott Snyder & Lowell Francis
Art & Cover by Gene Ha
FLASH QUESTION: Who is behind Project Superman?














Joe Hill's The Cape #1 (of 4) (IDW Publishing)
Written by Joe Hill & Jason Ciaramella
Art & Cover by Zach Howard & Nelson Daniel
A line has been crossed. After years of failure, Eric has finally found something he's good at, and is determined to let the world know. The follow-up to December's critically acclaimed, quickly sold-out one-shot, this new miniseries is again written by Jason Ciaramella and Joe Hill, with art by Zach Howard and Nelson Daniel. Explore your dark side.








Secret Warriors #28 (Marvel Comics)
Written by Jonathan Hickman
Art by Alessandro Vitti
Cover by Paul Renaud
Over two years in the making, see how everything ends after last month's shocking conclusion. What will happen to Nick Fury? Who lives? Who dies? What is the stunning new direction for the remnants of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the Marvel Universe?! Find out in Secret Warriors #28 -- it's 'Wheels within Wheels'








Ultimate Comics Fallout #3 (of 6) (Marvel Comics)
Written by Jonathan Hickman & Nick Spencer
Art by Steve Kurth, Eric Nguyen & Carlo Pagulayan
Cover by Adam Kubert
Spider-Man No More.
The End before The Beginning.










Venom #5 (Marvel Comics)
Written by Rick Remender
Art by Tony Moore & Tom Fowler
Cover by Tony Moore
Can the new Venom and Peter Parker (The Amazing Spider-Man) put aside their differences to help save a man from himself? Plus Betty Brant, crusading blogger and gal pal to Flash Thompson may be onto the secrets behind the infestation kicking off this summer's Spider-Blockbuster!






X-Men: Schism #2 (of 5) (Marvel Comics)
Written by Jason Aaron
Art & Cover by Frank Cho
The X-Men event of the decade starts here!!  It's never been a more dangerous time to be a mutant. Even with their numbers at a record low, the world refuses to trust mutantkind...and after a mutant-triggered international incident, anti-mutant hatred hits new heights. Of course it's at this moment, when the mutant race needs most to stand together, that a split begins that will tear apart the very foundation of the X-Men. From superstar writer and Marvel Architect Jason Aaron and a full roster of comics' top artists, this is an X-tale that will reverberate for years to come! Come October, the X-Men landscape will be irreparably changed.




And the aforementioned special bonus...


The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Century: 1969 (OGN) (Top Shelf Productions/Knockabout)
Written by Alan Moore
Art & Cover by Kevin O'Neill
CHAPTER TWO takes place almost sixty years later in the psychedelic daze of Swinging London during 1969, a place where Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26 is the drug of choice, and where different underworlds are starting to overlap dangerously to an accompaniment of sit-ins and sitars. The vicious gangster bosses of London's East End find themselves brought into contact with a counter-culture underground of mystical and medicated flower-children, or amoral pop-stars on the edge of psychological disintegration and developing a taste for Satanism. Alerted to a threat concerning the same magic order that she and her colleagues were investigating during 1910, a thoroughly modern Mina Murray and her dwindling league of comrades attempt to navigate the perilous rapids of London's hippy and criminal subculture, as well as the twilight world of its occultists. Starting to buckle from the pressures of the twentieth century and the weight of their own endless lives, Mina and her companions must nevertheless prevent the making of a Moonchild that might well turn out to be the antichrist.

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