Hey, comic book world. These are the books I'm super excited for this week. We probably have different opinions, which is why this is the perfect opportunity for you to cruise it on over to the comments and strike up a healthy discussion about this week's most exciting books!
If you want a comprehensive list of everything that’s coming out this week and not just my own picks for what’s hot, check out Diamond’s shipping list.
Not that Gail Simone’s name isn’t enough to get me excited for a book, but I tend to get pumped when the superhero publishers do something different within their universes. Hopefully, The Movement can provide the taste of alternative superhero comics that DC is currently missing, particularly with the cancellation of I, Vampire.
A sort of companion piece to the upcoming The Green Team, The Movement tells the story of the powerless population forced to fight against corrupt super-beings and government lackeys. It’s looking like The Movement will be a street-level view of the DC Universe as those less fortunate than the usual cast of characters see it.
Swamp Thing vs. Superman?! SIGN ME UP. Fan service of that potential battle aside, I was supremely satisfied with the debut of Charles Soule and Kano on this book, who with one issue were able to transition naturally from the conclusion of Snyder and Paquette’s run and definitively take the book in a new direction.
After hearing the writer talk about his plans for short arcs and constant locale changes in Swamp Thing – due to Swampy’s renewed ability to travel through the Green – I couldn’t be more excited to continue the adventures of Alec Holland.
Two of the greatest things in comic books today are colliding this week, as Francesco Francavilla undoubtedly draws the hell out of this issue of Hawkguy. Of course, this book will also be following up on the supremely depressing cliffhanger of the last issue, which, well, was pretty brutal.
Still, I love the fact that I am so up in arms about a character we hardly knew. Which is probably the point; we feel the guilt that Clint will feel, not knowing Grills as well as we should have. How this will impact Clint’s increasingly miserable life remains to be seen, but I’m betting lots of arrows will be shot.
Dynamite’s been revamping pulp heroes for quite some time now, and the universe they’ve built with them all has been quite impressive – just take a look at the great team-up book Masks. With the debut of the Black Bat, Flash scribe Brian Buccellato takes on the morally ambiguous Tony Quinn, a dirty mob attorney that becomes the Black Bat to redeem all of his past mistakes and dirty dealings.
I’m excited to see how Buccellato brings this 1930s vigilante into the modern world, and even more so, how he makes use of the ethical complexities of the Black Bat.
Valiant Comics is proving the concept of the “event comic” can still be massively awesome in today’s comic book world. So often, we are jaded to the point of writing off the “Nothing will ever be the same!” promises from a publisher, but after just one issue, Valiant has shown us that they mean business.
This issue promises to up the ante as Bloodshot and friends strike Las Vegas and bring the war to Toyo Harada and those that would seek to take control of the psiots from Project Rising Spirit. I’d say that he’s up for a hell of a challenge, but the dude’s name is Bloodshot. Pretty sure he’ll manage to kill lots o’ stuff.
Joey is a Senior Editor at IGN and a comic book creator. Follow Joey on Twitter @JoeyEsposito, or find him on IGN at Joey-IGN. After Man of Steel comes out, his life will lose all sense of direction and purpose.
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