Written by NICK SPENCER
Penciled by RYAN OTTLEY & HUMBERTO RAMOS
Cover by HUMBERTO RAMOS
It’s a new beginning for the Amazing Spider-Man! Peter Parker’s life is turned upside down when a revelation from the past puts his job, relationships and whole life in jeopardy! And as if that’s not enough, Spidey must deal with an alien invasion (with a mysterious twist), a new roommate (who’s secretly the villainous Boomerang), new wrinkles in his love life — and a dangerous new enemy! But are you ready for…Peter Parker vs. Spider-Man? Someone out there is impersonating Peter…but why? Be here as Nick Spencer and Ryan Ottley kick off a brand new era in Spider-Man’s life! Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2018) #1-5 and material from FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2018 (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN).
136 PGS./Rated T …$15.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-91231-4
Okay, I don't have any jokes or observations to make about this, I just have a question, for anyone who has been reading this: Is it any good? Would I like it? I'm fond enough of Spider-Man as a character--I've been reading and enjoying writer Chip Zdarsky's Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, for example, but I've mainly ignored Spidey comics for a long while now. I really, really like the work of writer Nick Spencer, though, and loved the last comic he wrote with "Spider-Man" in the title, so I'm thinking I might dig this. I'm just not sure if it's something I should order now, or wait to check out a library trade of first...
AVENGERS #10 (#700)
JASON AARON (W) • ED MCGUINNESS, DAVID MARQUEZ & ADAM KUBERT (A)
Cover by ED MCGUINNESS
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THE EARTH’S MOST HATED HEROES?!
After 700 issues of saving the world, you’d think the Avengers would be due some celebration. But instead the whole world seems to be gunning for them, especially Namor’s fearsome new Defenders of the Deep and the reimagined Russian Super-Soldiers of the Winter Guard. And that’s not to mention the shocking surprise the U.S. government has in store for our heroes. Plus: The all-new Agents of Wakanda! The mystery of the Avengers of 1,000,000 BC deepens! A key revelation concerning the resurrection of Wolverine! And the next startling new Avenger is revealed!
64 PGS./Rated T+ …$5.99
I hope "Namor's fearsome new Defenders of the Deep" are just the classic, 1970s Defenders line-up, in bathing suits. I'll settle for the Netflix Defenders, in bathing suits, though.
DEREK LANDY (W) • PHILIP TAN (A/C)
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FROM THE INFINITY WAR INTO THEIR OWN LIMITED SERIES!
They are the five dreadlords, the Cull Obsidian, Thanos’ most feared warriors and disciples… Ruthless villains to a one, the Black Order has been dispatched by the Grandmaster to destabilize a burgeoning empire, and along the way they come to realize that as big and as bad as they are, there is always someone bigger and badder… The bombastic writing style of novelist Derek Landy (Skulduggery Pleasant) and the electrifying artwork of Philip Tan combine for an absolutely unhinged super-villain adventure!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Just in time to capitalize on all the hype from that big movie that came out, um, six months before this issue ships...? Huh.
DONNY CATES (W) • ARIEL OLIVETTI (A)
Cover by KAARE ANDREWS
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THE FINAL STAND!
The Royal Family has been broken. Now, something new and terrible rises from its ashes. Who is Vox? Where are the Inhumans he’s killed? And what lies ahead for a king without a kingdom?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
FUCK YOU MARVEL I DON'T CARE WHAT THE TITLE OF THE SERIES IS HOW DARE YOU KILL OFF THE ONLY INHUMAN CHARACTER ANYONE HAS EVER LIKED HE'S JUST A POOR INNOCENT ANIMAL YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING MONSTERS!!!!!!!111!!!!!
RYAN NORTH, MARIKO TAMAKI & JIM ZUB (W)
NATACHA BUSTOS, FRANCISCO HERRERA & Ozgur Yildirim (A)
Cover by FRANCISCO HERRERA
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When you gaze into the warp…you get more stories of mad Two-In-One heroes! Read about the Star Siblings of the Warped Universe – MISTER INVISIBLE and HOT ROCKS, the TERRIFIC TWO! Then, see how the covert programs of the Green Room created the gamma-powered GREEN WIDOW! And join MOON SQUIRREL AND TIPPYSAUR as they save the planet from the most dangerous threat it’s ever faced!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
I applaud the restraint it must have taken to not picture a Tippy-Toes/Devil Dinosaur "warp" character on the cover of this issue.
CHRIS SIMS & CHAD BOWERS (W) • TODD NAUCK (A/C)
Sleepwalker continues his mission through the dreamworld of the Warped Universe – this time teaming up with the Dark Starhawk and even “He whose touch causes burning” – MAN-THING THANG THOOM!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Holy shit, two of my favorite Marvel characters, "warped" into one another to form Man-Thing Thang Thoom! God bless you Chris Sims and Chad Bowers; you guys are doing God's work.
EVE EWING (W) • KEVIN LIBRANDA (A)
Cover by AMY REEDER
Variant Cover by HUMBERTO RAMOS
Variant Cover by STEPHANIE HANS
Variant Cover by LUCIANO VECCHIO
Variant Cover by JAMAL CAMPBELL
Variant Cover by SKOTTIE YOUNG
VARIANT COVER BY JEN BARTEL
THE FORMER STAR OF INVINCIBLE IRON MAN HEADLINES HER OWN SOLO SERIES!
When a group of world leaders is taken hostage by one of Spider-Man’s old foes, Riri Williams will have to step up her game. And she’ll be stunned when someone from back in Sweet Home Chicago enters her life… CHAMPIONS artist Kevin Libranda joins award-winning poet Eve Ewing, as Ironheart steps boldly out of Tony Stark’s shadow to forge her own future!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
Finally. I never finished Brian Michael Bendis' run on Iron Man, which actually spanned a handful of Iron-related books, but the replacement of the title character with Riri Williams, who went by the codename Ironheart always felt...off to me, just on a simple logic level. Like, she has a different name than "Iron Man," so it wasn't the same as, say, Kyle Rayner becoming the new Green Lantern or Jane Foster getting her hands on Mjolnir to replace Thor; I guess Tony Stark was still in the book in the form of a hologram/AI operating system, but it never felt quite right to have a legacy character whose kept the super-armor part of her forebears legacy, but no the code name, you know...? So having Ironheart star in a book actually entitled Ironheart...? I'm all for that.
I'm not quite sold on this costume, yet. I like the heart motif around the chest, but I'm not sure about the color scheme, which seems to be one color too many. That said, I've only just seen these two images, so maybe it will grown on me after I read the comic...and/or see another half-dozen or so different artists draw their own versions of it. Which shouldn't take long at all, based on how many dang variant covers there are.
ED BRISSON, KELLY THOMPSON & Matthew ROSENBERG (W)
ISSUE #1 – MAHMUD ASRAR & more (A)
ISSUE #2 – R.B. SILVA (A)
ISSUE #3 – YILDIRAY CINAR (A)
Covers by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
ISSUE #1 – VARIANT COVER BY JEN BARTEL
ISSUE #1 – VARIANT COVER BY JIM CHEUNG
ISSUE #1 – VARIANT COVER BY CLIFF CHIANG
ISSUE #1 – PARTY ACTION FIGURE VARIANT COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
ISSUE #1 – PREMIERE VARIANT COVER BY LEINIL FRANCIS YU
ISSUE #1 – HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY DAVE COCKRUM
ISSUE #1 – HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY JOE QUESADA
ISSUE #1 – BLACK AND WHITE HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY JOE QUESADA
ISSUE #1 – VARIANT COVER BY MARKO DJURDJEVIC
ISSUE #1 – VARIANT COVER BY ROB LIEFELD
ISSUE #1 – WRAPAROUND GATEFOLD VARIANT COVER BY DAVID MARQUEZ
ISSUE #1 – VARIANT COVER BY CARLOS PACHECO
ISSUE #1 – VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
ISSUE #1 – BLANK VARIANT COVER ALSO AVAILABLE
ISSUE #2 – VARIANT COVER BY TBA
ISSUE #2 – ACTION FIGURE VARIANT COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
ISSUE #3 – VARIANT COVER BY TBA
ISSUE #3 – ACTION FIGURE VARIANT COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
THE CHILDREN OF THE ATOM ARE BACK!
New ongoing series kicking off with a 10-part weekly epic, the flagship X-Men series that started it all is back and better than ever! Starting with a mysterious and tragic disappearance, the X-Men are drawn into what might be…their final adventure?! X-Fan favorite writers Ed Brisson (EXTERMINATION), Matthew Rosenberg (PHOENIX RESURRECTION) and Kelly Thompson (MR. & MRS. X) and all-star artists Mahmud Asrar (X-MEN RED), R.B. Silva (X-MEN BLUE), Yildiray Cinar (WEAPON X) and Pere Pérez (ROGUE AND GAMBIT) join forces to bring you…X-MEN DISASSEMBLED?!
ISSUE #1 – 72 PGS./Rated T+ …$7.99
ISSUE #2-3 – 32 PGS. (EACH)/Rated T …$3.99 (EACH)
Math is not my strong suit, but I am assuming Uncanny X-Men #1 should sell about a million copies. See, they have one million different variant covers, so even if only one customer buys one copy of each variant, they will still sell a million copies. Genius!
It's my understanding (mostly from reading what Brian Hibbs writes) that weekly comics aren't the most popular format in the world with retailers, but, as a reader, I've always liked the idea of them, particularly when they are super-good (like 52 or Wednesday Comics). Additionally, because of the sheer number of X-Men comics and the fact that they generally kinda sorta all tie together occasionally into a sort of ongoing epic regarding a super-races relationship to humanity and that they share a cast and continuity, it makes a lot more sense for their to be one shared X-Men book as opposed to a half-dozen of them.
Narratively, I can only assume it would be infinitely more satisfying if Marvel published a single, oversized weekly X-book instead of a few hundred pages of distinct X-Men material each month, and for my own recent experience, I can say that I suspect comics like Rogue & Gambit and Phoenix Resurrection (the writers of which are to be involved here) would have likely felt more important and had a greater impact had their events occurred within an (or "the") X-Men ongoing series, rather than in miniseries; the former felt kinda weird and random by existing at all, the latter spoiled its own premise and dampened its drama simply by its title.
Then again, I don't read X-Men comics as they're published serially, and I'm not about to start with a--Jesus!--$7.99 first issue, to be followed every seven days with a $3.99 issue. Also, although I think a weekly Uncanny X-Men makes more sense than a haf-dozen X-Men monthlies and another handful of solo series and miniseries, it should be noted that Uncanny is going to be weekly just for the first ten issues, and it's not like Marvel is folding all their other X-Men comics into this one or anything...
THE VISION #1 (OF 6)
CHELSEA CAIN & MARC MOHAN (W) • AUD KOCH (A)
Cover by MARCOS MARTIN
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THE NEXT CHAPTER OF THE VISION FAMILY!
When the Vision decided to try to live a “normal” life, he built a wife, a son and a daughter – a family – only to watch it nearly all crumble. Now all that’s left is Viv, his learning-to-be-rebellious daughter, and Sparky, the family robo-dog. But what does it mean for an artificial intelligence to rebel? And can a synthezoid father handle single parenthood? The married writing team of Chelsea Cain (Mockingbird) and Marc Mohan joins rising star artist Aud Koch for a new take on the Vision family that will once again have everyone talking!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
I really loved Chelsea Cain's Mockingbird, and was really excited to hear that she had another Marvel book coming up...until I learned which Marvel book she would be writing (well, co-writing). Turns out she will be writing perhaps my single lease favorite Marvel character, one of only a handful I find so incredibly uninteresting I have a hard time even engaging with, no matter who the creators involved are. I don't know if there's any other character I find as dull as The Vision. Wonder Man, The Inhumans, Carol Danvers...? Maybe Cable or Bishop? I don't know... Anyway, in terms of comics announcements, this one is like, the epitome of a good news, bad news situation.
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