This Week’s New Releases and Recommendations

It's Wednesday all over again and it's a good week to be a comics fan of any stripe. Just take a look at what's coming out this week.

First, I've got an overflow of superhero goodness.

WORLD WAR HULK #4
I bet you think I'm sick of World War Hulk. I wrote what felt like a bazillion reviews and have now turned into a giant slacker in regards to all things gamma-irradiated. The thing is, WORLD WAR HULK remains incredible. Madison Square Garden turned into a battle arena? Yup. But, seriously, you had me at "puny humans".

GREEN ARROW BLACK CANARY WEDDING SPECIAL #1
Ah, but didn't we get a Wedding Special last week? It ends up that was just the first issue of Dwayne McDuffie's run on JUSTICE LEAGUE with strippers in it. Doesn't matter. It was a great kick-off to what should be a fun year of JLA. This week we get the real deal wedding with some superhero fisticuffs thrown in for good measure. It's all held together by a humorous script from Judd Winick and great, expressive Amanda Conner artwork. Plus, it has at least three times as many strippers as last week's JLA Special.

HIGHWAYMEN #4
I could try to stretch and say this is a superhero comic but it's not. What it is is an awesome action movie in comic form about two over-forty bad-asses protecting a human WMD from the government by driving really fast and shooting a lot of stuff. The art is a little like Quitely, a little like Dillon and the comic is a whole lot like awesome.

What can possibly as good as that, McElhatton?

PHOENIX VOL 11 TP

The second-to-last part of Osamu Tezuka's PHOENIX saga, where volume 1 took place at the start of life on Earth, volume 2 in the far future, volume 3 a little further forward in time than volume 1, volume 4 a little bit backwards in time from volume 2... you get the idea, each story inching towards a central, "present day" time zone that was never quite reached. What's cool is that you never know what you're going to get, from Running Man-style reality shows where armies of clones are created and then hunted down for the viewer's pleasure, to a woman who is trapped in a time loop forever seeking redemption even as she heals demons and eventually murders her past/future self. Go on, check out almost any volume of PHOENIX, it's bound to be a winner.

Tezuka's pretty hard to argue with. That's just the tip of the iceberg this week, though. MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS, UMBRELLA ACADEMY, TALES OF THE SINESTRO CORPS: PARALLAX, a sweet new FINDER collection, JLA: HITMAN and (sadly) the last issue of Kirkman's memorable IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN all hit the stands today as well. So enjoy a great week of comics!

DARK HORSE COMICS

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MAY070055 BANYA EXPLOSIVE DELIVERY MAN VOL 5 TP $12.95
APR070067 CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARACTER #9 MARCIE $39.95
JUL070024 CRIMINAL MACABRE MY DEMON BABY #1 (OF 4) $2.99
JUN070056 STAR WARS 30TH ANNIV COLL VOL 8 HC SPLINTER OF MINDS EYE $19.95
JUN070057 STAR WARS KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC #20 $2.99
JUL078192 UMBRELLA ACADEMY #1 1 IN 1 GERALD WAY VAR CVR $2.99
JUN070020 UMBRELLA ACADEMY APOCALYPSE SUITE #1 (OF 6) $2.99
JUL070022 ZERO KILLER #2 (OF 6) $2.99

DC COMICS

JUN070181 52 VOL 3 TP $19.99
JUL070225 AQUAMAN SWORD OF ATLANTIS #56 $2.99
JUL070294 ARMY @ LOVE #7 (MR) $2.99
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JUL070226 BIRDS OF PREY #110 $2.99
JUL070219 CATWOMAN #71 $2.99
JUL070228 CHECKMATE #18 $2.99
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JUN070189 GREEN ARROW BLACK CANARY FOR BETTER OR WORSE TP $14.99
JUL070198 GREEN ARROW BLACK CANARY WEDDING SPECIAL #1 $3.99
JUL078086 GREEN LANTERN 2ND PTG #22 $2.99
JUL078084 GREEN LANTERN CORPS 2ND PTG #15 $2.99
JUL078085 GREEN LANTERN CORPS 3RD PTG #14 $2.99
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JUN070273 HELLBLAZER THE GIFT TP (MR) $14.99
JUL070281 HIGHWAYMEN #4 (OF 5) $2.99
JUL070236 JLA HITMAN #1 (OF 2) $3.99
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JUL070256 LEGION OF SUPER HEROES IN THE 31ST CENTURY #6 $2.25
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JUL070205 TALES OF THE SINESTRO CORPS PARALLAX #1 $2.99
JUL070307 TESTAMENT #20 (RES) (MR) $2.99
JUN070256 TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE TP (MR) $14.99

IMAGE COMICS

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MAY071874 MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS #4 $2.99
JUL071958 REPO #4 (OF 5) (MR) $3.50
APR071875 SPAWN #171 $2.95
JUN071901 SPAWN COLLECTION VOL 4 TP $29.95
JUL071981 WITCHBLADE TAKERU MANGA #8 KIRKHAM CVR B $3.99
JUL071980 WITCHBLADE TAKERU MANGA SUMITA CVR A #8 $3.99

MARVEL COMICS

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JUL072147 AVENGERS CLASSIC #4 $2.99
JUL072149 CAPTAIN AMERICA #30 CWI $2.99
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JUL072248 DAILY BUGLE OCTOBER PI
JUL072167 IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN #12 $2.99
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JUL072172 MARVEL ADVENTURES AVENGERS #16 $2.99
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JUL072177 MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS #1 $3.99
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JUL072197 NEW X-MEN #42 $2.99
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JUL072234 SILENT WAR TP $14.99
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JUL072207 TERROR INC #2 (OF 5) (MR) $3.99
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JUL072205 WOLVERINE ORIGINS #17 $2.99
JUL072236 WOLVERINE ORIGINS VOL 2 SAVIOR TP $13.99
JUL072160 WORLD WAR HULK #4 (OF 5) WWH $3.99
JUN078037 WORLD WAR HULK FRONT LINE #4 (OF 6) $2.99
JUL072164 WORLD WAR HULK GAMMA CORPS #3 (OF 4) WWH $2.99
JUL072161 WORLD WAR HULK ROMITA JR VAR #4 (OF 5) $3.99

WIZARD ENTERTAINMENT

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MAY073092 SUB MARINER #1 TURNER SGN ED PI
JUL073174 WIZARD ANIME INSIDER APPLESEED EX MACHINA CVR #49 (NOTE PRICE) $4.99
MAY073102 WORLD WAR HULK FRONT LINE #1 CGC 9.8 PI

MANY MORE COMICS

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JUN073620 CODE #4 $2.99
MAY073119 CRYPT OF HORROR VOL 4 TP $24.95
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JUN073763 DINOSAURS ACROSS AMERICA HC $12.95
JUL073722 DISTANCE MAKES THE HEART GROW SICK SC $16.00
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JUN073731 FINDER SIN EATER 10TH ANNIVERSARY HC $29.95
AUG073830 FINDER VOL 3 KING OF CATS TP (O/A) $13.95
AUG073831 FINDER VOL 4 TALISMAN TP (O/A) $13.95
AUG073832 FINDER VOL 5 DREAM SEQUENCE TP (O/A) $20.95
AUG073833 FINDER VOL 6 MYSTERY DATE TP (O/A) $17.95
AUG073834 FINDER VOL 7 THE RESCUERS TP (O/A) $16.95
AUG073835 FINDER VOL 8 FIVE CRAZY WOMEN TP (O/A) $15.95
JUL073260 GD SOURCEBOOK OFF HANDBOOK TO THE GD UNIVERSE #9 $3.95
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JUL073806 GODS OF ASGARD GN $14.99
JUL073265 GOLD DIGGER SWIMSUIT END OF SUMMER SPECIAL 2007 $4.50
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JUN073814 JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #262 $7.50
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JUN073990 PHOENIX VOL 11 TP $16.99
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