This Week’s New Releases and Recommendations

No new comics until Thursday this week because of the holiday. I always forget about that and go into my comic store on Wednesday looking for new stuff. I also came into work on Memorial Day and sat down at my computer before I realized that nobody else was in the office. I'm not too good at paying attention to anything other than comics and gambling. I lost a lot of money on the UFC fight this week, so let's talk comics instead.

52 VOL 1 TP
DC's huge weekly series gets the collected treatment with this first of many 52 TPs. It's cool that DC waited until this thing was over to start the collections...I'm assuming they'll do the same with Countdown (which is awesome by the way).

JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #6
Just a helpful reminder that right now there is a silly good JLA/JSA crossover going down. Get to reading.

NEW AVENGERS ILLUMINATI #3 (OF 5)
A friend of mine was talking about this book the other day and he said that when it first came out he thought it would just be lots of Bendis talking-head stuff and no action, but what we've seen so far has been full of good stuff. Too bad this is only the third issue in like a year.

PUNISHER PRESENTS: BARRACUDA MAX #4 (OF 5)
If you're late on reading this – you better be getting ready to get the TP when it comes out. Garth Ennis is really outdoing himself on this Punisher spin-off. The violence has been turned up to 11 and the crass behavior is at 12.

DARK HORSE COMICS

JAN070062 CONAN HALL O/T DEAD & OTHER STORIES VOL 4 HC $24.95
JAN070079 FEAR AGENT VOL 2 MY WAR TP $14.95
JAN070086 GUNSMITH CATS OMNIBUS VOL 2 TP $16.95
MAR070025 HELLBOY DARKNESS CALLS #2 (OF 6) $2.99
JAN070099 JOURNAL TARA MCPHERSON LOVE BLOWS $9.99
DEC060019 MARY SCARY HC $9.95
FEB070084 PENNY ARCADE VOL 4 BIRDS ARE WEIRD TP $12.95
JAN070089 SHAMAN WARRIOR VOL 3 TP $12.95
FEB070089 STAR WARS 30TH ANNIV COLL HC VOL 4 JANGO FETT ZAM WESELL $19.95
MAR070081 STAR WARS KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC #17 $2.99
JAN070094 STAR WARS PANEL TO PANEL VOL 2 TP $19.95
JAN070083 TANPENSHU VOL 2 TP $12.95
MAR070047 USAGI YOJIMBO #103 $2.99

DC COMICS

FEB070245 52 VOL 1 TP $19.99
MAR070182 ACTION COMICS #850 (NOTE PRICE) $3.99
MAR070186 AMAZONS ATTACK #2 (OF 6) $2.99
MAR070196 BLUE BEETLE #15 $2.99
MAR070190 COUNTDOWN 48 $2.99
MAR070191 COUNTDOWN POSTER $7.99
MAR070266 CROSSING MIDNIGHT #7 (MR) $2.99
MAR070269 DEADMAN #10 (MR) $2.99
MAR070248 DEATHBLOW #5 $2.99
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MAR070213 HAWKGIRL #64 $2.99
MAR070208 JSA CLASSIFIED #26 $2.99
MAR070206 JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #6 $2.99
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FEB070321 SWAN VOL 10 $9.99
MAR070227 TEEN TITANS #47 $2.99
MAR070232 TEEN TITANS GO #43 $2.25

IMAGE COMICS

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MAR071819 DRAWING FROM LIFE #1 (MR) $3.50
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MARVEL COMICS

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MAR072152 AVENGERS NEXT REBIRTH TP $13.99
MAR072147 CIVIL WAR COMPANION TP $13.99
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MAR078309 WORLD WAR HULK PROLOGUE WORLD BREAKER 2ND PTG RIO VAR WWH $3.99
MAR072119 X-23 TARGET X #6 (OF 6) $2.99

WIZARD ENTERTAINMENT

MAR073042 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #1 CGC 9.8 PI
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