This Week’s New Releases and Recommendations

If you read the comic books, you know what happens on the Wednesday. Bow down before the power of the Wednesday!

COUNTDOWN TO ADVENTURE #1
Soooo.... we're already counting down to FINAL CRISIS with COUNTDOWN, but now we have to count down to adventure as well?! Just give me my adventure up front! Actually, this is a comic about the space-faring characters from 52 with a back-up story featuring newcomer Forerunner. Forerunner?! DC is all about the anticipation.

MICE TEMPLAR #1
A lot of people are unfairly comparing this book to MOUSE GUARD. They're all, like, "Oooh! It's about mice with swords! I'm so cool and I know everything!", but really it's...oh...wait. I'm hearing from my team of blogging assistants that it IS about mice with swords. But I'm seeing a bow and arrow as well. Completely different! Oh well, at least it's not COUNTDOWN TO MICE WITH SWORDS. Plus, it still looks pretty awesome.

MEAN GN
Steven Weissman is rad. His comic, YIKES, is a crazy look at youth as lived by little monster people. The new collection, MEAN, collects some of the early comics which have been compared favorably to the likes of PEANUTS and LITTLE LULU. WITNESS! Pull Apart Boy pull himself apart! BEHOLD! as Lil' Bloody kills time. SEE! Chubby Cheek...in general. Poor "Sweet" Chubby Cheeks. All he wants is a butter and jelly sandwich.

Man, a butter and jelly sandwich sounds pretty good. But first! Click on more to see the rest of the stuff coming out this week.

DARK HORSE COMICS

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JUN070029 EMILY THE STRANGE VOL 2 DEATH ISSUE #1 $3.50
JUN070018 HELLBOY DARKNESS CALLS #5 (OF 6) $2.99
MAY070061 HELLSING ULTIMATE ZIPPO LIGHTER $29.99
APR070056 SHAMAN WARRIOR VOL 4 TP $12.95
JUN070035 USAGI YOJIMBO #105 $2.99

DC COMICS

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IMAGE COMICS

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JUN072161 WORLD WAR HULK X-MEN #3 (OF 3) WWH $2.99

WIZARD ENTERTAINMENT

JUL073170 WIZARD MAGAZINE HEROES PHOTO FALL TV CVR #192 $5.99
JUL073171 WIZARD MAGAZINE SPIDER-MAN ONE MORE DAY QUESADA CVR #192 $5.99

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