(W) Mark Waid (A) Chris Samnee In Shops: Oct 16, 2024 SRP: $3.99
REUNITING THE ACCLAIMED TEAM OF MARK WAID AND CHRIS SAMNEE! While Bruce Wayne adjusts to the realities of adopting orphan Dick Grayson, a mysterious new crime boss called the General has come to Gotham to claim the city by disrupting and destroying its other mobs. But what is his connection to Two-Face? Batman and his new sidekick, Robin, are out for answers, but it’ll take everything they have to navigate both sides of their relationship as father and son and dynamic duo, with Dick Grayson’s present and future hanging in the balance!
While Bruce Wayne adjusts to the realities of adopting orphan Dick Grayson, a mysterious new crime boss called the General has come to Gotham to claim the city by disrupting and destroying its other mobs. But what is his connection to Two-Face? Batman and his new sidekick, Robin, are out for answers, but it’ll take everything they have to navigate both sides of their relationship as father and son and dynamic duo, with Dick Grayson’s present and future hanging in the balance! Batman and Robin: Year One #1 kicks off the re-teaming of Mark Waid and Chris Samnee and delivers a debut that meets, and exceeds, expectations.
Mark Waid and Chris Samnee have delivered some banger comics in the past. When the duo come together for a new comic, you expect them to again to deliver a hell of an entertaining comic. One that not only has a fantastic story but also amazing art. Batman and Robin: Year One #1 is all that and more. It delivers a start that feels like a modern classic and hearkens back to some amazing comics.
Taking us to the early days of of Dick and Bruce as well as Batman and Robin, Batman and Robin: Year One #1 introduces a man and hero struggling with being a father and mentor and a child who is hurting but hides it with an enthusiastic exterior. Waid and Samnee nail the start of a shaky and inexperienced duo. Both individuals are trying to figure out where things stand and where to take things.
The debut not just delivers an emotional punch and ride but also delivers some fantastic action. Tas the duo head out on an adventure that teases the threat to come. The first battle, Two-Face who has stolen a file from Commissioner Gordon. But he’s done so in a way that breaks his standard operation. That just creates more questions. That’s the tip of the iceberg as a greater threat is hinted at, a new crime boss is coming.
Samnee’s art is amazing. With color by Matheus Lopes and lettering by Clayton Cowles and Samnee, the art is amazing. It’s not only classic Samnee but also feels like classic Batman like The Long Halloween. Where the art stands out is its ability to deliver a gloomy setting but also the cheery disposition of Robin. There’s a light in the art and it’s Robin in every scene.
Batman and Robin: Year One #1 is a hell of a start that nails things in every way. The story has a great focus on the tepid relationship between Bruce and Dick and Batman and Robin and the art creates an atmosphere that feels like the best of Batman. It’s a hell of a start and one that’ll be a modern classic that readers go to for years to come.
Co-Plot: Mark Waid, Chris Samnee Story: Mark Waid Art: Chris Samnee Color: Matheus Lopes Letterer: Clayton Cowles, Chris Samnee Story: 10 Art: 10 Overall: 10 Recommendation: Buy
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(W) Mark Waid (A) Chris Samnee In Shops: Oct 16, 2024 SRP: $3.99
REUNITING THE ACCLAIMED TEAM OF MARK WAID AND CHRIS SAMNEE! While Bruce Wayne adjusts to the realities of adopting orphan Dick Grayson, a mysterious new crime boss called the General has come to Gotham to claim the city by disrupting and destroying its other mobs. But what is his connection to Two-Face? Batman and his new sidekick, Robin, are out for answers, but it’ll take everything they have to navigate both sides of their relationship as father and son and dynamic duo, with Dick Grayson’s present and future hanging in the balance!
DC has announced Two-Face, a new limited comic book series by Christian Ward and Fábio Veras. It’s the first series for Gotham City’s notorious Super-Villain (and sometimes good guy) Harvey Dent. In the tradition of recently completed and villain-focused comic book series The Penguin, DC’s new “All In” series Two-Face explores the good and bad sides of Harvey Dent as two characters operating and living in the same body. As the good Harvey explores a Perry Mason-like life as an attorney-at-law, bad Harvey doesn’t just want partial control of the body, but full control of the mind!
After years of internal conflict, both halves of Harvey Dent have reached an uneasy peace. In DC’s new Two-Face series, Harvey uses his skills as an attorney to resolve the conflicts of Gotham’s weirdest and most dangerous criminals, starting with Victor Zsasz. When Zsasz is accused of murdering a fellow member of Gotham’s underworld contingent, who better to prove a criminal’s innocence than someone who’s been on both sides of the law?
Two-Face #1, written by Christian Ward, art by Fábio Veras, colors by Ivan Plascencia and lettering by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, will publish on December 4 with a main cover by Baldemar Rivas and variant covers by Ward, Chris Samnee, and Leonardo Romero.
Dark Horse Comics presents Welcome to the Maynard, a new fantasy mystery series from Eisner Award-winner James Robinson and Eisner Award-winner J. Bone. Penned by Robinson, illustrated by Bone, colored by Ian Herring, and lettered by Jim Campbell, the first issue in this enchanting series featuring magic, mystery, spells, sorcery, and first-class hotel room service arrives November 2024. Issue #1 will be available with cover art by J.Bone and a variant cover by Chris Samnee.
“Welcome to the Maynard!”
The Maynard is a hotel unlike any other, a place where every guest and staff member has magic in their veins. It’s a hotel for magicians, witches, and otherworldly beings. It’s also where Phillipa (Pip) Dale begins her first day as the hotel’s new bellhop (and trainee house detective). She’s immediately sent on the hunt for a magical hotel thief whose daring thefts are part of a much bigger mystery, one that could turn deadly at any moment. And that’s just one of the many challenges and perils Pip must face in her new job in the magical Maynard Hotel, a wonderful, thrilling, fun place… so please come in and stay a while.
The series reunites Robinson with J. Bone, whose clean-line style evoking European comics, brings an added bright energy to this series. While Welcome To The Maynard has magical mystery and danger, it is also a book filled with hope and joy, and is written to appeal to all ages, young and old.
Welcome to the Maynard #1 (of 4) will arrive in comic shops on November 27, 2024 and is now available to preorder at your local comic shop for $4.99.
This year, Marvel reprints its classic ‘70s Godzilla comic book series in Godzilla #1 Facsimile Edition and the highly-anticipated Godzilla: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus, collecting Doug Moench and Herb Trimpe’s entire 24-issue run in color for the first time! To celebrate this exciting collaboration with Toho International, the Japanese studio’s U.S.-based subsidiary that has brought global sensation Godzilla to life, Marvel Comics will also be producing brand-new Godzilla Variant Covers on select issues this September.
See the King of the Monsters tower over iconic Marvel characters in 21 explosive covers! Drawn by some of the industry’s hottest artists, these breathtaking battles and daring team-ups depict Godzilla alongside super hero icons including the Avengers, the X-Men, Spider-Man, and Deadpool.
Check out 15 Godzilla Variant Covers and preorder them at your local comic shop today!
DAREDEVIL #13 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY NICK BRADSHAW
EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #1 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY LEINIL YU
FANTASTIC FOUR #25 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY GREG LAND
IMMORTAL THOR #15 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY JONAS SCHARF
MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN #24 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY ROMY JONES
SCARLET WITCH #4 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY MITSUHIRO ARITA
SPIDER-BOY #11 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY LEE GARBETT
CAPTAIN AMERICA #13 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY PHIL NOTO
SPIDER-GWEN: THE GHOST-SPIDER #5 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY INHYUK LEE
VENGEANCE OF THE MOON KNIGHT #9 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY TAURIN CLARKE
AVENGERS #18 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY ARIO ANINDITO
DAZZLER #1 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY ELIZABETH TORQUE
DEADPOOL #6 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY PACO MEDINA
INCREDIBLE HULK #17 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY ANDREI BRESSAN
VENOM #37 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY DAVE WACHTER
X-MEN #4 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY CHRIS SAMNEE
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #58 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY LEO ROMERO
AVENGERS ANNUAL #1 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY PETE WOODS
PHOENIX #3 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY RICKIE YAGAWA
UNCANNY X-MEN #2 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY DAVID BALDEON
WOLVERINE #2 GODZILLA VARIANT COVER BY ROGE ANTONIO
DC has announced a new four-issue DC Black Label comic book miniseries launching in September,Plastic Man No More! The Eisner-nominated creative team of Christopher Cantwell and Alex Lins brings you the five words you thought you’d never read in a press release:
Hard-Boiled Plastic Man Noir
Eel O’Brian might be a superhero now—but before he was anything else, he was a crook. Until the accident that turned him into the pliable Plastic Man, Eel was bad to the bone…and just because he no longer has bones doesn’t mean that’s not still true. When an incident on a Justice League mission leads to catastrophic cellular damage, Plastic Man discovers he just might be out of time to make amends for the past he’s tried hard to outrun—or to save the soul of his son, who (unfortunately for him) might have inherited more from dear old Dad than just his superpowers…
Plastic Man No More! #1, written by Cantwell with art and main cover by Lins, additional art by Jacob Edgar, color by Marcelo Maiolo and lettering by Becca Carey, will have variant covers by Michael Allred, Chris Samnee, and Tyler Boss (1:25). Plastic Man No More! #1 will hit local comic book shops on September 4, 2024. Plastic Man No More! is a DC Black Label comic book series and carries an Ages 17+ content descriptor (for mature readers). Each issue of Plastic Man No More! will be 32 pages, with 32 story pages per issue. Artists Riley Rossmo and Martin Morazzo will be featured on additional variant covers throughout the new DC Black Label series.
It’s Mad Cave Studios‘10-year anniversary, and what better way to celebrate than to announce their 2024 Gatchaman publishing program at ComicsPro!
The Gatchaman license, originally acquired in 2023 from Tatsunoko Productions, will feature an exciting new rollout of content featuring an ongoing series with a subsequent Vol. 1 trade release, individual character one-shots, and a Galactor miniseries! These new Gatchaman titles will expand upon the original Science Ninja Team Gatchaman continuity, with each project honing its own unique focus while contributing to the overall publishing line.
GATCHAMAN ONGOING SERIES
(W) Cullen Bunn (A) Chris Batista May
A mechanical terror has descended upon numerous cities and the world’s greatest scientists are disappearing. Our only hope: Science Ninja Team Gatchaman! As they battle these machinations from the international terrorist organization known as Galactor, their strength, willpower, and even vehicles are pushed to the absolute limit. If they fail…who’s waiting in the wings to take their place?
This all-new series begins with Gatchaman #0, available as a free promotional item at participating retailers worldwide on Free Comic Book Day 2024 (Saturday, May 4) and featuring cover artist Chris Samnee.
The ongoing story continues in Gatchaman #1 in June, with Cover A by Inaki Miranda, Cover B by Sanford Greene (which connects with the B covers for issues #2-5 to form a panoramic image), Cover C by Chris Batista, the Cover D Blank Sketch Cover edition, and Cover E retailer incentive by Francine Delgado. Trade paperback available in December, collecting the complete storyline from issues #0-5.
GATCHAMAN ONE-SHOT SPECIALS
(W) Tommy Lee Edwards (A) Mindy Lee June
Debuts with Gatchaman—Ken: Deathmatch, focusing on Ken the Eagle.
Ken goes undercover to infiltrate an underground gambling ring where martial artists from around the globe fight to the death. There, the winners are captured and brought to a secret Galactor recruiting base. If they refuse to join, the captives are dropped in the jungle and hunted as prey for Galactor’s training program. Can anyone make it out alive?
The second one-shot will be Gatchaman—Jun, focusing on Jun the Swan, which will be released in November.
GATCHAMAN: GALACTOR MINISERIES
(W) Steve Orlando (A) Kath Lobo
Four-issue miniseries exploring the seedy underbelly of the Gatchaman universe.
Galactor is under siege by a threat from within! After a secret attempt on his life, Berg Katse sets about to uncover a conspiracy within Galactor, born of their earliest days. Galactor’s leader goes undercover to hunt, identify, and ruthlessly dispense with a revolution growing within Galactor’s ranks. The masked villain Berg Katse must root out a conspiracy within Galactor, the sinister organization that plagues Science Ninja Team Gatchaman.
Skybound and Image Comics have debuted a first look at interior pages from the series finale of Fire Power by Kirkman & Samnee, from the team of co-creator/writer Robert Kirkman, co-creator/artist Chris Samnee, colorist Matthew Wilson, and letterer Rus Wooton.
The explosive, extra-length Fire Power #30 will arrive in comic book shops on February 21, 2024.
Losing his parents. Training at the Temple of the Flaming Fist. Learning the fire power. Starting a family. Owen’s whole life has been building to this moment, where he attempts the impossible one last time.
In addition to the main cover drawn by Chris Samnee and colored by Matthew Wilson, Fire Power #30 features an open-to-order variant cover by Cliff Chiang.
The available covers for the issue include:
Fire Power by Kirkman & Samnee #30 CVR A SAMNEE & WILSON (Lunar Code 1023IM315)
Fire Power by Kirkman & Samnee #30 CVR B CHIANG (Lunar Code 1023IM316)
Mad Cave Studios has four comics coming to Free Comic Book Day 2024! Titles including Flash Gordon and Gatchaman, and Papercutz titles Asterix and Nickelodeon’s The Loud House!
Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) is the biggest event in the comic book industry—a single day when participating comic book specialty shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their shops! Founded on the belief that for every person out there, there’s a comic book they’ll love, the annual event offers a huge selection of free titles designed to appeal to a broad range of age levels and their tastes.
The diverse range of titles available each year proves that there’s truly a book for everyone! All Free Comic Book Day releases drop in shops May 4th, 2024.
Flash Gordon
(W) Jeremy Adams (CA) Dan Panosian
It’s a race against time as Flash Gordon, Dale, and Doctor Zarkov try to stop the villainous MING THE MERCILESS from using the UNRAVELLER, a device that can unwind an object to their subatomic structure in one apocalyptic burst of energy. Can Flash save Earth once again, or will Ming finally get the upper hand and change the course of the universe forever?
Gatchaman
(W) Cullen Bunn, Tommy Lee Edwards, Steve Orlando (CA) Chris Samnee
Galactor, an international terrorist organization, seeks to control planet Earth and its natural resources. Mankind’s only hope lies within the International Science Organization and their elite strike force, the Science Ninja Team! Join Ken the Eagle, Jō the Condor, Jun the Swan, Jinpei the Swallow, and Ryū the Owl in three stories by today’s top talent that expand the world of Tatsunoko’s classic anime series and set the stage for battles to come.
Asterix
(W) Rene Goscinny (A) Albert Uderzo
Asterix and Obelix celebrate the 2024 Paris — I mean Lutetia — Olympics with a review of their fantastic physical accomplishments throughout the series. Featuring all-new translated commentary on swimming, rugby, and the most important sport: boar-eating!
Travel back to 50 BCE for the original Buddy Comedy and enjoy these classic comic tales by the great René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.
Loud House
Featuring The Loud House and The Casagrandes creative teams
This Free Comic Book Day is about to get LOUD! Join Lincoln Loud, his ten sisters, and his best pal Clyde for loud laughs, frantic family fun, and maybe a survival tip or two about how to grow up in a huge household! Featuring classic Loud House comic stories as well as some Loud surprises from Papercutz and the talent behind the Emmy Award-winning shows THE LOUD HOUSE and THE CASAGRANDES! Did we mention it is going to be Loud?
