Sex #3

Story by: Joe Casey
Art By: Piotr Kowalski
Price: $2.99

There are a million stories in Saturn City, and Simon Cooke’s is just one of them! His future may be wide open, but the past is hot on his tail! The Old Man can still get it up! No two ways about it — this is the perfect time to pay for SEX! It’s even better than you think!

Revival #10

Story by: Tim Seeley
Art By: Mike Norton
Cover By: Jenny Frison
Price: $2.99

Ibrahaim’s first door-to-door inspection goes badly when he’s sent to the Holt farm. The Check brothers have Cooper hostage, and unfortunately for them, it’s Em Cypress to the rescue.

Miniature Jesus #2 (of 5)

By: Ted McKeever
Price: $3.99

Critically acclaimed writer/artist TED McKEEVER returns to the theater of the bizarre, as a small-town Pastor thinks the eight-inch Jesus that descended from a cross on the church’s wall is the devil’s work. Meanwhile, a recovering alcoholic’s fractured reality battling his own demons is becoming all too literal.

Five Ghosts: The Haunting of Fabian Gray #3 (of 5)

Story by: Frank J. Barbiere
Art By: Chris Mooneyham
Price: $2.99

“ENTER: THE FORGOTTEN CITY!”
In a fantastic valley…far from the eyes of man…Fabian Gray meets THE GUARDIAN OF DREAMS!

Dia De Los Muertos #3 (of 3)

Story by: Alexander Grecian, Kurtis J Wiebe, Joe Keatinge
Art By: Riley Rossmo
Price: $4.99

Inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead, artist extraordinaire, RILEY ROSSMO, interprets stories from three of today’s top writers. From KURTIS WIEBE (PETER PANZERFAUST) comes a heartbreaking love story–in this world or the next. JOE KEATINGE (GLORY, HELL YEAH) offers up Day of the Dead 3000. As Ultra Muertos falls at the hands of Mother Slaughter, his grandson takes over the mantle with a death wish for all-out apocalypse! And New York Times bestselling author ALEXANDER GRECIAN (PROOF) tells a tale of ghost children.

About a half hour has passed since the reveal of the new XBox, dubbed Xbox One. The one thing that stood out to me is the convergence of entertainment within the console. It’s no longer just a video game platform, the 360 morphed beyond that some time ago, but the next generation will take this even further.

The new console boasts seamless switching between television, movies, games and music. But what about comics? During the hour long presentation specifically mentioned Internet Explorer being available and showed its use to surf the web while watching a movie. The potential is amazing.

Stand to gain the most is Dark Horse Comics whose ability to create fantastic video game related comics netted them the Halo comic license which was announced at this year’s C2E2. Today’s announcement of a Steven Spielberg produced Halo television series puts them in an enviable position. Image watching the television show on your Xbox One and reading comic bios at the same time. Or with Xbox’s engine to suggest things you might like, after playing the numerous games in the franchise being suggested the new comic series. The integration is endless and possibilities extraordinary.

The most logical and simplest step is getting Dark Horse’s digital comics platform on Xbox Live, allowing us to read their comics on our televisions with voice and motion control.

Dark Horse doesn’t have specific plans yet as this is all in its infancy, but we’re looking at the tip of the next generation of digital comics, marketing and integration.

The Activity #13

Story by: Nathan Edmondson
Art By: Mitch Gerads
Price: $3.50

“SOLIDAO”
THE ACTIVITY continues into Volume III! After the stunning events in Minneapolis, the team is on stand-down pending an investigation. A call from one of Switchfoot’s friends in the Israeli Defense Force, however, turns into an unsanctioned mission with dire consequences. Meanwhile, there is trouble at Fort Belvoir.

The Bounce #1

Story by: Joe Casey
Art By: David Messina
Price: $2.99

FIRST ISSUE SPECTACULAR!
Meet the ultimate slacker superhero for the 21st Century! Jasper Jenkins is a super-head AND a super-hero! He’s relatable AND reliable and he’s embarking on the adventure of a lifetime! The sensational debut of the new feel-good hero of the decade! You can’t afford to miss it!

There are few hotter writers than Charles Soule who seems to be popping out new projects like they’re PEZ. On Monday’s episode of Graphic Policy Radio, we spent over an hour talking about how he broke into comics and his current projects like Strange Attractors, Swamp Thing and upcoming projects like Red Lanterns and Thunderbolts and Letter 44.

Started off in what seems forever ago, Occupy Comics initially started off as a Kickstarter project, it is now seeing print thanks to Black Mask Studios. An anthology, the comic was as political as they come and channeled the dissatisfaction with the status-quo represented by the Occupy Movement. The comics boast an impressive line-up of creators like Alan Moore, David Lloyd, Charlie Adlard, Art Spiegelman, Molly Crabapple, Matt Bors, Mike Allred, Ben Templesmith, J.M. DeMatteis, Tyler Crook, Joshua Hale Fialkov, Joe Infurnari, Ales Kot, Dean Haspiel, Joshua Dysart and Matt Pizzolo.

Each contribution is thought-provoking and entertaining and shockingly non-partisan. This is a perfect marriage of comics and politics. How could it not be this week’s pick? All revenue received by organizers/creators (past hard costs) will be donated to various Occupy-related initiatives.

Check out below for our other 9 choices in alphabetical order.

• Occupy Comics #1 – see above
• The Activity #13 – The beginning of the third volume! After the stunning events in Minneapolis, the team is on stand-down pending an investigation. A call from one of Switchfoot’s friends in the Israeli Defense Force, however, turns into an unsanctioned mission with dire consequences. Meanwhile, there is trouble at Fort Belvoir.
  
• The Bounce #1 – Meet the ultimate slacker superhero for the 21st Century! Jasper Jenkins is a super-head AND a super-hero! He’s relatable AND reliable and he’s embarking on the adventure of a lifetime! The sensational debut of the new feel-good hero of the decade! You can’t afford to miss it!
  
• Green Lantern #20 – This is the end of Geoff Johns’ epic run.
  
• The Green Team #1 – The other half of DC’s politically tinged comics. We’ll see what this one holds.
  
• Half Past Danger #1 – DAMES. DINOSAURS. DANGER. Summer, 1943, and in the midst of a war waged by monsters, Staff Sergeant Tommy ‘Irish’ Flynn never expected to encounter a real one. But on a remote island in the South Pacific, Flynn and his squad come face-to-fanged-face with creatures long thought dead.
  
• The Massive #12 – The best comic on the market. Why aren’t you reading this!?
  
• Mind MGMT #11 – Matt Kindt’s trippy spy comic whose visuals are as amazing as the writing.
  
• Revival #10 – Forget that other comic featuring the walking dead, this is the one you want to read.
  
• Superior Spider-Man #10 – Last issue was a big moment. We’ll see where Dan Slott takes us from there in the next step of his controversial Spider-Man run.