It’s new comic book day tomorrow! We’ve got some reviews up yesterday, and more will be today, as well as previews too! While you decide what to buy, here’s some news and reviews to keep you busy while you think it over.
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CBR – The Mission: New Line’s Shaft, DC’s Batgirl and the Realization of Fears – A good read.
Around the Tubes Reviews
The Beat – Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #4
CBR – Daredevil #17
The Beat – Hellboy in Hell #7
CBR – Jem and the Holograms #5
CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA #4
Script: Roberto Aguirre Sacasa
Art: Robert Hack, Jack Morelli
Covers: Robert Hack
On Sale Date: 7/29
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.
There are some things in this world that mortal eyes should never witness — that’s a lesson poor Harvey Kinkle will learn the hard way, when he makes the unfortunate mistake of intruding on the darkest of ceremonies — an offense that the witches’ coven takes very seriously. Though Harvey’s life hangs in the balance, it is the Spellman family that will come face-to-face with true evil. Indeed, the choices made by teen-witch-in-training Sabrina on this dread night will determine the fate of every living soul in Greendale.
Wednesdays are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in!
We’re bringing back something we haven’t done for a while, what the team thinks. Our contributors are choosing up to five books each week and why they’re choosing the books.
Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this Wednesday.
Brett
Top Pick: Fight Club 2 #1 (Dark Horse) – Fight Club is both a fantastic book and movie. When I heard a sequel was being made as a comic, I was initially apprehensive, even with it being written by Chuck Palahniuk. But, after the first issue, I’m beyond all in. The first issue is absolutely amazing, both in story and art.
Captain Canuck 2015 #1 (Chapter House Publishing) – I grew up mostly in Buffalo, right along the Canadian border. And due to that, I’ve known about Captain Canuck for a while. A new updated version? Hells yes!
Fubar: Mother Russia #2 (Alterna Comics) – The Fubar series of comics gives us a zombie twist on history. The latest volume puts us in Russia during World War II, where a zombie outbreak is causing the Russians some issues.
Material #1 (Image Comics) – A man comes home from Guantanamo Bay, irrevocably changed. An actress receives an offer that can revive her career. A boy survives a riot and becomes embedded within a revolutionary movement. A philosopher is contacted by a being that dismantles his beliefs. Ales Kot‘s latest sounds fascinating.
You Don’t Say (IDW Publishing/Top Shelf) – Nate Powell‘s latest release from Top Shelf. All you need to know is it’s Nate Powell. That should be enough for you to pick this one up.
Edward
Top Pick: Surface Tension #1 (Titan Comics) – This new series puts a twist on the zombie/post-apocalyptic genre by taking a look at the world’s oceans and the environmental impact of our actions there.
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad #3 (Marvel/Disney) – This Disney adaptation is doing what the best adaptations do – remind nothing of the original material (in this case a theme park ride) while capturing the same spirit.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #3 (Archie Comics) – Archie’s darker comics have been pretty fun so far. Sabrina is not getting as much attention but she returns here for some more dark tales of sorcery.
He-Man Eternity War #6 (DC Comics) – Fantasy and Sci-Fi meet here and produce the best in the genre at the moment. Those with inhibitions about He-Man should let go of the past and hop in for a wild ride.
Inhumans: Attilan Rising #1 (Marvel) – There has hardly been a misstep in Marvel’s relaunch and rebranding of the Inhumans. It continues here with a big development.
“Big Daddy Cool” Johnny Dellarocca
Top Pick: Convergence: Shazam #2 (DC Comics) – It’s Steampunk vs. Dieselpunk! Plus the creative team of Parker and Shaner is an unbeatable combination.
Captain Midnight #23 (Dark Horse) – One of the best monthly series out there, and it looks like it’s coming to an explosive end with issue 24!
King Flash Gordon #2 (Dynamite Entertainment) – If all of the Dynamite King titles this has been the best. The creative team of Acker and Blacker has done a great job of continuing the amazing work of Parker and Shaner and have preserved the pace and fun of what went before. This has become one of favorite monthly titles.
Where Monsters Dwell #1 (Marvel) – As a Dieselpunk fan it really doesn’t get any better that flying ace The Phantom Eagle taking on monsters and dinosaurs! Sign me up!
CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA #3
Script: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Art: Robert Hack, Jack Morelli
Cover: Robert Hack
To Hell and Back Variant Cover: Robert Hack
On Sale Date: 5/27
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.
For TEEN+ readers.
It’s the night before Halloween, the night before Sabrina’s sixteenth birthday, the night of the blood-moon and the lunar eclipse, and Sabrina has made her decision: She will go into the woods of Greendale as a half-witch and emerge…on the other side of a frightful ritual…as a fully baptized member of the Church of Night. But there will be a cost, and his name is Harvey. And unbeknownst to Sabrina and her aunts, there is a serpent in the garden, their great enemy Madam Satan, who is conspiring against them…
The weekend is almost here. How are folks enjoying it? Getting out now that the weather’s getting nicer?
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The Beat – Ty Templeton in critical condition after a heart attack – We wish Ty the best and a speedy recovery.
Newsarama – George Reeves’ SUPERMAN Returns to Network Primetime… Sort of – This is pretty cool.
New Voices – Retconning History: Comic Books and the Holocaust – A really good read.
Around the Tubes Reviews
CBR – American Vampire: Second Cycle #7
CBR – Bloodshot Reborn #1
The Beat – Bloodshot Reborn #1
CBR – Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #2
CBR – Ei8ht #3
CBR – The Tithe #1
Talking Comics – Uncanny X-Men #33
CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA #2
Writer: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Art: Robert Hack
Cover: Robert Hack
Variant Cover: Francesco Francavilla
$3.99
32 pages, full-color
TEEN+
On Sale Date: 4/15
On the eve of Sabrina’s sixteenth birthday, as she faces a choice that will determine her destiny as a half-witch/half-mortal, an unspeakable terror arrives in Greendale, and her name is… Madam Satan! At long last, the secret history of the Queen of Hell is revealed, as she sets her vengeful gaze upon the Spellman family. No one, especially those close to Sabrina, is safe, and very, very soon, the quiet streets of Greendale run red with blood…
Harvey Award-winning writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and artist Robert Hack bring this dark re-imagining of Sabrina the Teenage Witch’s occult origin to spine-tingling life.
Archie Comics has announced that Afterlife With Archie and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will be returning — under the new Archie Horror imprint — to comic store shelves this Spring.
The much-anticipated second issue of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and artist Robert Hack will be hitting store shelves on April 15th, followed by Afterlife With Archie #8 — an issue inspired by “The Shining” — by Aguirre-Sacasa and artist Francesco Francavilla on May 6th.
In the announcement the addition of a third series was teased, though no details were mentioned.
CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA #1
Script: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Art: Robert Hack, Jack Morelli
Cover: Robert Hack
Rosemary’s Baby Variant Cover: Robert Hack
On Sale Date: 10/8
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.
NEW ONGOING SERIES!
Terror is born anew in this dark reimagining of Sabrina the Teenage Witch’s origin. On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, the young sorceress finds herself at a crossroads, having to choose between an unearthly destiny and her mortal boyfriend, Harvey. But a foe from her family’s past has arrived in Greendale, Madame Satan, and she has her own deadly agenda. Archie Comic’s latest horror sensation starts here! For TEEN+ readers.
