The Nice House By the Sea #5 (of 12)
(W) James Tynion IV (A) Álvaro Martínez Bueno
In Shops: Jan 15, 2025
SRP: $3.99
The overseer of the House by the Sea, the enigmatic Max, wants to meet with Walter so she can understand just what he’s been up to at the House on the Lake. One small problem with that: Walter’s dead, and the residents of the Lake House killed him…
Assassin’s Apprentice III #2
(W) Jody Houser, Robin Hobb (A) Ryan Kelly (CA) Anna Steinbauer
In Shops: Jan 08, 2025
SRP: $3.99
Troubled by his failure to learn The Skill and resentful of his exile by Galen, Fitz finds himself more alone than ever before. Chade returns and sets him to the task of waiting on a depleted Prince Verity. Fitz gains important insight into both Galen and The Skill and receives a new assignment from King Shrewd.
DSTLRY has announced that the second printing of The City Beneath Her Feet #1 by James Tynion IV and Elsa Charettier has completely sold out at the distribution level. Following unprecedented demand for the grind-house action romance, this sell out cements The City Beneath Her Feet’s blockbuster debut.
In response to the overwhelming sellout, DSTLRY is rushing back to the press for a third printing of The City Beneath Her Feet #1. This new cover features series artist Elsa Charretier’s kinetic art from the Cover A with a new vibrant colorway from series artist Jordie Bellaire. This new cover will be available in comic book shops on February 5, 2025.
A bloody love letter to New York City, The City Beneath Her Feet is an action/thriller love story for a new generation about a woman discovering that the woman of her dreams—a brief fling—hides a much colorful, bloody backstory winding through the assassin guilds of the biggest city in America.
To secure your third printing variant of The City Beneath Her Feet #1, contact your local comic book store today. Supplies are extremely limited, and these collector’s items will only be available while stocks last.
ENTER: STEVE TREVOR! A Harbinger is but a messenger. It is The Tetracide that you must fear, for The Tetracide leaves nothing behind. Diana’s true enemy has been revealed–and it will take everything she has to save Gateway City from oblivion!
Story: Kelly Thompson
Art: Hayden Sherman
Color: Jordie Bellaire
Letterer: Becca Carey
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Cobra Commander unveils the next phase of his plan—meet THE VALKYRIES, the newest Cobra special operatives unit. And as they race to retrieve the new mysterious weapon, will Duke suffer his first failure as the leader of G.I. Joe? G.I. JOE #2 continues the action and ups the drama from the solid debut issue.
Story: Joshua Williamson
Art: Tom Reilly
Color: Jordie Bellaire
Letterer: Rus Wooton
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The all-star award-winning team of writer Deniz Camp, artist Eric Zawadzki, colorist Jordie Bellaire, and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou are teaming up for the new timeless ongoing anthology series, Assorted Crisis Events.
Time has no bounds in this world, and readers will follow in the footsteps of normal people who are just trying to get through a normal day, but instead have to deal with time loops and space portals, confused time travelers from different eras, and alternate dimensional versions of themselves…all while just taking a stroll down the street. Meanwhile, the overarching story dives into what caused the rules of time to suddenly shift, and if it’s possible to reverse the damage. Fans of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Black Mirror, and Doctor Who will enjoy this time-bending, clock-shattering new series, with the first issue hitting shelves this March.
In Assorted Crisis Events, time is having a crisis. Mingling in the red-light district, you can find actual cavemen, medieval knights, and cyborg soldiers on leave from World War IV. Victorian debutantes amble their way into cell phone stores, confused and bewildered (what is a data plan?). On their way to work, bleary-eyed commuters get trapped in time-loops, assaulted by alternate-reality versions of themselves, and try to avoid post-apocalyptic wastelands. And LOOK: the 3:15 bus just took a wrong turn…into the neolithic era.
Rising stars Camp and Zawadzki, and Eisner-winners Bellaire and Otsmane-Elhaou, are proud to present Assorted Crisis Events, an ongoing, zig-zagging anthology series about the compromised clicks of our clocks—full of one-shot stories both beautiful and ugly, tragic and redemptive, surreal and somehow all too familiar. Stories of people (and reality) in crisis—trying to keep it together while the world is falling apart, second by twisted second…
Assorted Crisis Events #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, March 12:
Cobra Commander unveils the next phase of his plan—meet THE VALKYRIES, the newest Cobra special operatives unit. And as they race to retrieve the new mysterious weapon, will Duke suffer his first failure as the leader of G.I. Joe? G.I. JOE #2 continues the action and ups the drama from the solid debut issue.
Much like its Transformers counterpart, G.I. JOE #2 has no problems embracing classic elements of the property and what has come before while charting its own path. The series also has no problem killing off characters, also like its Transformers counterpart.
Joshua Williamson continues to build off of what he started with the Duke miniseries as the JOEs battle Cobra and fail in their first mission. Yes, G.I. JOE #2 shows the team isn’t uber fighters and can not only lose, but show the natural results of that loss. A team member is dead, one is missing, and Cobra has gained victory in a rough start for the team.
Williamson really focuses on the fallout of all of that failure with Duke going off hot after he realized who the team was up against. Interestingly, Williamson uses Baronesses’ cool and calm demeaner to be the voice of reason. It’s a great dynamic and shows that she might be more of a team player than originally thought and also shows Duke isn’t the leader we know from the cartoons… yet. This is a young Duke who’s hot headed and ready to rush in. It’s much more like his brother frame later seasons of the animated series.
But the dynamic between the JOEs isn’t the only thing on display. Cobra gets the spotlight as a new squad, The Valkyries are introduced, but more importantly the distrust between Cobra Commander and Destro is on full display. The two are clearly frenemies like the animated series but this Cobra Commander is far shrewder.
The art for G.I. JOE #2 is solid. By Tom Reilly with color by Jordie Bellaire and lettering by Rus Wooton, the visuals are a perfect match for the drama and action in the comic. The team does an excellent surprise when things get odd with Cobra’s weapons and individuals realize things are going to get rough. Duke meeting his new teammate is solid in the emotion that jumps off the page as fists fly.
G.I. JOE #2 is a solid issue that really focuses on the personalities and dynamics in the two sides at play. Each has issues and neither is smooth in their operations. It’s a bumpy ride for both but boy is it an entertaining one.
Story: Joshua Williamson Art: Tom Reilly
Color: Jordie Bellaire Letterer: Rus Wooton
Story: 8.25 Art: 8.25 Overall: 8.25 Recommendation: Buy
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Skybound, Image Comics, and Hasbro have revealed the lineup of variant covers for G.I. JOE #3. From the chart-topping, critically acclaimed creative team of writer Joshua Williamson, artist Tom Reilly, and colorist Jordie Bellaire, the next issue of the comic book introducing a bold new vision of G.I. Joe and Cobra to the Energon Universe will hit comic books shelves on January 15, 2025.
As tensions rise within G.I. Joe – and punches are thrown – Cobra hunts a venomous new ally…
In addition to the main cover by Reilly, G.I. JOE #3 will feature an open-to-order variant cover by David Finch and Adriano Lucas; an open-to-order variant cover by Pablo Villalobos; the continuation of the 1:10 incentive connecting cover series by David Nakayama; a 1:25 incentive variant by Travis Moore and Adriano Lucas; and a 1:50 incentive variant by Patricia Martín.
The full list of variant covers is below:
Gateway City has never seen anything like the Harbinger-Prime, the enormous, ravenous monster that has just risen from the depths of the ocean to darken its shores…but the Harbinger has never seen anything like the unstoppable Diana, Princess of the Underworld!
Story: Kelly Thompson
Art: Hayden Sherman
Color: Jordie Bellaire
Letterer: Becca Carey
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BOOM! Studios has revealed a first look at Minor Arcana #4 from one of the most renowned creators in comics, New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award-winning writer and artist Jeff Lemire, along with the incomparable letterer Steve Wands. Minor Arcana is his first ever creator-owned, ongoing series at BOOM! Studios, continuing December 11,2024.
In a desperate bid to free herself of this new “curse,” Theresa finds herself thrown into the Unseen World once again. Delving deeper into the mysterious realm, Theresa uncovers secrets that will prove vital to her understanding of this power… but also finds herself stalked by a Dark Figure whose presence grows increasingly sinister.
Minor Arcana #4 continues the first of the four major story arcs of the new ongoing series from Jeff Lemire and BOOM! Studios. Mirroring the suits of a tarot deck, the story arcs will be collected into The Book of Wands, The Book of Swords, The Book of Cups, and The Book of Pentacles respectively.
Minor Arcana #4 features main cover art by series creator Jeff Lemire, and variant covers by highly acclaimed illustrators Megan Hutchison, Raúl Allén, and DANI with Jordie Bellaire. Additionally, each issue of Minor Arcana will feature a special tarot card variant cover illustrated by Jeff Lemire culminating in a full tarot deck at the end of the series!
