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Volume 13 #4 “News, reviews and opinions from the world of comics” August 2009

Archie #600 Well, it’s summer, so it’s time for the big events, and what can be bigger A Timely anniversary than “Archie Marries Veronica”! The story jumps ahead to after Archie and Marvels Project #1 the gang have graduated college, so Marvel has been think Days of Future Past crossed with celebrating their 70th Anni- Beverly Hills versary for a few months 90210, and now, and as fun as some of h o p e f u l l y their re-issued Timely comics we’ll get have been, they’ve yet to s o m e t h i n g put out anything completely like that. mind-blowing. M a y b e Well, and Archie will look to change invite the all of that with the release of to Marvels Project. the wedding This eight issue mini- to deal with series explores the events that the Sentinels. created the , This is and more specifically, how only the first they are linked to the origin part of the of . Sounds s t o r y l i n e , a lot like , The Proposal, so maybe Veronica finally right? proposed to Archie. I’m still betting that The big difference here is Betty is going to be involved in some that this is meant to be canon hijinks as well! But they promise that for the ORIGINAL Marvel we’ll know why Archie would choose Universe, and with Brubaker Veronica instead of Betty (I’m sure it has and Epting (the team behind nothing to do with her parents’ fabulous the last four years of Captain wealth), and how Betty reacts, as well America) at the wheel, as what everyone else is up to in the Marvels Project promises to future. Even money on the wedding be one of the most intriguing being interrupted by Cheryl Blossom. books of the year! Or a .

Move over Blacksad, tremendous thinking-person’s action- going on, but with a twist--Detective- LeBrock’s on the case! adventure sci-fi in the form of Luther Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard is is best known for Arkwright and its sequel, Heart of an anthropomorphic badger. his heavily researched “serious” Empire. If you liked Blacksad (which is comics, like the multi-award-winning His newest project, is coming from Dark Horse in a few Tale of One Bad Rat, and Alice in definitely in the Arkwright vein, with short months!), you’re gonna love . But he also has done some good old Victorian Grandville. 2 | www.bigplanetcomics.com Hotline: 301.718.1890

back, but Johns’ 31st Century death count of . Of version of the Legion kicks butt! course, Ultimatum may still not Check out his and the have finished by the time this Legion TP, or the Final : comes out, but who cares! We’ve Legion HC for a taste of things got Mark “Old Man Logan” Millar to come. back on the book he made great, this time with in the The Red Circle title so no one is confused! Carlos J. Michael Straczynski, while Pacheco is on art, so it might actu- a great writer, has screwed up ally be on time. returns (never his fault, mind you) when a secret threatens Cap. Babylon 5, Rising Stars, and the Expect the violence! Amazing Spider-man. Before DC lets him play with the big boys, Models, Inc. they’re having him try out on the Marvel finally returns to the heart old Archie super-hero characters of its universe, Fashion Week! (like the , not Archie in a cape). All the models in one book, from I guess if he doesn’t screw this Mary Jane up too bad, they’ll let him tackle Watson to Brave and the Bold (the one for , grown-ups, even).... Millie the Blackest Night: comic about a guy with a cat that Model and It might not be the only Blackest can be turned into a super- #500 more, dealing Night book this weapon. Perfect for fans 104 pages of awesome! The with robbery month, but it is the only of Wonton Soup, Scott and Lady attempts and one that is focused on Pilgrim, and North stories collide as we find out what overly friendly the recently dead Caped World. they have in common. What is cops, until Crusader! I don’t care if the Kingpin really doing? And Millie becomes Batman is in a cave in the Batman: Widening this is the last issue for Brubaker the suspect in a , and the past or a grave in the now, Gyre and Lark, so what are they going girls set out to prove her inno- all I know is that I want him to Kevin Smith writes more to set up for the next storyline cence. Really. I’m not making any become a murderous . Batman.... Oh wait, that’s a good (written by !)? Last of this up. thing! Bring it on! t i m e Daredevil jumped from Riders: Heaven’s Bendis to Brubaker, we Die Hard: Year One on got the Punisher and John McClane was just a hard- I guess enough of you hadn’t is now writing Murdock in jail. I working cop in corrupt Gotham noticed that the amazing Superboy (now that the bet Ed can top City when suddenly… oh, Aaron is writing (in legal issues are settled) that! sorry, I’m dreaming again. But addition to Scalped, : and the Legion of Super- it is McClane as a rookie cop, 10 Weapon X, and the occasional Heroes in the same Ultimate Comics years before Die Hard, when he’s issue of Immortal Weapons). So 40-page comic Avengers learning how to make it in NYC, here’s your perfect jumping-on every month. The whole Ultimate during the Summer of Sam! Find point. Ghost Rider and his posse That Jim Universe is going out why he causes trouble for try to take control of Heaven back Shooter stuff through a bit of a himself down the road, when he from some renegade angels! Did was kind of relaunch, what with the gives too many parking tickets to we mention that it’s by Big Plan- a fun throw- massive destruction and the wrong German tourist. et’s favorite writer, ? Red Herring A new six-issue mini-series from Dominic Fortune David Tischman (Greatest Hits) returns with a book of his and (The ) own, as Fortune gets a bodyguard gig during about scandals and intrigue in the Depression for three out of control Holly- Washington, D.C. Hey! That’s wood types. Of course, they turn out to be trouble with where I live! a capital T, and Dominic runs across a conspiracy to bring down the U.S. government. Plus mysterious businessmen King City and sexy women. Just your average, run-of-mill

Killer Vol 2 HC Keeper continue, as he saves the New Orleans, and how they playing! Tarzan! Samurai! Chef! Archaia is finally back on a assassin he loves, only to survived the hurricane, and Dooooooomo! publishing schedule, so we might descend into a life as a then their experiences, actually see this conclusion! The poor husband and a poor from the Superdome, Asterios Polyp HC Killer finally begins to find out lover! Luckily, Alexandra to taking in refugees, It came out. We recommended who has tried to ruin his life, and the assassin has a plan to to watching the it earlier. We have now read it. what is going on, which means a straighten him out. from the roof of their It may be the best return to civilization and a lot of store, to losing every- every created. Buy it. people getting killed. A.D.: New Orleans thing, and what happened After the Deluge GN to them next. Lenore Volume II #1 Dungeon: The Early Josh Neufeld helped out after Lenore is back in all-new full- Years Vol 2 GN Katrina, and now, 4 years later, he Domo color adventures by creator The adventures of the Dungeon tells the tale of 7 real people from Cuteness! Box car racing! Wii Roman Dirge! You know, the Hotline: 301.718.1890 www.bigplanetcomics.com | 3

the hidden demons, junior account Punisher is good at in this collec- come out on time, which means executive Dave Sloan! Luckily tion of and Jerome we get a new Walking Dead TP an invisible cherub follows him Opena’s new Punisher series. every six months! There’s really around, telling him to murder the “What is the Punisher good at?”, no point in starting this zombie demons who are disguised as his you ask. Shooting super-villains epic with Volume 10, so if you’re co-workers or people who annoy with guns, of course! not already hooked grab Volume him! Man, I’ve got an who 1 now, and start reading! Mmm, tells me that too. Captain Easy Soldier of zombies.... Fortune Vol 1 HC Irredeemable Vol 1 TP We love comic strip reprints Captain America: Death has a - around here. Particularly collec- of Captain America gone-bad story. The world’s most tions of adventure-y strips like Omnibus HC powerful suddenly Terry and the Pirates and Steve Lots and lots of Ed Brubaker/ turns on everyone, and he’s so Canyon. Now everyone can Steve Epting Caps, at a truly fair tough there’s little chance of stop- finally read some comics by the price--and the art looks beau- ping him. The surviving heroes guy who CREATED adventure-y tiful printed large! Just don’t fall begin investigating his past to try comic strips, Roy Crane. Captain asleep reading it in bed, or you to find a weakness. This has the Easy: Soldier of Fortune tells a might seriously hurt yourself. Toon Treasury of Classic first 4 issues for only 10 bucks! story of adventure that influ- Children’s Comics HC Plus issue 5 comes out the same enced characters ranging from The name says it all. The best day for only a dollar! Don’t ask, Superman to Indiana Jones. A Golden Age kids comics ever, by just buy it! must-have book for any fan of the best kids ever-- comics history. Carl (Uncle Scrooge) Barks, John Unknown Soldier Vol.1: (Little Lulu) Stanley, Walt () In 2002, Uganda was torn apart Amulet Vol 2 SC Kelly, Sheldon (Sugar & Spike) by child soldiers, and degen- How can volume two be Mayer, and , to erate fighters. A pacifist doctor of the Amulet?! It is too awesome name a few. Buy one for a kid, is caught in the violence, but to end! Oh, well, I guess two and one for yourself. suddenly hears a voice that volumes of an amazing story shows him how to kill all too well. about two kids who chase their Groo Treasury Vol. 1 Violent and intriguing. mother into a fantastical world The parody of sword-and-sorcery under their house is better than that brings endless destruction Vol 1 HC NO volumes of an amazing story and mendicants! Groo’s idiocy The flagship title of Marvel’s Dark about two kids who chase their is matched only by his fighting Reign storyline, now in hard- mother into a fantastical world skills, and now this 336 page trea- cover! See what happens when under their house. sury collects all the early stories a group of villains take over as before his series started, the Avengers. I’ll give Super Human Resources including Duck you a hint. It’s evil! Local writer (and Big Planet and the Groo Chronicles. customer) Ken Marcus has teamed up with artist Justin Bleep Presents: Peter & : A Filthy Rich HC to deliver one of the funniest Eclipso Novel HC in a long time. The 1960s weirdness that started I know, I know, it’s a has another crime Find out what it’s like to work at a it all (if by all you mean some book. But it does have book, this time a Super Human temp agency! weird forgotten DC annuals from illustrations by Steve whole new graphic the early-1990s). DC is finally Leialoha, and Willingham’s novel. Junk sells Umbrella Academy: starting to reprint a lot of their writing it. Plus they do 8 pages of cars after gambling and Dallas late-1960s, post-Batman TV show comics that tie this into the rest of an injury took him out of foot- Not a big fan of the band, but the comics. Hopefully we’ll Fables. You’ve got the tale of the ball. When the sexy and spoiled singer of My Chemical Romance get some Inferior Five or Binky Piper brothers in the Black Forest, daughter of his boss needs a writes a fine . A bunch comics next.... who head down very different bodyguard in NY’s club scene, of other musicians are jumping on paths, which then plays out in he jumps at the chance. Until he the bandwagon, but as far as I can The Surrogates: Flesh & modern Fabletown. Max Piper realizes she wants a lapdog to tell, they should all to music. TP has dark magical , and do her dirty work, someone who But Umbrella Academy, with Bruce Willis’ movie is coming soon Peter Piper is a master thief, and wants to be filthy rich. Drawn by its interesting characters, great (September)! Read the prequel good friends with Run DMC. Santos, artist of the French series dialogue, and killer art is still the that sets the stage for it. You could Young . book to beat! always read the original Surrogates Sandman: The Dream book too, about a future where Hunters HC Dark Entries HC : Legion of everyone has a good-looking Okay, I think I’ve got it. This is the They sure don’t want to tell you, Three Worlds HC double, but then you’d have to hardcover collection of the comic but this is actually a new Hell- Geoff Johns, George Perez, and complain how the movie isn’t as book adaptation of the illus- blazer story. Where The Legion of Super-Heroes all good as the comic. trated novel. Um. Right. P. Craig has to the horror of reality TV! in one tidy hardcover--much Russell tells the story of a monk He gets locked inside a haunted better than waiting the intermi- Eomplete Essex County and a shape-shifting , with house that is literally killing the nable months between issues. See Jeff Lemire’s taking over! He’s some demons and the Japanese contestants, all the while a deadly previous write-up for how much got an original Vertigo hardcover, emperor thrown in for variety. figure from his past is monitoring we here at Big Planet love Geoff The Nobody, a new Vertigo series, him. Yeah, I could see the next Johns’ Legion comics , and his award- Killer of Demons TP season of Big Brother doing this. winning Essex County trilogy Yost writes, Wegener (of Atomic Walking Dead Vol 10 TP collected in an omnibus all in a Robo) draws! After Hell infiltrates Punisher: Dark Reign HC Now that ’s a six-week period. Check him out- Earth, only one man can root out See the Punisher do what the partner at Image, his comics -he is that good! 4 | www.bigplanetcomics.com Hotline: 301.718.1890 Best best from SDCC Greg: So, did DC own G4’s Turtles are awesome! Also, coverage of Comic-Con, or what? this 25th Anniversary business seems to be the seems to have convinced Mirage hot property of the summer. Well, to finally put out a solid Ninja that and Wednesday Comics. Turtles collection. It even has the What a great idea! Cerebus crossover in it! Kevin: I think Blackest Night Greg: But no Flaming Carrot and Wednesday Comics have crossover. Alas.... (Fair warning, definitely captured the atten- we’re discussing the early killer- tion of superhero fans. Zombie ninja turtles comics, not the Superman? Home run! Paul later kid-friendly, pizza-eating Pope ? Grand turtles). Not sure it’s San Diego Slam! news, exactly, but we’ve got I am honestly surprised at some killer indy comics coming how much coverage the con up soon from Marvel, all of was getting in general this year. all people. Give ‘em the spiel, Who would’ve thought we’d Kevin! be hearing about the rights to Kevin:You’re talking about on TV? the soon-to-blow-the-minds-of- Greg: I don’t think I will Big-Planet-customers Strange ever get used to Tales: Max! This three issue mini- being a household name. Even series in the Comics vein my mother-in-law knows who will feature a host of amazing he is! What other hot news did indie artists taking on Marvel we hear? characters. What I’ve seen so far Kevin: Maybe it wasn’t the out in Summer 2010! Just check mother-in-law knows who he is is incredible! Dash Shaw, Nick biggest news at San Diego, but, out that cover!a too.... Oh yeah--does everybody Bertozzi, , Nicholas for me, the fact that Greg: Sweet! I’m loving realize that this is the 25th Anni- Gurewich, and a whole bunch of is putting out FOUR new Bone Rasl too. Even his Little Mouse versary of the Teenage other awesome creators. Comic- books is awesome sauce. The book for little kids was really Ninja Turtles? Con may be turning into a movie first, “Bone: Tall Tales” will be good. Jeff Smith is the man! My Kevin: Hell yeah! Ninja festival, but comics still rule!

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