Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Comic Book Wednesday: March 4th Picks

There are four new things on my list today: two miniseries: Princess Leia and The Big Con Job a new series: All-New Hawkeye and a slight new miniseries I just started reading Operation S.I.N. (it's been out for a while, I picked up the first two issues the last time I was at the comic book store).

Rounding out the rest of my list are my usual books.

Is there anything on your list for today?


Boom! Studios

Con Job #1 (of 4)

Book: The Big Con Job #1 (of 4)

Description:

After working the same convention circuit for many years, a group of flabby action heroes, aging sex symbols, and sci-fi bit players have become close friends as they watch their lines get shorter and their autographs get cheaper. That is, until they hire a cocky new booking agent who offers them their only chance at a comfortable retirement by robbing one of the largest cons in the country!



DC Comics

Aquaman And The Others #11

Book: Aquaman and the Others #11

Description:

This is it: the final showdown between Aquaman and the Others and the members of Mayhem! KGBeast and Cheshire stand ready to destroy Earth in their maniacal efforts to take down Aquaman's team, but the king of Atlantis is without mercy. Blood will be spilled!







Book: Batman Eternal #48

Description:

This month in BATMAN ETERNAL: The epic Bat-story over a year in the making comes to a stunning end! Gotham City is in flames! Villains are running wild in the streets! Bat-tech has been corrupted! And the mastermind behind it all has put a knife in Batman's ribs! How will the Dark Knight put an end to this nightmare…and how will it shape the face of Gotham City to come?





Detective Comics #40

Book: Detective Comics #40

Description:

Anarky rules! Can Batman save Gotham City from itself?







Book: Futures End #44

Description:

The final stages of Brainiac's plan come to fruition in this issue that leads directly into CONVERGENCE! The ripples of this story will literally be felt across the Multiverse.






Grayson #8

Book: Grayson #8

Description:

Grayson is about to fly over this issue's cliffhanger with no safety net! You won't believe what happens!





Harley Quinn #15

Book: Harley Quinn #15

Description:

Harley was certain she could have it all: She could be the world's best landlord, protect Coney Island from the scum of the Earth, woo Mason Macabre, work her day job as a psychiatrist, volunteer at the puppy shelter…but that's a whole lot of spinning plates, and eventually they're bound to start breaking! What happens when a psychopath cracks up? Is it possible for Harley to go even more insane?!





Justice League 3000 #15

Book: Justice League 3000 #15

Description:

Beetle and Booster! Fire and Ice! The Injustice League (no, not that one - this is a different one)! Plus, the stuff that's on the cover! C'mon, people! We're bending over backward here! Pick up this comic before it's too late!





Names #7 (of 9)

Book: Names #7 (of 9)

Description:

The Names' kingpin, Stoker, reveals what might have compelled Katya's husband to throw himself out a high window. Meanwhile, Katya continues her quest and gets tantalizingly closer to knowing who made her a widow. Secret love, violence, insanity, and intrigue…Katya's problems are only beginning…





Scooby Doo Team Up #9

Book: Scooby-Doo Team Up #9

Description:

Superman needs help from Scooby and the gang - so they speed to Metropolis and the horribly haunted Daily Planet offices. But then Superman is turned into a super-powered monster! Even with help from Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Krypto the Superdog, how can these meddling kids stop the transformed Man-Monster of Steel before he wrecks the city?




Image Comics

Rat Queens #9

Book: Rat Queens #9

Description:

"THE FAR REACHING TENTACLES OF N'RYGOTH," Part Four

Life in Palisade is a goblet of toasty sweet mulled wine. But this issue is the skull-pounding headache the next morning when all you're left with is the consequences. And they are life-changing, awful ones at that.




Marvel Comics

All New Hawkeye #1

Book: All-New Hawkeye #1

Description:

Hawkeye returns in an all-new series featuring superstar writer Jeff Lemire in his Marvel debut and Eisner Award-winning artist Ramon Perez, as they bring you a fresh new look into the life of everyone's favorite Avenger.

With Kate Bishop, his trusted ward and protégé back at his side (not titles she would use), Team Hawkeye is thrown into an all new adventure spanning two generations of avenging archers.

Past and present lives collide as Kate and Clint face a threat that will challenge everything they know about what it means to be Hawkeye. But no one puts Hawkeye in a corner.






Operation Sin #3 (of 5)

Book: Operation S.I.N. #3 (of 5)

Description:

Peggy, Howard and Woody go to the ends of the earth to find . . . half of the puzzle?!

Who's running the last gulag in town? Hydra! That's who!

And who's the woman hiding among them? Who is the man named Vanko? And why can't Woody trust a talking bear? When interests collide, worlds crack open as Immonen and Ellis continue their rampage across Siberia!





Princess Leia #1 (of 5)

Book: Princess Leia #1 (of 5)

Description:

When Princess Leia Organa was captured by the Empire as a Rebel spy, she never betrayed her convictions, even in the face of the complete destruction of her home world, Alderaan.

When her rescue came, she grabbed a blaster and joined the fight, escaping back to the Rebel Alliance and helping strike the biggest blow against the Empire-the destruction of the Death Star. But in the aftermath of that victory, the question remains...what is a princess without a world?

Writer Mark Waid (Daredevil, S.H.I.E.L.D.) and artist Terry Dodson (Avengers & X-Men: Axis, Uncanny X-Men) bring us a story of Leia's quest to help her people and find her place in the galaxy.





X-Men #25

Book: X-Men #25

Description:

As natural phenomena tear the Black Rock Desert apart-with Storm stuck deep in the Earth at the epicenter-the X-Men race to find answers and save their teammate! And while some of the team follow a lead that takes them to the Inhuman Queen MEDUSA, Psylocke makes an EXPLOSIVE discovery of her own…

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