Previews Picks–Comics and Graphic Novels Coming in November
Comic Book Coming Attractions–CBH’s Picks
CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED
Classics Illustrated: The Three Musketeers; Classics Illustrated: The Last of the Mohicans; Classics Illustrated: Moby Dick; Classics Illustrated: The Aeneid TPB – These are full color re-presentations of the original Classics Illustrated. The works of Virgil, Dumas, Melville and Cooper are interpreted by such comics legends as John Severin and Art Nodel. [p. 261]
DC COMICS
Salvation Run #1 – Bill Willingham (Fables) and Sean Chen (Iron Man) present what I call “Planet Roguesâ€. Like the Hulk in Marvel’s “Planet Hulk,†five of Flash’s Rogue’s Gallery plus Lex Luthor and the Joker get booted off of Earth to fend for themselves in exile. [p. 67]
“The Resurrection of Ra’s Al Ghul†– The next big Batman crossover starts in Robin #168 and continues in Nightwing #138, Detective Comics #838, and Batman #671. [p. 75]
Batman/Superman: Saga of the Super Sons TPB – Are these imaginary stories? Dreams? Hoaxes? Yes! And they’re all strangley entertaining. This collection reprints all the stories from World’s Finest and elsewhere that detail the adventures of Superman’s son and Batman’s son! [p. 96]
Showcase Presents: Jonah Hex Vol. 2 TPB – Check out these “Weird Western Tales†featuring stories by Venom co-creator and Iron Man scribe, David Michelinie with art by Jose Garcia Lopez and Ernie Chan. [p. 97]
DC COMICS/WILDSTORM
Heroes Hard Cover – This book collects all of the online comics that accompanied the Heroes TV show. [p. 107]
World of Warcraft #1 – Everything you love about the game is now in an ongoing comic book series. [p. 108]
Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash #1 & 2 – Hey, horror movie fans! This mini-series is right up your dark, deserted alley. That’s Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, and Ash Williams from Evil Dead and Army of Darkness together in one gore-filled title. [p. 117]
IDW PUBLISHING
Angel: After the Fall #1 – Season 6 of Angel is here and Joss Whedon is writing it. Just as Joss returned to Buffy the Vampire Slayer in comics, he revisits another of his TV creations by co-writing an official continuation of the small screen lore. [p. 311]
Badger: Bull One Shot and The Complete Badger Vol. 1 TPB – Could Nexus return without Mike Baron’s Badger being far behind? The trade collects the irreverent character’s earliest adventures, and the one shot features an all-new, done-in-one story about the costumed whack-job. [p. 315]
MARVEL COMICS
Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born Premiere Hard Cover – If you weren’t one of the hundreds of thousands of Stephen King fans who picked up the series as it came out, now’s your chance to get all seven parts in one hard cover book. [p. 3]
Ultimate Origins #1 – This six issue series maps out all the connections in Marvel’s Ultimate universe, and it is written by one of the architects of that world–Brian Michael Bendis. [p. 6]
Captain Marvel #1 – Brian Reed is the king of the Marvels! The writer of the fantastically entertaining superhero series, Ms. Marvel, will also handle the return of the original Kree warrior. [p. 21]
Franklin Richards: Fall Football Fiasco! One Shot – In the clever, funny, and warm tradition of Calvin & Hobbes, the Franklin Richards one shots find the title character getting into trouble and adventures with his sitter/sidekick H.E.R.B.I.E. the Robot. [p. 22]
Incredible Hulk #112 and World War Hulk: Aftersmash One Shot – The Hulk invaded Manhattan and captured many of Earth’s heroes. What does he do for an encore? Find out starting in these comics by two of Marvel’s new writing hot shots, Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente. [p. 34-35]
TOKYOPOP
The Other Side of the Mirror Vol. 1 – The Buffy Season 8 comic book covers are amazing. Jo Chen is the artist for those covers and for this Tokyopop series about the life of a runaway on the streets. [p. 350]
MAGAZINES
Back Issue #25 – I just can’t get enough of Amazing Spider-Man and Avengers writer, David Michelinie. And with the Iron Man movie on the horizon, you won’t want to miss the feature that explores his and Bob Layton’s character defining work on the Iron Man comic book. [p. 384]
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