Comic Catch: February 18, 2009

AMBER ATOMS #1 - Blast-off with the newest sci-fi adventure heroine Amber Atoms! Follow the ongoing adventures of this modern day “Flash Gordon” as Amber dreams of leaving her mundane life, but not exactly how she imagined. Mercenaries and aliens suddenly invade Amber’s world as she learns that her family history could decide the fate of the galaxy.













DARK AVENGERS #2 - The Dark Avengers have made themselves known to the world and as the world takes them in, Morgana le Fey comes looking for blood!! Once you learn who the Dark Avengers are you'll see why this is the buzz book of the year!! The Dark Reign is here!!














DEATH DEFYING DEVIL #3 - In this issues, we see continued flashbacks to the history of the Death Defying Devil and his Wiseguys along with more clues to the modern day origins of deadly Claw organization and the 'Devil's new nemesis, the Dragon! Plus, all out action from the 'Devil, The Ghost and Silver streak!













FIREBREATHER #4 - Duncan is faced with an unthinkable task in the shocking conclusion of our first story arc. Will he follow in his father’s footsteps and commit an unforgivable crime to secure his current way of life, or follow his mother’s lead and put everything at risk to preserve his humanity?














GHOST RIDER #32 - Johnny Blaze and the last remaining Ghost Riders from around the world make their final stand against the warrior hordes of the rebel angel Zadkiel, led by Blaze's brother, the power-mad renegade Danny Ketch. This is a showdown for the ages, featuring more Ghost Riders than you can shake a stick at and an ending you won't believe!













GREAT UNKNOWN #1 - A MIND-THROBBING WHODUNNIT! Everything Zach Feld imagines – impossibly – shows up somewhere else. It’s as if someone is reading his mind and selling his incredible thoughts to the highest bidder.

His friends and family think Zach is a freeloader with delusions of grandeur – making up one weird paranoiac story after another to defend his directionless life. They might be right. But when Zach begins to dig deeper into the mystery, he discovers that they might be very, very wrong. Has someone been sneaking around inside Zach’s mind?

Visionary storyteller DUNCAN ROULEAU (Metal Men, The Nightmarist, X-Factor) creates this five-issue series about one man’s quest to find the people responsible for raiding his thoughts and relegating him to a life of being the great unknown.



GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #10 - The drums of battle thunder in the Negative Zone – building to WAR OF KINGS! Rocket Raccoon and the Guardians face down Blastaar’s barbarian horde as Star-Lord fights for his life in 42, the besieged Initiative prison! And if our cosmic misfits fall – Earth is next!














INVINCIBLE #59 - Meet PowerPlex! He’s out to rid the world once and for all of the menace known as Invincible!

















JOHNNY MONSTER #1 - Johnny Monster is the world's foremost super-star monster hunter, but what the world doesn't know is that he was raised by the same monsters he's "hunting"! Now, in order to save his adoptive family... he must fight them! From the acclaimed writer of DEAR DRACULA and Necessary Evil, Johnny Monster mixes Tom Strong with Godzilla movies by way of Tarzan and the Phantom to create a compelling and different monster mash!











JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #30 - Featuring an "Origins and Omens" backup story! Can the entire combined might of the Justice League of Amercia and Dr. Light stand up to the cosmic entity known as Starbreaker as he continues consuming the sun? Could this be another Final Night for the DC Universe?














PUNISHER FRANK CASTLE MAX #67 - W.C. Fields once mused that he’d rather be dead than play Philadelphia. Well, if you cross paths with Frank Castle, you’ll be able to have it both ways. Castle has been injected with a slow-acting poison that will kill him in less than hours—but don’t think he’s going to spend them moping around. As long as blood is still pumping through his rock-hard veins, the Punisher plans on killing as many dirtbags as possible. But the Philadelphia underworld isn’t going to roll over so easily. Neither is the top-secret black bag ops unit that dosed Frank. And don’t forget the Mayor of Philadelphia, who only sees one way of saving his already-shaky political career: killing Frank way before his six hours are up.







UNCANNY X-MEN #506 - Emma's bad dreams continue, and, man, when the White Queen has a long night, we ALL have long nights. Peter finds horror in the Port of Oakland. The assembly of the fringe science team continues with a big -- BIG -- discovery that will probably kill them all before they have a chance to fix that whole no-more-mutants thing. And with the Humanity NOW! Coalition stoking fires of anti-mutant hate, Cyclops implores his X-Men to keep a low profile... HA. Dummy.












WHATMEN ONE-SHOT - It begins with the murder of a renegade superhero... and ends with the totally unsuspected death of millions! Whoops... er, did we just give away the ending?! How embarrassing! (Oh, c'mon-if you've read one comic in your life it was the classic tour de force, The Watchmen!) Now, sit back and enjoy as Scott Lobdell and Alejandro Figueroa (who provides two covers) take the air out everyone's favorite graphic novel with the gut-busting, sacred cow-stabbing, just plain fun satire of the soon to released (let's hope!) feature film! Who Watches the... The WHATMEN? Um, what was the question again?!






X-FACTOR #40 - You remember John Maddox, right? He’s the one dupe that Jaime Madrox never reabsorbed. Family man. Pastor. All around decent guy. Well, he’s having a really really BAD day. And things are going to get worse when an armed Madrox comes knocking on his door. He’s looking for answers that only a man of the lord can provide and if Madrox doesn’t like what he hears, it may very well be the last sermon that John Maddox ever delivers…











X-MEN LEGACY #221 - The desert ghost-town that was once the X-Men's HQ has been reborn as a city of the damned with only one inhabitant: Rogue. But as Professor X and Gambit struggle to reach her, they discover that sometimes one is a very large number...














ZOMBIES THAT ATE THE WORLD #1 - In Los Angeles in the year 2064, the world has changed. The dead have risen and corpses live again. In a blackly comedic saga that only Guy Davis could illustrate, a zombie apocalypse like you have never seen engulfs the City of Angels.