Comic Catch: March 18, 2009

BOMB QUEEN V #6 - The final chapter of Bomb Queen's battle with The White Knight - but there's more at stake than a mere blood brawl. Mysterious origins are revealed leading to a trail of death and destruction. Now the Queen's greatest foe is the TRUTH!














DARK AVENGERS #3 - The phenom that is the Dark Avengers continues. BATTLEGROUND LATVERIA as Morgana Le Fey attacks with all the power at her disposal. Meanwhile these new Avengers discover all the dirt and hidden secrets of their notorious pasts.














DEADPOOL GAMES OF DEATH - 'GAME$ OF DEATH'-Pain Factor: The reality TV game-show so controversial, it's been banned around the world! Today, eleven desperate men will travel to a desert island to compete in a series of outlandish challenges that will leave one of them rich and the rest of them dead. Among the competitors, a certain 'Merc with a Mouth,' who's been hired to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a millionaire's son. The trail ended here for Junior, but will it for Deadpool? Not if he has anything to say about it. After all, nothing brings out Wade's competitive streak like cold, hard ca--I mean, justice.








GROOM LAKE #1 - The truth is out, er, under there? In the remote Nevada desert there sits a dry lakebed called Groom Lake, and under that land resides a secret base that holds all the secrets of the world. Not this world, either. Writer Chris Ryall and artist Ben Templesmith present a four-part tale of abductions and probings, conspiracies and secrets. And the key to it all is held in the grey, six-fingered hand of one Ng Hudson.












HAMAZING SPIDER-MAD - Funny wild boar Zannablù finds a job as a sidekick of a superhero-to-be, who gets himself purposely bitten by a radioactive spider to obtain its powers. The results, rather than heroic, are catastrophic! Meanwhile Norman Ospork has become a weird guy in a green mask and New Pork is in danger!











INVINCIBLE #60 - THE CROSSOVER EVENT OF THE DECADE! Invincible is drawn into company-wide crossover event done in ONE oversized issue! SPAWN! SAVAGE DRAGON! YOUNGBLOOD! SHADOWHAWK! CYBERFORCE! PITT! ULTRA! and many, many more all here for one issue - don't miss it!





JOHNNY MONSTER #2 - SPECIAL GUEST: FIREBREATHER! Johnny Monster is busted, his secrets have been revealed, his fans are pissed and the government has no choice but to hire violent mercenaries to hunt down and kill the monsters Johnny calls family! And to make matters worse he is trapped by an angry tentacle beast and the only person that can save him is� Firebreather!












MEN OF MYSTERY #78 - Another issue of 100% quality- Quality Comics that is, as Everett Arnold's late, great comic house of the 1940's and early '50's is the complete focus of this volume of MOM. Inside Mike Machlan's superb Jack Kirby homage cover of Quality Comic's MANHUNTER you'll find that very same character himself in the lead story, as a criminal convention nominates a team of underworld killers to try to take out The MANHUNTER and his dog THOR, in an unnamed story originally seen in Police Comics #25, with art by Reed Crandall and Rudy Palais. Then, it's Paul Gustavson's JESTER, wherin the laughing clown of crimefighting breaks up a phoney charity casino scam in a vintage tale from Smash Comics #34, followed by Jim Mooney and Robert Turner's groundbreaking "good girl" art superheroine, WILDFIRE ; who stops a vicious gang of killers intent on destroying America's oil fields in a story from Smash Comics #30. Next, LADY LUCK breaks up a Japanese plot to devastate the US with bubonic plague in a screwball drama drawn by Klaus Nordling, followed by the MOM debut of a never-previously-reprinted Quality hero- The MARKSMAN!! Polish Baron Povalski leads a TRIPLE life in occupied Europe of WWII; "haunting" his own ancestral castle (taken over by Nazi forces as a local headquarters), he infiltrates the enemy forces themselves disguised as "German" Major Hurtz, and using the information he gleans in that guise to thwart Nazi plans as the cloaked, bow-wielding MARKSMAN, in an untitled story from Smash #34. Then, it's another MOM first-timer, The RED TORPEDO!! A mysterious masked vigilante pilots his navagible, one-man torpedo in a quest to keep the high seas safe, in an H. C. Kiefer-drawn story from Crack Comics #5; followed my the return of an old nemesis in a feature-length DOLLMAN adventure drawn by John Spranger. The UNDERTAKER returns in "The Million Dollar Corpse", from late in the run of Dollman Comics. Then, it's Pete Trask- T-MAN in "The Voice of Russia", from T-Man Comics. The courageous government undercover agent must block a Soviet plot to over-broadcast the Voice of America radio program with Communist lies. Art by W. G. Hargis. Finally, this issues' THIRD debut character, The UNKNOWN rings in as he fights the Axis powers inside the occupied areas of the Balkans in an untitled story (drawn by Bernie Klein) from National Comics. As always, Men of Mystery is 64 pages of crisp, clean, full-story black & white reprints from actual Golden Age comics.


PUNISHER #3 - The only thing standing between the new king of crime and his dark reign of New York is a lone soldier doing what none of the capes will: taking out the bad guys permanently. Frank Castle has torn open an artery of the most feared crime family in the history of New York, and it will not go unanswered. A lesson must be taught - a bloody, public lesson. How can the Punisher possibly contend? With an arsenal of the most powerful weapons in the Marvel Universe - and a smile











ULTIMATE X-MEN #100 - Xavier's School for Gifted Students was a sanctuary for young mutants�but in the wake of Ultimatum, it's starting to look more like a graveyard. Don't miss this groundbreaking series' final issue as the scattered X-Men pull together to stand united in the face of extinction!














ULTIMATUM #3 - The saga that will change the Ultimate Universe continues! What is Magneto's true plan? Can he be stopped before all the heroes die? And in the end, what fate is in store for The Fantastic Four? The Ultimates? Even Spider-Man?













UNCANNY X-MEN #507 - The secret of the Cooperstown Massacre goes worldwide and anti-mutant hysteria explodes nationwide. If Scott and Emma don't trust each other, how can mutantkind keep it together? Beast and the newly-assembled science team fight for their lives on Hokkaido Island...and the Angel's deepest, darkest secret is revealed to all present. Uh-oh. Innocent lives are trapped between the Russian mob and everybody's favorite heartbroken mutant Colossus, fighting along against old-world horrors that have followed him here. Oh! And the Sisterhood is finally assembled and ready to destroy the X-Men once and for all.








X-FACTOR #41 - Maru. Mr. Tryp. X-Cell. The Isolationist. Madrox has gone against his fair share of unseemly and unfamiliar antagonists of late, but some villains never go out of style. Like Sentinels. Big, honking Sentinels. Oh yes, this is going to be fun!














X-MEN LEGACY #222 - Rogue's past comes back to haunt not only her, but Professor X and Gambit. The horrors of the past are brought here by a mysterious villain who has a beef with the X-Men that they plan on settling here and now. You may not believe it, but the villain CAN win.














ZOMBIES THAT ATE THE WORLD #2 - In a hilarious homage to the zombie genre as only Jerry Frissen and Guy Davis could depict it. The entire world must change to confront the emergence of zombie life in this all new edition of a comics masterpiece from DDP and Humanoids!