Comic Catch: July 1, 2009

AGENTS OF ATLAS #7 - Story by: Jeff Parker
Art by: Gabriel Hardman, Carlo Pagulayan
Colors by: Elizabeth Breitweiser
Letters by: Dave Lanphear, Nate Peikos
Cover by: Leinil Francis Yu
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

Journey to the Deep!! The Agents and the Sub-Mariner face not only a deadly attack beneath the ocean, but Namor and Namora’s budding relationship is hit with some ugly facts of Atlantean history. Also: what does a Lung Dragon dream? Peer into the most treacherous space imaginable, the ancient and diabolical mind of Mr. Lao!

ASTRO CITY THE DARK AGE BOOK THREE #3 - Written by: Kurt Busiek
Art by: Brent Anderson
Cover by: Alex Ross
Publisher: DC
Cover Price: $3.99

The secrets of the Apollo Eleven! The inner workings of PYRAMID! An assault on the First Family! The return of the Silver Agent! A game of Jarts! Charles and Royal get dragged deeper and deeper into the darkness and turmoil of Astro City in the early '80s – only to come face-to-face with the cosmic threat of the Incarnate!

CHEW #2 - Story by: John Layman
Art by: Rob Guillory
Cover by: Rob Guillory
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

It's Tony Chu's first day on the job as a federal agent for the FDA, the most powerful law-enforcement agency on the planet. He's got a new partner who thinks he knows everything, a boss who hates his guts for no good reason, and his first order of business is to eat a decomposing finger found in a fast food cheeseburger. By the end of the day, Tony will ingest rancid sushi, face Yakuza assassins and meet the girl of his dreams. It's all in a day's work for Tony Chu, in the latest chapter of "Chew," a deliciously unsettling new comic about cops, crooks, cooks, cannibal and clairvoyants.

DEADPOOL MERC WITH A MOUTH #1 - Story by: Victor Gischler
Art by: Bong Dazo, Arthur Suydam, Jose Pimentel
Colors by: Matt Milla
Letters by: Jeff Eckleberry
Cover by: Ed McGuinness, Arthur Suydam
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99

“HEAD TRIP,” Part 1 of 6 It’s the Merc with two mouths! Deadpool travels to the Savage Land to retrieve what might be the deadliest bio-weapon the universe has ever seen. What is this deadly object? Well, Deadpool's employer is being a little vague about that. Let’s just say when the secret is finally revealed, it's enough to throw even the Merc with two Mouths for a loop…Oh hell, we can’t keep a secret, it’s the severed-but-still-hungry head of the Marvel Zombies Deadpool! To save the universe, Deadpool must team up with himself to dodge Hydra operatives, dinosaurs, cavemen and zombie cavemen as he attempts to take his not-so-precious cargo back where it came from: the Marvel Zombies Universe. Plus, a bonus reprinting of the first apperanace of Deadpool from New Mutants #98!

DESTROYER #4 - Story by: Robert Kirkman
Art by: Cory Walker
Colors by: Val Staples
Letters by: Cory Petit
Cover by: Jason Pearson
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99

Destroyer at long last comes face to face with the legions of HORDE -- and buried deep within their secret base lays a threat like none Destroyer has ever faced before. This issue, the violence gets turned up to awesome. Make sure Destroyer is added to your pull list...or the next villain Destroyer murders could be YOU!

EXILES #4 - Story by: Jeff Parker
Art by: Casey Jones, Karl Kesel
Colors by: Tony Washington
Letters by: Simon Bowland
Cover by: Dave Bullock
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

The latest team of Exiles find themselves on a much more binary Earth than the last, and the Tallus still isn't being much help. How did Machine Man, Vision and Ultron become the new rulers of America, and what chance do six people have against a nation of Machines?

IRREDEEMABLE #4 - Written by: Mark Waid
Drawn by: Peter Krause
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Cover Price: $3.99

What if the world’s greatest hero decided to become the world’s greatest villain? The Plutonian’s deadly rampage continues. His former comrades-turned-victims are beaten, tired, and searching for hope. A “twilight of the superheroes”-style story that examines super-villains from the writer of KINGDOM COME and EMPIRE!

JUSTICE LEAGUE CRY FOR JUSTICE #1 - Story by: James Robinson
Art by: Mauro Cascioli
Cover by: Mauro Cascioli
Publisher: DC
Cover Price: $3.99

What brings a team together? Justice! Batman and Martian Manhunter have been slaughtered. But he's not the only hero to fall at the hands of villains. The murder has to stop, and it's time to take the fight to the bad guys! Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Supergirl, Atom, Shazam, Congorilla and Starman unite in a cry for justice!

This 6-part miniseries from James Robinson (STARMAN, SUPERMAN) and rising star artist Mauro Cascioli (TRIALS OF SHAZAM) pushes our heroes to the brink and beyond as evil can no longer be tolerated to win. But when Prometheus plans his revenge on not only the heroes, but on the very places they call home, will this new team be ready to pay the cost for the justice they seek? This time it's personal – and it'll only get more bloody before it's over!

LOCKE & KEY HEAD GAMES #6 - Story by: Joe Hill
Art by: Gabriel Rodriguez
Cover by: Gabriel Rodriguez, Nick Runge
Publisher: IDW
Cover Price: $3.99

“Backstory.” Ellie Whedon is many things: loyal mother, tough coach, embittered daughter, lost soul, Dodge's prisoner and unwilling accomplice. But above all she's a threat to Dodge's safety, the one person who knows the truth about him, and it's time for him to do something about it. Step into Ellie Whedon's tormented memories, and find out how Dodge wound up in that well, in the shattering final issue of the Head Games arc!

MARVEL DIVAS #1 - Story by: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Art by: Tonci Zonjic
Colors by: Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic
Cover by: J. Scott Campbell
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99

Diva (dee-vah), noun: An unusually glamorous and powerful woman. See: Patsy "Hellcat" Walker; Felicia "Black Cat" Hardy; Angelica "Firestar" Jones; and Monica "Photon" Rambeau. What happens when you take four of the Marvel Universe's most fabulous single girls and throw them together, adding liberal amounts of suds and drama? You get the sassiest, sexiest, soapiest series to come out of the House of Ideas since Millie the Model! Romance, action, ex-boyfriends, and a last page that changes everything! Let your inner divas out with this one, fellas, you won't regret it!

MIGHTY #6 - Written by: Peter J. Tomasi & Keith Champagne
Art by: Chris Samnee
Cover by: Dave Johnson
Publisher: DC
Cover Price: $2.99

Being the commander of Section Omega has its perks — like a free trip to Earth orbit, courtesy of Alpha One! It may be a beautiful view, but Gabriel Cole had better hope it doesn’t turn into a one-way trip! After all, he’s beginning to understand just why he’s had so many predecessors in his job – and why so few have lived to tell about it!

SAVAGE DRAGON #150 - Story by: Erik Larsen
Art by: Erik Larsen
Cover by: Erik Larsen
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $5.99

THIS IS IT! OL’ FIN-HEAD’S FANTASTIC 150th ISSUE!

Just when Dragon thought his struggle to protect Chicago from the
nefarious Vicious Circle couldn’t get any worse, his deadliest foe
returns. The shocker of the year: OverLord Triumphant

SECRET SIX #11 - Story by: Gail Simone
Art by: Nicola Scott, Doug Hazlewood
Cover by: Daniel LuVisi
Publisher: DC
Cover Price: $2.99

A former Wonder Woman is now a slave? That's just the first shock as the Secret Six face a new enemy with a heart of ice and an entire country at his command! All this plus the return of Mockingbird! It's all heading towards a confrontation against one of DC's biggest powerhouses, and the Six don't stand a chance…

SOLOMON GRUNDY #5 - Written by: Scott Kolins
Art and Cover by: Scott Kolins
Publisher: DC
Cover Price: $2.99

Worse on Friday! With Grundy mortally wounded, can he fend off the revenge of Professor Ivo?It's super science versus evil power! And the bad blood between them forces Cyrus to face his past head on. Will he see through the madness and discover his killer? The end is coming, and it doesn't look good for Solomon Grundy!

SPAWN #193 - Story: TODD McFARLANE
Art and Cover: GREG CAPULLO
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.95

Fan-favorite artist GREG CAPULLO returns as guest artist, bringing his inimitable style to a story arc which includes three characters he is passionate about drawing. SPAWN creator TODD McFARLANE incorporated a one-issue encounter between three of Capullo's favorite characters: detectives Sam and Twitch, who he's perfected during his previous work on SPAWN, and the ultimate personification of evil, the Clown. McFARLANE brought the three characters face-to-face for an ominous meeting that will leave fans ravenous for the next issue.

UNCANNY X-MEN #513 - Story by: Matt Fraction
Art by: Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson
Colors by: Justin Ponsor
Letters by: Joe Caramagna
Cover by: Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99

“UTOPIA: CHAPTER 2” WHO ARE THE DARK X-MEN? He has his own Avengers team and now Norman Osborn has his own X-Men team. The other shoe has finally dropped and Emma Frost has betrayed Cyclops and the rest of the X-Men. And that’s just one of the huge surprises in “UTOPIA”. Is that Namor? Cloak and Dagger? Professor X?! The thing that you aren’t ready for is that Osborn is right.

WAR OF KINGS #5 - Story by: Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning
Art by: Paul Pelletier, Rick Magyar
Colors by: Wil Quintana
Letters by: Joe Caramagna
Cover by: Brandon Peterson
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99

The high impact, critically acclaimed sci-fi epic rages towards its explosive climax! Last issue’s jaw-dropping cliffhanger has everyone scrambling! Vulcan’s once unbeatable and vast war machine is grinding to a halt! Black Bolt’s forces are struggling to survive! It’s all coming down to the final clash, king vs. king! But where will the other power players place their loyalty, and can anyone imagine a solution as extreme as the one Medusa is proposing? The Universe is about to change forever in what IGN.com calls “a veritable dream for science fiction/fantasy fans…War of Kings is event comics done right.”