Comic Catch June 24, 2009

ASTONISHING X-MEN #30 - Story by: Warren Ellis
Art by: Simone Bianchi
Colors by: Simone Bianchi, Morry Hollowell, Simone Peruzzi
Letters by: Chris Eliopoulos
Cover by: Simone Bianchi
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

“GHOST BOX,” PART 6 Some boxes are best left unopened. It’s the final chapter of the opening epic by the superstar team of Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi.

DARK AVENGERS #6 - Story by: Brian Michael Bendis
Art by: Mike Deodato
Colors by: Rainier Beredo
Letters by: Cory Petit
Cover by: Mike Deodato
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99

DARK REIGN Big, bold choices! That's what Norman Osborn's H.A.M.M.E.R. and Avengers have been all about! And with every bold choice comes more and more risk! And with risk comes pressure! And with pressure...come the voices. How long can Norman Osborn hold it together? And what is he willing to do to make it look like everything is just fine!

DARK REIGN LETHAL LEGION #1 - Written by: FRANK TIERI
Penciled by: MATEUS SANTOLOUCO
Cover by: TOMMY LEE EDWARDS
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99

When Norman Osborn takes over, what happens to the villains who don't make his short list of acceptable allies? Grim Reaper, Mr. Hyde, Absorbing Man, Nekra, and Man-Ape are about to find out when their cooperative of crime lands on the wrong side of Norman's law - but they're not going down without a fight.

DARK REIGN ZODIAC #1 - Story by: Joe Casey
Art by: Nathan Fox
Colors by: Jose Villarrubia
Cover by: Nathan Fox
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99

Norman Osborn may be running the show, but not every super-villain is going to accept the new world order. But who -- or what -- is ZODIAC? In this dark, brooding tale that snakes through the underbelly of the modern Marvel Universe, the new breed of super-villain has finally arrived! The order of the day is "mischief for mischief's sake," and no one -- neither hero *nor* villain -- is safe!

DETECTIVE COMICS #854 - Written by: Greg Rucka
Art by: JH Williams and Cully Hamner
Cover by JH Williams : Variant Cover by JG Jones
Publisher: DC
Cover Price: $3.99

"Elegy" part 1 of 4! A new era in the history of DETECTIVE COMICS begins as Batwoman is unleashed on Gotham City! Marked by the blood-red bat, Kate Kane is a soldier fighting her own private war – one that began years ago and haunts her every waking moment. With a script by Greg Rucka and breath-taking art by JH Williams III, you've never seen anything like this!

Featuring the debut of a new co-feature starring The Question written by Rucka! Odds against you? Alone and nowhere to turn? Willing to fight, but you don't know how? When you're searching everywhere for an answer, sometimes all you need to do is ask the right Question. Renee Montoya again dons the faceless mask to help those in need, all the while searching for her own answers in this new adventure with art by Cully Hamner (BLUE BEETLE).

GOTHAM CITY SIRENS #1 - Story by: Paul Dini
Art by: Guillem March
Cover by: Guillem March, JG Jones
Publisher: DC
Cover Price: $2.99

This all-new series features the bad girls of Gotham City! Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn are tired of playing by other people's rules regardless of which side of the law they're on. These tough ladies have a new agenda that's all their own, and they'll use any means necessary to pursue it. But can they get along and work as a team? And who will get hurt along the way? DETECTIVE COMICS and STREETS OF GOTHAM writer Paul Dini kicks off this brand-new ongoing series with amazing artwork by Guillem March (JOKER’S ASYLUM: POISON IVY, GOTHAM GAZETTE).

GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #15 - Story by: Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning
Art by: Brad Walker, Victor Olazaba
Colors by: Wil Quintana
Letters by: Joe Caramagna
Cover by: Salvador Larrocca
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

A WAR OF KINGS TIE-IN! Caught between the Shi’Ar and the Inhumans, how can our heroes pretend to be the Guardians of anything if they can’t even defend their own headquarters Knowhere? With nothing less than the entire future of everything at stake, it’s the defining moment for the book Aint It Cool News calls “an overdose of cool”!

INCREDIBLE HERCULES #130 - Story by: Fred Van Lente, Greg Pak
Art by: Ryan Stegman, Terry Pallot
Colors by: Raul Trevino
Letters by: Simon Bowland, Joe Caramagna
Cover by: David Williams
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

Pull up a courtside seat for The Trial of this or any other Millennium! PLUTO, Lord of the Dead, is trying ZEUS for Crimes Against Creation in the infernal depths of Hades, with 500 slavering Damned serving as jury, AMADEUS CHO for the defense, and the lead witness for the prosecution...is the incredible HERCULES!

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #34 - Written by: Len Wein
Art by: Jose Luis and JP Mayer
Cover by: Ed Benes and Rob Hunter
Publisher: DC
Cover Price: $2.99

The cards are against the remnants of the Justice League! And those cards are the Royal Flush Gang! Can even Superman and Wonder Woman save a team whose luck has run out? Featuring the deadly return of an old foe in part 1 of a 2-part story.

JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #28 - Written by: Jerry Ordway
Art by: Jerry Ordway and Bob Wiacek
Cover by Jerry Ordway
Publisher: DC
Cover Price: $2.99

A Japanese spirit has appeared to exact revenge on the living symbols of America's atomic warfare while the rest of the JSA reaches out to another founding member for assistance: The Spectre! Continuing the haunting new arc by Jerry Ordway and Bob Wiacek.

LAST DAYS OF ANIMAL MAN #2 - Written by: Gerry Conway
Art by: Chris Batista and Dave Meikis
Cover by: Brian Bolland
Publisher: DC
Cover Price: $2.99

Buddy Baker's powers have picked the wrong time to desert him – a thousand feet above the San Diego skyline! He'll have to rely on the help of a most unlikely ally if he wants to survive his rematch with Bloodrage. But there's more than one homicidal maniac out there with designs on his life, and the Mirror Master's daughter won't settle for the scraps Bloodrage plans on leaving behind!

MS MARVEL #40 - Story by: Brian Reed
Art by: Luke Ross, Sana Takeda, Serge LaPointe
Colors by: Sana Takeda
Letters by: Dave Sharpe
Cover by: Sana Takeda
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

The Dark Reign continues! What is the secret A.I.M. project that Karla Sofen has stumbled into...and what does it have to do with Carol Danvers? Special guest stars Spider-Man, Wolverine, Luke Cage...and Deadpool?!

NEW AVENGERS #54 - Story by: Brian Michael Bendis
Art by: Chris Bachalo, Billy Tan, Tim Townsend, Matt Banning
Colors by: Chris Bachalo, Justin Ponsor
Letters by: Comicraft
Cover by: Billy Tan
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99

A Sorcerer Supreme is chosen! Be witness to a very important chapter in Avengers history and the lore of Marvel magic! Plus, the Avengers finally have a big showdown with the Hood and not everyone walks away from it unharmed!

PERHAPANAUTS #6 - Story by: Todd Dezago
Art by: Craig Rousseau, Jason Armstrong, Jamar Nicholas
Cover by: Craig Rousseau, Matt Pott
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.50

"PERHAPANAUTS HALLOWEEN SCARE-FEST Special!" Three stand alone, easily accessible, scary, fun, and chilling tales to get your Halloween on! All written by Todd, with spooky art by Craig, JASON ARMSTRONG (FERRO CITY, Lobster Johnson) and JAMAR NICHOLAS (Detective Boogaloo)!

PREDATOR #1 - Writer: John Arcudi
Artist: Javier Saltares
Cover Artist: Raymond Swanland
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Cover Price: $3.50

The world's attention is focused painfully on a brutal third world Civil War, a merciless sectarian conflict sparing neither soldier nor civilian, grandmother nor child. But amidst the terror and carnage, where great nations and powerful interests jockey for position and advantage, another blood feud rages in the shadows, one no more humane but decidedly less human. Two warring tribes from the stars have chosen Earth's killing fields as their arena, with each clan sworn to eradicate the other . . . and all who stand between them. Each is the other's prey, each the other's Predator.

SECRET WARRIORS #5 - Story by: Brian MIchael Bendis, Jonathan Hickman
Art by: Stefano Caselli
Colors by: Daniele Rudoni
Cover by: Jim Cheung
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

The smashing first arc of Marvel's best new series comes to a climax as the battle between H.A.M.M.E.R., HYDRA, rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and the Howling Commandos begins! This is the first shot in a war that will result in the establishment of a new global power structure...and who's caught in the middle? You guessed it: Nick Fury and his team of Caterpillars.

SUPERMAN #689 - Story by: James Robinson
Art by: Renato Guedes, José Wilson Magalhães
Cover by: Andrew Robinson
Publisher: DC Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

What's a young man to do when he's told he's going to die? See the world while he can, of course! Experience a whistle-stop tour of Earth with Mon-El as he tastes life and fights crime with some of DC's international cast of Super Heroes.

Meanwhile, back in Metropolis, a media mogul takes to the airwaves. His goal: the banning of all alien life on Earth. His name: Morgan Edge. And just what is the Prankster planning?

TEEN TITANS #72 - Written by: Bryan Miller and Sean McKeever
Art and Cover by: Joe Bennett and Jack Jadson
Publisher: DC
Cover Price: $3.99

Thirty pages of story content! In the first feature, Wonder Girl's leadership is put to the test as the team faces the all-new Fearsome Five! In the debut of the 10-page co-feature, Ravager goes solo for the first time, continuing her descent into darkness begun in TERROR TITANS.

THOR #602 - Story by: J. Michael Straczynski
Art by: Marko Djurdjevic
Cover by: Marko Djurdjevic
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99

The cataclysmic, catastrophic events of THOR #600 have rocked Asgard. What unexpected way do his true friends figure out to help him? And what could possibly be the next step in the devious Loki’s sinister schemes and machinations?

THUNDERBOLTS #133 - Story by: Andy Diggle
Art by: Roberto De La Torre
Colors by: Frank Martin
Letters by: Comicraft
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

A DARK REIGN TIE-IN! It's Thunderbolt vs. Thunderbolt, as Norman Osborn's black-ops hit squad targets former team-member Songbird—and this time, they're not underestimating this bird of prey! But even with a pack of blood-thirsty killers on her heels, Songbird has a few tricks up her sleeve...and enough experience fighting dirty to know that attack is the best form of defense! The acclaimed team of Andy Diggle and Roberto De La Torre serve up another offering of the book that Wizard calls “a breakout book”!

UNCANNY X-MEN #512 - Story by: Matt Fraction
Art by: Yanick Paquette, Karl Story
Colors by: Justin Ponsor
Letters by: Joe Caramagna
Cover by: Yanick Paquette
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99

“The Origins of the Species” As the X-Men reel from the return of one of the greatest X-Ladies, Beast and Angel take the X-Club back to 1906 to investigate the origins of the mutant species as we know it. See the earliest stages of the Hellfire Club and the very first Sentinel ever! This story is not to be missed!

X-FACTOR #45 - Story by: Peter David

Art by: Valentine De Landro, Marco Santucci, Pat Davidson, and Craig Yeung

Colors by: Jeromy Cox, Nathan Fairbairn, and Andy Troy

Letters by: Cory Petit

Cover by: David Yardin

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Cover Price: $2.99

What is "Cortex"? The word keeps coming up in Madrox’s serial killer investigation. Now he confronts the one individual who may hold the answers: None other than Victor Von Doom—but it's Doctor Doom as you've never seen him before. The shocks never stop and the surprises never let up!

X-MEN FOREVER #2 - Story by: Chris Claremont

Art by: Tom Grummett, Cory Hamscher

Colors by: Wil Quintana

Letters by: Tom Orzechowski

Cover by: Tom Grummett

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Cover Price: $3.99

BE HERE FOR THE BEGINNING! Comics icon and New York Times bestselling writer Chris Claremont returns to his legendary run with X-MEN: FOREVER! The shockwaves after the death of Magneto are still reverberating all over the world. Attempting to heal the rift between man and mutant kind, Professor Xavier volunteers his X-Men to go on a mission to capture Magneto’s sole remaining Acolyte, Fabien Cortez! But with Nick Fury—and the entire world—watching over their shoulders, the stakes have never been higher for Cyclops, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Gambit, Rogue, Kitty Pryde, Storm, Beast, and Professor X. With Tom Grummet bringing Claremont’s vision to the page, this landmark series is packed with enough surprises and twists to shake the X-Men mythos to its very core!