Comic Catch: September 10, 2009

BPRD 1947 #3 - Story by: Mike Mignola, Joshua Dysart
Art by: Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá
Colors by: Dave Stewart
Cover by: Mike Mignola
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

The newest B.P.R.D. members are thrust into the jaws of a group of unsavory vampires as they search for a missing comrade in the bowels of a dilapidated old chateau.

DOOM PATROL #2 - Story by: Keith Giffen; J.M. DeMatteis
Art by: Matthew Clark and John Livesay; Kevin Maguire
Cover by: Matthew Clark
Publisher: DC
Cover Price: $3.99

It's a black hole, but it's not a black hole. If you're a Doom Patrol fan, that made perfect sense. And even if not, then you're in for one hell of a ride as the Doom Patrol face off against the most annoying alien this side of G'nort. Who's G'nort? What, do we have to spoon-feed this stuff to you?Oh, and we send the Metal Men into space. Just because.

G-MAN CAPE CRISIS #2 - Story by: Chris Giarrusso
Art by: Chris Giarrusso
Cover by: Chris Giarrusso
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

Wizard Glendolf Williams has bad news for G-Man. The magic in G-Man’s cape has become dangerously unstable! And it’s going to take more than the sorcery of Glendolf to set things right!

HELLBOY WILD HUNT #6 - Story by: Mike Mignola, Gary Gianni
Art by: Duncan Fegredo
Colors by: Dave Stewart, Alex Wald
Cover by: Mike Mignola
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

With the Queen of Blood's legion of followers growing ever larger, it's clear that Hellboy needs to find some powerful allies of his own if he's to have any hope of saving humankind. As luck would have it, it seems one has found him. But this mysterious benefactor -- an ancient sorceress of legendary power and ambition -- has an agenda of her own . . . on behalf of Hellboy's ancestors!








INCREDIBLE HERCULES #134 - Story by: Fred Van Lente, Greg Pak
Pencils by: Reilly Brown
Inks by: Nelson DeCastro
Colors by: Guillem Mari - A
Letters by: Simon Bowland
Cover by: Rafael Alberquerque
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

"The Replacement Thor" continues as the Mighty Hercules, wearing the Thunder God's togs and towing a most unexpected guest star along to provide the pyrotechnics, descends to mysterious Svartalfheim to save the day from a new threat among the Dark Elves. But everything changes when the wicked Elven Queen turns out to be as languorously lovely as she is lethal! What Would Thor Do? Probably not what happens in this book!

KICK ASS #7 - Story by: Mark Millar
Art by: John Romita Jr., Tom Palmer
Colors by: Dean White
Cover by: John Romita Jr.
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! Dave Lizewski has had better days. When he first pulled on the Super Hero suit, it was the thrill of a lifetime. Since then, he’s been banged-up, beaten, broken, bludgeoned, and all sorts of other b-words. He’s met a 9-year-old assassin and been on a super hero team-up. He’s watched people die and seen himself become an internet celebrity. But all that means nothing—compared to tonight. MARK MILLAR and JOHN ROMITA JR.’s foul-mouthed super hero saga continues!

LIFE AND TIMES OF SAVIOR 28 #5 - Story by: J.M. DeMatteis
Art by: Mike Cavallaro
Cover by: Mike Cavallaro, Don Perlin
Publisher: IDW
Cover Price: $3.99

'Book Five: Day of Drums.' The saga of America's greatest hero concludes as Savior 28's killer-and former sidekick-sifts through the events of James Smith's final days, revealing a man whose life has been utterly destroyed... and whose death could possibly save the world.

MARVELS PROJECT #2 - Story by: Ed Brubaker
Art by: Steve Epting
Colors by: Dave Stewart
Letters by: Chris Eliopoulos
Cover by: Steve Epting, Steve McNiven
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99

The award-winning and best-selling team of Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting bring you CHAPTER TWO in this definitive tale of the origins of the Marvel heroes. As 1940 hits the world is already changing -- The Human Torch is on the run, The Angel makes his masked debut, The Sub-Mariner stalks the surface-worlders who have targeted his people -- and a young soldier named Nick Fury saves a German scientist from the Nazis and leads him to the USA. The battle-lines drawn in this race to create superhuman weapons of mass destruction still reverberate today in the Marvel Universe -- as this epic espionage thriller continues to unfold and reveal new twists

PUNISHER FRANK CASTLE MAX #74 - Story by: Victor Gischler
Art by: Goran Parlov
Letters by: Cory Petit
Cover by: Dave Johnson
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $4.99

SPECIAL, DOUBLE-SIZED ISSUE! Deep in the Louisiana Bayou with cannibal rednecks in hot pursuit, Frank Castle is in a world of trouble. And if Frank thought Big Earl was a handful, wait until he gets a load of Junior, the Geautreux who makes the rest of the clan look like charm school graduates. To survive, the Punisher just might have to make peace with the cargo he was hauling down the back roads in his trunk – cargo that just got free and wants a little payback.

SECRET SIX #13 - Story by: Gail Simone
Art by: Nicola Scott and Doug Hazlewood
Cover by: Daniel Lu Visi
Publisher: DC
Cover Price: $2.99

War breaks out on the new Devil's Island and the Six are split in half. Now they're on opposite sides and ready to die (or kill) for their cause! But what in the world are they fighting over that's strong enough – and brutal enough – to take down Wonder Woman?

SUPERMAN WORLD OF NEW KRYPTON #7 - Story by: James Robinson, Greg Rucka
Art by: Pete Woods
Cover by: Gary Frank; Bryan Talbot
Publisher: DC
Cover Price: $2.99

It's never a dull moment on New Krypton – just when Superman was getting used to his place on his reborn homeworld, he's thrust into a new position that makes his previous duties look like a cakewalk. And thanks to the fallout from the "Codename: Patriot" storyline, New Krypton's ruler – and Superman's aunt – Alura has her hands full keeping the people of Kandor from panicking. So of course it's the perfect time for an alien threat to arrive and declare war…

TITANS #17 - Story by: Pat McCallum
Art by: Angel Unzueta and Wayne Faucher
Cover by: Angel Unzueta
Publisher: DC
Cover Price: $2.99

Spotlight on Beast Boy! Gar Logan grows tired of not being taken seriously by his Titans teammates. And what he plans on doing about it will shock you!

ULTIMATE COMICS AVENGERS #2 - Story by: Mark Millar
Art by: Carlos Pacheco, Danny Miki
Colors by: Laura Martin
Letters by: Cory Petit
Cover by: Carlos Pacheco
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99

ENTER THE RED SKULL! Reeling over his near-fatal encounter with the Skull, Captain America takes matters into his own hands in pursuit of his terrifying new adversary and his terrorist employers! Meanwhile, Nick Fury reveals the horrifying truth behind the Red Skull and kick-starts Project Avengers in earnest with the arrival of Gregory Stark, Tony’s older, richer and smarter brother! Join MARK MILLAR (ULTIMATES) and CARLOS PACHECO (X-MEN) for the next pulse-pounding issue of the biggest, baddest book of the summer!

UNWRITTEN #5 - Story by Mike Carey
Art by: Peter Gross
Cover by: Yuko Shimizu
Publisher: DC/Vertigo Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

In the India of the British Raj, young journalist and would-be novelist Rudyard Kipling gets an offer he can't refuse. It's an offer that will catapult him to fame, fortune and inexorable destruction. The secret history of the Unwritten begins in this stand-alone story...