Comic Catch: September 2, 2009

AGENTS OF ATLAS #10 - Story by: Jeff Parker
Art by: Gabriel Hardman, Paul Rivoche
Colors by: Elizabeth Breitweiser
Letters by: Tom Orzechowski
Cover by: Dave Johnson
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

There's no enemy quite like a former lover, is there? The gloves are all the way off as Jade Claw and her forces begin assaulting Atlas on every front! The Agents throw everything they've got at the Great Wall, but to no avail. Gorilla-Man is convinced only ONE member of the team can possibly stop the rain of pain...

CHEW #4 - Story by: John Layman
Art by: Rob Guillory
Cover by: Rob Guillory
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

A senator with bloodstream full of drugs and a belly full of chicken is stone dead in the morgue, and the trail leads back all the way the Arctic, to a joint U.S./Russian space observatory that has been singularly focused on a single, distant, Earth-like planet. Tony Chu and his partner are about to discover whatever secret this planet holds does not compare to those being kept by the astronomers.

Yeah, that weird stuff just got weirder, in a spacey story from Image’s deliciously twisted new series about cops, crooks, cooks, cannibals and clairvoyants!

DEADPOOL #15 - Story by: Daniel Way
Art by: Paco Medina, Juan Vlasco
Colors by: Marte Gracia
Letters by: Cory Petit
Cover by: Jason Pearson
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

“WANT YOU TO WANT ME,” PART 1 Now that he knows that a pirate’s life isn’t for him, Deadpool's now starting to seriously question this whole “mercenary” thing. Maybe there’s something else he could do with his life. He doesn’t know what that could be, but then he turns on the television, and he knows exactly where he needs to be, and who needs him most. Hello, San Francisco!

DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP #3 - Story by: Philip K. Dick
Art by: Tony Parker
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Cover Price: $3.99

Worldwide best-selling sci-fi author Philip K. Dick's award-winning DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? - the basis for the film BLADE RUNNER - comes to comics in an innovative, ground-breaking maxi-series with the full text, fully illustrated. Thanks to the Rosen Corporation and its invention, the Nexus-6 android brain, human being's artificial counterparts are now harder to detect than ever. But bounty hunter Rick Deckard has a special weapon in his arsenal...the empathy test. With backmatter by Ed Brubaker!

IRREDEEMABLE #6 - Story by: Mark Waid
Art by: Peter Krause
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Cover Price: $3.99

The Plutonian’s rampage continues as the Paradigm’s dwindling members regroup and prepare to go on the offensive. Even with new information about the Plutonian’s past, will it be enough to tip the scales against a mad god? A "twilight of the superheroes"-style story that examines super-villains from Mark Waid writer of KINGDOM COME and EMPIRE!

JUSTICE LEAGUE CRY FOR JUSTICE #3 - Story by: James Robinson
Art by: Mauro Cascioli
Cover by: Mauro Cascioli
Publisher: DC Comics
Cover Price: $3.99

The team welcomes two new members as Supergirl and Shazam join the roster! And it's just in time, too, because when Prometheus is finally caught and his evil machinations are revealed, the League finds out they may be unable to stop him.

MERCY SPARX #4 - Story by: Josh Blaylock
Art by: Matt Merhoff
Cover by: Josh Blaylock; Chuck BB
Publisher: Devil's Due Publishing
Cover Price: $3.50

Mercy finally gets some answers, like just why Heaven sent her of all people to Earth - and there's lots o' fightin' too!

MIGHTY #8 - Story by: Peter J. Tomasi and Keith Champagne
Art by: Chris Samnee
Cover by: Dave Johnson
Publisher: DC
Cover Price: $2.99

Gabriel Cole's family has fallen apart, and Alpha One has a nuclear bomb! But Alpha's pride could be his undoing when Cole finds himself alone in the "hero's" headquarters…and his rage begins to lead him down a terrifying road!

NORTH 40 #3 - Story by: Aaron Williams
Art by: Fiona Staples
Publisher: DC/Wildstorm Comics
Cover Price: $2.99

It's after dark at the salvage yard, and two boys are about to discover that the nightmare gripping Conover County can come clad in steel and fire. Meanwhile, a gathering at the high school goes on as planned, though this dance wasn't originally going to be overseen by teenagers who could set fires with their minds or consume souls with new "parts" they'd grown. But even they may not be prepared for the guests coming from Lufton's graveyards. And what does Dyan, one of the architects of Conover's fate, have in mind for a frumpy classmate whom she's luring through the nightmarish streets?

SAVAGE DRAGON #152 - Story by: Erik Larsen
Art by: Erik Larsen
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.50

Transformations. Savage Dragon takes a turn for the worst. Meanwhile, the mystery of Overlord deepens and Chicago may never be the same.

STRANGE TALES #1 - Writer: Various
Artist: Various
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $4.99

At long last, the wait is over!! Marvel is proud to present the debut of this hotly anticipated three issue anthology showcasing Marvel’s greatest characters re-imagined by the best and brightest talents working in independent comics today. Don’t miss what’s sure to be one of the most exciting collections of comics short stories ever produced!!! Every issue stars a stunning array of the best, most exciting cartoonists on the planet—showcasing the Marvel Heroes as you’ve never seen them before! Featuring the long-awaited Peter Bagge “Incorrigible Hulk” serialized over all three issues!

THULSA DOOM #1 - Story by: Arvid Nelson
Art by: Lui Antonio
Cover by: Alex Ross
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment

From the pages of writer Robert E. Howard comes the debut of Dynamite's Thulsa Doom!

Written by Kull writer Arvid Nelson and illustrated by Lui (Red Sonja) Antonio, the opening story arc also features cover artist Alex Ross! Featuring the origins of the ultimate anti-hero, Thulsa Doom #1 opens after the destruction of Atlantis, when the world was in chaos and Thulsa sought his own path to ultimate power!

ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #2 - Story by: Brian Michael Bendis
Art by: David Lafuente
Colors by: Justin Ponsor
Letters by: Cory Petit
Cover by: David LaFuente
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99

All the shocking revelations from the first issue come to bloom in this pulse-pounding second chapter!! Who is the Shroud!!?? Who is Spider-Man?? And who the hell is Mysterio and what did he go and do to the Kingpin?!