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DC Comics: Comic Book Buy List-Week of March 12th 2014

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It's another week and that means it is time for more comics! This week has a lot going for it and you will have to see it to believe it! Also I may or may not have a few bets about some of these I need to settle. Lesson of the day kids: Never gamble your knees on the plot line of an Aquaman book!

#3

 Title: Batman and Robin #29

Price: $2.99

Writer: Peter J. Tomasi

Artist: Mick Gray and Patrick Gleason

Story/Premise

  Batman is ready to settle the score with Ra’s al Ghul, who stole Robin’s body out of the grave! As the Dark Knight travels to the island where Damian was born, he’s set on a collision course with Aquaman!

Opinion

Ok so if somebody hasn't ruined it in the last year and a half, Damian Wayne is dead. . . dead, Dead, DEAD!!!!!! If that hasn't been established by now, you just got a bucket of "That's Life!" thrown in your face by your dear Uncle Dan.  What I am not quite sure of is how long we are going to run this into the ground?! We know Bruce is upset, hell, internet and physically walled off North Koreans know.  The fact that Grandpa Demon's head just dug him up and said, "IT'S TIME NOW!" doesn't speak levels about this to me, as this thought was already pursued and abandoned by Batman. So after all that why is it #3?  Shit, it's got Aquaman, what else do you want from me?

#2

Title: Wonder Woman #29

Price: $2.99

Writer: Brian Azzarello

Artist:  Cliff Chiang

Story/Premise

   If the helmet fits…then it’s time to play God!

Opinion

What a weak ass teaser.  We have known this moment was coming since Ares fell, now we get to see it played out in ultimate fashion.  Wonder Woman kicking ass and claiming godhood? You only expected half of that if you started this arc at the beginning of the new 52, and with their conservative storytelling and balls to the walls action, the creative team has delivered on both those grounds.  This issue is not to be missed.

#1 

Title: Superman Unchained #6

Price: $3.99

Writer: Scott Snyder

Artist: Jim Lee and Scott Williams

Story/Premise

 The Man of Tomorrow and the Superman of yesterday go at it—no holds barred! Supes goes full throttle after his would-be ally, Wraith, in a seismic battle ranging from deep space to the ocean’s floor and ultimately the core of the earth! Meanwhile, Lois Lane holds the key to defeating Ascension, but she needs to reach the Fortress of Solitude to ensure its safekeeping—not to mention hers! And she’s being pursued by a heavily armed force, and it isn’t Ascension!

Opinion

Here we are.  I have reached a new crossroads in my life where I don't know what to think anymore.  A Superman title is the one book I am most excited for in a week.  This is unprecedented.  I need a minute. . .

. . . Just a sec. . .

. . .OK! I have come to terms with it and we are moving forward.  This book looks to be full of the fight that has been teased since the start of the book.  With such a masterful creative team sandwiched around this hero, I can safely say that this is gonna be good.

Notables

Harley Quinn # 4

Green Lanterns New Guardians #29

Suicide Squad #29

Scribblenauts: A Crisis of Imagination #3 

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What a fantastic last week was for comics! Forever Evil 6 sold like hotcakes, the Batman/Superman annual impressed, and on the Marvel side of things I absolutely loved the premiere of VOL. 5 of Moon Knight and Loki proved it was no one hit wonder.  How can things get any better for us DC Fanboys? Oh yeah, it's a Batman week.

#3

Title: Superman/Wonder Woman #6

Price: $3.99

Writer: Charles Soule

Artist: Batt and Tony S. Daniel

Story/Premise

When the Phantom Zone is breached by Zod, Superman and Wonder Woman are forced to do the unthinkable to stop the tyrant from global destruction. But can they do what must be done – and will the world forgive them?

Opinion

I was a huge fan of what Man of Steel had going for it and Superman II was arguably the best movie of Big Blue's up until then. Common factor? These Kryptonian bastards. I love a good story of opposites matched evenly or slightly advantaged on one end, and these four have my curiosity and my attention.  How awesome will this brawl be? Who will make out afterwards?  Will there be hair pulling?!  TOO MUCH SUSPENSE!

#2

Title: Batman #29

Price: $4.99

Writer: Scott Snyder

Artist: Greg Capullo and Danny Miki

Story/Premise

 The “DARK CITY” chapter of “ZERO YEAR” reaches its conclusion in this amazing, extra-sized issue! Now, the next chapter of Zero Year is almost upon us, and we’ve saved the best for last! What corners of Batman’s past will be revealed? And how will they impact his very near future? Find out here!

Opinion

Thought it would be number one? PSYCHED YOU OUT, YOU JIVE MOTHA'S! But in all seriousness, the Zero Year run has had so many loving homages to the greatest Batman stories ever told, and though we are ending part two of three of it's three arcs, I can tell we have yet to see the full scale of the greatness promised us by the buildup.  If I can still get all weak in the knees from the anticipation of books, I know I am into the right books.   

#1

Title: Batman L'il Gotham #12

Price: $2.99

Writer: Dustin Nguyen

Artist: Dustin Nguyen

Story/Premise

 Damian’s fowlest friend Jerry has disappeared, but the people of Gotham City are not helping in his search for a missing turkey. This November, the Condiment King is making a Sandwich Day run! Then we close out the year with a bang before taking a long winter’s nap.

Opinion

Yeah, it was a digital first comic and you could have read this waaaaaaay long ago, but for the same reason Injustice holds my heart so, there is something just magical about this book and it's level of charm.  This is the final issue, print or digital, being released before it gets the trade paperback treatment and eventually fades away to an awesome memory and section of my bins I don't touch.  If you haven't read this all ages Batman book, you really should.  It is as light hearted as it is hilarious. If I am tired after a long day at the store I know that this book will pep me up and give me some great laughs,  and since it is ending, I salute it's run.  Dustin, you rock man.

Notables

Nightwing #29

Batgirl #29

JLA #13

JL 3000 #4 

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With all the anticipation and waiting finally over the time has come! This week is full of long delayed DC Books that deserve a good hard, hot, and heavy reading: I am talking pages spread; fingers flailing wildly; mouth watering at all the tasty bits laid out before you.

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 With Dreams of Forever Evil 6 once more crushed until next week, I look onwards to this new week, where things are getting awesome.  I am a huge fan of what DC has been putting out, and my load of comics for this week is quite heavy! With so many fresh takes on solid characters, and new budding classics, I am super stoked to talk about this week's books! 

#3

  

Title: Superman: Lois Lane #1

Price:  $4.99

Writer: Marguerite Bennett

Artist:  Dan Jurgens

Story/Premise

Lois Lane is known for chasing down stories - but what happens when the story is her family? As her father gains more power in the government, Lois's sister Lucy has become involved with a deadly drug scene! Meanwhile, Lois thought she was rid of the influence of Brainiac, but now she finds that the the computer tyrant of Colu is calling out to her again!

Opinion

Lois Lane, a woman known for bangin Supes on and off again throughout DC's canon and getting in people's faces to get her stories out there finally gets her own book. . . again.  A strong independent woman who don't need no (Super)man, she is truly one of the most iconic female characters in comics next to Catwoman, Mary Jane Watson and Sue Storm. All were pioneers in the progressive minded woman's world of comics and though this may be a cash grab for another new #1 in their hat,  it looks and sounds different enough from the status quo of The New 52 to have me interested.

#2

Title: Batman/Superman #8

Price: $3.99

Writer: Greg Pak

Artist: Kenneth Rocafort

Story/Premise

 The Worlds' Finest teams of two worlds meet at last in chapter 1 of 'First Contact'! With Power Girl's abilities on the fritz, see what happens when her long-lost cousin Superman approaches her! And a major threat returns in a way you won't believe! Continues in this month's WORLDS' FINEST #8.

Opinion

Earth 2 and all of it's side series have been nothing short of amazing.  The first arc of this series demonstrated that yet again, and though the last Mongul-centric arc took a dip, this one looks to step it up once more.  Finally we get to see what happens when both Bruce and Clark are faced with their alternate universe relatives.  We can assume it will go well since they have already visited themselves on that planet, but with hints at ties to the current arc of Earth 2, let's just say I am little more than moist, mentally, over this next arc. 

 

#1

Title: The Wake #6

Price: $2.99

Writer: Scott Snyder

Artist: Sean Murphy

Story/Premise

 'My name is Leeward, and this is where my story begins...' Our story jumps two hundred years into a flooded future where nothing is the same. The second half of THE WAKE starts here!

Opinion

WAIT, THAT'S A VERTIGO BO- I know.  Honestly they are owned by the same men in suits sitting at a table somewhere and counting your lunch money so I don't see the point in pretending that Vertigo is an entirely isolated publisher from DC.  This book has been crazy awesome thus far, a true breath of fresh air in my hero filled pull list and with the ending of issue 5 and the promise of what this second half of the story holds I believe we are all in for one hell of a ride.  Mutants? Check.  Killer Mermaids?  Still check.  BATTLE DOLPHINS?! You bet your ass. If you are looking for well penned horror story with splashes of Sci-Fi and haunting art, look no further.

Notables:

Talon #16

World's Finest #20

Aquaman #28

Batman: The Dark Knight #28

Written by Dan Stong