New Releases for the Week of 1-28-2015

Here’s the featured new comic releases for the week of Wednesday, January 28th, 2015.

First up is Marvel’s reboot of the popular Uncanny Avengers title.

Uncanny Avengers #1 is by the regular team of Rick Remender and Daniel Acuna. The first run was easily my favorite Avengers run in the last 15 years, and this weird new line up looks to be fun. We’ll get to see the Vision, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver spotlighted before the movie comes out this May.

Over at DC we’ve got the Multiversity Guide Book.

This one’s a $7.99 guide to all 52 Earth’s written by Grant Morrison. This will likely be neccesary reading when Convergence comes around in April. I find all the Multiversity books to be just on the right side of entertainingly weird.

The big standout in small press this week is The Dying and the Dead #1 from Image Comics.

Written by Jonathan Hickman, who’s been killing it lately with East of West. “A murder at a wedding reveals a fifty year-old secret. At great cost, a man with a dying wife is given the opportunity to save her. A lost tribe is reborn in another time. Seemingly disparate events that force relics from the Greatest Generation to come together for one last hurrah.”

For fans of Walking Dead, writer Robert Kirkman’s other comic comes out in a reasonably priced graphic novel this week.

Outcast Volume one is only $9.99 and includes the first six issues of the series. “Kyle Barnes has been plagued by demonic possession all his life and now he needs answers. Unfortunately, what he uncovers along the way could bring about the end of life on Earth as we know it.” It’s already been opted as a television series so hop in on the ground floor.

We’re finally be getting in the musical Dancing Groot figures that were promised to us before Christmas.

These sell for $19.99 and play “I Want You Back” while Groot dances. Just in time for the holidays.

Finally we’ve got this funky little freebee.

The Justice League Goes Inside The NBA All Stars 2015 Special!

This issue features the NBA on TNT crew, including Shaquille O’Neal, Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley, Ernie Johnson, Chris Webber, Marv Albert, Kristen Ledlow, Reggie Miller and more, plus Justice League members Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and The Flash! One city, two arenas! As NBA All-Star weekend hits the Big Apple, the NBA on TNT guys prepare for a rematch of their big race! But this time, there’s a twist – Shaq, Kenny, Charles and Ernie will each team-up with a member of the Justice League and race from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn to Madison Square Garden in Manhattan!”
This book will be FREE with any purchase all week long. Thanks DC. Thanks NBA.

We’ll also be doing a special back issue sale every Tuesday for the month of February to stimulate sales for all the cool comics the boys have been putting into inventory. So on February 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th (and January 27th if you get this email in time) We’ll be offering 50% OFF ALL BACK ISSUES! Plan a special trip to the comic shop on our slowest day of the week (Shop for Valentine’s Day!)

That’s it for this week. We’ll see you this week at the shop!

John Dudas