In Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Krysten Ritter’s Jessica (left) is best friends with Rachael Taylor’s Trish Walker. Credit: Myles Aronowitz/Netflix
Marvel’s Jessica Jones uses the color purple as a thematic element for David Tennant’s Kilgrave, who in t
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What makes Halloween fun are the three Cs: Costumes, Candy and ... Comics!
Diamond Comic Distributors Inc., the largest distributor of comics in North America, is partnering with local comic shops to give aw
Read more…Say, why didn't any of you tell me that I was doing the links wrong to the Facebook page? I'm doing them correctly now, but geez, there are a lot of bad links in previous Guides! Anyway, on to this week's funnybooks!
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ADAM.3 #4 (OF
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BURROUGHS’ TARZAN: THE SUNDAY COMICS, 1935–1937 (HC)
Writer: GEORGE A. CARLIN
Art: HAL FOSTER
FC, 108 pages, $125.00, HC, 15” x 20”
Celebrate Hal Foster with this deluxe collection of his Tarzan Sunday strips! This final volume compiles do
Read more…It's a huge week in comics -- or "YOUUUUUGE," as Trump would say -- with lots of first issues, previews, press releases and great comics worth mention. Hold on to your wallets, and let's go ... !
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ARCHIE VS. PREDATOR (HC)
Writer: ALE
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“Some of you young men think that war is all glamor and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!”
– William Tecumseh Sherman
Hell it is, as we are reminded in every media, including comics. Recent
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ASTRO BOY OMNIBUS VOL 2 (TPB)
Writer/Art/Cover: OSAMU TEZUKA
B&W, 680 pages
$19.99, TPB, 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"
Who will stand against invaders from space, robot slave masters, and a dictator producing human clones? Astro Boy, that’s who! The mos
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DARK HORSE PRESENTS #17
Writers: PAUL LEVITZ, ALEX DE CAMPI, SHAWN ALDRIDGE
Writer/Artist: DENNIS CALERO, BRENDAN MCCARTHY, CARLA SPEED MCNEIL, DAVID CHELSEA
Art/Cover: TIM HAMILTON
Art: JERRY ORDWAY, JULIUS GOPEZ
FC, 56 pages, $4.99, Ong
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Worried that you won’t be able to find the perfect gift for the fanboy or fangirl in your family this holiday season? Fret not, O mundane one, and simply consult the Captain Comics Holiday Gift Guide below!
F
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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 10 #18
Writer: CHRISTOS GAGE
Art/Variant Cover: REBEKAH ISAACS
Colors: DAN JACKSON
Cover: STEVE MORRIS
On sale Aug 19
FC, 32 pages, $3.99
Ongoing
ANGEL & BUFFY CROSSOVER EVENT!
The Slayer’s advantage
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BARB WIRE #6
Writer: CHRIS WARNER
Pencils: PATRICK OLLIFFE
Inks: TOM NGUYEN
Colors: WES DZIOBA
Cover: ADAM HUGHES
FC, 32 pages, $3.99, Ongoing
Grilled like a tough steak by mysterious federal agents, Barb Wire recounts her very fir
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TIME TRAVEL FUNNIES!
THE ROOK #2 (of 4)
Writer: STEVEN GRANT
Art/Cover: PAUL GULACY
Cover: JESUS ABURTO
FC, 32 pages, $3.99, Miniseries
H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine never seemed so real to Restin Dane—especially since he’s living
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MIDNIGHT SOCIETY: THE BLACK LAKE #4 (OF 4)
Writer/Art/Cover: DREW EDWARD JOHNSON; Colors: LIZZY JOHN
On sale Sept 16, FC, 32 pages, $3.99, Miniseries
With no other choice -- and the lives of anyone who steps near Loch Ness on the li
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Now that the second season of Gotham has premiered, it's time to spin up the Speculatron machine and figure out which comics characters all the new folks are supposed to be -- if, indeed, they are anyone at
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COLDER: TOSS THE BONES #1 (OF 5)
On sale Sept 30
Writer: PAUL TOBIN
Art/Cover: JUAN FERREYRA
FC, 32 pages, $3.99
Miniseries
Declan has gone from a mere human to a reluctant hero—all while the subject of the horrific machinations of
Read more…CAPTAIN'S NOTE: This is a huge week, with a lot of No. Ones from Marvel and dozens of other interesting books, so the Guide is running extra long. Sorry about that. But the books are worth it, so let's get to it!
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ADAM.3 #3 (of 5)
W
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CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT #24
Here's the final issue of Captain Midnight, which I'm sorry to see. I'd like for DH to have a successful superhero line, and this book was establishing additional characters that could have formed a nucleus. Didn't wor
Read more…The crossover between The CW shows Flash and Arrow combined the heroes of both shows, including (from left) Speedy (Willa Holland), Green Arrow (Stephen Arnell), Black Canary (Katie Cassidy), Flash (Grant Gustin), John Diggle (David Ramsey), Hawkgirl
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There's a new Archie in town, but in all the ways that matter he's still the guy you've always known.
On July 8, Archie Comics launched a new Archie #1, replacing the previous Archie title that had run cont
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THE ADVENTURES OF DR. MCNINJA VOLUME 3: KING RADICAL (TPB)
Writer/Art/Cover: CHRISTOPHER HASTINGS
Colors: ANTHONY CLARK (C)
FC, 312 pages, $19.99
TPB, 7″ x 10″
When Dr. McNinja is believed killed by a vengeful astronaut ghost, the Doc uses
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