Suck the air out of a Coke bottle and leave it hanging on your face. Watch as the skin renders a red mark when you pull it away. Kind of get the same kind of feeling when you sleep on a coin for a bit. Wouldn't try it with a gun though. That's just a little too much like Russian Roulette.

This summer, the world goes black as Warren Ellis unveils his all-new super-powered heroes and villains epic that promises to be the biggest event of 2007! With art by the genius Juan Jose Ryp, no fan of The Authority or Wanted will want to miss this bleeding-edge eight issue masterpiece.

When the political situation in the USA becomes more than Horus can stand, he moves to take matters into his own hands. But since not all his other team-mates aren’t so eager to throw the world into chaos, an epic conflict starts to form. And no one will be safe as the bodies start to fall.

Black Summer #1 from Avatar Press

Keith Giffen and Timothy Green III throw down with Annihilation: Conquest - Starlord and Rocket Racoon is playing in the mix.

Warren Ellis and Ivan Rodriguez meet up with Doktor Sleepless for a spell with the mad scientist. Times they are not quite achanging. Ask yourself why.

Two sides to fight and with mink and Paolo Parente at the brink, it's nothing but Dust at the end. Sci-fi and history in the wars to world the weary. Plus zombies!

Christopher E. Long and Ryan Winn scout out those in the witness protection program all over history in Hiding In Time. Contracts are out and it's time to go through the streams looking for those who turn states evidence and take them out. Of time and of existence. Three times the charm.

David Tischman and Steve Conley go for a joyride in the Starship Enterprise for Star Trek: Year Four. Boldly going where the original series didn't quite make it in its original airing.

Marshmallows wrapped in cheese slices with dipping sauce of boysenberry jam. Tastes good and that's just food of a run amok combination. Top Cow/Marvel Unholy Union by Ron Marz and Michael Broussard slams all sorts of creatures from both universes into a mayhem that is like the Monster Mash where everybody is wearing a piece of food from their face on the one plate.

Stark is still missing and Christos Gage and Butch Guice run the ground along World War Hulk in Iron Man #20 looking for the man in the iron boxers.

Hardcover of the week

Grab a hold of Immortal Iron Fist Volume 1: The Last Iron Fist Story Premiere in the hardcover format from Matt Fraction, Ed Brubaker, David Aja and Travel Foreman and chi that block out into smithereens. Say it again, "smithereens"! Now that's a great word.

 

Eat enough of your greens and your skin will not come to shine in the same hue or sheen. Clearly there must be a better way to have green skin outside of being blasted with gamma rays in the Marvel Universe. Body paint just won't do.

The Hulk. The Abomination. The Leader. The Harpy. Doc Samson. Born of gamma radiation, they represented a new chapter of humanity. Now, spawned through their respective DNA has come the next generation... the Gamma Corps. Recruited and trained by the enigmatic General Ryker, their mission is a simple one -- to kill the Incredible Hulk.

And considering he's facing 5-1 odds, is that a mission even this new and improved version of the Green Goliath can prevent?

World War Hulk: Gamma Corps #1 from Marvel Comics

Making up for lost time in the reading line leaves Civil War Chronicles to pick up run into one long connection of the many and the disparate parts of the comics event told in seven parts with hangers on.

Nothing to do with tuberculosis here as Asa Shumskas-Tait, Dennis Budd and Joe Caramanga get Consumed. Love is a battlefield and on this plane, a demon has sights for a possession.

Mike Carey and Dean Hyrapiet hit New Orleans and reawaken the spirits in Nicolas Cage's Voodoo Child. Oh how cold it is to be ice in the veins and a tuft of hair to control the doll.

Roy Thomas and Hugo Petrus adapt The Man In The Iron Mask by Alexander Dumas. Where a lowly prisoner in the Bastille is none other than the twin brother of King Louis XIV. No Leo here for those who were wanting that other adaptation.

Andy Diggle and Jock strip it bare and back for Green Arrow: Year One. One man and his arrow, many others and their guns. Fade to mayhem.

Four corners and Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Kyle Hotz hit it up on Annihilation: Conquest: Wraith. Spanking with the brand shiny, a character, a life and a warrior new to the working out of shoulders that are frozen solid into a hunch.

Slicing a cut in two listening to Friday the 13th: Pamela's Tale. Marc Andreyko and Shawn Moll peel the layer behind Jason Vorhees' mum, Mrs Vorhees. Yes, that is Pamela.

Anita Blake - Vampire Hunter: The First Death with Laurell K. Hamilton, Jonathon Green and Wellinton Alves takes two steps into the start of it all, with the first drip of red and that's not into a goblet.

Troy Wall, Mario Guevara, Juan Vlasco, Juanmar slam with three cherry lips with BloodRayne: Red Blood Run. Not happy when it's raining down in Mexico and see if you can pick up the reference here.

Hit it with the digits as the Fantastic Five return for a shot of the sun. Tom DeFalco, Ron Lim and Scott Koblish go rah-rah and that is so out of place as they split, run up and jumble into a mix with each other.

Trade of the week

From Marvel it's The Irredeemable Ant-Man: Volume 1: Low-Life by Robert Kirkman and Phil Hester. Superhero powers? Why settle to choose between either good or evil? How about a bit of the selfish and the greasy underhand? It's all about taking care of number one here, and that means looking out for no-one else.

 

With the earth bound super heroes duking it out in the political stakes of their Civil War, another battle, high up in the cosmos comes to a head. More wars than the ones blasting rubble in your face.

The individual Annihilation mini-series (Nova, Super-Skrull, Ronan, and Silver Surfer) have all led to this as the Annihilation Wave makes it play for universal domination and utter destruction in Annihilation #1.

Annihilation begins and already, two heroes have fallen and a long proud empire is in shambles. Individually, the big guns of the cosmos have tried to defeat the Annihilation Wave, but barely succeeded in even slowing it down.

Now, heroes and villains alike must unite for an all-out war with Annihilus and his murdering hordes. Follow Nova, Drax, Silver Surfer, Galactus, Moondragon, and your other favorite cosmic characters as they fight for their lives against the terrors of the Negative Zone.

Writer Keith Giffen and artist Andrea Divito along with Gabrielle Dell'Otto providing jaw-dropping covers are ready to rock Marvel space to its core with this cosmic epic.

Prima Games blast out with Perfect Dark: Janus' Tears #1. Global domination and hypercorporations with Joanna Dark to usher their downfall alone. Still, Eric S. Trautmann and Cold FuZion Studios are backing her up.

Medusa's snake head is on the chopping block in The 10th Muse/Ezra #1. History may unravel if the 10th Muse doesn't stop Ezra in time. From Arcana Studios, Sean O’Reilly and Vincent Cifu.

On aliens and Martians, DC Comics brings us the brand new world with Martian Manhunter #1. First in an eight issue limited series, it's a slightly new look to J'onn J'onnz with AJ Lieberman and Al Barrionuevo on make up duty.

 

 

For the latest word on comic book news, shipping list updates and to gather around and gabber with the rest of our fans, join us on Facebook.

facebook.com/theComicShopLiverpool

CGC Comics

Now in store, CGC comics from the Certified Guaranty Company (an independent comic book grading and evaluation service). Every comic from the CGC process has been inspected, graded and preserved in a slab to preserve its condition and quality.
Check out what we have in CGC stock.

Products

Stuff we sell along the shelves like statues to action figures and busts to all things Simpsons. Bobble heads, head knockers... not to mention the bags, boards and boxes.

Services

With standing orders and mail orders, we're here to get you, the comicbook reader, your fix of comics and stuff.

Tour the store

Geezer at the guts of the shop.