The Darkness #1; writer: Phil Hester; art: Michael Broussard; cover: Marc Silvestri, Dale Keown, Stjepan Sejic
Ah, Jackie. Where have you been all this time? Last seen probably being in that thick phone book collection of the series previous. What a mega whopper that was. Imagine trying to read it without cracking the spine. Cracking spines however, not that far from the job description of some meat head killer. Not an assassin.
Following in the wake of the hugely successful The Darkness video game and the summer's smash hit, First Born, The Darkness returns in a brand new ongoing series by Phil Hester (Deep Sleeper, Green Arrow) and Michael Broussard (Unholy Union)!
Irrevocably changed by the events of First Born, Jackie Estacado has relocated to the secluded nation of Sierra Mu?oz. But every paradise has dark secrets under the surface. And what does the mysterious Professor Kirchner stand to gain by allying himself with Jackie?
Don't miss the next great chapter of the Darkness mythos beginning with an oversized first issue featuring bonus pages of story and art!
The Darkness #1 from Top Cow
Other comics to eyeball this week
Top Cow are also squeezing
The Angelus: Pilot Season from their teat. Ian Edington and Stjepan Sejic test the waters with a one shot that may or may not continue on after the experiment is over. Who knows.
Marvel pump some
Ultimate Iron Man II, glistening with Orson Scott Card and Pasqual Ferry flexing their WD40. Four reps and the untold origin of the Ultimate version of Stark gets the continuation that is pretty much the norm of the other half of an origin story.
Wildstorm grab John Doran and check out the ashen world with Christos Gage, Leandro Fernandez and Francisco Paronzini in
Stormwatch PHD: Armageddon.
DC Green is to be seen with the chase for fate as Ron Marz and Michael Lacomb deliver
Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Ion. Who wears the spandex in this relationship Rayner? Whoever it is, remember the talc.
Alan Foreman and Travel Foreman trip aside with the tiny feet and all that in
Countdown Presents The Search for Ray Palmer: Red Son. Lots be out a lookin' but hardly any are a picking.
Peter Brandvold, Sergio Aragones, John Severin go old to make it new again in the wild west with
Bat Lash. Six bullets in the chamber and the whole of the start is made fresh and filled with sandy once again. Ride high with the noose around the neck.
Image launch an attack of the pachyderms in
Elephantmen: War Toys. Richard "Starkings" Starkings and Justin "Moritat" Norman go toe to toe to hoof as Africa and China go to war on the battlefield of Europe.
Mario Gully and Marco Turini bring back Hannah and go
Ant: Unleashed. Poor girl/woman wants to walk away and just lead a normal life. Oh, but it's not long before the red suit comes crawling back out right?
JT Krul and Carlos Rafael clash the blades in
Highlander: Way of the Sword. Right before the first movie, and all about Ramirez's sword. Fancy ivory that. Nothing like that McCartney and Jackson song decades back.
Kevin Fahey and Jonathan Lau scratch the back with
Battlestar Galactica: Origins. All about the histories and back stories and who else but the good doctor Gaius Baltar gets the first seat. And Six is not far behind his brain.
Trade of the week
Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows bring it with
Chronicles of Wormwood: Last Enemy.
Danny Wormwood is having all the troubles of modern man, his TV shows have issues, he cheats on his wife, and his rabbit talks back to him. But this poor sod also has to deal with the fact that his dad is Satan himself and Pope Jacko and the Catholic church are also raising Hell.
Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters #1; written by Lisa Kirby and Steve Robertson, pencils by Mike Thibodeaux, cover by Jack Kirby
Funds are short no doubt to re-animate the buried corpse of Jack "The King" Kirby. Little back on bio-technologies as well. It's a family affair and with Kirby's daughter keeping the line on the line.
An All-New series featuring characters and concepts created by Jack "King" Kirby!
In this double-sized first issue, meet the Berkleys, your typical suburban California family. But when young Garrett Berkley discovers his parents' secret-that the science fiction stories his father writes aren't fiction at all, but autobiography-he's blasted into a whole new universe of adventure, mystery and danger.
Now, Jack Berkley must put down his pen, reassemble his old team, and take up the mantle of being a Galactic Bounty Hunter for one final mission!
Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters
Speaking of the conflict between the Marvel super heroes,
Civil War X-Men. David Hine and Yanick Paquette watch on as the surviving original X-Men try and quell the insurgent 198.
Keeping up with the news from the front lines of the Marvel war, read up with the
Daily Bugle Civil War Newspaper Special.
Like the Hoff and K.I.T.T. it's a guy and his car to save the day. Chuck Dixon and Timothy Green II handle the drive with a new hero from DC Comics in the pages of
Rush City.
Also out from DC, the team of Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti with Daniel Acu?a charge with
Uncle Sam And The Freedom Fighters. Miniseries showcasing the skills of a government task force known as SHADE.
Richard
Starkings and Moritat take the walking beasts and shove them through Image in
Elephantmen. Scratch that itch if
you're into hippos.
Simon Furman and Don Figueroa roll out with
Transformers: Stormbringer from IDW Publishing. A mini series set to unlock a dark chapter in the history of Cybertron.
The Sadhu from Virgin Comics by Gotham Chopra and Jeevan Kang. Where the lesson for life sees a mystic and obscure martial art enter the fray.
Last week it was Mayday Parker aka Spider-Girl. This week, it's Sara Pezzini taking hold of the mammoth
Witchblade #100. Ron Marz, Mike Choi and Adriana Melo deliver the blade from Top Cow with a swag (4) of variant covers from the likes of Marc Silvestri, Michael Turner and Keu Cha.
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