Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #1 is finally here for all My Chemical Romance fans. Fans of music and comics are now combined. Gerald Way makes his comic writing debut through Dark Horse Comics. Let's see how his take on super heroes will turn out, hopefully if it's like his music, it should be something to look forward to.
Once, the Umbrella Academy was unstoppable. Under the tutelage of their guardian and mentor, Dr. Reginald Hargreeves, its members spent their childhoods fighting evil and honing their extraordinary gifts.
Until something went terribly wrong.
Now, nine years later, the estranged members of the Umbrella Academy are reunited by the death of the only parent they've ever known and the rise of a new and terrible threat. Will they be able to overcome their history for long enough to save the world-one more time?
Created and written by Gerard Way (singer of My Chemical Romance), Umbrella Academy features interior art by Eisner Award-nominated artist Gabriel Ba (De:Tales), colours by Eisner Award-winning colourist Dave Stewart, and covers by multiple-Eisner Award-winning painter James Jean (Fables).
Other Comics To Keep An Eye Out This Week;
From IDW Publishing, 30 Days of Night: Beyond Barrow #1 created by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith. Targeted at horror and vampire fans. This series is written by Steve Niles himself and art by Bill Sienkiewicz. Find out the buzz in the comics before the movie hits theatres , due out in Australia 8th November 2007 (watch me).
DC Showcases; JLA/Hitman #1 (of 2) mini, written by the Garth Ennis (co-creator) and pencils by John McCrea (other co-creator). Tommy and the JLA team-up for some fast pace action. Hitman is back people!
Marvel Presents; Captain America hard cover omnibus written by Ed Brubaker, featuring various artists; Steve Epting, Mike Perkins, Marcos Marting and Lee Weeks. This hard cover contains the first twenty-five ground breaking issues, including the 65th Anniversary Special and the Winter Soldier One Shot (720 pages). Here is were it all happens with the re-surface of Bucky as Winter Soldier and the death of Captain America.
Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme. Pretty much the best animated movie so far to come out of Marvel Animated Features. Starting from the beginning of Dr Strange's tale, where he was a gifted surgeon, being in an accident that damaged his surgical hands, searching for a cure and then becoming the Sorcerer Supreme. Four out of five spuds!
One of Marvel's sometimes overlooked comic book hero. Lawyer by day and Super hero by night in Hell's kitchen. Although he copes with blindness, he has heightened senses far beyond any human being. The man without fear continues to be a strong and likable character.
Daredevil was recently voted the best continuing or limited series and also Ed Brubaker was voted best writer for the book in this years 20th Harvey Awards. Former writers of DD include: Frank Miller (Sin City), Kevin Smith (Clerks), Bob Gale (Back to the Future) and Brian Michael Bendis. Daredevil was created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett (with Jack Kirby) in 1964.
Daredevil fights for his life, facing his own worst nightmares come true! In a star-studded, triple-sized 100th issue, a red-hot roster of guest artists joins penciler Michael Lark to bring Matt Murdock's history as the Man Without Fear to life, while DD struggles against that which he fears most! Don't miss the first chapter of the groundbreaking third arc by Brubaker and Michael Lark - "Without Fear" begins with a bang! Featuring guest artists John Romita Sr., Gene Colan, Lee Bermejo, Alex Maleev, Marko Djurdjevic and more!! Daredevil #100 is due out this week.
From DC, JLA Wedding Special #1; written by Dwayne McDuffie, art by Mike McKone & Andy Lanning and cover by Ed Benes. Dwayne McDuffie debuts as the new on-going writer for the JLA series. In this issue a wedding looms and bachelor parties are thrown, the new Injustice League forms. Find out who will be on this deadly team!
The wait is over for Groo fans, Groo is celebrating 25 years of joy. Groo 25th Anniversary Special will be 56 pages of humor by writer Mark Evanier and art by Sergio Aragones, published by Dark Horse comics.
From IDW, The Transformers: Best of UK: Dinobots #1 is a six part mini series, reprinting classic tales from Marvel UK with all new covers drawn by Nick Roche. Everybody likes Dinobots!!!
Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme. Pretty much the best animated movie so far to come out of Marvel Animated Features. Starting from the beginning of Dr Strange's tale, where he was a gifted surgeon, being in an accident that damaged his surgical hands, searching for a cure and then becoming the Sorcerer Supreme. Four out of five spuds!
The startling adventures of the new Atom begin in this series based on concepts developed by comics superstar Grant Morrison, written by Gail Simone (VILLAINS UNITED) with Art by John Byrne (ACTION COMICS) and Trevor Scott (THE AUTHORITY) and gorgeous covers by Ariel Olivetti (SPACE GHOST)!
Strange things have been happening in Ivy Town since Ray Palmer disappeared. In fact, it appears that the whole town's been experimented on for decades.
Enter Ryan Choi - the young hotshot professor who's filling the empty slot on Ivy University's teaching staff... and who inadvertently ends up filling the old Atom's super-heroic shoes!
Can Choi make a difference in a town more creepy and mysterious than anyone ever realized? And can he live up to the towering legend of his predecessor?
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