From the creator of Buffy and the writer of Astonishing X-men and Runaways comes the prequel series to the blockbuster Serenity film. Following up from from the last Serenity comic mini-series 'Those Left behind'  from three years ago, Joss Whedon revisits his fan-favourite Serenity series with 'Better Days', also a three part mini-series.

Joss Whedon returns to the world of his blockbuster film Serenity with the three issue mini-series Better Days. Better Days revisits everyone's favourite space cowboys in this thrilling, action-packed adventure, with Mal and his crew on a heist that promises a big payoff. What's surprising is that this heist just might make a good on that promise. Whedon reunites with Brett Matthews and Will Conrad, his collaborators on the best-selling 2005 series 'Those Left Behind'. Adam Hughes joins the team for the covers.

Other comics out this week

Not so defenders of the Earth, but from Marvel Comics; The Last Defenders #1 (of 6), features four size-able characters; Colossus, She-Hulk, Blazing Skull and led by Nighthawk. The Defenders have been re-formed to serve a policital agenda, who's agenda though? Surely there is more that the Defenders can do and what is there purpose in down the line? Written by Joe Casey (Avengers; Earth's Mightiest  Heroes, Ben 10); Art by  Jim Muniz

Where have the old Hollywood monsters gone? In the age of computer graphics and green screen, the answer ain't pretty. Having lost all of his money in a dot-com scheme, Frankenstein's Monster is content to drink the days away. When a chance at work drops in his lap, can he sober up long enough to cash in? Will the whole affair end in pitchforks and torches? Screamland #1 (of 5), written by Harold Sipe; Art & covers by; Hector Casanova.

Trade of the week: Avengers Initiative Vol. 1

From one of the writers of Amazing Spider-man, Dan Slott brings his magic to the table with Avengers Initiative.

The CIVIL WAR is over and from now on, This is the new face of the Marvel Universe - THE INITIATIVE! Whose side were you on? Well, if you were pro-registration, then there’s one hell of a price to pay. You’re in the army now. Every last one of you. Fall in with Yellowjacket, War Machine, She-Hulk, Justice and Gauntlet as they train the heroes of tomorrow for the super-powered conflicts of today! Marvel’s army of super heroes has just become a super hero army! Also featuring THE MIGHTY AVENGERS and a new generation of Marvels. Collecting AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE #1-6.

 

Take a close up conversation with one person who has no breath, one person with skank breath, another with fart breath. Which one smells like the back of the wall? Now, which house would that wall come from in the first place?

Get ready for an action-packed 2-part tale teaming up the Dark Knight with the interstellar madman, as only Sam Kieth can deliver!

Batman, transported to an alien vessel by a mysterious figure, is asked to help cure a plague that has infected its inhabitants. Lobo, who has also been shanghaied, finds himself in the same boat.

Now, Batman and Lobo, two incredibly unlikely companions, must somehow find a way to work together — and find out the real reason for their abductions — before they kill each other!

Batman/Lobo: Deadly Shadows #1 (of 2) from DC Comics

Trade of the week

Grab a nice piece of vamp stylings and throw it onto the stake for a bit of dust and puff. A whole range of creators are out on patrol with Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayers. Very nice cover by Tim Sale. He being the one Isaac Mendes sells prints and paintings on HEROES.

 

One thing to come out of the upcoming Transformers movie directed by Michael Bay is all the left over shards of metal from the faces and chassis - that's odd looking for a plural - from the look and style of the Transformers of the cartoon and comics. They sure do look different to their counterparts, ever so drastically. Ah, but an Autobot or Decepticon will leak motor fluid all the same no matter what the plastic surgeon will have them think of the mirror.

Before allegiance, rank and function—before war—a civilian will become a warrior, a warrior will become a leader. As a leader he will learn of the most powerful weapon on the planet—a weapon powerful enough to bind legions to his will—a faction named DECEPTICON.

This landmark story brings the major players of the faction together for the first time in a seminal story for MEGATRON, the DECEPTICONS, and THE GREAT WAR.

Transformers: Megatron Origin from IDW Publishing

Loosen the britches on the pants of justice and it's about 30 creators gone nuts and garlic on The Tick's 20th Anniversary Special Edition. And in that cadre is creator Ben Edlund himself in the blue juice where the mayhem is about the big blue one gone through various eyes.

Paul Dini and Kenneth Rocafort escort Madame Mirage thought a killer party. Or is that a party with a killer? Well, it certainly don't have The Killers at the party. Party on, Wayne!

Brian Lynch and Franco Urru rub the vampiric felt of muppet land in Spike: Shadow Puppets. Four padded walls and William the Bloody is super fuzzy in his puppet incarnation. But how about his poetry? As cuddly?

Ben Avery and Mike S. Miller adapt George R.R. Martin's Hedge Knight: Sworn Sword. Following up from the first, it's like the flavour of the sensation as the sequels aren't all out there on the big movie screens. Six slices of the fantasy pie.

The Old Witch is back for more Tales from the Crypt. Rob Vollmar, Marc Bilgrey, Jim Salicrup, Tim Smith III, Mr. Exes and Rick Parker bring the corpses back after 50 years and the rotting flesh is just slopping on the counter top. Smell it.

Marc Bernadin, Adam Freeman and Lee Garbett shoot the long lead of five chambers with the Highwaymen. Special ops, clean up crews, and a whole lot of mess that needs some hearty and covert scrubbing to swipe clean.

Rick Spears and Rob G snatch the blank bank with a first of five as they go Repo. Find the clone, snatch the clone, should be easy right? Like eating passionfruit without peeling it.

Fred Van Lente and Scott Koblish unleash The Weapon. Money makes a man create things out of thin air and an ancient society sniffs out the rival competition, looking to douse it by the end of the four. Fear the chilblains!

 

And to which it seems like the heat of the freezing months will soon be upon us after the end of Daylight Savings.

Caught out in the sun for that extra hour? Looks like not a bad idea now to have taken a drink of sunscreen. Now it just oozes out SPF 30+.

The threat of annihilation from the humans has subsided, leaving a trail of death and destruction in its wake. Now alone in solitude, the Elite Blue warrior Kiani struggles to come to grips with the shattered pieces of the war's aftermath, yet the profound truth she discovers will forever change her existence.

Continuing directly from the pages of Fathom Volume 2, Kiani's own series begins here, and the world of Fathom will never be the same again!

Fathom: Kiani #1 from Aspen MLT

First thing that quashes the mind is Matt Huynh's alias in thinking of Miscellaneous Adventures of Stykman. Certainly not the local, but a satirical take on the blooming muscle world of superheroes from Jonnie Allen. And yes, the thought does go big blue a little. That's a reference to The Tick by the way.

Virulents will see the terrorists turn into demons and vampires. Because they suck enough energy and blood from the world, let's get physical, the mind is swimming in sleeplessness. Shamik Dasgupta and Ruben are laying in the thick globules of terror.

Everybody takes a choke hold on the lasso with Wonder Woman #6 pulling it tight. Novelist Jodi Picoult gets in the head of Diana Prince as Drew Johnson and Ray Snider cover the skin.

Bring on the hurt, bring on the pain, it's a family kind of affair in a different feel in Fantastic Four #544. Dwayne McDuffie, Paul Pelletier and Rick Magyar check out the new swap of the F4 quad as Black Panther and Storm slip in where Reed and Sue have voided. Left that is.

For those who missed out on the first pick up with the hoopla, and the furore and the "oh-my-gourd! it's all sold out!" and all, Captain America #25 is back again on the shelves. How soon is now, Smiths? Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting on point.

Once more, with feeling and it's Buffy the Vampire Slayer again on the shelves for those who were napping during the day time with the rest of the vamps. Joss Whedon, Georges Jeanty and Andy Owens running in the stake pack.

 

Conventional door handles suggest that promotion of other people's names would mean the clothes you're wearing, which bear the big logos, would be cheap. And that anything boutique, really boutique, like your own moniker, would be more expensive.

Not so, as it's pretty much a premium to wear a logo it seems. And finding people to walk around with your name, not so easy to find.

Unless they think you're dead.

Since the destruction of the Hellmouth, the Slayers--newly legion--have gotten organized and are kicking some serious undead butt. But not everything's fun and firearms, as an old enemy reappears and Dawn experiences some serious growing pains...

Buffy creator Joss Whedon brings Buffy back to Dark Horse in this direct follow-up to season seven of the smash-hit TV series.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Dark Horse Comics

Score one for the inability to keep to a schedule as the woman with the armour bracelets switches into a totally different gear in Wonder Woman #5. Will Pfeifer and Jean Diaz cover the gaping hole left by The OC bloke, Heinberg, who brought Wonder Woman back in line with the rest of the big hitters, late. After this, it's a new creative team again.

Get a little vague as Chuck Dixon and Ryan Benjamin tackle the heads of Grifter and Midnighter. Six blocks to knock down and nary a world of thought for that which drives them so. Much in the don't ask, don't show variety it appears. Shame.

Javier Grillo-Marauch and Carlos Rafael take it back to the BSG where Starbuck wasn't an XX in Classic Battlestar Galactica; Cylon Apocalypse. Damn BattlestarGalactica.com, you manage to choke out Opera. Swamp thing takes over the body of a Cylon and it's up to Adama and Starbuck to assess the situation. Classic, but keep an eye on the covers, it says nothing otherwise. Hard to call.

Run for the hills, Abe Sapien! It's the past come round like a book flying with wings tipped in gold leaf and a world of jungle fever. Or is it? B.P.R.D: Garden of Souls from Mike Mignola, John Arcudi and Guy Davis on art in a five petal leaf of history as Langdon Caul.

Captain America and Iron Man have fought the fight they needed to fight and here is the closer to the whole shebang. Civil War: The Confession from Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev with a hint of all round new style art from the man, it's a tale between two souls and the end of it all.

 

Huckster like no other, Barnum to the hilt, a true champion for comics; this man, The Man, Stan Lee. Shining the light on the blue sapphire anniversary, Marvel presents a tale where Stan Lee Meets Spider-Man.

The first in a series of stand-alone specials celebrating the 65th Anniversary of Stan Lee's employment at Marvel!

First, Stan journeys to Greenwich Village to catch up with his old pal Doctor Strange-but things have certainly changed since the '60s!

Next, the ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN team of Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley pays homage to the life and career of "The Man."

Then, Joss Whedon and Michael Gaydos take you to an interdimensional cross-time comic book convention!

And finally, a representation of the classic Stan-scripted AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #87, in which Spidey reveals his true identity to his closest friends!

Speaking of Spider-Man, long runners, Brain Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley, hit a tonne with Ultimate Spider-Man #100. Warm up the neck, they promise three shock endings, careful of the whiplash.

Four on the seas, Tony Millionaire takes a row with Sock Monkey: The Inches Incident. A tale aboard a whaling ship with Uncle Gabby and Mr Crow from Dark Horse Comics.

J. Torres and Michael Chang Ting Yu walk behind Jubei as the ronin makes a trip from the anime and into an ongoing from Wildstorm Comics. Ninja Scroll, where the mountains are foggy, villages are abandoned and dead villains return from the grave.

Brains for the breakfast club, Zombie from Marvel Max by Mike Raicht, Kyle Hotz and Dan Brown. Four parts to see a man become a hero against bank robbers and zombies.

Shamik Dasgupta and Abhishek Singh, with a cover by Alex Ross, retells the Odyssey of the East in Ramayan 3392 AD. A Virgin Comics reinvention of a post-apocalyptic epic.

Spike: Asylum from IDW Publishing sees the blonde one check into a rehab centre for vamps and demons. There, the patients know him and want him dead (again). Brian Lynch and Franco Urru looking to hand out some of the meds in the first of five.

 

 

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