Spider-Man and Red Sonja, on a roof top, in those kinds of outfits? Certainly not winter where they are right now...

The wise-cracking Wall-Crawler collides with the She-Devil with a Sword! Longtime Marvel readers know that these two legends have met before -- but that was just the warm-up! They may be from two different eras, but Spider-Man and Red Sonja have both faced the maniacal mage known as Kulan Gath. Now the sadistic sorcerer makes a play for power that will once again bring these two famous heroes together -- but will it be as friends or foes?

Writer Michael Avon Oeming (OMEGA FLIGHT, Red Sonja) and Mel Rubi (Red Sonja) -- plus series cover artist Michael Turner (CIVIL WAR) -- answer the eternal question: What's better in a fight, the proportional strength and speed of a spider, or cold, hard steel and a chain-mail bikini?

Spider-Man/Red Sonja #1 (of 5) from Marvel Comics

Speaking of others clad in a bikini, though not of the metal and instead of the furry kind, Shanna The She-Devil: Survival of the Fittest. Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray and Khari Evans on four points for the series with modern day pirates, though no hint of the latest albums before release or the simultaneous look see of movies out now. Modern day!

Pirates be coursing about now with Peter the Pirate Squid from Roman Dirge and Steven Daily. Eight legs and a patch over an eye a pirate squid make.

Drop those Rs right now with the Hewoes from Bill Maus to come parody the day. Yes, on that show with those mutants and the Japanese kid who loves reading X-Men comics.

Evil comes round for a little visit and it's with Derek Ruiz and Dawid Straus on the Legend Of Isis looking to see if they can survive the onslaught. Teeth radiated from the phone feel chattery.

All over with the clangy clang with Duncan Rouleau and Metal Men. Eight bolts to nut down and they're up against a rather big French fry.

Big shoulders, tiny waists and a white picket fence with Iron and the Maiden. Jason Rubin, Francis Manapul and Joel Gomez in a world of mobsters looking for love, revenge and a second chance.

Took a hint of glint in the eye the other day. And like the painting red on the house, it's a snap for the First Born from Ron Marz and Stjepan Sejic. Sara Pezzini, the one time wielder of the Witchblade, now ready to be popping child.

Hardcover of the week

So nice we spot it twice. 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.

 

Graffiti artists don't seem to gear up like they should any more. Bright fluoros vests and bells around their necks with socks that pull up all the way to their knees. That might be another form of expression. Of course, showing the world bad handwriting, calling it tagging and labeling it an artistic form of expression makes all those signed documents a series of collectible sets then, right?

Someone is gift-wrapping super-villains for the police. Someone is defacing Superhuman Registration posters. Someone is raising eyebrows all around town -- from City Hall to Tony Stark's war chamber. And the only clue to their identity? Two spray-painted letters: N.W.

Who are these mysterious young upstarts that have dared to fight the powers-that-be? And what do they want from a de-powered mutant named Sofia?

Are the New Warriors truly back from the dead? Or has something new risen from the ashes of Stamford?

New Warriors #1

Warren Ellis and Juan Jose Ryp trip it up with Black Summer #0. Starts of low and a quick with a lead as things go hitting the fan with super heroes and villains and it turns out standing in the cold night air forever leaves the fingers paralysed.

Ron Marz and Adriana Melo take one shot in Witchblade/Punisher. Justice beckons with many calls, and the legend, the myth of the Punisher seems questionable to a woman who walks about in a living bikini armour. Watch for The Punisher at the end of Spider-Man 2 as Mary Jane is running through the park. Pause a split second.

Transformers: Movie Prequel from Kris Oprisko and Alex Milne runs at a shot with the four doors on the car and who really counts the boot as a legitimate door anyway?

Zeb Wells and Carmine Di Giandomenico jump back into the ring for the old man of the red blind man in Daredevil: Battlin' Jack Murdock. Just where and why did DD's father get his name? Not from a baby book for newly made parents perhaps.

Quarter decks on the landing and there's one more back story as Rick Rememder, Tony Moore and Andre Parks visit Fear Agent: The Last Goodbye. One who knows shows the others, and kicks it like a licking brick.

 

During the initial highs of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mania, with the cartoon, action figures and movies, they sold all sorts of merchandise to bring in the kids.

One such concoction was a tiny bucket of green ooze with a little glow-in-the-dark turtle wearing an eye mask. Short of actual turtle soup, the slime lasted a short while in the heat before it was just runny snot.

The first of our five movie prequels slated for release in the weeks immediately preceding the opening of the new TMNT CGI movie!

Prequel #1 focuses on Raphael's growing disillusionment with his brothers and sensei, his increasing use of violence and the strange discovery that might provide the solution to his problems. Not to mention lots of kick-butt dark-of-night ninja action!

Prequel #2 focuses on Michelangelo's secret identity as the children’s entertainer Cowabunga Carl! When a purse-snatcher interrupts Carl’s gig at a hockey game can nunchaku ninja action and Casey Jones be far behind? It's a face-off... and in more ways than one!

TMNT Movie Prequel one shots from Mirage Studios

War in Iraq, what's not to love? Army@Love from the battle cries of Rick Veitch and Gary Erskine show the ensuing madness makes for hot and steamy times ducking under the whizzing bullets and mortar shells. Comedy of errors really, and then there's the comic.

Fall for the heroes who have fallen from their pedestals. Where the pressure is too much and the quick kick to a pick up leaves the question of just how to cope and deal with all that pressure. Howard Wong and Marco Rudy go After The Cape with three sips of the bottle to see how it is.

Andrew Dabb and Steve Kurth close out the take on the mythic trilogy of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman in twelve vials with Dragonlance Chronicles Volume III: Dragons of Spring Dawning. End of the line kids, and it's time to look inside for the real demons to battle. Played Internal Risk of late?

C.B. Cebulski and Humberto Ramos take their cues from Molly Hayes in Runaways Saga. Running up the adventures of the Marvel teens to date prepping the switch from BKV to Whedon. Track attack on a look back over what has come before up to now. One shot at goal.

Leah Moore, John Repion and Stephen Segovia paint a picture of the man who sold his soul for eternal youth who crosses paths with the woman who bears the blade in Witchblade: Shades of Gray. For much like photos in the back of a cereal box, it's a question of smoke, mirrors and mystery. Probably not the mirrors. And more on metaphor.

Simon Furman and Marcelo Matere drop a tape into the boom box and let loose with Transformers Spotlight: Soundwave. Soundwave takes an eye to Bludgeon who is in charge of finding out about what happened to Shockwave. Eat enough foil and the teeth will hate you for it.

Mike Wolfer drags the not so dead zombies around in Escape of the Living Dead Annual. A town sinks below the depths and from there it's pretty much a seafood platter for those knocking about for more braaaaaaaaiiins.

Lady Death Annual takes a holiday with Brian Pulido and Richard Ortiz and Daniel HDR. No, apparently that's right.

Anthony Flamini, Ronald Byrd and Scott Kolins survey the end and the aftermath of the Pro vs Anti Registration camps in Civil War: Battle Damage Report. Scout the land, smell the burning embers and make a nice toasted sandwich with cheese that melts a hole in your mouth.

And the turtle still glows in the dark to this day.

 

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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