THE BZZZT - 08.01.2012

A quick look at this week's (08.01.2012) new #1s , graphic novels and crossovers/tie-ins. Plus, my pick of the week! 

PICK OF THE WEEK

SWAMP THING #12

SNYDER/RUDY/PAQUETTE/PUGH - Prelude to “ROTWORLD”!  Continued from this month’s ANIMAL MAN #12!  ANIMAL MAN and SWAMP THING – together at last!

NEW #1s

BLACK KISS II #1

HOWARD CHAYKIN - Sex, death, and the movies - what else really matters?

Nearly twenty five years ago, HOWARD CHAYKIN brought the 80s to a close, and comics to the brink, with his landmark erotic thriller, BLACK KISS. Now, after years of anticipation, he's back with issue one of BLACK KISS II, a six-part miniseries that tells the story behind that legendary story - like the original, in glorious black and white.

And really, now - does it have to be so dirty?

DEADWORLD WAR O/T DEAD #1

REED/MAKKONEN - Special All-new 5-part weekly series returns what has been called the forefather of all zombie comics! The undead have overrun the Earth! A small outpost, remnants of a twisted scientists’ scheme to defeat the plague, holds out against the army of King Zombie with their secret weapon, the Lepers—victims of a bizarre experiment that left them with dead flesh in breathing husks with flesh that even zombies won’t touch.

FIRST X-MEN #1

 NEAL ADAMS/GAGE - X-Men legend Neal Adams returns to Marvel’s Mutants!  The secret history of the X-Men...BEFORE Xavier’s team!  Starring Wolverine & Sabretooth! 

 HARVEST #1

 LIEBERMAN/LORIMER -Human traffickers. Rogue medical teams. Yakuza run organ mills and a six year-old drug fiend. Welcome to Dr. Benjamin Dane's nightmare. His only way out? Bring down the man who set him up by reclaiming organs already placed in some very powerful people. If Dexter, ER and 100 Bullets had a three-way and that mind blowing tryst somehow resulted in a kid, that kid would read HARVEST. Medical Grade Revenge.

HAWKEYE #1

FRACTION/AJA - The breakout star of this summer’s blockbuster AVENGERS film and self-made hero Hawkeye fights for justice!  With ex-Young Avenger Kate Bishop by his side, he’s out to prove himself as one of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes!  Matt Fraction & David Aja (IMMORTAL IRON FIST) reunite to tell the on-going tales of the Arrow-Avenger!

INFECTED #1

MINSHEW/SIGLER - A riveting adaptation of Book One of the New York Times best-selling horror trilogy by Scott Sigler! Chad Minshew brings to life the story of a mysterious disease that turns ordinary people into paranoid, raving murderers. Former all-pro linebacker Perry Dawsey awakens to find mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon after, strange voices start whispering, telling him to do horrible things … he is infected. The disease wants something from Perry, something that could alter the fate of the human race.

THINK TANK #1

HAWKINS/EKEDAL/REBER - Dr. David Loren is many things: child prodigy, inventor, genius, slacker... mass murderer. When a military think tank's smartest scientist decides he can no longer stomach creating weapons of destruction, will he be able to think his way out of his dilemma or find himself subject to the machinations of smaller men?

GRAPHIC NOVELS

THE PUNISHER BY RUCKA TP VOL. 01

For Frank Castle, death comes easy. Life is where things gets complicated. Fully loaded with Eisner Award-winning writer Greg Rucka (Batwoman, Queen and Country, WOLVERINE) and neo-superstar artist Marco Checchetto (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, DAREDEVIL), the biggest gun of all is back with blood on his hands and vengeance in his eyes to serve his own brand of justice with everything’s he’s got — but can he survive the darkness stored in his own arsenal? Plus: a violent look at how the Punisher deals with a world where every criminal is now a super hero. (Here’s a hint: He doesn’t deal with it pleasantly.) Collecting THE PUNISHER (2011) #1-5 and material from SPIDER-ISLAND: I LOVE NEW YORK CITY.

CROSSOVERS & TIE-INS

*Note* My POTW Swamp Thing #12 is the 2nd part of the prelude to the forthcoming Swamp Thing and Animal Man crossover ROTWORLD, that began this month in Animal Man #12.

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #9 OF 12

AARON/KUBERT/DELL/MARTIN - Their numbers dwindling, the Avengers stage a daring raid on the X-Men’s prison to rescue their captive members—and you won’t believe where it is! • Alliances begin to change as the nature of the Phoenix becomes apparent! • And in the end, it all comes down to Spider-Man!

BEFORE WATCHMEN #2 OF 4

STRACZYNSKI/KUBERT/KUBERT - “They run...I like it when they run.” And don’t miss the latest chapter of the CRIMSON CORSAIR backup epic from writer LEN WEIN and artist JOHN HIGGINS!

ULTIMATE SPIDEY #13 DWF

BENDIS/GRANOV/MARQUEZ - DIVIDED WE FALL! Guest starring Captain America!

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