Welcome back to Chris’ Picks! A weekly article where I outline my personal comic pull list for the week. Let me know in the comments what you are picking up this Wednesday! Anything that I read will be discussed on the subsequent Beards Beers Comics podcast episode.
1 – Coda #3 of 12 (Boom! Studios) $3.99 US
By – Simon Spurrier, Matias Bergara
Their Description – Hum returns to Ridgetown, only to find the city under siege by Thundervale, a bandit city that rests on the back of the last living giant. Hum manages to get back inside, but when an outerwall is breached by the enemy, all seems lost…
2 – Ruinworld #1 of 5 (Boom! Studios) $3.99 US
By – Derek Laufman
Their Description – Writer/Artist Derek Laufman (Adventure Time Comics) brings his worldwide hit digital comics series to life at BOOM! Studios. Intrepid adventurers Pogo and Rex are on a quest for fame and fortune. Their discovery of a special map leads them on an epic journey through dangers, demons and old enemies. Just one problem-they’ve already lost the map. An all-ages comic about fun, friendship and screaming in the face of danger, perfect for fans of Adventure Time and Adventure Zone.
3 – Eternity Girl #5 of 6 (DC/Young Animals) $3.99 US
By – Magdalene Visaggio, Sonny Liew
Their Description – The end really is nigh as Caroline confronts her destiny on two planes of existence, and the stakes could never be higher: eternal imprisonment, or total universal annihilation.
4 – Farmhand #1 (Image) $3.99 US
By – Rob Guillory
Their Description – Jedidiah Jenkins is a farmer-but his cash crop isn’t corn or soy. Jed grows fast-healing, plug-and-play human organs. Lose a finger? Need a new liver? He’s got you covered. Unfortunately, strange produce isn’t the only thing Jed’s got buried. Deep in the soil of the Jenkins Family Farm, something dark has taken root, and it’s beginning to bloom. From ROB GUILLORY, Eisner-winning co-creator and artist of Image Comics’ CHEW, comes a new dark comedy about science gone sinister and agriculture gone apocalyptic. Nature is a Mother.
5 – Outpost Zero #1 (Image) $3.99 US
By – Sean McKeever, Alexandre Tefenkgi
Their Description – Welcome to Outpost Zero, the smallest town in the universe. The people there work the land, go to the fights every Friday night, and tuck their children into bed-but the Outpost is no place for dreams or aspirations. To survive is ambitious enough. As Alea and her friends graduate to adulthood on a frozen world never meant to support human life, something stirs. Something sees… Explore the mysteries and wonder of the Frost in this oversized debut issue by Eisner-winning writer SEAN KELLEY McKEEVER, artist ALEXANDRE TEFENKGI, and colorist JEAN-FRANCOIS BEAULIEU.
6 – X-23 #1 (Marvel) $4.99 US
By – Mariko Tamaki, Juan Cabal, Mike Choi
Their Description – Cloned from a warrior, raised as a killer, Laura Kinney has gone through hell and come out the other side a hero. After a stint as the All-New Wolverine, she returns to her roots as X-23 to make sure no one ever has to go through the horrors she did. With her sister Gabby and their pet Jonathan in tow, X-23 forges her own destiny in this new series by Mariko Tamaki (HULK, HUNT FOR WOLVERINE: CLAWS OF A KILLER) and Juann Cabal (ALL-NEW WOLVERINE, ELEKTRA). Rated T+
7 – TMNT Urban Legends #3 (IDW) $3.99 US
By – Gary Carlson, Frank Fosco
Their Description – This is it! The entire TMNT Volume 3, reproduced for the first time ever in full four-color glory! Join creators Gary Carlson and Frank Fosco as they take the Heroes in a Half-Shell on some of their most amazing and dangerous and bizarre adventures ever… In this issue, Leonardo desperately seeks out the lost Master Splinter and the badly wounded Donatello via the Astral Plane, while Mikey and Raph are caught in a fight for their lives against Pimiko and her attacking minions!
8 – Monsters #18 (Image) $3.99 US
By – Marjorie Liu, Saga Takeda
Their Description – Will Maika be able to stop the tide of violence that threatens Pontus and the Known World?
9 – Bloodshot Salvation #11 (Valiant) $3.99 US
By – Jeff Lemire, Doug Braithwaite
Their Description – Time to kill! To save his daughter’s life, Bloodshot brokered an unthinkable bargain…and has been thrown forward two thousand years in the future to 4002 A.D.! But preserving life requires a sacrifice…and now, he’s on the hunt to take out the one man standing between him and the safe return of his family! Too bad the only thing standing in his way is…Bloodshot? When the 41st century’s Bloodshot finds out Ray Garrison has come to town, all hell is bound to break loose! Eisner Award winner Jeff Lemire (Black Hammer) and master storyteller Doug Braithwaite (X-O MANOWAR) are about to pull the pin on the next explosive chapter of ‘THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS’ with a centuries-spanning gunfight for the ages!
10 – Oblivion Song #5 (Image) $3.99 US
By – Robert Kirkman, Lorenzo De Felici
Their Description – Things in Oblivion are heating up as Nathan deals with danger on all sides.
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