This Wednesday expect to find big Marvel books like Superior Spider-Man #12, Age of Ultron #10, and Uncanny Avengers #9. DC continues it’s new era of Green Lanterns with Green Lantern and the New Guardians #21. Also from DC, Batman and Robin Batgirl #21. New books to check out such as Liberator #1, Wild Blue Yonder #1, and X-files; Season 10 #1.
The first 50 customers will get a FREE Indigo Lantern ring!
Batman #21 Zero Year Review
By: Rob Neil Gruszecki
Six Years ago in a submerged and desolate looking Gotham City a boy fishes in the drowned subway. Two masked thugs chase down the boy only to be met with force by a work-in-progress gadget handled by someone who will one day be a key member in a group of heroes that defend Earth from the cosmic threat of Darkseid and his anti-life equation. Jumping back even further we witness the Red Hood Gang playing chicken with a rich playboy recently back from training and rebuilding himself. In these few sequences we are reminded immediately of what we love about this city and why we keep coming back. Almost instantly a young Bruce Wayne is asked the exact question we just answered for ourselves.
Superman Unchained #1 Review
By: Rob Neil Gruszecki
Over the skies of Nagasaki on April 9th in 1945 an ominous and devastating force is dropped onto the civilians below. What follows will punctuate the darkest time in human history and explore the most horrific and violent capabilities of mankind to this day. Staring up innocently through binoculars, Ichuru, a young boy, witnesses the weaponized power of a god burst from a capsule. As shrapnel and a desolate ending rapidly impend towards himself and his family, all guilty of only ever being caught up in a war fought by distant giants, wonder and awe are the last things he witnesses.
The highly anticipated Superman Unchained from Scott Snyder and Jim Lee arrives this week. Scott Snyder is also collaborating with Greg Capullo on Batman Zero Year, launching with issue #21 of Batman. New titles to check out, A1, Breath of Bones, Thumbprint, and Killjoys. Joe Mad is back with Savage Wolverine #6.
The first 50 Wednesday Warriors will get a FREE Green Lantern AND Blue Lantern ring!
Kick Ass 3 #1 Review
By: Rob Neil Gruszecki
Hit-Girl, under the constant watch of rifles and angry police with itchy trigger fingers, is transported to a maximum security prison to wait out the rest of her days as a murderer and vigilante. A note written to Kick-Ass is sent as a plea for her rescue to be made by the green-clad hero and those in his group. With this request a plan is hatched to break her out of prison and all by the might and will of costume wearing citizens who simply want justice. These heroes of the modern world all boasting scars of duty, emotional abandonment and the heavy weight of the mundane reality they all exist in, have trained long and hard and are ready to show that this persecution of a fellow crime-fighter will not stand. Amassed in front of the prison gates are Kick-ass and his Justice Forever league of superheroes, arriving to take back what belongs to them.
This is a public invite for all local artists to visit Alpha Comics on Wednesday June 26th. The challenge is to create the best cover for Batman/Superman #1. You will be given one copy of the Batman/Superman blank variant. Then at the store, use your art skills to create a cover that will make jaws drop. Bring your own supplies. There is no restriction with medium, only that the art has to be on the blank variant. Alpha Comics will be open 11am – 9pm that day and artists can visit anytime on that date to submit their cover. Art must be done in the store. Each submitted cover will be scanned and uploaded to alphacomics.ca. On Thursday June 26th, a poll will be opened for people to vote on which comic cover they think is the best. Prizes will be awarded to the top three covers as voted by the public.
Why should you participate?
This event will showcase local art, supporting the local artist community.
Your art will be exposed to thousands of people who are paying attention to Alpha Comics on the internet, including industry pros and comic fans across North America.
Prizes include blank variants that you’ll be able to create art on and sell at conventions or online. 1st place prize is a Copic marker set, the best markers used by industry pros.
The Batman/Superman #1 blank variant is part of the We Can Be Heroes campaign. Each blank variant raises $1 to benefit the people in the Horn of Africa. Because of the the contest, Alpha Comics will be ordering a lot of these books.
3rd prize - Three Batman/Superman #1 blank variants.
2nd prize – Five Batman/Superman #1 blank variants.
1st prize – Five Batman/Superman #1 blank variants. Copic 12pc Sketch Marker Set.
Limited copies of the Batman/Superman #1 blank variant will be ordered. Email Alpha Comics to R.S.V.P. and secure a copy or if you have any questions.
Exciting new comic day ahead! Here are your top dogs. Age of Ultron #9, All-New X-Men #12, Avengers #13, Bedlam #7, East of West #3, Superior Spider-Man #11, Thanos Rising #3. Also look out for Kick Ass 3 #1. Daredevil: End of Days final issue and first issue of Daredevil Dark Nights. Ten Grand #2. Astro City returns with a new #1.
X-Men #1 Review
By: Rob Neil Gruszecki
A meteor rockets towards the earth as the story of a twin separated from it’s counterpart is told in prose that warrants solemnity and the attention of a dire warning. Racing down a highway, a man stares forward toward an explosion completely enveloping an entire town and all the life teeming within it. A look of hopelessness as his eyes meet the destruction before him.
The Wake #1 Review
By: Rob Neil Gruszecki
Upon the horizon of an abandoned metropolitan cityscape a hang glider soars past the reflection of a skyscraper to come in for a landing near the base of a mostly submerged world. The remains of this civilization humanity had shaped finds their structures and habitats swallowed back into the sea that birthed our kind. Life has thrived on however and as a creature of the depths resurfaces to wash away any remnants of mankind’s footprint, the lone person, freshly arrived in the drowning concrete jungle, on an unknown quest flies forwards in the constant struggle for survival.
Adventures of Superman #1 Review
By: Rob Neil Gruszecki
Crazed and vicious, a man rambles down the streets of metropolis unleashing his dangerous thoughts onto the unwitting civilians of the city. His eyes boil with rage and he shouts deranged nonsense as mass hysteria grips the unwitting inhabitants. The scene looks bleak and harm reigns down until the appearance of a red and blue clad hero who not only will clear the chaos but will also help this poor soul as he manically spews anger outwards, clearly lost and not in control of his own thoughts.
