Highlights This Week: Kevin Smith & Walt Flanagan return with Batman Widening Gyre #1; the Blackest Night continues on in Blackest Night Titans #1 and Green Lantern #45; Dale Keown draws Pitt again, with Paul Jenkins writing Darkness/Pitt #1; the Hulk family smashes everything with Hulk #14 featuring art by Ian Churchill, Incredible Hulk #601 featuring the return of Greg Pak writing Bruce Banner, and Son of Hulk #14; and the media tie-ins are running roughshod with such properties as 28 Days Later, Doctor Who, Jennifer’s Body, Muppet Show, Sonic, Transformers… and a bunch more!

Novelty Highlights This Week: Cover Girls Of The DCU Zatanna Statue; DC Heroes Wave 9 Chemo Action Figure Assortment; History Of The DCU Series 2 Assortment; Marvel Minimates Series 28 Assortment; Thor Hammer Prop Replica; Marvel Select Sabretooth Action Figure; and, as always, we’ve got plenty of other items in stock if these aren’t your style!

Highlights This Week: Another of Marvel’s big 70th Anniversary titles reverts back to its original numbering Daredevil #500. The big question is: How will Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark leave this storyline for the next creative team? Also features the first writing on Daredevil by classic DD writer Ann Nocenti in quite some time; Blackest Night is represented this week in Blackest Night Superman #1 (of 3); Who is the new Batgirl in the all-new Batgirl #1?; J. Michael Straczynski’s revamp of the Archie Superhero line continues this week with Red Circle: The Web #1; Archie Andrews proposes to Veronica Lodge in Archie #600; DC’s new Vertigo Crime imprint debuts this week with TWO graphic novels: best-selling crime writer Ian Rankin’s Dark Entries featuring Hellblazer’s John Constantine and Brian Azzarello’s Filthy Rich; Boom Studios’ popular line of Pixar comics continues with Monsters Inc: Laugh Factory #1 (of 4); Dark Horse releases more of their cool Warren Magazine reprints in the Eerie Archives Volume 2 hardcover; Alex Ross spins off more of his popular Dynamite series with Project Superpowers: Meet the Bad Guys #1 (of 4); Marvel releases Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco’s Avengers Forever for the first time in 8 years, and for the first time in hardcover! Fans of artist James Jean will have to have Kindling: The James Jean Poster Book featuring works presented during the artist’s first exhibition at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York. AND, the guys from Big Bang Theory make a cameo appearance in Power Girl #4. You can see it first here.

• Novelty Highlights This Week: Marvel Minimates Series 27 Ultimates Figures; Marvel Universe Action Figures 200905 and Pokemon Pop N Battle Series 1 Action Figures
  

Highlights This Week: Marvel relaunches their Ultimate line now known as Ultimate Comics with Ultimate Comics: Avengers #1 and Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #1; the Marvels Project #1 (of 8) is the centerpiece of Marvel’s 70th Anniversary celebration by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting; after skipping last week Blackest Night is back with Blackest Night #2 (of 8); Blackest Night: Batman #1 (of 3) and Green Lantern Corps #39; Conner Kent (aka Superboy) is back and the lead feature in Adventure Comics #1 along with new brand-new tales of the Legion of Super Heroes!; Howard Chaykin’s Dominic Fortune #1 (of 4) is an all-new Marvel MAX title; G.I. Joe Special: Helix is about a deadly young woman that ties in with the new G.I. Joe videogame; Transformer; Tales of the Fallen #1 (of 5) is set two years after the events of the newest, and still in theaters, movie; Star Trek: Nero #1 is follow-up series to the hit movie that will reveal exactly what happened during the 25 years Nero was waiting for the arrival of Ambassador Spock; John Ostrander and Timothy Truman return to the gritty land of Cynosure in Grimjack Manx Cat #1, and The Hero Initiative has released another benefit book Hero Comics with 2 covers by J Scott Campbell and Matt Wagner.

• Novelty Highlights This Week: DC Universe Infinite Heroes 3-Pack Action Figures 200902; Green Lantern Mini Neon Sign US Version; Marvel Universe Action Figures 200906 and Marvel Universe Handful of Heroes Figures 200901; Doctor Who Classic Dalek Figures 3-Pack and the Owly Plush Toy 2nd Edition
  

Highlights This Week: An actor (Transformers), singer and former model creates his own comic Tyrese Gibson’s Mayhem #1 (of 3), the embodiment of vengeance, from Image Comics, who also releases Chew #3 (of 5); the race to find Steve Rogers continues in Captain America: Reborn #2 (of 5); Marvel’s Ultimatum is finally at an end with Fantastic Four Requiem #1 One-Shot and Ultimatum: X-Men Requiem #1 One-Shot. Next week the new Ultimate Comics line debuts; Wonder Woman guest stars in Secret Six #12; Keith Giffen tries his hand at the all-new Doom Patrol #1; J Michael Straczynski dives into the DC Universe at last with the first of his reimaginings of the classic Archie superheroes. This week Red Circle: The Hangman #1; the current run of The Spirit ends this week with #32 but the character will return in First Wave, DC’s upcoming pulp anthology; if you’ve been wanting to jump on Mark Waid’s Irredeemable bandwagon, this is the week to jump on. The collection of the first four issues is only $9.99 and issue #5 is only 99 cents! Angel: After the Fall Volume 1 is now available in paperback and in Angel #24 actress Juliet Landau co-writes a 2-part return for her Drusilla character; Dark Horse borrows the fake name that George Lucas used while doing location filming for Return of the Jedi with their Star Wars Dark Times: Blue Harvest #0. Incarnate #1 is a new vampire comic created and written by Nick Simmons, son of that Demon guy from Kiss. And, even though the new Children of Earth event is over we have 3 new Torchwood Hardcover Novels.

• Novelty Highlights This Week: Marvel Legends 2-Pack Figures 200901 and Marvel Select Movie Wolverine Action Figure; 2010 Calendars for: Amazing Spider-Man; Star Wars Saga Unleashed and G Fan (that’s about Godzilla for the uninitiated out there); Ghostbusters Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Bank; Women of the DC Universe Series 2 Supergirl Bust and (one of the more unusual items we’ve ever carried) the Star Trek Red Shirt Cologne For Men (smells like DANGER!)