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Our host is back to feeling like himself, more or less, this week. After the new release list we have some great segments in the way of Bring ’em Back, the Mighty Marvel Movie Minute, Marvel Tales, and Current Events. Also, a review by Bruce Rosenberger of KomicsKast and Indie Comic Book Noise. And a call from – you guessed it – Carlos that kicks off a short SkrullWatch!

Marvel titles talked about this week consist of Captain Marvel, Fantastic Four: The Lost Adventure, New Avengers, Punisher: Force of Nature, Wolverine, X-Factor, X-Force, Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men Volume 6, and Wolverine: Origins Volume 4.

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Comics

Amazing Spider-Girl #17, $2.99

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN # 550
COVER BY: SALVADOR LARROCA
WRITER: MARC GUGGENHEIM
PENCILS and INKS: SALVADOR LARROCA
Jackpot! Spidey vs. the Police! Menace! Triumphs, twists, turns and tragedy pack these two issues by Marc Guggenheim and Salvador Larrocca. And would you believe…Spider-Man sued? (Hey, that’s what we get for having a former lawyer write these things…)
Rated A …$2.99

Black Panther #34, $2.99

CAPTAIN MARVEL # 3
COVER BY: ED MCGUINNESS
WRITER: BRIAN REED
PENCILS: LEE WEEKS
INKS: STEFANO GAUDIANO
The mystery of Captain Marvel’s presence in our world deepens as the first signs of a Secret Invasion are revealed! Brian Reed (New Avengers: Illuminati) and Lee Weeks (Daredevil) continue the winter’s most surprising mini-series.
Rated A …$2.99

Civil War Chronicles #8, $4.99
Dead Of Night Featuring Man Thing #1 (of 4), $3.99

FANTASTIC FOUR # 554 (and VARIANTS)
COVERS BY: BRYAN HITCH, SIMONE BIANCHI, and ARTHUR SUYDAM
WRITER: MARK MILLAR
PENCILS: BRYAN HITCH
INKS: PAUL NEARY
MARK MILLAR! BRYAN HITCH! Need we say more? All right, we will! Who is Mrs. Fantastic? And how will her return into Reed’s life rock comicdom’s First Family? Also, get ready to meet the Invisible Woman’s brand NEW super-team! This issue kicks off a year-long storyline that will make FANTASTIC FOUR “The World’s ULTIMATEST Comic Magazine!” Promise!
Rated A…$2.99

FANTASTIC FOUR: THE LOST ADVENTURE # 1
WRITER: STAN LEE
PENCILS: JACK KIRBY and JOHN BUSCEMA (with RON FRENZ)
INKS: JOE SINNOTT
IT’S THE COMIC BOOK EQUIVALENT OF A LOST BEATLES TRACK! Together, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby produced 102 consecutive issues of FANTASTIC FOUR. But there was a 103rd story they’d begun in 1970, but never finished—until now! Working from copies of Jack’s penciled pages, Stan Lee and Joe Sinnott have reunited, to complete the work they started almost four decades ago! Plus, this super-sized issue includes reproductions of Kirby’s unlinked penciled pages, with border notes and analysis by John Morrow, and a complete reprint of FANTASTIC FOUR #108 by Stan Lee and John Buscema, which incorporated some of the material from the lost story as a flashback.
Rated A …$4.99

Ghost Rider #20, $2.99
Iron Man Enter Mandarin #5 (of 6), $2.99
Iron Man Power Pack #4 (of 4), $2.99
Marvel Adventures Hulk #8, $2.99
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #36, $2.99
Marvel Comics Presents #6, $3.99

NEW AVENGERS # 38
COVER BY: MARKO DJURDJEVIC
WRITER: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
ART: MICHAEL GAYDOS
The break up! CONSPIRACY, PARANOIA, BETRAYAL may have taken their toll on the Avengers newlyweds Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. After the shocking turn of events at the end of last month’s NEW AVENGERS ANNUAL, has Jessica Jones turned her back on THE AVENGERS? Who better to help tell this story than Alias artist Michael Gaydos returning to Marvel for this special issue. Guest-Starring the Mighty Avengers. WHO DO YOU TRUST?
Rated A…$2.99

New Exiles #2, $2.99
Nova Annual #1, $3.99

PUNISHER: FORCE OF NATURE # 1
COVER BY: MIKE DEODATO
WRITER: DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI
ART: MICHEL LACOMBE
Hot crime author Duane Swierczynski (The Blonde) and artist Michel Lacombe (Star Wars) unleash a “Force of Nature.”
There’s nothing like chillin’ with your closest buds on a weekend fishing trip, especially when you’re about to launch the biggest criminal deal of your careers. Out here on the high seas, life is sweet. That is, until your engine explodes. And your boat sinks. And there’s no food or water. And the puking starts. And the backstabbing begins. And the only life preserver is in the hands of a man who wears a black shirt with a skull on it!
Explicit Content…$4.99

Punisher War Journal #16, $2.99
Spider-Man Family #7, $4.99
Ultimate Iron Man II #3 (of 4), $2.99

WOLVERINE # 62
COVER BY: RON GARNEY
WRITER: JASON AARON
PENCILS and INKS: RON GARNEY
“GET MYSTIQUE” PART 1
Writer Jason Aaron (Scalped) and artist Ron Garney (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) bring you a searing 4-part epilog to the biggest X-Men Event in a decade. In the searing aftermath of “Messiah CompleX,” Wolverine has just one thing on his mind: revenge. But who is the focus of his rage, and what dark secret does he share with them? And how far over the edge is Wolverine willing to go to get what he wants?
Parental Advisory…$2.99

X-Factor #28 DWS, $2.99

X-FORCE # 1 (and VARIANTS)
COVERS BY: CLAYTON CRAIN and BRYAN HITCH
WRITER: CHRISTOPHER YOST and CRAIG KYLE
PENCILS and INKS: CLAYTON CRAIN
“ANGELS AND DEMONS” Part 1 (of 6)
There are lines that the X-Men have sworn never to cross. But after the shocking events of “Messiah Complex,” Cyclops realizes that some enemies need to be dealt with permanently… and the X-Men can never know about it. Enter WOLVERINE, WARPATH, X-23 and WOLFSBANE…X-FORCE.
Parental Advisory …$2.99

Collections

CLANDESTINE CLASSIC PREMIERE HC
COVER BY: ALAN DAVIS
WRITER: ALAN DAVIS
PENCILS: ALAN DAVIS
For centuries they have lived among us – mysterious, elusive, unknowable…so what are they doing with brightly colored costumes and codenames?! Teenagers Rory and Pandora want to pull Alan Davis’s family of extra-normal outsiders into the world of heroes and villains, little knowing that M.O.D.O.K. and A.I.M. are waiting for them! Centuries-old patriarch Adam Destine knows the disastrous duo has a lot to learn about power and responsibility…and we all know who’s the web-spinning specialist on that, don’t we? Plus Adam and his super-powered scions join the X-Men in a demonic debacle against the sinister Synraith! Also guest-starring Doctor Strange, the Silver Surfer and the Invaders! Collecting CLANDESTINE #1-8, MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS #158 and X-MEN & CLANDESTINE #1-2.
Rated T+ …$29.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2742-0

EXILES VOL. 16: STARTING OVER
COVER BY: TOMM COKER
WRITERS: CHRIS CLAREMONT and MIKE RAICHT
PENCILS: CLAYTON HENRY, STEVE SCOTT, TOM GRUMMETT, ARNOLD PANDER, ZACH HOWARD, WAYNE NICHOLS, MARIO GULLY, and RONAN CLIQUETTE
The team comes back from a mission that couldn’t have turned out more bizarre, but this time Heather’s missing and the Crystal Palace is void of any signs of life. Where did the Exiles’ trusted arm-chair general disappear to? Why is the Palace empty? What new doom awaits them in the next dysfunctional dimension? Welcome new penciler Clayton (UNCANNY X-MEN) Henry and cover artist Tomm (AGENTS OF ATLAS) Coker as they join X-MEN legend Chris Claremont on a story that will change the team forever. Plus: The team may have finally found the perfect world: An Earth with no crime, hate or fear—ruled by one the most diabolical villains of the Marvel universe: Victor Von Doom! Is this some twisted façade or have the Exiles finally stumbled on to utopia? Find out in “The Dream of Two Good Men.” And finally, it’s adios, Exiles! They’ve left their footprints across the multiverse for a hundred issues, but what threat will make Blink and Co. close up shop for good? It’s not what you expect! Collecting EXILES #95-100 & EXILES: Days of Then and Now.
Rated A …$14.99

LAURELL K. HAMILTON’S ANITA BLAKE, VAMPIRE HUNTER: THE FIRST DEATH (and DM Cover) COVERS BY: BRETT BOOTH
WRITER: LAURELL K. HAMILTON and JONATHON GREEN
PENCILS: WELLINTON ALVES
Her fans have been asking for it; now, Laurell K. Hamilton delivers a look into Anita Blake’s past. Written by Laurell K. Hamilton herself, along with Jonathon Green, THE FIRST DEATH takes place almost a year before the events being chronicled in GUILTY PLEASURES. Witness the first meeting of Anita and Jean-Claude, Anita’s first time inside Guilty Pleasures, her first serial-killer case, and an early encounter with Edward. Prepare to be thrilled by this original story produced especially for comics! Collecting LAURELL K. HAMILTON’S ANITA BLAKE, VAMPIRE HUNTER: THE FIRST DEATH #1-2, plus the ANITA BLAKE, VAMPIRE HUNTER: GUILTY PLEASURES HANDBOOK.
Parental Advisory …$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2941-7

MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE UNCANNY X-MEN VOL. 6 HC (and DM Cover)
COVER BY: DAVE COCKRUM
WRITER: CHRIS CLAREMONT
PENCILS: BRENT ANDERSON, JOHN BYRNE, and DAVE COCKRUM
The X-Men return for another milestone Marvel Masterworks of beginnings, endings and maybe even the beginning of the end! Chris Claremont and John Byrne raised a rag-tag group of mutants from a burning ember to an all-out firestorm that topped the world of comics. And they’ll ride out that flame with one of the most influential X-Men stories of all — “Days of Future Past!” Feared, hated and now on the road to extinction, Marvel’s Children of the Atom face a bleak future of mutant concentration camps and a world where heroes are a thing of days gone past. Only by leaping back through time can Kitty Pryde’s future self hope to stop the events that created this dystopian nightmare!
Claremont and Byrne close out their classic run together with a fan-favorite Kitty Pryde holiday tale, but things only pick up from there with the return of the man who first delineated the all-new, all-different X-Men — Dave Cockrum!
Cockrum and Claremont put their team in a slow-pressure cooker with Arcade, Dr. Doom, Garokk and then blows its top with the return of Magneto in a double-sized anniversary extravaganza! Featuring guest-appearances by Spider-Woman, Dazzler, not to mention the debut of Mystique’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, there’s no question this one’s for the ages! Collecting X-MEN #141 and UNCANNY X-MEN #142-150.
Rated A…$54.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3014-7

SPIDER-MAN: BACK IN BLACK
COVER BY: ANGEL MEDINA
WRITER: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI and PETER DAVID
PENCILS: RON GARNEY and TODD NAUCK
The Civil War has ended: One side has won, another has lost, and all the rules have changed. With Spider-Man’s identity revealed to the world, he has exposed himself to the treachery of his oldest enemies. Peter Parker’s life has been turned upside down – and along with it, the lives of his dearest friends and family members. As this nightmare spins a treacherous web from which he cannot escape, Spider-Man embraces the darkness and finds he must make a stand – maybe his LAST stand – against some of his fiercest foes, including the Sandman, the mysterious “Other” and the deadly Kingpin. Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #539-543, and FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #17-23 and ANNUAL #1.
Rated A …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2996-7

SUB-MARINER: REVOLUTION
COVER BY: MICHAEL TURNER
WRITER: MATT CHERNISS and PETER JOHNSON
PENCILS: PHIL BRIONES
The King has returned! Fresh off of his key appearances in CIVIL WAR and WOLVERINE, Marvel’s first mutant returns in his own series that will forever change the way we look at Namor and Atlantis. A horrendous terrorist attack has struck the U.S., and all clues point to an Atlantean sleeper cell’s involvement. Now, Namor and Atlantis find themselves in the crosshairs of S.H.I.E.L.D. But is Namor to blame for the attack? Or is this just the first strike in a dark coup orchestrated by those within Atlantis who would see Namor stripped of his title and his kingdom? The half-human, half-Atlantean son of two worlds must now race between the sea and the surface to track down those responsible for the attack before Tony Stark, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. – a.k.a. Iron Man – takes him down! Written by Matt Cherniss and Peter Johnson (POWERLESS) with art by the internationally acclaimed Phil Briones (WHITE TIGER)! Collecting SUB-MARINER #1-6.
Rated T+ …$14.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2747-5

ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN VOL. 9 HC
COVER BY: MARK BAGLEY
WRITER: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
PENCILS: MARK BAGLEY
This deluxe hardcover collects ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN VOL. 17: CLONE SAGA and ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN VOL. 18: ULTIMATE KNIGHTS, plus extras. In CLONE SAGA, Spider-Man comes face-to-face with the most unexpected foe of all: Peter Parker! But Peter Parker is Spider-Man…isn’t he? Who’s who becomes a dangerous guessing game as a sinister series of clones turns Peter’s life upside-down and forces Spider-Man into a devastating confrontation with one of his oldest foes. Guest-starring the Fantastic Four, Nick Fury, the Ultimates, the X-Men and the all-new, all-different Spider-Woman! And in ULTIMATE KNIGHTS, Daredevil attempts to enlist Spider-Man in a crusade to bring down the Kingpin – permanently. But with his Aunt’s life hanging by a thread, and his serious girl problems with MJ and Kitty Pryde, crimebusting may be the last thing on young Mr. Parker’s mind. Collecting ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #97-111.
Rated A …$39.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3081-9

WOLVERINE: ORIGINS VOL. 4 – OUR WAR PREMIERE HC
COVER BY: ED MCGUINNESS
WRITER: DANIEL WAY
PENCILS: STEVE DILLON and KAARE ANDREWS
Wolverine’s history with Captain America revealed! In the early days of WWII, before America’s “official” involvement in the war, Captain America, still wet behind the ears, embarked on a clandestine mission to the island nation of Madripoor. Guess who he met there? And guess what? It wasn’t a coincidence. Collecting WOLVERINE: ORIGINS #16-20 and ANNUAL #1.
Parental Advisory …$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2638-6