New Comics & Books for 1/11/23!!!

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Featured Comics:

LAZARUS PLANET ALPHA #1 (ONE SHOT)
DC Comics
(W) Mark Waid, Gene Luen Yang (A) Riccardo Federici, Billy Tan, Various (CA) David Marquez - Alejandro Sanchez
CHANGE THE WORLD. Following the explosive (literally) events of Batman vs. Robin #4, the Lazarus Volcano has erupted, spewing dangerous and transformative chemicals into Earth's atmosphere! As these Lazarus clouds rain down upon the planet, people across the globe begin to develop strange new abilities, watch their already-extraordinary abilities change, and witness a whole host of chaos unlike anything the DCU has experienced before! It's up to Damian Wayne to put out the distress call for whoever can still hear it: come to the ruins of the Hall of Justice and help save the world! Poison Ivy, Power Girl, Cyborg, Batman, and more answer the call...but why could the fate of all life as we know it rest in the hands of...Monkey Prince?



BLACK CLOAK #1
IMAGE COMICS
(W) Kelly Thompson (A/CA) Meredith McClaren
SERIES PREMIERE
Eisner Award-winning writer KELLY THOMPSON heads to Image for the first time with BLACK CLOAK, an all-new series with artist MEREDITH McCLAREN! Blade Runner style mixes with SAGA-esque drama in a delectable fantasy/sci-fi blend as two Black Cloaks try to solve the murder of a beloved prince in Kiros, the last city in the known world, before his murder tips the city into war. The mystery begins in a spectacular TRIPLE-LENGTH FIRST ISSUE for $4.99!



AVENGERS WAR ACROSS TIME #1
MARVEL PRH
(W) Paul Levitz (A/CA) Alan Davis
Thor! Iron Man! Captain America! Giant-Man & the Wasp! The classic Avengers against the Hulk on the streets of New York! It's the beginning of a showdown with Kang the Conqueror that will span the centuries! Eisner Hall of Famer Paul Levitz makes his Marvel debut (unless you count a letter in AMAZING ADVENTURES #5) teamed with acclaimed artist Alan Davis!



NEMESIS RELOADED #1
IMAGE COMICS
(W) Mark Millar (A/CA) Jorge Jimenez
MINISERIES PREMIERE
The world's most evil comic book is back! Who is Nemesis, and why does this eccentric billionaire who dresses up in a mask and cape want to terrorize people instead of helping them? Isn't that how this is supposed to go? Trigger warning: Too violent and too cool for some!



BATMAN THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE SEASON 3 #1
DC Comics
(W) Alan Burnett, Paul Dini (A) Jordan Gibson (CA) Kevin Nowlan
Alan Burnett and Paul Dini return once more to the world of Batman: The Animated Series! Someone is targeting the Muscle now that he's locked up in Blackgate Penitentiary. With his deep ties to the criminal underbelly of Gotham, the worst villains are calling for his head before he turns them over to the police! Batman will need to protect him, but can even the Dark Knight figure out where the next attack will come from?



AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #17
MARVEL PRH
(W) Zeb Wells (A) Ed McGuinness (CA) John Romita Jr.
Round One is over! Peter Parker finds himself trapped in Limbo. Peter not only has to find his way back home, but he has to do it in a truly hellish fashion. And who is shadowing him?







Featured Books:

KAIJU NO 8 GN VOL 05
VIZ LLC
(W/A) Naoya Matsumoto
The Defense Force has taken Kafka into custody and plans to dispose of him. To save himself, Kafka attempts to plead his humanity to Director General Shinomiya, wielder of the mighty Kaiju No. 2's power and the person lauded as the strongest in Defense Force history. When Kafka's pleas fail to move the director general, he winds up facing him in combat! Can Kafka keep his kaiju form together long enough to save his own skin?



CARMILLA FIRST VAMPIRE TP
DARK HORSE COMICS
(W) Amy Chu (A/CA) Soo Lee
Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was . . . CARMILLA.
At the height of the Lunar New Year, an idealistic social worker turns detective when she discovers young, homeless LGBTQ+ women are being murdered and no one, especially the police, seems to care. A series of clues points her to Carmilla's, a mysterious nightclub in the heart of her neighborhood, Chinatown. There she falls for the next likely target, landing her at the center of a real-life horror story-and face-to-face with illusions about herself, her life, and her hidden past.
Inspired by the gothic novel that started a genre, this queer vampire murder mystery is a mesmerizing tale of identity, obsession and fateful family secrets by fan-favorite writer Amy Chu (Red Sonja, Netflix's DOTA: Dragon's Blood and fine-line illustrator Soo Lee (Ash and Thorn).



HELCK GN VOL 01
VIZ LLC
(W/A) Nanaki Nanao
After the Demon Lord is slain at the hands of a lone human warrior, humans rejoice over the end of his reign of terror. But an intense tournament gathering powerful fighters who hope to be crowned the next Demon Lord draws in the unlikeliest of contestants-Helck, who claims to hate humans but is a human himself! How will Helck change the course of the war between demons and humankind?



STAR WARS DARTH VADER BY GREG PAK TP VOL 05 SHADOWS SHADOW
MARVEL PRH
(W) Greg Pak (A) Raffaele Ienco, Marco Castiello (CA) Paul Renaud
Darth Vader in partnership with a sworn enemy! As the Dark Lord of the Sith allies with Sabé, once the handmaiden of Padmé Amidala, who is leading whom to their doom? A deep secret is revealed, and it all leads back to Padmé - and her last words. As Vader targets a corrupt Imperial governor, is he still driven by his quest for order - or has his encounter with shades from the past awoken new motivations? Meanwhile, few figures in the galaxy are more different than Sabé and the assassin Ochi of Bestoon. So when they're forced to work together and the knives inevitably come out, who's still standing at the end? Plus: We all know about Anakin Skywalker's aversion to finely ground particulate matter - and now there's a sandstorm coming for Darth Vader! Collecting STAR WARS: DARTH VADER #23-27.

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