New Comics & Books for 5/4/22!!!

Featured Comics:

STAR WARS OBI-WAN KENOBI #1
MARVEL PRH
(W) Christopher Cantwell (A) Ario Anindito (CA) Phil Noto
FAST APPROACHES THE ULTIMATE DESTINY OF ONE OF THE JEDI'S MOST RENOWNED MASTERS!
• As he spends his final days in the remote deserts of Tatooine, Obi-Wan Kenobi takes time to reflect on - and record - key moments of a heroic life long-lived.
• Writing in old leather-bound journals from his hermit's hut, Obi-Wan remembers his days as a young Jedi Initiate, his trials as a Padawan, the crucible of Jedi Knighthood and the Clone Wars, and some of the earliest challenges he faced as a true Master of the Force!
• In this tale, Obi-Wan considers a watershed Youngling adventure he narrowly survived on Coruscant when he was but eight years of age...
• This is just the beginning of his Jedi journey!



TWIG #1
IMAGE COMICS
(W) Skottie Young (A/CA) Kyle Strahm
SERIES PREMIERE
Eisner Award-winning I HATE FAIRYLAND and MIDDLEWEST writer SKOTTIE YOUNG and artist KYLE STRAHM (SPREAD, UNEARTH) come together for an all-new epic fantasy/adventure miniseries!
It's the first day of Twig's new job as a journeyer on a JEFF SMITH's Bone-esque quest to save a The Dark Crystal/Labyrinth-style world. Join our hesitant hero for an inspiring and imaginative tale of hope, heartache, and determination to overcome insurmountable odds!



FLASHPOINT BEYOND #1
DC Comics
(W) Geoff Johns, Jeremy Adams, Tim Sheridan (A) Xermanico (CA) Mitch Gerads
Batman’s hunt for the Clockwork Killer brings him to Europe and face to face with the mad king, Aquaman. On the eve of Aquaman’s sinking of London, Batman infiltrates his stronghold and goes on the warpath for answers. Nothing matters to Batman, whose world is already dead, but if he can track down the Clockwork Killer, Thomas can save his son’s world and put everything back together again.



QUESTS ASIDE #1
VAULT COMICS
(W) Brian Schirmer (A/CA) Elena Gogou
A skeleton, an apprentice mage, and an exiled princess walk into a bar... for another shift at Quests Aside, the local watering hole run by once legendary, now retired adventurer Barrow.
When the King privately explains that he plans to shut the place down, Barrow must find a way to hold onto his business and the family he's built around it.
It's always sunny in the realms!



BATMAN BEYOND THE WHITE KNIGHT #1 Second Printing
DC Comics
(W/A/CA) Sean Murphy
A lot can change in 10 years, especially in Gotham! Batman, a.k.a. Bruce Wayne, may be behind bars, but the real criminals are still out there. Gotham Motors CEO Derek Powers has seized control of the Wayne family’s assets and is using them to transform the GTO and the city they’ve sworn to protect. Crime is down, but at what cost? A new Batman has emerged in Powers’s city, and only Bruce is fully aware of the dangers to come. It’s time to destroy the mantle for good, but he’ll need one of his forgotten sons’ help to do so. Enter Jason Todd…the first Robin?! In this thrilling sequel to the blockbuster comic book hits Batman: White Knight and Batman: Curse of the White Knight, writer/artist Sean Murphy invites the audience to go beyond the Gotham they know to discover an engrossing new take on the city and its heroes. Welcome to Neo-Gotham and the world of Beyond the White Knight!



SPIDER-MAN 2099 EXODUS ALPHA #1
MARVEL PRH
(W) Steve Orlando (A) Paul Fry (CA) Leinil Francis Yu
MIGUEL O'HARA IS BACK!
• After fighting battles across the timestream, MIGUEL O'HARA is at last back defending hispresent and our our future!
• For SPIDER-MAN 2099, the only thing constant about life in Nueva York is change.
• So when a cataclysmic crash creates a new Garden of Eden in what was once the American Wastelands, Spider-Man knows exactly what the next atrocity will be.
• Watch as THE CABAL plans to set society ablaze - and you'll never guess who is leading them!




Featured Books:

DEFENDERS TP THERE ARE NO RULES
MARVEL PRH
(W) Al Ewing (A/CA) Javier Rodriguez
Al Ewing and Javier Rodríguez reunite for a cosmos-colliding journey! When existence itself faces extraordinary threats, it needs an extraordinary defense! That's when you call...the Defenders! Doctor Strange and the Masked Raider gather a non-team of Marvel's weirdest, wildest heroes for a mission that will uncover the hidden architecture of reality itself! This cosmos was not the first to exist - but if the Defenders can't track Marvel's oldest villain through the deepest trenches of time, it might be the last! The group must travel to the long-extinct previous cosmos, the birthplace of Galactus - but the Devourer is not the man they remember. Meet Taaia, Omnimax and more as Marvel history expands and Doctor Strange's makeshift Defenders face extreme jeopardy! Collecting DEFENDERS (2021) #1-5.



GHOST RIDER EPIC COLLECTION TP HELL ON WHEELS
MARVEL PRH
(W) Gary Friedrich, VARIOUS (A) Mike Ploog, VARIOUS (CA) Gil Kane
In 1972, one of the most iconic characters in comics history - the flame-skulled Ghost Rider - burned his demonic presence into readers' minds! A legion of fans became addicted to the Rider's combination of hell-on-wheels drama and action-horror adventure. And it begins right here as Johnny Blaze makes a deal with the devil to save his friend's life! The payment due? Transformation into the Ghost Rider! The adventures that follow will take the horror hero to Hell to battle Satan, pit him against the tempting Witch-Woman and team him up with Daimon Hellstrom, the Son of Satan! Written by Gary Friedrich and Tony Isabella - and gloriously illustrated by Mike Ploog, Tom Sutton and Jim Mooney - these iconic adventures laid the groundwork for decades of red-hot action! Collecting MARVEL SPOTLIGHT (1971) #5-12, GHOST RIDER (1973) #1-11 and MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #15.



SANDMAN BOOK 03 TP
DC Comics
(W) Neil Gaiman (A) Various (CA) Dave McKean
Art by Jill Thompson, Bryan Talbot, and others Centuries ago, one of the Endless gave up his duties and left his realm, never to be seen again. Now on a mission to find their missing sibling, Delirium and Dream encounter immortal humans and various deities as they try to locate the prodigal Destruction. But as their adventure draws Dream into a final, tragic confrontation with his son Orpheus, the eternal being learns the true meaning of fate and consequences. Neil Gaiman’s epic continues in The Sandman Book Three, collecting issues #38-56 and a story from Vertigo Preview #1.



X-MEN LEGENDS TP VOL 02 MUTANT MAYHEM
MARVEL PRH
(W) Larry Hama, Various (A) Billy Tan, Various (CA) Dan Jurgens
Continue your mutant-filled mystery tour through X-Men history! First, Larry Hama returns to the dream team of Wolverine and Jubilee in an all-new adventure that pits the duo against a host of their deadliest foes! When two young mutants disappear, our heroes set off for Japan to track them down. But Lady Deathstrike and the Hand have their own designs on Logan and Jubilation, and it'll take no small measure of blood, sweat and adamantium to change their minds! Then, Fabian Nicieza pulls the strings as Mister Sinister assembles some of the world's greatest experts on mutantkind to discuss the evolution of Homo superior - but to what devious end?! And Louise and Walter Simonson present the never-before-seen link between the New Mutants and Apocalypse! Then Chris Claremont teams with Scot Eaton to revisit the days when the world believed the X-Men were dead, as Nightcrawler and Shadowcat must save a friend from a deadly plot in a prelude to Excalibur! Collecting X-MEN LEGENDS #7-12.