Let’s Get Digital: The Digital Comics Report For 10/26

Posted on October 26th, 2011 - 12:05 PM by

This week comiXology is brining you almost 300 new digital comic books! That’s right it’s another record breaking week for digital comics fans with nearly something for everyone! Here is a look at a few of the books out this week from your favorite digital comic distributor, with everything from classic halloween specials to even more trades and graphic novels, It’s not a trick…Let’s Get Digital!

Same Day as Print

Wolverine and The X-Men #1: Wolverine has taken one half of the X-Men back to Westchester to start over again. SCHISM tore them apart, but can Wolverine lead the new Children of the Atom into the future?

Spaceman #1- The hulking, lonely loser Orson spends his days collecting scrap metal and dreaming of the startrekking life he was promised. But when he finds himself at the center of a celebrity child kidnapping case, he sees a chance to be a hero–but will his actions only cause more heartbreak?

Doctor Who #10-  Bodysnatchers: Part 1 of 2! Finding themselves inside an alien asylum, the Doctor, Amy, and Rory discover that many of the human patients within actually house the minds of some of the Doctor’s most terrifying enemies! As the Doctor tries to work out who has done this hideous body swap, the inmates riot… and two characters will never be the same again!

Green Wake #6- ‘LOST CHILDREN’ The next chapter of the critically acclaimed saga returns and the face of Green Wake has been forever changed. A new threat to the once-quiet shores surfaces when rowboats wash ashore with nothing but fresh blood as a passenger and a new arrival begins a campaign to unite Green Wake’s inhabitants with unknown purpose.

Pilot Season: The Beauty #1- PILOT SEASON RETURNS! TAKE CONTROL! Modern society is obsessed with outward beauty. What if there was a way to guarantee you could be come more and more beautiful every day? What if it was contagious? In the world of The Beauty, physical perfection is attainable and while the mass majority of the population has taken advantage of it, Detectives Foster and Vaughn will soon discover it comes with a terrible price. Writer/artist JEREMY HAUN (Detective Comics, ARTIFACTS) and co-writer JASON HURLEY offer up a startling reflection on the cost of looking good in this procedural science fiction tale.

New & Noteworthy in Digital:

Batman Inc. #1-8: Batman begins his international recruitment drive in Japan, with assistance from Catwoman. But when the Bat and Cat arrive in the land of the rising sun, they discover the local hero, Mr. Unknown, has been murdered!

Ghostbusters Holiday Special: What in Samhain Just Happened?- When a media mogul seeks out the Ghostbusters to fix his haunted mansion, the guys decline, assuming it’s a Halloween-themed publicity stunt. However, Janine, angry about her pay, takes the job, claiming she knows as much about ghostbusting as the guys do. She’s soon in over her head, and the Ghostbusters have to race against time to save her before she’s yanked over to the other side forever.

Kill Shakespeare #1-12- This dark take on the Bard pits his greatest heroes (Hamlet, Juliet, Othello Falstaff) against his most menacing villains (Richard III, Lady Macbeth, Iago) in an epic adventure to find and kill a reclusive wizard named William Shakespeare.?

Collections and Graphic Novels:

Moon Lake- From the hilariously demented mind of Tony Award-winning actor Dan Fogler comes Moon Lake! Moon Lake isn’t just any normal body of water – it’s a mysterious portal into the weird, drawing all manner of macabre mysteries to its shores. In the spirit of classic horror tales from EC Comics, Moon Lake combines comedy, horror and adventure into a fantastic anthology, with each story centered on the strange happenings

Syndrome- When a rogue neuropathologist makes a startling breakthrough – literally isolating the root of all evil in the recesses of the human brain – he’ll stop at nothing to advance his theory. With the help of a naive Hollywood actress, a tormented motion picture director and a condemned serial killer, Dr. Wolfe Brunswick launches a bold experiment in the Nevada desert, the outcome of which could transform humanity forever.

Grab all these books and so much more this week from comiXology. Buy ‘em once read them anywhere, on iOS, Android and The Web! Keep an eye out for more cool comics to come from the coolest digital comic apps around and don’t forget comiXology makes it easy to gift any comic purchased through the store, now that’s a real treat!


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Mike says:

Can’t buy “Pilot Season: The Beauty #1″ from within Android app :/  If you’re gonna highlight a comic, make sure people can purchase it.