Let’s Get Digital: The Digital Comics Report for February 1st, 2012
Posted on February 1st, 2012 - 15:13 PM by Kevin PearlThis week we’ve got some great digital comics coming your way! From all new Same Day as Print to the latest back issue classics to go digital! Here is a quick look at just a few of the awesome titles out and available on the comics by comiXology platform right now!
Digital Exclusive:
Transformers: Autocracy #2: 12 CHAPTER DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE SERIES! IDW Publishing proudly presents a new digital comics event five million years in the making: TRANSFORMERS: Autocracy. This 12-part series will be released as 8-page chapters every two weeks starting January 18th and running through June. Each episode priced at 99 cents. ZETA PRIME reveals his plan to the senate… and ORION PAX is sent on a new mission. With these two acts– nothing on Cybertron will ever be the same again.
Same Day as Print:
Fatale #2: The second issue of the hottest new series of 2012 is here! In modern times, Nicholas Lash searches for answers about the mysterious woman who ruined his life, while in the mid-1950s, reporter Dominic Raines is drawn down that same murderous path… The award-winning team of Brubaker and Phillips keeps the
heat on high in this epic horror noir.
Winter Solider #1: When ex-Russian Sleeper Agents awaken, Winter Solider and Black Widow head into action! It’s the brand series from superstar Captain Americ scribe Ed Brubaker and it’s available this week on the comics by comiXology platform Same Day as Print! Don’t miss it.
Batwing #6: The past looms large as Batwing’s early days as a crime fighter come to light, gaining the attention of Batman. In the present, the adventure comes full circle as Batwing faces off against Massacre in the shadows of the Pyramids of Egypt.
Justice League Beyond #1: Batman is a new recruit in the mighty Justice League, but the team will be immediately tested by a very Neo Gotham-related enemy–how will they work together to combat this threat? This all new Same Day as Print series begins now.
Warriors of Mars #1: Before John Carter, another earthman visited the Red planet: Lt. Gullivar Jones. Now these legendary warriors are brought together for the first time! When Lt. Guillivar Jones happens upon a mysterious old man with a beautiful carpet he soon finds himself transported through space and time to the planet Mars where he meets the beautiful Princess Hera and a ferocious tribe of Red Martians bent on capturing her!
Collections and Graphic Novels:
Sterling: For Jack Sterling, life is an unending bore of working for the neighborhood print shop punctuated by the occasional bar fight and the verbal sparring with his ex-girlfriend Becky. When the body of defeated vigilante, Phantom Gazer, is thrown through his window, Jack stumbles into his life-long dream of being a superhero. Taking the helmet that gave Phantom Gazer his powers, Jack also takes up the fallen hero’s quest of defeating his killer, the criminal overlord Lord Dragon.
Feeble Attempts: Collecting some of Jeffrey Brown’s favorite anthology and mini-comic stories, Feeble Attempts is at turns comedic and meaningful. It’s densely packed with autobiographical musings, political jabs, Jesus, superheroes, funny job stories, childhood goofiness, and…okay, yes, even a little adolescent relationship drama. But only a little, we promise. Another essential addition to your comics library from one of today’s funniest cartoonists.
New & Noteworthy Back Issues:
Too Much Coffee Man #1 Facsimile Edition: Too Much Coffee Man comes to BOOM! Town! Shannon Wheeler’s titan of alt-comix returns in this digital edition of the classic #1 issue. In advance of the new Too Much Coffee Man: Cutie Island graphic novel coming next year, and on the heels of Wheeler’s Eisner win for Best Humor Publication, wet your caffeine whistle with a dose of everyone’s favorite anxiety-riddled superhuman. Share in the whole-bean pathos of the stories that launched Too Much Coffee Man into 20 years of bringing us the best in angst and hilarity!
The Twelve #1-9: A dozen Mystery Men from the “greatest generation” of World War Two find themselves thrust into the morally-gray world of the 21st century! Now, they must seek a place for themselves in the modern day while a silent killer seeks to eliminate them! The time-stranded heroes of World War II are back and one of the Twelve shall fall! Who’s behind the mysterious killings? Pick up issues #1-8 as well as long awaited issue #9 in this fantastic Marvel series today!
Soulfire: New World Order #0-1: The power of magic has returned, and people across the globe are discovering their strange and sometimes disturbing relationship to the Light. As old allies arrive to search for the missing light bearer, another ominous force is gaining power, intent
on making his mark on the world – even if it leads to the destruction of mankind! This gripping new mini-series serves as the direct lead-in to the exciting premiere of Soulfire: Volume Two and is packed with concept sketches and character designs.
Red Light Properties: A Series of Tubes: Dan Goldman brings his amazing creator owned series to comiXology! Down in the Florida Keys, Red Light Properties is charged with cleaning a luxurious ocean-front home of the last remaining traces of the kidnapped young boy who lived there until the day he never came home.
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