Let’s Get Digital: The Digital Comics Report for 4/25/2012

Wow! What a Wednesday, and it’s not over yet. We’ve got a ton of great new comics out today – plus our 3 day TRANSFORMERS sale is in full swing – without further delay we’ve got your list of a few of the hot books on comiXology this week just to help get you started. Take a look and tell us what you picked up over on Twitter, Facebook and even Google Plus! What are you waiting for? Let’s Get Digital:

Same Day as Print

Popeye #1: Popeye the Sailor Man sails again! E.C Segar’s classic creation is back, with his first original comic in over 30 years! Written by the Eisner Award-winning Roger Landridge (The Muppets), with pitch-perfect art from rising star Bruce Ozella, it’s a new take on the classic character that’s true to its roots! With a rare incentive cover from legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer!

Daredevil Vol. 3 #11: THE OMEGA EFFECT TIE-IN Daredevil and Spider-Man join Frank Castle in an epic battle against the New York crime syndicate. Could this be the beginning of an astonishing alliance the likes of which the Marvel U has never seen before?

The Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City: PTERODACTYL HUNTERS is a story of sibling rivalry and family tradition in a rapidly changing world: a version of 1904 New York where generations of working-class hot-air-balloonists take to the skies each night to defend their city from a dwindling population of pterodactyls. In this town, heroic hunter Eamon Sullivan dominates the headlines, while his brother Declan, a nightwatchman, tires of looking on. As the last pterodactyl and its trackers circle each other above four-story tenements, brick smokestacks, and wooden watchtowers, a face-to-face showdown may prove to be the end for all of them. The Pterodactyl Hunters (in the Gilded City) received a prestigious Xeric Award in 2010 and was included in Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Comics of 2011.

Collections and Graphic Novels

Dark Shadows Vol. 1: Collecting the first four issues of Dynamite’s Dark Shadows series, along with a complete cover gallery and other bonus materials! Television’s original reluctant vampire is back! Barnabas Collins is re-adjusting to life under his vampiric curse. Haunted by terrifying dreams of his age-old lover and nemesis, Angelique, and fighting his bloodlust, Barnabas fears that danger lies ahead for all who live at Collinwood. Meanwhile, Barnabas’ ally and trusted friend Dr. Julia Hoffman is harboring secrets of her own…

George R.R. Martin’s: Doorways: 105 pages! Doctor Thomas Mason had a regular life, with a regular job, and a regular girlfriend. Until one night, zapped from somewhere else, a mysterious young woman named Cat ends up in his E.R. Pursued by the government and twisted creatures from her own world, Cat inadvertently embroils Tom in her quest for freedom. A quest that takes him to alternative Earths he never imagined… and from which he may never return!

Phoenix Without Ashes: 109 pages! Harlan Ellison, one of the Grand Masters of science fiction and a multiple Hugo-, Nebula-, and Edgar Award-winner, returns to his roots with the graphic novel, Phoenix Without Ashes. The year is 2785, and Devon, a farmer banished for challenging his community’s Elders, discovers a secret that changes everything he knew about the world, leading him on a quest to solve a mystery beyond his understanding before his entire world is destroyed in cataclysm.

New And Noteworthy

 Tank Girl Classic #1 – 5: The original Tank Girl comics, in stunning black and white as they were meant to be seen! Ripped from the pages of classic cult comics mag Deadline and tarted up to their original glory, don’t miss these anarchic tales in all their world-striding majesty!

Hellblazer #177 – 178: “Red Sepulchre” part 1! Back in the Smoke for the first time in two years, John has walked into the middle of an ugly range war between rival groups of magicians. Like it or not, he’s going to have to choose a side; and it would help if he knew which faction wants him dead.