Picks of the Week: 12/02/15

Still recovering from an epic battle with a bowl of stuffing? Kick back and relax with these picks of the week:

ROBIN WAR #1 (OF 2) | Picked by Josh, Colin, Adam, & Pat

Publisher: DC COMICS
(W) Tom King (A/CA) Khary Randolph
In part 1 of this new epic, it's Robins vs. cops! Robins vs. Robins! Robins vs. Batman! And Robins vs. the Court of Owls?!
Damian Wayne returns to Gotham City, and he is not happy. There are kids all over the city calling themselves Robin, Bruce Wayne is no longer Batman and the GCPD, led by the new, armored-up Batman, is cracking down on anybody wearing the "R." And things only get worse when Red Hood, Red Robin and Grayson all come back to Gotham City...

PREZ #6 (OF 6) | Picked by Josh, Dave, & Adam

Publisher: DC COMICS
(W) Mark Russell (A/CA) Ben Caldwell
As the cat flu ravages the nation, President Ross has to ward off an angry Senate, while her transgender robot bodyguard saves her from virus rights protesters.

JAMES BOND #2 | Picked by Pat & Adam

Publisher: D. E.
(W) Warren Ellis (A) Jason Masters (CA) Dom Reardon
James Bond is in Berlin, alone, unarmed and with no idea of the forces ranged in secret against him.  If he can make it to the Embassy, he might survive for a few hours more.  But he's getting into that car with that woman, which means he has only minutes to live...

SHERIFF OF BABYLON #1 (OF 8) (MR) | Picked by Colin

Publisher: DC COMICS
(W) Tom King (A) Mitch Gerads (CA) John Paul Leon
  Baghdad, 2003. Florida Police officer-turned-military contractor, Chris Henry is tasked with training a new Iraqi police force. When one of his trainees ends up dead, Chris is forced to team up with Nassir, the last remaining cop in Baghdad. Pulling the strings to bring them together is the mysterious Sofia, an American-educated Iraqi who has returned to take control of the city's criminal underworld. This miniseries is a thrilling wartime crime drama told amid one of the most tumultuous times in modern history.
THE SHERIFF OF BABYLON is a new eight-issue miniseries pulled from GRAYSON cowriter Tom King's real-life experience as a CIA operations officer and is illustrated by Mitch Gerads, cocreator of The Activity.

WE CAN NEVER GO HOME #5 (OF 5) (MR) | Picked by Colin

Publisher: BLACK MASK COMICS
(W) Patrick Kindlon, Matthew Rosenberg (A) Josh Hood (CA) Michael Walsh
All roads end.

DAREDEVIL #1 | Picked by Pat

Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Charles Soule (A/CA) Ron Garney
Back in black and on his home turf, Daredevil begins again in New York City as a new enemy emerges. Meanwhile his alter ego, Matt Murdock, is on a new side of the law in the District Attorney's office. Fighting crime in the shadows, prosecuting bad guys in the light, it's a whole new chapter for our man without fear-including the arrival of the devil's advocate. Welcome to Hell, Blindspot.

PAPER GIRLS #3 | Picked by Dave

Publisher: IMAGE COMICS
(W) Brian K. Vaughan (A/CA) Cliff Chang
The ongoing mystery series from BRIAN K. VAUGHAN & CLIFF CHIANG

X-FILES SEASON 11 #5 | Picked by Dave

Publisher: IDW PUBLISHING
(W) Joe Harris (A) Matthew Dow Smith (CA) Menton3
In this standalone tale, we delve in the past of Gibson Praise, the current source of antagonism for agents Scully and Mulder. The Syndicate wasn't the only faction that pursued the child prodigy-and continues to do so to this day...
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