Picks of the Week: 12/09/15

Secret Wars comes one step closer to wrapping up, DKIII #1 gets a stunning collectors edition, and Capt. Kirk and Hal Jordan try to save both their universes in the finale of the surprisingly awesome Star Trek / Green Lantern mini-series! This is a huge week for new releases and here are our picks of the week:

NINJAK #10 CVR A BRAITHWAITE (NEW ARC) | Picked by Josh

Publisher: VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC
(W) Matt Kindt (A) Doug Braithwaite, Juan Jose Ryp (CA) Doug Braithwaite
ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT! A SPECIAL FOUR-ISSUE EVENT! "OPERATION: DEADSIDE" STARTS HERE! In December of 2015, a covert military intelligence unit sent a team of 20 agents and one special operative into a parallel dimension. Only one came back.
The purpose of their mission was classified. Now, out of options, MI-6 has recruited their most elite operative - codename: NINJAK - to follow the doomed mission's sole witness back into the dimension called Deadside...and bring her missing teammates home.
What will they find there? And who will be waiting for them? Jump on board here as New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY) and superstar artist Doug Braithwaite (ARMOR HUNTERS) reunite for a terrifying journey into an unknown plane of existence...and bring NINJAK head-to-head with SHADOWMAN in the all-new, four-part epic "OPERATION: DEADSIDE"!
Plus: an all-new chapter of "THE LOST FILES" begins, featuring explosive artwork by Juan José Ryp (Clone)!

DARK KNIGHT III MASTER RACE #1 (OF 8) COLLECTORS ED HC | Picked by Josh & Pat

Publisher: DC COMICS
(W) Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello (A) Andy Kubert & Various (CA) Jim Lee
This oversized hardcover collects both stories from DARK KNIGHT III: THE MASTER RACE #1 at the same size!

STAR TREK GREEN LANTERN #6 (OF 6) | Picked by Josh & Pat

Publisher: IDW PUBLISHING
(W) Mike Johnson (A) Angel Hernandez (CA) Stephen Mooney
It's the final chapter of the crossover event of 2015! The dead have risen. Heroes have fallen. The last survivors of Starfleet and the Lantern Corps join together to fight the greatest threat the galaxy has ever known. Who will be left standing? Don't miss the shocking events that will change the future of both franchises forever!

REBELS #9 | Picked by Pat & Dave

Publisher: DARK HORSE COMICS
(W) Brian Wood (A) Andrea Mutti (CA) Tula Lotay
Before the Revolutionary War, across the Ohio River Valley, numerous forts were built to claim and hold valuable territory. Meet Stone Hoof, a young Native American who falls in with a crew of white settlers during the French and Indian War.

THE MASSIVE: NINTH WAVE #1 | Picked by Dave

Publisher: DARK HORSE COMICS
(W) Brian Wood (A) Garry Brown (CA) John Paul Leon
In the pages of The Massive, Ninth Wave was struggling to repair a broken world. But before that, they were the preeminent global environmental-rescue unit, taking on criminals, polluters, politicians, and rogue states. The Massive: Ninth Wave tells these stories in a stylish, high-action, done-in-one format, reuniting the entire creative team from the original series. 

WE STAND ON GUARD #6 (OF 6) (MR) | Picked by Dave

Publisher: IMAGE COMICS
(W) Brian K. Vaughan (A/CA) Steve Skroce
    MINISERIES CONCLUSION
The smash-hit miniseries reaches its epic FINAL ISSUE with explosive battles and shocking revelations... but how will things end for the Great White North?

NEW ROMANCER #1 (OF 6) (MR) | Picked by Colin

Publisher: DC COMICS
(W) Peter Milligan (A/CA) Brett Parson
Fired from a cushy job in Silicon Valley, Lexy becomes a coder for New Romancer, an Internet-dating app that's seen better days. To create fake profiles, she plunders characteristics from history's most notorious lovers. Using little-known writings by Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer, Lexy pushes the boundaries of coding and accidentally unleashes history's greatest lover: Lord Byron. Online dating meets courtly love in this paranormal rom-com by Vertigo veteran writer Peter Milligan and rising art-star Brett Parson (Tank Girl).

SYMMETRY #1 | Picked by Colin

Publisher: IMAGE COMICS
(W) Matt Hawkins (A/CA) Raffaele Ienco
Utopia is here. Hunger, sickness, work...all relics of a long forgotten past. For the greater good of the human species, all individuality, creativity, and negative emotions have been genetically bred out and medically suppressed. The population is limited to segregated areas where people lead long lives of leisure, games, and socializing.  Only one man and one woman seem to notice, care, or think differently. Once they find each other, their relationship sparks a revolution...but will their love cause the salvation or destruction of mankind?

BATMAN / TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #1 (OF 6) | Picked by Adam & Colin

Publisher: DC COMICS
(W) James TynionIV (A/CA) Freddie Williams
DC Comics and IDW team up for the crossover you never saw coming as two of the greatest entertainment icons meet for the first time! In Gotham City, a series of deadly raids leads Batman to believe he's up against a group of highly trained ninjas known as the Foot Clan! Somehow, they've crossed over to another dimension and are determined to take advantage of the situation while looking to get back home. But they haven't come alone: Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo are hot on their trail. Get ready for excitement as heroes and villains from both worlds clash and team up in an epic battle that threatens the very fabric of reality!

BATMAN #47 | Picked by Adam

Publisher: DC COMICS
(W) Scott Snyder (A/CA) Greg Capullo, Danny Miki
While Jim Gordon is in the fight of his life against Mr. Bloom, Bruce Wayne discovers a shocking secret about his past that will change everything in Gotham City!
This issue features open-to-order variant covers by Alex Ross that will be shipped in opaque polybags.

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #4 | Picked by Adam

Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Dan Slott (A) Giuseppe Camuncoli (CA) Alex Ross
• Not only has Spider-Man gone global - so have his enemies!
•  Someone in Africa is masquerading as a member of the GOBLIN family!
•  Where there's goblins, there's Spidey, and it's up to everyone's favorite wall-crawler to get to the bottom of what's going on!
Posted in Coming Wednesday.