Picks of the Week: 06/01/2016

BATMAN REBIRTH #1 | Picked by Josh, Pat, Adam, & Colin

Publisher: DC COMICS
(W) Tom King, Scott Snyder (A/CA) Mikel Janin
Longtime Batman and Eisner Award winning writer Scott Snyder co-writes with rising star writer Tom King!
EVIL 365: Gotham City faces the threat of the Calendar Man!

CIVIL WAR II #1 (OF 7) | Picked by Colin & Dave

Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Brian Michael Bendis (A) David Marquez (CA) Marko Djurdjevic
IT'S HERE!
The explosive first chapter in the comic event EVERYONE will be talking about. And we come out swinging with a blistering double-sized first issue from the creative team behind last year's best-selling debut of INVINCIBLE IRON MAN and Miles Morales. A new Inhuman, with the ability to profile the future, emerges and the ramifications ripple into every corner of the Marvel Universe. Lines are drawn, bodies fall, and the Marvel Universe will be rocked to it's very core. The action starts here!

STRANGE ATTRACTORS #1 (MR) | Picked by Colin

Publisher: BOOM! STUDIOS
(W) Charles Soule (A) Greg Scott, Soo Lee (CA) Scott Newman, Greg Scott
What's to Love: Writer Charles Soule (Daredevil, Civil War) crafted a mind-bending story about how chaos math kept New York City from collapsing under itself. Presented for the first time as a limited series, each oversized issue of Strange Attractors features 30 pages of content, including new, never-before-seen bonus story pages.

What It Is: Dr. Brownfield believes that a series of cataclysmic events are coming to New York City, and someone has to keep the city safe after he's gone. Enter Heller Wilson, a brilliant mathematics student, who discovers that his ailing, perhaps insane, mentor has been saving New York City from societal collapse by a series of "adjustments," a la the Butterfly Effect. But now, all signs point toward an impending disaster. Can Wilson take what little he's learned and save the city in time?

4001 AD #2 (OF 4) | Picked by Josh, Pat, & Adam

Publisher: VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC
(W) Matt Kindt (A/CA) Clayton Crain
The most ambitious comics event of 2016 brings war to the 41st century - with Rai leading the charge!
Rai is smashing headfirst into New Japan with his team of hardened rebels - including the Eternal Warrior and a giant X-O Manowar mecha-armor that's been dormant for centuries!  But when Father transforms New Japan into a impenetrable space dragon as a defense of last resort, what hopes will the united heroes of 4001 A.D. have of freeing the citizens of New Japan from Father's brutal reign? Will Rai have to destroy New Japan...to save it?  
New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY II) and superstar artist Clayton Crain (X-Force) bring their starling vision of the year 4001 A.D. to new heights...with the fate of New Japan floating in the balance!

GREEN LANTERNS REBIRTH #1 | Picked by Josh

Publisher: DC COMICS
(W) Geoff Johns, Sam Humphries (A/CA) Ethan Van
Creative powerhouse Geoff Johns puts the ring on again as he, cowriter Sam Humphries and artist Ethan Van Sciver debut a new era of emerald greatness! Rookie Green Lanterns Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz tackle the universe's toughest beat: Earth.
HOT TICKET: Geoff and Ethan brought Hal Jordan to epic status with the original GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH.

MOON KNIGHT #3 | Picked by Pat

Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Jeff Lemire (A/CA) Greg Smallwood
"LET YOUR INSANITY GUIDE YOU"
•  Marc Spector has escaped into the subway tunnels below the mental hospital.
•  MOON KNIGHT has escaped into the tombs beneath the prison where he had been trapped by SETH, god of violence and disorder.
•  Are all the timelines true, or none of them? Either way, there are monsters and mummies to punch, and a man in a white mask ready to do it.

OLD MAN LOGAN #7 | Picked by Adam

Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
(W) Jeff Lemire (A/CA) Andrea Sorrentino
• This is Logan at his most fundamental: back to the wall, his survival riding only on his wits, his determination and his Adamantium claws.
•  When Lady Deathstrike and her murderous gang of Reavers follow Old Man Logan to the isolated town of Killhorn Falls, it's up to Logan to fend off his attackers while protecting the civilians-including the girl who will one day grow up and become his wife.
•  It's the ultimate cage match...and EVERYTHING Old Man Logan cares about is on the line!

PAPER GIRLS #6 | Picked by Dave

Publisher: IMAGE COMICS
(W) Brian K. Vaughan (A/CA) Cliff Chang
NEW STORY ARC!
The smash-hit ongoing series returns with a bold new direction, as Erin, Mac, and Tiffany find themselves launched from 1988 to a distant and terrifying future.

ROUGH RIDERS #3 | Picked by Dave

Publisher: AFTERSHOCK COMICS
(W) Adam Glass (A) Pat Oliffe (CA) Pat Olliffe
Operating in a strange land with newly forged alliances, Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders race against time to uncover their true enemy before war breaks out and innocent blood is shed.  But what they'll soon discover is that everyone is an adversary and what once was a mission of discovery has become a game of survival as one of our Riders is about to take a dirt nap for good.
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