(W/A/CA) Gabriel Rodriguez
The reluctant warrior Avalon meets new partners of questionable motives as her quest to prevent a power struggle from exploding across her planet continues. Will the guardian of the Sacred Lake help on her quest or present an even greater challenge? Covenants are sworn, unknown magic forces get revealed and a new power rises in this series written and drawn by acclaimed Locke & Key co-creator Gabriel Rodriguez!
(W) Mark Waid & Various (A) Pepe Larraz (CA) Mark Brooks
NO SURRENDER Part 1
AVENGERS goes WEEKLY for the stunning sixteen-part saga that will write the end of an era!
The Earth has been STOLEN! The sky burns while mysterious cosmic objects crash down from above, wreaking havoc across the world! The Avengers are the last line of defense between Earth and the mysterious forces threatening to tear it apart. It's time to ASSEMBLE! The teams you know and love from AVENGERS, UNCANNY AVENGERS, U.S.AVENGERS and OCCUPY AVENGERS come together to face a threat beyond any they've faced before in a weekly epic adventure that will define the future of Earth's Mightiest Heroes!
Rated T+
(W) Ethan Sacks (A/CA) Marco Checchetto
AN EYE FOR AN EYE Part 1
The super heroes have fallen. The country has been divided into territories controlled by super villains. Among the wastelands lives CLINT BARTON - one of the few Avengers to survive. But it's been 45 years, and he's no Avenger. Trying to eke out a living anyway he can, the former HAWKEYE is confronted with a startling discovery: the sharpshooter is going blind. With time running short, Clint realizes there's one last thing he wants to see: revenge for his fallen comrades-in-arms.
Rising-star writer ETHAN SACKS and superstar artist MARCO CHECCHETTO take you back to the Wastelands in a story set five years before the original classic OLD MAN LOGAN.
Rated Parental Advisory
Kicking off the new year with a countdown of the final 4 episodes filmed in the hallowed halls of Zanadu Comics, the CSSG team fills you in on all the best comics hitting the stands this week.
X-MEN GRAND DESIGN #2 (OF 2)
MARVEL COMICS
(W/A/CA) Ed Piskor
• Revisit all of X-Men history with Eisner-winning writer/artist Ed Piskor!!!
• Relive the biggest moments in X-Men history: The flight of the Sentinels! The discovery of the Savage Land!! The death of Charles Xavier!!!
• For the X-Fan inside everyone!
Rated T+
EXIT STAGE LEFT THE SNAGGLEPUSS CHRONICLES #1 (OF 6)
DC COMICS
(W) Mark Russell (A) Mike Feehan (CA) Ben Caldwell
It's 1953. While the United States is locked in a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, the gay Southern playwright known as Snagglepuss is the toast of Broadway. But success has made him a target. As he plans for his next hit play, Snagglepuss becomes the focus of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. And when powerful forces align to purge show business of its most subversive voices, no one is safe!
Drama! Humor! Tragedy! It all starts in Exit Stage LEFT: The Snagglepuss Chronicles #1, a new miniseries from the writer who brought you the Flintstones.
RATED T+
CAPTAIN AMERICA #697
MARVEL COMICS
(W) Mark Waid (A/CA) Chris Samnee
HOME OF THE BRAVE PART Part 3
Kraven the Hunter has a new target - and it's Steve Rogers! Trapped in unfamiliar territory, stripped of his shield and on the run, Cap must find a way to evade Kraven long enough to save an innocent life - but this time, that might be impossible! And just wait until you see the final page...
Rated T+
BATMAN AND THE SIGNAL #1 (OF 3)
DC COMICS
(W) Scott Snyder, Tony Patrick (A/CA) Cully Hamner
Batman may own the night, but with new villains emerging during the day he needs an ally to defend the city when he can't. Only one teen is up to the challenge, Duke Thomas. After months of training, he's ready to step out of the shadow of the bat to become his own kind of hero. Meet Gotham City's newest protector: The Signal! Spinning out of adventures in ALL-STAR BATMAN and WE ARE ROBIN, comics superstar Scott Snyder and newcomer Tony Patrick take our young hero to new heights in this exciting miniseries with artwork by Cully Hamner.
GRAVEDIGGERS UNION #3 (MR)
IMAGE COMICS
(W) Wes Craig (A) Toby Cypress & Various (CA) Wes Craig
What is the key that will release the Dark Gods?
Desperate to prove herself as the true prophet of the apocalypse, Morgan embarks on a darkly mystical journey that may tear her apart. Meanwhile, to find the location of Morgan and the Black Temple, the Gravediggers have to do battle with one of the strangest creatures they've ever encountered: the Yuppie-Vampire!
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ROGUE & GAMBIT #1 (OF 5)
MARVEL COMICS
(W) Kelly Thompson (A) Pere Perez (CA) Kris Anka
Ring of Fire Part 1
Everybody's favorite X-couple is reunited! And boy, are they not happy about that... Kitty Pryde must send Rogue and Gambit on an undercover mission to find a group of kidnapped mutants. What they discover on this mission will shock them. But will it also bring them closer together...? It's a high-stakes adventure caper that only the two hottest X-Men can deliver!
Rated T+
Team CSSG is here with your final transmission for 2017! We hope everyone had a great holiday and be safe out there on the streets of the city on New Year's Eve. People get stupid. Be smart. Think. Enough life lessons, the future is just around the bend, kids--keep it weird! Thank you all so so much for your support this year! It means everything to us here at the MIGHTY ZANADU!
New Comic Book Day releases for comics shipping Wednesday, December 27th! Be sure to watch the new episode of Comics Should Smell Good on Wednesday morning for a full breakdown of this week's best books by your favorite comic monkeys in all of Internet Land!
(W) Bryan Hill (A/CA) Rhoald Marcellius
"THE MASK IS WHO YOU ARE"
In a near future, a sprawling megalopolis sees the rise of "Boneheads" parkour-gangs that use neuro-linked helmets to augment their abilities and live for the thrill of physical risk. As a gang war threatens to tear the city apart, a mysterious Bonehead rises, a man with no past that might be the key to saving the city's future. From writer BRYAN HILL (POSTAL) and artist RHOALD MARCELLIUS ( Marvel's Contest of Champions ) comes a story about technological and human revolution.
(W) Kurt Busiek (A/CA) John Paul Leon
In a world where Batman is only a comic book character, young Bruce Wainwright is starting to feel a surprising strength and power grow inside him...and after years of mourning the loss of his parents, that power feels good--intoxicating, even! The question is, to what use will he put it?
RATED T+
(W) Matthew Rosenberg (A) Leinil Francis Yu
She will return, like a Phoenix from the ashes.
Years ago, Jean Grey died and the X-Men mourned her. Since then, the world has changed, her teammates have lived without her and died without her. And now, when strange events start happening all over the world, those teammates can only come to one conclusion - the one true Jean Grey is back!
Rated T+
(W) Tom Scioli, John Barber (A/CA) Tom Scioli
Earth makes contact with an alien race-and G.I. JOE is on the front lines! But, when the Transformers arrive-well, let's just say you've never seen Transformers vs G.I. JOE like this! This oversized deluxe hardcover collects all 13 issues, including commentary and extras by creators Tom Scioli and John Barber! What happens if you let Tom Scioli design a massive hardcover collection of his insane, genre-bending, license-smashing, Hasbro-blessed epic? Buy and find out.
(W) Sholly Fisch (A/CA) Dario Brizuela
The Legion of Super Heroes' clubhouse is haunted-and the only one who can crack the case is that so-called "legendary ghost-hunter from history," Scooby-Doo. It's up to Scooby and the gang when the 31st Century heroes whisk them back to the future to solve the mystery of "The Ghost of Ferro Lad!"
RATED E
(W) Geoff Johns (A/CA) Gary Frank
DC and Watchmen characters collide at last! The story that began in DC UNIVERSE: REBIRTH #1 comes to a thrilling and unexpected crescendo in the pages of this titanic twelve-issue series by the all-star team that brought you BATMAN: EARTH ONE and SHAZAM!
In this second chapter: The Dark Knight discovers another relic from the Watchmen world. Lex Luthor pays a devil's bargain. And killer clowns trek through Gotham seeking a madman.
RATED T+
Time is running short for all you last minute holiday shoppers out there in the Emerald City, but never fear, the mighty ZANADU has got your back! Our CLOSING SALE is still going on, which while unfortunate, means YOU get to save some money and find these comics a good home before it's too late! Hurry in today and find that special someone that special something! Even if it's yourself!
Full sale details on our event page
Buy local this Holiday season and thank you all for your support these past 42 years!!
Christmas has come early this year, baby!! Today sees the release of a gamma powered double punch of pure comic perfection in the form of NIGHT BUSINESS by Benjamin Marra and X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN by Ed Piskor!! First, get ready to cruise a neon wave of sleazy, 1980s themed hard core street walking sequentials in the NIGHT BUSINESS hardcover from Fantagraphics, (complete for the first time!) Then ready yourself for the hallowed recordings of the Watcher as he lays down time and space at your feet to give you the history of Marvel's mutants through pure cosmic knowledge in X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN! Of course there are all sorts of other good stuff this week, but new Marra and Piskor is true cause to celebrate!
Finally, may all our CSSG viewers have a great holiday season and thank you so much for watching the monkeys rant all year. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL FROM THE MIGHTY ZANADU!
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