New Marvel and Indie Comics Releasing Wednesday, December 16th!

BLACK CAT #1
(W) Jed MacKay (A) C.F. Villa, Nina Vakueya (CA) Taurin Clarke

THE CAT IN BLACK IS BACK!
Feeling lucky? Knull’s attack on Earth interrupts the Black Cat’s latest heist, and if you know Felicia, you know that’s a problem. So the Cat and her crew aim to steal something of greatest value to both Knull and Earth’s hope of survival. You’ll have to pick up this issue to find out what! This issue guest-stars the X-Men! Captain America! And Doctor Strange! DO NOT MISS IT!!!
Rated T+ 

BLADE RUNNER 2029 #1 
(W) Michael Green, Mike Johnson (A) Andres Guinaldo, Peach Momoko

The first comic to tell original, in-canon stories set in the Blade Runner universe
returns! It is 2029 and Blade Runner Ash continues to hunt the streets of the rain-
soaked dystopian world of Los Angeles for renegade Replicants, but this time she’s
trying to protect as many as she can find.
Written by Academy award-nominated screenwriter MICHAEL GREEN
(Blade Runner 2049) and co-writer MIKE JOHNSON (Supergirl)!

CAT KID COMIC CLUB HC GN VOL 01
(W) Dav Pilkey (A/CA) Dav Pilkey
A brand-new graphic novel series by Dav Pilkey, the internationally bestselling author and illustrator of the Dog Man and Captain Underpants series. Welcome to the Cat Kid Comic Club, where Li’l Petey (LP), Flippy, and Molly introduce twenty-one rambunctious, funny, and talented baby frogs to the art of comic making. As the story unwinds with mishaps and hilarity, readers get to see the progress, mistakes, and improvements that come with practice and persistence. Squid Kid and Katydid, Baby Frog Squad, Gorilla Cheese Sandwich, and Birds Flowers Tree: A Haiku Photo Comic are just some of the mini-comics that are included as stories-within-the-story, each done in a different style, utilizing humor and drama, prose and poetry, illustrated in different media including acrylics, pastels, colored pencils, felt-tip markers, clay, hand-made cardboard sculptures, photographs, pipe cleaners, construction paper collages, and cookies.

EXPANSE #1 (OF 4)
(W) Corinna Bechko (A) Alejandro Aragon (CA) W. Scott Forbes

* A new limited series event set between Season 4 and Season 5 of Amazon’s hit series The Expanse from Corinna Bechko (Green Lantern: Earth One)  and Alejandro Aragon (Resonant)
* Chrisjen Avasarala, the former longtime Secretary-General of the United Nations, has found herself relegated to Luna after losing the latest elections…and she doesn’t plan on going down without a fight.
* So when Bobbie Draper – a former Martian marine – brings her intel on an intergalactic black market weapons ring, Avasarala sees a chance to reclaim her former political position of power through a clandestine operation.
* But as Draper digs deeper into this secret cabal, she soon realizes the threat they pose is far larger – and closer to home – than either of them ever imagined… 

IMMORTAL HULK #41
(W) Al Ewing (A) Joe Bennett (CA) Alex Ross

• The rematch everybody wanted – but not like this!
•  The Hulk is broken, friendless and hunted. In every way, he’s a shadow of his former self…
•  …but there’s nothing like the real THING.
Rated T+

KING IN BLACK IMMORTAL HULK #1
(W) Al Ewing (A/CA) Aaron Kuder

A PRESENT FOR THE HULK!
The Hulk is in a bad place. Half of his alters are dead or missing – including Bruce Banner – and the Leader’s got the rest of him on the ropes. But never let it be said that Joe Fixit doesn’t know how to have a good time – and he’s out to make sure this is the best holiday the Hulk’s ever had. He just has to fight his way through a planet of symbiotes first.
Rated T

MISKATONIC #2
(W) Mark Sable (A) Giorgio Pontrelli (CA) Jeremy Haun, Nick Filardi

Miranda Keller has been sent to the Miskatonic Valley to investigate a series of killer bombings targeting the community’s elite. She’s convinced that radicals are to blame. But her partner, Tom Malone, a retired Brooklyn detective, sees connections to a supernatural event in his past that left him scarred and scared, leading the pair to an occult conspiracy that pits them against forces from beyond this world.

NEW MUTANTS #14 
(W) Vita Ayala (A/CA) Rod Reis

LOST IN THE SHUFFLE!
On the edge of Krakoan society, the NEW MUTANTS are loose in the Wild Hunt! Going big, blowing things up, and combining powers to see who gets crowned king of the mountain. But something lurks in the trees — something old… and HUNGRY… and its favorite prey is young mutants…
Rated T+

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POST AMERICANA #1 (OF 6)
(W) Steve Skroce (A) Dave Stewart (A/CA) Steve Skroce

From MAESTROS creator, WE STAND ON GUARD co-creator, and The Matrix storyboard artist STEVE SKROCE with coloring by Eisner Award-winning DAVE STEWART.
The Cheyanne mountain installation, aka The BUBBLE, is the most sophisticated super bunker in the world. It was built to ensure the survival of America’s executive branch of government and its most important citizens, should the unthinkable happen. When the world ended, the executive branch failed to reach the sanctuary, but the elite citizenry did. Eighty years later, one of their own has named himself the new President of the United States. His plan? Subjugate the survivors of the American Wasteland using the same bunker resources meant to rebuild it. The only thing standing in their way is a deadly Wasteland girl, hellbent on revenge!

RECKLESS HC
(W) Ed Brubaker (A) Jacob Phillips (A/CA) Sean Phillips

“Sex, drugs, and murder in 1980s Los Angeles… And the best new twist on paperback pulp heroes since The Punisher or Jack Reacher.  
  
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, the modern masters of crime noir, bring us the last thing anyone expected from them – a good guy. In a bold new series of original graphic novels, with three books releasing over the next year, each a full-length story that stands on its own.
  
Meet Ethan Reckless: Your trouble is his business, for the right price. But when a fugitive from his student radical days reaches out for help, Ethan must face the only thing he fears… his own past.
  
“Imagine Redford at his peak, ambling through sun-drenched, eighties L.A. in a serpentine plot that is equal parts Long Goodbye and Point Break. No one does crime fic like Brubaker and Phillips and their collaboration has never felt more new. Explosive. Vital. And yes… reckless. I love this book.”
  
– Damon Lindelof (Lost, HBO’s Watchmen)
  
“”Reckless is an absolute rush: on the same level as golden age Travis McGee novels and the hardest-hitting Richard Stark stories. This one comes at you as fast as Steve McQueen in a souped-up Mustang and as hard as Charles Bronson with a baseball bat. You gotta have it.””
  
– Joe Hill (Locke & Key, N0S4A2)

SOLID BLOOD #17
Is a surprise comic we are expecting this week.  No one ordered it.  No one knows what it is.  Its just being sent to comic shops around the country.  We are guessing the name is a pseudonym, but we’ll see…..It may be similar to when Robert Kirkman just sent stores the Walking Dead comic Negan Lives, with no warning, or when he sent out the first issue of Die Die Die, as a surprise release.  I’m intrigued.  -Pete

#17  is a surprise comic we are expecting this week.  No one ordered it.  No one knows what it is.  Its just being sent to comic shops around the country.  We are guessing the name is a pseudonym, but we’ll see…..It may be similar to when Robert Kirkman just sent stores the Walking Dead comic Negan Lives, with no warning, or when he sent out the first issue of Die Die Die, as a surprise release.  I’m intrigued.  -Pete

STAR WARS DARTH VADER #8
(W) Greg Pak (A) Raffaele Ienco (CA) Aaron Kuder

INTO THE FIRE!
•  Hungry for vengeance after his brutal punishment at the hands of THE EMPEROR, can DARTH VADER
uncover his master’s secrets in the depths of MUSTAFAR?
•  Stripped of his greatest weapons, can the dark lord survive the fire and the EYE?
•  Or will he be overcome as the EYE turns Vader’s every question back to his own terrible secrets?
Rated T

STILLWATER BY ZDARSKY & PEREZ #4
(W) Chip Zdarsky (A) Mike Spicer (A/CA) Ramon K. Perez

In the town of Stillwater, the Judge’s word is law. But what does the law mean when the townspeople decide they’ve had enough?

 WALKING DEAD DLX #5
Rick Grimes and company find themselves surrounded by walkers. Who will die? Who will survive? Who will be the next to join the walking dead?

WOLVERINE BLACK WHITE BLOOD #2 (OF 4)
(W) Vita Ayala, Chris Claremont, Saladin Ahmed (A) Greg Land, Kev Walker (A/CA) Salvador Larroca

SHARPEN YOUR CLAWS FOR ROUND TWO OF WOLVERINE’S ALL-NEW ALL-STAR BLOODY BATTLES!
The adventures of WOLVERINE continue in the visceral black, white and blood red format! Legendary X-scribe Chris Claremont re-teams with the incomparable Salvador Larroca to bring LOGAN back to Madripoor as PATCH, where he and KATE PRYDE face their toughest battle yet. Then, Saladin Ahmed and Kev Walker build a life-or-death catch-22, courtesy of the maniacal ARCADE, that will force Wolverine to make a life-or-death decision! Vita Ayala and Greg Land put Wolverine on a mission to stop a “cure” for the X-gene where he’ll cross paths with his deadliest foe: SABRETOOTH!
Parental Advisory