This week’s ephemera: Former Captain America Steve Rogers is STILL dead, but at least he’s out of development hell! It’s night in Hyboria… do you know where your children are? And, cyborg versus cyborg in a no-holds barred chair-swinging extravaganza smackdown. Plus: all hell breaks loose, the pulps rise again, Archie’s girlfriend gets a new paint job, and… begun, this clone war has. Or, begun it will have been someday, this after which we are living now, or began, however that sentence did. Hmm.

NEWS

Captain America Lands Director

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Ratner in Final Negotiations for Conan

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CONTEST

MAJOR SPOILERS COSTUME CONTEST

Congrats to Mark Meer for his Bizarro costume. Mark won the Hellboy Animated Maquette and Hellboy Library Edition Volume 1 by a coin toss.

REVIEWS:

Rodrigo:

SCARLET VERONICA #1

By Moody, Ruggles, Barry & Greathouse.

When Veronica Gainsburrow died, all hell broke loose. Literally. Now her undead alter ego is all that stands between the forces of evil and the end of the world. Can she harness her new powers in time to stop this army of darkness? Horror has a Hero—SCARLET VERONICA

Matthew:

SAVAGE DRAGON #140

story ERIK LARSEN

art & cover ERIK LARSEN

Spawn! Witchblade! Invincible! ShadowHawk! The Savage Dragon! Together, the world’s greatest heroes unite to face the greatest menace to even threaten this perilous planet! Dragon’s tour of the Image Universe comes to its cataclysmic conclusion in this awe-inspiring epic destined to shake the universe to its very foundation! Not for the squeamish!

Stephen:

KULL #1
Writer: Arvid Nelson

Penciller: Will Conrad

Colorist José Villarrubia

Cover Artist: Andy Brase
More comfortable with a sword than a scepter, Kull has recently crowned himself king and seeks to unite the once-proud and powerful land of Valusia. Only Count Areyas stands between Kull and a reunified kingdom–and the obstinate Count waits patiently in his Iron Fortress, the land’s oldest and most formidable castle. Horrors lurk in the shadows of Kull’s newly won throne, and slithering foes stalk his every move. Arvid Nelson scripts this series, which will adapt Robert E. Howard’s story “The Shadow Kingdom,” with art by Will Conrad and José Villarrubia.

Major Spoilers Poll of the Week

Robot Wars II

A) Dalek

B) Cybermen

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Knights of the Old Republic: Commencement

Thousands of years before Luke Skywalker would destroy the Death Star in that fateful battle above Yavin 4, one lone Padawan would become a fugitive hunted by his own Masters, charged with murdering every one of his fellow Jedi-in-training!

From criminals hiding out in the treacherous under-city of the planet Taris, to a burly, mysterious droid recovered from the desolate landscape of a cratered moon, Padawan Zayne Carrick will find unexpected allies in his desperate race to clear his name before the unmerciful authorities enact swift retribution upon him!

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