#NCBD 3/15/17: FCBD's 10 Comics for New Comic Book Day!
Mar 15, 2017
Free Comic Book Day was founded on the belief that there's a comic book perfect for everyone out there! Every Wednesday is New Comic Book Day (#NCBD) in comic book shops, where new comics release hit the shelves of comic book shops for eager fans to pick up and purchase.
We've highlighted ten comics that are perfect recommendations for anyone looking to get into comics!
In this week's list, for books coming out 3/8/16, there's definitely something for everyone: from fan-favorite Neil Gaiman starting a new series, to Batwoman launching in her all-new title, to the end of major Marvel event, and a new comic focused on a punk roack band! What will you be picking up this week? Let us know over Facebook or Twitter!
SOULFIRE #1
JAN171350
ASPEN MLT
(W) J. T. Krul
(A/CA) Guiseppe Cafaro
Aspen's premiere action-adventure fantasy epic returns in this all new jumping-on point for new readers! Following the events of ASPEN UNIVERSE: REVELATIONS, the world of SOULFIRE has a new status quo, as magic and technology have intertwined as never before! Meanwhile, Soulfire's Grace, Malikai and friends now must also discover that things are not as they seem in the year 2211-including new-and old-dangers that seek to eliminate them! Nearly fifteen of the best-selling series created by superstar artist, the late Michael Turner, have culminated in this brand-new SOULFIRE adventure by Aspen's talented creative team! Please join writer JT Krul, artist Giuseppe Cafaro, and colorist Wes Hartman as they bring readers back to the magic, myth, and everything you loved about SOULFIRE!
COADY & THE CREEPIES #1
JAN171397
BOOM! STUDIOS
(W) Liz Prince
(A) Amanda Kirk
(CA) Kat Leyh
Punk isn't dead...but Coady is.
Coady, Criss, and Corey are sisters and bandmates in the band Coady and the Creepies. After a van accident leaves Corey badly scarred and Criss in a wheelchair, they're getting back into the punk scene. But they still need to contend with the challenges of staying true to their punk ideals, while also dealing with the media attention they've attracted, as well as the tension surrounding the fact that Coady escaped the accident seemingly unscathed. Now on tour, they're fighting their way through the (sometimes literal) battle of the bands, earning enamel pins, and heading for the gig of their lives...so long as no one realizes that Coady is actually a ghost.
VAMPIRELLA #1
JAN17615
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
(W) Paul Cornell
(A) Jimmy Broxton
(CA) Philip Tan
After a sleep of over a thousand years, Vampirella finds herself back among the land of the living, but in a world far different than the one she remembers, where hope is laced with fear and blood has a far different taste. And speaking of taste, finding an appropriate outfit for the era leads our fanged fatale to a chance encounter that will garner her not one but two potential allies.
NEIL GAIMAN'S AMERICAN GODS: SHADOWS #1
JAN170096
DARK HORSE COMICS
(W) Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell
(A) P. Craig Russell
(CA) Glenn Fabry
NEIL GAIMAN! P. CRAIG RUSSELL! SCOTT HAMPTON! Shadow Moon just got out of jail, only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain as to where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard - thrusting Shadow into a deadly world of the supernatural, where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a brewing war between old and new gods hits a boiling point. The Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula award-winning novel and upcoming Starz television series by Neil Gaiman is adapted as a comic series for the first time!
BATWOMAN #1
JAN170246
(W) Marguerite Bennett, James Tynion IV
(A/CA) Steve Eptin
"The Many Arms Of Death" part one! At last - Batwoman is back in her own ongoing series! On the island nation of Coryana, anything goes for members of the criminal underworld... and during her lost years after being drummed out of the military, Kate Kane found a kind of refuge there. But now, a deadly new bioweapon is available in the markets of Coryana, and Batwoman will have to face up to the things she did in those days... and the people she left behind, some of whom would be happier to see her dead than alive! Writer Marguerite Bennett (DC BOMBSHELLS) is joined by James Tynion IV (DETECTIVE COMICS) and superstar artist Steve Epting (Captain America, Velvet) to present an epic Batwoman story that will alter the course of her life forever! This one's unmissable!
STAR TREK DEVIATIONS
JAN170431
IDW PUBLISHING
(W) Donny Cates
(A/CA) Josh Hood
In a world where the Romulans discovered Earth before the Vulcans, Earth is now a brutal penal colony. Resistance fighter William Riker has uncovered a vast conspiracy, and together with his band of prisoner outlaws (you just might recognize a few!), must fight to rescue a mysterious prisoner in the darkest level of the Romulan dungeons. The only man on Earth that still holds the key to humanity's return to the stars!
DEMONIC
JAN170799
IMAGE COMICS
(W) Christopher Sebela
(A/CA) Niko Walter
Detective Scott Graves will do anything to protect his family... even bargain away his soul. Now, the only thing to fear isn't New York's worst criminals, but what's already raging inside of him. After all, what's the cost of your soul when it's already damaged? Created by ROBERT KIRKMAN, this vigilante answers to no man, only the demon within. Collects DEMONIC #1-6.
MONSTERS UNLEASHED #5 (OF 5)
JAN170914
MARVEL COMICS
(W) Cullen Bunn
(A/CA) Adam Kubert
THE FINAL CHAPTER!
- Up against odds that have never seemed so dire, Marvel heroes like CAPTAIN AMERICA, SPIDER-MAN and MEDUSA will have to lean on their newest and youngest ally to save the day.
- But what is imagination worth up against several tons of teeth, claws and rage? Well, one LEVIATHON is about to find out. KID KAIJU will have to dig deep into his newfound powers if he wants to save the day - and the Earth with it!
- The final chapter in an epic story that you won't want to miss, as drawn by comics legend, ADAM KUBERT.
WARHAMMER 40000: REVELATIONS #1
JAN172001
TITAN COMICS
(W) George Mann
(A) Tazio Bettin
(CA) Connor Magill
The mighty ongoing series returns with a brand-new story arc! By superstar writer George Mann and illustrated by Tazio Bettin. Featuring Eldar Harlequins... and a Necron tomb! Baltus and the Dark Angels prepare for the next stage of the war!
DIVINITY III: ESCAPE FROM GULAG 396 #1
JAN172130
VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT
(W) Elliot Rahal
(A) Francis Portela
(CA) Adam Gorham
Archer & Armstrong: Enemies of the State!
In the Soviet-controlled world of the Stalinverse, there is a place where liberty is sentenced to die...and it's Gulag 396. A maximum-security prison where the only escape is through death, the gulag is the final stop for all enemies and detractors of the world's oppressive authority. But when public enemy Obadiah Archer is admitted as the latest inmate, could his gospel of goodwill and optimism be the spark that ignites a new faith in the prison's population...including the immortal undesirable known as Aram Addi-Padda?
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