Shazam! – Pull List 7th June

The Geeky Brummie Pull List with Shazam!

There are 11 new comics for you on the Pull List this week. The Comic of the Week title goes to Shazam! from DC Comics. The other 5 comics on the main Pull List come from IDW Publishing, Image Comics and Marvel Comics. Our On The Radar selection includes 5 comics from Marvel Comics, Image Comics and DC Black Label. This week MEANWHILE… looking ahead to the Treasury of British Comics Annual 2024 and the introduction of Void Runners from Rebellion and 2000AD respectively.

If you want to send any comics or details of any comic related events we should feature, feel free to reach out to me at keith@geekybrummie.com or comics@geekybrummie.com

Now on with the comics…

Shazam!
Issue 2
DC Comics

Script – Mark Waid
Art – Dan Mora
Colours – Alejandro Sánchez
Letters – Troy Peteri

Buy digitally on Comixology – Shazam #2 (Link)

MEET THE CAPTAIN! CHAPTER TWO

Shazam versus S-H-A-Z-A-M! Billy Batson was given the powers of the gods by the Wizard Shazam—but Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury never gave the Wizard their permission. Displeased with how Billy is representing them, the disgruntled gods engage in a six-way fight for sole control of the World’s Mightiest Mortal…or, if they get their way, the World’s Mightiest Puppet. May the craftiest god win!

I really enjoyed the first issue of this series, that re-establishes and re-introduces the character to fans both new and old. This is exactly the bright and heroic book that DC should be putting out and reminds me why I like their heroes so much. If you have been reading World’s Finest then you need to check this book out. Worryingly, there haven’t been any solicitations for issue 3, so I hope we don’t have to wait long for the next part of the story.

Star Trek: Defiant
Issue 4
IDW Publishing

Script – Christopher Cantwell
Art – Angel Unzueta

Buy digitally on Comixology – Star Trek: Defiant #4 (Link)

With Kahless and the Red Path’s mission to conquer the universe looming over their heads, the Defiant crew must overcome their differences if they’re to prevent another massacre, and it’s the most unlikely of diplomats to convince them of as much.

After the frolics in the Star Trek Annual last week, we’re back to the more sombre mood of dealing with Kahless and the Red Path here. Defiant continues to be a fine spin-off from the main series and puts some less known characters in the spotlight. It all starts to build towards Day of Blood now.

I Hate This Place
Issue 9
Image Comics

Script – Kyle Starks
Art – Artyom Topilin
Colours – Lee Loughridge

Buy digitally on Comixology – I Hate This Place #9 (Link)

Questions will be answered as Gabby and Trudy face terrors from their past, present, and future in the penultimate issue of I HATE THIS PLACE!

Here we are at the penultimate issue of this fabulous horror series. Behind another great cover, the story of Gabby and Trudy, starts to wrap-up, but will the journey to the end be happy or tragic?

The Ambassadors
Issue 6
Image Comics

Script – Mark Millar
Art – Matteo Scalera

Buy digitally on Comixology – The Ambassadors #6 (Link)

MINISERIES FINALE

The Ambassador for Mexico completes the team as they face their first major conflict together and find out the truth behind Choon-He Chung’s husband’s superhuman upgrade programme and the rich guys around the world who have paid him a fortune for it.

Matteo Scalera picks up the art chores on this final issue of the mini-series, which given how it’s mostly been build up is surely only half the story. I fully expect this issue to leave us on a cliffhanger, with a new mini-series arriving soon to pick up all the threads that have been left hanging.

Immortal X-Men
Issue 12
Marvel Comics

Script – Kieron Gillen
Art – Lucas Werneck
Colours – David Curiel
Letters – Clayton Cowles

Buy digitally on Comixology – Immortal X-Men #12 (Link)

A COLOSSAL MISTAKE… The Quiet Council gather to fill the empty seat. It’s the last chance to make a smart, kind decision to prevent the fall. Luckily, the deciding vote is in the hands of trusty old Colossus. Let’s hope he hasn’t got plans to ruin everything. That would be terrible.

Have to say this Mark Brooks cover is pretty awesome. Finally an issue that focuses on Colossus, but will they turn it around and make Piotr the man we know and love once again?

X-Men
Issue 23
Marvel Comics

Script – Gerry Duggan
Art – Joshua Cassara
Colours – Dee Cunniffe
Letters – Clayton Cowles

Buy digitally on Comixology – X-Men #23 (Link)

THE SENTINELS GET AN UPGRADE! Anti-mutant fantasist Feilong has taken control of Tony Stark’s businesses and devoted Iron Man’s technology toward the next generation of Sentinels! These Stark Sentinels are as hard to beat as old Shell-head himself and are fully devoted to crushing the X-Men!

A while back it was the Brood, now its Starked up Sentinels. Nice to see the X-Men X-Mening again.

On the radar some other comics not on the Pull List but well worth checking out:

Fantastic Four #8
Marvel Comics

Script – Ryan North
Art – Ivan Fiorelli
Colours – Jesus Aburtov
Letters – Joe Caramagna

Buy digitally from Comixology – Fantastic Four #8 (Link)

“IF MEMORY SERVES…!”

The Fantastic Four are finally settling into their new normal…but something very ABNORMAL is happening outside their farmhouse. Sue and Alicia get to spend some quality time together in town, but when they return, everything is not how they left it…and a very different Fantastic Four are left in their place! It’s Sue and Alicia versus the world—and the start of a special two-part story!

LEGACY #701

Phantom Road #4
Image Comics

Script – Jeff Lemire
Art – Gabriel Hernandez Walta
Colours – Jordie Bellaire

Buy digitally on Comixology – Phantom Road #4 (Link)

Dom and Birdie attempt to deliver their mysterious cargo while discovering how powerful it truly is. Meanwhile, Agent Weaver finds herself on the other side of the interrogation desk, answering questions she didn’t know that she should be asking herself.

Peacemaker Tries Hard #2
DC Black Label

Script – Kyle Starks
Art – Steve Pugh
Colours – Jordie Bellaire
Letters – Becca Carey

Buy digitally on Comixology – Peacemaker Tries Hard #2 (Link)

BOOK TWO

The Brain has given Peacemaker no choice but to complete a dangerous mission on his behalf, but he won’t have to kick bad-guy butt on his own. With Monsieur Mallah at his side, Peacemaker breaks into the secret base of General Immortus to steal some supervillain DNA. What starts as the team-up you never knew you wanted takes a surprising turn that could leave Peacemaker facedown in a pool of his own blood!

Love Everlasting #8
Image Comics

Script – Tom King
Art – Elsa Charretier
Colours – Matt Hollingsworth
Letters – Clayton Cowles

Buy digitally on Comixology – Love Everlasting #8 (Link)

“TOO HIP FOR LOVE,” Part Three

Nothing is as it seems. Joan is now trapped in the happiest of realities: she has children, a husband, friends, a life. And she has no idea if any of it is real. Take a mind-bending journey into the heart of the American Dream as Joan continues to explore the myths and terrors of being in love.

In Hell We Fight! #1
Image Comics

Script – John Layman
Art – Jok

Buy digitally on Comixology – In Hell We Fight! #1 (Link)

SERIES PREMIERE

Life in hell ain’t easy. Demons try to torture you for all eternity. Monsters want to eat you. There’s a stunning lack of reliable indoor plumbing. And it’s almost impossible to get ice cream. At least, until today, when three condemned teens and their annoying tagalong demon frenemy embark on a daring scheme to hijack a demon lord’s delivery truck. What happens next will take them on an epic journey across the underworld, an infernal excursion of nonstop excitement, danger, and adventure.

Presenting a devilishly fun new series from multiple Eisner-winning writer/letterer JOHN LAYMAN (CHEW, Suicide Squad: Kill Arkham Asylum) and Argentinian superstar artist JOK.

Treasury of British Comics Annual For Your Stockings?

Rebellion announces new Treasury of British Comics Annual 2024

For over a century, the comic book annual has been an essential Christmas stocking filler for British children and Rebellion is delighted to announce its newest edition to this proud tradition – The Treasury of British Comics Annual 2024.

Arriving on 8 November in a gorgeous hardcover, the Treasury of British Comics Annual will arrive just in time for the festive period and feature both lovingly restored classic comics and brand new high-octane stories!

Available from comic book stores, the Treasury of British Comics Annual 2024 will come in a retail edition with cover by Henry Flint (Judge Dredd) and an edition exclusive to the Treasury of British Comics webshop featuring a cover by David Roach (Anderson, Psi Division).

The team behind the Treasury of British Comics imprint have dived deep into the archives of IPC, one of the world’s biggest publishers of comic books, to select slick and exciting stories from such legendary British comic book titles as Lion, Starlord, Misty, Action, Wham!, Scream!, Smash!, Battle andValiant!

An Annual Full of Stellar Talent

Featuring the best of British talent such Brian Bolland (Batman: The Killing Joke), Joe Colquhoun (Charley’s War), Steve Dillon (Preacher), Pat Mills (Nemesis the Warlock), Leo Baxendale (Bash Street Kids) and many more, the Treasury of British Comics Annual will bring the magic back to this great British tradition with a veritable newsagents’ shelf full of classic stories from annuals, specials and titles of the past, lovingly restored and reprinted comics will sit alongside three brand new strips.

Famed Transformers writer Simon Furman its two of Britain’s greatest characters – The Leopard from Lime Street and The Spider – against each other. Artists David Roach and Mike Collins (Doctor Who) bring to life the titanic head-to-head between the feline powers of young Billy Farmer against the inventive but ruthless master criminal and anti-hero!

There is the thunderous return of the wandering warrior, Black Beth, with writer Alec Worley (Durham Red) once again teaming up with breakout artist DaNi (Coffin Bound) to deliver another tale of Beth’s quest to punish evildoers, with stunning pages evoking the work of master artist Sergio Toppi but with a dynamic, gothic edge and startling colour.

And, on the Eastern Front in the dying days of World War Two, Sergeant Holstein and his battle-hardened unit of men (and one mighty beast) face off against cutthroat Cossacks in Gustav of the Bearmacht by Kek-W (The Order) and Staz Johnson (Dark Legacies).

With something for all ages, the Treasury of British Comics Annual 2024 is the perfect Christmas gift for fans of classic British comics and a perfect introduction to a world of action and adventure for the next generation.

New Thrills Heading to 2000AD

David Hine & Boo Cook take 2000 AD into the void with new psychedelic sci-fi series

A substance like no other. A harsh galactic regime reliant on its supply. A captain and her crew given an offer they can’t refuse. A Revolution that can’t be stopped!

VOID RUNNERS is the new series for 2000 AD from the warped minds of writer David Hine (Crossed, X-Men, Bulletproof Coffin) and artist Boo Cook (X-Factor, Judge Anderson, Elephantmen).

Beginning in 2000 AD Prog 2334, available now from all good comic book stores and newsagents, the eight-episode psychedelic sci-fi series follows the adorable Captain Shikari and their crew of alien misfits as they search the cosmos for Kali’s Dust – the drug that essentially holds the universe together.

Uptight and repressive, the Ankorites are shared-mind entities that rely on the drug called Kali’s Dust – a magical medicine that feeds their psychic visions and allows them to rule over the network of planets and systems known as The Federation. However, supplies are running dangerously low and so their ruthless foot soldiers, The Subjugators, call on notorious Void Runner Captain Alice Shikari to track down the pleroma – the deep-space creatures that are the source of Kali’s Dust.

But Shikari has a vision of her own and it involves spreading joy and enlightenment to the masses – the revolution is here!

Just The Quotes, Ma’am

When Boo asked me to come up with something a bit psychedelic to pitch to 2000 AD it seemed blindingly obvious that the world needs a sci-fi version of Ken Kesey’s Magic Bus trip across the USA in the 1960s. This time around the bus is a spaceship, crewed by Captain Shikari and her piratical crew of Void Runners. See fascistic cops who share one mind between three bodies, gigantic jellysquids who are also the oldest, wisest creatures in the cosmos, a battle with kamikaze space sharks and an actual vision of the ultimate meaning of the Universe. WARNING: Do not lick the pages!
David Hine

Having been a big fan of David’s work for years I figured he would be the guy to ask about doing a space strip that was extremely psychedelic. This was a correct assumption – he did not disappoint! Void Runners it’s a sprawling space epic in the true 2000 AD tradition, full of irreverence, anarchy and mayhem. there’s vibes of ‘D.R. and Quinch’, ‘Nemesis the Warlock’, Moby Dick and Dune but they come out of the pipe like an exotic firework straight to the frontal lobe – I think I’ve had to invent some new colours during the course of it! Hopefully it’ll read like a hallucinogenic space manual on how it’s a real pain in the arse to live full of hate – no doubt that will annoy some people but ‘I’d like to think the affable Shikari could win round any galactic despot.
Boo Cook

The fevered imaginations of David Hine and Boo Cook are the perfect combination for a Dune-style surreal space adventure, full of weird beings and psychedelic cosmic vistas. Don’t miss this voyage into the void, Earthlets!
Matt Smith, editor of 2000 AD,

Go Get It

Void Runners begins in 2000 AD Prog 2334, which is out now. Grab 2000 AD and more of Rebellion’s comic book titles from your local comics shop or newsagent – find your nearest stockist with the 2000 AD storefinder at 2000AD.com/store-finder or locate your local comic book shop at ComicShopLocator.com

To read 2000 AD, the Judge Dredd Megazine, Monster Fun, fiction ebooks, and hundreds of graphic novel collections, download the 2000 AD app for iOS and Android devices. As well as gorging on a host of free comics, you can read your purchases in the app or download them as DRM-free files from the 2000 AD webshop.

Your Local Comics Shops

Your local comic shops are now open and you can pop in for your geek fix. Listed below are some of the best shops across the county with links to check the very latest information including opening time and covid safety measures. Therefore, when visiting these shops please be patient and respectful to all the staff who are doing an incredible job.

FORBIDDEN PLANET INTERNATIONAL (VARIOUS) – includes Worlds Apart Birmingham

Please check with stores for any changes to opening times and services.

Follow the stores social media pages for updates!

FORBIDDEN PLANET (VARIOUS) – includes Birmingham Megastore

Check their website for more information –

https://forbiddenplanet.com/stores/

GOSH! COMICS (LONDON)

Check their website for more information –

https://goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blog/the-gosh-authority-130620-reopening-news/ and https://twitter.com/GoshComics

OK COMICS (LEEDS)

Follow the stores social media pages and website for updates!

http://www.okcomics.co.uk/ and https://twitter.com/OKComics