What’s On Comic Book Stands – January 15th

Here is the list of new comics, trade paperbacks and more shipping on 1/15/2014. As always, check with your retailer for availability, as not all releases may be on sale in all areas at the same time. Here is what’s on my pull-list this week.

After an embarrassing defeat at the hands of Captain Midnight, a drunken Skyman accidentally kills an innocent man! Needing a new face for their initiative ASAP, the Skyman Program turns to US Air Force Sgt. Eric Reid: a wounded veteran on the ropes, looking for a new lease on life. Check out the all-new ‘Skyman’ #1 from Dark Horse Comics!

In ‘Nightwing’ #27, Nightwing’s being visited by an old friend from Gotham – the Mad Hatter! Desperate to protect Chicago, Nightwing’s been forced into an uneasy alliance with the mysterious Marionette. But who’s really pulling the strings?

IDW Publishing and Saturday Night Live’s Taran Killium present, ‘The Illegitimates’ #2! The Illegitimates are assembled and identities revealed as Dannikor’s world-changing plot kicks into gear! Can these kids process their newly revealed parentage and, more importantly, get along long enough to embrace their legacies and save the planet from a zombified doom? And, hey, what about the Illegitimates’ moms…? If you missed this first issue pick it up.

You all know the story: a beautiful woman seduced by a secret agent into revealing secrets and helping him on his mission… but what happens to them once the agent is gone? Find out in ‘Velvet’ #3, as Velvet tracks Agent X-14’s most recent asset down very dark paths.

Now that we know Peter Parker is being made whole again (mind and body) you have to check out the final few issues of ‘Superior Spider-man’… Starting with special super-sized 25th issue! Otto Octavius, the Superior Spider-Man, in a life-or-death struggle against the original Superior Venom! Plus: With one last goblin on his side, the Goblin King’s court is now complete!  Guest starring: The Avengers!

Enter: Livewire! in ‘Unity’ #3. On an airtight team of stone-cold soldiers, Amanda McKee is the one variable in the equation that equals absolute kill. Now, as the last woman standing against the unstoppable force known as X-O Manowar, the Harbinger Foundation’s most seasoned technopath has just added one new item to her resume — newest bearer of the X-O Manowar armor and the finger behind the trigger of the universe’s most powerful weapon. Watch out world…this means trouble.

All this plus… ‘Batgirl’ #27… In this tale tying into “Gothtopia”, what kind of sick world pairs up Batgirl and the woman who tried to kill Jim Gordon – Knightfall?!