What’s On Comic Book Stands – April 30th

Here is the list of new comics, trade paperbacks and more shipping on 4/23/2014. 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.

A young Rebel meets one of the Alliance’s best for his first mission. But the young man’s hero worship is crushed by the reality of Han Solo. A botched escape, a ship that doesn’t work-could it be that Solo is just a lucky bumbler whose luck has run out? Find out in ‘Star Wars Rebel Heist’ #1.

The start of a major new arc for the Fastest Man Alive takes off in ‘The Flash’ Annual #3! In the future, The Flash is a broken man. His powers have failed him time and again at great cost to him and the city he has sworn to protect. Now he’s coming back to 2014 to stop the one event that destroyed his life. Meanwhile, in the present, Barry Allen must contend with thieves trying to capitalize on the devastation of Forever Evil. It’s a tale of two timelines that ushers in one of DC’s most storied characters – featuring The New 52 debut of  Wally West!

When a sniper’s bullet kills the pro-peace Speaker of the House and a terrorist vampire cell takes credit, the Vampire War erupts hotter and bloodier than ever. Join IDW and New York Times best-selling author, Jonathan Maberry, as we take you on a non-stop thrill ride of action, horror and suspense! Welcome to the ‘V-WARS’ #1!

The Greatest Super Hero of All Time Returns… you know Peter Parker, your friendly neighborhood Spider-man in ‘The Amazing Spider-man’ #1! The world may have changed since Spidey’s been gone, but so has Peter Parker. This is a man with a second chance at life, and he’s not wasting a moment of it. Same Parker Luck, new Parker attitude. Putting the “friendly” back in the neighborhood, the “hero” back into “super hero,” and the “amazing” back into “Spider-Man!” Also returning: The recharged and reenergized Electro!

The Brotherhood of the Future is back! And it doesn’t mean good things for the X-Men of the past in ‘The All-New X-Men’ #26!

Valiant First begins in force this May with an all-new vision of the future in ‘RAI’ #1 – a new monthly series from comics superstars Matt Kindt and Clayton Crain! The year is 4001 A.D. – led by the artificial intelligence called “Father,” the island nation of Japan has expanded out of the Pacific and into geosynchronous orbit with the ravaged Earth below. With billions to feed and protect, it has fallen to one solitary guardian to enforce the law of Father’s empire – the mysterious folk hero known as Rai. They say he can appear out of nowhere. They say he is a spirit…the ghost of Japan. But when the first murder in a thousand years threatens to topple Father’s benevolent reign, Rai will be forced to confront the true face of a nation transformed… and his own long-lost humanity…

All this plus… ‘Chew’ #41… Vegas!