New Comic Books This Week – April 8th

Here is the list of new comic books, trade paperbacks and more shipping on 4/8/2015. 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.

In a rush of great public resistance to an oppressive and excessive government, a homegrown militia movement is formed in rural America. This is not 2015, but 1775. With the war for independence playing out across the colonies, young Seth and Mercy Abbott find their new marriage tested at every turn, as the demands of the frontlines and the home front collide in ‘Rebels’ #1 from Dark Horse Comics.

This is it! The entire DC Universe, from the dawn of time through The New 52, must fight to survive against a threat that bends the Multiverse to its will. Your favorite characters from every era and every forgotten series are all here! But are you going to say hello again just to say goodbye forever? The stakes have never been higher as the heroes of Crisis, Zero Hour, Elseworlds, and more are brought together in ‘Convergence’ #1!

Starring heroes from the pre-‘Flashpoint’ DCU… Night wing and Oracle have finally been reunited in ‘Nightwing and Oracle: Convergence’ #1. The romance between Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon is sentenced to execution by Flashpoint Hawkman and Hawkwoman!

The most celebrated superheroes in mid-century America seem to have it all-fame, riches, adoration-but tensions simmer beneath the glossy surface, threatening to crack open the secrets behind their public AND private exploits. Before the family dynasty in ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ began, there was ‘Jupiter’s Circle’ is a story about a team whose personal dramas collide with super-powered spectacle! Check out ‘Jupiter’s Circle’ #1!

Ant-Man has to pull off an impossible break-in, but he can’t do it alone. Which means… he’s gonna need a new gang! Er, of criminals, a new gang of criminals. Probably should mention that part. This is all because of that stupid mysterious bad guy we can’t tell you about in ‘Ant-Man’ #4.

‘The Walking Dead’ #140 deals with life and death!

Dr. Herbert West, The Reanimator, returns in ‘Reanimator’ #1! Setting up shop in New Orleans, the brilliant Dr. West continues his life’s work: the revival of the dead by purely chemical means. To accomplish this task, he recruits Susan Greene, a young and wide-eyed pharmacologist fascinated by his macabre experiments. Initially unfazed by West’s unorthodox practices (including how he funds his research – by selling zombie brain fluid as a narcotic), Susan may regret her scientific curiosity as sinister forces – those aligned with Elder Gods and Haitian Voodoo – begin to align against the Reanimator!

All this plus… ‘Saga’ #27… Poor Marko.