Comics

To be more accurate, the Guardians of Knowhere join Battleworld… in synchronous orbit. Saved from the collapsing Marvel U, the head of a dead Celestial serves as home to some very bad people and a new team of Guardians.

Original Graphic Novels (OGN’s) are few and far between in this age of the ‘collected edition’, but Marvel Comics is continuing to bring them back in style.

Marvel has a pretty interesting little promo item coming up in the form of the Battleboard. This fold-out map displays the full breadth of Battleworld in all its patchwork glory.

The enigmatic Ninjak gets a starring role in one of the most highly anticipated Valiant releases of the year.

Disease has set in some ten years after the fall of Cameron Hodge, and it’ll be mutant against mutant as Havok takes on the X-Men for a cure.

Trailers for comics are becoming more and more the norm, and this one for Valiant Comics’ Bloodshot Reborn is as cool as they come.

Yet another alternate time/reality will be joining the Warzones of Secret Wars’ Battleworld as the Hulk’s evil future self is back, and only X-Factor and a few allies stand against him.

The Humble Bundle is ready to be transformed yet again, as IDW Publishing’s Transformers comics are back up with a whole new deal.

The final issue of The Valiant sees The Eternal Warrior, Bloodshot, and the Geomancer standing alone against the horror of the Immortal Enemy.

Diamond Select Toys has a bunch of cool stuff in your local comics shop this week including the long-awaited Minimate versions of some fan-favorite Aliens characters.

The new illustrated novel from Dark Horse Comics teaches poor androids how to properly integrate into human society… and become our brutal overlords.

The classic sci-fi/action comic returns in a massive collected volume from Dark Horse Comics.

The Mattel booth was an interesting one with a heavy emphasis play sets and toys that take advantage of tablets and smartphones, as well as a very cool revamp of Viewmaster and a neat Halo Needler dart gun.

Janet Van Dyne may or may not be in the upcoming Ant-Man movie from Marvel, but you can definitely catch her as the latest addition to Kotobukiya’s Bishoujo line of Marvel statues.

Diamond Comics Distributor always has a terrific set of exclusive items that you’ll find nowhere else than their massive monthly catalog, which is hosted at your local comics shop, and this year is going to be no exception.

It’s a decent week at your LCS this first week of March. Star Wars fans should be happy about another #1 in Marvel’s burgeoning sci-fi universe, and Avengers followers have yet another book to buy with another revamp for Hawkeye. Oh, and there are some strange things afoot in both …