What the Geeks Are Getting - March 2nd Edition

I feel like I missed something last week, but I can’t remember what it is. Oh, well. It will come to me eventually. Let’s focus on this week. We’ve got Doomsday, ducks and secrets-a-plenty on comic book store shelves this week.

This Week’s Must Have Comics

DC Comics Presents Superman/Doomsday

Doomsday is back and tearing through the DC Universe in Reign of Doomsday. If you’re not familiar with Doomsday outside of the “Death of Superman” story, DC has two tales for you in one book. Witness the swath of destruction Doomsday cut through the universe before coming to Earth in a tale from Doomsday Annual #1. Then, Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness spin a yarn about a “Jokerized” Doomsday from Superman #175.

Darkwing Duck Annual #1

Every good hero has their own insane arch-nemesis. Darkwing Duck is a great hero, so his is even more deadly. Quackerjack, returns to terrorize the citizens of St. Canard and turn them into his own playthings. But he’s not the only one returning in this first annual for Darkwing. Creator Tad Stones writes the backup tale and draws one of the two covers!

Secret Warriors #25

Secrets are finally revealed! And if you’ve been reading Secret Warriors from the beginning, you’d know there are a lot them. In Secret Warriors #25, we’ll learn what brought long-time enemies Nick Fury and Baron Von Strucker to work together as part of the same organization. Jonathan Hickman has been building to this since the beginning and the payoff is going to be explosive.

Secret Six #31

Remember Neron’s “Get Out of Hell Free” card that the Six stole way back at the beginning of the series? Well, someone on the team finally decides that it’s time to cash it in and bring someone back from the underworld. But with all of Hell wanting the card back, it’s not going to be so easy.

Pull of the Week:

Takio - Original Graphic Novel (HC)

The first original graphic novel from Marvel’s Icon imprint comes from the award-winning team of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. Takio is an all-ages story about two sisters in a multiracial, adoptive family who spend their day’s side by side. And driving each other crazy! You’d think that getting superpowers and becoming the world’s first superheroes would make things better, but don’t count on the two girls learning to get along right away. Takio had us at “96 pages for 10 bucks” but with the wonderful and realistic way that Bendis writes teenager’s and kid’s and Oeming’s superb art, we’ll be at our LCS as soon as the doors open to buy it.