COOOOMMMMMIICCCC LLIIIIIIISSSSSTTTT!!!!

That’s what I like to imagine this new Atrocitus Blackest Night mini-bust is screaming at the top of his lungs.  It could also be COOKIES or, the ever popular, KHAN.

Or it could just be a primal scream over the fact that the Green Lantern movie kinda sucked.

The idea here is, if you make this nifty mini-bust your new shelf buddy, you can imagine him screaming whatever you want.

Oh, and if we’re conversating about Atrocitus, it’s also important to note that the Red Lantern Light-up Prop Lantern and Ring is also coming in this week.  If you’ve been up to the store recently, you’ve probably seen the Green Lantern and Orange Lantern versions of these.  They rock the casbah.

Up, up, and destroy!  If you picked up The Cape one-shot from last year, you probably understand how that paraphrasing of the famous line fits in here.  A devilishly twisted superhero book, the new The Cape four issue mini-series is a must buy thanks to Joe Hill‘s talented penmanship.  Some of you might have heard us Pulp folk spouting off about Hill‘s incredibly brilliant series Locke & Key and that’s because this guy knows how to write a comic.  His grasp of panel usage, character, dialog, and theme prove that a his papa’s (Stephen King) writing talent seeped into his gene pool.  So, The Cape is basically Hill taking that same talent and applying it to the superhero genre the only way he knows how:  gory, dark, and sinister.

Will you open The Vault?  I’d leave it to the professionals, frankly.  Luckily, that’s exactly what The Vault #1 is about.  In the tradition of The Abyss, Sphere, and Alien, The Vault involves a crack team of archaeologists and treasure hunters who travel to the bottom of the ocean in search of a lost item that they believe will bring them fortune and glory.

That’s never the way, is it?  No, the item is a veritable “Pandora’s Box” that will bring about untold destruction and death.  So, it’s for kids.

So, you’ve got David Tennant‘s screwdriver and Matt Smith‘s (which is an actual screwdriver, by the way), but something’s missing.  The future, that’s what!  Next Wednesday the Future Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver travels back to the past and lands on the shelves of Pulp Fiction.  First seen in the “Silence in the Library” episode being wielded by River Song, this screwdriver is a perfect replica of the one seen in the show!  That level of detail includes a break-away panel that reveals a switch that changes the screwdriver’s LED color from blue to red.  Oh, and each color makes different sounds.

 

Time to get committed too the asylum.

That’s Arkham Asylum, folks, action figure series two.

This time around DC Direct is pumping out the crazy pants with four new figures.  Set two includes a new buff Armored Batman, a tantalizing Poison Ivy, a ‘roided Bane, and a chop-you-into-tiny-bits Zsasz.  As with the first set, these figs are nicely sculpted and packed with a handy-dandy display base.

Jonathan Hickman, master of design and the well-crafted tale, delivers one more in his line of Image books this coming week; the others being reads like The Nightly News, Red Mass for Mars, and Pax Romana.  This new book is called The Red Wing and, as you can see by the cover to the right, involves helmets.  Now, the helmet itself may seem boring, but when you realize that it is drawn with the incredible hands of Nick Pitarra (a style reminiscent of Frank Quietly) and is worn by a squadron of time pilots, you thought of boring washes away.  Yes, The Red Wing centers on pilots from the future who have to fly planes through time.  More, please!

She may be dead right now, but that doesn’t stop Jean Grey from being part of a sweet-tastic statue!  Not only does this statue have a swigiddy diggidy base with some gnarly swirling smoke, but also Jean is rockin’ her X-Factor costume, which never, ever gets any play.  Add on top of that sundae of swasity sweetness (yes, I’m trying to use it as many times as I can) that this statue is sculpted by Bowen and you have a sexy sweet-numcious buy.  Yeah, got it in one more time!

And now, for all you greedy space horses (Is that what Larfleeze is? Who can tell?) our final product of the night.  Certainly the orangiest of all nights wares, the Orange Lantern Power Battery and Prop Ring won’t give you the power of the Orange Lanterns, but will get you the closest anything can in this reality.  How so?  Because it lights up, folks.  And the ring can be separated and worn.  Oh, and it’s big.  Yeah.  Space horses assemble.

 

The Doctor is in.  In t-shirt form, that is.

We’ve had screwdrivers and comics and RPGs, but now we’re getting t-shirts.  Sporting the most striking image of Matt Smith’s first season, this black t-shirt is stamped with the famous blue whirlwind picture of the Doctor and Amy spinning out of control, TARDIS behind them.  Show you trust your Doctor by wearing this bad boy around.

Oh, and two more of the Doctor Who novels are shipping this week, as well.  One, starring David Tennant’s 10th Doctor, is called Doctor Who: Taking of Chelsea 426 and involves the Doctor investigating the weird occurrences of a green house planet.  The second, Doctor Who: The Glamour Chase, stars Matt Smith’s as he and Amy investigate ruins that hint at an alternate reality having merged with ours.

If you’ve read Mark Waid and Alex Ross’ Kingdom Come, you’re aware of the brilliant interpretations they give Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.  Maybe the strongest visual retooling of the bunch, though, Diane’s golden Amazonian warfare attire from the story’s climax.  Well, now you can rip that image straight from the comic and sit it on your desk to admire into infinity with the Covers Girls of the DCU Wonder Woman statue.  Decked out in her Kingdom Come battle armor, this full body statue displays Wonder Woman in all her war hungry glory.

So, you’re going through you checklist for the release of the Green Lantern movie next week.  T-Shirt, check.  Green Lantern:  Rebirth trade paperback, check.  Green Lantern ring, ch…wait, what’s that little piddly plastic thing on your finger?  You call that a Green Lantern ring?  This is a ring (by the way, the previous sentence needs to be said in a Paul Hogan Australian accent).  Yes, the official Green Lantern Movie Replica Ring is cast from the exact ring Ryan Reynolds wears in the film.  Get your nerd on, ladies and gentlemen.

Over a foot tall and ripped from the pages of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s run on Superman, the new Superman Vs. Brainiac statue is epic in all the right ways.  For instance, Superman is designed in the indelible Christopher Reeves-esque likeness that Gary Frank established while on the book.  Outside of that, the version of Brainiac on the statue is also the redesigned version Frank created (which is awesome!).  Finally, Superman is ripping the Brainiac robot’s head off.  His head, people.  Sweet.

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