This Week’s Comics: Rocket March

Get your fill of superheroes from this week’s new releases. Capstone Publishing releases a double dose of DC stories with some Batman You Choose Stories and DC Super Heroes Origin stories. DC Comics also has some Batman action with the first collected trade of Beware the Batman. Check out the picks for two more superheroes—one that’s real and one that’s really cute.

The List:

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS
Sonic The Hedgehog #268 (Evan Stanley Regular Cover), $3.99
Sonic The Hedgehog #268 (Jonathan H. Gray Breezie Variant Cover), $3.99

BONGO COMICS
Simpsons Comics #217, $2.99
Simpsons Comics Clubhouse GN, $15.99

BOOM! STUDIOS
Amazing World Of Gumball #7 (Cover A Missy Pena), $3.99
Amazing World Of Gumball #7 (Cover B Evan Palmer), $3.99
Lumberjanes #10 (Cover A Carolyn Nowak), $3.99

CAPSTONE PUBLISHING
Batman You Choose Stories Seed Bank Heist SC, $6.95
Batman You Choose Stories Summer Freeze SC, $6.95
Batman You Choose Stories The Joker’s Dozen SC, $6.95
Batman You Choose Stories The Riddler’s Ransom SC, $6.95
DC Super Heroes Batman An Origin Story SC, $4.95
DC Super Heroes Green Lantern An Origin Story SC, $4.95
DC Super Heroes Superman An Origin Story SC, $4.95
DC Super Heroes Wonder Woman An Origin Story SC, $4.95

DC COMICS
Beware The Batman Volume 1 TP, $12.99

IDW PUBLISHING
Cartoon Network Super Secret Crisis War Volume 1 TP, $19.99
Popeye Classics #30 (Cover A Bud Sagendorf), $3.99
Popeye Classics Volume 5 HC, $29.99
Samurai Jack #16 (Cover A Andy Suriano), $3.99
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles New Animated Adventures #19 (Cover A Dario Brizuela), $3.99

IMAGE COMICS
Penny Dora And The Wishing Box #3 (Of 5), $2.99

MARVEL COMICS
Rocket Raccoon #7 (Skottie Young Regular Cover), $3.99 **Weekly Pick**

PAPERCUTZ
Geronimo Stilton Volume 15 All For Stilton Stilton For All HC, $9.99

TITAN COMICS
Doctor Who The Eleventh Doctor #7 (Holidays Photo Variant Cover), $3.99
Doctor Who The Eleventh Doctor #7 (Mariano Laclaustra Regular Cover), $3.99
Doctor Who The Twelfth Doctor #4 (Brian Williamson Regular Cover), $3.99

TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS
March Volume 2 GN, $19.95 **Weekly Pick**

The List:

Rocket Raccoon #7 – Marvel Comics pairs the furriest member of the Guardians of the Galaxy with the not-so-furry all ages creator Skottie Young. Rocket Raccoon is working to make up for his past by paying back all the princesses he kissed and ran with. His next job takes place on the dreaded Winter Planet, where it’s winter all the time. Good thing Rocket has a built-in fur coat! I knew this series was out there, but I didn’t know it was for all ages. It’s a rollicking ride with Rocket Raccoon and his wooden friend Groot, with occasional appearances by the other Guardians of the Galaxy. If you liked the movie, and Rocket, then you will love this comic.

March Volume 2 GN – Top Shelf releases the second volume of Congressman John Lewis’ autobiographical telling of the civil rights movement. After the success on the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis and his fellow Freedom Riders move into the vicious heart of the deep south, where their commitment to non-violence will be sorely tested. Beatings, police brutality, imprisonment, arson, and even murder threaten their lives, while internal conflicts threaten to tear them apart. But they also gain powerful allies, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and they take their message to Washington, DC, with the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Even though this story is relevant at any time, recent events make it even more so. This a powerful book that tweens and teens should read.

Images © Marvel Comics and Top Shelf respectively.

Filed under: All Ages