MONDAY TELEMETRY For June 27th, 2011

Welcome to another installment of Monday Telemetry, a weekly blog from The Launchpad that covers some of the more interesting releases or events that are coming to the store this week.

A lot of cool stuff this week! Read on! [See the full list of new titles here!]

ITEM! A lot of cool toys coming out this week! Pop Heroes Star Wars, the Bioshock 2 Big Daddy, and Series 1 of JLA Icons!

ITEM! The first month of Flashpoint comes to a close! We still have ALL of the FP books in stock as of this writing, including 1st printings of Flashpoint #1 and #2. Get 'em while you can, and get the package deal and all of the pins! Our Flashpoint and Fear Itself package deals will continue in July!

ALL WINNERS SQUAD BAND OF HEROES #1 (OF 8)
It's World War II super-action as Captain America heads up a top-secret, all-hero unit of the U.S. military! But a mystery surrounding the Band of Heroes rears its ugly head in the
present...and you won't believe how deep it goes. Join the wartime adventures of the toughest, most exceptional band of soldiers in American military history, in this series by acclaimed writer Paul Jenkins (SENTRY: FALLEN SUN) and rising star Carmine Di Giandomenico (INVINCIBLE IRON MAN ANNUAL, IRON MAN 2.0)!

BATMAN INCORPORATED #7
Man-of-Bats and his protégé, Red Raven, continue to aid the Dark Knight in tracking down a shadowy, sophisticated killer. Will these two members of The Club of Heroes become the newest additions to BATMAN INCORPORATED? Or will they die before they can even be offered the chance?

IRON AGE #1 (OF 3)
Trapped in the past, Iron Man races the clock to save the future from annihilation. But his past self is in a drunken stupor, and Tony's fellow Avengers, dismiss his story as an alcoholic delusion. The keys to saving Tony's future? Hank Pym...exiled Avenger and one of the Avengers' greatest enemies: Ultron! Christos Gage (AVENGERS ACADEMY) teams with comics legends LEE WEEKS and TOM PALMER - inker of more issues of Avengers than anyone else - to bring you an all-out epic in the mighty Marvel manner!  THEN! Tony's next stop is Captain Britain's London, a totalitarian state bent on a new, 'cleaner' future. Rob Williams teams with Ben Oliver (Ms. Marvel) as Iron Man and Captain Britain fight for freedom!

VENOM #4
The long awaited grudge match between Venom and Spider-Man is here! Big action! Big intrigue! All presented in the mighty Marvel fashion! Rick Remender (X-Force, Punisher) and Tony Moore (Punisher, The Walking Dead) bring you a knock down street brawl for the ages in the closing chapter of the first arc of Marvel's hottest new series!

FLASHPOINT Week Five!

Flashpoint continues with four more titles! Get these titles and two pins for only $9.99!

FLASHPOINT HAL JORDAN #1 (OF 3)
FLASH FACT! He never got the ring!

FLASHPOINT PROJECT SUPERMAN #1 Of(3)
FLASH FACT! They experimented on him in a lab for years!

FLASHPOINT GREEN ARROW INDUSTRIES #1
FLASH FACT! He makes money from war!
One-shot

FLASHPOINT THE CANTERBURY CRICKET #1
FLASH FACT! His power is his curse!
One-shot

MARVEL HEROCLIX: Captain America Previews (Compiled)

Here's a bunch of Captain America Heroclix previews! Click for hi-res.

All after the jump.

FLASHPOINT Week Four!

Flashpoint continues with four more titles! Get these titles and three pins for only $9.99!

FLASHPOINT KID FLASH LOST #1 (OF 3)
FLASH FACT! Where is he? Or should we say when?

FLASHPOINT LOIS LANE AND THE RESISTANCE #1 (OF 3)
FLASH FACT! She is ready to reveal the Amazons' secret!

FLASHPOINT THE OUTSIDER #1 (OF 3)
FLASH FACT! He won't join the war! (It could dirty his new suit.)

FLASHPOINT THE REVERSE FLASH #1
FLASH FACT! He's more powerful than ever...
One-shot

MONDAY TELEMETRY For June 13th, 2011

Welcome to another installment of Monday Telemetry, a weekly blog from The Launchpad that covers some of the more interesting releases or events that are coming to the store this week.

A lot of cool stuff this week! Read on! [See the full list of new titles here!]

ALPHA FLIGHT #1 (OF 8)
A FEAR ITSELF maxi-series spinoff! Do you fear...your country turning on you? Alpha Flight has long been the protector of an entire nation...but what happens when that nation needs to be protected from itself?  New York Times best-selling authors Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente, along withred-hot artist Dale Eaglesham, bring back the team you demanded-the original Alpha Flight! Sasquatch, Snowbird, Northstar and Aurora have been joined by their revived allies Guardian, Vindicator, Shaman, and Marrina as the paragons and protectors of an entire nation. But as FEAR ITSELF takes over, their own country turns on the Flight and brands them traitors for the shocking actions of one of their closest allies. As the borders close and an entire nation hunts them down, will the newly reunited Alpha Flight survive?

DEADLANDS ONE-SHOT
BASED ON THE GAME DEADLANDS FROM PINNACLE ENTERTAINMENT!
Image Comics, Visionary Comics and Pinnacle Entertainment present the first of four one-shot by industry superstars, bringing the weird Western world of DEADLANDS to comics! In this issue: The Harvey Award-winning HIGH MOON team of DAVID GALLAHER & STEVE ELLIS tell the story of inventor Copernicus Blackburne, who risks even his immortal soul in his Faustian quest to build "The Devil's Six-Gun!"

POWER GIRL #25
Power Girl juggles her life like a true businesswoman: helping Batman defeat a weather-wielding metahuman, using her news network to clear an innocent man's name and stumbling into a blossoming romance. But she'll need all her resources to take on Dr. Day, her corporate archnemesis!

WALKING DEAD VOLUME 14 TPB
As the Eisner Award winning series continues, no one in The Community is safe from what happens within its walls. Collects THE WALKING DEAD #79-84

FLASHPOINT Week Three!

Flashpoint continues with four more titles! Get these titles and three pins for only $9.99!

FLASHPOINT GRODD OF WAR #1 ONE-SHOT
FLASH FACT! Africa belongs to him!

FLASHPOINT LEGION OF DOOM STARRING HEATWAVE #1 (OF 3)
FLASH FACT! They have to kill the president!

FLASHPOINT DEADMAN AND THE FLYING GRAYSONS #1 (OF 3)
FLASH FACT! For their last performance - an escape act!

FLASHPOINT WONDER WOMAN AND THE FURIES #1 (OF 3)
FLASH FACT! If she can't have the world - no one will!

MONDAY TELEMETRY For June 6th, 2011

Welcome to another installment of Monday Telemetry, a weekly blog from The Launchpad that covers some of the more interesting releases or events that are coming to the store this week.

A lot of cool stuff this week! Read on! [See the full list of new titles here!]

AMERICAN VAMPIRE SURVIVAL OT FITTEST #1 (OF 5) (MR)
From the pages of the red-hot Vertigo series comes a five-issue spinoff miniseries! It's World War II in Nazi-occupied Romania as vampire hunters Felicia Book and Cash McCogan (last seen in the critically acclaimed AMERICAN VAMPIRE story "Devil in the Sand") go behind enemy lines with the secret organization known as the Vassals of the Morningstar in search of a rumored vampire cure. But their haunted, twisted past with Skinner Sweet makes the mission more difficult than they imagined. Superstar artist Sean Murphy (JOE THE BARBARIAN) joins Scott Snyder to tell a story of horror and history, expanding the American Vampire mythology in a way that changes this story forever.

GHOST RIDER #0 POINT ONE
HELL'S OWN ANGEL RETURNS IN ALL NEW POINT ISSUE THAT LEASDS STRAIGHT TO THE NEW GHOST RIDER ONGOING SERIES!
With the events of FEAR ITSELF tearing the Earth apart a mysterious and powerful figure offers Blaze a faustian pact and a chance for peace. Can Blaze actually allow himself to 'Give Up The Ghost'? And, if so, who will the Ghost Rider pass onto next? The souls of Johnny Blaze and everyone within the Marvel Universe depend on this decision. Vengeance rides in a new direction with Rob Williams (Throwbacks, Daken) and Matthew Clark (Superman, Doom Patrol). Grab your leather, metal and hellfire because it's the end of an era for Ghost Rider and the beginning of a new life for Johnny Blaze. It's gonna get loud! FIRE!

SPACE WARPED #1
Far away, in a land long ago, there was an orphaned farm kid with daddy issues trying to rescue an orphaned princess unaware of her own daddy issues! In the tradition of Robot Chicken: Star Wars and Spaceballs comes a loving, affectionate parody of the greatest science fiction franchise of all time! The first of a two-issue mini-series, this is a fan-pleasing romp that skewers one of the greatest adventure stories ever told!

ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #159
Spider-Man has been horribly wounded and hangs to life by the thinnest of threads. And when the Sinister Six come for the young hero in his hometown, Spider-Man will truly be in for the fight of his life! Prepare for a rumble in Queens like you've never seen before. Prepare for the end!

DC Relaunch Recap

You've probably all heard about the big DC relaunch by now. Here's a recap of last week's news about some of the fifty-two new #1 titles that will be part of the relaunch.

GL TITLES:
Reposted from the AP:

Amid the change ahead for the heroes that make up DC Comics' universe, Green Lantern's ring will burn bright and emerald, the character's adventures guided by a familiar face.

Geoff Johns, the company's chief creative officer, will write the upcoming relaunch of "Green Lantern," part of a DC-wide effort that will see 52 new first issues enveloping all of its heroes from Superman to the Justice League to Hawkman, but he's promising a different take and tone for the long-time character.

"It's building off the Green Lantern stories I've done since 'Rebirth,'" he told The Associated Press about the series, which is set to start in September and features art by Doug Mahnke and Christian Alamy. "Taking it in a very new direction that we've never seen in 'Green Lantern' before."

In this comic book image released by DC Comics, comic art featuring hero Green Lantern's power ring, is shown. DC Comics is relaunching Green Lantern in a plan to renumber their superhero books and provide a new look. Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns will write the new Green Lantern book, which will also be joined by three Green Lantern books, including "Green Lantern Corps," "Red Lanterns" and "Green Lantern: The New Guardians." (AP Photo/DC Comics) Close

"Green Lantern" isn't the only title planned, either. DC is also going to launch three other Green Lantern-related books, too, including "Green Lantern: The New Guardians," written by Tony Bedard and illustrated by Tyler Kirkham and Batt. That will feature Kyle Rayner leading the team. There will also be the "Red Lanterns," featuring Atrocitus and his fellow Red Lantern Corps members facing off against injustice and serving as judge, jury and executioners. The book is being written by Peter Milligan with art by Ed Benes and Rob Hunter.

A third book will also launch, too, "Green Lantern Corps." DC says that title, written by Peter J. Tomasi and illustrated by Fernando Pasarin and Scott Hanna, will see familiar Green Lanterns Guy Gardner and John Stewart as part of an elite strike force aimed at keeping the peace.
What role Hal Jordan will play in all of this, Johns won't say, but the longtime Green Lantern of Sector 2814 will be part of the new Justice League series that kicks of the DC-wide relaunch.
Johns kept details of his writing for the new series close to the vest, but said that if "I didn't think I had a great idea for Green Lantern, I wouldn't have relaunched the book. I would move on if I didn't think I had a great plan for it."

As for what will happen, Johns said he would strive to make the new series fresh but mindful of its historic roots to longtime fans and new readers, too, and stay true to the spirit of the Green Lantern Corps and its emotional content.

Some hints may come in the final issue of the current series, No. 57, which is due out later this month.

"'Green Lantern' 1 picks up a few months later in a very different space than we are now," Johns said. "When you see the cover you'll know exactly what I'm talking about."

TEN NEW #1s:
Reposted from ICv2:

DC Comics announced the creative teams for ten of its new #1 titles that will spin out from the pages of Justice League #1 by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee, which was announced on Tuesday (see “DC Renumbering All Titles” and “DC Revising Characters in Reboot”).  Writer Brian Azzarello (The Joker, 100 Bullets) will team with Cliff Chiang (Neil Young’s Greendale) for Wonder Woman #1, which will feature a cover by Chiang.

Geoff Johns, who is writing the all-important Justice League #1, will reunite with his Green Lantern and Brightest Day collaborator Ivan Reis to create a new take on DC’s sea-going superhero in Aquaman #1, which will feature a cover by Reis and Joe Prado.

Francis Manapul, who created the art for the recent Geoff Johns run on The Flash, makes his writing debut on The Flash #1 where he will share both scripting and art chores with Brian Bucellato.  Manapul and Bucellato also collaborate on the cover to The Flash #1.

Writers Ethan Van Scriver and Gail Simone are teaming up with artist Yildiray Cinar on the Fury of Firestorm #1, which will present a major new take on the character of Nuclear Man.  Van Scriver also provides the striking cover to issue #1.

Tony Daniel (Batman) will work with artist Philip Tan (Green Lantern: Agent Orange) on The Savage Hawkman #1.  In order to forestall an alien plague Carter Hall must don his cowl and wings to become the new Savage Hawkman in this action-packed tale.  Tan provides the cover to #1 as well as the interior art.

JT Krul (Teen Titans) is writing the new adventures of the Green Arrow with Dan Jurgens providing the interior art and Brett Booth is providing the cover to the new Green Arrow #1.

Dan Jurgens is also a talented writer and he gets a chance to display his writing chops with an international team of squabbling superheroes in Justice League International #1.  Aaron Lopresti will provide both the interior art and the cover to issue #1.

Eric Wallace (Titans) is penning the adventures of the world’s third smartest man in Mister Terrific #1, with Roger Robinson doing the penciling and J.G. Jones providing the cover.

FLASHPOINT Week Two!

Flashpoint rolls one with four new titles this week (6.8)! Get all four for only $9.99 and get four Flashpoint pins!

FLASHPOINT CITIZEN COLD #1 (OF 3)
FLASH FACT! He loves someone he should not!

FLASHPOINT DEATHSTROKE THE CURSE OF RAVAGER #1 (OF 3)
FLASH FACT! He will stop at nothing to find his lost treasure!

FLASHPOINT EMPEROR AQUAMAN #1 (OF 3)
FLASH FACT! He will drown the world - then rule it!

FLASHPOINT FRANKENSTEIN CREATURES OF UNKNOWN #1 (OF 3)
FLASH FACT! They can't survive unless they find their maker!