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"What's on the Rack?" Issue #32: Hardware, Bats and ceramics...
Yes, we're late - but we've decided to get around that by declaring that "What's on the Rack?" will now move its regular publication slot to Wednesday from now on - so here we are, exactly on time!
It's New Comic Book Day here in Harrogate and if you're looking for comics we've got them! There's some great stuff out this week, and as ever you can
or scroll on down for the highlights:
BATMAN '89 #1
Step back into the Gotham of Tim Burton’s seminal classic Batman movies! Batman ’89 brings in screenwriter Sam Hamm (Batman, Batman Returns) and artist Joe Quinones (Dial H for Hero) to pull on a number of threads left dangling by the prolific director.
Gotham becomes torn in two as citizens dressed as Batman and The Joker duke it out in the streets. As D.A. Harvey Dent tries to keep the city together, he targets the one problem tearing it apart: BATMAN! And he’ll get Bruce Wayne’s help in taking down the Dark Knight!
CAMPISI #1
Sonny Campisi is a small-time fixer for the mob-controlled neighborhood of Green Village.
If you don't pay your gambling debt, he'll come and collect. If you get a little rough with one of 'the girls,' he gets a little rough with you.
But when a dragon flies into town and Sonny is the one who's tasked with getting rid of it, it's a problem unlike any he's ever faced, and a chain of events begins that will affect everyone who lives in that neighborhood.
Especially Sonny.
A new comic by James Patrick, the writer of KAIJU SCORE, and breakout artist Marco Locati, CAMPISI is a genre-mashing comedy-thriller that plays like one part Get Shorty, one-part Dragonslayer, and all parts absurdly wonderful! Each issue of CAMPISI features 24 pages of story and art with a cardstock cover!
DEFENDERS #1
SUPERSTARS AL EWING & JAVIER RODRÍGUEZ REUNITE FOR A COSMOS-COLLIDING JOURNEY!
When existence itself faces extraordinary threats, it needs an extraordinary defense! That's when you call...THE DEFENDERS!
DOCTOR STRANGE and the MASKED RAIDER take a non-team of Marvel's weirdest, wildest heroes on a mission that will uncover the hidden architecture of reality itself! This cosmos was not the first to exist...but if the DEFENDERS can't track Marvel's oldest villain through the deepest trenches of time - it might be the last! Rated T+
HARDWARE SEASON ONE #1
Curtis Metcalf was the brightest shining star of Alva Industries, a brilliant scientist mentored by Edwin Alva since childhood… until the failures of Alva technology at the Big Bang disaster threatened to destroy the company, and Alva needed a scapegoat.
Now Curtis is on the run from the Dakota police department…but a man as smart—and paranoid—as Curtis takes precautions. With a nearly indestructible suit of armor and remarkable inventions that he never handed over to Alva, Curtis stands determined to do much more than clear his name… he’s going to take the fight back to Alva himself!
Writer Brandon Thomas (Future State: Aquaman, Excellence) is joined by Hardware’s co-creator and Milestone founder Denys Cowan to open a legendary new chapter in the story of the Milestone Universe’s most complicated man!
Is a better world on his mind? Or just a world built for him?
I AM BATMAN #0
Future State gave readers a preview of things to come with Jace Fox as the new Batman… but his debut in the core line arrives with a bang!
Picking up immediately from the events of The Next Batman: Second Son, Jace thrusts himself into action when the Magistrate’s crackdown on Alleytown begins, using armour he’s found in the abandoned Hibernaculum.
The age of a new Dark Knight starts now!
PORCELAIN #1
First ABLAZE brought you the surreal, bewitching tale of Maria Llovet's Eros/Psyche...now comes Porcelain.
Beryl's life in the desert, living with her aunt and her cat, is relatively simple…until the day she finds and enters the Dollhouse.
Stuck inside an ever-changing mystery house that hunts children and turns them into dolls, Beryl goes on a psychedelic journey where she must face the notion of her own limitations and move past them... before she becomes the building's newest prey.
PORCELAIN is a labyrinth of a psychologically thrilling experience told in a way that only acclaimed creator Maria Llovet (Faithless, Heartbeat, Loud, Eros/Psyche) can tell it.
PENNYWORTH #1
Spanning the years between the hit TV show and today, Pennyworth tells the continuing adventures of Alfred Pennyworth as an MI6 counterintelligence agent-this time in Cold War-era Soviet Russia.
When Alfred and his partner receive intelligence that nuclear weapons are being manufactured near the Arctic Circle, they’re off to infiltrate the remote military base to learn more. But things don’t go exactly as planned, and the ramifications of this mission may be more far-reaching than anyone could have guessed, as our present-day butler gets dragged back into his past...
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