New Comics In Store This Wednesday, June 22!

ACTION COMICS #902 (DOOMSDAY)
ALL NIGHTER #1 (OF 5)
ARCHIE #622
ARCHIE BABIES OGN
AVENGERS VS PET AVENGERS GN TP
BART SIMPSON COMICS #60
BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS #40
BATMAN GATES OF GOTHAM #2 (OF 5)
BATMAN RED HOOD THE LOST DAYS TP
BLACK PANTHER MAN WITHOUT FEAR #520
BRIGHTEST DAY AFTERMATH THE SEARCH #1 (OF 3)
CAPTAIN AMERICA #619
CARNAGE #5 (OF 5)
CARS 2 #1 (OF 2)
CHARMED #11
CLINT #8 (MR)
COBRA ONGOING #2
CONAN ROAD OF KINGS #6 (OF 6)
CREEPY COMICS TP VOL 01
DARK HORSE PRESENTS #2
DARKNESS ORIGINS TP VOL 03
DEADPOOL #39
DEADPOOL HC VOL 01
DETHKLOK HC
DISNEY PIXAR PRESENTS CARS 2
DMZ #66 (MR)
DR STRANGE PREM HC INTO DARK DIMENSION
DRACULA COMPANY OF MONSTERS #11
DREAMS OF DARKCHYLDE TP VOL 01 (MR)
DUCKTALES #2
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT IRIS TP VOL 01
FABLES #106 (MR)
FALLING SKIES GN
FEAR ITSELF #2 (OF 7) NEW PRINTING VARIANT
FIRST WAVE HC
FLASHPOINT KID FLASH LOST #1 (OF 3)
FLASHPOINT LOIS LANE AND THE RESISTANCE #1 (OF 3)
FLASHPOINT THE OUTSIDER #1 (OF 3)
FLASHPOINT THE REVERSE FLASH #1
GIRL GENIUS TP VOL 10 AGATHA H & GUARDIAN MUSE
GREEN ARROW #13
GUILD BLADEZZ ONE SHOT #1
HACK SLASH #5 (MR)
IMPOSSIBLE MAN TP
INCREDIBLE HULKS #631
INFESTATION OUTBREAK #1 (OF 4)
IRON MAN 2.0 #6 FEAR
JANET EVANOVICH TROUBLEMAKER TP
JOHN BYRNE NEXT MEN #7
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #58
KANE AND LYNCH TP (MR)
LOGANS RUN AFTERMATH #2
MAGDALENA ORIGINS TP VOL 02 (OF 2)
MARVEL ZOMBIE CHRISTMAS CAROL #2 (OF 5)
MIGHTY THOR #1 NEW PRINTING VARIANT
MIGHTY THOR #3
MISSION #5
MOON KNIGHT #1 NEW PRINTING VARIANT
MYSTERY MEN #2 (OF 5)
MYSTIQUE BY SEAN MCKEEVER ULTIMATE COLLECTION TP
NAMOR FIRST MUTANT #11
NEW MUTANTS #26
NEXT MEN HC VOL 01
POWER GIRL BOMB SQUAD TP
RAGE #1 (OF 3)
RED SONJA REVENGE O/T GODS #4 (OF 5)
ROCKETEER ADVENTURES #2 (OF 4)
SECRET AVENGERS #14 FEAR ITSELF
SECRET AVENGERS PREM HC VOL 02 EYES OF DRAGON
SIGIL #4 (OF 4)
SILVER SURFER #5 (OF 5)
SPIDER-MAN #15
SPIRIT #15
STAN LEE TRAVELER #8
STAR WARS JEDI DARK SIDE #2
SUICIDE GIRLS #3 (OF 4) (MR)
SUPERMAN #712
TERRY MOORES ECHO TP VOL 06 LAST DAY
THUNDERBOLTS #159 FEAR ITSELF
TRANSFORMERS 3 MOVIE ADAPTATION #3 (OF 4)
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN HC DEATH PRELUDE
ULTIMATE AVENGERS VS NEW ULTIMATES #5 (OF 6)
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #160 DEATH OF SPIDER-MAN
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #160 KALUTA VARIANT 1:30
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #160 QUESADA VARIANT 1:100
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #160 QUESADA SKETCH VARIANT 1:200
UNCLE SCROOGE MYSTERIOUS STONE RAY & CASH FLOW
VAMPIRELLA #7
VERTIGO RESURRECTED SANDMAN PRESENTS PETREFAX #1
WALT DISNEYS COMICS & STORIES #720
WOLVERINE #11
X-FACTOR TP VOL 11 HAPPENINGS IN VEGAS
X-MEN AGE OF X HC
X-MEN GREAT POWER PREM HC
X-MEN LEGACY #251
X-MEN SECOND COMING TP
X-MEN SECOND COMING REVELATIONS TP
YOUNG JUSTICE #5
ZATANNA #14

X-Men Giant Sized #1 - In store today

I love to hate the X-Men. It's true. Like so many of us, I grew up reading Chris Claremont's definitive run on the book in the 1980s. The Dark Phoenix Saga was bigger than Star Wars to me.

Later on the X-Men exploded commercially and alot of good followed that. Then came alot of bad. Onslaught was strained, Wolverine was overused, and by the mid 90s the X-Men were unrecognizable.

Nowadays my favorite X book is Uncanny X-Force, written by Rick Remender, before that it was the Kyle / Yost scribed X-Force. This book of course has nothing to do with the abominable X-force of yesteryear. It's in many ways an anti- X-Men book. Conventions are trashed, nothing is sacred. It's exciting the way X-Men comics were when I was a kid.

So anyways...today a book called X-Men Giant Sized #1 is in store. I was interested in it's premise of linking a current story to the original Stan Lee X-Men and in doing so, revealing new secrets of the X-Men that have been buried all these years. Sound like a gimmick? Sure does. What got me was the writer- former X-Force scribe Christopher Yost. I knew it would be a smart book.

Smart it is. The Neo show up to confront the X-Men. Well, kill them really. I always hated the Neo, cause they were just so....neo. Cyclops tried to keep the peace while these overpowered maniacs decide that all mutants must die. This unveils the secret of Cyclops and the original X-Men. Without spoilers, let's just say that the "secret" of the X-Men shows up to defend them, and the Neo are utterly destroyed. Cyclops begins remembering the past secret, courtesy of a memory implant left by Jean Grey, Phoenix, long ago. What shows up to protect the X-Men and all mutants not only wipes the Neo out of existence, but decides now that all homo sapiens must go as well. Thus the start of the current X-Men storyline "From First To Last".

This story will continue into the X-Men monthly series with issue #12. Definately worth checking out if you are reading current X-books or are thinking of getting back into them. And, 100% guaranteed vampire-free!