High fashion and fangs...

A few weeks ago we got ourselves all excited about the NATIONAL COMICS ETERNITY by Jeff Lemire...

And golly gosh darn it we were right to be, it was a great little one-shot that left all here at Frog Towers wanting more!!!...

There's no word yet on any more Kid Eternity stuff (we're hoping though!) but the NATIONAL COMICS title from DC is continuing, giving some of the fringe DC characters their moment in the spotlight through an oversized series of one-shots...

This week it's the turn of LOOKER, last seen in the DC Universe as a bit part player doing some undercover work for the Dark Knight in BATMAN INCORPORATED...

It seems we may well be getting a rather changed up and different take on the character in NATIONAL COMICS LOOKER #1...

For this one we're getting a not too often seen mash-up of vampire comics and high fashion (not too often seen in our our shop, we're more about shorts, t's and flipflops!)...

The writer charged with bringing the old girl back to life is Ian Edginton, who's previous mash-up works include ALIEN V PREDATOR and the Sherlock taking down Vampires in VICTORIAN UNDEAD, titles we think hold him in good stead for this one...

Subscribe to the next 6 issues of these almost pilot episode comics here... Or CONTACT US to get it added to your pull-list!!!

And this week we have the BIG BLUE GUN rolled out...

After last week's FANTASTIC BEFORE WATCHMEN RORSCHACH, we have the second tragic story at the heart of the WATCHMEN...

BEFORE WATCHMEN DR MANHATTAN #1 (OF 4) is to tell the story of DR JON OSTERMAN or DR MANHATTAN, the physicist who accidentally turned himself into a god...

And then proceeded to turn everyone around him against him...

DR MANHATTAN really is a fantastic character, a character that is is not bound by the laws that govern us all, he is the past, present and future all at once!...

He's a guy who's in a constant state of self reflection, including about the stuff he hasn't yet done... at least for everyone else, for him there is no concept of time so he has done it...

And this is where the talent on this book will really have their work cut out, making a very powerfull character accessible to folks like you and me (my head hurts just thinking about what I've just written!)...

Charged with bringing the big blue boy to life once more is J. Michael Straczynski, who if you've ever been in the FROG BROS shop I'm sure you'll have heard of as we're both big fans of his THOR run. So the guy's got previous in grounding the gods for us mere readers...

Subscribe to the entire 4 issue run of BEFORE WATCHMEN DR MANHATTAN here... Or CONTACT US to get this tortured time lord added to your pull-list!!!

'What made you this way?'...

The wait is over...

The BEFORE WATCHMEN books have been coming out for a few weeks now and don't tell Alan Moore but the FROG BROS have pretty much been enjoying 'em all!...

This week see's the release of the one that we and you have been really waiting for, BRIAN AZZARELLO and LEE BERMEJO's BEFORE WATCHMEN RORSCHACH #1 (OF 4)...

Yes!!! It's finally here, a comic based on the exploits of everyone's favourite masked, ultra right-winged nut-job!!!...

And what a team to bring this book to the table, BRIAN AZZARELLO who's got to be one of the best comic book writers around, currently doing the impossible in making WONDER WOMAN an absolutely must read each month...

And he's coupled up again with LEE BERMEJO, the same dream team that brought us 2008 hardcover only JOKER!!!...

So for this one we've got one of the best comic book characters ever created and one of the best comic book creative teams around to bring him to life. What more could we ask for?...

Subscribe to the entire 4 issue run of the comic event of 2012 BEFORE WATCHMEN RORSCHACH here... Or CONTACT US to get this lunatic crime fighter added to your pull-list!!!

Let the charm offensive begin!!!...

The smooth talking Cajun is back in his own series...

GAMBIT #1 is going to concentrate not on the stuff he does with the X-MEN but on the stuff he does without them...

Y'know the stuff they're not meant to know about, like the theiving and bad boy stuff he says he's left behind...

The talent behind this one are JAMES ASMUS doing the story, and he knows his way around the X characters having penned DARK X-MEN, MANIFEST DESTINY and GENERATION HOPE...

And on arts there's CLAY MANN who's equally at home in the X world having done some fantastic work on X-MEN LEGACY, MAGNETO NOT A HERO and the thouroughly enjoyable PRELUDE TO SCHISM...

And the noises coming from the creative camp are that this really will be a stand alone X-title so you're not going to have to run out there and buy the other 1000 issues of the various X-MEN stuff just to keep up...

Which is nice!...

So why not try a comic about a bad boy who turned good and then possibly bad again?...

Well stop prattling on and give us a preview! I hear you all scream at your screen...

Preview here...

You can subscribe to the GAMBIT series here...

This one can't miss!!!...

With the success of THE AVENGERS movie still filling the coffers of all down at the ideas factory one of the main characters from the movie gets their own ongoing series...

HAWKEYE #1 hits the FROG shelves this week and it's not just the AVENGERS movie characterisation of ol' Clint Barton that's got us at FROG TOWERS all excited...

Although usually that would probably be enough!!!...

But no, HAWKEYE is a FROG favourite character, when done right but that's all too infrequent...

So what's got you so excited about this incarnation then? I'm sure I just heard you all gasp...

Simple Frog Friends, it's the creative team of MATT FRACTION and DAVID AJA...

We all know FRACTION can pen a tale as he continues to knock INVINCIBLE IRON-MAN, CASANOVA, AVX and MIGHTY THOR outta the park...

And AJA's art on RED SKULL, 5 RONIN and SECRET AVENGERS is just sublime!!!...

So why not pick up a new book about an old favourite by a team that we're betting are going to get it so so right?

So what you waiting for CONTACT US to get it added to your drop box or subscribe to the HAWKEYE series here...

It's time to keep the copyright...

CAPTAIN MARVEL is back...

A long time ago you see it was DC that held the rights to the name, before MARVEL wrestled it off them and the DC CAPTAIN MARVEL had to become SHAZAM!!!...

To keep the copyright MARVEL now have to release a CAPTIAN MARVEL title every now and again...

And yes folks it's that time... History lesson over...

CAPTAIN MARVEL is back... again...

This time taking on the mantle is the longtime super-heroin formerly known as MS MARVEL - Carol Danvers...

Danvers the airforce darling, sometime AVENGER and part alien is back in her own book...

And in issue 1 she's got CAPTIAN AMERICA by her side fighting the good fight...

You might be wondering why we think this one might actually be any good, fair point, but you see the team behind it are Kelly Sue DeConnick and artist Dexter Soy...

And anyone who picked up last years OSBOURN EVIL INCARCERATED knows that DeConnick knows her way round a story, and that's good enough for us!

Check out the first few pages here...

GOD SAVE THE...

Delving into the worlds of religion, reality TV and science, this week we have the release of Sean Murphy's mini-series!...

Murphy, a big FROG BROS favourite is probably best known for his art work on the amazing JOE THE BARBARIAN and wonderful AMERICAN VAMPIRE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST but this creator own mini might be about to change all that...

PUNK ROCK JESUS #1 (OF 6)... Set in the not too distant US future tells the story of an angry young man...

Who just happens to be the star of the latest reality TV hit J2...

Oh and also a clone of Jesus Christ...

With his 'mum' being selected through an American Idol style process and adulation and outrage being flown all over the place what chance does this kid have?...

Hopefully this book has a better chance, VERTIGO, who are publishing it, certainly are taking a bit of a chance, but then they are the guys and gals who gave us PREACHER, and that didn't work out too badly did it? And really this is just the kind of book VERTIGO should be printing...

Murphy too is putting himself out there with this one, the guy freely admits he's an artist first and foremost so to tackle a story like this, with so many big and devisive threads... Let's hope he pulls it off, if not heh, we're still going to have one of the best looking books from the FROG shelves...

Subscribe to the whole mini-series here...

A re-imagined BATMAN...

For a re-imagined EARTH...

It's certainly been a long time coming, more than 3 years since the project was announced BATMAN EARTH ONE finally hits the FROG shelves this week...

A lot has happened in those three years with BATMAN, INC has started, SCOTT SNYDER has been stamping his authority all over the character and the whole NEW52 reboot to name but a few...

So writer and one of DC's top bananas GEOFF JOHNS and artist GARY FRANK (the team behind SUPERMAN SECRET ORIGIN) have their work cut out...

But if the noises coming out of DC are anything to go by they could be on the right path...

You see they are attacking it by looking at Bruce Wayne at the beginning of his crimefighting life, with BATMAN just starting out, a stripped back BAT with no cool BAT-MOBILE, just a regular mobile with tinted windows, we're not going to see loads of costumed goons or cool gadgets... At least ones that work...

What we are being promised is a human story about a guy who's just starting out and making lots of mistakes along the way...

Sound a bit like YEAR ONE? In my mind that can be no bad thing!.. But they are promising a move away from that too with changes to many of the supporting BAT-cast including Alfred and Jim Gordon...

Check out the first few pages of BATMAN YEAR ONE here... and then CONTACT US to order your copy...

Out of the mouths of babes....

Will no doubt come some rather tasty language!..

Yep it's the return of the FROG BROS' very favourite prepubescent, trash mouthed crime fighter HIT GIRL. 

Set in the time between the two KICK-ASS books we have Mindy trying to settle in to her butter would not melt new 'normal' life whilst taking KICK-ASS under her wing and training him up to be a masked vigilante that can actually do some damage, rather than the superhero who's main power is being able to take a kicking!

Let's be honest, KICK-ASS VOL.01 was AWESOME, VOL.02... Well honestly it forgot what made 1 so gosh darn good, and that's the 2 main characters of KICK-ASS and HIT GIRL...

So with any luck the great Mr Millar will return to form with this bad-bo... -Girl and give us the book we've all been waiting for!

With the equally great and thoroughly nice John Romita Jnr (the FROG BROS met him once,.. Just putting that out there... Check our facebook if you don't beleive us, we even got pictures! ) on arts HIT GIRL promises to be the book we all hoped KICK-ASS VOL.02 would be...

If by any miracle the dream team of Romita Jnr and Millar are reading this, please don't be offended by our critique of KICK-ASS VOL.02... no-one listens to our opinions and our doors are forever open to you should you wish to pop by the shop, have a chat about comics and books and possibly do a signing or 2?..

Check out the first few pages of HIT-GIRL here... and then CONTACT US quick to get it added to your pull-list... Or just reserved if you ain't got a pull-list yet... and if that's you, well start one NOW!

They're coming!!!...

And forget about the mediocre BURTON movie, the inspiration for this one comes from the previous 50 years of true geek collectables!!!...

Yes this week sees IDW launch an all new on-going MARS ATTACKS series with MARS ATTACKS #1...

And ooh have they got some talent on-board to bring it all to life, penning the story is the ultra talented writer of CHEW, JOHN LAYMAN and on arts we've got JOHN MCCREA...

IDW are promising a twisted mix of action and dark humour, we know LAYMAN mixes the 2 every month on CHEW and MCCREA has certainly shown he's up to the job on titles like DICKS and THE BOYS...

With a rich history of trading cards, comics, toys and yep, that movie, this team have a real melting pot of past works to use as inspiration...

And LAYMAN is delving into it all to create a universe of characters and happenings that will all tie together as the fun and alien frolics roll along...

Grab you're 6 issue subscription to the MARS ATTACKS here... and let the carnage begin...

This is gonig to be HUGE!!!...

This week finally sees the new monthly from BRIAN WOOD and KRISTIAN DONALDSON hitting the FROG shelves...

The FROG BROS just hope they're strong enough to hold them, as the title suggests this one is going to be MASSIVE!!!...

MASSIVE #1, coming from the pen of the comics genius that brought us DMZ, NORTHLANDERS, and the exceptional current run on CONAN THE BARBARIAN. Not to mention the really rather awesome WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN mini-series ALPHA AND OMEGA...

Yep BRIAN WOOD knows his way around a story and with MASSIVE we think he's about to knock it out of the park... again...

Set amongst the crew of a radical environmentalist ship named the KAPITAL, who's crew are coming to terms with a series of cataclysmic events, the kind they were radically trying to stop and trying to find their larger ship that's gone missing, the MASSIVE...

Not another end of the world sci-fi romp I here you all groan, well yes and no...

You see sci-fi can be really good, especially when it focuses on the characters and how they adapt to their new or changing world...

And that's exactly what this promises to do, it's already being compared to SAGA in size and scope so grab your copy and see what the tree huggers do when there's no more trees to hug!!!...

Grab you're 6 issue subscription to the MASSIVE here... It's gonna be HUGE...

After all the talking...

We finally get to see if all the fuss, uproar and controversy has been worth it...

Yes this week sees the first of the BEFORE WATCHMEN mini-series hitting the FROG SHELVES with BEFORE WATCHMEN MINUTEMEN #1...

Now it's been well publicised that the great ALAN MOORE, co-creator of the seminal WATCHMEN is not exactly excited by those guys and gals at DC finally taking the leap and expanding on what MOORE believes is a story that should only ever exist as it does, as a stand alone piece, MOORE has even gone so far as to urge his fans not to buy the BEFORE THE WATCHMEN books...

But the WATCHMEN is not only a stand alone piece it's also a stand out book that tells a rich story that many believe (this FROG included) is too rich to be left, with characters that have so much more to offer...

This summer DC are kicking out mini-series of varying length to do just that, build on what the great man created and expand with some of the industry's current greats...

The first of these mini's BEFORE WATCHMEN MINUTEMEN tells the story of the worlds first costumed crime fighting team and chronicles the final days of the MINUTEMEN and how the team really came apart...

And who doesn't want to read about a super team being torn apart by rape, murder, alcoholism, homosexuality and fanatical conservatism?

CONTACT US to pre-order all your BEFORE WATCHMEN titles to be sure to not miss a thing...

New this week...

Spinning from the THE CULLING...

Who wants to meet HARVIST's ELITE GUARD?...

For those of you who missed it THE CULLING was a TEEN TITANS, SUPERBOY and LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES cross over story...

In it an agency called N.O.W.H.E.R.E were rounding up Super teens and youngsters and making 'em scrap it out BATTLE ROYAL stylie!...

N.O.W.H.E.R.E's leader Harvest uses these death matches to weed out the week and uses the victors and reigning champs as his elite guard known as the RAVAGERS!!!...

In the RAVAGERS #1 a few of these die-hard kids, including CAITLIN FAIRCHILD, THUNDER AND LIGHTNING (brother and sister super dou) and the 'monstrous' RAGE have managed to free themselves of N.O.W.H.E.R.E's base, The Colony and it's evil deathcamps...

Or have they? When you've been through what these kids have been through isn't N.O.W.H.E.R.E always going to be with them?...

Both you and I will have to wait to find out but you can make sure you don't miss any of it by taking out a 6 issue subscription here...

And a little preview of what's to come here...

New this week...

Morrison's BATMAN is back...

And the FROG BROS are so very happy...

You see there's this major international threat just around the corner and unlike those Owl folks that just want Gotham, this unnamed threat wants the world...

So what's the world to do? Well nothing really except buy this book and see how Bruce and his hand picked BATMAN INC team deal with it!...

Ably assisted by Chris Burnham on arts BATMAN INCORPORATED #1 see's Grant Morrison take up his first work on BATMAN since the beautiful and fantastic, if a little mental BATMAN INCORPORATED LEVIATHAN STRIKES...

Now don't get me wrong the FROG BROS think Scott Snyder is doing great things on BATMAN but we also miss the madness that Morrison brought to the BAT-Table with his run and we're always happy to see another BAT-Book hitting the shelves...

So strap yourself in and get ready to ride the insane roller coaster comic that is BATMAN INC... 6 issue subscription available here...

New this week...

THE CHASE IS ON...

We've got a HITMAN and a BALLET DANCER and at least one bad guy trying to kill 'em!!!...

Coming from the mind that brought us THE ACTIVITY, GRIFTER and the brilliant WHO IS JAKE ELLIS comes DANCER #1...

A spy thriller 5 shot mini-series with ballerina's and bullets... 

Although the premise of a retired assassin being stalked through a European city may not sound like the most original...

This one's main protagonist has a dancing girl friend who's stolen his heart and now he's got to keep her safe whilst opening up about his murky past...

Writer NATHAN EDMONDSON and artist NIC KLEIN (VIKING) are talking DANCER up as something that you're not going to get from any other books on the shelves... 

And we're looking forward to seeing if that's true!..

Check out a 4 page preview of DANCER #1 here, and if you're interested pirhouette on down and get the rest!

New this week...

WHO'S READY FOR SOME OLD SCHOOL GOTHIC HORROR?...

Everyone's favourite bolty necked MONSTER is back and he's ALIVE ALIVE!!!...

And FRANKENSTEIN ALIVE ALIVE #1, for those of you old enough to remember the 1983 illustrated version of MARY SHELLEY's classic tale will be happy to know artist BERNIE WRIGHTSON’s back on arts...

Teaming up with him on this FRANKENSTEIN title is frequent Wrightson collaborator STEVE NILES on scripting duties...

And let's face it with titles like 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, CRIMINAL MACABRE and DARK DAYS under his belt STEVE NILES could very well be the perfect man for this title...

These guy's know HORROR!..

FRANKENSTEIN ALIVE ALIVE #1 kicks off straight where SHELLEY's FRANKENSTEIN left off...

But the creative team are coming at it from a different angle and are telling their story from the angle of FRANKENSTEIN's MONSTER himself, and I for one can't wait!..

New this week...

EARTH... 2!...

Yes boys and girls it's finally here, this ain't the main DCU Earth!!!...

This is EARTH 2... issue #1!!!...

And this one is not a soft reboot this is a proper reboot, it's not the EARTH 2 your dad knew...

This is a book that's being billed as an assemble piece and showing us this alternate world that won't be completely alien but will be different enough to keep us with it...

This will not be the JUSTICE SOCIETY and it won't just be about the Trinity of BATMAN, SUPERMAN and WONDER WOMAN...

Although they will obviously have a big part to play, we already know that the EARTH 2 BATMAN's a dad, WONDER WOMAN is the last AMAZON and SUPERMAN is mourning Lois Lane, who does not want to know what happened there?!...

And that's about all we can tell you about EARTH 2 so far as those guys and gals at DC are being pretty candid about it all, so all we can say is jump on and enjoy the ride with a subscription to the first 6 issues here!!!

New this week...

 

TIE - IN TIME!...

And this one's where we're gonna see the proper scrapping!!!...

AVENGERS VS X-MEN VERSUS #1... To give it it's full title is the action packed tie-in to AVX and this title isn't going to worry itself with big speeches about the PHEONIX FORCE...

Oh no, it's just going to be concentrating each issue on 2 hero on hero fights...

First up it's IRON MAN VS MAGNETTO and personally I'll chucking HIGHWAY TO HELL on my generic MP3 player...

The second fight has the FIRST MUTANT NAMOR going at it with THE THING...

Each issue of this tie-in mini-series is going to have shared writing and arts duties as each team takes on a separate battle and the superstar teams for this one are Jason Aaron and Adam Kubert with the other smack down by Kathryn and Stuart Immonen...

Subscribe to the full 6 issue mini-series here and then just wait for CLOBBERIN' TIME!!!

New this week...

WHO'S READY FOR SOME PULP?...

Because this week see's GARTH ENNIS taking on the SHADOW!...

SHADOW #1... Coming from DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT is getting all here at FROG Towers rather excited!..

ENNIS is a long time favourite of ours from his PREACHER to THE BOYS and PUNISHER he brings a different way of looking at comics...

They say the SHADOW knows what evil lurks in the hearts of man (although we're not sure who they are...) We are sure that ENNIS will know what makes this character tick...

Joined on this title by AARON CAMPBELL the SHADOW looks pulpy, violent and everything the SHADOW should....

Don't beleive us check out these teaser pages here...

Then CONTACT US to order your copy now...

New this week...

ARE YOU GAME?...

For more of the BAT-UNIVERSE created in ARKHAM CITY?...

If so this is going to be the title for you! BATMAN ARKHAM UNHINGED #1...

Based as a prequel to the double hit game and comic BATMAN ARKHAM CITY...

This title, created with the developer, Rocksteady, promises to explore the world behind the game...

In stories focusing on both heroes and villains and their roles in ARKHAM CITY....

We know we haven't always championed the game tie-ins but both FROG BROS greatly enjoyed the ARKHAM CITY title that spanned the ARKHAM ASYLUM and ARKHAM CITY games...

So we're really eager to get our sticky FROG palms on this one, issue #1 explores the Catwoman/Two-Face rivalry and how it leads them into the clutches of Hugo Strange...

BRING IT ON!!!...

6 issue subscription to BATMAN ARKHAM UNHINGED available here...