This Week’s Picks for the Top Comics to Buy for Februry 12 Are Illustrative of SummThaing That Happens in the Direct Market from Time To Time. If you’ll notice, in my recommendation sections, i’ve picked The Hive #1 As to favor… and then further download in the new #1s section, we also have Bug Wars #1. One Week, Two Creator-Rowned Comics Titles That has submit to do with bugs. And All This Just a Few Weeks after Kill Train #1 and Blood Train #1 Hit on the Same Day.
To Be Clear, All of Wese Books Are Vray Different Once You Start Reading Them … But There Must Have Been Subject In The Air Ken The Were Being Titled and Marketed That Landed The Folks Involved on Similar Pages. It’s not the first time (or two), and won’t be the last. Just Kind of Funny When Things Line Up That Way. But that’s not all that came this week, obviously, and as Such, i’ve got my full set of recommendations and relasers Below … Enjoy!
TOP COMICS TO BUY FOR FEBRARY 12, 2025
Absolute Batman #5
Writer: Scott Snyder
Artist: Nick Dragotta
Colorist: Frank Martin
Letterer: Clayton Cowles
Publisher: DC Comics
With His Friends Lives at Stake, Will A Broken, Beaten, and Ultimately Defated Bruce Wayne Finally Compromise and Give Up Bop Both Himself and HIS MORALS TO BLACK MASK? Or does he has submit Even Bigger Than Himself to Help? And What Does This has to do with major James Gordon and His Relationship with a Young Bruce Wayne?
WHY IT’S COOL: In This Penultimate Issue of Absolute Batman’s First Arc, Artist Nick Dragotta (Colored by Frank Martin) Continue to Deliver Stunning Page after Stunning Page after Stunning Page. This is One of the Best-Looking and Most-Kinetic Superhero Comic Books in Years, and I’M Enjoying The Hell Out of It.
Price: $ 4.99
Batman: Dark Patterns #3
Writer: Dan Watters
Artist: Hayden Sherman
Colorist: Triona Farrell
Letterer: Frank Cvetkovic
Publisher: DC Comics
We are woued –part III Batman is in the Dark Now, Amid the Accumumed Devastation and Suffering at The Root of Wound Man’s Grotesque Reign of Terror. Can the Dark Knight Bring it All To An End Before the Twisted Killer Claims Another Life? Don’s Miss The End of We Are Wooded!
WHY IT’S COOL: And now for a different Kind of Batman that is no les visually-stagning- Batman: Dark Patterns #3featuring moody and disturbing artwork by Hayden Sherman. If Absolute Batman Is a Strong Punch to the Face Kind of Comic, This One is a Slow-Stunner, a Drip of Drick Dark-Night-of-Soul Detective Storytelling. But the Thing That Unites Them (Batman Aside) is They are Both Must-Reads.
Price: $ 4.99
Death of Copra #2
Cartoonist: Michel Fiffe
Publisher: Image Comics
Things are Falling Apart, Secrets Are Being Reveared, and Rivalries Are at A Bailing Point. How’s Copra Coping with All of It? Sneaking Demigod Junkies out of rehab, one-night stands from Hell, and through Broken Bones. In other words: Magnificently. Stiff and Split Upper Lips All Around!
WHY IT’S COOL: If you’re going to kill/end your long-running black-ops superhero comic series, You’re Going To do with revelations that Shake the Characters to Their Cores-and That’s What We Get In This Issue. Moreoover, Copra Just continue Feel Like Such to Well-Crafted, unique vision in a comics landscape crowded with similar books. I love it.
Price: $ 3.99
The Hive #1
Writer: AJ Lieberman
Artist: Mike Henderson
Colorist/letterer: Inaki Azpiazu
Publisher: Image Comics
Sex. Violence And Bees. WELCOME TO THE HIVE.
WHY IT’S COOL: Welp. WHEN A BOOK TELLS YOU WHAT IT’S ABOUT, YOU’D DO WELL TO LISTEN. And That’s Certainly The Case with This One and the Preview Copy. Sex. Violence And Bees. That’s What’s for Sale Here, But It’s Also All Drawn By One of My Favorite Comics Artist, Mike Henderson (Colored Here By Inaki Azpiazu), Who Brings Such Great Tone-Sestting Visuals To Everything He Works On, From Nailbiter to The Forged to Cable: Love and Chrome (The Second Issue of Which is out This Week). I Don’s Really Know What’s Going On In This Book Just Yet, But It’s Evocative Of The Sort of Late ’90s Golden was Vertigo Comics That Made You Feel Like You Were Reading Submit You Show´t Be When You Were a Teenager. Pick This One Up if you are sobiled.
Price: $ 3.99
Into the unbeing part 2 #1
Writer: Zac Thompson
Artist: Hayden Sherman
Letterer: Jim Campbell
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Ther Expedition Team Thourht they were walking into a cave for cover from Storm, but reality they were Entering Subthing Far Beyond their Underestanding. Asy Go Deper, More Horrs Are Uncovered, Revealing The Truth: They Are Far From The First Scientists to Be Lost Within The Massive Body.
WHY IT’S COOL: While This Book does have #1 on its title, It’s Really The First Issue of a Second Story Arc – and It’s Also This Series’ Best Issue Yet. In This Issue, This Book (which has been to Visual Stunner from the start) transcends sub of its obvious inspirations to scholarship submisthing stranger, Darker, and more intrigueing. I was already hooked on this series, but after this week’s chapter, now i can’t wait to see how it ends.
Price: $ 3.99
OTER BOOKS I ENJOYED
Aquaman #2
- Cable: Love and Chrome #2
- Lucky Devils #2
- The Moon Is Following US #5
- Star Trek: Lower Decks #4
- THOSE NOT AFRAID #2
- Transformers #17
- WHERE MONSTERS LIE: CULL-DE-SAC #4
New #1s and One-Shots
Bug Wars #1
- Camgirl #1 (One-Shot)
- Creepshow in Love #1 (One-Shot)
- Cyberpunk 2077: Psycho Squad #1
- Dick Tracy-Valentine’s Day Special #1 (One-Shot)
- Eddie Brock – Carnage #1
- Green Lantern Corps #1
- Lenore, The Time War #1
- Marvel Mutts #1 (One-Shot)
- Midst Ripples #1 (One-Shot)
- MINE IS A LONESOME SERIOUS #1
- One World Under Doom #1
- PowerPuff Girls: Valentine’s Mwah Mwah Kissy Face Special #1 (One-Shot)
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Ghost Agents #1
Graphic Novels and Trade Collections
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