Greetings, Wednesday Warriors! It’s that time of the week again; time to storm the gates and bring home a fresh stack of new comics. Before you head to the shop, arm yourself with a few recommendations, and for you big spenders out there, we also have a complete list of this week’s releases. Godzilla triumphs, of course. Always bet on the big guy, but don’t discount a week that has a Bloodshot and Ninjak team up.

GODZILLA: OBLIVION #2

Godzilla Oblivion #2 from IDW Publishing

Written By: Joshua Fialkov
Art By: Brian Churilla
Colors By: Jay Fotos
Letters By: Chris Mowry

Godzilla: Oblivion started off crazy and huge, but this second issue kicks things up a notch. King Ghidorah came smashing into our character’s world and it was bad news all around. In order to solve this problem, our intrepid scientists come up with a plan that might be the worst idea in the history of bad ideas. Joshua Fialkov and Brian Churilla continue to do the King of Monsters justice with this fantastic series. Churilla draws a damn fine Godzilla and he draws him a lot in this issue. Every panel with the big guy feels like a perfect shot from the best Godzilla movie you’ve never seen. Glorious stuff from start to finish. Godzilla: Oblivion is proof of a high power, truly the creators of this book have been inspired from beyond.

DEPT. H #1

Dept. H #1 from Dark Horse Comics

Written By: Matt Kindt
Art By: Matt Kindt
Colors By: Sharlene Kindt
Letters By: Marie Enger

Matt Kindt’s last masterpiece, Mind MGMT, was a big, weird story that was complicated, bizarre, and wonderful. Dept. H appears to be a more grounded tale, a murder mystery that takes place in a lab at the bottom of the ocean. Of course, this being Kindt, who really knows where it’ll go from here? But it starts off fairly straightforward. Still, this doesn’t make it any less haunting and beautiful; Kindt is doing incredible work on these pages. Dept. H #1 is engaging and incredible right from page one and it doesn’t let up. Much like Mind MGMT, Kindt makes use of every inch of the page, with flashbacks and memories sometimes creeping into the borders of panels and the margins of pages. This is a winner, any way you cut it.  

BLOODSHOT REBORN #12

Bloodshot Reborn #12 from Valiant Entertainment

Written By: Jeff Lemire
Art By: Lewis Larosa
Colors By: Brian Reber
Letters By: Dave Lanphear

Take a second and just look at the cover to Bloodshot Reborn #12. Soak it up. That madness you see, that unbridled insanity? It fills that pages of this book. Jeff Lemire, Lewis Larosa, and Brian Reber have tapped into a new universe of energy. Reading Bloodshot Reborn is like taking LSD, watching Mad Max, summoning the spirit of Hunter S. Thompson, and then firing a machine gun into a a burning building. It’s crazy in a way that we can’t even began to describe with mere words. If you like action—big, huge, bloody action—read Bloodshot Reborn. When Valiant was reborn a few years ago, Bloodshot was character that seemed to always fall short of his potential. Maybe creators just weren’t pushing him far enough, or maybe the road just needed to be laid out properly first. Either way, the character is exactly where he needs to be now, and we owe Lemire and Larosa a big thanks for that.

SECOND SIGHT #3

Second Sight #3 from AfterShock Comics

Written By: David Hine
Art By: Alberto Ponticelli
Colors By: John Kalisz
Letters By: Jimmy Betancourt

This is a comic that was born in the wrong era. If you put out Second Sight in the late ’90s at Vertigo, it’d have been the talk of the town. AfterShock Comics has really, really captured something special with this book, and everybody should be reading it. David Hine and Alberto Ponticelli are crafting one sick and twisted tale here. Second Sight is shows us the ugly dark underbelly of a world a bit too much like our own. The violence is real, visceral, and horrific. This story is heading sinister places, but you can’t look away. Hine’s sharp script and Ponticelli’s detailed, masterful storytelling won’t let you go, even when you want turn your head and hide your eyes. Mark our words, this is the industry’s next big thing, some network or studio is going to scoop it up. It’s going to happen, without a doubt.

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THE COMPLETE LIST

(via PreviewsWorld.com)