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This Week (June 25): Final Crisis #2 and More

Final Crisis #2 of 7

Meet Japan’s number one pop culture heroes, the Super Young Team and their languid leader, Most Excellent Superbat! Join legendary wrestler Sonny Sumo and super escape artist Mister Miracle as they team to face the offspring of the Anti-Life Equation! See Earth’s superheroes mourn one of their oldest allies! Witness costumed criminals sinking to new depths of cowardice and depravity as Libra takes things too far! Uncover the doomsday secrets of the poisoned city of Blüdhaven! Learn the shocking identity of the prime suspect in the murder of a god! And read on if you dare as Batman becomes the first of Earth’s champions to face the Fallen of Apokolips. All this and a spectacular return from the dead…

Grant Morrison and J.G. Jones’ multiverse-spanning epic continues with bombshell after bombshell in Final Crisis #2 — “Ticket to Blüdhaven”!

June 25, 2008. Written by Grant Morrison. Art and covers by J.G. Jones

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Tangent Comics vol. 3

Collecting more of DC’s Tangent titles, including Tangent Comics: Superman, Wonder Woman, Joker’s Wild, JLA, Tales of the Green Lantern, Powergirl, Nightwing: Nightforce and Trials of the Flash.

June 25, 2008. Written by Mark Millar, Peter David, Ron Marz, Dan Jurgens and others; Art by Darryl Banks, J.H. Williams III, Ryan Sook and others; Cover by Jurgens.

What If…This Was The Fantastic Four?: A Tribute to Mike Wieringo

When [former Flash] artist Mike Wieringo passed away, he was in the middle of his latest Marvel Comics book, a What If? story. Mike had completed seven pages of what became a massive 27-page story. With Mike’s passing, Marvel Comics generously provided access to the script and Mike’s art to The Hero Initiative, and Mike’s friends stepped up to finish the story, and pay tribute to Mike. Now, What If…This Was The Fantastic Four?: A Tribute to Mike Wieringo is a massive, 48-page tribute book that contains the full story, and additional written tributes to Mike. Previously covered here.

Contributors include Jeff Parker, Arthur Adams, Paul Renaud, Stuart Immonen, Cully Hamner, Alan Davis, David Williams, Sanford Greene, Humberto Ramos, Skottie Young, Mike Allred, Barry Kitson, and Val Staples. Cover by Mike Wieringo and Paul Mounts.

June 25, 2008.

This Week (June 18): Flash #241 and More

The Flash #241

A tidal wave of psychic terror sends Keystone’s citizenry on a superpowered looting spree at the Flash Museum—and The Flash is forced to relive painful memories while defending it!

June 18, 2008. Written by Tom Peyer; Art and Cover by Freddie Williams II

Showcase Presents: The Flash vol.2

More than 500 pages of high-speed adventure, collected from the pages of The Flash #120–The Flash #140!

June 18, 2008. 552 pages, black and white. Written by John Broome and Gardner Fox; Art by Carmine Infantino, Joe Giella and Murphy Anderson; Cover by Infantino and Anderson.

See Also: Silver-Age Reprints.

Tangent: Superman’s Reign #4 of 12

The Tangent Earth’s Superman has taken over his world and made it a safer place, unless someone crosses him! The DCU’s Green Lantern and the Flash are in deep trouble, and getting back to their Earth may only make things worse!

June 18, 2008. Written by Dan Jurgens & Ron Marz. Art by Jamal Igle, Robin Riggs and Fernando Pararin. Cover by Matt Haley & Tom Simmons

Teen Titans: Year One #5 of 6

Continuing the origin of the team, Wonder Girl and Speedy go out on a first date that ends in tragedy!

June 18, 2008. Written by Amy Wolfram; Art and Cover by Karl Kerschl & Serge Lapointe.