Friday FOC Roundup 11/16/18

Friday Night FOC Roundup!

Titles on cutoff MONDAY 11/19/18! It is a huge week for FOC and new releases. If you are interested in adding any of these titles to your pull, please message us ASAP! The majority of these books will be in store on 12/12!

From Dark Horse, and the Black Hammer world comes Black Hammer Cthu-Louise One Shot! From the pages of Sherlock Frankenstein comes this horrific tale of Lovecraftian teenage angst. Spawned by the emissary of a Cthulhu god, Cthu-Louise struggles and is teased at school due to her monstrous appearance. Finally fed up with the bullying and abuse, she decides she will do anything to make herself "normal."

Also from Dark Horse and in shops on 12/12, Hellboy is back for the Hellboy 2018 Winter Special! Three wintry tales featuring a Mike Mignola and Ben Stenbeck team-up for a New Year's Eve séance gone wrong when Hellboy visits a family's English home, Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá revisit B.P.R.D.: Vampire with a new tie-in story, and Tonci Zonjic returns to write and draw Lobster Johnson.

From DC, Batman Who Laughs is back and in his own mini-series! Issue #1 (of 6) is in stores on 12/12! Left rattled by the events of DARK NIGHTS: METAL, Bruce Wayne must come face to face with the nightmares spawned from the Dark Multiverse. But even though evil devoured evil in the collapse of Challengers Mountain, the Dark Knight still has his doubts. He discovers that the Batman Who Laughs not only survived the fight with The Joker at the end of METAL, but now he is enacting a sinister plan across the Multiverse-something both terrifying and oddly familiar. But when Bruce Wayne realizes the only way to stop this madman is to kill him, he must consider violating the very rule Batman won't break...the same rule that created this insatiable villain-the Batman Who Laughs!

Also From DC, and in stores on 12/12 is the GORGEOUS Catwoman #6 variant cover by ArtGerm. And is his last cover on the series! Selina's forced into a seriously sinister Sopranos-style sit-down! While the cops continue to hunt her for a murder she didn't commit, Catwoman's forced to take a meeting with secretive crime boss Mrs. Creel. Here's the pitch: work for us or die! Selina counters with some blackmail of her own, but the offer fails to blow away Creel and her meta-crew. That leads to a breakneck chase that drives Catwoman right into the crosshairs of the local authorities.

From Vertigo and in stores on 12/12 is Goddess Mode #1. Don't miss the start of a new series by Hugo Award nominee Zoë Quinn and Spider-Gwen co-creator Robbi Rodriguez! In a near future where humanity's needs are provided for by a godlike A.I., it's one young woman's horrible job to do tech support on it. But Cassandra Price's life changes forever when she discovers a hidden digital world beneath our own, one where a group of super-powered women are locked in a secret war for the cheat codes to reality.

From Image, and in stores on 12/12 is Spawn Kills Everyone 2! SPAWN KILLS EVERYONE is back in this four-part miniseries! MORE CUTENESS, MORE KILLING, MORE ISSUES! Written by Todd McFarlane with art by Will Robson!

From Marvel, Defenders Best Defense #1 hits the racks on 12/12 and is the conclusion to the Best Defense story arc! The lost Atlanteans. The Train. The bedsheet man. Dead Steve. The Stock Exchange of Souls. Trust us, it all makes sense. In fact, it makes enough sense to destroy our entire solar system... Unless four very different heroes can come together to stop it.

Also from Marvel and in stores on 12/19, Fantastic Four #5 hits racks! SPECIAL 650th ISSUE SPECTACULAR! The wedding that's been years in the making...Ben and Alicia say "I do!" No bait. No switch. Not a dream. Not a hoax. And we swear, not a single Skrull around. This is really happening! From the book that brought you the first, best and longest running super hero marriage in comics, we give you...the wedding of Ben Grimm and Alicia Masters! Featuring an untold tale of the courtship of Ben and Alicia. A bachelor party that only Johnny Storm could throw. And a very special ceremony brought to you in the Mighty Marvel Manner.

On the racks 12/19 is Infinity Wars Fallen Guardian #1. In the stunning climax of INFINITY WARS, one of the Guardians of the Galaxy makes the ultimate sacrifice. Look back at the life of a fallen Guardian and the empty space they leave behind in what's left of the universe.

Also in stores on 12/19, is Seasons Beatings #1! It's the most wonderful time of the year! And certainly the most eventful, as this cast of Marvel heroes soon find out as they engage in wacky hijinks to save the holiday season!

In shops on 12/26 is Superior Spider Man #1! A SPIDER-GEDDON TIE-IN!
Otto Octavius leaves the moniker of Doctor Octopus behind and once again becomes THE SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN! If you think you've already read the most intense and surprisingly heartbreaking Superior Spider-Man story, prepare to be wrong. Otto is going to prove to the world that he's the most effective and (to him at least) the best super hero in the world. But when a villain that overpowers him by so much shows up in San Francisco, there's no way Ock can win, right? Can you see Otto smirking from where you're reading this?

Lastly from Marvel and in shops 12/26 is X-Force #1! FROM THE ASHES OF EXTERMINATION! Cable is dead...and now, the original X-Force team of Domino, Cannonball, Shatterstar, Boom Boom and Warpath. must hunt down the murderer of their former leader! The mutant militia are hot for blood...but when their target is the time-traveling younger version of their fallen mentor, is there a line they absolutely cannot cross? And what does Deathlok have to do with all of it? From Ed Brisson (EXTERMINATION, OLD MAN LOGAN) and Dylan Burnett (COSMIC GHOST RIDER), comes an all-new, high-octane mutant adventure! A reckoning will come!

From Boom! Studios and in stores on 12/12 is Planet of the Apes the Simian Age #1 One Shot. Celebrate over 50 years of one of cinema's most influential franchises with this one-shot collection of stories highlighting the simian citizens of the world of Planet of the Apes! Featuring stories from both the original films and new series canon, including the life of an Ape Soldier in General Ursus's army, and a story set before Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, revealing Koba's early struggles to remain loyal to Caesar.

From Dynamite Entertainment and in shops on 12/12 is Red Sonja Holiday Special #1. An all-new 20 page Hyrkanian Holiday story where Sonja reminisces about the time she and Sir Max rescued a drunk Santa from the Grinch (Kulan Gath of course!) and learns the true meaning of Christmas. This also features the cutting edge classic She Devil reprint story "Wizards of the Black Sun"!

Also from Dynamite and in shops 12/12 is Vampirella Vs the Reanimator #1! It's the big question of 2018: How could Vampirella and the Reanimator not have met before now?!!?! Herbert West--the Reanimator--has long sought the secret to perfecting his reagent and break death's hold on mankind once and for all. The key to his success lies in only one place--the forbidden tomb of the Aztec god of death! But disturbing sleeping gods is as troubling (to put it mildly) as raising the uncontrollable, murderous dead... especially when this deity is an ancient enemy of Vampirella of Drakulon! It's vampire versus mad scientist in a battle that threatens to tear the gates of the underworld asunder!

From Black Mask and in shops 12/12 and from the world of Cal-Exit comes Emmie X All Systems Go #1 (of 4). Teenage skaterat Emmie runs a punk record shop in an abandoned strip mall during the CALEXIT military occupation. When Homeland Security turns the strip mall into a detention center, Emmie realizes she must fight the power. Originally published as a limited edition one-shot at Comic Con to raise money for immigrant families separated at the border, readers demanded more of Emmie's story. This new edition of #1 launches Emmie into her own mini-series.