STAFF PICKS FOR 9/24/2014!!

Check out this week’s top favorite comics from your friends at Laughing Ogre!batman riding superman

CAMILLE

New Comic: Low #3

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In an effort to save mankind, Stel Kane embarks to do what hasn’t been done in millennia: walk on the Earth’s surface. But before she can rise from the depths of the ocean, she must first help her son rise from the suffocating darkness in which he wallows.

Trade: Rover Red Charlie tp 1

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An unlikely band of canines set out to survive in a world gone horribly mad.  When a worldwide plague wipes out humanity, what happens to man’s best friend?  Charlie was a helper dog and he was good at it.  Now he and his friends Rover and Red must escape the bloody city and find their way in this strange master-less new world.  Ennis applies his incredible talent for shockingly original tales and spot-on dialogue in this fully painted story will change the way you look at pets and takes you on a spiritual journey of rediscovery through the eyes of these canine best friends.

GARY

New Comic: Town Called Dragon #1

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Legendary Comics transports you to A Town Called Dragon. On the surface it seems like your average all-American tourist trap, but this snow-covered town hides a burning secret. After centuries of lying buried within the depths of an icy mountain, the world’s last dragon egg finally hatches – endangering modern life as we know it. Now an unlikely group of dangerously unqualified, ordinary citizens must band together, battling the elements and each other to slay this menacing creature.

Trade: Batman / Superman vol 1

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The Dark Knight and The Man of Steel are close friends in the modern day – but the two weren’t always such close allies. Learn how these two legends met for the first time in The New 52 as they launch into a mysterious adventure that takes them to the world of Earth 2!

JAKE

New Comic: Inhuman #6

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The Unspoken has attacked Medusa’s island nation and successfully taken it. With all the Inhuman royal family captive, it’s up to the NuHumans to show their mettle!

Trade: Batman Year One

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 One of the most important and critically acclaimed Batman adventures ever!  In addition to telling the entire dramatic story of Batman’s first year fighting crime, this collection includes loads of reproductions of original pencils, script pages, promotional art, unseen Mazzucchelli Batman art and more! 

RICH

New Comic: Butterfly #1

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Butterfly is one of Project Delta’s deep cover agents, no birth
certificate, no social security number, a complete ghost. When her cover is blown and she is set up for a murder she did not commit, she is unknowingly led to her father’s doorstep,a man she thought died 20 years ago. Codenamed Nightingale, her father was once a member of the very same Project Delta, a spy in the violent aftermath of the Cold War, and believes they are behind her setup. Trained to trust nothing and no one, Butterfly must decide whether to seek answers with the Project, or believe the man who betrayed her years ago.

Trade: Infinity Gauntlet tp

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It’s the Avengers, the New Warriors, the X-Men and more against the omnipotent Eternal, Thanos! The Mad Titan has become the most powerful being in the universe, and enslavement or destruction may be the only choices he gives it! The successive Starlin sagas that shook space and time start here!

ROB

New Comic: A Town Called Dragon #1

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Legendary Comics transports you to A Town Called Dragon. On the surface it seems like your average all-American tourist trap, but this snow-covered town hides a burning secret. After centuries of lying buried within the depths of an icy mountain, the world’s last dragon egg finally hatches – endangering modern life as we know it. Now an unlikely group of dangerously unqualified, ordinary citizens must band together, battling the elements and each other to slay this menacing creature.

Trade: All Star Batman and Robin

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Lee and Miller join forces to tell a new version of Dick Grayson’s origin in a high-octane tale that unfolds with guest appearances by Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Black Canary and more!

STEPHANIE

New Comic: New Avengers #24

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IN 8 MONTHS…TIME RUNS OUT!

Trade: Hellblazer vol 1

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The very first Hellblazer collection is back in a new edition that includes John Constantine’s early appearances in SWAMP THING #76-77 along with HELLBLAZER #1-9. This is the first of a series of new HELLBLAZER collections that put all his adventures in reading order, capturing Constantine at his youthful, anarchic best. 

STEVE

New Comic: Outcast #4

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Who is Luke Masters and what answers does he bring Kyle? A major new character is introduced as Kyle’s epic journey starts down a new path.

Elric the Ruby Throne GN

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The ancient island of Melniboné has been ruled by Elric, the albino emperor, for millennia. Reliant on magic and herbs for his strength and prolonged life, Elric’s grip on Melniboné is crumbling, as his people slide into decadence. Now his envious cousin Yyrkoon, Prince of Melniboné, plots to overthrow him and claim the Ruby Throne for himself!

VERNON

New Comic: Injustice #12

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Year Two comes to a gripping conclusion with the most shocking turn of events yet. Is all hope lost? It will be if Superman wins the war! Events move in a dark direction – but what’s ahead for the resistance and The Man of Steel’s New World Order in the year to come?

Trade: Sin City vol 1: The Hard Goodbye

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The first volume of the crime-comic megahit that introduced the now-infamous Marv and spawned a blockbuster film returns in a newly redesigned edition, with a brand-new cover by Frank Miller-some of his first comics art in years!
It’s a lousy room in a lousy part of a lousy town. But Marv doesn’t care. There’s an angel in the room. She says her name is Goldie. A few hours later, Goldie’s dead without a mark on her perfect body, and the cops are coming before anyone but Marv could know she’s been killed. Somebody paid good money for this frame . . .

Legendary Comics transports you to A Town Called Dragon. On the surface it seems like your average all-American tourist trap, but this snow-covered town hides a burning secret. After centuries of lying buried within the depths of an icy mountain, the world’s last dragon egg finally hatches – endangering modern life as we know it. Now an unlikely group of dangerously unqualified, ordinary citizens must band together, battling the elements and each other to slay this menacing creature.