NEW COMIC BOOK DAY: Notable Releases 3/7/18

It's an action-packed week of comics out today. BATMAN, BATMAN: WHITE KNIGHT, MECH CADET YU, GREEN HORNET, BLOODSHOT SALVATION, and more have arrived from popular creators. Brand new titles from Image Comics including GIDEON FALLS by Jeff Lemire and OBLIVION SONG by Robert Kirman. This is just the tipping point, check out all our recommendations below. Happy reading!

(W) Tom King (A/CA) Mikel Janin
"Everyone Loves Ivy" part two! Poison Ivy has taken control of every man, woman and child on the planet, and only Batman and Catwoman have escaped her influence. But will the pair of them be enough to nip this in the bud?

(W) Tony Isabella (A) Clayton Henry (CA) Ken Lashley
Black Lightning! Tobias Whale! Face to face for the first time! With Cleveland still recovering from last issue's terrorist attack, the two archenemies will battle in the ruins of a secluded landmark for the future of the city. Oh, and in case you were wondering, yeah, it's a trap. A trap designed to end Black Lightning once and for all!

(W) Sean Murphy (A/CA) Sean Murphy
Gotham City's strongest alliance comes to an end when Gordon's trust in Batman reaches its limit. On the verge of resignation, the commissioner attempts a final act of public service, but an unlikely intervention allows the Dark Knight to fight another day. Meanwhile, Jack's mission takes a hit when his pills lose effect-and under cover of all this chaos, Neo Joker is positioned to take the city hostage.

(W) Tini Howard (A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez
"Don't feed me-I'm allergic to you!" Dominic shoots someone in the head, and Mom talks him through it. Because that's what parenting is all about. Also, more on that purse iguana we know you love.

•Modern family. Retro sass. Highly trained. To kick your ass. ASSASSINISTAS!
•Eisner Hall-of-Fame artist Gilbert Hernandez teams up with rising-star writer Tini Howard (The Skeptics, Magdelena, Rick and Morty) for a full-octane action & family drama assault!
•All BLACK CROWN titles are packed with letter columns, interviews, behind-the-panel process pages & more!

(W) Jeff Lemire (A/CA) Andrea Sorrentino
A brand-new ongoing series from the acclaimed bestselling creative team of Old Man Logan and Green Arrow! The lives of a reclusive young man obsessed with a conspiracy in the city's trash, and a washed-up Catholic priest arriving in a small town full of dark secrets, become intertwined around the mysterious legend of The Black Barn, an otherworldly building that is alleged to have appeared in both the city and the small town, throughout history, bringing death and madness in its wake.

Rural mystery and urban horror collide in this character-driven meditation on obsession, mental illness, and faith.

(W) Robert Kirkman (A/CA) Lorenzo De Felici
A decade ago, 300,000 citizens of Philadelphia were suddenly lost in Oblivion. The government made every attempt to recover them, but after many years, they gave up. Nathan Cole...won't. He makes daily trips, risking his life to try and rescue those still living in the apocalyptic hellscape of Oblivion. But maybe...Nathan is looking for something else? Why can't he resist the siren call of the Oblivion Song?

(W) Gerry Duggan (A) Aaron Kuder (CA) Adi Granov
The Saga of the Infinity Stones begins!
As the Infinity Stones reappear around the cosmos, the ultimate race for power is on!! Battles will be fought, blood will be spilled, lives will be lost... all as the greatest cosmic heroes and villains vie for possession of the Power Stone, towering over a remote asteroid, somehow grown to the size of a building. Watch as the path to Infinity opens before your eyes and the END lies near...
Rated T+

(W) Narcisse, Evan, Ta-Nehisi Coates (A) Paul Renaud (CA) Brian Stelfreeze
SECRET ORIGIN OF THE BLACK PANTHER Part 3
•  Against the wishes of his tribal council, the Black Panther unveils his country to the globe.
•  But will T'Challa's faith in humanity bring ruin on his resource-rich home?
•  The new king will quickly find his invitation brings unexpected guests. What is the Winter Soldier doing in Africa?!
Rated T

(W) Jeff Lemire (A/CA) Jeff Lemire
Master storyteller Jeff Lemire takes the helm for the year's most terrifying, most memorable special issue - told entirely in PITCH BLACK DARKNESS!

Deployed into the demonic realm called Deadside in search of a cure for his ailing infant daughter, Bloodshot has lost the one sense he needs most to navigate the land of the dead: his sight. Blinded with only his four-legged ally, Bloodhound, to aid him, Ray Garrison must fight onward as one man against the darkness - even as he is beset from all sides by a horde of inhuman entities that crave only death, suffering, and slaughter...

Told in total darkness from Bloodshot's point of view, "THE BOOK OF THE DEAD" enters uncharted territory with a seminal experiment in storytelling written and staged by Eisner Award-winning visionary Jeff Lemire (Black Hammer, Animal Man)!

(W) John Allison (A/CA) Max Sarin
Heading into their third year at university, Esther, Daisy, and Susan are living apart from each other for the first time, and it's definitely going to be absolutely fine and not weird at all.

(W) Frank Tieri (A) Pat Kennedy, Tim Kennedy (CA) Adam Gorham
Who is Elena Cooper? Take a trip back through time to witness the history of the mysterious matriarch of the Cooper Underground and the threat she poses for Jughead in the present day!

(W) Greg Pak (A/CA) Takeshi Miyazawa
Stanford and his fellow students are enlisted into Earth's last-ditch effort to drive off the Sharg invasion.

(W) Cody Sousa, Dan Sheppard (A/CA) Cecillia Lo Valvo
Mysterious voices lure a man back to his hometown to visit an abandoned house that he used to frequent as a child. But as he journeys through his old hangout, he encounters a supernatural presence that forces him to face his past and his darkest fears

(W) Amy Chu (A) German Erramouspe (CA) Mike Choi
Britt Reid Jr., the scion of the Daily Sentinel publishing empire, vanishes during a wild party on his friend's yacht. Meanwhile, crime spikes in the streets of Century City with the mysterious criminal/secret vigilante the Green Hornet absent.  It's only a matter of time before SOMEONE puts two and two together, and it's up to Kato, former partner of Britt's father, and his daughter Mulan to protect the city AND the Green Hornet legacy while finding out what happened to Britt.  Amy Chu (Red Sonja, Poison Ivy, KISS) picks up where Kevin Smith left off with an action-packed mystery.