Major Spoilers Staff Picks for April 11, 2018 #NCBD

IT’S NEW COMIC BOOK DAY! #NCBD

The best day of the week just got a lot better with a new round of awesome comics arriving in stores this week. Staff members at Major Spoilers are here to help you with your comic book selection this week, with their roundup of comics they recommend.

DOMINO #1
Writer: Gail Simone
Artist: David Baldeon
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
SOLICITATION: Impossible curves. Impossible shots. Impossible targets. Marvel’s #1 soldier of fortune is back in an explosive new ongoing series! The product of a failed super-soldier program, Neena Thurman always made her own luck as the sharpshooting mercenary known as Domino… but what happens when her own powers betray her? The hunter becomes the hunted as every mercenary in the game smells blood in the water! Plus: A pair of beloved Marvel characters return!

MATTHEW: An ongoing series for a former member of X-Force, the second least interesting X-Group? You better believe that this one is all about the creators, and I’m looking forward to Gail and David teaching me to love Neena Thurman…

EXILES #1
Writer: Saladin Ahmed
Artist: Javier Rodriguez
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
SOLICITATION: Fan-favorite X-Man Blink once joined a team destined to save not just the world, but the entire Multiverse. And now, her teleporting talents are needed once again! When a mysterious threat begins eating away at the fabric of the Multiverse, the Unseen – the man once known as Nick Fury who now can only observe Earth from a lofty post on the moon – must recruit a champion to save it. But she can’t do it alone. Who will join Blink’s new team – and can they ever go home again?

MATTHEW: Man, I can’t believe it’s been that long since Exiles #1… I am psyched for this book, the creative team and characters involved and I hope it goes as long as the original.

GIDEON FALLS #2
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Artist: Andrea Sorrentino
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
SOLICITATION: The brand-new supernatural mystery series by the acclaimed team of JEFF LEMIRE and ANDREA SORRENTINO (Old Man Logan, Green Arrow) continues. The mysteries of the “Black Barn” heighten as the reclusive Norton begins to unravel new clues just as a murder spree breaks out in the town of Gideon Falls. But how is it all connected?! The puzzle pieces begin to fall.

STEPHEN: Jeff Lemire has me hooked as the second issue hits stands. The Black Barn is scary as heck, and the mystery (and possible conspiracy) deepens. Definitely, a must read this week!

THE IMMORTAL MEN #1
Writer: James Tynion IV
Artist: Jim Lee, Scott Williams
Publisher: DC Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
SOLICITATION: There is a secret history to the DC Universe of heroes who have protected humanity from the shadows since the dawn of time…and who can live forever. Enter the Immortal Men! The team, headed by the Immortal Man, has waged a secret war against the House of Conquest for countless years-but Conquest has dealt a devastating blow. When their base of operations, known as the Campus, is savagely attacked, the Immortal Men must seek out their last hope-an emerging metahuman known as Caden Park! Caden’s emerging powers may be able to ensure the Immortal Men’s survival-but will Conquest get to him first?

MATTHEW: It’s an all Big Two publishers week for me, but I’ve been looking forward to this one since it was announced (even if I expect Jim Lee will last about three issues)…

MINKY WOODCOCK GIRL WHO HANDCUFFED HOUDINI #4
Writer: Cynthia von Buhler
Publisher: Titan Comics
Imprint: Hard Case Crime
Cover Price: $3.99
SOLICITATION: Minky Woodcock: The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini is based on bizarre facts and mysterious questions regarding Harry Houdini’s death on October 31, 1926. Visit the evidence page at MinkyWoodcock.com to see the news clippings, photographs, letters, telegrams, court documents and autopsy reports which formed the basis of this series.

STEPHEN: I love a good mystery, and I love a great historical fiction. That’s what we have in this series, and the final issue should blow my mind (or at least I hope it will).

TMNT ONGOING #81
Writer: Tom Waltz, Kevin Eastman
Artist: Dave Wachter
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Cover Price: $3.99
SOLICITATION: “Kingdom of the Rats,” Part 1. New York City is in ruins after the Triceraton Invasion. Various groups jockey for control in the power vacuum. But there is one who doesn’t care about power, only chaos… the Rat King! Will the TMNT be able to stop him from doing the unspeakable?

STEPHEN: I’ve been playing the TMNT boardgame a lot lately, and I have a hankering for some heroes in a half-shell. TMNT Ongoing #81 kicks off a new story arc, so why not pick this up and give it a chance?

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