6 Awesome Comics You Must Read This Week (20 November)

By Noel Thorne /

This week in comics news, Geoff Johns talked about the New 52 Phase 2 that DC will be pursuing in Spring next year. The company has already announced a couple of weekly titles, like Batman Eternal and Five Years Later, thought what Phase 2 will mean is uncertain. Is it a reboot? A relaunch? Or just marketing chuff? A re-launch wouldn't be surprising given the faltering sales of the New 52 with readers unwilling to commit to series given DC's propensity to cancel titles and/or change creative teams at the drop of a hat, though it would be shocking to see a reboot two and a half years after the initial New 52 began. Speaking of Batman, artist Jason Fabok released a seasonal Bat drawing which parodied Jean Leon Gerome Ferris' The First Thanksgiving, 1621. It's a cool image of the Bat family and associated characters/villains with one particularly interesting detail €“ Nightwing is missing! Unless Dick Grayson goes blonde, perhaps he's not in the picture because something will happen to him in the current Forever Evil storyline where he's been de-masked and is a prisoner of the Crime Syndicate? A sketch from the forthcoming bumper issue of Detective Comics #27 out in January showed Batman with a new Robin €“ who is also black. Writer Scott Snyder went on to explain that this new Robin would not be a permanent replacement and would only appear in that one-off story, but it's quite surprising that it'll be 2014 when we first see a black Robin, something you'd think would've happened years earlier. DC also revealed that their Free Comic Book Day offering next May will be a Five Years later comic, teasing their forthcoming weekly series, while Marvel stated their FCBD comic would be Guardians of the Galaxy with a Spider-Man backup (both titles have movie coming out next summer). Jason Aaron's delightful Wolverine and the X-Men series will sadly be coming to an end early next year with issue #42. However, Aaron will continue writing X-Men comics with his excellent new series, Amazing X-Men. Alright, those are the big comics news stories - on to the awesome comics releases for this week!