DigBoston and LeaguePodcast Comic Book Picks of the Week for October 10, 2012

COMICS

The Joker returns to Gotham City in the most highly anticipated book of the month, Batman #13 (Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo). This story kicks off the ‘Death of the Family’ storyline, we anticipate Snyder’s Joker to be particularly freaky with his face attached to his skull with straps and hooks. Preview at Newsarama. … Here’s some collected editions we think are worth checking out! Smoke and Mirrors is collected and available for pre-order. This book incorporates magic and a strange new world. Check out our interview with the creators here! … Saga from Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples is a must read sci-fi drama recommended for all Star Wars fans. New 52 Nightwing Vol. 1 and Neal Adams Batman: Odyssey Hardcover are also recommended for pre-order. … Picks this week from LeaguePodcast.com.

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DigBoston and LeaguePodcast Comic Book Picks of the Week for August 29, 2012

COMICS

It’s annual time! Bow ties and fezzes are cool. New creative team of Andy Diggle and Mark Buckingham gets a preview in Dr. Who Annual 2012. Check out the giant-sized all-star timelord stories from Len Wein, Doctor Who novelist Richard Dinnick, and art by the un-Doctor Matthew Dow Smith. … What happens when you get a magician, the writer of G.I.Joe: Cobra and a former New England Comics employee together? Smoke and Mirrors happens, check out the DigBoston exclusive interview here! Issue 5 of 5 solicits this week—will transplanted magician Terry Ward trick the reader into buying the trade paperback in September? We hope he does! … Dan Jurgens explained the alien powers of the New 52 armor in issue 12. Will Keith Giffen and Cafu’s Superman Annual #1 reveal any more about his new look, or will Supes be too busy playing games with the help of the Green Lantern? … Perennial picks procured and processed by LeaguePodcast.com.

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EARTH PRIME TIME: SMOKE AND MIRRORS WITH MIKE COSTA AND JON ARMSTRONG

Smoke and Mirrors is a new comic book from IDW melding magic and illusion with the comic book page. Written by Mike Costa (G.I.Joe: Cobra, Transformers) and magician Jon Armstrong, the creator owned book incorporates magic tricks into the page for a new and wonderful experience never before attempted in the comic book medium. Smoke and Mirrors Issue #4 is out today, with a trade paperback solicited for September. Mike and Jon join us for some sleight of hand.

Care to tell us your elevator pitch for the book?
Mike: Smoke and Mirrors is about a stage magician who wakes up one day in a world where magic is real. It looks a lot like our world but all technology runs on sorcery instead of science. He can’t do real magic, he can do sleight of hand and stage illusion magic. He fakes his way through the world using stage illusion techniques which no one has seen before. A young boy discovers his secret and blackmails him into teaching the boy how to do what he does. Meanwhile, they both catch the attention of one of the leaders of magic industry in this world, the boy and the magician have to outwit him so that the magician’s secret is not discovered.

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