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Jonathan Hickman Crossover – Thank FOC It's New Year's Eve

Published Fri, 31 Dec 2021 09:52:12 -0600

Thank FOC It's Boxing Day- Planned to coincide and cover the demands of Final Order Cut Off at Diamond Comic Distributors on Monday. And now Lunar Distribution and Penguin Random House on Sunday as well. So here's this week's comics product coming through that may adjust as demand slips and slides with the emerging economic bubble. Or somesuch. Traditionally FOC is the date when retailers have a last chance to amend their advance orders for comic books without penalty. A final opportunity for publishers to promote books while orders can still be added. A time for credits to be amends, new covers to be revealed, and a final push given. This is an attempt to sift through them all and find the most relevant items.

What's FOC-ing this weekend?

Dark Horse has a lot of hardcover volumes up for FOC this weekend. Starting with the adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher short story A Grain Of Truth into graphic novel form. with Jacek Rembis and Jonas Scharf from Dark Horse Comics, comes to FOC in hardcover.
Dark Horse also has the Art Of Masters Of The Universe: Revelation in hardcover.
And the graphic novel Crows in hardcover by Anders Fager and Peter Bergting.
Ether gets an Omnibus volume from Matt Kindt and David Rubin.
Dark Horse published the EC Archives of Gunfighter by Gardner Fox, Ed Wheelan and Henry C. Kiefer.
And there's the second hardcover collection of Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology.
IDW has the Star Wars Ghosts Of Darth Vader's Castle story in paperback
IDW also launches Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo: Lone Goat & Kid drawn by David Petersen
Crossover #11 comes with 1:25 and 1:50 tiered covers, with this cover by Jonathan Hickman.

Curse Words gets its Omnibus, with a dustjacket edition for those who order five copies or more.
Deadly Class reaches #50
Geoff Johns and friends launch the Geiger 80-Page Special, including the launch of new characters from Bryan Hitch and more.
Marvel Comics launches their Fantastic Four: Reckoning War: Alpha from Dan Slott and Carlos Pacheco.
Marvel also launches Sabretooth #1 with a 1:25 tiered cover.
And also, also launches Savage Spider-Man #1, with a monstrous Man-Spider as a sequel to Non-Stop Spider-Man, with a 1:50 and 1:100 variant.
Star Wars: Halycon Legacy #1 also launches for FOC, with a 1:10 cover.
Marvel finally launches X-Cellent #1 from Peter Milligan and Mike Allred and a 1:25 cover.
Space Bastards gets a one-shot from Humanoids, Special Delivery.

End After End #1 by David Andry, Tim Daniel, and Sunando C will be fully returnable from Vault Comics. "Life is nothing if not a series of endings. School. Jobs. Friendships. Love. Until THE end. Walter Willem's end was fast and unexpected. His was an unremarkable life. So, how is it that his story continues as cannon fodder in an endless war waged against an insatiable darkness hellbent on consuming all of existence? And is Walter right in believing he's arrived in the midst of this titanic battle as the one destined to finally end it? That's the tale of the End After End."
Until My Knuckles Bleed #1 by Victor Santos launches from Behemoth Comics compared to The Boys, Watchmen and Sin City with 1:10, 1:20 1:40 and limited to 3000 copies covers. "The 90s were the most extreme age of the superheroes… but times have changed. Gabin Hart, AKA Damager, now works as a bouncer in a strip club managed by the Russian mob, hangs out sporadically with his ex Avengelady, and wrestles with the long-term effects of his cyber-implants. But Fate always keeps one last cheap shot up its sleeve for a hero."
Victor Santos also draws the cover to Broken Eye #1 from Scout Comics by Martin Etxeberria, Xabier Etxeberria and Iñaki Arenas, "Liverpool (England) in the early 70s. Seamus Young is a young orphan who works unloading garbage in the docks. But his situation will get worse unexpectedly, when he finds a cutaway hand floating in the river and he will be immersed in a criminal conspiracy involving the IRA. And all because of a secret: Seamus has a broken eye but with which he can see the past.
Dark Red gets a one-shot Where Roads Lead from AfterShock Comics by Tim Seeley and Corin Howell with two 1:10 variant covers.

Amy Chu and Sarah Stern launch the Rick & Morty comic The Hericktics of Rick #1. "When Rick finds the source of a new, incredibly powerful substance, he lays claim to an entire planet in order to corner the market. But Rick and Morty aren't the only ones on the recently renamed Arrickis, and the original inhabitants aren't going to go away quietly.
Rick and Morty become embroiled in the local political and religious struggle and must escape not only with their lives, but with their minds intact!"
Zenescope launches monster cleanup crew comic All Guts No Glory #1 by Ralph Tedesco and Guillermo Fajardo. "36 Pages of Content!
Unbeknownst to the general population, there are highly trained military teams who bravely protect us from dozens of species of monsters that we don't know exist! And then there are the guys who clean it all up… Craig and Jimmy are those guys. And while Craig has accepted his lot in life, Jimmy, on the other hand, desperately wishes to one day become an elite monster hunter himself. But when Craig and Jimmy stumble onto a charming vampire named Sara, they'll be forced to decide if they should risk everything to help save her soul."

Shelter Division #1 get an FOC from Source Point Press by Bob Salley and Francesco Tomaselli, "A mastermind is plotting to conquer our very existence… The government has recruited the most abnormal beings to fight this abnormal threat, and those who were the investigated have been given shelter and became the investigators. Chaplin, Biggs, and Roswell take on a mission that runs deeper than they could've imagined. Action-packed from beginning to end."
DC Comics has the Poster Portfolio for JH Williams III.
Detective Comics gets its #1050 anniversary issue with a 1:25 and 250 minimum order covers.
Silver Sprocket Press has Puke Banter by James the Stanton up for FOC. "Someone whose name rhymes with "Pink Panther" has puked at the bus stop, and no one is going to clean it up. Thankfully, nature finds a way. A Gnartoons mini-comic by James the Stanton, presented in brilliant neon!"
Scout Comics has Shepherd The Valentine launching by Andrea Lorenzo Molinari, Roberto Xavier Molinari and Jaime Martínez Rodríguez, "Black Caravan Imprint: Like their father, Prof. Lawrence Miller (aka The Shepherd), Lexi and her little brother Nico are lightning rods for those in greatest need. One such person shows up at their door—a little girl named Violet, Vee for short. Vee has recently escaped the clutches of a vicious killer. Traumatized but angry, the girl explains that when she was taken, she was carrying a gift for her mother. In the chaos of her escape, it was left behind. Now, Vee wants it back. She's come to ask Lexi and Nico for help. They are all in way over their heads…"
Superman & Robin get a Special from DC Comics with a 1:25 cover.
Y The Last Man gets its Second Compendium.