The Gosh! Authority 03.01.24

Hello, and welcome to the mad future time of 2024!

Quick reminder: due to the bank holiday the comics will be arriving to go out on Wednesday, so courier willing we should have things on the shelf (and ready for standing orders) for lunchtime.

We're just over a week away from the start of our January sale on Saturday 13th until Sunday 28th. There will be half price back issues and massively reduced graphic novels, so mark it in the calendar, and don't worry if you can't be there on the 13th: more stock will be going into the sale sections every day.

It's event-lite this first couple of weeks in January, so let's get into the comics! (It's also pretty comics-lite this week, so pleasantly light on your pockets!)

HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK

• KNEEL BEFORE ZOD #1 - I wrestled a bit before putting this first this week. Surely Fall of the House of X was THE big title for the week? But in the end I decided the combo of Joe Casey and the criminally underrated Dan McDaid telling a story of one of Superman's best villains was too good not to put up top. The pages I've seen of this look brilliant, as Zod and his family ruthlessly rule over a conquered planet. Expect 12 issues of first class villainy.

• FALL OF THE HOUSE OF X #1 - And here it is, the final act of the Krakoan era, told across two minis as with its inception. Between Fall (set in the present) and its companion series Rise of the Powers of X (set 10 years in the future), the mutant status quo is overturned and a new, as yet unknown future will begin. Gerry Duggan and Lucas Werneck handle this series, as mutants make their last stand against humanity. 

• MIGUEL O'HARA SPIDER-MAN 2099 #1 - It's time for Marvel Zombies 2099, as Miguel teams up with Blade 2099 to take down the undead menace. Looks like this is going to be (mostly) a tour through the 70s Marvel monsters to boot, with Frankenstein's Monster here, Dracula in #2, Werewolf by Night in #3, err...Terror Inc in #4, and Man-Thing in #5! Steve Orlando and Dev Pramanik are the creative team on this one.

• PINE AND MERRIMAC #1 - Kyle Starks and Fran Galan go for some creepy coastal town vibes in this new series. An ex-cop and her ex-MMA fighter husband relocate to a small, unassuming town to start a detective agency. It's just the kind of humdrum existence they were looking for...or is it? Sinister forces are at work! So true to life: I grew up in a small coastal town, and you couldn't walk down the street without bumping into one sinister force or another.

• BEWARE THE PLANET OF THE APES #1 - Dial back to the timeline of the original PotA movies for this mini-series by Marc Guggenheim and Alvaro López. Scientists Cornelius and Zira must put their faith in a human woman when their nephew goes missing in the Forbidden Zone: a woman who will eventually bear the name, Nova! (That's a major player in the first film, non-PotApers.) 

• MARVEL MEOW #1 - A reprint of the formerly digital-only fuzzy comedy strips of Nao Fuji. Do you like like cats? The Marvel Universe? Comics that make you gently chuckle because a cat does something daft (or makes their humans look daft)? Here it is: the intersection of your interests!

• VENGEANCE OF THE MOON KNIGHT #1 - If you've been reading Moon Knight I'm sure you're aware that this marks a reboot of the series for reasons I don't really want to spoil. But the regular creative team of Jed MacKay and Alessandro Cappuccio are still in place to give you all the Moon Knight goodness you crave. Well...not quite all, but there lie spoilers!

And that's that, my friends! See you next week, when everything will return to a blissful norm.

Andrew.