The Gosh! Authority 19.02.25

Hello!

This Saturday, 1-2pm, we have Michael Kennedy here to sign copies of his brilliant new graphic novel Milk White Steed! It's a great book (an early contender for our favourites this year) and a good chance to get your copy with a personalised squiggle! Details here.

HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK

• LET THIS ONE BE A DEVIL #1 - The first issue in a mini-series that explores the origins of the Jersey Devil, one of the USA's great folk monsters. It's a nice setup: an investigative history tale where the "present day" in the early 1900's, looking back to the 1700's. This mini is part of James Tynion IV's "True Weird" line of titles, looking into stories of of the paranormal. He's teamed with Steve Foxe on the writing and Piotr Kowalski on art for a good looking horror book.

• ZATANNA #1 - Jamal Campbell writes and draws a new series starring ZZ as she embarks on a big new tour in her role as a leading stage magician. She's tired of the superhero craziness and is looking forward to some nice, sedate touring, but of course her stage crew is immediately kidnapped by sinister supernatural forces. Yloh tihs!

• WEAPON X-MEN #1 - Wolverine, Cable, Deadpool, Thunderbird and Chamber form a new X-team with a mission to get their hands dirty...WITH BLOOD! Well, that's the implication anyway, and it sounds like Joe Casey and ChrisCross intend to have some OTT fun. Plus top choice of first arc villain: Baron Strucker!

• DOOM ACADEMY #1 - It's One World Under Doom tie-in time! Forget Strange Academy: now Doom is the Sorceror Supreme he's in charge of the premier school for magicians, operating out of Latveria, or course. MacKenzie Cadenhead is joined by Pasqual Ferry for the student's second year.

• THUNDERBOLTS DOOMSTRIKE #1 - Feeling guilty about the part he played in Doom's world conquest, Bucky gets a team of Thunderbolts together to sabotage the empire from the ground up. Writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly kick off the revolution with artist Tommaso Bianchi.

• GODZILLA HEIST #1 - Van Jensen and Kelsey Ramsay spin a tale of the terrible lizard, or rather a young man who figures out a way to attract him in, and uses the disaster as cover for a series of ever-more-daring heists. But when some powerful, scary folks clock what he's doing, they enlist him for his biggest heist yet, whether he wants to do it or not.

And that's it for this week, panel fans!

Andrew.