Welcome Brainiacs, we are your hosts, Dan and Katie Merritt, owners of Green Brain Comics in East Downtown Dearborn.

Every week over 100 new comic books are released, and we are here to point out some gems, give you our personal picks as well as a few of our staff picks for this week.

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All ages pick

POKEMON COOKBOOK HC

VIZ MEDIA LLC

(W/A/CA) Maki Kudo

Create delicious dishes-from desserts to pizza-that look like your favorite Pokémon characters with more than 35 easy, fun recipes. Make a PokéBall sushi roll, Pikachu ramen, or Meowth mashed potatoes for your next party, weekend activity, or powered-up lunch box.

http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT162035

Staff Picks

Sarah

MOTOR CRUSH #1

IMAGE COMICS

(W) Brenden Fletcher & Various (A) Babs Tarr, Cameron Stewart (CA) Babs Tarr

The team behind the critically acclaimed revamp of Batgirl returns with an exciting sci-fi action-adventure series! By day, Domino Swift competes for fame and fortune in a worldwide motorcycle racing league. By night, she cracks heads of rival gangs in brutal bike wars to gain possession of a rare, valuable contraband: an engine-boosting “machine narcotic” known as Crush.

Featuring Part One of ISOLA: PROLOGUE by BRENDEN FLETCHER and KARL KERSCHL!

http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT160552

Shay:

SPACE BATTLE LUNCHTIME #7 (OF 8)

ONI PRESS INC.

(W/A/CA) Natalie Riess

With a little help from fellow contestant Neptunia, Peony makes it out of Cannibal Coliseum before she gets skewered. But if they don’t get back to the Space Battle Lunchtime studio on the double, both Neptunia and Peony will forfeit their spots in the finale! It’s a race to the finish in this penultimate issue!

http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT161718

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ARCLIGHT #3 (MR)

IMAGE COMICS

(W) Brandon Graham (A/CA) Marian Churchland

SERIES RETURN (Formerly 8HOUSE: ARCLIGHT)! Marian Churchland’s beautiful colored artwork tells the story of a knight stuck in an alien body

http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP160715

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GOLDIE VANCE #8

BOOM! STUDIOS

(W) Hope Larson (A) Brittney Williams (CA) Kat Leyh

To unravel the mystery of the lady astronaut suddenly appearing on the beach, Goldie must dive deep-to a secret underwater base, that is!

http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT161323

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DITKO UNLEASHED HC

IDW PUBLISHING

(A/CA) Steve Ditko

Steve Ditko’s astounding career is presented here from the early 1950s to the present. Examples of his work for Charlton, Warren, Marvel and DC are shown, both as printed pages and scans from Ditko’s beautiful original art!

This is a Museum catalogue that will accompany a massive exhibition of this hugely influential artists work (Ditko co-created Spider-Man and Dr. Strange) in Palma de Mallorca Spain in the Fall of 2016. By the same Eisner Award-nominated team who have created the gold-standard for museum catalogues and exhibits of classic comic artists, previous books in the series include: Woodwork: Wallace Wood 1927-1981, Flesh & Steel: The Art of Russ Heath, and Big John Buscema: Comics & Drawings.

http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUN160568

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SHADE THE CHANGING GIRL #3 (MR)

DC COMICS

(W) Cecil Castellucci (A) Marley Zarcone (CA) Becky Cloonan

Trying to settle into her new life as an Earth girl, Shade finds the body she has taken over doesn’t have the same skills as it did when its previous inhabitant was in charge. It’s bad enough that her swim team hates her, but now she can’t perform in the water at all. Can Shade find anyone she can trust to give her guidance before the madness takes over and exposes her as an alien to the entire school?

This issue features a variant cover by Paul Rentler that combines with this month’s other variant covers from DC’S Young Animal to form a single image.

http://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT160251

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