5. JUSTICE LEAGUE NEW FRONTIER SPECIAL #1
Written by Darwyn Cooke; Art by Cooke, J. Bone and David Bullock; Cover by Cooke
DC Comics
$4.99 | 48 pgs

Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier, one of the greatest comics to ever feature the Justice League was recently made into a direct to DVD animated film which hit the stores this past week.

To coincide with the DVD, DC is releasing a one-shot follow up to the original book which features a new main story, a couple of backups and some behind the scenes content from the movie.

Obviously this is a bit of a cash-grab, but the original book is really a classic and Darwyn Cooke's involvement in this alone means we should all be checking it out. As a bonus we get not only artwork from Cooke but from fellow retro-stylists J. Bone and David Bullock.

Wish I could find some preview images from the new book but there just don't seem to be any.

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4. CABLE #1
Written by Duane Swierczynski; art by Ariel Olivetti
Marvel Comics
$2.99 | 32 pgs

Cable is a mutant bad-ass who rose to power in the 90's thanks to the unstoppable popularity of artist Rob Liefeld and the comic X-Force. He's a character with a background so convoluted I won't try to summarize it here but he looks cool and carries big guns around so he's managed to remain popular to this day. Popular enough to get a new series with a hot new artist (Ariel Olivetti) and an interesting concept to drive it. Launching from the latest X-men crossover event, this new series finds Mr. Cable running around in the future trying to protect the child who could be the last hope for mutantkind. Very Lone Wolf & Cub, I know.

Oh and there's a variant cover by Rob Liefeld in case you were missing the 90's that badly.

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3. ECHO #1
By Terry Moore
Abstract Studios
$3.50 | 32 pgs

Terry Moore, award-winning creator and self-publishing pioneer, follows up his recently ended, long-running, and much loved series Strangers in Paradise with something a little different this week. Echo is a new ongoing series from Moore about a girl named Julie who becomes the host for a "symbiotic nuclear weapon" and decides to go on the run rather than turn herself in to the powers that be. Like SiP, this new book features a compelling and realistic female character as well as crisp, black and white art that is a pleasure to look at but with an added sci-fi element that seems like new ground for Mr. Moore.

Moore is going to be doing some work for Marvel including picking up where Joss Whedon left off on Runaways but a book like this, with his own characters and ideas, are what the many Strangers in Paradise fans are looking for.

See more about the book here.

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2. YOUNG LIARS #1
Written by David Lapham; Art and Cover by Lapham
DC Vertigo
$2.99 | 32 pgs

Another self-publishing pioneer is David Lapham whose ongoing crime comic Stray Bullets is one of my personal all-time favorite books. Lapham has put Stray Bullets aside for a while to do some work for DC Comics including this new ongoing book for their Vertigo line. Young Liars is about a couple of misfit kids – one, a crappy rocker, the other a girl with a bullet lodged in her brain – who get mixed up in some crazy mystery involving midgets, poorly disguised assassins, haunted castles and more. Lapham's style is very much Tarantino meets Lynch so this should be the beginning of a wild ride. Oh, and unlike what we're used to seeing from him, this book is in full color!

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1. LOGAN #1 (of 3)
Written by Brian K. Vaughan; art by Eduardo Risso
Marvel Comics
$2.99 | 32 pgs

If this isn't the dream team of the week I don't know what is: Brian K. Vaughan, writer of the recently concluded Y: The Last Man series from Vertigo and one of the main writers for this season of Lost. Eduardo Risso, artist for the long-running and also soon to conclude Vertigo series 100 Bullets. And Logan, known in most circles as Wolverine from the X-men. Recently in a major comics event, Wolverine regained his memory about his past. These memories have been slowly doled out to the readers in books like this in which Logan remembers some dude that didn't something shitty to him and now it's payback time.