Friday FOC Roundup for 9/27/19

+Friday FOC Roundup!

Howdy Super Friends! Welcome to your weekly installment of Final Order Cutoff Roundup! Final Order Cutoff (FOC) happens every Monday and is our last chance to adjust our ordering numbers on books before they ship out to us! These titles are all on FOC this Monday, September 30th, and most of these books are in shops on 10/23/19. If you would like to guarantee that you get 1 or 10 copies of any of these books, please let us know BEFORE 5PM on Monday, September 30 ^th!

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From Dark Horse this week and in stores on 10/23 is Count Crowley, Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter #1 (of 4). Aspiring reporter Jerri Bartman is furious when she's demoted to hosting the nightly Creature Feature at her small-town TV station. But Jerri quickly learns that there is more to horror hosting than just introducing bad B-movies. Her first night in the costume of her missing predecessor, Count Crowley, finds her face to face with a living, breathing . . . werewolf. Or was she just that drunk?

From DC this week and in stores on 10/23 is Action Comics #1016! The saga of Naomi continues! Clark Kent, defender of the truth! The Daily Planet is under siege as the streets of Metropolis prepare for a gang war! The invisible mafia is invisible no more-and the streets of Metropolis will burn if the truth does not get out. All this, and another dive into the secrets of DC's newest teen sensation... Naomi!

Next up from DC is Batman Superman #3! "Who are the Secret Six?" part three! Is Superman the newest member of the Batman Who Laughs' Secret Six? It certainly looks that way, and Batman may be powerless to stop the Man of Steel and his own demented doppelgänger. The Dark Multiverse's most dangerous Bruce Wayne is loose in our world, and he has our world's greatest superhero at his side. Who do you turn to when there's no one to trust? “Infected” variant by Paolo Pantalena!

From DC and spinning out of the events of Batman Superman #2 comes Black Adam Year of the Villain #1! Shazam! (infected by the Batman Who Laughs) invades Black Adam's kingdom! His plan? To turn it into a playground for its new ruler: Billy Batson!

Next up from DC and in stores on 10/30 is Harleen #2! Despite the strongest objections from every possible authority-including district attorney Harvey Dent-Dr. Harleen Quinzel's found herself with free access to every inmate in Arkham Asylum, where she desperately pursues a revolutionary and highly controversial cure to the insanity of Gotham. But her work with the city's super-criminals quickly muddies the waters of good and evil, and in the deepest, darkest padded rooms of Arkham, even the words of a mad clown start making sense! Both covers by Stjepan Sejic!

Next from DC and in stores on 10/30 is Joker Killer Smile #1 (of 3). Everyone knows The Joker doesn't have the most promising history with psychotherapists. In fact, no one's even been able to diagnose him. But that doesn't matter to the confident, world-beating Dr. Ben Arnell; he's going to be the one to unravel this unknowable mind. There's no way The Joker could ever get through the therapeutic walls Ben has built around himself. Right? There's no way The Joker's been entering his house at night...right? There's no way The Joker has stood over his son's bed, and put that book in his hands, the one with the, the, the...
The Eisner-nominated creative team of Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino (GREEN ARROW, Gideon Falls) reunite for a psychological horror story where nothing is as it seems, your eyes can't be trusted and Mr. Smiles is waiting behind the basement door. Wait, who's Mr. Smiles? Variant cover by Kaare Andrews. $5.99

Next up from DC and in stores on 10/30 is Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Death of Superman #1! The Dark Multiverse takes on the highest-selling comic book event of all time-the Death of Superman! In a broken world much like our own, Lois Lane, twisted by rage and grief, becomes the Eradicator and takes revenge on those who let Superman die, and the corrupt world he could never defeat. Now, with the power of a god, she's going to end the battle by any means necessary...and the Reign of the Supermen will be over before it begins!

Finally from DC is the amazing variant cover to Wonder Woman #81 by Jenny Frison! Olympus has been returned to the gods! Now that the deities of Diana's world are back in power, all of her troubles are over. Or are they? Using the welcome distraction, Cheetah has finally made her way to her final destination for destruction: Themyscira!

From Marvel, and in store on 10/23 is Amazing Mary Jane #1! One lucky lady just hit the jackpot with her own series - THE AMAZING MARY JANE #1 by writer Leah Williams and artist Carlos Gomez will bow this October, putting the spotlight on the love of Peter Parker's life! But if Spider-history has taught us anything, such a position is rarely a good one and usually spells trouble! In a story spinning from the pages of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #25, Mary Jane Watson just got her big shot - but at what cost? And can she really trust anyone as she pursues her Hollywood dreams?Mary Jane is no stranger to drama, so you can be sure that THE AMAZING MARY JANE will be offering up action, glamor, grit, and even a little sass in this new ongoing series, coming in October! Main cover by Humberto Ramos, variant cover by ArtGerm, Blank Cover.

Next up from Marvel and in stores on 10/23 is Amazing Spider Man Full Circle #1 (one shot). A summons from SHIELD leads Peter Parker into a globe-spanning adventure that will test him as never before, one in which the future of all mankind lies in his gloved, webbed hands! Who is the mysterious prisoner in the steel box who keeps propelling the wall-crawler onward? Nick Spencer and an all-star team of Marvel's biggest writers and artists take up the challenge to create the wildest, maddest, most unconventional AMAZING SPIDER-MAN story of all! Guest-starring Nick Fury, Wolverine and Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham!

From Marvel and in stores on 10/23 is Future Fight Firsts Luna Snow #1 (one shot). THE K-POP CRIME-FIGHTER FROM THE MARVEL FUTURE FIGHT MOBILE GAME STARS IN HER OWN ONE-SHOT! As a South Korean pop sensation, Seol Hee melt her fans' hearts...and now as Luna Snow she has the power to freeze her enemies!How does Luna juggle being an international pop star with battling evil as a Super Hero?
How did she gain her powers and what does Stark Industries have to do with it? Also featuring MARVEL'S FUTURE AVENGERS in an all-new story!

Next from Marvel as part of their facsimile editions comes Incredible Hulk #1! Meet the Incredible Hulk - for the first time! Re-experience the landmark issue that introduced the strangest being of all: Is he man or monster...or is he both? When puny scientist Bruce Banner's gamma bomb experiment is interrupted by young Rick Jones, Banner charges onto the test site to rescue the reckless teen - and ends up caught in the blast! When the sun falls, a hulking new form rises - with gray skin, not green! A weakling no longer, the world is his - for he is the Hulk! But who, or what, is the Gargoyle? What are his plans for this newly-minted monster? And will it be the Hulk, or Bruce Banner, who triumphs over this Iron Curtain evil? It's one of the all-time great Marvel comic books, boldly re-presented in its original form, ads and all! Reprinting INCREDIBLE HULK (1962) #1.

From Marvel and continuing the Dawn of X, comes Marauders #1! THE X-MEN SAIL AT DAWN!Even in this glorious new dawn, Mutantkind faces hardships and oppression from their human counterparts. Led by Captain Kate Pryde and funded by Emma Frost and the Hellfire Trading Company, Marauders Storm, Pyro, Bishop and Iceman sail the seas of the world to protect those hated and feared! Main cover by Russell Dauterman, Every mutant ever cover by Mark Bagley, Aaron Kuder young guns variant.

From Vault and in stores on 10/23 is Money Shot #1! In the near future, space travel is ludicrously expensive and largely ignored. Enter Christine Ocampos, inventor of the Star Shot teleportation device. Her big idea: She'll travel to new worlds, engage-intimately-with local aliens, and film her exploits for a jaded earth populace trying to find something new on the internet. Now, Chris and her merry band of scientist-cum-pornstars explore the universe, each other, and the complexities of sex in MONEY SHOT!A story about scientists having sex with aliens for the glory of mankind-and money.

From AfterShock and in stores on 10/23 is Horde OGN! After the death of her father, Ruby Ando tries to reconnect with her estranged and isolated mother, whose hoarder house is a nightmare labyrinth of secrets and dangers. All the love Ruby was never shown she sees her mother lavish on her treasures and trinkets, the possessions that possess her. But when Ruby desperately tries to free her mother, the house wages war, ensnar-ing both women within its maze. Brought to hideous and twisted life by a mother's love, the "Horde" is determined to purge Ruby from the collection-or see her join it forever.Brought to life by Marguerite Bennett (ANIMOSITY, DC's Bombshells, Batwoman) and Leila Leiz (ALTERS, Nvrlnd), HORDE is a haunting, housebound horror story about the things we let control us. $19.99

From Zenescope this week comes Unbound #1 (of 5). In an alternate world called The Ether, a werewolf hunter named Lukas tracks down a mob outfit whose leader is a Lycan named Cain. After Lukas teams with a monster hunting newbie named Marna, the duo is able to locate their target. But an unexpected turn of events reveals that nothing is quite what it seems.

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