Every week, Comics! The Blog goes through the list of new releases and we tell you which comics to plug into your mind hole. Your mileage may vary.

DARK HORSE PRESENTS #6 (Dark Horse Comics)

Is Van Der Thanksgiving just around the corner? It must be, as all the comic companies seem to be on a mission to make me poor as fuck this week, with some highly anticipated, high ticket items. Seriously, my file is going to look ridiculous this week. Coincidently, does anybody want a kidney?

I’m getting a bit off track.

This week sees the release of another Dark Horse Presents - and you guys. If you haven’t been buying this book every time it ships, you’ve been missing out on some quality. For instance, this issue features a brand new story by Fabio Moon (of Team Casanova and Daytripper), a brand new Beasts of Burden story, another installment of Carla Speed McNeil’s stunning Finder series, and a whole shit tonne more! Every issue of this manages to be well worth it’s $8 price point (4 comics worth of content for the price of 2) and coming up, Mignola is including a run of Hellboy related stuff, including a tale of the main man himself, written and drawn by Mignola! So what the hell are you waiting for???!? Jump on this now!

FANTASTIC FOUR #600 (Marvel Comics)

The Fantastic Four hit a huge milestone this week, and much like how Amazing Spider-Man #600 was a 104 page package of all new content, Jonathan Hickman is similarly giving you some bang for your buck, with roughly 90 pages of all new content. Ninety. Damn. Pages. And if that’s not enough to whet your whistle, take a look at some of the artists they have working on this thing. There’s Steve Epting, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Leinil Yu, Farel Dalrymple, Ming Doyle and quite possibly more! Plus, you know, Jonathan Hickman has been really rocking the FF stories lately, so there’s that.

A WORD OF WARNING: There’s whispers going around the internet that something huge happens in this issue - and I don’t doubt that it does. Marvel makes it a practice of sharing the contents of their books with retailers slightly before street date, but they’ve kept this one off the readers, and that usually means something crazy is about to happen. Because honestly? You can’t trust retailers with jack shit. But that’s a rant for another time. This’ll be a big book for $8 (again, roughly 4.5 comics for the price of 2), so get out there and get this book!

BATGIRL VOL. 3: THE LESSON (DC Comics)

It’s the collection that wraps up Stephanie Brown’s run as the Batgirl. Sort of bittersweet, this moment. But hey, we got two years worth of stories - which is better than nothing. Plus, I’ve heard rumblings that Bryan Q. Miller will be on tap to write some upcoming DC projects - hopefully they’re announced soon? In March, six months will have passed from the big DC launch, so maybe we’ll be seeing a subsequent second wave of books? Ahh, a guy can hope.

BATMAN: THE BLACK MIRROR (DC Comics)

The best Batman story I’ve ever read gets a nice hardcover collection this week. And yes, I just said a Batman book starring Dick Grayson was one of the best Batman books I’ve ever read. That shit isn’t hyperbole, it’s stone cold fact - and I think the record will show, both James and I are quite the Batman fans. So.

I would expound on the book’s virtues a bit more, but I’ve said my peace in regards to the book already. So, uh… go read that.

IDW MAKES BRANDON SUPER POOR WEEK (IDW Publishing)

I’m pretty sure someone at IDW has it out for me. That’s really the only explanation for a week like this, because they are shipping three HUGE releases this week. The first (and most inexpensive) is the The Rocketeer Jetpack Treasury Edition which features the character’s original adventures in an oversized treasury format - which is to say, the art is BIG and gorgeous. This book will run your $9.99, and is well worth your cash.

In addition to this, they’re shipping the first volume in the TMNT Ultimate Collection series - which reprints the original TMNT tales from the 80s at their original size, in a hardcover format. The book looks amazing, but it will also run you $49.99. But that’s not the worst thing they did to me this week. After a couple of delays, they’ve finally produced the first Parker Martini Edition, which contains Darwyn Cooke’s first two stunning Parker adaptations, alongside a smattering of bonuses - the least of which is a brand new short adaptation produced for this volume. It’s oversized - roughly the size of an Absolute edition - and looks… amazing. And it’s $75.

Anyway, can anyone spare some food this week? Otherwise, I’m just going to have to eat these, and I really don’t want to do that.

These are just five a few of the many great books being released this week! You can find the full list of comics being released here. If you have any other recommendations, let us know in the comments below.