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DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT…
Percy Carey picks the hottest releases from the week of 4/1/09
[Assisted by comicbookpage.com]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #24

Written By Jim Krueger (W),
Art By Cliff Richards, Andy Owens & Michelle Madsen
Covers By Jo Chen & Georges Jeanty

In an amazing one-shot issue, the esteemed Jim Krueger-whose works include Avengers/Invaders, Earth X, Justice, and multiple original series-fleshes out the go-to girl for dirty deeds, Faith, and her new partner, Giles. After her last thankless escapade, where she put a stop to Buffy-hunting Slayer and kindred spirit Lady Gigi, Faith decided that though she’s determined to be finished with bloodshed, she’s not ready to leave misguided Slayers (like Gigi) with nowhere to turn. Fast-forward to the present . . . bloodshed still abounds, and the Faith-and-Giles team is still finding out what it really means to help those chosen to slay . . . Executive Produced by Joss Whedon!
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CARS: ROOKIE #1 (OF 4)

Written By Alan J. Porter
Art By Albert Carreres

Cars fans, start your engines! Before the big Dinoco 400 race, rookie sensation Lightning McQueen is interviewed by Darrel Cartrip. Full of braggadocio, McQueen reveals his SCrappy origins as ‘Bulldozer’ McQueen – a local short track racer who dreams of the big time, and recklessly plows his way through the competition to get there! Features 2 covers by Allen Gladfelter.
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DESTROYER #1 (OF 5)

Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN
Penciled by CORY WALKER
Cover by JASON PEARSON

‘DESTROYER,’ PART 1-For sixty years, Keen Marlowe has been a super hero, taking down bad guys, fighting the good fight. But it’s is about to come crashing to an end. See, Marlowe is dying — maybe today, maybe tomorrow, the only question is when. But Marlowe isn’t about to go quietly into the night. Before he goes, he intends to leave the world a safer place for his family. And if that means hunting down — and murdering — every super-villain he can, so be it. They don’t call him ‘Destroyer’ for nothing.
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FLASH REBIRTH #1 (OF 5)

Written by Geoff Johns
Art and covers by Ethan Van Sciver

Through the decades, many heroes have taken the mantle of The Flash, but they all ride the lightning that crackles in the wake of the greatest hero the DC Universe has ever known, the man who sacrificed himself to save the Multiverse: Barry Allen! Following the events of FINAL CRISIS, Barry has beaten death and returned to a fast-paced world that a man out of time wouldn’t recognize. Or is it a world that is only just now catching up? All the running he’s done before was just a warmup for the high-speed race that he and every other Flash must now run, because even though one speedster might have beaten death, another has just turned up dead! From Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver, the visionaries responsible for the blockbuster GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH and THE SINESTRO CORPS WAR, comes the start of an explosive and jaw-dropping epic that will reintroduce to the modern age the hero who single-handedly birthed the Silver Age of comics! DC history will be made, and the Flash legacy will be redefined!
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IRREDEEMABLE #1

Written by Mark Waid
Art By Peter Krause

A comic book industry event: a new original ongoing superhero series from Mark Waid! Irredeemable dares to ask the question: what if the world’s greatest hero decided to become the world’s greatest villain? A ‘twilight of the superheroes’-style story that examines super-villains from the writer of Kingdom Come and Empire! With a special afterword by Grant Morrison. Covers by John Cassady (Planetary) and Barry Kitson.
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WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO: THE DEFUSER

Leaping from Stan Lee’s hit SCi Fi Channel TV series Who Wants to be a Superhero? onto the comics page-it’s the Defuser in ‘Future Imperfect!’ When traditional police methods fail to stem the ever-growing tide of crime in his home city, Detective Jarrett Crippen takes matters into his own hands. Devising an astonishing array of nonlethal weapons and a high-tech battle armor that boosts his performance to 110% of human capacity, Jarrett storms the streets as the Defuser! The criminals won’t know what hit them!