Check out this week's books by local creators and publishers!




Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! #16 – DC Comics

By ART BALTAZAR, FRANCO and MIKE NORTON
Black Adam's got an amulet of power that just might let him destroy the Marvel family once and for all. And if it doesn't work, Black Adam Jr. will be happy to finish the job! If Freddy Freeman has already chosen the side of evil, do Billy and Mary have any chance of redeeming him?



Green Lantern #54 – DC Comics

By GEOFF JOHNS, DOUG MAHNKE, CHRISTIAN ALAMY, SHANE DAVIS and SANDRA HOPE
BRIGHTEST DAY shines its light on the "New Guardians" who have been forced to make Earth their new home! Why? You'll have to read it to believe it. While Hal is forced to deal with Larfleeze and his newfound appreciation for Earth culture, Sinestro uncovers the mystery behind Parallax's disappearance.



The Phantom: Generations #11 – Moonstone

By Tony Bedard and Giovanni Timpano
'The Ghost and the Redcoats.'
Join Tony Bedard for a tale set during the dark days of the American Revolution, as the 11th Phantom finds himself caught between the Redcoats and fate worse than death, with the fate of the nascent United States hanging in the balance!



The Spider: The Iron Man War #1 (of 3) – Moonstone

By Norvell W. Page, Howard Hopkins and J. Anthony Kosar
Read the story that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster used for the 1940 Superman Sunday comic strip adventure 'Bandit Robots of Metropolis' and Stan Lee/Larry Lieber used for the 1963 story in Tales of Suspense #39! The Spider - cloaked, fanged nightmare in black - delivers swift justice with a pair of .45 automatics. Midnight shadows cast doom over exclusive Sutton Place-under attack by new evil in terror warfare-a sinister criminal mastermind in power armor named The Iron Man! Based on the novel published in the December 1939 issue of The Spider magazine.



Wildcats #23 – Wildstorm

By ADAM BEECHEN, TIM SEELEY, RYAN WINN and PETE WOODS
In their quest to locate the Earth's new Doctor, Battalion and Ladytron enter the heart of darkness - a psychiatric institution left unattended since Armageddon. And this place houses one of the deadliest minds in the WildStorm Universe! Also: someone's building an army on Earth, and one of the newest WildCATS plans to challenge it single-handed! It's part one of the 3-part "The Protectorate!"