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TALES FROM THE DARK MULTIVERSE: BATMAN HUSH #1

BOILED down to its basic elements, DC’s Tales From The Dark Multiverse series answers the question, What if?

Featuring one of Batman’s ‘newer’ villains, Hush – aka

Bruce Wayne’s childhood friend Tommy Elliot, this darker, more twisted, take on the Dark Knight’s origin tale asks what would have happened had Tommy ruined Bruce’s life as children, and grown up to be the Dark Prince of Gotham City?

Written by DC’s rising star Phillip Kennedy Johnson, and with stunning artwork from Dexter Soy, Tales From The Dark Multiverse: Batman Hush #1 is out now, priced £5.40.

WOLVERINE: BLACK WHITE BLOOD #1

MARVEL’S hotly-anticipated new limited series is all about everyone’s favourite mutant, Wolverine.

This four-part comic brings us untold tales from Logan’s past.

There’s a return to the Weapon X program. Then there’s the tale of an explosive deep-cover spy mission which brings Logan and Nick Fury together.

Unsurprisingly, this comes with a parental advisory. Wolverine: Black White Blood #1 is out now, priced £4.50.

WEB OF VENOM: EMPYRES END #1

STICKING with darker tales, there’s a new Venom tale landing this week.

This one-shot picks up in the aftermath of Empyre – the summer event which saw Marvel’s heroes fight an invading Kree/Skrull armada – chaos is reigning on earth.

The corpse of serial killer Cletus Kasady has bonded to a remnant of a mysteriously powerful alien symbiote, resurrecting his psychotic alter ego, Carnage.

And the Kree/Skrull conflict is about to reach a brutal head on Earth – awakening a dark ancient entity at the edge of the universe.

Web Of Venom: Empyres End #1 is out now, priced £4.50.