Indiegogo hits, Holy grails, and Hawkeye’s verbal hug

THE NEWS

• Batman is the first Comic-Con hall of fame inductee
• Image co-founder Erik Larsen returning to Marvel for select short stories
• Jim Lee will draw Spawn, first Image series to reach 300 issues
• Dark Horse cancels Astro Hustle amid abuse allegations against Jai Nitz
• Icarus and the Sun is the most funded Indiegogo comic of all time

TOP BOOKS OF LAST WEEK
Dave

• War of the Realms #1 (W: Jason Aaron, A: Russell Dauterman)
• Justice League #21 (W: Scott Snyder, A: Jorge Jimenez)

Forrest

• Conan #5 (W: Jason Aaron, A: Mahmud A. Asrar)
• Marvel Team-Up #1 (W: Eve Ewing, A: Joey Vazquez)

SEGMENT: Holy grails! What single issue or comic related figure, poster, etc. would be the one that you would trade over a $150k X-men collection for?

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK
Dave
Faithless #1 (W: Brian Azzarello, A: Maria Llovet)
Forrest
Symbiote Spider-Man #1 (W: Peter David, A: Greg Land)

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR
Dave
Superman #10 (Adam Hughes)
Forrest
The Flash #68 Variant (Mitch Gerads)

Trash it or Treasure it - We spin a list of characters to determine who we’ll get. We then must defend or diss that character for their merits in 2 minutes or less.

Off Topic Top Shelf Pick: Mandy