Marvel enters the era of the mini-crossover this December with the launch of a new Hulk-centric storyline in Fall of the Hulks: Alpha and next year's big new series "Siege" in Siege: The Cabal, plus Jessica Jones returns to superheroing in New Avengers Annual #3.

NBM launches a stunning new talent whose art is a hilariously grotesque cross between Ralph Steadman, Basil Wolverton and Chester Gould's bad guys in a resolutely lowbrow sendup of blaxpoitation films.

Hank Pym's band of heroes go toe-to-toe with The Unspoken in Mighty Avengers #31, Norman Osborn starts losing his mind (okay, maybe not "starts"...) in Dark Avengers #11, the darkest chapter in Tony's life kicks off "Stark: Disassembled" in Invincible Iron Man #20, and Daken gets his revenge in Dark Wolverine #80.

Rick Geary crafts an early Hollywood murder mystery in Famous Players: The Mysterious Death of William Desmond Taylor, a Treasury of XXth Century Murder, now available in paperback. We have your five-page preview.

A depowered Bruce Banner and his mean, green offspring Skaar are on the run from the winged villainess Harpy in Incredible Hulk #604, plus S.W.O.R.D. #1 gives the intergalactic organization of the same name its own ongoing.

The next chapter in the adaptation of Stephen King's epic kicks off with The Stand: Soul Survivors #1 (on sale now!), and we have your 6-page preview.

Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming revive their award-winning superhero crime comic with an all-new Powers #1 while Duane Swierczynski and Steve Dillon unveil the future of mutantkind in X-Men: A Girl Named Hope.

It may be way early for Christmas, but Norman Osborn has already made a list, checked it twice, and decided Skaar and Hulk must pay the price in Dark Reign: The List—Hulk, and Jessica Drew metes out more vengeance in Spider-Woman #2.

Check out this 7-page preview of the penultimate chapter from Marvel's latest Stephen King adaptation, Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead #5, in stores today.

Indie cartoonists continue their reinvention of the Marvel U. in Strange Tales #2, and we have an 8-page preview with art by Tony Millionaire, Matt Kindt, and R. Kikuo Johnson. Plus, the Merc With a Mouth gets inventive with his numbering in the artificial anniversary Deadpool #900, Wolverine battles Thor online, and a sneak peek at Realm of Kings, the Dark Avengers battle Dr. Doom, and the beginnings of Cable: The Long Way Home.

Check out some upcoming second printing variant covers for Hulk #14, Daredevil #500, Deadpool #14-15, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #2, The Torch #1, Invincible Iron Man #17, The List - Avengers, Vengeance of the Moon Knight #1, and Ultimate Comics Avengers #2.

Controversial artist Ted Rall reveals his days as a college student, broke and on the verge of suicide until he finds an all-new way to get by in this graphic memoir. We have your 10-page preview.