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New comics coming to Atomic Books this week. Most new comics are available on Wednesday AM. Quantities are limited. Some titles go fast.


NEW COMICS THIS WEEK
AGE OF X-MAN OMEGA #1 - $4.99
AQUAMAN #50 - $5.99
ASSASSIN NATION #5 - $3.99
BATMAN #75 - $5.99
BLACK BADGE #12 - $3.99
BLACK SCIENCE #41 - $3.99
BLADE RUNNER 2019 #1 - $3.99
BPRD DEVIL YOU KNOW VOL 03 RAGNA ROK - $19.99
BRAM STOKERS DRACULA - $19.99
BY NIGHT VOL 02 - $14.99
CAPTAIN MARVEL #8 - $3.99
CHESHIRE CROSSING - $14.99
CLUE CANDLESTICK #3 - $4.99
COLLAPSER #1 - $3.99
DAREDEVIL #8 - $3.99
DEAD KINGS TP VOL 01 - $14.99
DEADPOOL #15 - $4.99
DIE DIE DIE VOL 01 - $19.99
DOCTOR WHO 13TH #10 - $3.99
DOMINO HOTSHOTS #5 - $3.99
ELVIRA MISTRESS OF DARK #7 - $3.99
EMPTY MAN RECURRENCE - $14.99
EXCELLENCE #3 - $3.99
FAIRLADY #4 - $3.99
FAITHLESS #4 - $3.99
FIREFLY #8 - $3.99
GHOST TREE #4 - $3.99
GI JOE A REAL AMERICAN HERO #264 - $3.99
GIDEON FALLS #15 - $3.99
GUNNING FOR HITS - $16.99
HAVOK AND WOLVERINE MELTDOWN - $24.99
HIT-GIRL SEASON TWO #6 - $3.99
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New comics coming to Atomic Books this week. Most new comics are available on Wednesday AM. Quantities are limited. Some titles go fast.


NEW COMICS THIS WEEK
AGE OF X-MAN APOCALYPSE AND X-TRACTS #5 - $3.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #25 - $7.99
AUTOMA #12 - $3.00
AVENGERS #21 - $3.99
BAD WEEKEND - $16.99
BALLAD OF YAYA VOL 02 PRISONERS - $9.99
BATMAN #74 - $3.99
BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS #3  - $4.99
BATMAN UNIVERSE #1 - $4.99
BETTIE PAGE UNBOUND #2 - $3.99
BITTER ROOT RED SUMMER SPECIAL #1 - $5.99
BLACK CAT #2 - $3.99
BLACK HAMMER JUSTICE LEAGUE #1 - $3.99
BLADE OF IMMORTAL OMNIBUS VOL 09 - $21.99
BLUBBER #5 - $4.99
BOOKS OF MAGIC VOL 01 MOVEABLE TYPE - $16.99
CATWOMAN #13 - $4.99
CHAMPIONS #7 - $3.99
CRIMINAL #6 - $3.99
DETECTIVE COMICS #1007 - $3.99
EMILINE KNIGHT IN TRAINING - $12.99
EVENT LEVIATHAN #2 - $3.99
FALLEN WORLD #3 - $3.99
FLASH #74 - $3.99
FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN VOL 01 SECRETS - $17.99
GENESIS ONE POPPY - $24.99
GHOSTED IN LA #1 - $3.99
GIANT SIZE X-STATIX #1 - $4.99
GO GO POWER RANGERS #21 - $3.9…

In the current issue of The Baffler (#46), in a feature titled "Plight of the Squeegee Kids" DC-based writer Kaila Philo looks at the controversy of Baltimore's Squeegee Kids and places them into a larger, historical, racist context:
...When out-of-towners think of Baltimore, they often think about two things. The first is The Wire, a show inspired by one of the city’s most tumultuous periods, the late 1980s and early 1990s—when its creator, David Simon, covered crime at the Sun—years before the mayor tasked with closing out the millennium, Martin O’Malley, ushered in an era of zero-tolerance policing inspired by Giuliani’s vise-grip on New York City. (At one point, the mania for overpolicing had become so severe that a nineteen-year-old was detained for littering on his aunt’s stoop.)

The second thing outsiders remember is Freddie Gray. On April 12, 2015, the twenty-five-year-old was chased by patrolmen on bikes after making eye contact with them on a North Avenue corne…