DC Universe New Weekly Releases 17 August, 2021

Future State continues with the second installments for quite a few of the titles. We also get some really good issues from the waning days of Vertigo in Sweet Tooth and American Vampire 1976.
Here’s what I found for the week…

DC Universe Infinite New Releases August 17, 2021:

• American Vampire: 1976 #5
• DC: Love Is A Battlefield #1
• Future State: Dark Detective #3
• Future State: Justice League #2
• Future State: Robin Eternal #2
• Future State: Superman/Wonder Woman #2
• Rorschach #5
• Future State: Green Lantern #2
• Future State: Kara Zor-El, Superwoman #2
• Future State: Teen Titans #2
• Sweet Tooth: The Return #4
• Green Lantern: Season Two #11

TOP RELEASES OF THE WEEK

Only 12 new comics released today (last week had 9).  Anyway, looking at Comic Book Roundup which aggregates a bunch of review sites, here are the top issues from this batch of comics. This week I found 5 issues that I wanted to look further into.

• Sweet Tooth: The Return #4
  by Jeff Lemire
  Published by DC Comics, 2021.
  Rejoice! For at long last the tale of the Boy’s miraculous birth is revealed. A savior born of holiness and science! Truly, such a feat could only be conducted by one as holy as Father. Behold! As the stage is set for the final confrontation between man and the abhorrent hybrid beasts that walk the earth! Praise! For out of nothing Father has birthed a savior: the Boy.
• American Vampire: 1976 #5
  by Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque.
  Published by DC Comics, 2021.
  Skinner, Pearl, Book, and the rest of the team are finally united in their mission to stop the Beast from world domination, but the missing key to their success is protected by a council of preeminent ancestral monsters with an axe to grind. These are the progenitors of some of the world’s most iconic folkloric species, and the victims of a broken American promise. Desperate for the council’s assistance, Skinner’s crew becomes a captive audience to their tale of betrayal-but the chilling insight saps all hope of recruiting their help. With only a few days to spare before terror is unleashed, the team must convince the legends that humanity is worth preserving, and that history may still bend toward redemption.
• DC: Love Is A Battlefield #1
  by Marquis D Draper, Crystal Frasier, Christos N. Gage, Sina Grace, Pornsak Pichetshote, John Ridley, Mark Russell, Regine L. Sawyer, Cavan Scott, Tim Seeley, Xermanico, Juan Gedeon, Rob Guillory, Rebekah Isaacs, Jos Lus, Pop Mhan, Christopher Mooneyham, Karl Mostert, Amancay Nahuelpan, Nik Virella
  Published by DC Comics, 2021.
  BLAM! KRACK! POW! Look out-it’s…love?! Falling in love is rough, even for DC’s greatest. Watch as Batman and Catwoman, Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor, Mister Miracle and Big Barda, and all the rest of your OTPs fight in vain against the all-powerful forces of romance (and super-villains)! Even Amanda Waller fights the urge to bail on her mystery date. We guarantee that this Valentine’s Day, someone’s taking a shot to the heart-from Cupid’s bow!
• Future State: Dark Detective #3
  by Matthew Rosenberg, Mariko Tamaki, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Dan Mora
  Published by DC Comics, 2021.
  In this issue, Bruce Wayne meets the next Batman! As the dark detective makes his move to put an end to the villainous Magistrate once and for all, the man who once wore the cowl encounters the next Batman-and these two have some questions for each other! Fists will fly as this explosive meeting erupts in the skies over Gotham…but with the clock ticking, can Bruce finish what he started and unlock the secrets of the fascist surveillance that plagues his city? And in “Grifters” part two, the lucky streak that Cole Cash and Luke Fox have enjoyed just hit a brick wall in the form of the Huntress! The over-the-top adventure in the gutters of Gotham City concludes in the most bone-crushing fashion possible!
• Green Lantern: Season Two #11
  by Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp.
  Published by DC Comics, 2021.
  Hal Jordan’ski future as a Green Lantern is threatened when the Young Guardians’ plans to restructure the Corps move into high gear. What’s a guy to do but take a vacation? But when Jordan arrives on the swords-and-sorcery world of Athmoora for some R&R, he comes face to face with the biggest threat the universe has ever known-and a coalition of foes determined to bring his career and his story to its apocalyptic end! You cannot miss the game-changing two-part finale of Morrison and Sharp’s epic run…

COMICS CORNER | DC UNIVERSE NEW WEEKLY RELEASES August 17, 2021