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Suicide Squad's Rebirth and 4 More Comics to Read This Month

Heading to the comic book shop this month and not sure what to buy? We have a few suggestions for you.

While movie theaters start slowing down at the end of summer, the same can't be said for comic book stores. August brings with it a bunch of new launches and re-releases to ensure that your presence will become a recurring event at your local comics shop. But if you're wondering just what to pick up while you're there, consider these five choices, which cover everything from flawed antiheroes to modern romance and the secret role that money plays in the world. Let's see Independence Day: Resurgence do that.

  • Suicide Squad: Rebirth #1 (DC Entertainment)

    Just in time for the movie, DC Entertainment brings on Judge Dredd veteran Rob Williams and artists Philip Tan and Jim Lee for a brand new Suicide Squad series that promises to be bigger, weirder and—judging by the evidence of this special prologue issue—much more interested in moral and political compromises than the Squad has seen in decades. In other words, this is the Suicide Squad you've been waiting for.

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    DC Entertainment

  • Fresh Romance (Oni Press/Rosy Press)

    The romance anthology that won over the Internet—no easy feat, when you think about it—moves to print with this special edition that features material by the likes of Marguerite Bennett, Kieron Gillen, Kate Leth, Sally Jane Thompson, Trungles, and more. Think of the classic love stories of your youth, and then re-imagine them for today, with high school witches, mysterious fantasy, and coffee shop mishaps all on tap for this first go-around. If you've been wanting more diversity in your comics reading, this is a great place to start.

    Oni Press/Rosy Press

  • The Black Monday Murders #1 (Image Comics)

    Not content with ending the Marvel Universe as we knew it in last year's Secret Wars, writer Jonathan Hickman teams with Tomm Coker to take on a subject of true importance in his new series: money, and the obscene worship thereof. Described as a "crypto-noir" series, Black Monday Murders knows that magic is money and vice versa, and then strips back the artifice that hides the way the world really works.

    Image Comics

  • Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 4: 1984-1985 (Fantagraphics Books)

    Ed Piskor's amazing history of hip-hop music and culture reaches the point where Def Jam Records, Dr. Dre, and Salt-N-Pepa appear on the scene, while Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo changed the world (or, at least, the way we make jokes about sequels) forever. Every single release in this series, which is as influenced by the Marvel Comics of the period as it is the music, is an event, and the latest edition is no exception: educational, entertaining, and unmissable.

    Fantagraphics Books

  • Generation Zero #1 (Valiant Entertainment)

    What if the most powerful people on the planet were a bunch of teenagers with few social skills and the idea to travel the United States acting like The A-Team and sorting out problems for other disaffected kids? That's the hook behind this new series from writer Fred Van Lente and artist Francis Portela, which spins out of the same Harbinger mythology that produced the fan-favorite Faith comic book.

    Valiant Entertainment
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