The best comic book covers of the week – January 06 2019

Posted on January 6, 2020

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Need a super-jail to house super-bad supervillains? Then chances are that you’ll be more than happy to throw away all manner of costumed villainy into a pit known simply as The Raft. Which only has several escapes a week now, as opposed to the numerous mass jailbreaks that it suffered in the past. Progress!

What about those supervillains who need some proper mental rehabilitation though? Crooks and thieves, twisted by their origins and transformed into psychologically ill harbingers of chaos who could do with some therapy? That’s what the ol’ Ravencroft institute is for…or kind of was. After the events of Absolute Carnage, Marvel’s Arkham Asylum was turned into a shattered husk of its former self.

Or was it? In 2020, writer Frank Tieri teams up with Angel Unzueta to craft a new tale of the infamous madhouse and its dark legacy. “What we’ll learn in this event is that the original Ravencroft predates the one we know, that the very land itself that the site was built upon is soaked in blood,” Tieri said in a press release.

That there are connections to people, organizations, and events throughout Marvel history that were previously undisclosed. That in many cases, it can be said that Ravencroft is a site where evil was birthed in the Marvel U. It all leads up to the five-issue RAVENCROFT limited series, which will see a new Ravencroft rise from the ashes…along with all the good—and yes, the bad—that’ll come with it.
You have been warned, kids…

Here’s a look at the Kim Jacinto cover for the first issue, which lands on January 29: