This Week's Big Picks!

This week we have a number of new stories and miniseries that are sure to be a lot of fun.

There's a war coming. The same aliens who almost destroyed Earth once are coming back to get the whole job done this time. But we aren't going to just sit and die. The international military is taking our best and brightest to mold them into the finest military minds ever-and they're taking them young. 8-year-old Ender Wiggin is the best they've ever found. Can he save the Earth? Can he survive Battle School and the game that they will force him to play? The legendary sci-fi epic by New York Times Bestseller Orson Scott Card comes to comics! Join hot writer Christopher Yost (X-FORCE) and superstar Pasqual Ferry (ULTIMATE IRON MAN) as they tell one of the greatest science fiction story of all time. Ender's Game: Battle School #1 (of 5) begins now!

WHAT IS THE SECRET REASON WOLVERINE JOINED THE X-MEN?
The X-Men event of the fall begins in this one-shot! For years, Logan has been a man without a past, whose memories existed only as conflicting fragments. And Charles Xavier has been a master of his own mind and others. Now the tables are turned, and as WOLVERINE struggles to rescue his son, DAKEN, from the evil and darkness that have consumed him, PROFESSOR X comes face-to-face with the most terrifying secret of all! Beginning here and continuing in the pages of X-MEN LEGACY and
WOLVERINE: ORIGINS this month and next, X-MEN: ORIGINAL SIN is sure to turn your expectations on their head! This crossover will be pulled for subscribers of Wolverine Origins. If you would like to ensure that it is in your box, just let us know!

Gears of War #1 of 6 has arrived. The best-selling video game franchise arrives in comic books stores with a blast - one month before the debut of the new Xbox 360 game! The opening six-issue arc of this new ongoing series bridges the end of the first Gears of War game and the start of the second one, following the brutal adventures of Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad in the battle against the Locust!

The Marvel Zombies have returned and, if they are not stopped, they will infect the Marvel Universe! When the super-undead stumble into the MU from the Man-Thing's Nexus of All Realities, all of Florida is quarantined against the zombie plague. Time is quickly running out for a cure, so the Initiative sends a most unlikely group of heroes into the Zombieverse on a desperate mission to find the one item they need before the whole MU is consumed! Make sure you add this one to your subscription, because it won't be alive for long!