By Zack Quaintance — This week’s Top Comics to Buy for March 16, 2022 is a pretty nice mix, featuring an absolutely gorgeous Batman Superman team-up comic as our pick of the week. In addition to that, we get a very solid ending from one of our favorite monthly non-Big 2 books, the continuation of a superhero event, and more.

Check out our full list of picks below…enjoy!

Top Comics to Buy for March 16, 2022

PICK OF THE WEEK
Batman Superman World’s Finest #1
Writer: Mark Waid
Artist: Dan Mora
Colorist: Tamra Bonvillain
Letterer: Aditya Bidikar
Publisher: DC Comics
The Dark Knight. The Man of Steel. They are the two finest superheroes that the world has ever known...and they're together again in an epic new series from the legendary talents of Mark Waid and Dan Mora! In the not-too-distant past, Superman's powers are super-charged from a devastating chemical attack by the villain Metallo...and the only ally that the ultra-powerful Man of Tomorrow can turn to in this turbulent hour is Gotham's own dark vengeance: the Batman. A nearly fatal burst of power drives Bruce Wayne to his own extreme measures to help his friend...enlisting none other than the Doom Patrol for aid. It's the world's greatest superheroes from the world's greatest comic book talent in an epic comic book experience that kicks off the next big events in the DCU. Get ready, it's time to soar.
Why It’s Cool: If there was a plutonic ideal of a DC Comic, I think this might be it for me. It’s absolutely gorgeous, armed with artwork by Dan Mora and colors by Tamra Bonvillain. The book almost shines right off the page, it’s that good. And writer Mark Waid does a good Batman and Superman, at least in the context of the sort of fluid team-up world a book like this has to exist in. Add in the addition of the Doom Patrol? And you get a level of unpredictability for this series that stokes interest past just this very good first issue.
Price: $4.99
Buy It Here: Digital / Physical
Read our Batman Superman - World’s Finest #1 review!

Regarding the Matter of Oswald’s Body #5
Writer: Christopher Cantwell
Artist: Luca Casalanguida
Colorist: Giada Marchisio
Letterer: AndWorld Design
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
FINAL ISSUE!
Our cast arrive in Terlingua, Texas, looking to flee to Mexico, all the while wondering if they've been the good guys in all this, doing their patriotic duty, and whether they should stay and fight after all.
But with Frank and a hired killer to deal with, will there be any second chances? And just who is the shadowed figure overlooking Oswald's exhumation in 1981?
Why It’s Cool: Regarding the Matter of Oswald’s Body from its start has been a favorite comic around these parts, and this week it’s ending. That’s the sad news. The good news, however, is that the finale that it goes out on is just as fantastic and character-driven as the rest of this excellent book, which uses real events about Lee Harvey Oswald and all the weirdness that entails to great effect.
Price: $3.99
Buy It Here: Digital

The Silver Coin #10
Writer: Michael Walsh
Artist: Michael Walsh
Colorist: Toni Marie Griffin and Michael Walsh
Letterer: Michael Walsh
Publisher: Image Comics
Next in THE SILVER COIN, the hit horror anthology from VITA AYALA, JOSHUA WILLIAMSON, RAM V, MATTHEW ROSENBERG, and MICHAEL WALSH, comes a sequel 300 years in the making. Audrey is a high schooler with an unusual ability who's drawn to the occult. When she encounters the coin, she conducts a ritual meant to break its curse but instead summons something darker still. The coin's mystery deepens in part two of "Covenant."
Why It’s Cool: Are you a comics creator doing a horror anthology series at Image Comics? Well then, I probably love your book. Granted, there are only two of those, with The Silver Coin joining Ice Cream Man in those ranks. This issue of Silver Coin feels extra special. The concept of this series has been the writers change but artist Michael Walsh remains, and this is one of the issues where he’s doing it all — and the results are great.
Price: $3.99
Buy It Here: Digital

The Sword of Hyperborea #3
Writer: Mike Mignola and Rob Williams
Artist: Laurence Campbell
Colorist: Quinton Winter
Letterer: Clem Robins
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
An expert diver is faced with the extreme dangers of the supernatural and the real when he's forced to retrieve a mysterious artifact from a crashed zeppelin in the English Channel. How many second chances is one man allowed to have, even when wielding the sword of Hyperborea?
Hellboy creator Mike Mignola gives us a new tale from the world of Hellboy, cowritten by Rob Williams and featuring the art of Mignolaverse veteran Lawrence Campbell in an all-new series of Hellboy lore!
Why It’s Cool: Look, the titular Sword of Hpyerborea isn’t my favorite Hellboy character or thing, but it is definitely fast-rising, especially with the way that this specific issue ties back to my favorite use of the artifact from back in B.P.R.D. How did it do that? One word, Chicago.
Price: $3.99
Buy It Here: Digital

Wonder Woman #785
Writers: Michael W. Conrad and Becky Cloonan
Artist: Rosi Kämpe
Colorist: Tamra Bonvillain
Letterer: Pat Brosseau
Publisher: DC Comics
"Trial of the Amazons" part three! After the death of one of the Amazons' own, Diana has decided to take matters into her own hands and use her Lasso of Truth to find the murderer. As the island's attention turns to the Contest at hand, our hero fights back against tradition to make sure justice is served. But one Amazon stands in her way...Queen Nubia? Plus, a new adventure of young Diana!
Why It’s Cool: Maybe it’s because we don’t often get Wonder Woman crossovers (generally, there’s only one title, which makes it hard to cross things), but I’ve found this new Trial of the Amazons event to feel really different and unpredictable. This issue was more of what we saw in the launch of the event, with nice drama between the different factions of Amazons and a twist that reorients the story at its end.
Price: $4.99
Buy It Here: Digital

Others Receiving Votes

• Bylines in Blood #3

• Detective Comics #1057

• Flash #780

• Home Sick Pilots #13

• Impossible Jones #4

• Joe Hill’s Rain #3

• Justice League #74

• Land of the Living Gods #2

• Last Book You’ll Ever Read #6

• Nightwing #90

• Refrigerator Full of Heads #5

• Usagi Yojimbo #27

• What’s the Furthest Place From Here #5

New #1s and One-Shots

• Assassins Creed Valhalla Forgotten Myths #1

• Carnage #1

• Clay People Colossus #1 (One Shot)

• Eternals: The Heretic #1 (One Shot)

• Playthings #1

• Rad Wraith #1

• Reckoning War: Trial of the Watcher #1

• Rick And Morty Presents Mortys Run #1

• Stillwater By Zdarsky & Perez The Escape #1 (One Shot)

Trade Collections and Graphic Novels of Note

• A Man Among Ye Vol 2 TP

• Absolute Swamp Thing By Alan Moore Vol 3 HC

• All-Nighter TP

• Batman (2020) Vol 5 Fear State HC

• Beta Testing The Ongoing Apocalypse HC

• EC Archives Terror Illustrated HC

• Hell Phone Vol 1 GN

• Life Of Che HC

• Out Of Body TP

• Out TP

• Powers The Best Ever TP

• Snelson Comedy Is Dying TP

• Squire TP

• Wrassle Castle Vol 2 Riders On The Storm TP

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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He has written about comics for The Beat and NPR Books, among others. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.