Merry Christmas Comic Shop Friends!

We closed up shop at 5pm on Tuesday, Christmas Eve and remained closed on Wednesday, the 25th for a little holiday and Christmas cheer.

This week, new comic book day is moved to Thursday the 26^th. Our fan-favorite Facebook live video Christmas Eve Late afternoon so you can go check it and get a look at the new table. We’ll check comments and upload the YouTube video on the 26th.

I hope you all got to enjoy a relaxing holiday!

The big thing this week is that we crushed last year’s donation total to the Cleveland Food Bank!

Thanks to all of you who donated artwork, and all of you who bought raffle tickets, we were able to give them $8717! That creates 26,151 meals!

An extra thank you goes out to the large donations from Kamm’s Plaza management, and the crew at NEO-TAC, the North East Ohio Toy and Collectible Club!

50% off back issues will run through the end of the year! Use those gift certificates you got at Christmas to fill in your collections! And yes, this includes the wall books!

Onto the comics! It’s a full week of titles, but not too many new series, so this’ll be a quick little newsletter.

MARVEL COMICS

Don’t miss the origin of Ghost Rider ’44 in Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Adam Gorham’s new Hellhunters! Featuring Marvel’s most badass heroes against demon-possessed Nazis! It’s 1944, U.S. troops are parachuting into Nazi-occupied Europe, and unknown to them, a demon-occupied forest! Sergeant Sal Romero comes face to face with evil and vows vengeance on those who murdered his unit. He doesn’t have to go it alone, because Nick Fury, Peggy Carter, Soldier Supreme, Wolverine, and Bucky are about to join the Ghost Rider on his mission. If the cover doesn’t sell you on this book, the awesome horror elements will! Super fun, and another solid Phillip Kennedy Johnson story.

Sabretooth is dead, but his past is alive in The Dead Don’t Talk, from writer Frank Tieri and Michael Sta. Maria. Drinking to the death of his old foe, Wolverine meets a historian who knows the story of an untold chapter in Sabretooth’s life, full of violence, betrayal, secrets, and more violence. Recognizing a face in a picture from the 1900s in New York City’s oldest tavern, Wolverine learns of the origin of Mad Dog Murphy, a feared murderer who rose to power among the notorious gangs of New York. Sabretooth may be dead, but these secrets from his past are very much alive and will affect Wolverine in the present!

MARVEL COMICS

A fun, more lighthearted throwback-style book from writer Al Ewing and artist Steve Lieber, it’s Metamorpho, the fab freak of a thousand changes, in a brand-new ongoing series! Along with Sapphire Stagg (the star of a thousand talents), Simon Stagg (the billionaire of a thousand schemes), Java (the caveman of a thousand sorrows), Urania Blackwell (the spy of a thousand missions), Metamorpho must contend with new foe, Mister 3! And Mister 3’s going to destroy him, in the name of Cy.C.L.O.P.S.! Can Metamorpho stop an assassin who can match him change for change? Can he prevent Project: Sunrise from coming to fruition? Who knows? The only thing we do know is that it starts with the death of Metamorpho!

It truly is a merry Christmas when there is another excellent issue of Absolute Wonder Woman. This is my favorite of the three DC Absolute titles, and Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman are doing absolutely wonderful work on it. In this issue, it will take everything Diana has to save Gateway City from the Tetracide, and oblivion!

SMALL PRESS COMICS

A new Giant Generator imprint mini-series, J.G. Jones and Phil Bram’s Dust to Dust is set in the dark days of the Great Depression in a small Oklahoma town, New Hope. It’s a tale of desperation, murder, and resilience as death and dust storms batter the farms. Farmers are fleeing, the land is dry, the storms brutal, and now Sheriff Meadows and traveling photojournalist Sarah Grange are in a desperate fight to stop a serial killer on the loose. This first issue builds a solid foundation of the town and its residents, their hardships, with just a hint of the killer. I’m interested to see where this leads.