Will winter ever end, Comic Shop Friends? It sure feels like it won’t… But if you’re ready to hunker down and stay warm, come get some comics to fill your time!

Remember we moved Late Nite Comics back a week! It’s February 27th! Don’t show up this Thursday night, because Kyle and I will not be doing a Late Nite by ourselves! Ben, John D, and John S will be at ComicsPro, so stop out next Thursday for over 60 long boxes of dollar stock!

If you get 100 or more, they’ll only be 50 cents each!

50% off back issues! Including the wall!

And we’ll have a late Valentine’s gift for you! Pick a Valentine’s card, and you’ll get free dollar books! One, five, ten, fifty—what will you get?

8pm to midnight on Thursday the 27th!

Safe travels to Ben, John, and Shearer as they head to California for the weekend for the annual ComicsPro retailer convention! Bring us back some goodies!

MARVEL COMICS

We’re living in One World Under Doom now. Marvel starts three Doom event mini-series this week, along with two tie-in issues, X-Factor #7 and Storm #5.

Writer Mackenzie Cadenhead and artist Pasqual Ferry invite the former Strange Academy students to attend the new Sorcerer Supreme’s Doom Academy. Relocated from New Orleans to Latveria, the Strange students, and some staff, are starting the semester with new friends and new threats, new magic and new cliques. And paintings of Doom everywhere, that may or may not be watching everything. Joining the Doom Academy Dispatch, Zoe and Doyle meet Scoop, who gives them the scoop on the school, and on the mysterious voice Zoe hears in her dorm room. Even though they’re not at Strange Academy anymore, things will still be strange because, “You belong to Doom!” For the semester. Students, make sure you sign up for one of the mandatory after school activities, including Dungeons of Doom and the Anti-Reed Society!

With the Thunderbolts, Bucky Barnes took down the Red Skull, and gave Doom the final shot, reminding him of his talent for obliteration. Now that Doom is Emperor, he wants to recruit Bucky as the head of the Fulgur Victoris to thank him. To atone for his unwitting role in Doom’s triumph, Bucky leans into his moniker of Revolution. He’s going to burn it all down. Recruiting Black Widow and Songbird, he aims to break Doom’s engines of fascism, starting with a nuclear weapons lockbox. But Doom has plans to stomp out any revolution, including the Revolution, and he has an unlikely ally on his side. Written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, with art by Tommaso Bianchi, this is definitely the one tie-in book you should be reading alongside the main One World Under Doom title.

“This crew’s gonna go down as the greatest mutant strike team in history! And we’ll call ourselves—Weapon X-Men!” Together on their very own X-team for the first time, it’s Wolverine, Deadpool, Cable, Chamber, and Thunderbird! Recruited for a high-stakes mutant rescue mission, the team heads into the ultimate global hot spot. You can guess where that is, because this is a One World Under Doom tie-in! You can also guess that things are not going to go as planned, especially since this issue starts off with an attack on Wolverine that affects his abilities… Who’s behind the attack? Who called them to Latveria? Who’s behind the attack on the team there?! Only writer Joe Casey and artist ChrisCross know!

DC COMICS

Zatanna Zatara is back! And she has a brand-new stage show set to debut at the Terpsichore Theatre in San Francisco! She and her stage crew and cast may not even make it through rehearsals when a ghostly adversary appears. The Lady White. A legend in old Hollywood, with a hand in magic, theater, film, and more, the enigmatic woman disappeared at her peak. Why has she returned now? What does she want with this show’s crew? Follow Zatanna as she tries to rescue them from the magical hands of the Lady White, and is plunged into the legend’s gallery full of tricks and curses that threaten to tear Zatanna apart! Written and drawn by Jamal Campbell, it’s a mystical mystery!

I am once again asking you to say, “Yes thank you” to this book. Diana returns to the battlefield. And that battlefield is the White House. Inspirational.

SMALL PRESS COMICS

James Tynion IV kicks off a new True Weird series of tales of cryptids with the Jersey Devil! Let This One Be a Devil is a four-issue mini-series written by Tynion and Steve Foxe, with art by Piotr Kowalski, presenting the literal birth of the Jersey Devil! Returning home to his family’s farm after studying in the city, Henry Naughton encounters a strange predator attacking the chicken coop one night. It’s not a fox. It’s not an owl. It’s not a coyote. The What-Is-It has visited South Jersey. His encounter leads him to research the legend of Mother Leeds and the Leeds Devil from 1735. Featuring a backup True Weird short, “Shattered & Shook” by Rachel Deering and Jesse Lonergan, about a family’s persistent attacks by a “devil”.

It was the perfect crime. They just needed the perfect distraction. And there’s no distraction like Godzilla! Writer Van Jensen and artist Kelsey Ramsay present the biggest heist ever! Jai knows a good crew is key to pulling off a heist, and with his knowledge of the energy signals that Godzilla responds to, he’s able to utilize the kaiju to rob a casino. But now he’s attracted the attention of a group of thieves that are planning something huge, and they need Jai’s skills to bring the hugest distraction to London. Both Jai and the crew have their motives behind pulling the most dangerous job the world has ever seen. A globe hopping Godzilla crime story that’s fun, and something new for the kaiju!