Hello Comic Shop Friends! There’s a lot happening this month, so here we go!

This Thursday is Late Nite Comics! 50% off all back issues! Tons of dollar stock! And if you get 100 or more dollar books, they’re 50 cents each! John is also allowing you to film in the shop for one night only, so feel free to film your dollar diving for your social media channels! Open til midnight!

We will be closed on Thursday the 28th for Thanksgiving. I hope you all are able to have the day off and enjoy the parade/dog show/football/MST3K marathon.

Make sure you take a post-turkey nap on Thanksgiving, so you’re well-rested for our Black Friday Weekend Sale! Running Friday, the 29th through Sunday, December 1st, all back issues will be 50% off again. We’re filling the foyer with dollar stock and 100 or more will be 50 cents each. Everything else in the shop will be 10% off, so grab some supplies or a graphic novel or one of the restocked DC omnibuses!

Shelly and Philip Bond will be here on Saturday the 30th for a free signing from 5pm to 6pm!

Shelly and Philip have a really rich comic book history. Shelly was a huge part of Vertigo in the 90s and beyond, with over two decades as an editor at DC’s imprint. Philip is a British artist who worked on many Vertigo titles alongside the likes of Grant Morrison and Ed Brubacker. He lent his talents to Tank Girl, artwork for many 90s bands, and even did an American Splendor cover when it was briefly published at Vertigo.

Check out Shelly’s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelly_Bond and Philip’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Bond Wikipedia entries for more about their work!

They’re planning on bringing some stuff from their publishing company, Off Register Press:

• Filth & Grammar, about comic book editing written by Shelly.
• Geezer, is about a wannabe Britpop star drawn by Philip.
• Death by Misadventure, an anthology written, lettered, designed, and assembled by Shelly and featuring a bunch of indie comics all-stars and upstarts.

If you miss them in the shop, they’ll also be at Genghis Con on Sunday, December 1st!

We’ll be set up at Genghis Con! We’ll have some freebies to give out, as we’re mostly there to get everyone to sign up for the Holiday Art Show! It’s a great opportunity to pick up holiday gifts and support indie comics, local creators, publishers, educators, advocates, and artists. Shop small, shop local, and support your local arts scene! They have a list of all the exhibitors here: https://www.genghisconcleveland.com/exhibitors

This year’s theme is Homage to a classic comic book cover! How you interpret that is up to you, and we’ve heard some great ideas already! Pick up a blank cover in the shop, or from us at Genghis Con, create your homage, and turn it back into the shop by Sunday, December 15th at 5pm. We’ll display the art in the foyer from December 18th through December 21st, and we’ll pull the basket raffle winners at our Holiday Party on December 21st!

Raffle tickets are $1 each, with all of the proceeds benefiting the Cleveland Food Bank. Last year, thanks to all of you, we set an event record and were able to donate $6296, which creates 18,888 meals! This brought our lifetime total to 159,496 meals! Can we beat that record this year?! We can with your help! So turn in a cover, and buy some raffle tickets!

John sent out an email with more details on all of these events, and it’s also posted on our website!

Follow our Facebook , Instagram, and YouTube pages for info too!

MARVEL COMICS

Two great all-ages titles from Marvel this week!

Inspired by Ms. Marvel Vol. 1 #1- #4, what if Minnie Mouse became Captain Marvel? What is the secret past of Minnie Mouse? Just hired as a reporter at The Chronicle, Minnie is given the assignment to find out who Captain Marvel really is! Too bad she can never manage to meet up with the superhero. Even when Peg Leg Scorpion attacks the Chronicle building! Hmmmm… Written by Steve Behling, with art by Giada Perissinotto, this is another fun entry into the Marvel and Disney What If…? stories.

It’s Jeff! And Venom! Jeff is Marvel’s goodest boy. Venom was not always a good boy at all. But the Venom War rages on, and Jeff gets stuck with a symbiote! The one thing they both have in common is a great need for snacks, so it’s off to Coney Island for all of the treats. It’s all adorable fun until some zombiotes show up, then it’s still adorable, but Hawkeye, Gwenpool, Fuse, and America Chavez have to figure out a way to save the infected humans and Jeff! An all-new one-shot written by Kelly Thompson with art by Gurihiru.

DC COMICS

Who watches the Watchtower? That’s the question posed in Alex Segura and Cian Tormey’s new All In series. And the answer is the Question. There’s an unknown threat attacking the Watchtower, and the Justice League needs Renee Montoya’s help to uncover what it is. It’s nothing anyone can put a finger on, finding no pattern to the attacks and glitches, but they sense it. Montoya is eager to find a new purpose after an abrupt end to her time in Gotham. She and her new support team will have to work fast to figure out who’s trying to breach the Watchtower, especially after the latest attack by someone who should not be there.

“Five little princesses jumping on the bed. One fell off and bumped her head. Mommy called the Goddess and the Goddess said, no more princesses jumping on the bed.” After the loss of Steve and the birth of her daughter, Wonder Woman is preparing for the beginning of the end of the Sovereign, and she’s assembled an army. It feels so good to read this book. And there’s a hell of a back-up story this time.

SMALL PRESS COMICS

The crossover everyone has been waiting for! Writer Caleb Goellner and artist Hendry Prasetya, along with a Viz and IDW team-up, give us a ninja meetup with the Heroes in a Half-Shell and the host of the Nine-Tailed Fox! I don’t know anything about Naruto, so I can’t give a good critique, but this first issue is mostly ninja fights! April O’Neil had a clandestine meeting with the leader of the Hidden Leaf Village, and Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi are curious about what was discussed. And they’re not the only ones, as the Foot Clan show up believing April has valuable information on Baxter Stockman’s mutant research. And if the Foot Clan shows up, you know it’s not long before the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles do too! The art is action-packed, and there’s a cool new look for the Turtles.

Horror writer Tananarive Due, who I know from a few film documentaries, (Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror on Shudder is highly recommended.) and artist Kelsey Ramsay present the next Horizon Experiment one-shot, Moon Dogs. A minority within a minority, a family descended from East African were-hyenas of East Africa and European werewolves, are pulled into a burgeoning war between lycanthropes and humans. Nala, her brother Kai, and their parents, keep their transformations in check with ancient herbs that also have properties to enhance lycan abilities. When Kai shares the family’s herbs with a group of werewolves who no longer want to live in the shadows, things get violent, and threaten the few humans who know the Moon Dogs secrets. As Due says, “How can creatures with an unfair advantage over others convince themselves to use restraint? What does ‘identity’ mean to a werewolf?” This is another of the Horizon Experiment books that I’d love to see more of.

The first in Ghost Machine’s all-ages line, Family Odysseys, the Rocketfellers from Peter J. Tomasi and Francis Manapul kicks off with a big family adventure! It’s cosmic time travel, 25th-century tech, loss, family drama, and the secret to the fate of humanity all in one debut issue! The Rocketfellers are in possession of an item that could change humanity, and they’re being hunted down because of it. Their only chance of survival is to enlist in the Time Zone Protection Program, a sort of witness protection, and hide out in our current time. When you’re used to the advances of a “future” time, it’s hard to fit into the strange “ancient” world of today, especially when you’re a family of inventors, pilots, and a buff 125-year-old grandpa. But when the family’s safety is in jeopardy, they’ll have to learn to work together and blend in, or they, and our future, will perish!