Happy Thanksgiving Comic Shop Friends!

First, a reminder that we will be closed on Thursday for the holiday.

Second, there are some delays for some small press titles as Diamond is in the process of consolidating warehouses, but those books should be in your files next week. We received DC and Image books late this week, so I didn’t get to read those for the email, but they will be in your files for tomorrow! Thanks for your patience with the shipping delays in recent months.

Third, we have new stickers!

They’re $2 each, and we have one with our short box logo and one to show your support for your local comic shop!

Fourth, thanks to our regular customer Sam, of Sonny Boy Comics, for showing off the shop in his new video about Late Nite Comics and his purchase of an Invincible collection from John Shearer! (Who he calls an “absolute legend.”)

Here’s the YouTube video:

Running Friday through Sunday, it’s our Black Friday Weekend Sale! We’re filling the foyer with dollar stock that will be 50 cents each if you get 100 or more! All back issues will be 50% off! And take 10% off everything else in the shop! (That’s not already discounted.) It’s the perfect time to stock up on supplies, get some gifts, and grab a graphic novel, or two, for yourself!

Also, on Saturday the 30th, Shelly and Philip Bond will be in the shop from 5pm to 6pm for a free signing! They both worked at Vertigo in the 90s, and currently run their own publishing company, Off Register Press. They will be bringing some of their titles, like Geezer, Filth & Grammar, and Death by Misadventure.

You can find more about Shelly’s editorial work at her Wikipedia page.

You can find more about Philip’s art at his Wikipedia page.

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

As will we! Ben and I will be at Genghis Con with some freebies and blank covers for the art show. Stop out, say hi, and then spread some money around to all the local artists, creators, and publishers that are there! It’s a great opportunity to find some cool gifts for the holidays, and support your local arts scene!

Feeling creative? Grab a blank cover from the shop, give us your interpretation of a homage to a classic comic book cover, and bring it on back by December 15th. We’ve gotten a few in this week, and have heard some great ideas. I can’t wait to see them all!

We’ll be displaying the covers starting December 18th through our Holiday Party on Saturday the 21st. Winners will be drawn during the party, and all proceeds from the basket raffle will be donated to the Cleveland Food Bank! We set a new shop record last year, can we beat it this year?

MARVEL COMICS

It’s a Hulk-sized issue #800 for Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Nic Klein’s Incredible Hulk! Wrapping up the City of Idols storyline with a bang! Or should I say, “BOOM”? We have all the issues leading up to this, so if you want to read a great monster fighting, body horror Hulk story, you should pick them up! Plus, three back-up stories to celebrate the legacy of the Hulk! Featuring Amadeus Cho in Greg Pak and Lan Medina’s “Foul-Weather Friends.” She-Hulk finds herself in “Night Eternal” in Torunn Grobekk and Lynne Yoshi’s short. Red Hulk is doing some clandestine government work in “Prisons” by Benjamin Percy and Geoff Shaw.

The West Coast Avengers are back! Iron Man and War Machine have put together a new Avengers team…with Ultron? Yep, this new team also includes villains seeking a path to redemption, like Ultron who seems to be keeping on the straight and narrow, and recently incarcerated Blue Bolt. But just because case-study Ultron is working out, doesn’t mean this is a sound team-building plan. Spider-Woman has her doubts, especially after Blue Bolt goes in hot after the Sovereign Sons. With Firestar still reeling from her time undercover with Orchis, these Avengers have their work cut out for them. Can these villains truly be redeemed? Can these West Coast Avengers become a successful team? Written by Gerry Duggan, with art by Danny Kim.

DC COMICS

Since I wasn’t able to read this week’s DC books, you’ll have to settle for their solicitation synopsis.

The book I’m most looking forward to reading this week! But with issue #1 being so good, you’d better just grab issue #2! And if you missed #1, we have second prints!

Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman’s red-hot reimaging of Wonder Woman unleashes monster mayhem! Gateway City has never seen anything like the Harbinger-Prime, the enormous, ravenous monster that has just risen from the depths of the ocean to darken its shores…but the Harbinger has never seen anything like the unstoppable Diana, Princess of the Underworld!

The Match of the Millennium! It’s Black Canary versus Lady Shiva to determine who is the single greatest hand-to-hand fighter in the universe! Who will walk away with the title? Find out as writer Tom King and Ryan Sook go six rounds to see if our hero has what it takes to be…the best of the best.

The Watchtower rises! The Justice League is back and bigger than ever! In the wake of Absolute Power and the DC All In Special, Darkseid’s death has triggered a massive power vacuum in the DCU, and Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman must unite like never before and expand the Justice League to encompass every hero championing the forces of good in the face of incredible evil! As our heroes work to uncover the mystery of the dark lord’s successor, Ray Palmer’s Atom Project triggers a race between hero and villain to control the fate of metahuman abilities on planet Earth, which threatens to destroy everything the League has built. Worlds will live, worlds will die, and a surprise is waiting in store on the last page…Do not miss the dawn of the new era of justice–it all begins here! Written by Mark Waid, with art by Dan Mora.

SMALL PRESS COMICS

And I didn’t get to read Image books either, so here’s another solicit synopsis.

The second of Ghost Machine’s Family Odyssey all-ages line is here! It’s Good vs. Evil vs. Puberty from the minds of Peter J. Tomasi and Peter Snejbjerg! Keeping the cosmic peace isn’t easy. But the opposing leaders of Heaven and Hell broker a deal that trades Zachary Halo, an angel child, to a demon family, and Rose Hornsby, a demon child, to an angel family, and hope this truce will halt the winds of war. It’s Nature versus Nurture as the turbulence of adolescence comes crashing down on two teenagers who have no idea just who and what they truly are… yet.