Hi there, Comic Shop Friends!

First, we’ll be closed this Thursday the 4th for the holiday, so get your books on Wednesday so you have something to read while you’re waiting on the grill.

Second, Monday, July 8th Ben will be co-hosting the Midnight Rental Secret Screening at the Grog Shop! Yes, it’s on a Monday this month! Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm, only $10!

Third, Thursday, July 18th is Late Nite Comics! 8pm to midnight! Featuring all new Small Press/Independent dollar stock! John says there will be some incredible books in there, so be there!

Fourth, John is still working through those new collections, and just bought another 50+ long box one this past weekend! He’s planning on a new wall rerack video on Wednesday morning, and a second one this weekend, so check Facebook for these, or just come in the shop! Y’all have been hungry for new books, so if you see something you need, grab it before someone else does! These keys go fast!

Keep an eye out for the new back-issue boxes! The new boxes are all labeled with the date we put them out, so you can find what’s freshest! There are a lot of great books, in great condition!

Fifth, July 25th to 28th is our Not at Comic-Con Sale! The foyer will be filled with dollar stock, back issues will be 50% off, and everything else in the store will be 10% off! (We’re pretty sure that the wall books will be included in the 50% off, but there’s always the chance the ones you want won’t last until then.)

Sixth, I hope you all read your copies of Spider-Man Reign, because II starts this week! If you don’t have one, we still have some in stock!

MARVEL COMICS

Kaare Andrews is back with the sequel to the legendary Spider-Man: Reign. “The end comes for everyone…So what are you going to do about it?” An even more dystopian future. An even older Peter Parker. New York now has a King, as Wilson Fisk runs the city and has reinstalled the Webb System after some sort of apocalypse. Peter is stuck in a loop, and a new Black Cat has been tasked with freeing him by someone from Spider-Man’s past. What tragedies and triumphs await Peter as he once again dons the mask? And how does old man Miles Morales fit into this future?

This one-shot Blood Hunt tie-in is the beginning of the new Werewolf by Night, with new abilities, a new look, and a dangerous new direction! Jake Gomez knows how to control the beast within, but when the skies go black and the moon disappears, he finds himself affected in an unexpected way. After a group of teens try to summon Duke Jensen to unite with his nephew, Trevor, and it all goes wrong, they find themselves trapped in an abandoned Dino Park with a demon ghost, vampire cops, and a werewolf that cannot control his rage! Written by Jason Loo with art by Adam Gorham, this leads into Marvel’s first ongoing Red Band series!

Also, this week for Blood Hunt we have: Black Panther: Blood Hunt #3, Blood Hunters #3 (HellCow!), Doctor Strange #17, Miles Morales Spider-Man #22, and one new one-shot, X-Men: Psylocke, where Japan’s monsters run rampant!

Infinity Watch continues with part two in the Amazing Spider-Man Annual! Overtime, the new bearer of the Time Stone, meets Spider-Man during an armored car robbery. A robbery that Overtime is committing. But in order to change a mistake in his past, Overtime needs to change something in Spider-Man’s recent past. It’s time travel vs. Spider-Sense in Derek Landy and Ron Lim’s main story. Then, Landy and Sara Pichelli continue their Annual spanning tale of the Death Stone! The Death Stone bearer has arrived.

In Uncanny X-men #246, Wolverine set off on a personal mission, and now Chris Claremont reveals Logan’s secret adventure! Kitty Pryde, Lockheed, and Yukio are on a mission to protect Mariko from Sabretooth, believing Wolverine and the X-Men are dead. Wolverine and Sabretooth fight to the death in the woods of Northern Japan. But something sinister will be revealed. Find out what happened in Claremont’s next mutant saga, with art by Edgar Salazar.

DC COMICS

Mark Waid and Dan Mora kick off DC’s epic summer event! Amanda Waller has the ability to steal the metahuman abilities of every hero and villain on Earth, but she’s starting with a massive misinformation campaign to turn the public against the heroes, and toward her side. Her goal is complete order across the globe, and she’s using Failsafe, the Brainiac Queen, and Task Force VII to target each superhero family, taking powers, draining devices, and removing magic. There is no escape from Waller’s reach. The shots have been fired. The blitzkrieg has begun. The Trinity of Evil has won.

A milestone #150 for Batman this week! And it’s an Absolute Power tie-in! Back in the Gotham War, a cat burglar found out Batman’s secret identity, and now he’s out to sell that secret to whoever is willing to pay. But with Batman hanging around Gotham’s criminal bigshots, Teddy is having a hard time getting anyone to shell out a million dollars. And he’s finding a lot of them would rather see him dead. Does Batman? Featuring art by Denys Cowand and Jorge Jimenez. The back-up story from Chip Zdarsky and Mike Hawthorne is the start of the resistance with the fallen heroes, as Batman tries to keep Cyborg out of the Amazo’s hands. And a crucial piece of information about Waller will lead Batman to plan a heist. Continued in the next issue of Batman!

Ben and I have been lamenting the fact that DC missed the opportunity to subtitle this first Wonder Woman trade, “No thank you.” And I will take the opportunity to tell you that you should be saying, “Yes, thank you” to this book! It’s the first six issues for $20! The best $20 you can spend in the shop this week! We’ll keep recommending Tom King’s Wonder Woman as long as this level of quality continues. Sorry, (not sorry) random YouTube commenter who doesn’t believe us.

SMALL PRESS COMICS

Did you read the first issue of Barbaric: Born in Blood when we gave them out for free and forgot to add it to your pull list? Now’s your chance to pick up #2, and add it so you don’t miss out! You probably want to add the Barbaric Vs Deathstalker one-shot too! We had to take down our Barbaric Rec Wall section to make room for more Blood Hunt, but we will gladly point you toward the other Barbaric titles we have. They’re fun, bloody stories from Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden, with barbarians, witches, vampire barbarians, and a talking literally blood-thirsty ax!

An all-new ongoing series from writers Kurt Busiek and Fabian Nicieza, and artist Stephen Mooney, oversized and only $3.99! They thought they were done fighting. Survivors of a massive intergalactic war, a team of seven young veterans find themselves on Earth, free agents for the first time. Living “normal” lives by going to college and partying, while using their superhuman abilities to clean up the flotsam and debris from the war. Their chance for better lives is threatened when remnants of the Universal Collapse, and someone from their past appear, and they are faced with their greatest battle. Can they fight to save their own souls?

A one-shot collecting Maria Llovet’s three-part story that was previously published in the Image 30th Anniversary Anthology series. A crime meet-cute with an art historian turned jewelry thief, and a hitman tired of his bosses. The two plan to go on a date, each not knowing the other’s secret life, but fate intervenes early, as they cross paths and witness each other’s crimes. Is their date the perfect alibi?