Oh, hello Comic Shop Friends! Guess what? We have another couple new collections John just purchased, so we are rich with new back issues!

Just in time for our Not at Comic-Con Sale!

Starting this Thursday the 25th and running through Sunday the 28th! This is the biggest sale of the year!

• -Tons of dollar stock! The foyer will be open and packed with dollar books!
• -And just announced: 100 or more dollar books will be 50 cents each! Be sure to check out our dollar stock section in the shop too.
• -50% off all back issues! Yes, that includes the wall! This is your chance to get those keys you have your eye on!
• -10% off everything else in the shop! Stock up on supplies, grab a t-shirt, or pick up a graphic novel off our Rec Wall!

We’ll see you this weekend!

Now onto the new books!

MARVEL COMICS

Blood Hunt is winding down, so Marvel has three tie-ins this week: Strange Academy: Blood Hunt #3, Wolverine: Blood Hunt #4, and Vengeance of the Moon Knight #7. Come back next week for the finale!

And speaking of Blood Hunt, if you missed out on any of the Marvel Free Comic Book Day titles this year, they’re putting them into this deluxe issue! There’s the overture to Blood Hunt, “Nightfall” by Jed MacKay and Sara Pichelli, the direct lead in to Ultimates, “Forgotten Marvels” from Deniz Camp and Juan Frigeri. Spider-Man must deal with the return of the Goblin, in Zed Wells and Ryan Stegman’s “Target: Peter Parker”, and Jubilee learns that you cannot go home again, “The Fire Still Burns” from Gail Simone and David Marquez.

Writers Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, with artist Francesco Mortarino, form a new mutant community in the next new X-Men series. Ms. Marvel and Sophie Cuckoo are trying to find their own way through school and life in the Lower East Side. Wolverine is protecting her own in the shadows of Bushwick. Prodigy is teaching the history of Krakoa, and the aftermath as it happens. Anole is dealing with Truthseekers at his bartending job. The streets feel dangerous. Anti-mutant groups are on the rise. Something evil is coming. But these young mutants are determined to move past the end of their world and into this new beginning. This is NYX.

DC COMICS

Writer John Ridley and artist Alitha Martinez tell the untold story of Amanda Waller’s origin in the three issue Absolute Power tie-in! What led Waller to form the Trinity of Evil and attack the metahumans of Earth? She lost everything she held dear. Her children, her husband, and justice. She became powerless under senseless acts of violence and chaos. Where were the heroes who could have helped her? Why are the masked vigilantes able to get justice? Her path to vengeance begins with two words: never again.

Amanda Waller’s Amazo Robot Depth Charge has stolen Aquaman’s powers along with his throne, and now all Atlanteans must stay in line or risk having their powers taken as well. It’s up to Jackson Hyde and the rest of the Aqua-Family to launch a revolution…without being discovered! Written by John Layman, with art by Max Raynor.

The other Absolute Power tie-in this week is Joshua Williamson and Amancay Nahuelpan’s Green Arrow #14. It’s Arrows against the world! The Green Arrow family has a plan to track down the original Amazo’s creator, Professor Ivo, in the hope that he can help them destroy Waller’s versions. Why is Oliver Queen on Waller’s side? Connor believes stopping Waller is the way to discover the truth of what Oliver has done.

Need to catch up on the first series, The Nice House on the Lake, like I do? We have the deluxe edition hardcover and the trade paperbacks in stock! Hopefully I can finish it this weekend, so I can read this new issue!

The second act in James Tynion IV and Alvaro Martinez Bueno’s classic contemporary horror! No one who was invited to the House knew Max. But she knew each of them. They represented the best and brightest of humanity, titans of industry, masters of their fields, full of knowledge. Then Max whispered to each of them the truth of what they deserved. Why shouldn’t they be the ones to live forever? Why shouldn’t they be the future of humanity?

SMALL PRESS COMICS

Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, and now Epitaphs from the Abyss, the Comics Code couldn’t keep them buried forever! EC Comics is back from the grave! The first of Oni’s two EC anthology series starts this week, with four twisted tales of terror introduced by the first of the new horror hosts, The Grave-Digger! J. Holtham and Jorge Fornes write a “Killer Spec” about an aspiring writer. “Senator, Senator” from Chris Condon and Peter Krause follows a reporter and a life-changing story. Suburban “Family Values” are tested in Stephanie Phillips and Phil Hester’s story. And finally, it’s “Us Vs. Us”, as seen on the cover, by Brian Azzarello and Vlad Legostaev.

Keep an eye out for EC’s new sci-fi anthology, Cruel Universe, coming in August!

And it looks like Halloween is coming early this year, because Boom has a new monthly horror anthology series too! Seven spine-tingling stories! A contagion spreads throughout the children in Glenbury, Ohio in Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Letizia Cadonici’s “Contagious.” Hack’s one page “I Can’t Take You Anywhere” is the best. There’s some brutal bowling in “Stay in Your Lane” from Dave Cook and David Cousens. The six-part Something is Killing the Children story, “A Monster Hunter Walks Into a Bar” by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’edera starts here. “The Siren” stalks a lighthouse keeper in Sarah Andersen’s short. Get ready for a very strange occurrence in Steve Orlando and A.L. Kaplan’s “The Foster”, which I don’t want to give too much away about. And last, but not least, Garth Ennis and Becky Cloonan have a seven-part tale of “The War”, that gets that meat hook into you with the last panel.

What happens after you sell your soul to the Devil? Owen and Carlie are about to find out. After meeting while both trying to pull the same heist, they fall in love, with each other and a life of crime. But when they’re caught, the only way out is a deal with the Devil, and it turns out losing your soul drains all the joy and love out of life. The only way to get that back: build a crew of other soulless criminals, pull the ultimate heist, and crack the Devil’s safe. From writer Joe Henderson and artist Lee Garbett.

Are we Turtles people now? As someone who hasn’t read the TMNT comics, but has seen the original trilogy a few times, I can say this is a great starting point for those of you who want to give it a shot. Jason Aaron writes this new ongoing series with a rotating artist roster. Having left New York, the Turtles have gone their separate ways, and the first four issues focus on where each one is. First up, Raphael, with art by Joelle Jones. Why is Raphael in prison? Locked up in San Quentin, Raph finds himself a little too alone, in a little too much trouble, and a little too angry. (A little too Raph.) He’s dishing out beatings and keeping to himself, but a surprise attack forces him to find a way out of jail, and back to his brothers.