Hi there, Comic Shop Friends!

Thanks, everyone, for coming to our Winston World Sale last weekend! Winston enjoyed sleeping through most of it, and we hope you enjoyed shopping it.

It’s only about five weeks until Free Comic Book Day! The first Saturday in May! We have an employee meeting coming up to discuss our plans this year, so we should have news for you soon, but mark your calendars for Saturday, May 6th!

April’s Late Nite Comics will be on Thursday, April 20th, and we’ll have a guest! Chad Bilyeu, the creator of Chad in Amsterdam and The Re-Up comics will be setting up a table and selling his books that night.

Now, onto this week’s books!

MARVEL COMICS

Venom co-creator David Michelinie teams up with artist Farid Karami for a brand-new story set in Venom’s past, taking Eddie Brock from the streets of New York to the kingdom of Latveria. It’s Venom versus Doom, with run-ins with Silver Sable, Vanguard agents, and possible new sidekick, Pablo Mendez (Kid Venom?)!

Ben Grimm teams up with heroes from across the Marvel Universe for Clobberin’ Time! Writer and artist Steve Skroce’s first issue finds Thing and Hulk trapped in a far-off place and time where they must fight kaiju! A zillion deviant monsters! “A symphony played with fists upon skulls, the music of thousands of splintering bones and splattering viscera.”

It’s Jeff! The cutest lil landshark gets his own one-shot collecting the Infinity Comics series from Kelly Thompson and Gurihiru, with a new story too! Great for all ages! Just get it. It’s so stinkin’ cute, I can’t stand it.

DC COMICS

National security reporter Spencer Ackerman, writer Evan Narcisse, and artist Jesús Merino celebrate WildStorm’s legacy of espionage-flavored superhero morality plays, pitting Stormwatch against the deadliest people in the DCU. Set in the early 1980s, Jackson King, the public face of intelligence agency Checkmate, meets with Lois Lane to document his suspicions about Adeline Kane. But he doesn’t know Kane has a new ally, the ambitious Amanda Waller.

Doom Patrol is back, and Robotman, Elasti-Woman, Negative Man, Beast Girl, and Jane’s new alter the Chief, are on a mission to save the new metahumans created by the Lazarus rain. First up is a stop in Gotham to rescue a metahuman trapped in a Metagen testing facility, and Batman shows up! Also, the Brain faces off with General Immortus! Written by Dennis Culver with art by Chris Burnham. (I have to say there were not enough swears from Robotman for me. I do enjoy Brendan Fraser yelling and swearing on the Doom Patrol show.)

There’s also a scratch-off cover for issue #1! Scratch off the mirror to find out who Jane will be today!

SMALL PRESS

Tombs is the new story collection of nine fresh nightmares brought to you by horror master Junji Ito. I’m a fan of his creepy tales, and this volume features a bizarre town formed from countless tombstones, a traffic accident in this town of the dead, a haunted clubhouse, a girl’s tongue is transformed into a slug, and a grotesque neighbor calling out every night to a man in a new town.

Eight billion people. Only six can have superpowers. Who do you choose? Choon-He Chung has made a breakthrough on creating post-human alternatives, and now she wants to gift those super power abilities to six people, the most altruistic people in the world. Mark Millar’s new book has a different artist on each issue, #1 is Frank Quitely, for a story about ordinary people around the world explaining why it should be them that get to become one of The Ambassadors.

This new series is a mystery/thriller/sci-fi story from writers Curt Pires and Rockwell White and artist Alex Diotto about the mysterious disappearance of the Indigo Children. Journalist Donovan Price has been sent a video of Alexei, one of the children, a video that should have been destroyed, and now he’s following the cryptic clues given to him about the Indigo Children and their whereabouts.