Oh, hello, Comic Shop Friends! It’s the fifth Wednesday this week, so there are not a ton of new books, but our table will still be full because we got a bunch of new action figures in!

And we’re filling it with Dave Michelinie books because…

Dave Michelinie VIP Event

We’re happy to announce that a Bronze Age Legend is coming to Carol and John’s Comic Book Shop this July! Writer David Michelinie will be coming to the shop for our yearly “NOT-AT-COMICON” Sale for a VIP Event and an open signing!

David is the creator/co-creator of such characters as Venom, Carnage, Taskmaster, Scott Lang Ant-Man, and a whole lot of classic storylines and issues!

Check here for a full Bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Michelinie

The VIP event will be on Friday, July 21st, from 6 pm to 9 pm, and will consist of a one-hour live Q and A between John and David, followed by a signing where you can get five items signed. We will be brewing a beer for the event, which will also be free to attendees that are of age. (as well as other refreshments.) Five items only once at the VIP Event.

Tickets are $50 each and will go on sale at noon this Thursday, June 1st. To get a ticket, call the shop with your credit card at 216-252-0606, and be ready to give us your name, email, and contact number. You can also stop in the shop to buy your ticket in person. You can purchase multiple tickets, and only cash and credit cards will be accepted. ALL money collected for this event will go to Purring Pals http://www.purringpals.org/ as per David’s request. It’s a cat shelter located in his home state of Deleware. We thought that this was so on brand for us that we’re donating our entire cut of the ticket money as well; we’re just super excited that David is visiting. There are only fifty tickets available.

Expect a few other surprises at the VIP event as well!

Saturday, July 22nd, we’ll have an open signing in the shop from noon until 6 pm. Signatures are FREE and limited to five each! If you like, you can get back in line three times to get five more signatures each time! (meaning if there are people behind you, you have to go to the end of the line for more signatures.) We are strongly suggesting a donation of $10 to PurringPals each time you come back up. In other words, you could walk away from the day with 20 signatures for a $30 donation to a cat charity. That’s pretty amazing. Please don’t try and undercut this gesture in any way; we’ll be keeping track of everything to make sure David feels respected and appreciated while under our roof. For us, this is about letting everyone get the chance to meet a creator who means so much to the hobby’s history; signatures are just an extra.

We’ll be providing more info as the date gets closer, but that pretty much covers everything. As stated above, this is the weekend of our “NOT-AT-COMICON” sale, which means a foyer full of dollar comics, 50% off back issues, and 10% off everything else in the shop from July 20th to the 23rd!

(thanks to Erin at https://www.supergrouphugs.com/ for letting us use some of her artwork!)

This event is Winston approved

(Look, he’s thrilled.)

Other upcoming events:

Late Nite Comics is back on Thursday, June 15th, from 8 pm to midnight! Details on what sort of dollar books will be out are forthcoming.

And for fans of Lenora’s Midnight Rental and fans of Ben, he’ll be co-hosting the next live Secret Screening at the Grog Shop on Monday, June 5th! I’m planning on being there, because last month’s was great!

MARVEL COMICS

Ready for more Spider-Verse? This issue has “Home is Where Your Heart is Cut Out by a Huntsman” featuring Spinstress, written by David Hein, with art by Luciano Vecchio, and “The Tree Child” featuring Sky-Spider from writer Benjamin Percy and artist Marika Cresta. Both stories have appearances by Kraven the Hunter, the first is a Disney princess musical (like Spinstress’s first appearance in the last Edge of Spider-Verse series), but the second is a dark origin story of Sky-Spider, with a goblin witch’s curse.

DC COMICS

Following the events of Lazarus Planet and Action Comics, Power Girl faces a challenge unlike any before in this one-shot from writer Leah Williams and artist Marguerite Sauvage. Johnny Sorrow has unleashed his four horsemen upon the country, The Pit, The Pendulum, The Poet, and The Piper, psychically damaging citizens and trapping the Super Family. It’s up to Power Girl, with some help from Omen, to stop him before the horsemen spread to the rest of the world; while also dealing with her imposter syndrome, grief, and the feeling that her body has never once belonged to her. Also, she can and will punch a cat in the face.

DC Pride is back with stories from Grant Morrison and Hayden Sherman, Leah Williams and Paulina Ganucheau, Nadia Shammas and Bruka Jones, A.L. Kaplan, Josh Trujillo and Don Aguillo, Jeremy Holt and Andrew Drilon, Mildred Louis, Rex Ogle and Stephen Sadowski, Christopher Cantwell and Skylar Patridge, and Nicole Maines and Rye Hickman. With an introduction by Phil Jimenez and a tribute to Rachel Pollack. There’s also a preview of Dreamer’s YA debut, and a bunch of pin-ups! Featuring fan-favorite LGBTQIA+ characters: Harley and Ivy, Crush, Jon Kent, John Constantine, Tim Drake, Connor Hawke, Circuit Breaker, Flashlight, and more!

SMALL PRESS

A new IDW original series from writer Andrew Wheeler and artist Ilias Kyriazis, billed as John Wick meets Kill Bill, Cat Fight is a globetrotting game of cat and mouse in a heightened world of colorful criminal masterminds. Felix is a high-class cat burglar who always works alone. But now the mysterious Schrodinger is trying to recruit Felix into a new crime syndicate, and threatening his only living family member.

The second stand alone issue of Deep Cuts focuses on Gail Gelstein, a singer and composer who needs to write a hit song for her new Broadway show, the biggest jazz hit ever. But she doesn’t know anything about jazz. Now headed home to Chicago, she now has two days to get a crash course in the genre, so she can save her show. Written by Kyle Higgins and Joe Clark, with art by Helena Masellis.