Andrea’s Exquisite Picks for 05.14.2025
Oh hello, Comic Shop Friends! Welcome to a week of wonderful reads!
Late Nite Comics! Thursday, May 15th! 8pm to midnight! Dollar books! Get 100 or more and they will be 50 cents each! 50% off back issues! Including the wall!
Raf is celebrating his birthday in the shop on Sunday, May 25th, with his own back issue sale! Batman? Conan? Stop in on that day to find out the details!
MARVEL COMICS
It’s monster vs. mutants! Something being built in Japan is drawing Godzilla’s anger. The X-Men are called to help stop the kaiju, and Charles Xavier believes they can reason with the King of the Monsters. But if that fails, Gambit has stolen something that will help the X-Men band together and use all of their powers to take down Godzilla! Written by Fabian Nicieza with art by Emilio Laiso.
Gwenpool is back! Fighting off Fin Fang Foom with Spider-Man, Kate Bishop, and Jeff the Land Shark (It’s Jeff!), Gwenpool notices things starting to get a little darker, a little grittier, a little more Frank Miller. Peter Parker’s spider sense is going off the charts. Jeff is scared. What’s causing all of this? Who is this new dark doppelganger? Find out in this, totally not for kids, All-New, All-Deadly Gwenpool from writer Cavan Scott and artist Stefano Nesi!
The arachnid war is here! It’s Spiders versus Symbiotes for the fates of the Spider-Verse and the Venomverse! Pulled from their universes to compete for the survival of all Spiders by the Web-Heart, 616 Spider-Man, Spider-Prowler, Recluse, Spider-Ham, and Weapon VIII go up against Agent Venom, Spider-Clan Venom, Viking Venom, Earth-2250 Venom, and an unnamed Symbiote host, who must protect the Hive-Mind. The Web-Heart and the Hive-Mind have both seen that the conflict is inevitable, and with each unwilling to end their existence, a challenge has been created. At the end of three rounds, whoever is left standing will ensure the survival of their people. Will it be Spiders or Symbiotes? Written by Mat Groom and Kyle Higgins, with art by Luciano Vecchio.
DC COMICS
The second part of the Absolute Mr. Freeze story from Scott Snyder and Marcos Martin! Every issue we are all still overjoyed by how amazing this book is. This book goes hard. It seems like the next story arc is going to dig deeper into the Ark M project and we’ll be seeing more origins of the Absolute Batman villains. Up next: Bane!
Sophie Campbell’s new Supergirl series kicks off for the Summer of Superman! Kara Zor-El and Krypto are splitting their time between Metropolis, the Fortress of Solitude, and daily patrols of Kandor. “Streaky, don’t even think about swiping Kandor off the table.” Kara has proven herself time and time again, but she still doubts her role as a hero. Is she purposely keeping herself in Superman’s shadow? When her adoptive parents move back to Midvale, Kara decides to visit, reviving her old alter ego, Linda Danvers, to hide that she’s Supergirl. But Midvale already has a Supergirl… Who is this imposter? Kara hasn’t been back in years, so where did this new Supergirl come from, and why is she taking over both of Kara’s personas? Can she stop this different Supergirl from stealing her life?
SMALL PRESS COMICS
I am very disappointed in all of you, because I needed another 48 of you to preorder this book so I could get the 1:50 variant printed with HUMAN BLOOD! Metal! Cleveland native, Dave Hill, finally tells the “true” story of the creation of the most extreme, most brutal, dark metal band ever, Witch Taint!
Watch the music video for “Sons of Satan” here!!
And if you liked that, you’ll enjoy the humor of Dark Regards from Dave Hill and artist Artyom Topilin! Sometimes in life you gotta go through some changes. Sometimes those changes are inspired by a vision of a metal singer who died from cannibalism, who tells you to harness your true power and spread the message of extreme heavy metal. Sometimes those changes cause you to spread your message through “old-school shit-talking.” And sometimes that shit-talking leads to Norwegian metalheads coming to “deal with” you. Break out the corpse paint, crank up the most extremely extreme records you can find, and dive into the comic book that dares to tell the true story of a viral hoax so extreme, so metal, so cvlt, that it created Witch Taint!
Over thirteen blood-soaked chapters, James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh will lead a rotating cast of creators, collaborating and competing to determine who wins and who dies in Image’s new Exquisite Corpses! Thirteen of America’s wealthiest legacy families gather every five years on Halloween to play a game. The deadliest game. Each family chooses a killer to represent them, with a themed weapon, and with one goal: to be the last one standing. The winning family will secretly rule the country until the next game, but some of them may have other motives. The representatives know what they’re up against, but for the citizens of this year’s arena, Oak Valley, Maine, they have no idea what’s coming to their town this Halloween. I can’t wait to see how this all plays out.
From the Invincible Universe comes Battle Beast! Robert Kirkman and Rya Ottley present the “best new (not quite a) superhero series in the universe!” No one, not even Invincible, is a match for Battle Beast. There may be no one in the galaxy who can stop the deadliest warrior. Battle Beast is tired of fighting those who cannot go toe to toe with his unquenchable thirst for violence. He wishes for an opponent that will kill him, as death is the only release from his bloodthirsty ways. Alone in space with only a ship’s computer, that also wishes for his demise, B.B. searches the stars for the most notorious and most savage fighters to end him! Is it even possible?! Who knows, but it’ll be a gory, blood-soaked journey to find out!
