Andrea’s Jeff Week Picks for 05.07.2025
Hello Comic Shop Friends! I hope you all had a wonderful Free Comic Book Day with us! We had a smooth and successful day, and now that we’re all rested from the weekend (You all came out for back issues on Sunday!), we’re ready for another week of new comics!
Thank you to all of you who came out and made this another excellent Free Comic Book Day!
We do still have some free comics left, and you can stop in and pick up a few!
And here’s a few pictures from the fun of FCBD!
John vs a parking lot goose!
Mural painting!
Bluey made a short appearance at Luna’s request so she could do a Bluey drawing!
Green Lantern Gordon Shumway showed up!
The Bee! And Carol!
And Late Nite Comics regular, Mike Kenny, discovered the “Easter Egg” when he bought the infamous copy of Batman #181 on the wall and won a copy of every FCBD book!
Speaking of Late Nite Comics, this month’s will be on Thursday May 15th! You know the drill! Dollar stock! 50% off back issues!
MARVEL COMICS
Live every week like it’s Jeff Week! You can never have too much Jeff, and along with last week’s It’s Jeff paperback and this week’s Jeff Week collecting more of the Infinity comics, we have a new Jeff themed short box! For $12 you can store your Jeff comics in a Jeff box! This one-shot collects issues #25 – #36 of the Kelly Thompson and Gurihiru series, and issues #1 -#5 of the Gustavo Duarte Jeff Week series. Get ready for more adorable adventures with everyone’s favorite land shark as Jeff washes dishes! Builds a snow shark! Goes ice skating! Fights M.O.D.O.K.! Helps some goslings! Sneaks snacks from Hulk! Sells lemonade! Messes with magic! Sneaks snacks from the X-Men! Gets babysat by Spider-Man! Befriends Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur! And more!
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Amadeus Cho’s first appearance in this one-shot special with three stories written by Greg Pak. First, it’s Amadeus and the “Renegades” drawn by co-creator Takeshi Miyazawa, and set before World War Hulk, where Cho has a run-in with Eaglestar. Then, visit “The Family Cho” in the Totally Awesome Hulk era, as Amadeus and his sister Maddy deal with generational trauma, with art by Creees Lee. Finally, Cho tries out a new “Defense Mechanism” in the Jethro Morales drawn Brawn story, where a threat causes a new form!
Marvel’s First Family gets some Fanfare in this all-new anthology series! With each issue focusing on a member of the team, we get three Johnny Storm stories in issue #1! After Ben Grimm is court ordered to maintain his temper, Johnny is determined to prank Ben until he breaks, in Mark Waid and Ramon Rosanas’s “You Realize, Of Course, This Means War.” Then, “Life’s a Gas” when the team discovers an ancient alien ship in a cave full of methane, and Johnny can’t flame on! From Alan Davis. Finally, Johnny’s search for love may come to an end on the ”Monster Island of Love.” The reality show he’s starring on gets interrupted by Mole Man, and Ben is loving watching the chaos unfold! Written by Andrew Wheeler with art by Sara Pichelli.
DC COMICS
Be without fear. Be entirely without fear. Abin Sur has arrived, and he has brought judgement to the town of Evergreen. But what will be the consequences of his judgement? Hal’s willpower is not enough to control the Black Hand, and it wants the light. Jo is hearing a voice in her head telling her she must have knowledge of herself to command the flame. Guy Gardner faces down Abin Sur to protect Evergreen, but not knowing if this being is friend or foe, what is Guy’s judgement? What will be the town’s judgement? And if no one is coming to help them, what is the outcome for John Stewart, Jo Mullein, and Hal Jordan? Written by Al Ewing, with art by Jahnoy Lindsay.
Who is the mysterious Brainiac? Why is he so interested in the Last Son of Krypton? Jason Aaron and Carmine Di Giandomenico present the origin of Brainiac in the DC Absolute Universe, and it’s a grotesque doozy! This is Brainiac 419,732, level zero. Serving the Collective by disposing of refuse, he slowly becomes a terror that travels the galaxy. His stolen technology is the heart of the global success of Lazarus Corp, and now the secrets and horrors of the Absolute Brainiac are finally revealed!
SMALL PRESS COMICS
Heavy Metal magazine is back! Featuring a mix of creators from the original Heavy Metal run, like Enki Bilal, with new talent, like Jim Rugg; and some returning characters and classic strips. This is a huge issue #1 with 232 pages packed full of twenty-eight comics, interviews, prose, illustrations, history of Heavy Metal, and more! Check out the international roster with Michael Conrad, Ilias Kyriazis, Antonio Segura, Jose Ortiz, Sergio Gerasi, Leah Moore, Anna Morozova, Paul Kirchner, John Workman, and many, many more!
Welcome to Los Monstruos! Just a bustling California city in the 1950s, where movies are made and dreams come true. If you’re a monster. Los Monstruos is home to classic creatures and folklore monsters, and Perry Cutter, werewolf P.I. loves it. His horror noir tale begins with a baby bat kidnapping case, but things get a little strange when a human walks into his office to ask for help locating a former vampire flame. This seemingly simple search leads him to casino owner Ramses, and into the path of the Night Shift, corrupt vampire cops who will do anything to close a case. Cutter’s about to be reminded that nothing in Los Monstruos is simple. A four-issue mini-series from writer James Robinson and artist Jesus Merino, with the potential for more series featuring other citizens of the city.
New Image series! Are you ready for Blood & Thunder? Bounty hunter “Blood” Bledsoe and her sentient gun Thunder are the best of the best in bringing in the bad boys. In a near future where Exos, various alien species, have integrated with humans, society has changed and there’s new rules to live by. The Interplanetary Peacekeeping and Penitentiary Force is full of humans that the lower level Exos don’t trust, and that’s where Blood & Thunder come in! Tracking a perp that’s moving contraband, Blood learns he’s secretly transporting books, books that the IPPF wants destroyed. What Exo secrets do they hold? What’s the history behind the most dangerous criminal in the galaxy? And what will happen if they manage to escape the most secure prison ship? And will Blood have to track them down if they do? You bet she will! Featuring a police chief that looks exactly like Stanley on The Office, writer Benito Cereno and artist E.J. Su start up an action-packed epic!
