Hey Comic Shop Friends! It’s a week with nothing happening besides new comics!

June’s Late Nite Comics will be on Thursday the 19th from 8pm to midnight.

Come out to the Grog Shop on Wednesday, June 18th at 8 pm for Lenora’s Midnight Rental Secret Screening! Both Ben and John Dudas will be co-hosting as a late celebration for Ben’s two-year anniversary of doing the live Secret Screenings! Only $10, doors at 7 pm for an hour of vintage commercials and trailers before the unknown horror b-movie starts at 8!

MARVEL COMICS

The first of five new Giant-Size one-shots, and just in time for the 50th anniversary of the original Giant-Size X-Men! Writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, along with artist Adam Kubert, send Kamala Khan through the history of the X-Men, and it will never be the same! The past isn’t set in stone, and the future is up for grabs. Since learning that she is also a mutant, Kamala has been balancing her Ms. Marvel identity, her role in the mutant community, and her normal life, but things are about to get even more off balance. Pulled into the X-Men’s past by an unhinged time-travelling villain with deep ties to mutant history, Ms. Marvel’s about to become history! You know the iconic birth of the Uncanny X-Men and their first encounter with Krakoa, but witness it anew through the eyes of Ms. Marvel! But as history begins to change, will the X-Men and Kamala be able to survive without causing a massive paradox and destroying the present?

Plus, a back-up story, Revelation: Superior, from Al Ewing and Sara Pichelli of an X-Man that never was!

Kidnapped by the Beagle Boys and forced to build the ultimate gold drilling machine, Donald Duck is in a heap of trouble! Unless… he can use the scraps and Gyro’s secret plans to build himself an Iron Duck suit! Can Donald stop those Beagle Boys from stealing Uncle Scrooge’s gold? Can he make his date with Daisy in time? Another all-ages Disney What If, this time inspired by the first appearance of Iron Man, written by Steve Behling and Luca Barbieri, with art by Donald Soffritti.

In order for the Illuminated to ascend from the Lumina, he must undo Eddie Brock’s original sin. Travelling back in time to when Peter Parker wore the symbiote, and Eddie Brock left two people to die, the Illuminated must convince that version of Eddie to make a different choice. But Brock’s new direction and ambition cause repercussions that change his life and the world in ways not expected by the Brock of the future. One small change could destroy the world, and every trip back to that formative event causes wrinkles that must be smoothed and made right. Will the Illuminated be able to remove that original sin in a way that maintains Eddie’s past, and still ascend?

DC COMICS

“I know I sound crazy. I know that. But the Martian who lives in my head assures me I’m not.” As 24 people are burned alive by 24 different perpetrators at the same time, John Jones and the Martian discover how deep the White Martian has infiltrated the minds of people all across the city. The White Martian has decided on tragedy. How can Jones stop one killer working through thoughts? Working through anyone and everyone? The strange partners will start with just one person, one mind at a time, and hope that it will lessen the death and destruction.

New story arc! Do you want to read some of the best Wonder Woman work? Start here as Diana faces the complexities and evils of man’s world. She has her allies, but is still searching for her Amazon sisters. Are there any on Earth? What is locked away within the mysterious Area 41 and what plans do they have for Wonder Woman? “I hope whoever’s up there likes getting punched in the throat.”

Inventor Michael Holt and his wife Paula built Holt Industries to help people, but after Paula and their baby were killed, Michael sells off the company to tech billionaire Athena Prescott, and retreats into solitude. But now Prescott’s company is testing a new energy source in Gateway City and it’s causing the residents of the Bottoms to become sick. His choice to sell his company has set off a chain of events that will take Michael from despair and depression into a life of heroism. Find out what led him from basement tech tinkerer to Mr. Terrific in Al Letson and Valentine De Landro’s origin story! In the present, Mr. Terrific continues his research into what became of Darkseid following the DC All-In Special, and comes to realize his past and present may be inextricably linked.

SMALL PRESS COMICS

Astrid is building her social media empire as a super mommy, hoping to be accepted by the queen bee moms of her community. But they can smell that something isn’t right with her. That doesn’t matter, Astrid is going to make them love her. She’ll show them how important she can be, how much of a help she can be, how much they need her to protect the children. Writer Marguerite Bennett and artist Eleonora Carlini’s one-shot from Image’s Ninth Circle horror imprint mixes the horror of childhood trauma, the expectations of women and mothers, revenge, and serial killer gore for an effective tale of what evils lurk within suburbia.

From the pages of Quested, Detective Kaiju gets his own spinoff mini-series! You can just jump into this without having read Quested, all you need to know is what a kaiju is, and what a noir story is like. This murder mystery kicks off with Detective Kaiju taking down a murderer/ psychopath strapped with a bomb! Waking up in the hospital after, his femme fatale ex shows up to take him home, but his welcome is not so warm when he discovers an unknown assailant in a skull mask, and a dead body. Now Kaiju is forced to face the demons of his past while investigating the murder of a former friend. Written by Michael Calero, with art by Kit Wallis.