Andrea’s Pride Picks for 06.04.2025
Happy June, Comic Shop Friends!
Come on out Thursday the 19th for Late Nite Comics! Open ‘til midnight! Dollar books everywhere! 50% off back issues! Hooray!
For June’s Midnight Rental Secret Screening, both Ben and John Dudas will be co-hosting to celebrate Ben’s 15 years at the shop! Wednesday the 18th at 8pm at the Grog Shop! Doors at 7pm for a pre show of vintage commercials and trailers put together by Lenora, and the surprise secret horror/b-movie starts at 8! Only $10!
MARVEL COMICS
It’s the penultimate issue of the J. Michael Straczynski one-shots, this time featuring Juan Ferreyra’s rad Ghost Rider! Versus Galactus! What happens when the Devourer of Worlds meets the Spirit of Vengeance? With an idea planted by the Thing, Johnny Blaze decides to punish Galactus for the billions of souls he has consumed. Can the lethal fire of the Penance Stare be enough to bring about the downfall of Galactus? Why does the Watcher always get involved when he’s only supposed to be watching? How does the cycle of death and rebirth of universes connect with Galactus’s motives? This is half a fun Johnny Blaze and the Thing hangout, and half discussion of existence, and well worth picking up.
Jonathan Hickman, with artists Iban Coello and Federico Vicentini, present a murder mystery set in the Marvel cosmos! This sweeping event begins in this oversized first issue as Bruce Banner, Amadeus Cho, and Jennifer Walters head to Sakaar En Nevo following the death of Hulk’s son. When they learn he was murdered, and that Hiro-Kala is one of four leaders recently poisoned, their next stop is the Fulcrum City-Station to search for answers. Peter Quill and his father are dealing with the same problem, as Quill’s half-sister is clinging to life. Delegates from across the universe are gathering at Fulcrum to negotiate sovereignty, treaties, and laws, but these mysterious deaths may cause the negotiations to dissolve into war! Hulks, Novas, Guardians, Wakandans, and all manner of cosmic royalty will be pulled into the intrigue, and the clues don’t seem to lead where they are leading. Someone just may be planning out the future of a new galactic order.
Get ready for an all-new six-issue Marvel Knights mini-series from creators Joe Quesada and Christopher Priest! The future of the Marvel Universe is here, and the 616 Universe will be changed forever! King T’Challa is gone, the Wakandan technology is unguarded, and dark secrets will be revealed, triggering global conflicts. A final tribal challenge for the Wakandan throne, and the mysterious victor, will determine the fate of Wakanda and the Marvel Universe. Is T’Challa really dead? What happened to the world during the Race War? Who is the former diplomat turned fugitive/resistance fighter the Dora Milaje are bringing back? Welcome to the World to Come, as visionary Marvel Knights creators collaborate on a future 616 through the lens and history of the Marvel Knights line of books.
DC COMICS
DC Pride hits its 5th anniversary with an all-new format for the 2025 special! This single, oversized story interweaves narratives from a massive team of creators about the need for community amidst chaos. When a long running queer bar and community space in Gotham announces it is closing, generations of patrons come to pay their last respects. Alan Scott, Midnighter, Apollo, Harley Quinn, Jo Mullein, and others who had visited throughout the years, suddenly find themselves in alternate dimensions. Dimensions that seem to have everything they could each possibly want, but at what cost? As each one comes to realize where they are isn’t real, they are transported back into the basement of the tavern, with no way out. Learning that each of them is connected by the bar, having carved names and messages into the wall, they must find a way to stop whatever has trapped them there. And it starts with finding the pocket dimension Alan Scott is trapped in. He and Johnny were the first to carve a symbol of their love into the wall, and that symbol is what is tying the Crimson Flame to the LGBTQIA+ heroes, villains, and civilians across the DCU.
“The Heart Wants” is written by Vita Ayala, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Maya Houston, Sam Maggs, Tim Sheridan, and Josh Trujillo, with art by Don Aguillo, Vincent Cecil, Derek Charm, A.L. Kaplan, Giulio Macaione, Alex Moore, Skylar Patridge, Emilio Pilliu, Max Sarin, and Phillip Sevy.
Featuring a backup story “Master Planner” written by Jenny Blake with art by Sara Soler, about Jenny’s transition and history in comics.
That Amanda Waller is up to some tricks again! This time it’s a plan to develop hybrid Titans that she can control to guard against future kaiju attacks. Get ready for kaiju King Shark! With Lex Luthor missing and off the grid, the Justice League starts a search which leads them to Lex’s hidden boom tube, sending them straight to Hollow Earth! It’s Task Force X against the Justice League against Godzilla against Kong! Written by Brian Buccellato with art by Christian Duce.
SMALL PRESS COMICS
The return of Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt’s weird Western can’t be stopped. This one-shot prelude of three all-new short stories leads directly into the 15th anniversary and return of the Sixth Gun, bridging the gap between the finale of the original series and the powerful new chapter! Something terrible is buried deep within the earth, something that a worldwide cabal of magic users needs to unleash. The power of the Six is alive in the world and it’s only a matter of time before the weapons are reborn in new hands. This is a tale of calamitous fate and those who try to resist it. I have not read the Sixth Gun, but this one-shot is the perfect little taste to get me to check out the new series!
Seventeen years ago, farm girl Cora Reims gave birth to a son. Or rather, when her son was ready, he arrived. A little angel. But as this child grows, his monstrous nature is revealed, and strange events terrorize the town. Writer Jude Ellison S. Doyle and artist Lisandro Estherren present a Southern Gothic tale, mixed with folk and religious horror. As Jordy Reims nears his eighteenth birthday, his mother prays for God to make him stop. Receiving a strange visitor, Cora is called upon to destroy the abomination she birthed. What will God ask Cora to do in return? What is the cost to end a true evil?
