Hey Comic Shop Friends! Welcome to August!

A couple of housekeeping notes before we get into this week’s comics:

First, we do have Marvel and DC previews in now, along with Dynamite. We’ve been asking you to take a look at your pull lists to clean them up, so we will gladly get you a printout to look over. We’re trying to tighten up our orders since publishers are moving to other distributors after Diamond’s bankruptcy, so please take a copy of the free previews the companies send us, and let us know as soon as possible what new titles you’d like to add.

We’re always happy to make file changes for you and take your requests off our Tuesday night video, but when asking for titles (especially small press) the week of, we may not have enough or may not be able to reorder them. Help us get you the books you want by letting us know what you’d like in advance!

If you’d like to add Marvel, DC, Image, IDW, or Dynamite previews to your pull list to get a copy, we can do that for you, too!

Second, John Dudas will be taking over the newsletter for the rest of the month while I’m out recuperating from surgery this Thursday. He’ll have more details about this month’s Late Nite Comics on Thursday the 21st, featuring the Genghis Con Drawing Club!

We’ll be donating all dollar stock sales that night to Genghis Con to help support their event this year, and support local artists!

MARVEL COMICS

It’s time for the Hellfire Gala again! This time it’s in the Marvel Rivals world! The X-Men and other heroes of the Multiverse are wining and dining on their Krakoa and the party’s going great. Until Ultron shows up. He’s crashing the party to take control of Cerebro, in order to take control of all of the mutants. Can the X-Men hold off the walls of drones and protect Cerebro? Maybe if they can come up with a plan they all agree on. Meanwhile, on the other side of the island, another party is raging. Jeff the Land Shark, Squirrel Girl, Tippy-Toe, the Thing, and Rocket Raccoon are enjoying a beach party! Are they enjoying their hangout too much to help out their mutant friends? Are they having so much fun they won’t even notice what’s happening? Is Jeff having the best time getting splashed? Find out the answers to all these questions in this fun one-shot from writer Paul Allor, and artists Luca Claretti, Daniel Scalisi, and Ig Guara!

This issue was previously only available in a limited-edition package, so now’s your chance to read it! Wolverine’s archnemesis Sabretooth, strikes in this story reprinting Marvel Paragon Collection: Chris Claremont Wolverine #1 from 2021. Sabretooth is determined to kill Mariko, and make Logan witness her end, but he’ll have to fight off all of the X-Men to get to her! It’s a bloody battle, with some shocking insights from Sabretooth! With art by Tom Reilly, and some bonus material to celebrate Clarmont’s fifty-plus years in comics.

DC COMICS

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This is the book of the week! We have twenty more copies coming in, so please let us know if you need one! Collecting the first six issues of Absolute Batman for only $17.99! This is a book that will be on all of our rec rows, and you’ve heard me talk about every issue so far. But if you haven’t been paying attention, Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, and guest artist Gabriel Walta, have reimagined Batman and Bruce Wayne for the DC Absolute Universe. Without the billionaire status, but with a mother and a group of close friends, this Bruce is working class; literally working his way up from the sewers beneath Gotham, to the top of the highest skyscrapers. This is a Batman who knows his city inside and out, and when a group of masked killers begins to terrorize Gotham, he’s the only one prepared to take them out.

Need more Absolute titles in your life? Check out our Absolute DC rows on the rec wall for all the issues currently in stock, and check out the two new issues this week!

That cover doesn’t lie! There’s more of the showdown between Hal and Jo inside, and we learn how Hal came to possess the Black Hand. Hector Hammond questions a survivor about what happened after the dome disappeared, as his team tries to penetrate the Green Lantern. He owns it, he wants control of it, and he won’t accept failure.

Ra’s Al Ghul has plans for Superman. Plans that require Kal-El to unleash the full power of his rage. But the longer he’s on his adopted homeworld, the more he clings to his father’s lessons, and with Peacemaker Smith aiming a Kryptonite bullet at him again, Superman will need that guidance more than ever. With an ending reveal that’s going to change what we thought we knew about Absolute Superman’s world.

Greg Rucka, Nicola Scott, Cheetah, and Cheshire team-up for the heist of a lifetime! Cheetah has a plan to pull off the impossible – rob the Justice League Watchtower! She’s bringing in Cheshire to lead the team, but who else has the skills to get to space, get past the Watchtower security system, contend with the most powerful heroes, best the smartest minds in the universe, and get the one thing Cheetah wants? I mean, it’s nothing a gang of misfits and oddballs can’t handle, right? Right? Get ready for a fun heist story, and stay tuned to see who the duo can talk into joining them!

SMALL PRESS BOOKS

Humans believe they are at the top of the food chain. Vampires know they are the pinnacle of the food chain. But there is one type of vampire above all others, the Necratil. Four children are about to learn that their suburban lives are a cover for who they really are. Three neighboring families take their kids on a camping trip every summer, but this summer they learn the truth, and when the youngest freaks out over her mom killing a rabbit, they’re left to process the news overnight. Returning home, they find something even worse, their parents have been attacked by a group of vampire hunters. Now the children must choose: live out their lives as mortals, or become alpha vampires like their families, while on the run from the hunters out to finish the job. Writer Mike Carey returns to comic books with this second new Bad Idea title, with art by Jonathan Wayshak.

The Pacific Northwest has been decimated by a Godzilla attack, and has been declared a Deadzone. Walled off from the rest of the country, and declared uninhabitable, there are remnants of society for those with nowhere else to go. And there are stories of someone who travels throughout the Deadzone… someone who may be half man, half kaiju… someone who may even be able to kill a kaiju. Are the stories true? With the government lying about nothing being alive within the Deadzone, and various monsters roaming the wasteland, this mysterious man may be the only one who can protect those still there. Writers Griffin Sheridan and Ethan S. Parker, with artist Pablo Tunica, present the second of the new Kai-Sei Era connected Godzilla Universe books, with a twist on what we know and expect from a giant monster comic.