Welcome to another week of comics, Comic Shop Friends!

This Saturday, the 27th! Come support your Local Comic Shop on Local Comic Shop Day! They even used a photo of our shop in a promotional post!

To celebrate, we’ll have 50% off back issues in the shop all day!

We’ve decided to give away the DC K.O. Local Comic Shop Day ashcans on Saturday! That’s right, stop in and pick up one of those for free! There are other LCSD variants that will be on sale Saturday, like the foil DC K.O. variant, Spider-Man ’94, Star Trek: The Last Starship, Ultimate Hawkeye, Everything Dead and Dying, Herobear and the Kid, and The Beauty.

We will be set up at the Cleveland Comic Book Show on Sunday October 5th from 10am to 4pm in Westlake! (This is the show formerly known as the Harper show, now put on by Six Nicks.) This is one of the few that the shop sets up at during the year, so stop out!

MARVEL COMICS

New Ultimate one-shot! Ultimate Hawkeye goes on a covert solo op that is going to have a massive impact on the future of the Ultimate Universe! In the prologue written by Deniz Camp, with art by Juan Frigeri, Hawkeye is taking out every single one of the biggest arms dealers in the world, and Ulysses Klaus is next on their list. But disrupting the arms pipeline is going to have consequences … Which comes to a head in the main story from writers B. Earl and Taboo, with art by Michael Sta. Maria. Hawkeye is undercover and infiltrating an underground party, but they may have been set up! Fighting to escape, they are forced into a confrontation with someone tied to their past.

Battleworld returns! Heroes from across infinite timelines and universes are thrown together on a patchwork planet to battle for supremacy! “Slay your enemies, prove your worth, and all you desire shall be yours in the world to come!” Who created this Battleworld? For what purpose? Who will survive? What timeline will survive? All we know for sure is that this version of Luke Cage is the one that Doom owes money to! He’d better survive to get that $200 back! Written by Christos Gage with art by Marcus To.

DC COMICS

Since there’s no big #1s or anything from DC this week, it’s the perfect time to remind you that you should be reading the Absolute titles!

The first trades for Absolute Batman, Absolute Superman, and Absolute Wonder Woman are out, and we’re doing our best to keep them in stock.

And along with all the reprints from last week for the Batman and Wonder Woman issues, this week we finally get reprints for Absolute Martian Manhunter #1 – #5, and Absolute Superman #1 – #9! I know a lot of you have been waiting for Absolute Martian Manhunter!

We also have some of the Batman Day Absolute Batman #1 variants left for $2.99!

Now onto a double Wonder Woman week!

Diana has one last shot at escaping the maze. Can she help all those trapped, or will Clea stop her? What a wonderful ending to this story arc, with a great epilogue to set up the next one. Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman are doing excellent work. These Absolute stories are getting bigger and better, and we’re almost to the point where some crossovers start to happen. Get ready for Absolute Evil too!

Setting the stage for all Wonder Woman stories to come, we’ve come to issue #25 of Tom King and Daniel Sampere’s magnificent series! Mice still have ears, and Mouse Man still knows, but “Whatever he knows… he does not know me.” Diana has finally located the fugitive Amazon, Emilie, but there is something she does not know, something she’s hiding. The Matriarch rises and the Wonder War will begin!

SMALL PRESS COMICS

Ben’s pick of the week! Stephanie Williams and Ariel Medel bring the Street Sharks back to comics for the first time in 20 years! It’s a Jaw-some five issue mini-series! Get ready for some Saturday morning fun with the fin-tastic four Bolton brothers! Ripster, Streex, Jab, and Slammu are regular cool dudes who got turned into giant sharks, and now they have to stop the evil Dr. Piranoid and his Seaviates, Slobster, Slash, and Killamari, from creating the perfect predator. It’s goofy, nostalgic fun!

New Robert Kirkman series! Along with artist David Finch, Skinbreaker is, as Kirkman says, “A simple story, but one packed with emotional punch that features a vast new world to explore. A visceral, primitive story in a lot of ways…that I think is really going to surprise a lot of people.” It’s the story of a people on the verge of collapse. Enor’s time as Chieftain is nearing its end, he still wields the Skinbreaker, but he’s weak. He pleads with his son Anok to challenge him and maintain their lineage’s control before a power struggle begins. They need someone strong to lead them and ensure their survival as they face threats from both within their village, and out in the darkness.