Andrea’s Boss Picks for 02.04.2026
It’s February, Comic Shop Friends! Let’s hope the shortest month of the year doesn’t feel as long as January did.
Too bad that dang ol’ groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter…
Good thing we have a fresh batch of comics to fill those cold winter days and nights!
Late Nite Comics will be pushed back a week because the guys are heading to California for the annual ComicsPro meeting, and I can’t run a Late Nite by myself!
So February’s Late Nite Comics will be the FOURTH Thursday, the 26th, from 8pm to midnight.
If you get 100 or more dollar books, they’ll be 50 cents each! 50% off back issues!
And because it’s our post-Valentine’s Day event, you can pull a Valentine card for free dollar comics!
Make sure you mark your calendars for the 26th!
MARVEL COMICS
After sending Godzilla into space to save the planet, a new cosmic threat has been unleashed! The Galactic Senate is not pleased with Earth and the release of the terrifying God named Zilla, but Knull now has Godzilla under symbiote control, and they’re heading straight toward the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda! Can anyone stop them before death and destruction descend across the galaxy? Black Bolt, the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and the Fantastic Four are going to try their damnedest to end this team-up of the King in Black and the King of the Monsters! Written by Gerry Duggan, with art by Javier Garron and Ig Guara.
“So many impossible and fantastic stories call Earth home… but never have these two collided… until today!” The Fantastic Four find themselves on trial on the Planet of the Apes! Red Ghost and his apes have attacked the Baxter building in order to use the Di-Quantum stabilizer while “the worlds are aligned.” Is he trying to build an empire on the Planet of the Apes? Possibly, but the Fantastic Four are the ones sent through space and time to the ape ruled world! This isn’t the first time the apes have encountered humans that can speak, and Cornelius and Zira are intrigued by Reed’s knowledge, but General Ursus wants them dead. Dr. Zaius demands a fair trial, but the FF can’t talk their way out of this one. Lost and powerless, how will they survive? This isn’t just a “how will they get home” story, because there is one heck of a twist at the end of the issue! Written by Josh Trujillo, with art by Andrea Di Vito, this is an entertaining read for fans of either the classic PotA movies or Marvel’s First Family!
DC COMICS
Along with the final issue of DC K.O. Knightfight, there’s one other K.O. tie-in this week!
There’s one last chance to prepare the DC Universe’s final four for their face off with the Absolute Universe fighters! To gather enough Omega energy to stop Darkseid, the World Forger uses the last of his strength to open fissures to other worlds, and our champions must battle the best of those multiverses. Sub-Zero! Red Sonja! Annabelle! Vampirella! Sabrina, the Teenage Witch! Homelander! And my personal favorite, Samantha Strong from Beneath the Trees! Plus, the return of fallen fighters Black Lightning, Plastic Man, Batwoman, and Star Sapphire to aid Superman, Lex Luthor, Wonder Woman, and the Joker! I won’t reveal the match-ups, but it’s a fun one-shot tie-in to DC K.O., that sets the stage for the final chapters of the event! Written by Jeremy Adams, with art by Ronan Cliquet, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Kieran McKeown, and Pablo M. Collar.
The superstars of All Elite Wrestling make their way from the ring to the DC Universe in this two-issue mini-series from Steve Orlando and Travis Mercer! W.A.M. (See Green Lantern: Galactic Slam!) and AEW have faced off for the Intergalactic Championship, with defending champ, Deceilia Starshame losing to self-proclaimed C.E.O. Mercedes Mone, and in a fit of rage, Starshame destroys the championship belt, sending shards across the universe. But the Big Galactic Belt is made of pure Element X, and every shard has the potential to be used as a weapon to rewrite reality itself! It’s page after page of fights, called by Excalibur and Booster Gold, as the AEW roster teams up with the Justice League to recover the belt’s pieces from DC villains before any damage can be done. There’s someone else with their eye on the belt who wants to bend reality to their will, but can the JL and AEW stop them before they do?!
Two of Metropolis’s most notorious shock-jock media personalities get together! And fall in love! Sparks fly when the Creeper and Livewire meet in Leah Williams and Ig Guara’s Valentine’s Day special. Released from prison, Livewire heads back to her secret hideout, and back on the air. Confronting a loudmouthed street preacher, Creeper walks right into a meet-cute with Livewire, and becomes the first caller for her newly revived radio show. Livestreaming their conversation on his channel, Creeper has a plan to win her over: co-host their own show! Creeper gets the funds and approval to launch “Hardwired” by playing both the heroes and the villains to get approval and funding, the show is a success, and things are going great between the two hosts. Until Livewire wants to bring on Jack Ryder as a guest. Jack has been badmouthing Livewire, and now Creeper is forced to reveal that he’s Jack. Will their new relationship survive?
With a great backup story by Dan Slott and Rosi Kampe, “Bill Zarro’s World”, where a man with a terrible life finds out how the other half live, and how “bad” things could be.
SMALL PRESS BOOKS
A party at Reggie’s new lake house turns bad after Archie, Betty, and Veronica stumble onto a hidden basement, and a very strange looking book. If only Archie hadn’t read from the Necronomicon, because now a bunch of Deadites have crashed the party! Good thing Archie’s coworker at the new S-Mart is none other than Ashley J. Williams! Ash knows a thing or two about fighting the undead, and what he thought would be a move to a quiet new town turns out to be anything but. Now Ash, Archie, and the gang will have to hold back the Army of Darkness to save Riverdale in writer Eric Burnham and artist Bill Galvan’s new series!
Ignition’s first anthology is full of six weird tales of romance! There’s horror, sci-fi, fantasy. There’s yearning, obsession, commitment. Burning emotions, and the extremes one goes to for who they desire.
“The Harpy and the Siren” have the same goal, but different methods, and a friendly competition ensues. Written by Olivia Dufault with art Dani.
“Home Sweet Home” becomes bittersweet when a housewife with a traveling salesman husband meets her charming new neighbor. By Sugar May.
A hitchhiker and the driver who picks her up become close in “I Want to Know You” from Rosa Ekedal, but he’ll soon learn you shouldn’t pick up hitchhikers.
Two people are “Living in a Satellite Fantasy” as their conversation builds, but distance separates them in Jamie S. Rich and Belen Culebras’s story.
“You Me Again” by Chris Burnham has a man being reminded of his wife by everything. But something else also wants those memories, and the family they came from.
A man addicted to love makes “Lovers’ Pact” after lovers’ pact in Patrick Horvath and Morgan Beem’s tale of perfect love and commitment. And the repercussions of those.
A wonderful compilation of the strangeness of love and longing for lonely hearts and couples alike.
Writer Cullen Bunn and artist Aneke present an ultraviolent revenge tale in the vein of exploitation films. Dillon Cade is searching for her missing sister, Janelle, in the Australian outback. Janelle may have been part of a club scene where the new drug “ripcord” has grown extremely popular. Dillon has lost track of Janelle weeks ago, and has been warned off searching the outback. It’s dangerous, full of ripcord-heads, and animals – wild and human. But Dillon’s not as helpless as those badlands bad boys think she is, and she’s determined to find out what happened to her sister and bring her home, no matter what it takes. Or who she has to kill.
