Andrea’s Adorable and Horrible Picks for 07.08.2026
Oh hello Comic Shop Friends! There’s a lot of cool things happening at the shop, so here we go!
This Saturday the 11th from 4pm to 7pm, legendary inker Joe Rubinstein will be here for a signing! Joe is a featured guest at the Icons Fest this weekend at the Maltz Museum to kick off their “Icons in Ink: The Jewish Comics Experience” exhibition. Check out maltzmuseum.org/iconsfest for more information and tickets.
Joe holds the world record for inking more pencillers than anyone else in comic history! Including the ones pictured below!
You can get one free signature, then any after that will be $15. He’ll have prints and artwork for sale, and we have a box of back issues he worked on out now.
Thursday the 16th is Late Nite Comics! 8pm to 11pm! Tons of dollar stock, and 50% off back issues!
Thursday the 23rd through Sunday the 26th is our “Not at Comic Con” summer sale! We’ll have 50% off back issues, and it’s only one of two times a year we get to fill the foyer with dollar stock! It will be packed full, and all dollar comics will be 50 cents each when you get 100 or more!
Thank you to everyone who voted for us! We’re the best comics/collectible shop in Cleveland according to Scene magazine’s 2026 Best of Cleveland!
MARVEL COMICS
It’s Jeff! Get ready for an overdose of cuteness this week, because not only is there new Jeff, but we also have the first Symbie one-shot, and the new issue of Baby Garfield! Who will win in the battle of adorableness? We will! Kelly Thompson and Tokitokoro return with an all-new Jeff adventure! On Earth, Jeff and his heptapus pal Ken just want to watch tv and eat snacks, but a fight outside keeps interrupting their relaxation. The only way to stop the noise is to join in! On Mojoworld, Mojo and Toady 6 are coming up with a new show, but the only thing working in each new cast is Jeff. But this imitation Jeff needs to be replaced with the real thing! Looks like Jeff is about to take a trip and become the Superstar he’s meant to be! Adorable like always!
It’s Symbie! The little symbiote without a host, but with a whole lot of shenanigans! Unleashing mischief across the Marvel Universe, this one-shot collects all the chaos! From his appearances in Amazing Spider-Man #11, #13, #22, and #28, to his own Symbie web comics, it’s all here with seven shorts and the ASM bits featuring the goopy guy. Thing and Johnny have a hair-raising time when Symbie sneaks into the FF’s shower! Symbie tries to heist Thor’s hammer! Spider-Man’s web shooter looks like fun, and the symbiote clearly doesn’t understand responsibility! Symbie thinks he can scare Scarlet Witch, but the Sanctum Sanctorum may be too much for him! Iron Man’s lunch is interrupted by a hungry Symbie! If birds make a good snack, then Captain America’s huge wings must make him an even better snack! Symbie wants to be part of the pack when he meets the Marvel Mutts! From creators Jacob Chaot, Mackenzie Cadenhead, Enid Balam, Joe Kelly, Pepe Larraz, Nick Bradshaw, Nathan Stockman, and Cory Smith!
After Bill Foster’s death in Civil War #4, his nephew Tom seeks vengeance against Tony Stark and those that caused Goliath’s death. But he made a promise to King T’Challa to finish school, so years later he finally gets his chance to bring Iron Man to justice. During World War Hulk, Hulk asks for testaments against Stark, and Tom thinks this is his chance. Find out what led him to pick up the mantle of Goliath, and led to his battles with Iron Man, the Avengers, and the Super-Adaptoid in the third Civil War Unmasked from Christos Gage and Edgar Salazar. The legacy of Goliath continues!
DC COMICS
What do you get when you mix body horror with Hollywood glamour? Clayface: Celebrity Dirt from Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Fran Galan! Basil Karlo is planning his comeback. Locked in Arkham Tower, he knows he’s a star and is ready to be on top again, but when he escapes he finds that Basil Karlo is already in the spotlight again. Is he the real Basil? If not, who is he? And with women in Los Angeles disappearing, or becoming hideously transformed, is “Basil” to blame? With multiple Clayfaces, it could be any one of them, but what is their motive? Get hyped for the new Clayface movie with this six-issue mini-series, and also check out the Batman: One Bad Day: Clayface hardcover from Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, and Xermanico!
We were talking about how we already liked Absolute Harley, but after this issue revealing her origin, we REALLY like her. Another amazing issue from Scott Snyder, this time with guest artist Werther Dell Edera. The Robins are closing in on Batman and Harley, but she knows more about the city than they do, and as they make their way past swat teams, Harley tells Bruce about her past. About growing up in the crooked house. About the ghost in her closet. About her connection to Ark M. It’s strange, it’s creepy, and the reveal on the final pages is a gut punch.
I think this second issue gives us the hook this mini-series needs. We get more of Selina’s past with her friendship with Holly and the formation of the Calicos. After her run-in with the assailants in the first issue, she’s set on luring out the person who is after the metal sphere, and she’s using all her resources and gadgets to do it. But when she puts it up for auction, she comes face to face with her past, and with new foes. Selina’s going to need backup, and the former Calicos may be exactly who she needs. Written by Che Grayson and Scott Snyder, with art by Bengal.
SMALL PRESS COMICS
Mystery! Murder! Chaos! Baraboo is a small Wisconsin town, and the off-season home of a traveling circus. It’s quiet, everyone knows each other, and the worst thing to happen here has been the recent string of garbage can break-ins the high school true crime club has dubbed the “Dumpster Dive-Bomber.” It’s just racoons, but they need something to report on, and Sheriff Calhoon indulges them. But when a headless, handless body shows up on the street, town secrets start to be revealed. See, Baraboo has multiple residents in the witness protection program, and they shouldn’t. A former marshal got lazy and for the past forty years, started sending them all there, dubbing the town Witness Point. Now a marshal, Wyatt Williams, shows up looking for someone, and the true crime club leaks a video of the conversation between Williams and Calhoon, sending the town into a frenzy. Who can they trust, now that they know some of the people they thought they knew are criminals? Created by Nathan Fillion, Heath Corson, and Soo Lee, this is a four-issue noir thriller about the small town caught in a massive government blunder, which forces the sheriff to work with the only marshal the department is sending before anyone else gets murdered! It’s an interesting premise and a fun read, and I’m interested to see who will be revealed as a witness!
The preview ashcan for this new Ignition action series was awesome, but there’s so much more to enjoy in the first full issue of Dispatched. Writer B. Clay Moore and artist Daniel Gete mix MacGyver with Die Hard, as a former black ops agent turned delivery driver is put in the middle of a terrorist attack. Ben’s route includes a corporate office park, and today’s deliveries are huge. He wasn’t expecting anything out of the ordinary, and he wasn’t expecting to use the skills from his former life, but now he’s the only chance the office employees have of getting out. Using his knowledge and whatever he can find in the cart of packages, Ben’s going to fight floor to floor before time runs out. But as the situation escalates, he’ll also have to deal with intensifying PTSD. It’s an update on a classic action movie lockdown trope, and I can’t wait to see where this is going to go!
The origin of Rascal Randy! Set before Exquisite Corpses season one, writer Tyler Boss and artist Dylan Burnett reveal the secrets of everyone’s favorite killer mascot! Lilly has just moved to Aurora Springs with her father. She doesn’t know it, but this small town is the birthplace of Rascal Randy, the cartoon character created by her new friend Eli’s great-grandfather. Neither of them have any idea that this innocent rabbit is about to become a notorious killer. Someone has put on the suit. Someone has started a brutal killing spree in Aurora Springs. Is there any tie to Eli and his family? Is it a Rascal Randy superfan? Does the person in the suit even matter? This is the first of the Exquisite Corpses spinoff origin stories, with the Fox Mask Killer and the Lone Gunman coming this fall!
