Hello hello, Comic Shop Friends! This weekend is our big sale!

This Thursday the 23rd through Sunday the 26th is our Not At Comic Con Sale! Not going to SDCC? Neither are we! Stop in all weekend for 50% off all back issues! A foyer packed with dollar books! Get 100 or more dollar comics and they are only 50 cents each! Plus, other discounts throughout the shop that John hasn’t announced yet!

MARVEL COMICS

Set between Gambit #5 and Uncanny X-Men #270, Gambit’s co-creator Chris Claremont teams with artist Robert Gill for an untold tale of what led Remy LeBeau to join the X-Men! Remy has just taken Ororo back to what’s left of the X-Men, and has headed back home to New Orleans. When he learns one of his friends, Elodie, has joined a high paying poker game, and that she keeps winning, he suspects something is amiss, mes amis. One of the players, Suzerain, seems to be setting Elodie up. Taking her out of the game puts Gambit in the crosshairs of a certain villain who always hits his mark! It’s a kinetic showdown! But why is Suzerain so interested in Remy? What were her plans for Elodie? Find out in this five-issue mini-series!

Dude, these Marvel Godzilla books are ridiculous! Where else are you going to get a Doctor Doom led team of Spider-Man, Kang, Emma Frost, Ghost Rider, Punisher, Man-Thing, and the Human Torch?! The Avengers of Doom assemble! The only survivors of Knull and Godzilla’s rampage of the 616 are now our universe’s only hope at freeing the world from symbiotes. Travelling the multiverses, the unlikely team search for the strongest kaiju that may be capable of stopping the Knullified King of the Monsters! This comic feels like playing action figures with your friends and making up the most far-fetched scenarios, featuring Mecha Fin Fang Foom, the finest baker in Latveria, and a cuddly kaiju that could have come from your youngest sibling’s plushie collection! It’s goofy and it’s great, and Gerry Duggan and Javier Garron have created a continuity-shaking comic book that crushes the Multiverse!

This year’s Hellfire Gala has an added element – homicide! Sebastian Shaw has invited everyone to the Gala, with the intent of revealing his plan for mutant domination. (Speaking of domination… some of these costumes… whoa…) But it’s not just drinks and dancing, someone has been murdered, and it’s up to Wolverine and Jubilee to solve it! Every guest is a suspect, and no one is leaving until Logan sniffs out the killer in this collab story featuring all of the X-Men series’ creators! Saladin Ahmed & Joelle Jones, Gail Simone & Luciano Vecchio, Erica Schultz & Aaron Kuder, Jed MacKay, Tony S. Daniel & Mark Morales, Eve L. Ewing & Federica Mancin, and Cory Smith & Dren Junior mix it up with a locked-room mystery that may have dire consequences for all mutantkind.

DC COMICS

The battle between Superman and King Shazam reaches its finale! Who will reign? Could Superman bring himself to kill King Shazam? Will he die trying? The Reign of the Superman story arc ends here, but what will the future hold for Jason Aaron and Rafa Sandoval’s Absolute Superman? Another killer issue, that’s leading Kal, Lois, and Jimmy to new places.

Another Absolute story arc ending! Kelly Thompson and guest artist Dillon Snook finish out the two part “Friends & Neighbors” as Diana works to free her mother from Scylla, and make her way back to Gateway City. Deep within Area 41, Barbara is confronted with a choice. Will she remain as just a compatriot to Wonder Woman, or will she take her place alongside her as a demigod? It’s a choice that will change her life forever.

After his appearance in the first issue of Dark Knights of Steel II, this one-shot gives us the full origin of this Elseworlds’ Aquaman! Written by Tom Taylor with art by Ricardo Federici, this is set before the rise of the House of El. Jonathan and Martha Kent are steadfast soldiers in the Wayne army, and are sent to the port city of Leguin to guard against the rising Tides of Blood. In the aftermath, they find a child orphaned by the underwater civil war, and the Kents vow to protect him and hide him from the violence spreading through both land and sea. But no one can hide from their destiny, and as young Arthur is revealed as the true heir of the seas, the Kents do everything they can to prepare him for the battle for the throne!

SMALL PRESS COMICS

Godzilla invades SDCC in Godzilla Vs San Diego! The biggest thing to happen at ComicCon! This one-shot features three stories and an Artists’ Alley! First, it’s “Chaos At Comic Con” in Stan Sakai’s story of San Diego’s preparations to thwart an attack by the King of Monsters! Then, “Godzilla Goes to Comic Con” and a group of kaiju cosplayers are the only ones that can help, in Greg and Fake’s short. And last, Dan Jurgens and Margeaux Pepoy’s “Toy Time” finds an unknown action figure that may be the Con’s only hope when Godzilla rises! Before you leave, make sure you check out the Artists’ Alley with one-pagers from Nicole Goux, Carla Wyzgala, Dave Baker, Jared Cullum, Gavin Smith & Milena Deneno, Sean Galloway, Patrick Horvath, Travis Mercer, Gabby Ramirez, and Alfredo Cardona.

Can’t get enough of ComicCon? Then grab the Dread the Hall H one-shot, returning again this year! With stories written by Jordan Hart and Chris Ryall, it’s packed with convention related chaos! Hart and artist Marianna Ignazzi present “The Concluder”, a superhero who’s here to make the con-going experience great! No price gouging or theft on her watch, but beware of the dreaded Con Crud! Who needs an exclusive when this “Regular Edition” from Ryall and Charles P. Wilson III is so cool! A forgotten regular edition of a toy takes its revenge on the exclusive obsessed masses! Find out “For Whom the (Conversion) Bell Tolls” in Hart and Luana Vecchio’s story of a new film’s reveal getting crashed by a supervillain with the power to change you into your cosplay! “Live By the Sword, Buy By the Sword” as Ryall and Tom Williams send a couple of friends on a search for the perfect weapon to match their costumes. Plus, a Conland board game! And, fake pastry ads featuring Fret Shredder, the guitarist gifted with the ability to blast baddies with sound waves! And snacks!

Valentine Virago’s body is attacking itself. She’s always sick. Doctors have no idea what is wrong. Tests can’t be run without a concrete condition. Treatments make her sick in a different way. Or they do nothing. Forced to drop out of med school, constantly in the emergency room, this strange disorder has taken her life from her. They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but Valentine would disagree. Until she learns that she can use her immune system as a weapon! On the run, she’s now being tracked down by Dr. Mickelson and a group that wants to take her to Tiemperdido. They say it’s a safe haven, but Val feels differently. Who wants to be trapped in an institution, when your body already feels like a prison? Tini Howard and Amilcar Pinna spread mutant miasma all over this new series!

The dream of the 90s is alive in Robert Kirkman, Joe Casey, and Andy Kubert’s Terminal! A brand-new superhero series inspired by Kirkman’s love of the 1990s X-Men, and billed as the most violent and unpredictable series of the year, kicks off with a bang of body horror, and a bit of a mystery. Marilyn Howe has been searching for her missing sister Alessandra, and may finally have a legit lead. But what happens next puts her in the middle of a secret war between two factions with abilities, who blur the line between good and evil. There are two teams, the Activators and the Awoken, each with their own motives, but these aren’t just “heroes” and “villains”, they each have secrets, and Marilyn is about to find out a big one!