Andrea’s Friendly Neighborhood Picks for 11.04.2026!
It’s November Comic Shop Friends! And it’s over 70 degrees out while I write this! What the heck?!
November’s Late Nite Comics will be Thursday the 19th! 8pm to 11pm! Dollar stock and 50% off back issues!
We will be closed on Thursday the 26th for Thanksgiving!
That means we’re heading into the holiday season, and that means it’s time for our Annual Holiday Art Show!
This year’s theme is “The Villainy of Doom”! The theme is open to your interpretation, but we’d love to see what you can do with Doom in Cleveland, since last year’s Cleveland themed submissions were such a success! Doctor Doom versus Tim Misny? Sure! Doom playing for the Browns? Why not! We are giving out blank covers starting now, and covers are due back before 5pm on Sunday December 13th.
The Holiday Party will be Saturday the 19th, where we’ll raffle off the covers to benefit the Greater Cleveland Food Bank. More details to come!
Our Black Friday sale will be Friday the 27th through Sunday the 29th! And Saturday is also Small Business Saturday, so shop small and shop local! More sale details coming soon!
MARVEL COMICS
The Avengers are assembling once more! I hope you’ve been reading Captain America and Avengers: Armageddon, because this leads directly out of those stories. The United Nations has passed the Superpowers Resolution, banning the use of superpowers, but the U.S. was one of the few countries to abstain. The Avengers disbanded. Captain Marvel has lost 90% of her powers. Iron Man has left town. David Colton has new powers he doesn’t understand. Bucky has died. Spider-Man’s spider sense is a steady underlying hum. Something is wrong, and he’s not the only one who feels it. A new threat has come to New York, and it’s time for a new group of Earth’s mightiest heroes to assemble! Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto put together a team with Spider-Man, Luke Cage, Daredevil, Captain Marvel, Wolverine, and Colton, to go up against a hell of a threat!
She may not have Venom any more, but Mary Jane isn’t done with symbiotes just yet! She can say she’s done with the hero business, but when Stilt-Man shows up, she and her symbiote sidekick Fang jump right back in. If someone needs help, she’s going to help them, but her new producing career is taking priority. When her investor ghosts her, Mary Jane turns to another funding source, but what happened to Davis Prescott? Will Mary Jane’s Off-Broadway play make it to the stage? Or will she have to put her production on pause to deal with Davis’s disappearance? Find out as an all-new chapter starts for MJ in Ashley Allen and Phil Noto’s Friendly Neighborhood Mary Jane!
Spider-Woman’s 50th anniversary continues with an all-new series! Dan Watters and Andrea Broccardo bring an old foe back from the dead, as Jessica Drew is pulled into a mystery involving every criminal organization in the city! Has the Hangman returned? And if so, who is he working for? Drew thinks it’s Tombstone, and her visit to him reveals that she may not be as in control of Carnage’s influence as she believes. It’s bloody and brutal, and it’s leading to what may be Spider-Woman’s darkest adventure yet. Especially when someone comes calling for Carnage…
DC COMICS
Absolute Superman hits issue #25! Take “A Walk in the Mind of a Madman” as Jason Aaron, with artists Juan Ferreyra, Carmine Di Giandomenico, and Rafa Sandoval, wrap up the Get Brainiac storyline, and set the stage for what’s to come! We’re treated to some lovely moments with Kal-El’s parents on Krypton, and some brutal moments of the final confrontation between Superman and Brainiac on Earth. As a seemingly never-ending barrage of Brainiac clones rain down destruction, the only chance Superman has is to accept Brainiac’s invitation to enter his mind. Meanwhile, Lois Lane visits Lex Luthor, offering to help him find who killed his family, but she finds a broken man. Does Lex know more than he’s letting on? After everything that Brainiac has thrown at Superman, will Kal finally be able to best him?
Following Batman: Bad Seeds and Gotham Central, comes Gangs of Gotham! Anarky has been given an ultimatum by Torus. Unite the low-level street gangs into the eighth ring, or die! Dumped into the East End, Lonnie Machin has two weeks to survive the nastiest and most uncontrollable street-level criminals. How is Anarky going to survive Magpie and the Mud Daubers, Eyes, and the Street Demons, when he gets mugged by a pencil-neck first thing? But he’s not the only one infiltrating the gangs. Time will tell if the infiltrator is friend or foe to Anarky, and time will tell if Anarky will be able to take down Torus from the inside, or if he’ll die trying.
SMALL PRESS COMICS
From writer Patrick Horvath, the creator of Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, and artist Tyler Crook comes Archie in Hell! Continuing the bloodstained tradition of Afterlife With Archie, this is a brand-new ongoing Archie horror series! All-around good guy Archie Andrews thinks he’s doing a good deed by collecting for a food drive for “Reach Out Riverdale.” Everyone else thinks the texts that group sent out were spam, but good ol Archie didn’t delete them. He should have… Sabrina learns of an old and powerful sect polluting the energy of Greendale and Riverdale who need a virtuous teenager for a sacrifice. Oh, Archie, you should have been a little more like Reggie, and now it’s too late. Death has come to your little town. Now the only way to save him, is to damn him! Welcome to Hell, Archiekins! Spooky season is never truly over, and we get a great horror read to hold us over until next October!
Following directly from the first Exquisite Corpses series, writer Pornsak Pichetshote and artist Alberto Ponticelli follow survivors Laura, Xavi, and Jason as they try to carve out a normal life two years after living through a night of terror. They want to use the blood stained winnings to help others, they want to forget the 13 Families, they want to be forgotten and left to live their lives, but the Lone Gunman won’t let them. Haunted by the experience, Laura and the boys see reminders everywhere on Halloween. But this year the legacy of the golden mask is coming back with a vengeance! The Lone Gunman has a history, and Laura is about to come face-to-face with it, as their lives are put in danger once again. Who is this new Gunman? Why are they coming after Jason, Xavi, and Laura now? This isn’t just an origin story like the Fox Mask Killer and Rascal Randy minis are set up to be, this is digging into the trauma and repercussions of living through a horrible event, and about trying to make something good out of a terrible experience.
Archimedes Anderson has just started his new job as the Chief Coordinator of R&D in the “Mad Science Division” of Miyashi-Smith. He’s young, he’s inexperienced, and he’s only been hired because his father is a higher up in the company. Told to slash programs and keep the budget in check, he buries himself in files, and as the “cut” pile grows he comes across a file for supercocaine. That one’s a keeper, but most of the current projects are not. Including the one that follows him home one night. Archimedes quickly learns he has no idea what is actually going on in the Bioengineering department, section one. Or section two: Nonlethal Bioweaponry, or section three: Cybernetics and Neural Engineering, or section four: Lethal Bioweaponry, and especially not section five: Classified. Destroying projects, removing protections for employees and the public, and disrupting the delicate equilibrium within the department is not going to end well for Mr. Anderson, or for anyone. What other weird science horrors will be revealed in Dan Watters and Brian Level’s new series? I can’t wait to find out!
