Hi Comic Shop Friends! I hope you’re staying cool, and staying inside reading comics. This heat is making it hard to be motivated, so this will be a short newsletter.

First, just announced! We’ll be hosting one of Genghis Con’s Drawing Club nights! August 21ST from 7 to 10pm, during Late Nite Comics!

Details from their post: “Presenting the first ever Genghis Con Drawing Club! Dig out your art supplies and brush off that sketchbook, we are meeting up this summer to draw and count down the days til Genghis Con!!

• Free and open to the public!
• Participants must be 18 or older.
• Bring supplies. we will have a few things you can borrow but it’s best if you bring your own.
• Bring Snacks! No alcohol is permitted unless otherwise stated.

Dates so far:

• July 2nd, 6pm – 9pm | Superscript Comics and Games
• July 30th 6pm – 9pm | Lakewood Art Supply
• August 21st 7pm – 10pm | Carol & John’s Comic Shop
• September TBA
• October TBA”

Come out in August for some drawing and dollar diving!

MARVEL COMICS

Collecting X-Men: From the Ashes #7 – 12 in print for the first time, X-Men: Demons and Death follows Havok and Omega Red’s journeys from Krakoa into the X-Factor and Sentinels series. In “Don’t Sound Like No Sonnet”, Havok is barely alive, held together by demon skin grafts from the Goblin Queen. To end his suffering, demon K’yrb takes Alex to Limbo to undo the botched necromancy affecting him. But Madelyne has a secret she’s keeping from Havok, and if he learns the truth, it will change his life. In the second part, “Samosud”, Omega Red returns home for the first time in decades. Searching for his childhood friend Nastya, he learns she died in a fire, but the truth of her death is even darker. Will he be able to keep the hunger in check, or will the old Omega Red return to avenge her death? Written by Alex Paknadel, with art by Phillip Sevy.

The third of the new Giant-Size X-Men one-shots featuring Kamala Khan, finds her once again pulled into a new timeline alongside Legion. This time, it’s into the dark future of the Age of Apocalypse. “What could be worse than this?” Turns out they’ve arrived with just hours before the inevitable end. Their only chance at getting out of this wasteland is to find the remaining X-Men and stop Apocalypse, or die trying. Can Legion be trusted? With his power drained by Phoenix in the last one-shot, his motives for destroying Apocalypse’s crystal aren’t the same as Ms. Marvel’s. With Rogue guiding Kamala to harness her full mutant power, the X-Men just may have a chance at ending this version of the Age of Apocalypse. Written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, with C.F. Villa and Rafael Loureiro on art.

DC COMICS

Researched by Mark Waid and Dave Wielogosz, written by Mark Waid, with art by Jerry Ordway and Todd Nauck, the New History of the DC Universe is exactly what it says, a chronological history starting with the Source and the celestial beings who shaped the Dawn of Time. To celebrate 90 years of DC comics, this four-issue mini-series is presented as Barry Allen documenting the DCU as someone who has seen more of the Multiverse, past, present, and future, than anyone else. With history being malleable, “with subtle differences by multiple narrators”, Barry is creating the most structured document available. Want to know when these events happened in the comics? Then check out the second half of the issue with a definitive timeline of the major events and crucial players, with the exact titles and issue numbers!

“It’s this heat. 103 in the shade for ten straight days.” The White Martian is causing a white-hot heat in Middleton, and tempers are boiling over. Every minor conflict is exacerbated, and the city is on the cusp of chaos. At home, John’s wife is at her breaking point, feeling pushed aside for his job. She doesn’t even know who she’s looking at anymore. If John can’t even cool things down at home, how can he and the Martian cool down the violence that’s simmering and steaming in everyone? Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez do an excellent job of putting the feeling of a scorching summer on the page, especially with the temperatures we’re dealing with now.

Learning from Doctor Poison that there may be another Amazon, Diana makes her way into what is most likely a trap. Deep underground beneath the mysterious Area 41 is an ancient maze. Some have been trapped there since it was discovered by the government. Some have been sent there by those working at the secret location. If there is a chance to find even one of her lost sisters, there is nothing Diana will not try, nowhere she would not go. What fate lies within the maze? Is there any escape?

SMALL PRESS COMICS

In a future where most jobs have become obsolete, the Purpose Project has been started. Imagine what you would do if you were given a Universal Basic Income, if you were given free healthcare and benefits, and did not have to work to survive. What would you do? What would your purpose be? 21-year-old Kenzie is living with no direction when she’s called to fulfill her time with the public service program. Gerald is a soon to be retired lifelong government employee partnered with the new young intern. Their differences make them unlikely teammates, but they still have cases to complete: people who have yet to discover their purpose after losing traditional employment, and need help adjusting to their new lives. Part of AWA and Futurific’s Protopias Collection, this one-shot from writer Danny Hogan and artist Felipe Cunha is a take on a future that isn’t dystopian. How great would it be to do whatever work or play you enjoy, without any worry of money? What a protopia.

Nevada, 1962. A nuclear bomb test has been tampered with by General McCoy. The only one questioning his orders is Otis Fallows, a private in the Army, and his hesitance to comply is the only thing that saves his life. The only known survivor of the blast, Fallows is on the run. Something in the test has turned the other soldiers rotten and wrong, and they’re close behind. Can Fallows find a safe haven? Will any exist after the fallout? Chris Condon and Jeffrey Alan Love present a dark sci-fi/horror mini-series about corruption and survival.