Happy April Fool’s Day, Comic Shop Friends! We were going to prank you and say there weren’t any new comics, but we couldn’t because there are some fun books you need to read this week!

But first, the news!

This Friday, the 3rd, at 6pm, we’ll be at the Cleveland Museum of Art for this month’s MIX event, Man of Steel, celebrating Superman! We’ll have a photo booth set up, and we’ll be giving away comics, so come check it out! Link for tickets and more information is here: https://www.clevelandart.org/events/mix-man-steel

We will be closed on Sunday, April 5th for the Easter holiday. Enjoy your day hunting for candy that a giant sentient rabbit left you!

Late Nite Comics is Thursday, April 16th 8pm to 11pm! It may be all new dollar stock this time! More details to come, but you know the drill, tons of dollar books and 50% off back issues!

We’re a month away from Free Comic Book Day! Hooray! Saturday, May 2nd! It’s our favorite day of the year, because we love spreading the comic book love by giving you free comics!

David Michelinie will be here this year for a free signing from 10am to 6pm too! You can get one item signed for free, and any more after that are $10 each, and that will go to Purring Pals, his local cat rescue!

Posters just came in, and you can pick up one free! The price of printing the posters has doubled in the last couple of years, and we want to have them on FCBD, so we are limiting them to one per person. Thanks for understanding!

John will be sending out his first Free Comic Book Day info email this week with more details!

Get your tickets soon for the David Michelinie VIP Q & A and signing on Thursday April 30th! We have less than ten tickets left! Doors are at 6pm, the Q & A starts at 6:30pm, and after, you’ll be able to get five things signed by Michelinie. If you’d like more than five things signed, each extra is $10, and all of that will go to David’s local cat rescue, Purring Pals! You’ll also be able to pick up your twelve FCBD books that night!

MARVEL COMICS

Happy April Pool’s Day! Let’s celebrate with a day of pranks! That’s what Deadpool has planned, but wait? Why is there a loincloth clad muscle man in his kitchen? And a lovely lady concerned about their impending nuptials? And Sgt. Storm’s Ragin’ Raiders are shooting him? There goes a day of tricks and gags, as Deadpool is pulled into a wizard’s plans to invade his universe! The old realms are disappearing, and the only way to save them is to transplant the Westerns, Love Stories, Fantasy, and Martial Arts comics into ours. Will anyone believe Wade Wilson when he warns them of Wally the Wizard’s wily ways? They’d better, or this will be the end of the Marvel Universe as we know it! A perfect read for April Fool’s Day from Gail Simone and artists C.F. Villa, Robert Gill, and Ig Guara.

Daredevil thought he knew everything in Hell’s Kitchen, the sounds, the buildings, the people, but something, someone, new has appeared. An Omen, a masked and hooded figure that portends that “One mask will fall as another is raised.” Hell’s Kitchen is full of secrets, but secrets don’t stay buried forever. Matt Murdock has started a new job teaching a law class at Empire State University, and it’s still business as usual for Daredevil, getting criminals off the streets, but as a new villain emerges with a message for Murdock, things are about to shake up. Is this new villain tied to the new murders, where bodies are left in the open? What is in store for Daredevil? A new, unprecedented era of Daredevil begins here, in Stephanie Phillips and Lee Garbett’s new ongoing series!

Simon Williams has a heck of a history! His ups and downs, his villainy, his heroism, his Hollywood career, he’s done it all, but right now his star isn’t shining too bright. His production deal at Timely studios looks to be something they’re using just to keep him around to take care of problems, and their newest problem involves an old friend. Randolph Chancellor was Simon’s cellmate and introduction to acting, but they aren’t currently on the best of terms. When the studio asks Simon to look into Randolph’s problem, a problem involving 13 million missing dollars, they’re going to have to work together once again. Gerry Duggan and Mark Buckingham do a great job of presenting the current Wonder Man in a new adventure, while referencing all the strange happenings from his past. He’s got a lot of history, and some of it is coming back, like Patsy Walker, Killerwatt, and his former agents. Like the song says, “Send lawyers, guns, and money— the #$%&’s hit the fan!”

Also, are you all excited that we’re going to get a second season of the Wonder Man tv show? I thought it was wonderful, no pun intended, and would love to see more of that Simon and Trevor friendship.

Lost memories are resurfacing, and Carol Danvers is trying to figure out where they fit in. Are they past, present, or future? Is her seventh sense returning? When the Wrecking Crew attack with new Kree enhancements, Captain Marvel is concerned that they know more about her past than they should. A scrap left at the scene with DNVR on it brings back more memories. It may be a part of an investigation she was forced to drop when she was a journalist, and it may be tied to her family’s history, especially a partially-remembered fight with her father. She’s faced with her toughest battle yet, digging into a dark part of the Danvers family history. What is Captain Marvel’s dark past? Written by Paul Jenkins, with art by Lucas Werneck.

DC COMICS

Kevin Smith presents the not-so-secret origin of Bizarro! Along with co-writer Eric Carrasco and artist Nick Pitarra, Smith sends Jimmy Olsen and Perry White to a bizarre dimension. Dr. David Dalton has been doing duplication experiments, sending items through a portal, and having them return with a duplicate. But one thing never returned. A copy of the Daily Planet found its way across space to someone who has been inspired by the news stories. As Dalton fires up another portal, Jimmy and Perry are pulled through, land on a strange planet, and find themselves in another Metropolis! Greeted by Bizarro, they’re given all the exposition they need to get up to speed on how this world came to be, but is this “Superman” really a super man? Or a super fan? Or something else?! Will Perry and Jimmy be trapped in this weird, mixed-up version of Metropolis? And what does Bizarro really want with them? Find out in this six-issue mini-series!

A MAD mockery of the DC Universe! From the “Usual gang of comic book creators who needed the extra money”! Get it just for Absolute Condiment King! Edited by Chip Zdarsky, this one-shot is packed full of parodies of all your favorite DC characters, and all your not-so- favorites! Remember, humor is subjective, so no refunds! Forty-one, yes forty-one, shorts from creators like Skottie Young, Tini Howard, Mark Waid, Dave Johnson, Gerry Duggan, Tony Moore, Rainbow Rowell, Stephen Byrne, Kyle Starks, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Gail Simone, Scott Snyder, Riley Rossmo, Sergio Aragone, Ryan North, Mitch Gerads, Tom Taylor, Charles Soule, and many, so many more! And ChiZdarsky! Don’t forget Chip! He’s got his little Chippy paws all over this book! If you like MAD magazine, you’ll like this. If you like comics, you’ll like this. If you hate comics, you’ll like this! If you hate this, don’t blame me, blame Chip Zdarsky! But really, it’s the funnest and funniest book you’ll read this week, so treat yourself to the best April Fool’s Day goof and grab it!

SMALL PRESS COMICS

Paul and Castor Wahng are twin brothers with a unique ability, a telepathic connection. After Castor’s MMA career ends, the brothers decide to use their connection to craft the perfect poker hustle. They’re winning tournaments, and the next one is the 12th Annual Easter Week Poker Tournament at Thunder Cove Casino in Seoul, South Korea. Castor is confident, and has no worries about their methods and success. Paul is feeling distant from his brother, worried about losing the last of their money, and concerned that their scams will catch up with them. Their luck may be running out, because one of the tournament’s players is Daeshim Kang, the leader of a ruthless criminal syndicate in Seoul, the Bloody Cocks. If Castor wins, the brothers just may end up losing everything, because you do not want to cross Daeshim Kang. Writer Derek Kirk Kim and artist Jacob Perez invite you into the casinos and back alleys of Seoul in this comedy crime caper!

Want to learn all the details about your favorite Ghost Machine characters? Now you can with the Ghost Machine Official Guidebook! Five issues focusing on each area of the universe: The Unnamed, The Unbelievables, Rook Exodus, and Hyde Street. This first issue goes from Albert Einstein to High Plains Zoo, with a page or two with all the information on each character, updated from what was in the back of the series issues, with some all-new entries teasing the stories to come! You get stats, history, and abilities for characters like Barney, Geiger’s faithful two-headed companion, Benedict Arnold, and George Washington. Plus, the “first” first appearances for the Committee on Spectral Affairs, set to appear in First Ghost #1, and the Department of Historical Preservation, which we’ll see in Geiger #22!

Ignition has a new prequel story to the Netflix Extraction films! Ande Parks, the original writer of the Ciudad comic the movies are based on, returns to tell a tale of an early adventure of Tyler Rake, with artist Ronan Cliquet. Rake thought he was starting over. Leaving his mercenary days behind him, he’s now working as a bouncer in a popular Sao Paolo nightclub. He’s a man without a family, without a country, and has basically vanished. Now a “talent consultant” has tracked him down with a job offer. Tyler just wants to live his new life in hiding, but after a confrontation with a drug dealer in the club goes wrong, he may have no other choice than to return to the merc life he left behind. Ignition has also announced a reprint of the original comic as a graphic novel, retitled Extraction, and in color for the first time! Out this month!