Andrea’s Giant Monster Picks for 04.12.2023
Hey Comic Shop Friends! John sent out the email with Free Comic Book Day details, which are also on our website, www.cnjcomics.com, so everything you need to know will be there! Mark your calendars for Saturday, May 6th, from 10 am to 7 pm!
Here’s our poster for this year! We don’t have them in store yet, but they will be free with a purchase once we get them!
And coming up on Thursday the 20th is our next Late Nite Comics with special guest Chad Bilyeu! He’s the creator of Chad in Amsterdam and The Re-Up, and he’ll have a table set up during Late Nite selling his books. We’ll also have 40 long boxes of dollar stock out and 50% off back issues!
MARVEL COMICS
Ewoks! The Ewoks gather around the fire to tell three silent stories to their younglings, tales of friendship, horror, and triumph on the moon of Endor, from writer Alyssa Wong and artists Lee Garbett and Java Tartaglia, Paulina Ganucheau, Kyle Hotz and Rachelle Rosenberg, and Caspar Wijngaard.
What new spiders will show up in Marvel’s Voices: Spider-Verse? What familiar faces will appear? Seven stories from across the Marvel Multiverses, written by Vita Ayala, Steve Fox, Jeremy Holt, J. Holtham, Cody Ziglar, Cheryl Lynn Eaton, and Saint Bodhi, with art by Alberto Alburquerque, Luciano Vecchio, Eric Koda, Ken Lashley, Jahnoy Lindsay, Julian Shaw, and Chriscross.
It’s a space western, heavy on the western, in the new Guardians of the Galaxy series from writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and artist Kev Walker. The Guardians now travel to a lawless corner of the galaxy, trying to outrun a tragedy from their recent past, but what happened? And how many lives can they save before it catches up with them? We all thought this issue was great, and ordered a bunch more, so check it out! Just in time for the new movie!
DC COMICS
The follow-up to Nightmare Country, The Glass House from James Tynion IV and Lisandro Estherren, turns The Corinthian loose in Silicon Valley in his pursuit of the Smiling Man. His lead is Max, a hedge fund manager who doesn’t quite fit in, and who sees the Smiling Man. How do his boss, Ken, and the company’s employee visits to a demonic nightclub tie into The Corinthian and the Smiling Man?
DC presents the origin of Bane in this facsimile of Vengeance of Bane! Written by Chuck Dixon with art by Graham Nolan, it’s a tragic story of a child sentenced from birth to serve life imprisonment due to the crimes of his father, who, fueled by a lifetime of violence and a desire to conquer, escapes prison and decides to take over Gotham!
SMALL PRESS
A supernaturally apocalyptic tale of the seasons. In this world, the seasons bring change and also destruction, as each one is a kaiju-like creature. A retired photographer, continuing on after a tragedy, risks everything to track down and photograph each season. Written by Dan Watters with art by Sebastian Cabrol, each issue focuses on one season, starting with Spring.
Shauna’s goal in entering a baking competition is to delight the judges, charm the nation, and make some friends. But when a fellow contestant is poisoned, she volunteers to find the killer to keep the show going in this murder mystery from writer John Allison and artist Max Sarin.
If you ever wanted to know what giant monster poop looks like, this book is for you! Gerry Duggan and Scott Koblish bring us a book with everything you never see in the kaiju movies, a giant horny creature terrorizing San Francisco.


















