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New Releases for 11-8-2017

New Releases for 11-8-2017

We’ve got some announcements about upcoming events, as well as some new releases for both DC Metal and Marvel Legacy. Here’s the featured new releases coming out this Wednesday, November 8th, 2017. DC COMICS Batman Lost one shot throws Batman himself into the Dark Dimension to confront his greatest fears. As this one shot is written in part by Scott Snyder we’ll be putting it in everyone’s file who gets Dark Nights Metal. Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #32 is a Metal tie in and part of the “Bats Our of Hell” storyline. Expect to get a glimpse of the Batman Who Laughs! MARVEL COMICS Some featured Marvel Legacy books this week include: Moon Knight #188 is written by Max Bemis, who has produced some pretty interesting work like Polarity, Foolkiller and Worst X-Man Ever. Plus Moon Knight is a regional favorite and always does pretty well at the shop. After all his hard work in Secret Empire, the Kingpin will make his bid for mayor in Daredevil #595 with “Mayor Fisk” part one. A big part of...

Captain America and Featured New Releases for 11-1-2017

Captain America and Featured New Releases for 11-1-2017

Another Halloween ComicFest is in the bag, and we had a very successful turnout yet again. Thanks to all who dressed up and came out. Here’s a link to the gallery that we put together and it’s pretty awesome. Thanks again to Heather Linn for the great photo set! ComicFest 2017 From us to you, sincerely, thanks. Now to get back into the swing of things! THE LOWDOWN First up is the Marvel Legacy book that everyone has been waiting for, Mark Waid and Chris Samnee’s Captain America! Waid and Samnee had a very successful run together on Daredevil, and now they’re reuniting to bring Integrity back to the mantle of Captain America. I’ve read this book in it’s entirety and I’ve giving it an A plus as a big Captain America fan. You need no previous knowledge of what’s going on in Steve Rogers life, he’s just on his own after the events of Secret Empire and roaming the country side on his motorcycle. Nuff’ said there. Other new Marvel Legacy starter titles this week include Guardians of the...

Halloween Comic Fest 2017 at CNJComics on 10-28-2017

Halloween Comic Fest 2017 at CNJComics on 10-28-2017

Break out your costume, it’s time for our 6th annual Halloween Comicfest on Saturday, October 28th from 10am to 7pm! Halloween Comicsfest features FREE comics FREE candy and FREE photography services! HALLOWEEN COMICFEST The day is essentially a miniature Free Comic Book Day, with many publishers creating special books exclusive to the day to be given away for free! This year is a nice representation of many different genres so everyone should walk away pretty content. This year there are 18 full size comics and 12 mini comics, and people stopping by in costume are welcome to take one of every book they are interested in! (So yes, you may take all 30 books if you are so inclined.) We also allow customers not in costume to pick out five books for themselves. What constitutes a costume? Our typical answer is, “If you have to ask us if you’re wearing a costume you probably aren’t.” However, we are committed to making everyone happy that day and we’ll work with you on that one. 😉 Here’s are some of the full size highlights: Batman Night of the Monster...

TMNT Day, Facebook and Halloween ComicFest at CNJComics

TMNT Day, Facebook and Halloween ComicFest at CNJComics

Wednesday October 25th is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Day, this Saturday the 28th is Halloween ComicFest, and we’ve got Facebook sending out a photographer to document a new comic book day! Here’s the featured new releases coming out this Wednesday, October 25th, 2017. As some of you may know, we had the honor of being chosen to be a part of Facebook’s Small Business Council, an honor that only 40 businesses out of 70 million on Facebook have received! Well this Wednesday we’re asking for your help to be extra awesome, as Facebook is sending out a photographer to document us and a new comic book day at the shop. They’ll be setting up shop between noon and 5pm, and If you stop in during that time period expect to sign a release form on your way out if you don’t mind being in some of the photo’s. This is a huge opportunity for us so please think about scheduling your visit to the shop during this time period. Make sure your demographic is represented in our shop during this time period. (Whatever that may be,...

New Releases for 10-11-2017 at CNJComics

New Releases for 10-11-2017 at CNJComics

Here’s the featured new releases coming out this Wednesday, October 11th, 2017! FEATURED RELEASES DC COMICS First up is a deluxe hardcover from DC Comics collecting the entire four part “The Button” series that ran in Batman and Flash and will act as a prelude to this November’s ‘Doomsday Clock’, which will finally see the merger between the DC Universe and the world of the Watchman! You can read a preview of Doomsday Clock here: http://ew.com/books/2017/10/06/dc-comics-watchmen-doomsday-clock/ Get ready for the ending of this preview! !!!! I don’t care if you’re an Alan Moore loyalist or not, this is some pretty exciting stuff.  Doomsday Clock by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank comes out on November 22nd, but you can get The Button hardcover now for only $19.99. (Batman meets his Flashpoint dad bra.) Speaking of dad’s, it’s been a month so we can reveal what all the fuss is over in Action Comics. Jor-El is alive and well and kind of a dick. Part three of the four part ‘OZ Effect’ comes out this week in Action Comics #989. DC even threw a lenticular cover...

Marvel Legacy and Dark Days Metal at CNJComics 10-4-2017

Marvel Legacy and Dark Days Metal at CNJComics 10-4-2017

It’s one of those really terrific weeks at the comic shop, with loads of new product hitting the shelves. Here’s the featured new releases for Wednesday, October 4th, 2017. MARVEL LEGACY This is the first week for the new Marvel Legacy titles. Each book is a new starting point with some component that pulls in some of Marvel’s rich history. Each issue also features three extra primer pages to give you a quick recap of the character or team featured in the book. Marvel has returned to ‘Legacy Numbering’, and where appropriate, has given a numbering guide to show you how they got to where they are today. Here’s a few examples of this week’s stand out Legacy titles: Avengers #672 : Written by Mark Waid and springing out of the Generations One Shots, it’s the Avengers verse the Champions! And here’s how they came up with issue #672. Iron Fist #73: Featuring Sabertooth, who made his first appearance in the title way back in issue #14 in 1977. Venom #155: Featuring the return of classic Venom artist Mark Bagley...