Howdy Comic Fans! The big boss is on vacation again (hasn’t he been everywhere there is to be yet?) So y’all get your favorite friendly neighborhood comic shop employee for this special edition, Carnage-ized, email! Carnage to the Max There are upwards of 200 comic titles that come out new every Wednesday, and this week bodes no difference. Except that the title we at Carol and Johns is most excited about is Absolute Carnage! Cover By Ryan Stegman Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman had been working on this crossover epic conceptually since before the 2018 Venom ongoing series launched. Most of us were first introduced to the hell that carnage was about to unleash on earth with this year’s Free Comic Book Day Spider-Man issue. The first issue of the Absolute Carnage five-issue mini-series drops in the shop this Wednesday but the threads of this story have been bolstered and woven for almost ten years. Cates is a master of connecting stories of his and other great writers from across multiple series and story arcs. There are 13 variant covers...

We had a great Swap Meet with hundreds of people stopping by. I got some great stuff for myself, and I got to take the family shopping around the booths too, which made for a fantastic event. Thanks to all who came out and braved the heat. Thanks to NEO-TACC for making it all possible. We got a little press too! WINSTON MERCH! The big news is we finally got some Winston pub glasses and stickers made! Enjoy a beer and a comic with this spectacular pint glass! Only $11.99. (they say they are dishwasher safe but I doubt it!) There are also three different styles of Winston stickers at $2.00 each! Thanks to Dee Piotrowski for the artwork! MARVEL COMICS This is a great week for Marvel Comics, and it starts with the highly anticipated House of X #1 by Jonathan Hickman!  This book is the start of a multi year plan to reinvent the X-Men franchise before the movies begin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  Hickman will write two books side by side, this book and Powers of...

Sick of hearing about your friends’ plans for San Diego Comicon? Does your stomach curl when you think about all the photos they’ll be posting on their social media when they get there? Well let them have their fun, and we’ll have ours too! It’s time for our Annual NOT-AT-COMICON Sale, culminating on Sunday, July 21st with our second annual Swap Meet in association with NEO-TACC. (The North East Ohio Toy and Collectible Club.) From Thursday, July 18th till Sunday, July 21st, (the same days San Diego is going on) 50% off all back issues! 20% off all statues, actions figures, and pop funs! 10% off everything else in the shop! The really big part is, we pull all the books out of our back room and storage locker and make them available for only $1 each. (or 50 cents each if you buy 100 or more!) It’s about 70,000 books. What’s more, all the Marvel’s and DC’s are in alphabetical order, so bring those lists. The Small Press book are grouped by letter. (So all the “A”‘s are together,...

We’ll have a full email on the NOT-AT-COMICON Sale and Swap Meet coming out this week, but first here’s the featured new releases coming out this Wednesday, July 10th, 2019! Marvel Titles The big book of the week is the oversized Amazing Spider-Man #25, which begins Nick Spencer’s 2nd year as writer on the book. It’s got some Mysterio in there too, for everyone who dug the character in Spider-Man Far From Home.  Lots of variant covers too! $7.99 cover price.  Marvel’s other selections are all over the place, and good summer fare.  Wolverine Vs Blade One Shot.  I was going to write this book off but flipping through it today it’s pretty graphic and a good one off selection.  Wolverine and Captain America Weapon Plus One Shot. This one looks great! Ethan Sacks wrote Old Man Hawkeye, which was fun. Throw in a 1940’s story expanding on Steve and Logan’s history together and you’ve got a winner. There’s also a new Invisible Woman mini-series by Mark Waid, the epilogue to War of the Realms with an Omega issue, another...

It’s a fun little week at the comic shop with some unusual new titles. We’ll also be packing up some of the back issues and heading out to Youngstown for the Youngstown Comic Con this weekend! Another chance to see the amazing Jim Steranko as well as Jason Mewes! I’ll be attending a Steranko dinner a bit like the one we hosted here for FCBD last year. Anyway, here’s the featured New Releases coming out this Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019! “Small” Press Titles Robert Kirkman always said that Walking Dead would end when Rick died so, well, yeah… Walking Dead #193 comes out this week, as well as a reprint of #192 with a new memorial cover. If you’re looking for a couple decent Image Comics to replace Walking Dead with, we’ve got new titles from Mark Millar and Jason Aaron this week! Space Bandits is a five issue mini series from Mark Millar! “Thena Khole and Cody Blue are among the universe’s most wanted felons. Each the leader of their own criminal ops, they run heists across the galaxies-hopping...