{"id":10050,"date":"2024-12-04T10:34:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T15:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/?p=10050"},"modified":"2024-12-04T10:34:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T15:34:27","slug":"andreas-merry-picks-for-12-04-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/2024\/12\/andreas-merry-picks-for-12-04-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea’s Merry Picks for 12.04.2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to December, Comic Shop Friends! As we enter the last month of the year, it\u2019s time to give you all a reminder to come in and clear out your files. It helps us clear out stock and get any unwanted\/closed file books out for seasonal shopping. It\u2019s also a good time to update your pull lists, so we can go into the new year fresh and get you all the awesome titles you\u2019d like!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, there have been delays with some shipments due to Diamond consolidating warehouses and the holiday affecting all of the distributors we use, so we are waiting on updates on some new small press titles and reorders. Thanks for your patience with this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will be skipping Late Nite Comics for the month of December because it would fall during the week of the Art Show, and we\u2019re gearing up for the Holiday Party.<\/p>\n\n\n

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We are still asking for submissions for our Holiday Art Show! The theme is a homage to a classic comic book cover, and you can interpret that however you\u2019d like. We have some great ones in already, and we gathered some new, excited participants at Genghis Con last Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art is due back to the shop by 5pm, shop close, on Sunday December 15th, and we\u2019ll display the art in the foyer that week leading up to our Holiday Party on the 21st.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As usual, we\u2019ll be doing the basket raffle to drum up dollars for the Cleveland Food Bank. Once the covers are displayed, you can purchase raffle tickets and place them in the corresponding bags of the covers you\u2019d like to win. We\u2019ll draw the winners at the Holiday Party on Saturday the 21st.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Saturday the 21st is our annual Holiday Party! It\u2019s 8pm to 11pm, you can take 50% off one item during the party, so treat yo elf! We\u2019ll have refreshments and we brewed beer just for the event! We\u2019ll be drawing the Art Show raffle winners around 10:30pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our goal is to beat last year\u2019s record of covers submitted, and of dollar amount raised for the Cleveland Food Bank. We\u2019re pretty sure we\u2019ve beat the prior year\u2019s total every year, and we can\u2019t do it again without your help. Thanks to the few people who just handed us cash at Genghis Con to add to our donation! Every single dollar raised goes directly to the Food Bank, and they\u2019re able to turn one dollar into three meals, which is a superpower in itself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onto a Christmas cheer-filled new release week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MARVEL COMICS<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Who is the All-New Venom? Dylan and Eddie Brock fought for control over Venom, but neither wound up with the symbiote, who went off somewhere unknown to the Brocks. The Venom War has left New York fearful of all things symbiote, so when the All-New Venom shows up at Madame Masque\u2019s trial, everyone\u2019s wary. Who is the all-new host? Is it the Terrorist, Madame Masque? The Mayor, Luke Cage? The Journalist, Robbie Robertson? Or the Sidekick, Rick Jones? All the clues are laid out in Al Ewing and Carlos Gomez\u2019s new series, can you figure out who it is before A.I.M. does?<\/p>\n\n\n

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It\u2019s a Merry Marvel Holiday! Featuring the Fantastic Four in \u201c\u2019Twas the Fight Before Christmas\u201d by Gerry Duggan and Phil Noto. The Fantastic Four\u2019s party is put on hold because Doom is stealing Christmas gifts! What is Doom doing with this year\u2019s hot toy? Kitty Pryde is celebrating her first Hanukkah with the Uncanny X-Men! She\u2019s running out of time to get them all gifts, with every night being full of Sentinels, Arcade, Doom, the Brood, the Hellfire Club, and some time spent in the Savage Land in a \u201cFestival of Fights\u201d! Written by Daniel Kibblesmith, with art by Pat Olliffe. Miles Morales is setting his New Year\u2019s \u201cResolutions\u201d, in Gene Luen Yang and Dylan Burnett\u2019s story. But his plans for New Year\u2019s Eve don\u2019t go as planned, when Hydro-Man and Spider-Man crash the party!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg\u2026 in DC\u2019s holiday anthology with eight new short stories! John Stewart learns \u201cSanta\u2019s Oath\u201d in Dorado Quick and M.L. Sanapo\u2019s story. Who in the Secret Six is Bane\u2019s \u201cSecret Santa\u201d? Find out in this tale from Drew Maxey and Marianna Ignazzi. John Constantine deals with the \u201cGhosts of Christmas Present\u201d from Ricardo Sanchez and Aaron Conley. The Joker learns what Gotham City would be like without him in \u201cIt\u2019s a Criminal Life\u201d written by Alexis Quasarano, with art by Marcial Toledano Vargas. There\u2019s a \u201cDeadman Walking\u201d in Marv Wolfman and Paul Pelletier\u2019s story about a Christmas Eve mine collapse. Dr. Mid-Nite has a \u201cSilent Nite\u201d by James Reid and Francesco Francavilla. Vixen is searching for \u201cThe Perfect Gift\u201d for Ben, from Zipporah Smith and Andrew Brilon. Finally, warm your heart, and your face, with Superman in \u201cO Glowy Night\u201d, written by Calvin Kasulke, with art by Anthony Marques. There\u2019s something for every DC fan in this special one-shot!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Who better to prove a criminal\u2019s innocence than someone who\u2019s been on both sides of the law? Harvey\u2019s halves have reached an uneasy peace, and now he\u2019s a member of the White Church. An underground organization of criminals that try their own under their own laws and court, the White Church and Dent are resolving the conflicts to keep things in check. Starting with Zsasz being accused of murdering a member of the Falcone organization. Is he innocent? If so, can Harvey prove his innocence? Will a flip of the coin decide? And a young drug runner in attendance may be a catalyst to break the peace between Two-Face\u2019s two halves.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And there\u2019s Absolute Superman issue #2! This is a great introduction to the Absolute Lois Lane, with more details of Kal-El\u2019s past. We will have second prints of issue #1 in soon, but the #1 Noir Edition is out this week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image\u2019s holiday horror one-shot has a collection of tales in the tradition of fireside ghost stories told on Christmas Eve. Four chilling shorts written by Jordan Hart and Chris Ryall, perfect to stuff your stocking with fear! First, the \u201cDead Notes\u201d of carolers mark those that hear it for death. With art by Fabio Veras. Second, two naughty boys have \u201cGone Fishin\u2019\u201d for Santa Claus, but what they catch isn\u2019t so nice. With art by Lee Ferguson. Third, in \u201cNortherners\u201d, a snowmobile accident puts Shane Lima in the path of something that\u2019s looking for a winter snack. Art by Walter Pax. Fourth, two village children become \u201cKrampus Slayers\u201d to save one\u2019s brother. Art by Jimmy Kucaj.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This new mini-series from writers Mikey Way and Jonathan Rivera, and artist Piotr Kowalski, is the most bizarre holiday comic yet. It\u2019s been a challenging year for Peter Rockwell, with a family loss, dealing with crappy middle management at work, and a teen daughter who is pulling away. But a visit to Santa Claus at the mall with the youngest kids leaves Peter with an idea. What if Christmas was every day? He\u2019s going to make this Christmas the best yet, and spread that feeling into all of the next year. What could go wrong with that?<\/p>\n\n\n

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The best $16.99 you can spend in the shop this week! The collection of one of our favorite new mini-series, Ain\u2019t No Grave, from Skottie Young and Jorge Corona is out! A Western fantasy tale of love and loss, bargaining and bullets, as Ryder sets out to kill Death in order to have more time and life with her family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to December, Comic Shop Friends! As we enter the last month of the year, it\u2019s time to give you all a reminder to come in and clear out your files. It helps us clear out stock and get any unwanted\/closed file books out for seasonal shopping. It\u2019s also a good time to update your pull lists, so we can go into the new year fresh and get you all the awesome titles you\u2019d like! Again, there have been delays with some shipments due to Diamond consolidating warehouses and the holiday affecting all of the distributors we use, so we are waiting on updates on some new small press titles and reorders. Thanks for your patience with this! We will be skipping Late Nite Comics for the month of December because it would fall during the week of the Art Show, and we\u2019re gearing up for the Holiday Party. We are still asking for submissions for our Holiday Art Show! The theme is a homage to a classic comic book cover, and you can interpret that however you\u2019d like. We...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,154,6,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","category-event","category-events","category-feature","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}