{"id":10142,"date":"2025-01-08T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/?p=10142"},"modified":"2025-01-08T10:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:15:14","slug":"andreas-kingdom-of-picks-for-01-05-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/2025\/01\/andreas-kingdom-of-picks-for-01-05-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea’s Kingdom of Picks for 01.05.2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hello Comic Shop Friends!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have one event coming up in January, and it is a big one!<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Late Nite Comics Purge will commence at 8pm on Thursday January 16th. All crime will be legal for \u2013 oh wait, that\u2019s not right\u2026 All back issues will be 50% off for four hours. We will be dragging out as many dollar stock boxes from the storage unit as we possibly can and from 8pm to midnight you can participate in the 2025 Purge! Fill a long box of dollar stock for only $75! We\u2019re using 300 comics as the definition, so books must be bought in increments of 300 to get that Purge savings! This is absolutely a once-a-year event, so make sure you come out! Get ready to dollar dive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MARVEL COMICS<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Time for another Disney What If! What if the classic Disney characters were Marvel\u2019s first family? Mickey Fantastic! Minnie Invisible! Donald Thing! Goofy Torch! After being hit with cosmic rays on an amusement park ride, the four friends become the Fantastic Four, and they\u2019ll need those incredible powers if they\u2019re to defeat Mole Pete and stop him from destroying Duckberg. Another fun all-ages entry into the Disney\/Marvel titles, written by Steve Behling and Riccardo Secchi, with art by Lorenzo Pastrovicchio.<\/p>\n\n\n

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It\u2019s What If week! The second of the Galactus Transformed one-shots! At Gambit\u2019s lowest point, Galactus gifts him with the Power Cosmic and names Gambit as his herald. Gambit\u2019s not about to let Galactus tell him what to do, because he finally has the power to enact his vengeance against those that wronged him. Galactus is not about to let Gambit do anything, except for what he wants. And what Galactus wants is a planet. Specifically, a planet the Collector has, and now Gambit is forced to steal it! It\u2019s a cosmic heist from writer Josh Trujillo and artist Manual Garcia.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Something has awakened beneath the Alaskan ice. Something ancient. Something that is taking mutants. Something that will have to deal with Magik. Ilyanna is plagued by nightmares, haunted by Darkchild and her time in Limbo. Wanting to protect her X-Men teammates, she strikes out on her own to find out what\u2019s behind the disappearances, and quickly learns someone has sent demons to abduct mutants, and intends to use them to release Liminal. Writer Ashley Allen and artist German Peralta send Magik on a globe-trotting, demon hunting adventure with new allies and a mysterious evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In between his duties as the King of Atlantis, Arthur Curry is learning to use his new hydrokinesis powers, and things seem to be settling back to normal in the wake of Absolute Power. Until Jackson Hyde finds a strange pearl that seems magical, and water-construct kaiju start to emerge on Earth\u2019s shores. Desperate to end the tedium of endless meetings and trivial complaints that fill his days as King, Aquaman rushes to defend the land from these massive monsters. But who is behind their creation? Is it all a distraction to pull him away from Atlantis? This is not the story of Arthur Curry as a boy, a hero, a lover, or even a king. This is the story of Arthur Curry as a God Killer! Writer Jeremy Adams and artist John Timms go All In with Aquaman!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Dude. Dude. Please read this book if you aren\u2019t. Another excellent issue of Absolute Batman, digging into the origin of this Batman and building on his childhood relationship with his father. With guest artist Gabriel Walta, Scott Snyder shapes the Absolute Batman backstory, setting up his skills, and expanding on Gotham\u2019s criminal element. I love how the actual characteristics of bats are being used to shape Bruce\u2019s alter ego, and move from a gimmick into actual tactical elements. He\u2019s learning and building from a baby bat into the beefy bat we\u2019re seeing in the main story. This gets to the core of who Batman is, and gives us a Batman of the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tales of magic and mayhem reign in the Cruel Kingdom! Oni and EC present EC\u2019s first ever dark fantasy anthology! Featuring four bloody and barbarous tales in one cursed tome of a first issue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bathe your eyeballs in the \u201cBlood of the Robo King\u201d, as our liege brutalizes the Horde! Writer Greg Pak and artist Leomacs give us an alternate future full of decapitations and eviscerations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hobbit-like Bramble Berrydew meets some \u201cFriendly Visitors\u201d in Al Ewing and Kano\u2019s tale of science and sorcery! \u201cOnce one is in place, the other cannot challenge it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once upon a time, there were \u201cDeath and Pickaxes\u201d in this dark fairy tale of the last dwarf to keep watch over a sleeping princess. From Chris Condon and Charlie Adlard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only one man can usher in the New Age. A great man who can pull the blade from \u201cThe Demon\u2019s Face.\u201d But one young woman wants to try her hand in writer Ben H. Winter and artist Andrea Mutti\u2019s prophecy.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Charles Soule and Ryan Browne, the duo who gave us Eight Billion Genies, are giving us some Lucky Devils! What happens when a young Philosophy professor, Cam, and a put-upon nurse, Starr, discover they have their own personal demons? Trying to be good people doesn\u2019t seem to be working out for either of them, and one night they find out why \u2013 Collar and Rake have been tasked with pushing wrath and envy on the humans to turn them bad. But it\u2019s just not working, and as a last resort, the devils reveal themselves to strike a deal to make themselves, and Cam and Starr, more powerful. \u201cThey tell us there\u2019s a chance to move up, get\u2026 the good life. It\u2019s a lie. We all do the same shit every day knowing in our guts it’ll never really change.\u201d There\u2019s about to be a revolution, and it\u2019s starting in Hell.<\/p>\n\n\n

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For those true crime and serial killer fans out there, Kyle Starks and Patrick Piazzalunga present a new crime series, chock full of crime podcasts, failed investigations, secret lives, creepy polaroids, and blood, blood, blood! A recent episode of the Too Many Serial Killers podcast reveals that two current serial killers have confirmed kills within reach of the state record. The Lady Killer, who murders young brunette women and leaves their headless corpses for the police, and the Home Intruder, who murders people in their own homes, seemingly at random. Coming across the Home Intruder breaking into a house, the Lady Killer decides to assist and proposes a contest. A contest to see who can set the new record for most confirmed kills. After watching the Creep Tapes recently, I\u2019m in the mood for a fun serial killer story, and this fits that mood!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello Comic Shop Friends! We have one event coming up in January, and it is a big one! The Late Nite Comics Purge will commence at 8pm on Thursday January 16th. All crime will be legal for \u2013 oh wait, that\u2019s not right\u2026 All back issues will be 50% off for four hours. We will be dragging out as many dollar stock boxes from the storage unit as we possibly can and from 8pm to midnight you can participate in the 2025 Purge! Fill a long box of dollar stock for only $75! We\u2019re using 300 comics as the definition, so books must be bought in increments of 300 to get that Purge savings! This is absolutely a once-a-year event, so make sure you come out! Get ready to dollar dive! MARVEL COMICS Time for another Disney What If! What if the classic Disney characters were Marvel\u2019s first family? Mickey Fantastic! Minnie Invisible! Donald Thing! Goofy Torch! After being hit with cosmic rays on an amusement park ride, the four friends become the Fantastic Four, and they\u2019ll need those incredible...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,154,6,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10142","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\/10142","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=10142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}