{"id":10446,"date":"2025-05-13T18:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T22:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/?p=10446"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:30:03","slug":"andreas-exquisite-picks-for-05-14-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/2025\/05\/andreas-exquisite-picks-for-05-14-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea’s Exquisite Picks for 05.14.2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oh hello, Comic Shop Friends! Welcome to a week of wonderful reads!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Late Nite Comics! Thursday, May 15th! 8pm to midnight! Dollar books! Get 100 or more and they will be 50 cents each! 50% off back issues! Including the wall!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Raf is celebrating his birthday in the shop on Sunday, May 25th, with his own back issue sale! Batman? Conan? Stop in on that day to find out the details!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s monster vs. mutants! Something being built in Japan is drawing Godzilla\u2019s anger. The X-Men are called to help stop the kaiju, and Charles Xavier believes they can reason with the King of the Monsters. But if that fails, Gambit has stolen something that will help the X-Men band together and use all of their powers to take down Godzilla! Written by Fabian Nicieza with art by Emilio Laiso.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Gwenpool is back! Fighting off Fin Fang Foom with Spider-Man, Kate Bishop, and Jeff the Land Shark (It\u2019s Jeff!), Gwenpool notices things starting to get a little darker, a little grittier, a little more Frank Miller. Peter Parker\u2019s spider sense is going off the charts. Jeff is scared. What\u2019s causing all of this? Who is this new dark doppelganger? Find out in this, totally not for kids, All-New, All-Deadly Gwenpool from writer Cavan Scott and artist Stefano Nesi!<\/p>\n\n\n

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The arachnid war is here! It\u2019s Spiders versus Symbiotes for the fates of the Spider-Verse and the Venomverse! Pulled from their universes to compete for the survival of all Spiders by the Web-Heart, 616 Spider-Man, Spider-Prowler, Recluse, Spider-Ham, and Weapon VIII go up against Agent Venom, Spider-Clan Venom, Viking Venom, Earth-2250 Venom, and an unnamed Symbiote host, who must protect the Hive-Mind. The Web-Heart and the Hive-Mind have both seen that the conflict is inevitable, and with each unwilling to end their existence, a challenge has been created. At the end of three rounds, whoever is left standing will ensure the survival of their people. Will it be Spiders or Symbiotes? Written by Mat Groom and Kyle Higgins, with art by Luciano Vecchio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second part of the Absolute Mr. Freeze story from Scott Snyder and Marcos Martin! Every issue we are all still overjoyed by how amazing this book is. This book goes hard. It seems like the next story arc is going to dig deeper into the Ark M project and we\u2019ll be seeing more origins of the Absolute Batman villains. Up next: Bane!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sophie Campbell\u2019s new Supergirl series kicks off for the Summer of Superman! Kara Zor-El and Krypto are splitting their time between Metropolis, the Fortress of Solitude, and daily patrols of Kandor. \u201cStreaky, don\u2019t even think about swiping Kandor off the table.\u201d Kara has proven herself time and time again, but she still doubts her role as a hero. Is she purposely keeping herself in Superman\u2019s shadow? When her adoptive parents move back to Midvale, Kara decides to visit, reviving her old alter ego, Linda Danvers, to hide that she\u2019s Supergirl. But Midvale already has a Supergirl\u2026 Who is this imposter? Kara hasn\u2019t been back in years, so where did this new Supergirl come from, and why is she taking over both of Kara\u2019s personas? Can she stop this different Supergirl from stealing her life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am very disappointed in all of you, because I needed another 48 of you to preorder this book so I could get the 1:50 variant printed with HUMAN BLOOD! Metal! Cleveland native, Dave Hill, finally tells the \u201ctrue\u201d story of the creation of the most extreme, most brutal, dark metal band ever, Witch Taint!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And if you liked that, you\u2019ll enjoy the humor of Dark Regards from Dave Hill and artist Artyom Topilin! Sometimes in life you gotta go through some changes. Sometimes those changes are inspired by a vision of a metal singer who died from cannibalism, who tells you to harness your true power and spread the message of extreme heavy metal. Sometimes those changes cause you to spread your message through \u201cold-school shit-talking.\u201d And sometimes that shit-talking leads to Norwegian metalheads coming to \u201cdeal with\u201d you. Break out the corpse paint, crank up the most extremely extreme records you can find, and dive into the comic book that dares to tell the true story of a viral hoax so extreme, so metal, so cvlt, that it created Witch Taint!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Over thirteen blood-soaked chapters, James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh will lead a rotating cast of creators, collaborating and competing to determine who wins and who dies in Image\u2019s new Exquisite Corpses! Thirteen of America\u2019s wealthiest legacy families gather every five years on Halloween to play a game. The deadliest game. Each family chooses a killer to represent them, with a themed weapon, and with one goal: to be the last one standing. The winning family will secretly rule the country until the next game, but some of them may have other motives. The representatives know what they\u2019re up against, but for the citizens of this year\u2019s arena, Oak Valley, Maine, they have no idea what\u2019s coming to their town this Halloween. I can\u2019t wait to see how this all plays out.<\/p>\n\n\n

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From the Invincible Universe comes Battle Beast! Robert Kirkman and Rya Ottley present the \u201cbest new (not quite a) superhero series in the universe!\u201d No one, not even Invincible, is a match for Battle Beast. There may be no one in the galaxy who can stop the deadliest warrior. Battle Beast is tired of fighting those who cannot go toe to toe with his unquenchable thirst for violence. He wishes for an opponent that will kill him, as death is the only release from his bloodthirsty ways. Alone in space with only a ship\u2019s computer, that also wishes for his demise, B.B. searches the stars for the most notorious and most savage fighters to end him! Is it even possible?! Who knows, but it\u2019ll be a gory, blood-soaked journey to find out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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