{"id":10492,"date":"2025-06-10T22:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/?p=10492"},"modified":"2025-06-10T22:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:36:17","slug":"andreas-umbrella-of-picks-for-06-11-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/2025\/06\/andreas-umbrella-of-picks-for-06-11-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea’s Umbrella of Picks for 06.11.25"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This month\u2019s Late Nite Comics falls on Thursday, the 19th! Happy Juneteenth!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the details from John: \u201cThis month\u2019s Late Nite Comics will be a big one! 8pm to midnight on Thursday, June 19th. We\u2019re looking to have at least 20 NEW long boxes of small press dollar stock out! (Small press being anything other than Marvel and DC.) This will be stuff from the late 80s, early 90s too, not just modern stuff. We\u2019re also cranking out a new collection, so expect some new Marvel and DC dollar stock as well. (In order, too!) You wanted fresh dollar stock, and you got it! As always, all back issues will be 50% off, including the wall. We\u2019ll also be celebrating Ben\u2019s 15th Anniversary (Ben-a-versary?) with the shop, so refreshments will be provided! Excelsior!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Come out to the Grog Shop on Wednesday, the 18th to watch a terrible movie with Ben and John Dudas co-hosting! It\u2019s the monthly Midnight Rental Secret screening, so stop by to celebrate Ben\u2019s 15 years working at the shop! Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm, and it\u2019s only $10!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Will this be the Silver Surfer\u2019s final voyage? Returning to a war-ravaged Earth, Norrin Radd finds his help puts a target on his back. Eaglestar is running the Bureau of Alien Neutralization, and their new expansion plan is to exploit an alien for their nefarious purposes. They\u2019re sending a top agent, Kelly Koh, after the biggest alien around. Will one human life be all that decides the Surfer\u2019s salvation, or damnation? Who would wield the Power Cosmic if the Silver Surfer falls? Is that what Eaglestar is after? Greg Pak and Sumit Kumar decide the Surfer\u2019s fate in this tragic, cosmic, five issue mini-series.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Marvel Rivals is going back in time! And to Japan! This one-shot features three manga-esque stories with Rivals characters reimagined. First, it\u2019s Psylocke Vs. Venom in Peach Momoko\u2019s \u201cDemon Days: Ko-Sute-Iwa\u201d where Sai learns the legend of the Sym. Then, Peni Parker Vs. The Punisher in \u201cTsuchigumo\u201d by Yuji Kaku. Punisher is hired to protect a village from a monster, but will he kill a kid? And, in \u201cSounds of Victory\u201d it\u2019s Luna Snow Vs. Hela by Mitsuyasu Sakai and Ryusei Yamada. Why is Hela attacking Yggsgard? \u201cTo save the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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This week we get Marvel\u2019s Pride Special! Four stories with Marvel\u2019s LGBTQIA+ heroes uniting against fear and hate-mongering! First, Captain America of the Railways and Escapade take on the Hate-Monger, with the help of Loki and the Queen of Nevers, in \u201cWho We Are\u201d by Al Ewing and Kei Zama. Wyatt Kennedy and Bayleigh Underwood have a touching story of a young Nightcrawler and his mother, Raven, in \u201cGood Night, Blue Rose.\u201d Sera and Black Cat are forced to confront the regrets of their pasts thanks to escaped Fear Lord, D\u2019Spayre. Written by Zoe Tunnell with art by Federica Mancin. Last, but not in any way least, \u201cMy Buddy\u201d from Anthony Oliveira and Pablo Collar. Steve Rodgers’ childhood friend Arnie Roth meets Captain America in 1942, and they team-up to take down some Hydra crabs and smash Nazi trash! The anthology finishes off with an interview with J.M. DeMatteis, co-creator of Arnie Roth.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Formerly known as the New Thunderbolts*, get ready for the New Avengers! Black Widow has intel on genetic technology being moved into a camp in Russia, and she needs Bucky\u2019s help. He wants no part in a team, but hey, for Natasha he\u2019ll give it a shot. Recruiting some of the most dangerous loners and antiheroes of the Marvel Universe isn\u2019t without its challenges, as the duo are about to learn that wrangling a team of killers and monsters has its own dangers. But there\u2019s an even worse danger the team is about to face, the Killuminati! Twisted duplicates of the Illuminati are about to be unleashed on the world, and they\u2019re set to be as unstoppable as their original counterparts. The Winter Soldier, Black Widow, Wolverine, and Namor are going to need to call in some more help to take down these creepy clones, so they\u2019ll be calling in Clea, Hulk, and Carnage soon! Written by Sam Humphries, with art by Ton Lima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen spotlight the early days of a different dynamic duo in this three-issue mini-series. Batman has a new Robin, impulsive and reckless Jason Todd. Bruce Wayne thought he could help light the darkness within Jason, and guide him to be Gotham\u2019s next great crime-fighter, but that darkness runs deep. \u201cAll my life, I\u2019ve been the one getting hit. I\u2019ve been the one getting hurt. But I\u2019m done hiding. I\u2019m done being scared. Now I\u2019ll make them scared.\u201d Robin may be taking things too far, and Batman doubts that even he has the ability to train the anger out of this troubled kid. And when a mysterious new villain sets his sights on Jason, it will be even harder for him to control his rage.<\/p>\n\n\n

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If you loved the Trinity back up stories in Wonder Woman like I did, then you\u2019re gonna love the new Tom King and Belen Ortega six issue mini-series, Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman! Especially if you loved those corgis! Prepare for a Crisis of Infinite Corgis! Little Wonder Robin just wants to find her father, and when older Wonder Girl shows up in a time bubble to help her, the Trinities set off a series of events that lead to meeting an even older Trinity, and creating multiples of Super-Corgis and Bat-Corgis! But messing with time has its consequences, as the trinity of Trinity is about to learn the hard way\u2026 but also in a super fun way!<\/p>\n\n\n

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You know I love my big, beefy Batman. Now it\u2019s time for the Absolute biggest and beefiest Bane you\u2019ve ever seen. Searching for Waylon, Batman is tearing through Gotham\u2019s criminal underground to find the truth. But heading to the city to deal with the Batman problem is Bane. The Ark M project is fully operational and its reach is spreading through Gotham. Will Bruce and his cohorts be able to find Waylon before Ark M gets him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s time for Plan B. After the chaos of the Hotel Oblivion storyline, the Umbrella Academy are back, and facing their most fearsome challenge, their other siblings. No one knows how to hurt each other more than family, and the Sparrows are ruthless. Raised in secret, isolated in Norway, this team shares a different connection to Hargreeves. They\u2019re more powerful, more brutal, and now they\u2019re here to take control. Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba present a six-issue mini-series about what happens when the powerful tell us what we need.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The very first spinoff, a standalone horror series from EC! A monstrous milestone begins with Blood Type! Writer Corinna Bechko expands her story from Epitaphs From the Abyss #3, this time with artist Andrea Sorrentino, finding vampire Ada landing in an idyllic Caribbean resort. But she\u2019s not the only bloodsucker on the island\u2026 There are tales of tourists going missing, and the resort employee she \u201ctamed\u201d has secrets of his own. The never-ending buffet of humans will lead to a deadly game of cat and mouse, as Ada may become the prey to an older and entirely different predator with a hunger for power. When you\u2019re a vampire you learn that, sooner or later, everybody sucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello Comic Shop Friends! This month\u2019s Late Nite Comics falls on Thursday, the 19th! Happy Juneteenth! Here\u2019s the details from John: \u201cThis month\u2019s Late Nite Comics will be a big one! 8pm to midnight on Thursday, June 19th. We\u2019re looking to have at least 20 NEW long boxes of small press dollar stock out! (Small press being anything other than Marvel and DC.) This will be stuff from the late 80s, early 90s too, not just modern stuff. We\u2019re also cranking out a new collection, so expect some new Marvel and DC dollar stock as well. (In order, too!) You wanted fresh dollar stock, and you got it! As always, all back issues will be 50% off, including the wall. We\u2019ll also be celebrating Ben\u2019s 15th Anniversary (Ben-a-versary?) with the shop, so refreshments will be provided! Excelsior!\u201d Come out to the Grog Shop on Wednesday, the 18th to watch a terrible movie with Ben and John Dudas co-hosting! It\u2019s the monthly Midnight Rental Secret screening, so stop by to celebrate Ben\u2019s 15 years working at the shop! Doors at 7pm,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,154,6,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10492","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\/10492","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=10492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}