{"id":6117,"date":"2019-11-19T22:44:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T03:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/?p=6117"},"modified":"2019-11-19T22:44:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T03:44:13","slug":"local-comic-shop-day-and-featured-new-releases-at-cnjcomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/2019\/11\/local-comic-shop-day-and-featured-new-releases-at-cnjcomics\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Comic Shop Day and Featured New Releases at CNJComics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve got some exciting new releases this\nWednesday, and Saturday is Local Comic Shop Day, a day to celebrate your LCS\nwith some exclusive items you can only get in brick and mortar independently\nowned comic shops!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s the featured new releases\ncoming out this Wednesday, November 20th, 2019!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First up is the finale to the\nincredibly popular Absolute Carnage series!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"674\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Absolute-Carange-5-674x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Absolute-Carange-5-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Absolute-Carange-5-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Absolute-Carange-5-768x1167.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Absolute-Carange-5.jpg 1031w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s Carnage Vs Venom to the Death!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lots of variants and if you can wait\ntill Saturday there&#8217;s even a cover priced LCSD variant!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"647\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LCSD-Carnage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LCSD-Carnage.jpg 647w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LCSD-Carnage-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deadpool gets a new ongoing series\nwritten by Kelly Thompson with trippy art by Chris Bachelo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"674\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Deadpool1-674x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Deadpool1-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Deadpool1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Deadpool1-768x1167.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Deadpool1.jpg 1031w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;ve been reading comics for a (long) while, you may have heard about Denny O&#8217;Neil and Deny&#8217;s Cowan&#8217;s classic Question run. It&#8217;s a hidden gem, with the background of Hub City being as important to the character as Gotham and Metropolis is to those other two guys. He starts the series off as a loser and basically fails at his entire mission during the run. <a href=\"http:\/\/sequart.org\/magazine\/59799\/denny-oneil-the-question\/\">Here&#8217;s an article I found.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week the Question returns in an\nover sized Black Label four issue mini series with Jeff Lemire writing (a\nperfect choice) and Deny&#8217;s Cowan returning to do the art work. (along with Bill Sienkiewicz!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Question-800x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Question-800x1024.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Question-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Question-768x983.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Question.jpg 1407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Question was even the basis for Rorschach in Watchman,\nbefore Alan Moore had the Charlton characters pulled out from under him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> Local Comic Shop Day <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That brings us to Local Comic Shop Day, this Saturday,\nNovember 23rd!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LCSD19_SquareGraphic_1000x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LCSD19_SquareGraphic_1000x1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LCSD19_SquareGraphic_1000x1000-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LCSD19_SquareGraphic_1000x1000-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LCSD19_SquareGraphic_1000x1000-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local Comic Shop Day is full of items created especially for\nthe day and sold only in comic shops. Stuff like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>LCSD 2019 THE WALKING DEAD: THE ALIEN<\/li><li>LCSD 2019 ABSOLUTE CARNAGE #5 (OF 5) VIRGIN VARIANT \u2013 600 copies<\/li><li>LCSD 2019 ABSOLUTE CARNAGE #5 (OF 5) LCSD ARTIST VARIANT<\/li><li>LCSD 2019 DCEASED HC \u2013 JOKER COVER \u2013 1400 copies<\/li><li>LCSD 2019 DOCTOR WHO 13TH HOLIDAY SPECIAL #1<\/li><li>LCSD 2019 HAZEL &amp; CHA CHA SAVE CHRISTMAS (UMBRELLA ACADEMY)<\/li><li>LCSD 2019 OVER THE ROPES #1 (OF 5)<\/li><li>LCSD 2019 INVADER ZIM TREASURY EDITION<\/li><li>LCSD 2019 KILLADELPHIA #1<\/li><li>LCSD 2019 LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #1 \u2013 600 copies<\/li><li>LCSD 2019 NEW MUTANTS #1 ARTIST VARIANT \u2013 1000 copies<\/li><li>LCSD 2019 MMPR YEAR ONE &amp; TWO HC SET \u2013 750 units<\/li><li>LCSD 2019 CROW HARK THE HERALD #1 SEELEY COVER<\/li><li>LCSD 2019 CATALYST PRIME SEVEN DAYS #1 (OF 7) \u2013 1000 copies<\/li><li>LCSD 2019 THESE SAVAGE SHORES TP VOL 01 GOLD EDITION<\/li><li>LCSD 2019 SUPER DINOSAUR #1 SPECIAL EDITION<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ll have all these\nitems on a first come first serve basis starting at 10am. Some are so limited\nthat we only got one or two copies, so we&#8217;ve like to focus on the stuff we got\nlots of. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The leading book by\nfar is the Walking Dead The Alien One Shot, a canon story by local writer Brian\nK Vaughan of Saga fame. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Walking-Dead-Alien-1024x787.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Walking-Dead-Alien-1024x787.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Walking-Dead-Alien-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Walking-Dead-Alien-768x590.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Walking-Dead-Alien-390x300.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a $5.99 self\ncontained story about what happened to Rick&#8217;s younger brother in Spain, which\nwas briefly mentioned way back in Walking Dead #3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s really a great\nstory, and a great way to show your support of the local comic shop! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We ordered 200 so we\ncould have some throughout the holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second book is a\nvariant cover to Hazel and Cha Cha Save Christmas, an Umbrella Academy special\none shot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Umbrella-Academy-675x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Umbrella-Academy-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Umbrella-Academy-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Umbrella-Academy.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The regular cover comes out on Wednesday, but we ordered to sell out so people could get the LCSD variant on Saturday. $4.99 and likely another great story to celebrate the day. (isn&#8217;t a great story what the LCS is really about?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, to make the\nday a little more fun, we made reprints of four of our most popular 11 x 17\ncardstock prints, and we&#8217;ll be giving them away FREE with any purchase. That&#8217;s\nright, you can spend just $1.00 on anything and get all four prints. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These include Ladies\nNight, Superman Americana, Stan Lee &#8220;I Have So Many More Stories to\nTell&#8221; and our Superman map to Cleveland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ladies-NIght-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ladies-NIght-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ladies-NIght-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ladies-NIght-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ladies-NIght-464x300.jpg 464w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ladies-NIght.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will also make these prints available during Black Friday and Small Business Saturday. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/2019\/11\/black-friday-local-comic-shop-day-and-small-business-saturday-at-cnjcomics\/\">If you&#8217;d like to know more about those event click on over to our website!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got some exciting new releases this Wednesday, and Saturday is Local Comic Shop Day, a day to celebrate your LCS with some exclusive items you can only get in brick and mortar independently owned comic shops! Here&#8217;s the featured new releases coming out this Wednesday, November 20th, 2019! First up is the finale to the incredibly popular Absolute Carnage series! It&#8217;s Carnage Vs Venom to the Death! Lots of variants and if you can wait till Saturday there&#8217;s even a cover priced LCSD variant! Deadpool gets a new ongoing series written by Kelly Thompson with trippy art by Chris Bachelo! If you&#8217;ve been reading comics for a (long) while, you may have heard about Denny O&#8217;Neil and Deny&#8217;s Cowan&#8217;s classic Question run. It&#8217;s a hidden gem, with the background of Hub City being as important to the character as Gotham and Metropolis is to those other two guys. He starts the series off as a loser and basically fails at his entire mission during the run. Here&#8217;s an article I found. This week the Question returns in an over&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-event","category-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117","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=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}