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Howdy, everyone! It\u2019s our Charity Art Show this week at Carol and John\u2019s Comic Book Shop! We had an awesome turnout this year with 100 covers and we\u2019re excited for you all to see them. The art show starts this Wednesday and will run through Sunday the 19th. You\u2019ll be able to walk through the foyer and see them all on display, and also get the chance to purchase raffle tickets and place them in your favorites this year. Don\u2019t forget to tune into our Facebook Livestream Sunday at 6:00 p.m. where we\u2019ll highlight every cover on display and draw winners. ALL of your ticket purchases will go to the Cleveland Food Bank and this is the perfect way to celebrate the holidays with us this year. We miss seeing everyone during our usual in-person holiday party, but we\u2019ll get there soon enough, so in the meantime enjoy the show. We will post the full gallery online on Saturday also, so if you won\u2019t be able to make it into the shop this week, you\u2019ll be able to call in and purchase tickets by phone Sunday during shop hours, 12-5pm. There may be a few fun surprises too during the stream, so tune in. But hey, we\u2019ve always got new books too, so let\u2019s see what\u2019s up this week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DC Comics<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown are back, and teaming up in this week\u2019s new Batgirls #1. Fans have been clamoring for more from these two, and now they\u2019ve got it in one book. It\u2019s bright colors in dark Gotham City with artist Jorge Corona and writers Becky Cloonan and Michael W. Conrad teaming up not just Cassanda and Stephanie, but also Barbara Gordon\u2019s Oracle. This book is giving me big Babs Tarr Batgirl and Annie Wu Black Canary vibes, both of which I think are underappreciated in some circles. Anything Bat-Family has my interest and this is no different. Check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first volume of Tom Taylor\u2019s excellent Nightwing series is out in hardcover this week. \u201cNightwing is back in Bl\u00fcdhaven and his drive to keep his adopted city safe has never been stronger! But protecting Bl\u00fcdhaven is no small task, especially now that it\u2019s being menaced by Nightwing\u2019s most terrifying foe yet\u2014a mysterious and murderous villain with a penchant for stealing his victim\u2019s hearts, known only as Heartless.\u201d I\u2019ve been hearing nothing but fantastic things about this series, from staff and customers alike, and so now nobody has an excuse for not being hip to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speaking of hip, there are also TWO big new Tom King series finally collected in hardcover, with Rorschach and Strange Adventures out now. Both of these were epic 12 issue maxiseries that explored the return of Rorschach (or is this really Walter Kovacs back again as Rorschach?) and the Rann-ifications of Adam Strange\u2019s actions during war exposed. If you\u2019ve never read a Tom King book, you\u2019re missing out on one of the best writers DC has had in decades, and both of these are more than worthy of checking out. I\u2019ve been patiently waiting for these to come out in collections, and of course, they both come out the same week. I know what my holiday bonus is going towards now\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marvel Comics<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Superstar artist and Marvel Stormbreaker Peach Momoko is back with another installment in her Demon Days saga, with Rising Storm this week. You no doubt recognize her art if you\u2019ve been paying attention for the past couple of years, she\u2019s a prolific cover artist, and Demon Days is her first series with writing and interior art by this talented artist. I\u2019m a little behind on the series now, but this issue features ancient feudal Japan-inspired versions of Thor and Storm. That\u2019s cool! I sense lightning in the forecast for this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marvel\u2019s Conan the Barbarian was an industry-shaking, monster success that introduced comic readers to the pulp legend that is Conan of Cimmeria, created by Robert E. Howard. Written by Roy Thomas and drawn by a young Barry Windsor-Smith, Conan the Barbarian #1 is one of the most influential comic books of all time, sparking the sword and sorcery craze of the 1970s and bringing a new kind of hero to Marvel Comics. I only really got into Conan this year, and I\u2019ve become OBSESSED with the character and his history and am excited to share that his original #1 is getting the facsimile treatment this week with a faithful reprint complete with original ads and old-school pages. Not that glossy stuff we\u2019re all used to today; pulpy paper! Finding a 1970 original in the wild will cost you a pretty penny today, but now you can own a piece of comic history just the same for only $3.99. By Crom, buy this book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And also new this week are two-second issues that I had to mention. Donny Cates\u2019s Hulk was a smash and Ryan Ottley\u2019s artwork was the best it\u2019s been in years, and we\u2019re all excited to see where the Starship Hulk goes next. And it was a bit of a surprise, we weren\u2019t sure what to expect, but Walter Mosley\u2019s The Thing had a great first issue and was one of the better Marvel reads for me recently, so I\u2019m excited to jump back into Ben Grimm\u2019s world with this follow-up issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s some of the big new titles out this week. Be sure to stop by and check out the art show, it\u2019s something I know John Dudas himself is very proud of, and it\u2019s a really cool event and an awesome way to showcase local comic art, and it\u2019s a lot of fun to have a winning ticket and get to take some home with you too. Check out my cover this year! We\u2019ll see you around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Howdy, everyone! It\u2019s our Charity Art Show this week at Carol and John\u2019s Comic Book Shop! We had an awesome turnout this year with 100 covers and we\u2019re excited for you all to see them. The art show starts this Wednesday and will run through Sunday the 19th. You\u2019ll be able to walk through the foyer and see them all on display, and also get the chance to purchase raffle tickets and place them in your favorites this year. Don\u2019t forget to tune into our Facebook Livestream Sunday at 6:00 p.m. where we\u2019ll highlight every cover on display and draw winners. ALL of your ticket purchases will go to the Cleveland Food Bank and this is the perfect way to celebrate the holidays with us this year. We miss seeing everyone during our usual in-person holiday party, but we\u2019ll get there soon enough, so in the meantime enjoy the show. We will post the full gallery online on Saturday also, so if you won\u2019t be able to make it into the shop this week, you\u2019ll be able to call in...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688","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=7688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}