{"id":8776,"date":"2023-05-17T09:54:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T13:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/?p=8776"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:18:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T13:18:23","slug":"andreas-brave-bold-picks-for-05-17-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/2023\/05\/andreas-brave-bold-picks-for-05-17-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea&#8217;s Brave &#038; Bold Picks for 05.17.2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CNJ-2-scaled.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CNJ-2-1024x427.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8774\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hey Comic Shop Friends! Sorry about no newsletter last week, but I\u2019m back to full health now, which is great because there\u2019s a lot going on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, thanks for a great Free Comic Book Day! We still have a few titles left from the event that you can pick up. I can\u2019t write anything better than Ben\u2019s thoughts on FCBD, so check out our Facebook page for his post. And there are tons of great pictures taken by shop friend Laura, so check those out too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second, speaking of Laura, she has another live Midnight Rental Secret Screening on the 17th, so we\u2019re doing a late birthday celebration for me at the Grog Shop Wednesday night!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MIDNIGHT-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MIDNIGHT-1-736x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MIDNIGHT-1-736x1024.jpg 736w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MIDNIGHT-1-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MIDNIGHT-1-768x1069.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MIDNIGHT-1-1103x1536.jpg 1103w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MIDNIGHT-1.jpg 1471w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out Lenora\u2019s Midnight Rental on YouTube too. She\u2019s on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@FoundFootageFest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Found Footage Festival\u2019s channel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/LATE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/LATE-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/LATE-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/LATE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/LATE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/LATE-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/LATE-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/LATE.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Third, this Thursday, the 18th, from 8 pm to midnight, is Late Nite Comics! It\u2019ll be Marvel-ous! We\u2019ll have 40 long boxes of new unprocessed Marvel dollar stock on the table, and back issues will be 50% off! (Except for the wall books.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fourth, like always, there\u2019s a bunch of new comics!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MARVEL COMICS<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AVENGERS-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AVENGERS-2-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AVENGERS-2-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AVENGERS-2-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AVENGERS-2-768x1181.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AVENGERS-2-999x1536.jpg 999w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AVENGERS-2-1332x2048.jpg 1332w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AVENGERS-2-scaled.jpg 1665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Star, the Icon, the Witch, the Construct, the God, the Engineer, the King. Jed MacKay and C.F. Villa assemble a new team of Avengers! Each has their set of skills, and each has their reason for joining the team when Captain Marvel asks. When Terminus attacks Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., a new danger appears, one that the Avengers know all too well and that appears in the guise of a friend.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DANNY-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DANNY-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DANNY-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DANNY-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DANNY-768x1181.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DANNY-999x1536.jpg 999w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DANNY-1332x2048.jpg 1332w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DANNY-scaled.jpg 1665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This untold tale of Danny Ketch written by co-creator Howard Mackie, with artist Daniel Picciotto, flashes back to a time when a gang war was brewing. Two brothers try to take over Jimmy-6\u2019s territory, but after a deal with The Broker, they transform into something that threatens innocent people and causes the Ghost Rider to get involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DC COMICS<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BRAVE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BRAVE.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BRAVE.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BRAVE-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A four-story anthology series, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, features writers Tom King, Ed Brisson, Christopher Cantwell, and Dan Mora, with artists Mitch Gerads, Jeff Spokes, Javier Rodriguez, and Dan Mora. \u201cBatman: The Winning Card\u201d is a four-part tale from King and Gerads about the first frightening clash between The Joker and Batman. This book is worth picking up just for this story. It\u2019s creepy and tense, dark and amazing. Then, continuing from the Wildstorm 30th Anniversary Special, Brisson, and Spokes bring in a new StormWatch team to protect the world from the worst of the worst in \u201cStormWatch: Down with the Kings.\u201d In \u201cThe Order of the Black Lamp\u201d, from Cantwell and Rodriguez, Superman is sent a decoder ring with a mysterious message, which sends him on a quest to solve a mystery with ties to his past. Lastly, Mora makes his writing debut with a new Batman: Black and White story, \u201cHeroes of Tomorrow\u201d, set in a Gotham City full of cybernetic henchmen of The Joker.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CYBORG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CYBORG.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CYBORG.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CYBORG-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first of three new Dawn of DC titles this week, Cyborg #1 from writer Morgan Hampton and artist Tom Raney, brings Victor Stone back to Detroit due to a family emergency, but things have changed in the city while he\u2019s been gone. New company Solace is pushing people out of their homes and spreading revolutionary artificial intelligence, and Cyborg knows better than anyone that tech transformation comes at a steep human price.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TITANS-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TITANS-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TITANS-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TITANS-1-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dark Crisis is over, and the Justice League is no more; now the no-longer &#8220;Teen&#8221; Titans must step up to protect the Earth! Tom Taylor and Nicola Scott bring the Nightwing-led team of Cyborg, Raven, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Wonder Girl out of the shadows to fight giant monsters and stand up to Peacemaker in their first outing. But when they return home, they find Flash, and a new mystery to solve.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/VIGIL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/VIGIL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/VIGIL.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/VIGIL-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who are The Vigil? Part of DC\u2019s We Are Legends, writer Ram V and artist Lalit Kumar Sharma tell the story of a secret team of metahumans. Shut down by the government and labeled a failure, the team secretly sets up operations under the supervision of Dr. Sankaran, and new recruit Nia Saha. Funded by the mysterious Mr. Lightless, the team is tasked with finding things. \u201cDangerous things \u2013 technology, ideas, stories \u2026 that the world isn\u2019t ready for just yet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SMALL PRESS<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ARCADE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ARCADE-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ARCADE-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ARCADE-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ARCADE-768x1180.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ARCADE.jpg 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new Image mini-series premiere from writer\/artist Dylan Burnett mixing wrestling and arcade games, with a dash of giant robots. After the mysterious masked Joe saves an arcade employee from back alley bad boys in Infinity City, he sets up house in the Round House Arcade and becomes the hottest player. Everyone wants to challenge him, and no one can beat him. But when another mysterious figure shows up in town to take him down, Joe\u2019s past is closer than ever to catching up with him.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/JINX-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/JINX-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/JINX-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/JINX-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/JINX-768x1181.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/JINX-999x1536.jpg 999w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/JINX-1332x2048.jpg 1332w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/JINX-scaled.jpg 1665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another Chilling Adventure from Archie Comics, this one follows 14-year-old firestarter Jinx Holliday, who just wants to play guitar in a band with her best friend Danni, but people keep calling her the Devil\u2019s spawn. Now Archie has shown up to ask her to help exorcize Jughead. Can rock \u2018n roll save his soul and stop Satan? It\u2019s all up to Jinx now. Written by Magdalene Visaggio with art by Craig Cermak.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CRYPTO-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CRYPTO-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CRYPTO-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CRYPTO-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CRYPTO-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CRYPTO-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CRYPTO-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CRYPTO-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Red Room is back! Not for the faint of heart! Banned in 26 countries! Only at comic shops that like to make money! (As Piskor says!) I won\u2019t try to hard sell you on this one, because it is definitely not for everyone, but it\u2019s one of my favorites. We won\u2019t have any on the table, but if you got the last mini-series, you\u2019ll have this one in your file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Comic Shop Friends! Sorry about no newsletter last week, but I\u2019m back to full health now, which is great because there\u2019s a lot going on! First, thanks for a great Free Comic Book Day! We still have a few titles left from the event that you can pick up. I can\u2019t write anything better than Ben\u2019s thoughts on FCBD, so check out our Facebook page for his post. And there are tons of great pictures taken by shop friend Laura, so check those out too! Second, speaking of Laura, she has another live Midnight Rental Secret Screening on the 17th, so we\u2019re doing a late birthday celebration for me at the Grog Shop Wednesday night! Check out Lenora\u2019s Midnight Rental on YouTube too. She\u2019s on the Found Footage Festival\u2019s channel Third, this Thursday, the 18th, from 8 pm to midnight, is Late Nite Comics! It\u2019ll be Marvel-ous! We\u2019ll have 40 long boxes of new unprocessed Marvel dollar stock on the table, and back issues will be 50% off! (Except for the wall books.) Fourth, like always, there\u2019s a bunch&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,154,6,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8776","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\/8776","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=8776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}