{"id":9615,"date":"2024-05-28T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T03:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/?p=9615"},"modified":"2024-05-28T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T03:00:07","slug":"andreas-bloody-bloody-bloody-picks-for-05-29-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/2024\/05\/andreas-bloody-bloody-bloody-picks-for-05-29-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea&#8217;s Bloody Bloody Bloody Picks for 05.29.2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/CNJ-3-scaled.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/CNJ-3-1024x427.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9467\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hi Comic Shop Friends! Just a little bit of shop news:<\/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\/2024\/05\/HARPER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"585\" height=\"907\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HARPER.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HARPER.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HARPER-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>John will be set up at the next Harper show on Sunday, June 2nd from 10 am to 4 pm, at the Westlake Doubletree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next Late Nite Comics will be Thursday, June 20th, 8 pm to midnight! Mark your calendars!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re finishing out the month with a fifth Wednesday, so it\u2019s a little smaller, but there are still a lot of great books this week!<\/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\/2024\/05\/BLOODSIGN-1-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODSIGN-1-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODSIGN-1-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODSIGN-1-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODSIGN-1-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODSIGN-1-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODSIGN-1-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODSIGN-1-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODSIGN-1-1-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODSIGN-1-1-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Make sure to let us know which Blood Hunt titles you want added to your pull list, so you don\u2019t miss any! We re-stocked a stack of issue #1s of Union Jack if you missed it last week, and we\u2019re trying to keep all the released titles in stock on the rec wall! Tell us if you\u2019re missing one, and we\u2019ll do our best to get it. (Except for the Red Band Editions of #1 and #2. Sorry, those are unavailable.)<\/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\/2024\/05\/BLOODPANTHER-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODPANTHER-675x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODPANTHER-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODPANTHER-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODPANTHER-768x1166.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODPANTHER-1012x1536.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODPANTHER-1349x2048.jpg 1349w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODPANTHER-scaled.jpg 1687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Another solid Blood Hunt tie-in! T\u2019Challa struggles to keep his blood lust in check and protect Wakanda from the hordes of vampires and other dark creatures. But with Blade hounding him to carry out a key mission, and Bast denying T\u2019Challa\u2019s pleas to be freed of the curse, Black Panther may not be able to continue to be the hero Wakanda needs. \u201cIt is true that Blade has infected Bast\u2019s line. Yet Bast\u2019s will soon consume his.\u201d Written by Cheryl Lynn Eaton with art by Farid Karami.<\/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\/2024\/05\/BLOODSONS-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"661\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODSONS-661x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODSONS-661x1024.jpg 661w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODSONS-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODSONS-768x1189.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODSONS-992x1536.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODSONS-1323x2048.jpg 1323w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BLOODSONS-scaled.jpg 1653w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the return of the original Midnight Sons, from writer Bryan Hill and artist German Peralta! Danny Ketch, Johnny Blaze, and Victoria Montesi reunite to deal with the vampire threat! Blade\u2019s former ally, Tulip (See the recent Blade series!) seeks out the Midnight Sons for help in confronting one of their own: Blade! He wouldn\u2019t hunt his own people. Not if he had a choice. Or would he? If he truly is what he seems to have become, the Midnight Sons will kill 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\/2024\/05\/HELLVERINE-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HELLVERINE-675x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HELLVERINE-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HELLVERINE-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HELLVERINE-768x1166.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HELLVERINE-1012x1536.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HELLVERINE-1349x2048.jpg 1349w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HELLVERINE-scaled.jpg 1687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Wolverine and Ghost Rider had encountered a demon, Bagra-Ghul, who had possessed a young boy. Bagra-Ghul was defeated, but not before it possessed Logan, transforming him into Hellverine! The Spirit of Vengeance was the only one who could stop him, locking the demon away. Now it is ready to rise again, but are those hellfire claws being used for good this time, or evil? Hellverine returns in his first solo series from Ben Percy and Julius Ohta! With some Hellraiser Cenobite-esque Project Hellfire soldiers here to bring Hell to Earth! Or as Ben dubbed them, Seal Team 666!<\/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\/2024\/05\/DCPRIDE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DCPRIDE.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DCPRIDE.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DCPRIDE-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Worth it alone for the autobiographical story \u201cSpaces\u201d, written by Phil Jimenez, with art by Giulio Macaione, about the worlds of Wonder Woman that shaped him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also liked the preview story from the upcoming graphic novel, \u201cThe Strange Case of Harleen and Harley\u201d, from writer Melissa Marr and artist Jenn St-Onge, but I\u2019m partial to any comic with a guinea pig and animal rescues!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of the stories span the DC Universe with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Starman in \u201cHello, Spaceboy\u201d written by Al Ewing with art by Stephen Byrne.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe Rivers and the Lakes That You\u2019re Used To\u201d with Aquaman and Orion by Ngozi Ukazu. (You\u2019re welcome for the TLC song stuck in your head now.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Poison Ivy and Janet from HR take a trip to \u201cMarasmius\u201d from Gretchen Felker-Martin and Claire Roe.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Natasha Irons works up the courage to face Traci 13 in \u201cSteeling Time\u201d written by Jamila Rowser and art by Oneilljones.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cBros Down in A-Town\u201d has Jon Kent and his buds getting together for a night out. Written by Jarrett Williams, with art by D.J. Kirkland.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dreamer gets \u201cLessons in Astral Projection\u201d in Nicole Maines and Jordan Gibson\u2019s story.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And writer Calvin Kasulke and artist Len Gogou take Circuit Breaker to the \u201cPhantom Rodeo.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PENGUIN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PENGUIN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PENGUIN.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PENGUIN-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The other Tom King book that I tell you every month you should be reading is here again! No one in Gotham is safe from the Penguin\u2019s wrath, especially not his own children. How far will he go to see them driven beneath him? To regain his empire? How much blood will he need to spill? So much blood. Perhaps even all of the blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SMALL PRESS 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\/2024\/05\/GROMMETS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"692\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GROMMETS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GROMMETS.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GROMMETS-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>If you like 80s high school and skateboard movies, this is the book you should pick up this week! Rick Remender and Brian Posehn co-write a semi-autobiographical, authentic tale of 1980s skater culture, outcasts, and rock. Rick is starting at a new school in the Sacramento suburbs in 1984. Having trouble making friends, he tries to get in with a group of skaters, but they\u2019re dirtbags, so when fellow loner Brian invites him to the skatepark, the two become best friends. Half a look at the culture of California and skateboarding at the time, and half a coming-of-age story with two troubled friends navigating family and school. What other book will give you the facts, like Rush isn\u2019t Satanic because they\u2019re from Toronto? With art by Brett Parson on this seven-issue mini-series.<\/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\/2024\/05\/NIGHTS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"692\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/NIGHTS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/NIGHTS.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/NIGHTS-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Yes, I know we can\u2019t get all of the first six issues, and I know that the paperback collection isn\u2019t out yet, but make sure you grab issue #7 of Nights! This is the series that we all love, that I wait impatiently for, and that is difficult to describe without either giving everything away, or not giving enough, but writer Wyatt Kennedy and artist Luigi Formisano are killing it. There are vampires, ghosts, talking animals, 90s nostalgia, young love, strange creatures, and blood, blood, and more blood. Somehow these creators knew what I wanted in a comic without me even knowing, and if I wasn\u2019t already picking it up, the solicit for #7 would have made me think: \u201cATTENTION: Tonight&#8217;s performance of Sweeney Todd has been directed by Rudy Ray Moore and written by Walter Hill. We apologize for the confusion. Ivory&#8217;s in trouble, Vince plays a double, and Matt will make you chuckle! A lot of people die in this issue.\u201d Make sure to add the trade to your pull list, especially since they announced there will be a new story in the first volume that will continue only through the trade paperbacks!<\/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\/2024\/05\/NASTYTP-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/NASTYTP-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/NASTYTP-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/NASTYTP-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/NASTYTP-768x1181.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/NASTYTP-999x1536.jpg 999w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/NASTYTP-1332x2048.jpg 1332w, https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/NASTYTP-scaled.jpg 1665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>For horror fans, especially those interested in the video nasties! Writer John Lees and artist Adam Cahoon\u2019s mini-series is about an eighteen-year-old who still has an imaginary friend, Red Ennis from the Labor Day slasher franchise, who is becoming more and more real. When Thumper and his friends in the local video shop\u2019s Murder Club decide to \u201cremake\u201d a notorious lost nasty for a film festival, the horror becomes real. And it\u2019s not just because a censorship fanatic is trying to stop them. It\u2019s a series about the love of film, the need to create, and friendship in real and imaginary forms. And every fake film title in this book is a movie I would definitely watch. Grab a copy because I follow the writer on Threads, and told him I was putting it in this week\u2019s newsletter because not enough of you took our recommendation when the single issues were coming out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Comic Shop Friends! Just a little bit of shop news: John will be set up at the next Harper show on Sunday, June 2nd from 10 am to 4 pm, at the Westlake Doubletree. The next Late Nite Comics will be Thursday, June 20th, 8 pm to midnight! Mark your calendars! We\u2019re finishing out the month with a fifth Wednesday, so it\u2019s a little smaller, but there are still a lot of great books this week! MARVEL COMICS Make sure to let us know which Blood Hunt titles you want added to your pull list, so you don\u2019t miss any! We re-stocked a stack of issue #1s of Union Jack if you missed it last week, and we\u2019re trying to keep all the released titles in stock on the rec wall! Tell us if you\u2019re missing one, and we\u2019ll do our best to get it. (Except for the Red Band Editions of #1 and #2. Sorry, those are unavailable.) Another solid Blood Hunt tie-in! T\u2019Challa struggles to keep his blood lust in check and protect Wakanda from the hordes&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,154,6,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9615","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\/9615","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=9615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}