Every week, hundreds of new comics hit the shelves, each with potential. Some live up to that potential. We pick the ones we think have the best shot at heating up. Here are picks of the week for delivery 2/26/20
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Jennika #1 – Jennika makes her first color series appearance in this mini series.
Finger Guns #1 – New Vault Comics Series. Two troubled teenagers discover they can manipulate emotions by firing finger guns. There will be laughs. There will be tears. There will be uncomfortable teen feelings and angst. Oh yeah… and chaos. So much chaos.
Hidden Society #1 – A new series from Rafael Albuquerque and Rafael Scavone, the team behind Neil Gaiman’s A Study in Emerald! Hidden from ordinary eyes, there is a world alongside our own full of deities, demons, and danger-where magic wins out over science and dark secrets lie in wait. Ulloo, the last wizard from the Hidden Society, enlists the aid of a blind girl and her demon, a young magician, and a cursed bounty hunter in order to stop a group of nihilist warlocks from waking the Society’s greatest nemesis: a primeval force that, unchecked, will scorch the planet bare of all life.
Tomorrow #1 – In this shocking new sci-fi horror series, a Russian computer virus has jumped the species barrier and wiped out most of the adult population, leaving the world precariously in the hands of the next generation. In the wake of devastation, musical prodigy Oscar Fuentes is separated from his twin sister Cira. Stranded on opposite sides of the country, they’re swept into rapidly evolving networks of teenage gangs. Can Oscar find his way back to Cira . . . or will they be lost to each other forever, in a dangerous makeshift civilization that is mercilessly replacing the past?
From acclaimed and legendary writer Peter Milligan
2020 Force Works #1 – New team book featuring War Machine, U.S.Agent, Mockingbird, and Quake
Covers of the Week
Batgirl #44 Terry Dodson & Rachel Dodson Cover – I have always thought that Terry Dodson doesn’t get the love he deserves. This is a great looking cover.
Swamp Thing Giant #3 – Besides being a great big comic for a low print run, this one has a great cover featuring Swamp Thing is the classic Patterson–Gimlin Bigfoot film pose.
Reprints of the Week
Flash #123 Facsimile Edition – Reprinting one of the greatest Flash vs. Flash meet up.
Wolverine #1 Facsimile Edition – Reprinting the classic Claremont and Buscema Wolverine series.
Pick of the Week
Year Of The Villain Hell Arisen #3 – Grab a copy or two if you can. These are selling well on the secondary market. Make sure to check Mycomicshop.com to see if they drop cover price copies on like they did for Batman #89.
Ugh….MCS keeps listing copies of HA3 but they disappear so fast….!
Now you see it, now you don’t….it’s like Diet Pepsi!
(See how many of you younger folk get that reference…)
**Relisted for $20 now**
Now 25.00….smh
Logged in at $20.00 in cart, changed to $25.00 at checkout. What kind of crap is that??
All I know is I love how people like to rag on flippers, but yet here we are with the big book of the week..I guess it’s okay when stores decide to become the speculator.
Flippers are bad. Unless it’s the retailer then it’s ok. Because they “have to stay in business” except I pay for comics from selling other comics. So if you want me to continue to drop a load of money in your store I need to be able to make money.
This is the biggest load of malarkey I’ve seen in some time. You want the comic shop to sell something to you at cover value so that you will then knowingly turn around and sell it for a huge mark up? When I worked at a comic shop, you people were the worst. I want to sell those books to people that want to read those stories and come back next week/month for the next issue, not looking for the latest fad that will help them make a quick buck. I’d probably sell you one at cover price and charge you more for any extra. I’ve got to pay for those books and the lights in my shop and the people working for me and the building I’m renting. If I didn’t have all of that, then you wouldn’t have access to those precious comics you want to flip. Stores aren’t the flippers, we are trying to keep you from ruining the business that will keep the doors open long after the speculators move on to something else. I hear pogs are about to make a comeback.
Hi Randol thanks for joining in.
First, yes, I do expect to buy something at cover price on the day it is released. There is no other retail model where something comes to a store priced and on the day of release it is marked up in store.
I am a huge reader of comics. But I also sell comics to buy comics. You are more likely to get money from me selling me the book at cover, and profit from additional sales from me, than you are to try to jack up the price on release day. I usually spend about $100 a week in my lcs and additional at other shops. I avoid the shops that jack up prices on release day. In other words they do not get any money from me.
So this book is selling for more on release day. You charge more. But if a book is selling on eBay for less than cover on release day, do you charge less? Prime example is Detective 1000 stores ordered tons to get variants and such and on the day of release that high cover price book was available on eBay for less than cover. Will you mark down the book for customers if they show you a book is selling for less?
Then there is the argument that you should have it in your pull box. Oh I have a ton of titles in my pull box. But I will not put every title in my pull box in case one issue heats up. That is a ridiculous argument.
Now we are not saying that a store should put all copies on the shelf and not hold a few back, we get that, but to pull every copy including people’s subscriptions and sell them at a higher price is fraud. And that has happened.
Let me tell you a story. I used to spend thousands of dollars at a local shop. The owner had put some books up for cover price and left them out for a few days. I bought them, at cover and sold them for a huge profit. He searched eBay and found who had sold them locally. Next time I go in he starts freaking out yelling telling me I cost him money. I asked how, you put books up for cover and I purchased them. He said he had intended to eBay them. I said i was sorry but you put them up at cover and I purchased them. Next time I go in he looks every book up on eBay. Most were cover or lower but some were selling in the $6-$8 range. He rings the books up at eBay prices. What would have been a $40 sale turned into a $0 sale because I refused to buy at his stupid price. Long story short, instead of getting thousands of dollars a year now from me he gets $0 and I have replaced him with two other shops that don’t do such stupid games.
I have 40,000 comics that were mostly purchased at shops over the past 35 years. I will drop hundreds at a time. Sorry you think people like me are the worst. Someone who has spent thousands of dollars in shops. Someone who goes to shops almost daily and buys back issues, new books, and supplies (yes because all the books I buy are rebagged and boarded and placed into short boxes). Why do you care what I do with the books when I leave the store? Read, flip, burn, whatever? It’s really none of your business.
Finally, as I mentioned the large amount of comics I have. Just like many people I hope to sell the comics when I am older and pay for college for my kids, or give them the money as an inheritance. So yes anyone who buys comics and hopes to sell them at a profit when they are older is a speculator. The difference is how long they are willing to hold the comics.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Retailers are so sanctimonious and hypocritical in wanting to keep comics “for readers,” when speculators are the only thing keeping print comics afloat. Do these retailers think they have noble intentions beyond making a buck at any cost? They are not gatekeepers for the industry and shouldn’t pretend to be, they’re scalpers who want to criticize the very people who keep them in business.