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New Comic Book Day - July 30, 2025

Running a little late with this week’s post for new comic book day, but better late than never. Here we go: Switchblade Shorties — Ed Piskor’s final project, crowdfunded by his family posthumously. A fun and wacky read. In short supply so grab one while you can. Godzilla Vs. America: Boston #1 — Third in the series of one-shot anthologies featuring Godzilla attacking American Cities. Speed…

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New Comic Book Day - July 23, 2025

A few key issues, a bit of eye-candy and a rebooted kaiju are out this week. It’s well-balanced weeks like this that make this hobby so great! Godzilla (Kai Sei Era) #1 — Who can pass up a Godzilla #1? This series reboots IDW’s shared monsters universe. Green Lantern #25 (Subic variant) — Much like his variants for Batman: Full Moon series, Stevan Subic brings the heat with this…

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New Comic Book Day - July 16, 2025

What a great new comic book day we have in store this week! So let’s hop right in! Ghost Pepper #1 — This series follow Loloi, a food truck owner, in a world where humanity has survived a monstrous threat. When a new mysterious customer comes along who may be the key to saving the world (again) … or he may destroy it. Ghost Pepper #1 (Stanley ‘Artgerm’ Lau variant) — A simply stunning depiction…

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New Comic Book Day - July 9, 2025

Relatively slim pickings this week for New Comic Book Day! So if your wallet is aching from buying all those fireworks on the Fourth, you’re in luck. Archie Meets Jay & Silent Bob #1 — This is just a fun crossover, as Archie tends to do! Batman: Gotham By Gaslight — A League for Justice #1 (Sienkiewicz Variant) — It’s Sienkiewicz! It’s Batman! It’s a must grab! Key Issues Batman: Gotham By…

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New Comic Book Day - July 2, 2025

It’s a lighter week than usual — but we have prepping for our Grand Opening weekend to get done, so let’s dive right in. Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story #1 — Anything from Ghost Machine’s Hyde Street is an immediate favorite. This three-issue spin-off series follows Sister Hood. Gotham City Sirens: Unfit for Orbit #1 (Noobovich Variant) — It was a hard choice between this and Kyuyong Eom’s…

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New Comic Book Day - June 25, 2025

James Harren’s Ultramen comes to an end, a Green Arrow character gets their second appearance after 65 years and Deadpool has an anniversary issue — which is also one of the many first appearances this week. Ultramega #9 — The final issue of James Harren’s tour de force. If you haven’t been reading this series, now it the time! Harley Quinn #52 (David Nakayama Variant) — Another ‘infinity’…

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New Comic Book Day - June 18, 2025

This week is chocked full of new series, new characters and new printings. As well as a surprise 616 day bundle. So let’s hop right in. Battle Beast #2 — The premiere issue of this series was amazing. This issue was one of the blind bag chase variants, so now the rest of us get to get caught up with the few who managed to snag those. Zatanna #5 (Zoe Thorogood 1:25 Incentive Variant) — It’s not…

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New Comic Book Day - June 11, 2025

It’s Wednesday! It’s New Comic Book Day! And the first at our new location: inside the Brundage Swap Meet at 2207 Brundage Lane in Bakersfield! First, some quick housekeeping!  1) The first iteration of the shop is complete, now it’s time to settle in and tinker as time passes. We are still figuring out what our hours will be, there is someone working most the time. But feel free to message or…

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New Comic Book Day - May 28, 2025

OK boys and girls, this is going to be the last New Comic Book Day at our Mill Creek location! So come by and say goodbye to the shop, reminisce on the past couple of years and celebrate the start of this new chapter! Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong II #1 — 1st app of Colonel Lee Shaw in traditional comics. He first appeared in a graphic novel in 2014 and was portrayed by Kurt & Wyatt…

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New Comic Book Day - May 28, 2025

Everything is in a state of flux these days, which is stressful but exciting! Make sure you stick around until the end for the big news. But, first and foremost, New Comic Book Day waits for no one! So let’s get to it! Mommy Blog #1 — Not for the faint of heart, or those who don’t enjoy dark humor. This one-shot follows an aspiring social media “super mommy” as she tries to catch a predator in…

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New Comic Book Day - May 21, 2025

OK, between Battle Beast and Exquisite Corpses, last week proved to be a busy one. This week will probably fair a little less hectic. The Curse of Sherlee Johnson #1 — It’s not often a Spawn book makes it way to staff pick. But this series following the afterlife of Billy Kincaid 28th victim ( from Spawn #5) is a great read. Archie is Mr. Justice #4 (Matt Talbot Variant) — Another Killing Joke…

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New Comic Book Day - May 14, 2025

New Comic Book Day snuck up on me this week! So here is a quick rundown. Invincible Universe: Battle Beast #1 Blind Bag — This polybagged variant for the first ongoing series featuring Battle Beast can reveal open order, incentive or surprise variants.  Exquisite Corpses #1 (Jenny Frison variant) — It’s a Frison. It’s a first issue. It’s written by James Tynion IV. It’s bloody. It’s gory. It’s…

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New Comic Book Day - May 7, 2025

A lot of first issues and first appearances this week for New Comic Book Day. And the return of a 90s cartoon character that hasn’t had a series since 1992. Zorro – Man of the Dead: Sean Gordon Murphy is one of my favorite creators in comics. Considering the work he has done with Batman and Company in his White Knight series (which everyone should check out), reimagining Zorro seems like it…

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Free Comic Book Day 2025

The Big Two bring us crossovers and first appearances in their Ultimate and Absolute Universes. While Post Malone writes a comic, Black Mirror makes its printed debut and Mark Spears continues to dominate the hobby. Cap that off with Minecraft, Megaman as well as a new Decepticon, and you have one heck of a FCBD to look forward to! Amazing Spider-man / Ultimate Universe: Every year bring with it…

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Free Comic Book Day 2025 - Pop-Up Event

Free Comic Book Day is upon us! Here’s everything you need to know for our Sidewalk/Pop-Up Sale Event! It looks like it will be a nice day with a high of 75 degrees (according to the forecast at the time of this writing — which is Thursday evening) Here’s hoping it stays this way! Diverted Comics, Cain’s Cabinet and Matthew Raya’s Collectibles (with Dennis) will have tables set up outside the…

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New Comic Book Day - April 30, 2025

A pretty light New Comic Book Day this week, considering how hefty some have been. Godzilla vs. America: Los Angeles #1: Second issue in the anthology series that follows Godzilla as he rampages through American cities. This time through Los Angeles. The series was announced in October of last year, but after the Los Angeles fires in January, IDW Publishing announced that all proceeds will…

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New Comic Book Day - April 23, 2025

Another Wednesday, another New Comic Book Day. So let’s get to it: Assorted Crisis Events #2: Nothing particularly special here other than it’s just a series that I think everyone should be reading. Bug Wars #3: Ditto. Green Lantern #22: Lucio Parrillo knocks it out of the park with this depiction of Hal Jordan. The realism is simply amazing. Justice League Unlimited #6: Lee Bermejo’s…