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A special treat during this year’s Free Comic Book Day celebration is that our guest Brian “Smiity” Smith has written one of the Free Comic Book Day offerings, Transformers: Worst Bot Ever, and we have enough for everyone to get one signed! We’ll also have plenty of copies of Smitty’s all-ages graphic novel series Pea Bee & Jay and Band Camp on hand for purchase! If you’re lucky, you may even get a quick sketch from him!

Next Friday, April 18th is officially Superman Day 2025! To mark the occasion, we’ll have a brand-new golden age-sized reprint of the Big Blue Boy Scout’s first appearance in Action Comics #1, a new deluxe edition hardcover of Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely’s opus All-Star Superman, and the set-up for all DC’s big plans for Clark & friends to coincide with the new movie in the Summer of Superman Special ! We’ll also have freebies of the first issue of All-Star Superman, the first half of the first issue of Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale’s tear-jerking Superman For All Seasons, and a preview of the brand-new Jimmy Olsen Supercyclopedia!

Stephen’s So-Called Emo Life!

• Fahrenheit 182 - blink-182 bassist & co-vocalist Mark Hoppus’s new memoir. I know there won’t be a ton of sex or drugs, so the rock & roll bits better be really juicy!

• Nintendo Switch 2 - I can’t say no to a new Mario Kart, so I better start saving my pennies now!

• Death of a Unicorn - Will Poulter stole the whole show!

Happy Opening Day, everyone! I’ve been more disconnected from the team than I have in any other off-season, not really keeping up with the news or listening to the Talkin’ Yanks podcast. I know they got former-MVPs Cody Bellinger and Paul Goldschmidt, but the news that Garrett Cole is out for the whole season and Giancarlo Stanton, Luis Gil, and Clark Schmidt are hurt to start was enough to keep my spirits down. However, Opening Day is a clean slate for every team including the Yankees, and it’s with that sentiment that I tune in now!

This week I’m out visiting my parents who are snowbirding in Tucson, AZ for the month! Aside from getting a wicked sunburn on the back of my hands during our first hike, it’s been a great trip, with awesome views, great food, and unique experiences, like visiting the Mt. Lemmon Skycenter telescope array.

The most exciting thing that happened around the shop lately was that Jay got a visit from non other than T.J. Miller himself, best known as Weasel in Deadpool, Erlich in HBO’s Silicon Valley, Hud in Cloverfield, and Fred in Big Hero 6! He was in town doing shows at the Comedy Zone and stopped by to pick up a couple of action figures as gifts.

With Spring right around the corner, we’re so backlogged with overstock back issues that we’ve got to clear some room out on the sales floor, so all weekend enjoy our old “warehouse pricing” on all regular back issues, 10 comics for just $25! And for good measure, all loose toys will be 50% OFF and all boxed toys are 25% OFF!

In case you missed it on last week’s social media platforms, if you pre-order all 15 wraparound covers by Chris Giarrusso paying homage to the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition by John Byrne, you can get a FREE sketch from Chris of the character of your choice! Even though Final Order Cutoff for the first four titles has passed, we ordered so we can keep the deal going while supplies last, so get in while the getting is good!

In case you missed it, the biggest news out of the ComicsPRO meeting last week was that DC editor-in-chief Marie Javins and Marvel editor-in-chief CB Cebulski took the stage together to announce that there will be two new Marvel & DC crossover specials before the end of 2025! It’s still too early to add them to your ComicHub account, but rest assured that since this is the first time the Big Two have worked together in 21 years, we’ll be going deep on our orders! It was very cool to be sitting front row for something so game-changing for the industry.