Ssalefish GSO First Look #137 for 11.20.19
Whelp, I tried to visit another comic book store while on my trip, but it was CLOSED! Typical of the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons.
I’ve said it over and over at the shop, but I think my favorite part of the trip may have actually been the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. I hadn’t over-researched it, I didn’t overthink where we would go and when, that was “Carly’s part of the trip,” and it made for such a surprising and chill experience (well, that and the unlimited Express Pass we paid for that allowed us to ride more than double that day than we did any other). We both got our wands first thing, rode everything except Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure (the line was 2 1/2 hours from the jump and cut off at 3 o’clock, so no making that the last stop at the end of the day), and capped the day with frozen butterbeer!
Having spent the better part of eight months planning and thinking and worrying about the trip, part of me feels at a loss, like the only thing that would fill the whole is starting to plan a return trip, which is no doubt part of the psychology of Orlando. Instead I’m helping Smitty with Pea, Bee & Jay and starting to realize that we’re opening a third store in less than six months (I had no idea we’d be opening Greensboro six months before we did, so I think we’re fine).
The following titles are scheduled to ship on Wednesday, November 20th excluding some re-orders and providing nothing changes by the time the final invoice arrives on Monday:
2099 Alpha #1 - spinning out of Amazing Spider-man, with Art Adams connecting and Viktor Bogdanovic variants available for cover price!
Absolute Carnage #5 - final issue! Mark Bagley “Cult of Carnage”, John Tyler Christopher action figure, Kyle Hotz connecting, In-Hyuk Lee, Greg Land, Paolo Rivera “Codex”, and Ron Lim variants available!
Absolute Carnage Captain Marvel #1 - Nick Bradshaw “Codex” variant available for cover price!
Aero #5
Amazing Mary Jane #2 - Terry Dodson variant available!
Amazing Spider-man #34 - “2099” tie-in with another of the Art Adams connecting and Pasquel Ferry “2099” variants available!
American Gods Moment of the Storm #7
Amory Wars Good Apollo Burning Star IV HC
Annihilation Scourge Alpha #1 - a new era for the cosmic aspects of the Marvel Universe begins with Ariel Olivetti and Ron Lim variants available for cover price!
Aquaman #54 - “Year of the Villain” tie-in with a “Villains Takeover” acetate cover or cardstock Shane Davis variant for cover (and premium cover) price!
Archie Married Life 10 Years #4
Art of Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order HC - me and Colton are going to pick up our copies tonight at the GameStop by Target!
Avengers #26
Badass #1
Batman #83 - “City of Bane” with a cardstock Francesco Mattina variant available for premium cover price!
Batman/ Superman #4 - “Year of the Villain” tie-in with a “Villains Takeover” acetate cover or cardstock Olivier Coipel variant for cover (and premium cover) price!
Batman 1989 Movie Adaptation HC
Batman White Knight Presents Von Freeze #1 - giving Sean Murphy a break on art duties for the month, he’s still writing and joined by the legendary Klaus Janson!
Blade Runner TP vol. 1
Bloodshot #3
Books of Magic TP
Canto #6 - final issue!
Captain America #16 - Jung-Geun Yoon “2099” variant available!
Captain Marvel #12 - Terry Dodson “2099”, In-Hyuk Lee connecting, and Jung-Geun Yoon variants available!
Chastity #3
Conan the Barbarian #11
Count Crowley Reluctant Monster Hunter #2
Crowded #10
DCeased HC - the Local Comic Shop Day version limited to 1,400 copies worldwide will be available on Saturday, November 23rd at 11 AM!
Deadpool #1 - the Merc with a Mouth is back with David Baldeon, blank, John Tyler Christopher, David Finch, Carlos Gomez “Mary Jane”, and Greg Land variants all available for cover price, near as I can tell!
Death of Superman Wake TP
Dial H for Hero #9
Dollar Comics Luthor #1
Doom Patrol Bronze Age HC
Empty Man Manifestation TP
Excalibur #2 - “Dawn of X” tie-in with Mike McKone “2099” and Otto Schmidt variants available!
Excellence TP vol. 1
Fantastic Four 2099 #1 - Ron Lim variant available for cover price!
Farmhand #11
Firefly #11
Flash Forward #3 - In-Hyuk Lee variant available for cover price!
G.L.O.W. vs. The Babyface #1
Goon Bunch of Old Crap TP vol. 2
Green Lantern #85 Facsimile Edition - reprinting the infamous Speedy drug issue!
Gwenpool Strikes Back #4
Hashtag Danger TP vol. 1 - get it signed by Chris Giarrusso!
Hazel & Cha Cha Save Christmas Tales of the Umbrella Academy #1 - the first of an experiment by Dark Horse to see how people respond to the UA Universe being created by people other than the original creative team, with UA editor Scott Allie writing, Durham’s own Tommy Lee Edwards on art, and Jim Mahfood on the variant cover! I’m personally all-in as usual and giving them the benefit of the doubt! This will also have a Local Comic Shop Day variant by Bill Sienkiewicz on Saturday, November 23rd!
He-Man & the Masters of the Multiverse #1 - Dan Fraga variant available for cover price!
Heart Attack #1
Heartbeat #1 - Faithless artist Maria Llovett writes & draws this teenage horror series from Boom Studios with a variant by Unnatual’s Mirko Andolfo available for cover price!
Ice Cream Man #16
Immortal Hulk #27 - Tom Raney “2099” variant available!
immortal Hulk TP vol. 5
Infected Scarab #1 - Blue Beetle falls to the Batman Who Laughs, tying into Batman/ Superman!
Justice League #36 - “Year of the Villain” tie-in with a Tyler Kirkham variant available for cover price!
Kill or Be Killed HC
King Thor #3
Loki #5 - Todd Nauck “2099” variant available!
Lucifer #14
Lumberjanes TP vol. 2
Machine Girl #1
Marauders #2 - “Dawn of X” tie-in with a Tony Moore variant available!
Marked #2
Marvel Action Black Panther #6
Mask I Pledge Allegiance to the Mask #2
Metal Men #2 - Kenneth Rocafort variant available for cover price!
Middlewest TP vol. 2
Money Shot #2 - I’m not ashamed to say I loved the concept of issue #1 and we’ve still got first print copies of nationally sold out debut available for cover price right now!
My Little Pony Feats of Friendship #3
Nightwing #66 - “Year of the Villain” tie-in with a Warren Louw variant available for cover price!
Olympia #1
Once & Future #4
Outer Darkness #12 - the end of “season one”!
Pretty Violent #4
Punisher Kill Krew #5 - final issue!
Punisher TP vol. 3
Question Deaths of Vic Sage #1 - appropriately, probably the most curious of the Black Label “prestige plus” magazine-sized offerings thus far, but I completely trust anything Jeff Lemire writes and I’ve grown to appreciate Bill Sienkiewicz more over the years.
Rai #1
Roku #2
SFSX Safe Sex #3
Silver Surfer When Galactus Calls Epic Collection TP
Something is Killing the Children #3
Spider-man Velocity #4
Spider-Verse #2
Star Trek Discovery Aftermath #3 - final issue!
Star Wars #75 - FINAL ISSUE! The longest ongoing series at Marvel concludes after almost four years and closes the book on the period between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back before the upcoming Empire Ascendent one-shot and new ongoing series in January pick up between Empire and Return of the Jedi! Greg Land and Chris Sprouse “Greatest Moments” variants available!
Star Wars TP vol. 12
Star Wars Age of the Resistance Heroes TP
Star Wars Journey to Rise of the Skywalker TP - I’ve finished Resistance Reborn, Star Wars Adventures, and Spark of the Resistance and started Force Collector this morning, and so far this has been the best of the Episode IX prequels!
Steeple #3
Steven Universe #34
Strayed #4
Strikeforce #3
Supergirl #36 - “Year of the Villain” tie-in with a cardstock Derrick Chew variant available for premium cover price!
Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #5 - Ben Oliver variant available for cover price!
Tank Girl #8
Teen TItans #36 - “Year of the Villain” tie-in with a Alex Garner variant available for cover price!
Titans Burning Rage #4
TMNT Urban Legends #19
Tony Stark Iron Man #18 - Karl Kerschl “2099” variant available!
Vampirella #5
Weatherman #5
Witcher Omnibus TP vol. 1
Wonder Woman Come Back to Me #5
You Are Obsolete #3