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Colton and I are in Pittsburgh for the ComicsPRO Annual Meeting where we and our fellow retailers meet with distributors, publishers, and vendors about the state of the industry, what’s coming down the pipeline, and what we can all do to improve. But there has to be time for some fun, too, like yesterday when we walked across the Monongahela River on the Fort Pitt Bridge to the 146-year-old Duquesne Incline funiculars railway to see the view I posted six weeks ago for ourselves!
Next week’s new releases are a little wonky because even though February only had four Wednesdays like always, because the new releases straddle the first of the month again like in January, they’re kind of treating it like fifth week, but there’s still great new stuff to try like Jeff Lemire’s Phantom Road from Image (more below) and several fantastic hardcovers to use any extra cash on!
The following titles are scheduled to ship on Wednesday, March 1st (Tuesday, February 28th for DC) excluding some re-orders and providing nothing changes by the time the final invoice arrives on Monday:
Action Comics #1052 - as well as a reprint of the nationally sold-out start of the new format that kicked off the Dawn of DC.
All Night & Every Day #1
Barbarella Center Cannot Hold #1
Batman Audio Adventures #5
Batman Gotham Knights Gilded City #5
Batman vs. Robin #5
Blue Beetle Graduation Day #4
Breath of Shadows #2
Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer Special #1
Captain America Sentinel of Liberty #10
Castle Full of Blackbirds #4 - final issue.
Cosmic Ghost Rider #1 - he’s BACK!
Darkwing Duck #1 Facsimile Edition
DC RWBY #1
Dead Boy Detectives #3
Detective Comics #1069
Do a Powerbomb TP - #1 will draw you in, #2 will make you cry, #7 will knock you on your coal-mining ass!
Doom Patrol by Gerard Way & Nick Derrington Deluxe Edition HC - I think because of all the release delays as it was coming out, my interest in their run waned, so I’ll looking forward to revisiting it all at one time! I just wish they had also included the Mike Wars crossover because even though Nick & Gerard didn’t do all of those books directly, they were definitely the archetechs.
Ghost Rider #12
Hallows’ Eve #1 - Alex Ross Timeless Villains Virgin variant available!
Harley Quinn #27
Human Target #12 - final issue :(
I Am Iron Man #1
I Hate This Place #6
Immortal Iron Fist & Immortal Weapons Omnibus HC - sandwiched between Ed Brubaker’s multi-Eisner award-winning run on Captain America and Matt Fraction’s run on Hawkeye that inspired an entire TV show, there was their ‘70s kung-fu fightin’ love child with David Aja, which was also followed up by one of the most underrated sequel runs of all time by Duane Swierzcynski & Travel Foreman!
King Spawn #20
Koshschei in Hell #3
Magic the Gathering #24
Murderworld Game Over #1
My Little Pony #10
Ordinary Gods #10
Phantom Road #1 - Jeff Lemire & Gabriel Hernandez Walta, the same team that did the Lost in Space version of Lord of the Flies, Sentient from TKO, reunite for a brand-new horror series at Image!
Punchline Gotham Game #5
Purgatori Must Die #3
Radiant Black #22
Rick & Morty #2
Rick & Morty Crisis on C137 #4 - final issue.
Rick & Morty vs. Cthulhu #3
Riddler Year One #3
Rogue & Gambit #1 - Alex Ross Timeless Villain Virgin variant available!
Savage Dragon #264
Sgt. Rock vs. Army of the Dead #6 - final issue.
Shazam Fury of the Gods Shazamily Matters #1
Shazam Thundercrack TP
Skull & Bones #1
Sonic the Hedgehog #58
Spider-Gwen Shadow Clones #1
Spider-Man #6
Spider-Man Unforgiven #1
Star Wars #32
Star Wars Han Solo & Chewbacca #10
Star Wars High Republic Blade #3
Star Wars Hyperspace Stories #4
Star Wars Mandalorian #8
Stargirl Lost Children #4
Tim Drake Robin #6
Unbreakable Red Sonja #4
Vampiress Carmilla 2024 Annual #1
Venom #17
Walking Dead Deluxe #58
Where Monsters Lie #2
X-Force #38
Year Zero Volume 0 #5 - final issue.