Arriving 6/1/2011

Despite the holiday today (Memorial Day), comics are STILL MEANT TO BE ON-SALE THIS WEDNESDAY. This is a radical change from previous years, where Monday-holiday meant Thursday-comics.  

But, see the caveat after the jump!

Still, I'd recommend that you check with your local comics shop before you head down there on Wednesday (especially if you have any kind of a commute there) -- while this is the PLAN, it may not be the REALITY for all stores, everywhere. Like, I'll be fairly shocked if New Comics Day start much before 2 PM at Comix Experience -- even with our cajoling the trucking company to make sure we're packed at the front of the San Francisco run, I don't even think it is physically possible for the truck to arrive until well after we're open... and then we still need to get the comics up on the rack too!

Comix Experience hasn't had a release-the-comics-the-day-they-arrive day in a really really long time. Fifteen years? More? It's been so long that I forgot exactly when... but I can tell you that Capital City was still a going distribution concern back then....

Compounding this for us is that I TOTALLY forgot this was happening, and booked a father-and-son trip (to Legoland, California) leaving at stupid-o'clock Wednesday morning... so I won't even be around to put the books up. I feel AWFUL for Matt, no less so because this is a pretty solid week of comics....

So, yeah, anyway, call ahead, is my recommendation.

2000 AD PACK APR 2011 30 DAYS OF NIGHT NIGHT AGAIN #2 (OF 4) 50 GIRLS 50 #1 (OF 4) ADVENTURE COMICS #527 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #663 ASTONISHING X-MEN #39 AVENGERS ACADEMY #14 POINT ONE BATMAN BEYOND #6 BETTY #192 BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #191 BOYS #55 BPRD DEAD REMEMBERED #3 (OF 3) CRIMINAL LAST OF INNOCENT #1 (OF 4) DARK TOWER GUNSLINGER BATTLE OF TULL #1 (OF 5) DARKNESS #91 DC UNIVERSE ONLINE LEGENDS #9 DEATH OF ZORRO #4 DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP #23 (OF 24) DRACULA COMPANY OF MONSTERS #10 FEAR ITSELF #3 (OF 7) FEAR FEAR ITSELF DEEP #1 (OF 4) FEAR FLASHPOINT #2 FLASHPOINT ABIN SUR THE GREEN LANTERN #1 (OF 3) FLASHPOINT BATMAN KNIGHT OF VENGEANCE #1 (OF 3) FLASHPOINT SECRET SEVEN #1 (OF 3) FLASHPOINT THE WORLD OF FLASHPOINT #1 (OF 3) GI JOE VOL 2 ONGOING #2 GREEN HORNET YEAR ONE #10 GRIM GHOST #2 HALCYON #5 (OF 5) HAUNT #16 HELLBOY THE FURY #1 (OF 3) HERC #4 FEAR HEROES FOR HIRE #8 HONEY WEST #4 HOUSE OF MYSTERY #38 HULK #34 INTREPIDS #4 IRREDEEMABLE #26 IZOMBIE #14 JONAH HEX #68 KEVIN SMITH KATO #10 LIFE WITH ARCHIE MARRIED LIFE #10 JULY 2011 (RES) LOONEY TUNES #199 MARVEL ZOMBIE CHRISTMAS CAROL #1 (OF 5) MINX #1 MOON GIRL #2 (OF 5) MOON KNIGHT #2 OZMA OF OZ #7 (OF 8) PHOENIX #2 RED SPIKE #2 (OF 5) REED GUNTHER #1 SCOOBY DOO WHERE ARE YOU #10 SECRET SIX #34 SHIELD #1 SHINKU #1 SOLOMON KANE RED SHADOWS #3 (OF 4) SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #225 STATIC SHOCK SPECIAL #1 SUPERBOY #8 SWEET TOOTH #22 THUNDERBOLTS #158 FEAR TURF #5 UNCANNY X-FORCE #11 UNCLE SCROOGE #404 WALKING DEAD SURVIVORS GUIDE #3 (OF 4) WALT DISNEYS COMICS & STORIES #719 WEIRD WORLDS #6 (OF 6) WHO IS JAKE ELLIS #4 WITCHFINDER LOST & GONE FOREVER #5 (OF 5) WOLVERINE HERCULES MYTHS MONSTERS AND MUTANTS #4 (OF 4) WONDER WOMAN #611 WULF #2 WYNONNA EARP YETI WARS #2 X-23 #11 X-FACTOR #220 X-MEN #12

Books / Mags / Stuff ALIENS VS PREDATOR THREE WORLD WAR BREED COL VOL 01 BOOK OF GENESIS TP BTVS SEASON 8 TP VOL 08 LAST GLEAMING CAPTAIN BRITAIN HC VOL 01 BIRTH OF LEGEND CITIZEN REX HC (RES) CONSTRUCTIVE ABANDONMENT HC FREAKY MONSTERS MAGAZINE #1 JADE DOOR HC (A) JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #310 JURASSIC PARK TP DEVILS IN THE DESERT LIFE WITH MISTER DANGEROUS GN (RES) MOOMIN COMPLETE LARS JANSSON COMIC STRIP HC VOL 06 OSBORN TP EVIL INCARCERATED PLANETARY BATMAN DELUXE HC PREVIEWS #273 JUNE 2011 (NET) SLAINE LORD OF MISRULE TP STUCK RUBBER BABY SC NEW EDITION SUICIDE FOREST TP WALT DISNEY COMICS & STORIES ARCHIVES TP VOL 01 WONDER WOMAN HC VOL 01 ODYSSEY X-MEN TO SERVE AND PROTECT TP

So, what looks good to YOU?

-B