Media release — On Saturday, November 17th visit your local Comic shop for local Comic shop Day 2018!
Local Comic shop Day celebrates locally owned independent comic book specialty stores, showcasing their distinct and important role in being the primary fire-starters of pop culture.
Get UNIQUE, limited and exclusive comics and graphic novels!
Find a list of participating shops here:
Here’s the list of items being released:
LCSD 2018 UNCANNY X-MEN #1 DEODATO VAR
(AUG188040, $7.99)
THE children OF THE ATOM ARE BACK! new ongoing series kicking off with a 10-part weekly epic, the flagship X-Men series that started it all is back and better than ever! starting with a mysterious and tragic disappearance, the X-Men are drawn into what might be…their final adventure?!
LCSD 2018 marvel KNIGHTS 20TH #1 (OF 6) VAR
(AUG188041, $4.99)
Only 500 copies of this will be available! very scarce. Written by superstar writer Donny Cates.
LCSD 2018 MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS YEAR 2 BLIND BOX
(AUG188003, $100.00)
LIMITED TO 500 COPIES.
The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Year two Blind Box is the ideal gift for Power Rangers fan. The Blind box includes (1) MMPR Year two Deluxe HC, (3) random Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Variants, and (1) exclusive Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #30 LCSD Variant by Felipe Massafera, which is only available in this blind box.
LCSD 2018 RICK & MORTY TREASURY ED
(AUG188004, $14.99)
MORTY has its own comic book series from Oni Press! join degenerate superscientist Rick Sanchez as he embarks on all-new adventures with his awkward grandson Morty, his teenage granddaughter Summer, his veterinary surgeon daughter Beth, and his hapless son-in-law Jerry.
This special double-size treasury edition for local Comic shop Day includes issues #35 and #40, two funny standalone issues written by Kyle Starks (Sexcastle, kill Them All) and illustrated by series artists Marc Ellerby and Sarah Stern. Come for the jokes, stay for the soul-crushing ennui. Wubba lubba dub dub!
LCSD doctor who 13TH doctor #1 SET
(AUG188005, $49.99)
Contains all 13 covers + 1 bonus offer cover. bonus offer cover will be a photo cover of the new TARDIS crew by will Brooks that is not available anywhere else.
LCSD 2018 WILLIAM GIBSON ALIEN 3 #1
(AUG188047, $3.99)
This is the official adaptation of the original screenplay for Alien 3, written by William Gibson, the award-winning science fiction author of the cyberpunk cult classic Neuromancer. You’ll see familiar characters and places-but not all is the same in this horrifying cold war thriller!
After the deadly events of the film Aliens, the spaceship Sulaco carrying the sleeping bodies of Ripley, Hicks, Newt, and Bishop is intercepted by the Union of Progressive Peoples. What the UPP forces don’t expect is another deadly passenger that is about to unleash chaos between two governmental titans intent on developing the supreme cold war weapon of mass destruction.
o based on the original screenplay by Neuromancer’s William Gibson!
o Adaptation and art by Johnnie Christmas-co-creator of Margaret Atwood’s Angel Catbird and developer of image Comics’ Firebug.
o featuring some of the most well-known characters in the Alien film canon: Hicks, Bishop, Newt, and Ripley.
o featuring a cover by James Stokoe!
LCSD 2018 X-O MANOWAR KINDT DLX HC SGN LTD 1000 COPIES
(AUG188048, $49.99)
Presenting the 2018 local Comic shop Day exclusive numbered edition of the deluxe, oversized hardcover collection of Valiant’s critically acclaimed, best-selling X-O MANOWAR (2017) series, signed by Eisner Award-nominated writer Matt Kindt!
Deep within the far reaches of space, the dogs of war have found Aric of Dacia. Conscripted into an alien army and forced into combat, Aric should enter an alien battlefield unlike any he’s faced before. His only hope for survival is also the source of his greatest rage – the living suit of armor known as X-O Manowar. With it, he will decimate armies, topple empires, and incite interplanetary warfare as he rises from soldier… to general… to emperor! They wanted a weapon. He will give them war!
The X-O MANOWAR by MATT KINDT DELUXE edition book 1 HC features the full first year of Matt Kindt’s celebrated run in complete chronological order, featuring art by master storytellers Tomás Giorello (BLOODSHOT REBORN), Doug Braithwaite (ARMOR HUNTERS), Clayton Crain (RAI), Ryan Bodenheim (The dying & The Dead), and much more in a series named one of 2017’s best by SYFY Wire, ComicBook.com, IGN, and numerous others! Plus, an assortment of extras and material that has never before been collected in one place! limited to only 1,000 copies, this LCSD-only, numbered edition is signed by Mr. Kindt and will feature a distinct cover treatment comprised of a die-cut dustjacket and gorgeously rendered virgin cover artwork by Lewis LaRosa (BLOODSHOT SALVATION)!
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