Modern Comics Heating Up (2026 Edition)

Snowing here again today…have a dentist appt at 3:30 to deal with my sore tooth. LCS was closed yesterday so not sure what they’ll out out today…may call ahead.

I want to hit a second LCS today, but if the dentist appt goes south and they need to fix the issue immediately…could be a long afternoon…

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Sending much love about your tooth! Tooth pain is the worst pain out of all the pains I’ve had.

I did not find any House of Lowther at my shops.

One shop had some murder drones I picked up and it had the Ted Comic so I don’t need one but appreciate that @Anthony was willing to find me one at his stores.

That Maid Cafe comic has a fun little trading card and Mark Spears cover. I wonder if that’ll get popular or if people are done with the Spears train.

I think his 15 minutes are up… the art is just meh anymore, maybe 1 out of 10 covers look interesting. The rest you feel like you’ve seen it before. Same body or head positioning, same expressions on the face.

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Listings now at $20 as well.

Something weird about Murder Drones. Out of the 3 hot books so far that I’ve called shops about today (ted, lowther and drones) murder drones was the only one they had any copies left of but it seems to have the higher listings/sales on eBay. Shops wouldn’t hold any copies for me until NCBD winds down :-1: but I get it.

Called a shop and same story. They not had Mirser Drones of the three so holding a copy of A for me.

My main shop was closed yesterday so won’t be putting out copies until maybe later…if not tomorrow per their social media…going to stop by today and see what they ordered.

Another to add to the list. MCS just posted their copies on eBay for $11 a pop

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According to league of comic geeks new Indy comics out this week sorted by most pulled for the above comics:

#1 Is Ted OK?
#2 Murder Drones
#3 Lowther

Ted is the 23rd most pulled Indy for this week overall.

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You can order Nectar #1 here.

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Had not put out a penguin yet…but grabbed a copy of is Ted Ok (A) and Murder Drones (A).

They did not order Lowther…despite a big push at FOC, starting to think this book may be hard to come by.

The usual suspects on comic hub don’t have it either (like Samurai)

Midtown sold out FAST of Nectar #1 and the variants

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Aftershock is still around…?

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Thank you for the link…

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Ya a little while back… hopefully that revives some old spec from them.

https://www.comicsbeat.com/aftershock-comics-emerges-from-bankruptcy/

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I had a good chuckle reading through the comments section of the article.

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Geesh…

retailers are ordering more and more…thinking EVERY Image/Indie book is gonna be a hit…

supply > demand will happen

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Yeah, tons of Bedlam and Great Pacific #1s floating around because of retailers not wanting to miss out on the next Thief of Thieves, Chew, or Peter Panzerfaust.

History may not repeat, but it sure rhymes.

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100%. Reminds me of the 2nd/3rd printings at Marvel before and after Venom 3 3rd print. That’s when orders for subsequent printings skyrocketed. I don’t have numbers to cite but I remember seeing the stacks.

I feel like after these last few weeks, Indy #1 orders will similarly jump. Call it the d’orc effect.

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What’s weird is you can still order the blind bag with the pre-order discount. Might be a glitch.