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DC-loving Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia is always fighting for what's right. Now, DC Comics has a friend in a high place, literally speaking, because Garcia has finished off the top floor of the new Long Beach Civic Center with a DC Comics easter egg!

Two volumes of the classic comics of Street Fighter are re-released courtesy of Udon Entertainment this May. Solicits and details are here. Check them out.

The first weekend of March sees Emerald City Comic Con 2018 (ECCC 2018), the first major comic convention of 2018, run by Reed POP Expo. And that means exclusive variant comic book covers and debuts.

ComiXology Bestseller List, 02/24/18: Batman takes the top, but Thor does a lot better digitally than it does in print and almost took that crown. Also outperforming their print levels significantly are Sex Criminals, Monstress, and Super Sons.

The first of the interconnected '80s horror-style comic books Cult Classic: Return to Whisper #1 comes out from Vault Comics on Wednesday.

Volumes 3 and 4 of Captain Canuck: Year One receive a release, and season four of Pitiful Human Lizard starts its run. Chapterhouse is bringing you all of this with their May 2018 solicits. Details here.

Markiplier's Red Giant series comes to its finale. Neal Adams' Villain comes to its penultimate issue. All of this comes out in Red Giant's May 2018 solicits. Details below.

Go West and Doppelganger reach their finale, and Amazing Age receives the first volume of its collected edition. All of this comes out via Alterna Comics this May. Details here.

Catalyst Prime charges on, Enchanted Chest, Oothar the Blue, and Wormwood Saga get collection releases, all from Lion Forge's May 2018 solicits.

The Aristocats and Zero from Nightmare Before Christmas receive manga adaptations from publisher Tokyopop. All of this is set to come out this May. Details here.

Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man, is an older X-Man than he often got credited for, created back in 1974 by the late Len Wein for Giant-Size Fantastic

Vault Comics launches a new series, Vagrant Queen, by writer Magdalene Visaggio. Plus, Song of the Dead reaches its finale, and Heathen continues its run. All of this will be released in May. Details here.

For April, Marvel Comics will be allowing retailers to commission exclusive covers for nine titles, including Hunt for Wolverine #1, Amazing Spider-Man #798, and Avengers: Shards of Infinity #1.

First Second has three new graphic novels coming out this May, Animus, Chasma Knights, and This One Summer. Solicits and details here.

Mike Wolfer's Gallery of Monsters returns. Pink Panther's 55th Anniversary Special is released. All of this comes from American Mythology's May 2018 solicits. Details here.

Figuring out how to pre-order these things on time them isn't an easy process. Luckily, Archie Comics has taken steps to combat this problem by producing a comic that explains how!

Ellen Forney releases the follow-up to her memoir, and Romano Scarpa's Mickey Mouse work is being given a collected edition. Lorenzo Mattotti and Jerry Kramski release their next collaboration. All this comes from Fantagraphics this May. Details here.

Following up on Image Expo earlier this week, Image has announced sell-outs and second printings for Hit-Girl #1 and Ice Cream Man #2. In Hit-Girl's case,

Zenescope is bringing out anew series called Jasmine Crown of Kings. Plus, they are re-releasing all of their Van Helsing Versus volumes. More details are in their May 2018 solicits, which you can find here.

Some would say covers are the best part of comics. Regular covers, variant covers, lenticular covers, retailer covers, die-cut covers, polybagged covers,

Action Lab's Danger Zone imprint is delivering a new series with Ruin of Thieves Brigands, plus Black Betty, Baby Badass, Gingerdead Man Meets Evil Bong, and Subspecies receive their first collected editions. This all comes out in May. Details here.

Titan Comics has released a trailer for their upcoming comic book series The Prisoner, based on the 1960s television show of the same name that was

Celebrating what would have been author Mickey Spillane's 100th birthday in 2018, Titan Comics is launching a new Hard Case Crime comic book series

Action Lab's May 2018 solicits bring you Actionverse, Athena Voltaire, Ladybug and Cat Noir's "Bug Out," and the collection of Jupiter Jet vol. 1. Details here.

It's a battle of the Battleships in Uber, and Christos N. Gage and Patrick Shand continue Alan Moore's Crossed Saga. All this is coming at you through Avatar Press this May. Details here.

Filip Sablik is President of Publishing & Marketing at BOOM! Studios. He attended ComicsPRO in Portland this weekend when, in front of a crowd of

Artist Mark Brooks reveals the final two New Mutants: Dead Souls variant covers featuring Illyana Rasputin/Magik in a set of 4.

Revealed at ComicsPRO, DC Comics laid out the schedule for some of the DC Zoom and DC Kids titles they revealed earlier in the month at the American Libraries Association event. And while some of the months were mentioned, we didn't get the days and dates. And now we have them.

Welcome to X-Men: Bland Design, the weekly multi-part recap column that answers the question: “What if Ed Piskor had no art skills, a juvenile sense of humor, and less classic material to work with?” We continue with Astonishing X-Men #8!

Kwanza Osejyefo's Black AF gets its second installment with Widows and Orphans. New series Dismantlers and We Are in Danger launch. These comics and more can be found in Black Mask Comics' May 2018 solicits. Details here.