• Halloween is now just days away and we’ve got some seasonal things planned between now and the end of this weekend:

• Due in part to the current state of the economy local food banks are at a record low, so Westfield Comics will again be holding a Food Drive to benefit the St. Vincent DePauls Food Pantry. Between now and Sunday, November 2 bring in any canned or non-perishable food item and receive a Free Comic Book Grab Bag. We’ll have special bags for kids and adults so bring in more than one item and get some free reading material for everybody while contributing to a good cause.

• Halloween Weekend Friday, October, 31 through Sunday, November 2 Westfield Comics will be having a Costume Contest. If you come in wearing a costume you’ll get your picture taken and entered in our contest to win Gift Cards and other special prizes. Again, there will be different winners for kids and adults, so come one come all!

• Don’t forget to come in and check out our Halloween displays of scary reading materials for kids and adults (here’s a link to our site for a sample of some of our suggestions)

• Oh yeah, and we might have some CANDY on hand too!
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Highlights this week: Since Halloween is upon us it’s appropriate that there’s still a few last minute terrifying titles left in our publishers’ bag of tricks and treats: Creator Mike Mignola returns to doing the art chores for the first time in a while in Hellboy: In the Chapel of Moloch one-shot; DC has shown some smarts by getting the second issue of Superman Batman VS Vampires & Werewolves #2 (of 6) out quickly; the all-new Joker graphic novel hardcover by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo; and the long-awaited rerelease of Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein; Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns #1 is the beginning of the prelude that will lead into the next big Green Lantern crossover The Blackest Night; The New Krypton crossover continues in Superman #681; Thor #11 is finally released; the first in a series of one-shots covering the career of The First Avenger Captain America Theater of War: Operation Zero-Point #1; Secret Invasion is represented this week in Secret Invasion: Thor #3 (of 3), Secret Invasion: X-Men #3 (of 4), Nova #18 and Avengers Initiative #18; Marvel releases three annuals: Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 ; Ultimate Captain America Annual #1 and Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #3 both preludes to Ultimatum; World of Warcraft #12 and World of Warcraft: Ashbringer #2 (of 4); Garth Ennis’s Battlefields: Night Witches #1 (of 3); Token the final title in DC’s MINX line; according to creator Chris Ware the penultimate volume of Acme Novelty Library Volume 19; The Tick: The Complete Edlund; the TinTin Hardcover Boxed Set containing 21 TinTin stories and the Art of Dresden Files 2009 Wall Calendar.

Novelties this week: DCU Infinite Heroes 3-Pack Action Figures 200801; Marvel Mighty Muggs 2008 PX 6-inch Figures; Marvel Minimates Avengers #1 Box Set; the Monty Python Fluxx Gard Game and Supernatural Season 3 Trading Cards

Highlights this week: IDW Publishing has won the bidding war for the All American Hero and debuts G.I. Joe: A New Beginning #0; this week’s Halloween spotlight is on DC Universe Halloween 2008 one-shot; Top Cow’s 2007 Pilot Season winner Cyblade, by Joe Casey and Chriscross; Final Crisis #4 by Morrison, Jones, and Pacheco; Unknown Soldier #1 by Dysart and Ponticelli; Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch #1 (of 5) by Spurrier and Saltares; Hulk #7, by Loeb and Cho under an Adams cover; Thor: Truth of History one shot by Alan Davis; Secret Invasion #7 (of 8), along with cohorts New Avengers #46, Thunderbolts #125, and Secret Invasion Amazing Spider-Man #3 (of 3); X-Men Legacy #217, the second part of the Original Sin crossover with Wolverine Origins (the first part of this crossover is in the X-Men Original Sin one-shot, still on our shelves as of this posting); the last two issues of Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein Volume 1 Prodigal Son (#4 & 5); Warren Ellis’ Aetheric Mechanics Graphic Novel; and there’s always plenty more to choose from if those aren’t your style!

Novelties this week: DC Arkham Asylum Heroclix; the Green Lantern Corps 13 inch Action Figure, featuring multiple heads to make your own favorite GLs; Futurama Series 4 Action Figures and two assortments of Star Wars Mighty Muggs!

Highlights this week: We’ll be spotlighting different Halloween related titles until the end of the month and this week’s is the most unusual but also the most fun: Superman and Batman VS Vampires and Werewolves #1 (of 6) come on, you know you want to read it; the final part of A New Way of Dying concludes in Amazing Spider-Man #573 with a little help from Stephen Colbert, who also stars this week in Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen #3; the New Krypton storyline begins in this week’s Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen Special #1; Batman RIP continues this week in Batman and the Outsiders #12 and Robin #179; George Perez and Geoff Johns finally let us savor Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds #2 (of 5); Also, we’ve got Final Crisis: Rogue’s Revenge #3 (of 3); Secret Invasion is a little bit better represented this week with Secret Invasion: Front Line #4 (of 5); Mighty Avengers #19; Guardians of the Galaxy #6, and Iron Man Director of SHIELD #34; J. Scott Campbell provides a beautiful cover image of Storm to X-Men: Worlds Apart #1 (of 4); the Ghostbusters return in a new miniseries from IDW The Other Side #1 (of 4) and a new manga graphic novel; Udon finally gives us the all-new Street Fighter II: Turbo #1; Devil’s Due begins their timely and also all-new Halloween: The First Death of Laurie Strode #1 (of 3); Zenescope brings us a new take on Re-Animator with the Chronicles of Dr. Herbert West #1 (of 6); the penultimate collection of Will Eisner’s iconic hero in The Spirit Archives Volume 25 hardcover and Aspen releases their first Soulfire comic since the untimely passing of it’s creator Michael Turner with Soulfire: Shadow Magic #0 (of 3)

Novelties this week: The Batman: Long Halloween Action Figure Collectors Set; Marvel Legends Mighty Muggs Assortment 200804; Marvel Minimates Iron Man Movie Assortment; Halo 3 Master Chief 12 Inch Action Figure; and the Umbrella Academy Umbrella (NOT a PROP!)

Highlights this week: October’s counting down to Halloween so naturally we get treated to Marvel Zombies 3 #1 (of 4); the Brainiac storyline reaches its conclusion in Action Comics #870; Batman RIP continues in Detective Comics #849; the popular video game Gears of War becomes a Wildstorm comic; Secret Six #2 finally ships; Avengers Invaders #5 (of 12); the Stephen King double header of Dark Tower: Treachery #2 (of 6) and The Stand: Captain Trips #2 (of 6); Marvel begins adapting Orson Scott Cards’ Enders Game in Battle School #1 (of 5); a Serenity: Better Days softcover collection; creators Ernie Colón and Sid Jacobson all-new follow-up to their 9/11 Report Commission Report from 2006 titled After 9/11: America’s War on Terror; IDW’s Presidential Material one-shots for candidates Barack Obama and John McCain; the all-new Owly Collection Volume 5: Tiny Tales; and there’s always plenty more to choose from if those aren’t your style!

Novelties this week: Marvel Select Incredible Hulk Action Figure; Secret Files Series 3: Batman Rogues Gallery 2 Action Figures; the Barack Obama 6 Inch Action Figure ; the Star Wars Clone Wars Galactic Heroes Action Figures Assortment 200802 and Marvel Bronze Age Heroes 16 oz Glass Assortment 4 (Doctor Strange; Captain Marvel; Master of Kung Fu; X-Men; Thor and Hulk)

Highlights this week: Laurell K. Hamilton’s Vampire Hunter is back in Anita Blake: The Laughing Corpse #1 (of 5); this summer’s first big movie hit Iron Man comes to DVD; the second of Stephen King’s Gunslinger mini-series is now collected in Dark Tower: The Long Road Home Hardcover; the original Marvel Zombies is finally collected in a softcover edition (with three variant covers); the R.I.P. storyline continues in Batman #860 and Nightwing #149; the final issue of The Batman Strikes! (#50); the future of the entire Justice League is altered by an Australian Spider-God in the 48-page Justice League of America #25 and the League’s animal-powered warrior gets her own mini-series in Vixen: Return of the Lion#1 (of 5); after being recently introduced in Teen Titans, the Terror Titans #1 (of 6) spin off into their own mini-series; artist Gene Ha returns to Top Ten: Season Two #1 (of 4) now written by original co-artist Xander Cannon; the Alcoholic hardcover, artist Dean Haspiel’s first graphic novel since The Quitter; three great classic comic strip collections: the Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy Vol 5; the Complete Peanuts Vol 10 and Krazy and Ignatz 1943 - 1944; a landmark issue of Doctor Who Magazine #400; Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book his first full-length novel for young readers since Coraline; Dark Horse gives us three more great reprint collections: Roy Rogers Archives Vol 1; Harvey Comics Classics Vol 4 Baby Huey and also Savage Sword of Conan Vol 4, the lone Secret Invasion tie-in this week: Punisher War Journal #24.

Novelties this week: Marvel Select Thor Olivier Coipel Action Figure; Halo Series 3 Action Figures and Marvel Minimates Series 22 Hulk Movie Assortment