At last! This week, the Simpson’s portly purveyor of four-color fiction has his own comic mini-series in Comic Book Guy: The Comic Book #1 (of 5) Just imagine what is in store for you when an entire comic book title is given over to explore the adventures and pet peeves of one of the comic industry’s very own (well, kind of…)

Is Comic Book Guy destined to be the subject of a story arc that ranks among such notable classics as Watchmen, Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, The Dark Knight Returns, and The Dark Phoenix Saga? And, more importantly, will he live to tell the tale?

Over twenty years in the making, the New Teen Titans: Games Hardcover is a can’t-miss for fans new and old. Harking back to the era when New Teen Titans was a best-selling monthly comic series comes this lost tale from legendary creators Marv Wolfman and George Perez. The $24.99, 144 page book stars the circa 1980 fan-favorite characters just in time for their 30th anniversary!

This stand-alone story features a mysterious villain playing a deadly game with New York City as the game board, and the Teen Titans as the pieces. Like something out of a time capsule, this never-before-seen epic is the New Teen Titans story from their original creators that has never been told…until now! Currently scheduled for release on November 3, but we recommend ordering now to guarantee availability.

Click here to read an interview with Marv Wolfman on the long history of the Teen Titans: Games Hardcover

Neil Gaiman’s character Death, from Sandman will appear in Action Comics #894 this October during Lex Luthor’s current quest for power.

Robert Rodriguez hasn’t mentioned a Sin City 2 movie in awhile but brought it up recently when discussing his Predators movie and other future projects.

Maybe because of the success of Marvel’s Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers comics, DC is now going to be involved in DC Pets books!

Marvel will be putting out a mature readers Deadpool MAX title beginning in October!

Legendary Batman artist and comics pioneer Neal Adams returns this week to Gotham City and the comic shelves with Batman: Odyssey #1, the first issue of two 6-part miniseries.

In this iconic new story, The Dark Knight faces a series of seemingly unrelated challenges as villains and allies old and new push him to his limits like never before. After Batman discovers a dark and mysterious matrix being superimposed over his life, what sort of life-changing voyage must he embark on to escape from this powerful and insidious force?

Click here for a recent interview with Adams on Batman: Odyssey and here for a preview.

In the wake of the just-released Serenity: Float Out one-shot, we are now pleased to begin taking orders for Dark Horse’s Serenity: The Shepherd’s Tale graphic novel. This November, one of the greatest mysteries of Firefly/Serenity is finally revealed as the life’s journey of one of the show’s most beloved characters, Shepherd Book is finally told.

Who was Book before meeting Mal and the rest of the Serenity crew, how did he become one of their most trusted allies, and how did he find God in a bowl of soup? Answers to these and more questions about Book’s past are uncovered in this original 56-page, $14.95 hardcover graphic novel by Zack Whedon (Dr. Horrible and Joss’ brother) and Chris Samnee (Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps). Order now to guarantee availability. Get your holiday shopping done early with this one!

Click here for an article on the making of the Serenity: The Shepherd’s Tale Hardcover

John Kovalic has announced plans for the return of Dork Tower both in comics and collections in the Spring of 2011.

Mouse Guard Volume 3: The Black Axe is to be released as a bi-monthly six issue mini-series launching in September.

We’ve got a new face for the upcoming redo of the Spider-Man Movie franchise, actor Andrew Garfield.

With everybody poo-pooing Jim Lee’s new costume design for Wonder Woman, someone who knows fashion, Project Runway’s Tim Gunn gives it a thumbs up!

Mark Millar, by now, has pitched Marvel his outline for an Old Man Logan sequel.

If you’re one of many fans that participated in Dan Didio’s recent postcard campaign, your efforts pay off this week with the release of Wonder Woman #600!

The 56-page issue celebrates the occasion with the talents of Wonder Woman creators past and present including Geoff Johns, Phil Jimenez, George Pérez, Gail Simone, Joe Madureira, a special introduction by TV’s Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, all along with the return to the title’s original numbering.

Plus, like Superman #700 last week, you’ll get a look at the all-new direction the Wonder Woman universe is taking thanks again to the Amazon Princess’ new regular writer J. Michael Straczynski.

It’s getting easier, and cheaper, to check out a variety of comics thanks to recent programs from four of the leading publishers.

Last year DC Comics began a program called What’s Next? which re-released popular issues like Transmetropolitan #1 for only $1. They’ve also recently released first issues of new Vertigo series such as Joe The Barbarian for the same price. Marvel then began its Marvel’s Greatest Comics (MGC) program with titles like the recent Deadpool #1 and New X-Men #114 (Grant Morrison’s 1st ish).

In addition, Image Comics now has their Image Firsts $1 line, and Dark Horse will be debuting its 1 for $1 program this August beginning with such titles as Usagi Yojimbo #1 and Sin City #1. In September they’ll release 6 more titles including the original Magnus Robot Fighter #1 from 1963. Overstreet has the original priced at over $400!

Looking for something new? Come in soon and check out our display in the front of the store of these new $1 comics!

We currently have a limited supply of Black Widow #1 and X-23 #1 (Women of Marvel one shot) graciously signed by New York Times-bestselling author Marjorie M. Liu for sale! There is no extra charge (3.99 cover price) for these signed copies!

Many of you may also recognize Liu’s name from the recent Dark Wolverine series she co-writes with Daniel Way, which will soon to transition into the new Daken series. She’ll also be writing a new ongoing X-23 series following up on the Women of Marvel one shot.

Before all of that, though, Liu was a regular customer of Westfield Comics earlier this decade while she attended law school at the University of Wisconsin here in Madison! After deciding she didn’t like being a lawyer, she began writing. Her non-comics work includes the Dirk & Steele and Hunter Kiss novel series and the X-Men: Dark Mirror novel, her first work with Marvel.

Liu went on to write the NYX: No Way Home mini-series with art by Kalman Andrasovsky (iCandy, Legion of Monsters: Satana), available in hard cover (24.99), and softcover (19.99). If you’re interested in them and we don’t have these in stock the next time you’re in, please don’t hesitate to ask us when we’ll have them back in stock! Give us heck!

For more information, be sure to check http://marjoriemliu.com/

To coincide with, and take advantage of, the DVD release of the Kick Ass Movie on August 3, Marvel Comics has snuck in a quick solicitation for the sequel comic Kick Ass: Balls to the Wall #1.

Currently scheduled for release by Marvel on August 4, the announcement of the comic’s sequel has gone strangely unnoticed by the industry, and as we go to press the title can’t even be found on Marvel’s website! We don’t know much other than it’s by the original creative team of Mark Millar & John Romita, Jr. and that Kick-Ass is being trained by the 11-year-old Hit Girl while the Red Mist gathers a team of super-villains to take them down!

Needless to say, we’re still taking orders for this sure-to-be-a-hit comic whenever its released. Remember how many reprints they did when the first series kept selling out? Tell us to add it to your pullbag today! ‘Nuff ‘Said!