A few weeks ago, we announced all of the Midtown Exclusive items that will be on sale at Special Edition: NYC 2015. We hope you can come visit us at booth #834, but we also hope you check out some of the other exciting things happening at this year’s Special Edition: NYC! 

If you’re attending this year’s convention, you’re in luck! We’ve put together a great list of comic creators and interesting panels to guide you through the show.

Read on for the complete guide below.  Enjoy!

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The whole team gets together to celebrate and discuss Will Eisner week in this super double-sized episode.  We chat with Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming about the viewing of Will Eisner: Potrait of a Sequential Artist at Portland State University and talk about the upcoming Playstation network series Powers. Andrew sits down with Valiant team of Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, and Warren Simons about the history of Valiant and their upcoming projects.

We talk about the third Avengers 2 Age of Ultron movie trailer and get into our Top Picks of the week! Also! Listen to hear the secret phrase to get five entries to win a Jeff Lemire sketch OR a Matt Kindt sketch.  Details here!

If you have any suggestions for the show please let us know through our Twitter, Facebook or email us at podcast@midtowncomics.com. Leave a question on our voicemail at 980-MIDTOWN and we’ll play it on the show!

To read the books that we talked about in this episode visit www.midtowncomics.com and have them delivered right to your door anywhere in the world.

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By Raph Soohoo

Midtownies, Raph here, with another guide for you! Guardians of the Galaxy is out in theaters, and they have a relatively obscure history compared to the likes of Spider-Man and Iron Man, so here’s a primer on the hottest new Marvel franchise.

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By Raph Soohoo

Bloggerinos! Raph here, back from a long absence. The reason for this absence is a sad one: I’m no longer a member of the Midtown Comics Times Square staff. I’ve spent the last six years at Midtown Comics Times Square, two of them as the floor manager, and I’ve made a lot of friends and had a lot of terrific memories. Here are just a few memories I’d like to share with you.

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By Raph Soohoo

Midtownians! Raph here, with some X-Men comic recommendations! With the release of Days of Future Past, we’ve decided to provide you with a primer to the multitude of current X-Books, so that you can jump on board and enjoy Marvel’s Merry Mutants!

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-by Andrew Cohen

Last night was a very lucky night for the 30 fans in attendance at Midtown Comics’ special invite only Q&A with Brian Michael Bendis. Not only were these 30 winners chosen at random from over 300 entries, but they walked away with exclusive signed variants, pre-orders of the highly anticipated The United States of Murder Inc., and great stories from an intimate evening with Bendis (we’ll get to those stories in a minute).

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