This Sunday, April 8 both Westfield locations will be closed in celebration of the Easter holiday in order for our employees to observe the day with their family and friends. Both locations will open again for their normal business hours on Monday, April 9.

But, If you need some entertainment on one of the few days our doors are closed, click over to washingtonpost.com for the entries in their 6th Annual  Peeps Diorama Contest! Our favorite this year: The Pop Culture page that has an entry that recreates Shane leaving Otis for a horde of zombies on The Walking Dead! Awesome.

Have a Happy Easter everybody! Think of us while you’re biting the head off your choice of chocolated bunny!

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Highlights This Week: Mark Millar, the writer of Kick-Ass and Dave Gibbons, the artist of Watchmen collaborate on The Secret Service #1 (of 7) detailing the education of a 21st Century super-spy ala James Bond; Bryan Hitch arrives at Image Comics with his “widescreen” style of art on America’s Got Powers #1 (of 6) mashing up Super Heroes with Reality Television; the current Daredevil storyline involving his possession of the highly sought-after Omega Drive escalates into The Omega Effect crossover beginning in this week’s Avenging Spider-Man #6 and continuing in Daredevil #11 and Punisher #10; Batman: Arkham Unhinged #1 is a new prequel series to the hit Arkham City video game; Secret #1 is a new ongoing espionage thriller from writer Jonathan Hickman that takes a deep look into the shadow world existing between the government and private security firms;

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Highlights This Week: It’s finally here! After months of waiting and last week’s prologue in issue #0, Avengers VS X-Men #1 (of 12) gets the ball rolling with the initial conflict and more on the return of the Phoenix Force; the relaunch of Extreme Studios titles through Image Comics continues with the first of some unpublished scripts by Alan Moore in Supreme #63; Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s Doom Patrol spinoff is finally collected in the Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe Hardcover; Boom! Entertainment’s Fanboys VS Zombies #1 depicts a zombie outbreak at Comic-Con; the Legends of the Dark Knight: Jim Aparo Hardcover collects Aparo’s classic run on The Brave and the Bold from the 1970s for the first time; Chris Bachalo resumes his role as regular artist on Wolverine and the X-Men #8, and Steve Niles’ Criminal Macabre: Die! Die! My Darling one-shot features the return of monster hunters Cal and Mo’loch as they make a final stand in the war between good and evil!

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*The Infernal Man-Thing is a 3-issue mini-series being released by Marvel this June from an unpublished story written by the late Steve Gerber . The story, entitled Screenplay of the Living Dead Man, will feature interior art by Kevin Nowlan and covers by Nowlan, Arthur Adams and Gil Kane!

*After finishing up their current Rocketeer Adventures 2 anthology series, IDW Publishing has announced they will be publishing an all-new 4-issue Rocketeer mini-series written by Mark Waid with art by Chris Samnee.

*The Doctor will have a new companion beginning with this year’s Doctor Who Christmas Special after Amy and Rory leave the show. AND, here’s a trailer for the next Season (that will not air until Fall) that debuted at the recent official Doctor Who Convention in Cardiff!

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Co-Creators/Co-Writers Michael Moreci & Steve Seeley (Cover Artist) will be signing copies of Hoax Hunters #0 published by Image Comics (and now sold out from the distributor, but we’ve still got copies in-store)!

For more Hoax Hunters information, check out hoaxhunterscomic.blogspot.com.

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Highlights This Week: It hasn’t been getting as much press as issue #1 coming out next week but Avengers VS X-Men #0 (of 12) officially kicks off Marvel’s “next big thing”. We won’t know much about it ’til we get it in our hot little hands, but we DO know that it involves the Scarlett Witch, the mutant known as Hope, the return of the Phoenix Force and that it’s by the talents of Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron and Frank Cho. You must have it! the latest Extreme Studios relaunch, Bloodstrike #26, by Hack/Slash writer Tim Seeley and artist Franchesco Gaston; Gone to Amerikay Hardcover is Derek McCulloch and Colleen Doran‘s century-spanning graphic novel exploring the history of Irish immigrants to America via three intertwined tales beginning in 1870 New York City; the last of this month’s new DC/Vertigo titles is New Deadwardians #1 (of 8 ) by the creative team of Dan Abnett and I. N. J. Culbard where, in a post-Victorian England, the upper classes has voluntarily become vampires to escape the lower classes who are all zombies, and Marjorie Liu and Mike Perkins are the new creative team on Astonishing X-Men #48. Wolverine, Warbird, Gambit, Northstar, Ice Man, Cecilia Reyes and Karma return to New York City to take on the Marauders. Cool!

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Highlights This Week: Justice League #7 is back on schedule as Jim Lee takes a break for 2 issues but provides the cover art with interiors for this issue by Gene Ha (Top Ten). This issue also debuts the first New 52 Shazam! backup story by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank; Amazing Spider-Man #682 begins the Ends of The Earth storyline featuring the return of The Sinister Six; it’s Mark Millar week as he finally finishes Kick-Ass 2 #7 (of 7) and releases Supercrooks #1 (of 4) with artist Leinil Yu ; Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child #1 is this week’s new DC/Vertigo title set in New Orleans with with art by Milestone Media co-founder Denys Cowan; Tiny Titans #50 is the final issue of the series (Aw, No!!!) but we look forward to Art Baltazar and Franco’s new Superman Family Adventures this May; the lead story of IDW’s all-new Rocketeer Adventures 2 #1 (of 4) comes courtesy of Sandy Plunkett, the illustrator who assisted the late Dave Stevens on the original Rocketeer comics;

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*Jean Giraud, legendary French comic artist best known as Moebius, has passed aways after a long bout with cancer in Paris at the age of 73. In this country he was best known for his works published by Humanoids Press (The Incal), the 1998 Silver Surfer: Parable mini-series and collection scripted by Stan Lee, and his design work on such films as Alien and Tron. -R.I.P.

*Similar to the new DC Nation block of cartoons on Cartoon Network, Disney XD will be launching a Marvel Universe block on April 1 headlined by the new Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon and a series of shorts both animates and live-action.

*Visa has commissioned Marvel to produce a promotional comic entitled Avengers: Saving The Day intended to “help introduce children to basic money concepts”.

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Highlights This Week: Brian K. Vaughan returns to his first regular comic series in quite some time with Image Comics’ Saga #1. Vaughan teams with artist Fiona Staples for this lush, epic space drama that has been described as Stars Wars meets Game of Thrones. Get in on the ground floor of this guaranteed sell-out; Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley bring us the all-new Avengers Assemble #1. Set in the Marvel Comic Universe continuity but using the cast of characters of the upcoming Marvel Studios Avengers movie. The first storyline reinvents the team’s villainous adversaries, The Zodiac; creator David Petersen delivers Mouse Guard: The Black Axe #4 (of 6) a “little” earlier than expected; Garth Ennis returns to write Crossed: Badlands #1; Paul Cornell is the writer behind DC/Vertigo’s Saucer Country #1 about a Democratic Presidential candidate who was abducted by aliens

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Highlights This Week: DC/Vertigo’s Fairest #1 is the new Fables spinoff, starring the female fables in their own story arcs. First up is a six-issue tale by Bill Willingham and Phil Jimenez featuring what happened to Briar Rose after being taken away by the goblin army in Fables #107; also spinning out of recent events in Uncanny X-Force is a new monthly return to The Age of Apocalypse #1; the popular cast of The Runaways finally return for a 2-issue appearance in Avengers Academy #27; actor Joshua Jackson writes Beyond the Fringe #1, exploring untold events that take place between seasons three and four of the popular FOX TV show; the creators of Image’s The Red Wing now give us Manhattan Projects #1;

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