Today’s my 35th birthday! To celebrate, I didn’t go see blink-182 on Tuesday night at PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte (I worked the House of X midnight release instead), but I did post a video of myself playing the intro to Blink’s original side one, track one, “Carousel.”
Read MoreOne year at Baltimore Comic Con, probably in September of 2009, I asked Jonathan Hickman what issues of Fantastic Four he had read to get psyched for his upcoming run on Marvel’s First Family. His response was “all of them.”
Read MoreTomorrow night I make my triumphant (and I say triumphant because I’ve never seen them lose in person) return to Yankee Stadium for the first time since September 2014, when my parents got me tickets for Derek Jeter’s third to last game at home!
Read MoreThanks to everyone that came out and made our rain-shortened Independence Day Firework Ssale such a HUGE success! But we’re not done sweating out the hits just yet, as we’ll be taking the $1 comics (or 20 for $10) over to the GameStop by Target on Wendover tomorrow, Saturday, July 6th from 12 - 5 PM for one final run before we wholesale the lot and start all over for Baltimore Comic Con, Halloween Comic Fest, and the rest of our fall events!
Read MoreApparently Spider-man Far From Home is just coming out on Tuesday like a normal movie with showtimes starting around that morning, so it’ll be the 3rd MCU film (Dr. Strange & Thor Ragnarok before it) and first Spider-man flick I won’t have seen as soon as possible!
Read MoreAnnouncing our Independence Day Firework Sale! We won’t have any actual explosives, but we will be in the parking lot under a tent (weather permitting), just like all the stands you see along Gate City Boulevard this time of year! Picture Free Comic Book Day, but TWICE AS MANY $1 COMICS (or 20 for $10), plus $5 each or 5 for $20 Pops and graphic novels, Buy One Get One FREE Ghostbusters merchandise to commemorate the 35th anniversary, other deep discounted clearance items, and Buy Two Get One FREE on all toys in store!
Read MoreIt’s kind of a moot point now that I’m looking at the books I’m talking about on the new release shelf, but I’m nothing if not a sufferer of general anxiety disorder with obsessive compulsive tendencies, and I couldn’t live with myself seeing that gap between the 12th & 26th for the rest of my life, busy with HeroesCon or not!
Read MoreLast night meant turning the lights out long after the Papa John’s drivers made their final run, but it certainly made for a smoother Wednesday morning!
This weekend I’m off to Chicago to visit my niece Ellie! Hopefully we’ll get to catch a game or head downtown, but getting to see her will be well worth the trip!
Read MoreEnough about me, let’s talk COMICS!
Next Wednesday, June 5th sees the release of our latest exclusive variant, Black Cat #1, drawn by one of the most prolific cover artists this century, J. Scott Campbell! Limited to 3,000 copies worldwide (split between us and the folks in the Triangle), we’ve been pre-selling them for between $11.99 (early bird) and $19.99 (eBay), but for all of our local folks we’re charging just $9.99 in-store!
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