Saga is coming back next week! LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Saga (of which I pre-order the deluxe edition from Best Buy with the Han in Carbonite steel book case and Luke drinking blue milk minifig on August 8, 2020) finally has a release date of April 5, 2022! Book of Boba Fett will go straight into Moon Knight! When We Were Young Festival in Vegas next October tickets go on sale tomorrow!
Yep, things are looking up for ol’ Gil…
Read MoreTickin’ boxes to start the year!
Remodel we waited eight months to be completed = DONE!
Marathon I trained for nine months = DONE!
Massive week of releases we’ve been dying for for the last month = COMING NEXT WEEK!
As president Bartlet always shouted to Mrs. Landingham at the end of an episode of The West Wing, “What’s next?!”
Read MoreBack down in Orlando, and things have been even crazier than usual with Carly’s brand-new car breaking down in the middle-of-nowhere South Carolina four hours into the trip resulting a limping a 20 mile drive at 20 miles per hour down a major highway to the nearest mechanic, a new transmission hopefully currently (on Friday) being installed and a rental car costing over $100 a day! Add to that a 2:45 AM Uber to run 26.2 miles before we head back on Sunday and it’ll certainly be a trip to remember and hopefully never repeat. But, look, we’re still smiling!
Read MoreBefore we get to the tradition of recapping the keys we’ve had the good fortune of shepherding to their forever homes this year, I want to remind you that our schedule will NOT change on Friday for New Year’s Eve or Saturday for New Year’s Day! We’ll be open 11 AM - 7 PM both days as usual.
Not to bemoan the new books on the shelf that we live Wednesday to Wednesday for just as much as many of you, but it’s the x-factor of never knowing what could walk in the door when you get to work on any given day that brings a real thrill to our job. This year we definitely had some once-in-a-lifetime titles come through our door, like the Spider-Man #1 Platinum Edition, of which one copy was sent to each store as a thank you when Todd McFarlane’s landmark debut hit in 1990, and Space Ghost #1 from Gold Key.
Absent from the list and photos were some of the rarest and hottest indie books of the year like a full runs of every variant and every printing of Something is Killing the Children, Bitter Root, and Monstress because sometimes even I don’t personally fully grasp the significance or because the industry has reached a point where it moves so quickly that things are here and gone before we know it!
Read MoreThe best gift we could have gotten this year came through at the eleventh hour: our new roof surviving the two torrential downpours we had earlier this month, being able to replace the ceiling tiles that had been obviously damaged since white was switched out for black right before Free Comic Book Day in August, and our new floor going into place!
It could just be my imagination, but it feels warmer, brighter, calmer than it has since May. We appreciate you bearing with us for the last seven months (and last five years for that matter) and all your kind words about us getting back to normal (and that goes double for everyone that must surely have been kidding when they said they liked the concrete floor covered in glue residue just as well)!
The FREE Marvel calendar is BACK for 2022, so the first 50 people to make a purchase next Wednesday can start planning out their year!
Read MoreMy holiday humbug for you all, Blink-182’s “Not Another Christmas Song”!
I’m sure I’ll restate it next week, but our holiday schedule will be:
Wednesday, December 22nd - New Release Day - 8 AM - 8 PM
Thursday, December 23rd - Last Regular Business Hours before Christmas - 11 AM - 7 PM
Friday, December 24th - Christmas Eve - 11 AM - 2 PM
Saturday, December 25th - Christmas Day - CLOSED!
Sunday, December 26th - Back to Regular Business Hours - 12 PM - 5 PM
Then we won’t have any changes until next Thanksgiving, gods willing!
Read MoreIt’s crazy to me that three of the four books that I talked about last week are already sold (Werewolf #32, Hulk #181, and ASM #238)! Amazing Spider-Man #129 is now available for viewing on the backwall! And for a cherry on top, our new floor is finally scheduled to go in on Monday!
I missed out on the Elon Festival of Lights (it was the last day of November and I didn’t even check the date until after December 1st), but two of my other favorite holiday events are this Saturday, December 11th, the Reindeer Romp at the Ragsdale Family YMCA in Jamestown @ 9 AM and the Running of the Balls in the Sunset Hills neighborhood of Greensboro @ 6 PM! Both 5Ks will make up the 10K I’m supposed to be doing for my marathon training and sandwich my work day nicely.
Read MoreWe got the grades back on the big honkin’ books that I gave a sneak peek at back in October, and we should have them back in hand early next week!
Amazing Spider-Man #129 - 7.5 - First Appearance of the Punisher with Marvel Value Stamp intact - $2,500
Amazing Spider-Man #238 - 9.4 - First Appeance of the Hobgoblin with tattoos intact - $650
Incredible Hulk #181 - 9.2 - First Appearance of Wolverine with Marvel Value Stamp intact - $12,000
Werewolf by Night #32 - 8.0 - First Appearance of Moon Knight - SOLD!
For security reasons, WE WILL NOT BE KEEPING THESE BOOKS (aside from the ASM #238) ON THE PREMISES! If you are seriously interested in the Hulk #181 or ASM #129, detailed pictures will be available on our iPad and the books can be retrieved quickly enough, but there will be a fee if we leave to go and get them and you don’t end up purchasing them.
Read MoreMan, thank you guys so much for coming out so strong yesterday before our day off today!
Starting tomorrow, November 26th at 8 AM and continuing through Sunday, November 28th, enjoy Buy 2 Get 1 FREE on everything in the store except recent unbagged issues, comic supplies, and pre-orders! That’s right, we’re including the backwall in the deal for what I’m remembering as the first time ever! The only catch is that even though you can get as many combinations of three items if you’d like, each group of three need to be from the same category, i.e. three graphic novels, three action figures, etc.
And you all know by now that I’m an early riser by nature, so join me just after dawn tomorrow for our doorbuster deal with 60% OFF back issues from 8 AM - 9 AM, 50% OFF back issues from 9 AM - 10 AM, and 40% OFF back issues from 10 AM - 11 AM! If you’re still sleeping off your Thanksgiving dinner and can’t make it by for my extra magic hours, back issues will be included in the standard Buy 2 Get 1 offer the rest of the weekend.
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