Category: Events

Andrea’s Pre-FCBD Picks for 05.03.2023

Hi Comic Shop Friends! Is everyone ready for this Saturday? This Saturday, the 6th, from 10 am to 7 pm, it’s Free Comic Book Day! Here are the details: We’ve also supplied local libraries with Free Comic Book Day books, and the Rocky River Public Library has a display set up with some of their recommendations. As always, more information can be found on our Facebook page and our website. The list of available FCBD books can be found here! And here are pictures of the graphic novels we’ll have to hand out. Our next Late Nite Comics event will be Thursday, May 18th, from 8 pm to midnight! John’s bringing out ALL Marvel dollar books! More details to come after FCBD! MARVEL COMICS Everyone’s favorite sentient tree creature has his own series! Groot! When invaders attack his planet, Groot, and his friends Gleef and Tweeg, are captured, and now he must accept his heroic destiny. A destiny that leads him to Private Mar-Vel. Writer Dan Abnett and artist Damian Couceiro reveal Groot’s origin and his first adventure through the...

Andrea’s Trash Panda Picks for 04.26.2023

Happy Halfway to Halloween, Comic Shop Friends! If you feel like celebrating, we have tons of horror recommendations!  Including the new trade paperbacks of Creepshow and Shock Shop and the new series The Neighbors and The Seasons Have Teeth. And What’s the Furthest Place From Here has a jack-o-lantern-filled cover this week! In the spirit of the season, a friend of the shop Laura Wimbels (Lenora’s Midnight Rental) was recently a guest on the Found Footage Festival’s show, Saturday Morning Cartoons, with Caitlin McGurk of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum and comic artist Stephen R. Bissette! They watched an episode of Monster Force, a cartoon Marv Wolfman worked on. Check it out below: Free Comic Book Day is in 11 days! John sent out an email this week with details, local artist/vendor listings, and the news that back issues will be 50% off Friday, May 5th, through Sunday, May 7th! So, stop in on Friday to get ahead of the crowd on Free Comic Book Day or on Sunday when it’s quieter, and you can also pick up...

Andrea’s Eight Eyed Picks For 04.19.2023

Andrea’s Eight Eyed Picks For 04.19.2023

Hi Comic Shop Friends! It’s just over two weeks until Free Comic Book Day! All the details are on our website, but the event will run from 10 am to 7 pm on Saturday, May 6th; there will be vendors set up in the Free Comic Room and a Kids Area set up in the foyer next to the shop. The posters are in, too, so you can grab one with any purchase! There are also thinner misprint posters to hang to promote the event if you have somewhere to hang one! And this Thursday, the 20th, is Late Nite Comics! With our guest Chad Bilyeu, creator of Chad in Amsterdam, and The Re-Up! You know the drill by now – we stay open until midnight, back issues are 50% off, and the table will be filled with forty boxes of dollar stock! Chad will have a table set up to sell and sign his comics, so stop by! (Winston requires your presence at these events. Do not disappoint him.) MARVEL COMICS Lots of good continuing series this week from...

Andrea’s Giant Monster Picks for 04.12.2023

Andrea’s Giant Monster Picks for 04.12.2023

Hey Comic Shop Friends! John sent out the email with Free Comic Book Day details, which are also on our website, www.cnjcomics.com, so everything you need to know will be there! Mark your calendars for Saturday, May 6th, from 10 am to 7 pm! Here’s our poster for this year! We don’t have them in store yet, but they will be free with a purchase once we get them! And coming up on Thursday the 20th is our next Late Nite Comics with special guest Chad Bilyeu! He’s the creator of Chad in Amsterdam and The Re-Up, and he’ll have a table set up during Late Nite selling his books. We’ll also have 40 long boxes of dollar stock out and 50% off back issues! MARVEL COMICS Ewoks! The Ewoks gather around the fire to tell three silent stories to their younglings, tales of friendship, horror, and triumph on the moon of Endor, from writer Alyssa Wong and artists Lee Garbett and Java Tartaglia, Paulina Ganucheau, Kyle Hotz and Rachelle Rosenberg, and Caspar Wijngaard. What new spiders will show up...

Andrea’s Nasty Picks for 04.05.2023

Andrea’s Nasty Picks for 04.05.2023

Happy April Comic Shop Friends! We’re getting closer to Free Comic Book Day and will have more information about that coming soon! It’s only a month away now, so mark your calendars for Saturday, May 6th! Coming up this month is Late Nite Comics on Thursday, April 20th, from 8 pm to midnight! We’ll have another 40 long boxes of dollar stock out for you to hunt through, 50% off back issues, and a special guest, Chad Bilyeu. He’s the creator of Chad in Amsterdam and The Re-Up, which you can find on our local comics wall. He’ll have a table during Late Nite, selling his comics, so stop by to check that out! As always, you can find more information about upcoming events on our Facebook page, website, and Tuesday night videos, now on Facebook and YouTube! MARVEL COMICS Following the events of the 2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes film, this new series, written by David F. Walker with art by Dave Wachter, takes place in 2015, after the ALZ-113 virus has run rampant across the...

Andrea’s Strange Picks for 03.22.2023

Andrea’s Strange Picks for 03.22.2023

Hi Comic Shop Friends! Happy Spring! And Happy Winston World Weekend! This Friday through Sunday is Winston World, a three-day long sale to coincide with Fan Expo Cleveland going on from March 24 – 26th! (It used to be Wizard World.) We’ll be offering 50% off ALL back issues, as well as 10% off EVERYTHING else in the shop. We like to give a reason for out of town visitors to stop by the shop while they’re here. (We also need another reason to feed Winston’s ego.) Also, here’s the link to buy tickets for the Cleveland Fan Expo: MARVEL COMICS Reprinting Avengers #9, this Marvel facsimile presents the introduction of Wonder Man! Before he was an Avenger and Hollywood action star, Simon Williams was a brilliant inventor turned dangerous foe, with his ionic powers making him strong enough to go toe to toe with the Avengers! Stephen Strange is back, and Jed MacKay and Pasqual Ferry begin a new chapter in Doctor Strange’s life. Demons have your soul? Dragons, elves, trolls, and whatnot in your city? Haunted garbage monster?...