Category: Feature

Andrea’s Peeper Picks for 11.29.23

Hello Comic Shop Friends! We’re gearing up for the holidays here, and prepping for our annual Holiday Art Show! This year’s theme is Marvel Vs DC, and you can interpret that any way you want for your cover. We still have blank covers to give out, and you have a few weeks to get them back to us. Art is due back by 5pm on Sunday, December 10th, and we will display the covers starting Wednesday the 13th through our Holiday Party on Saturday the 16th. We’re starting to get some submissions in, and they are great! I feel like you guys are stepping it up this year! Once again, all proceeds from the raffle will benefit the Cleveland Food Bank, so the more covers we have, the more we can donate! Last year we were able to donate enough for them to create 24,900 meals! The Cleveland Food Bank has the ability to turn $1 into four meals, so every raffle ticket helps them greatly! In addition to the Art Show during our Holiday Party, on Saturday the 16th...

Andrea’s Feast of Picks for 11.22.2023

Happy Thanksgiving Comic Shop Friends! Let’s start the email off with this banger: We will be closed this Thursday, the 23rd, but rest up because the next day starts our Black Friday Weekend Sale! Yes, all weekend we’ll be running the sale! Starting Friday, the 24th at noon and going through Sunday the 26th you can get all these great discounts: And, the foyer will be filled with boxes and boxes of dollar stock! Buy 100 or more and they become 50 cents each! That’s the best Black Friday deal around! Also, that Sunday is Genghis Con! Ben, Missty, and I will be there from 12 to 5pm with a bunch of posters and comic book freebies, and blank covers for our upcoming Holiday Art Show. Here’s the link, Come check out a ton of great local artists and creators! This year’s Art Show theme is Marvel Vs DC! We have blank covers in the shop for you to create your interpretation of that theme. (You can also grab them from us at Genghis Con!) Art is due back by...

Andrea’s Deviant Picks for 11.15.2023

Hey Comic Shop Friends! Come in and check out our new carpet! Winston is getting re-settled after all the moving and excitement of the last couple days. Thanks for your patience while we were working on all this, and now it’s back to normal! Now on to shop news! First, our annual Holiday Art Show is coming up in December, and we have blank covers out now so you can sign up and pick up a couple. This year’s theme is Marvel Vs DC! Art is due back by 5pm on Sunday, December 10th, and we will display them starting December 13th through our Holiday Party on Saturday the 16th. Once again, we will raffle them off at the party, and all proceeds go to the Cleveland Food Bank. But coming up in November: it’s the big Black Friday Weekend Sale! From Friday, November 24th through Sunday, November 26th all back issues will be 50% off, all action figures and statues will be 20% off, and everything else in the store will be 10% off! We will fill the foyer...

Andrea’s Petrol Picks for 11.08.2023

Hello Comic Shop Friends! We’ll get into some shop news first, then on to this week’s new books! First, a note from John: “Well, thanks to the Herculean efforts of the staff, the back room was completely emptied, and we got new carpet installed without any interruption to our hours. However, next Monday and Tuesday (November 13th and 14th), we will be closed to do the same with the storefront. We’ve been in this location for over twelve years and it was time to freshen things up a bit. Please do your part to help us out by making plans to come in and pick up your file this weekend! It helps us twofold by lightening the load of things we have to move (already an overwhelming task) and adding some sales to help cover the two days we have to close. Thanks for the support and here’s to a fresher look in the shop.” “We also thought everyone would like to see the fully exposed Rust Belt Monster Murals hanging in the back room that we use as backdrops...

Andrea’s Picks for 11.01.2023

Hey there Comic Shop Friends! Hopefully, everyone had a Happy Halloween! We are ready for a fairly quiet November here in the shop, after all the events in October. I missed the last two because I took some time off to finish out my spooky season, but thank you to everyone who came out for Sarah Kuhn and Laura Siegel Larson’s signing, and to everyone who celebrated Halloween in the shop with free comics! We also just hit our 33rd year of business! Here’s to another 33 years! Please help us out by picking up your files, so we can get ready for the new carpet installation! The less we have to move, the better! We will be closed Monday, November 13th, and Tuesday, November 14th for the installation, and the back room is being done this coming weekend, so please pardon our dust as things are in transition. Since this is going on, and we’ll be having our Black Friday weekend sale in November, we’ll be skipping a month of Late Nite Comics. And, just announced! This year’s theme...

Trick or Treating at CNJComics 10-28-2023

Hey everyone! Just a quick reminder that we’ll be hosting in-shop trick or treating from 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday, October 28th! We’ve had a lot of fun decorating the shop this year and it really shows as you look around the place. We’ve got lots of comics and candy to give away, with Marvel producing five books that were made just for the day! We’ve also got a few other trick-or-read books, including the Cooking with Monsters Feastiary, an IDW Dark Spaces Sampler (adults only), and two manga books from Kodansha. You’re welcome to take one of each as well as some candy. (we have a lot.) We’ll set up a DIY photo backdrop outside, as well as our mechanical “Lewis” talking pumpkin ghoul. (apprently he’s trending according to my daughters.) We have also decided to do 50% off all back issues all day except for the wall. (we just reracked it!) This will be the last time for half of back issues until Black Friday weekend. We’ve also decided to put out a box of free...