Category: Feature

Hi Comic Shop Friends! Are you excited for Superman? We are! Check out what John has been working on: “Here’s something I’ve been slowly working on for the Superman movie this month. It’s coming together way better than I expected, too. There’s a lot going on around town so we wanted to do something that was decisively comic book in nature, like building an 11-foot-tall interactive Action Comics #1 photo backdrop! Some assembly still required but it will be ready in the foyer next to the shop from July 9th to the 16th, so movie release weekend. It barely fits in there! (I also made a smaller car for kids to be able to hold.) We’ve been hoarding Superman comics from FCBD and Superman Day this year, as well as the new reprint of Krypto’s first appearance, so everyone stopping in those days will be able to grab some free comics as well! Honestly, all I ask for my efforts is that anyone posting their pictures on socials gives us a little shout out if they feel so inclined. Truth,...

Hi Comic Shop Friends! I hope you’re staying cool, and staying inside reading comics. This heat is making it hard to be motivated, so this will be a short newsletter. First, just announced! We’ll be hosting one of Genghis Con’s Drawing Club nights! August 21ST from 7 to 10pm, during Late Nite Comics! Details from their post: “Presenting the first ever Genghis Con Drawing Club! Dig out your art supplies and brush off that sketchbook, we are meeting up this summer to draw and count down the days til Genghis Con!! Dates so far: Come out in August for some drawing and dollar diving! MARVEL COMICS Collecting X-Men: From the Ashes #7 – 12 in print for the first time, X-Men: Demons and Death follows Havok and Omega Red’s journeys from Krakoa into the X-Factor and Sentinels series. In “Don’t Sound Like No Sonnet”, Havok is barely alive, held together by demon skin grafts from the Goblin Queen. To end his suffering, demon K’yrb takes Alex to Limbo to undo the botched necromancy affecting him. But Madelyne has a secret...

Hi Comic Shop Friends! A couple of updates before we get to the new comics. You may have heard that while on vacation at the Dirty Dancing filming location, Carol broke a femur. Carol is doing well post-surgery, but because she’s in another state, John is working out getting her back home this week. John thanks everyone for their kind words, and as he says, “We had a good run before she fell in the evening. We even got her out to the dried-up lake where Johnny Castle did the lift in the water, so she stood on the exact same cinder blocks Patrick Swayze stood on in the scene.” That does mean that John will not be at this month’s events that he was looking forward to.  Send some good vibes for a safe trip back home for them, and a great recovery for Carol! So, John won’t be co-hosting this Wednesday’s Midnight Rental Secret Screening, but Ben will still be there! Stop out to the Grog Shop at 8pm for a surprise movie! Doors at 7pm, only $10!...

Hello Comic Shop Friends! This month’s Late Nite Comics falls on Thursday, the 19th! Happy Juneteenth! Here’s the details from John: “This month’s Late Nite Comics will be a big one! 8pm to midnight on Thursday, June 19th. We’re looking to have at least 20 NEW long boxes of small press dollar stock out! (Small press being anything other than Marvel and DC.) This will be stuff from the late 80s, early 90s too, not just modern stuff. We’re also cranking out a new collection, so expect some new Marvel and DC dollar stock as well. (In order, too!) You wanted fresh dollar stock, and you got it! As always, all back issues will be 50% off, including the wall. We’ll also be celebrating Ben’s 15th Anniversary (Ben-a-versary?) with the shop, so refreshments will be provided! Excelsior!” Come out to the Grog Shop on Wednesday, the 18th to watch a terrible movie with Ben and John Dudas co-hosting! It’s the monthly Midnight Rental Secret screening, so stop by to celebrate Ben’s 15 years working at the shop! Doors at 7pm,...

Happy June, Comic Shop Friends! Come on out Thursday the 19th for Late Nite Comics! Open ‘til midnight! Dollar books everywhere! 50% off back issues! Hooray! For June’s Midnight Rental Secret Screening, both Ben and John Dudas will be co-hosting to celebrate Ben’s 15 years at the shop! Wednesday the 18th at 8pm at the Grog Shop! Doors at 7pm for a pre show of vintage commercials and trailers put together by Lenora, and the surprise secret horror/b-movie starts at 8! Only $10! MARVEL COMICS It’s the penultimate issue of the J. Michael Straczynski one-shots, this time featuring Juan Ferreyra’s rad Ghost Rider! Versus Galactus! What happens when the Devourer of Worlds meets the Spirit of Vengeance? With an idea planted by the Thing, Johnny Blaze decides to punish Galactus for the billions of souls he has consumed. Can the lethal fire of the Penance Stare be enough to bring about the downfall of Galactus? Why does the Watcher always get involved when he’s only supposed to be watching? How does the cycle of death and rebirth of universes connect...

Hey Comic Shop Friends! It’s a week with nothing happening besides new comics! June’s Late Nite Comics will be on Thursday the 19th from 8pm to midnight. Come out to the Grog Shop on Wednesday, June 18th at 8 pm for Lenora’s Midnight Rental Secret Screening! Both Ben and John Dudas will be co-hosting as a late celebration for Ben’s two-year anniversary of doing the live Secret Screenings! Only $10, doors at 7 pm for an hour of vintage commercials and trailers before the unknown horror b-movie starts at 8! MARVEL COMICS The first of five new Giant-Size one-shots, and just in time for the 50th anniversary of the original Giant-Size X-Men! Writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, along with artist Adam Kubert, send Kamala Khan through the history of the X-Men, and it will never be the same! The past isn’t set in stone, and the future is up for grabs. Since learning that she is also a mutant, Kamala has been balancing her Ms. Marvel identity, her role in the mutant community, and her normal life, but things...