Author: johnwoods

Just because we can’t have a Holiday Party doesn’t mean we can’t have an Art Show! Everyone year we reach out to Cleveland’s Art Community to help us put together an art show to help the Cleveland Food Bank, who have the amazing ability to turn one dollar into four full meals for those in need. (and the need is currently greater than ever.) Local artists turn blank comic covers into works of art that can be won through a basket raffle system where one dollar gets you one ticket towards the cover of your choice. In the past this has been a one day show where the winners are drawn at the end of the night at our yearly customer appreciation party.  Due to CoVid-19 this year the show will extend over five days and winners will be drawn on a Facebook Live stream to help offset the traffic in the shop at any one time.  This year’s theme is ‘The Pandemic’ and artists were tasked with creating covers combining the CoVid-19 life with their favorite comic book characters. ...

Before we start we’d like to remind you about our Pandemic Art Show for the benefit of the Cleveland Food Bank! The show will run from Wednesday December 16th to Sunday December 20th in the foyer attached to the shop. You can win all the artwork through a basket raffle system where one dollar gets you one ticket towards the cover(s) of your choice. We’ll have another email this week laying it all out but for now please mark your calendar!  On to this week’s new releases! DC Comics In December DC is completing it’s current incarnation to give way to less continuity in 2021 and beyond. It likely means I very different DCU after the new year, even beyond the Future Slate books coming out in January and February. To that avail, lots of heroes have their final moments in this weeks Dark Nights Death Metal Last Stories of the DC Universe One Shot. They’ll still be around, but they might never be the same again.  From Superman by Mark Waid to Green Arrow and Black Canary by Gail...

First off we’d like to thank everyone for all the support over Thanksgiving Weekend. We miss having our old Black Friday event but we still had a great weekend with your help.   Everyone did a great job of helping to keep our CoVid protocols intact, and we thank you for that. MARVEL This week the big book is The King in Black #1, the culmination of two years of Donny Cates writing Venom, and it involves the entire Marvel Universe. Five issue mini series with lots of covers to choose from. It’s fun to see Eddie Brock finally take his place among the Marvel Heroes, and you can see even Cap and Iron Man showing him respect here. Plus, Donny Cates! DC BOOKS DC’s big book is my pick of the week, Batman Catwoman #1. This book is everything the Tom King Batman run was and should have been. Crossing three timelines, past, present and future, this twelve issue mini series traces Selina and Bruce’s relationship across the years. Black Label book too, so anything goes. You’d be hard...

It’s on! Black Friday week is here, a week of sales to help off set the in store traffic at any one time.  From Tuesday November 24th to Sunday November 29th we’ll have: 75,000 books in the foyer at $1.00 each! (50 cents each for 100 or more!) Marvel, DC and Small Press! 50% off ALL Back Issues! 20% off Statues and Action Figures! 10% off Everything Else in the Shop! (yes everything) Wednesday is Local Comic Shop Day so come in and show you support of your LCS!  Come in and clean out your file! Pick up a copy of Spawn #312, which has hundreds of comic shop names built into the artwork, including ours! (Only $2.99!) We’ll be closed on Thursday for Thanksgiving! Friday is Black Friday, but it’s a whole week now so whatever! Saturday is Small Business Saturday and a great day to visit any small business you’d like to see live through the pandemic! Sunday will be the last day to dig through the $1 books for quite some time, so make the most of...

We like to live in the moment but it’s time to start planning for “Black Friday Week” from Tuesday November 24th to Sunday November 29th! In order to space out the in-store traffic we’ll be hosting a sale all week long! We’ll start by filling the foyer with over 75,000 comics at only $1.00 each (50 cents each for 100 or more). We’ll also give you 50% off all back issues, 20% off statues and action figures, and 10% off everything else in the shop. (Yes, everything.) During this sale a few other notable things are happening. Wednesday the 25th is Local Comic Shop Day, and that really just means it’s a good day to stop by your local comic book shop and show your support, even if it’s not us. (this would also be a great day to help us out by coming in to clear out your file before the holidays.) Oh yeah, there a few exclusive comics coming out that day too, the coolest of which is this cover to Spawn #312, which has the names of...

It’s a quick and easy week at the comic book shop before the holidays start up. Here’s the featured new releases coming out this Wednesday, November 11th 2020! The big winner this week is the Punchline Special written by James Tynion IV. Learn a little more about her back story and where she’s headed after the events of Joker War in this one shot. Another fun ride is this week’s Dark Nights Death Metal Infinite Hours Exxxtreme one shot introducing the Dark Multiverse version of Lobo, the Batman who Frags! It reads like old school 90’s Lobo! Teen Titans Go has a new original graphic novel with the kids playing B & B. (Basements and Basilisks). Robin as the “Dungeon” master! Last Rites continues in Amazing Spider-Man #52. Which will also have the previously mentioned Veregge cover for Native American Heritage month. Taskmaster gets his own five issue mini series. This week’s one dollar True Believer reprints are off the hook. The first appearance of Black Panther and the first Lady Liberators! Last week we sent out an email and...