Author: johnwoods

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...

Hi there, Comic Shop Friends! Just a heads up, we will be closed Monday the 26th for Memorial Day. Enjoy your grilling and chilling! But make sure to stop in on Sunday, the 25th for Raf’s Birthday Back Issue Sale! He’s probably putting Batman and Conan back issues at 50% off, but you’ll have to come in to find out! MARVEL COMICS Tony Fleecs and Leonard Kirk present the world’s greatest clobberin’ magazine! As Ben Grimm himself says, “I’m just a schlub from the neighborhood who got bombarded by cosmic rays and turned into a colossal, rocky monster…” but now the Thing stars in his own series! Word on the street is that somebody’s real mad at the Ever-Lovin’ Blue-Eyed Thing, and is offering a ten-million-dollar payout to whoever can take him out. All because a childhood bully has shown up asking Ben for help finding his niece, which leads to a guy who knows a guy, who ends up being the Gladiator, who is stronger than he’s ever been. What happened to the Gladiator has been happening to others...

Oh hello, Comic Shop Friends! Welcome to a week of wonderful reads! Late Nite Comics! Thursday, May 15th! 8pm to midnight! Dollar books! Get 100 or more and they will be 50 cents each! 50% off back issues! Including the wall! Raf is celebrating his birthday in the shop on Sunday, May 25th, with his own back issue sale! Batman? Conan? Stop in on that day to find out the details! MARVEL COMICS It’s monster vs. mutants! Something being built in Japan is drawing Godzilla’s anger. The X-Men are called to help stop the kaiju, and Charles Xavier believes they can reason with the King of the Monsters. But if that fails, Gambit has stolen something that will help the X-Men band together and use all of their powers to take down Godzilla! Written by Fabian Nicieza with art by Emilio Laiso. Gwenpool is back! Fighting off Fin Fang Foom with Spider-Man, Kate Bishop, and Jeff the Land Shark (It’s Jeff!), Gwenpool notices things starting to get a little darker, a little grittier, a little more Frank Miller. Peter Parker’s...

Hello Comic Shop Friends! I hope you all had a wonderful Free Comic Book Day with us! We had a smooth and successful day, and now that we’re all rested from the weekend (You all came out for back issues on Sunday!), we’re ready for another week of new comics! Thank you to all of you who came out and made this another excellent Free Comic Book Day! We do still have some free comics left, and you can stop in and pick up a few! And here’s a few pictures from the fun of FCBD! John vs a parking lot goose! Mural painting! Bluey made a short appearance at Luna’s request so she could do a Bluey drawing! Green Lantern Gordon Shumway showed up! The Bee! And Carol! And Late Nite Comics regular, Mike Kenny, discovered the “Easter Egg” when he bought the infamous copy of Batman #181 on the wall and won a copy of every FCBD book! Speaking of Late Nite Comics, this month’s will be on Thursday May 15th! You know the drill! Dollar stock! 50%...