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This weekend, Friday November 15 through Sunday November 17, every one of our locations will be hosting our favorite sale of the year, the winter sale. A good way to get yourself out of those early winter blues and ready for the gifting season, come on out for the best deals you will find in … Read more BACK ISSUE TO THE FUTURE: DETECTIVE COMICS #747
Commentary by Dan W. It’s 1999. You can’t go a day without hearing Prince’s seminal hit of the same name on the radio. (Everyone still listens to terrestrial radio.) DC’s Batman comics are in the midst of “No Man’s Land”, an ambitious year-long project that ties every Batman series together in a tapestry of stories … Read more MIKE’S GOT ISSUES!
Anyone that goes into the Naperville store knows this. Yet this essay will not be about my personal problems. What I want to talk about is something close to all our heart: COMICS. Coming soon in November is our Winter Sale (Nov. 15th-17th with a pre-sale in our Naperville and Lakeview store from 7pm to … Read more Yes! More Mutants! By Chris V.
When it comes to Marvel my tastes tend to skew towards Thor, Cap, and you can inject Abnett & Lanning cosmic into my veins. One part of the Marvel universe I have stayed away from (including symbiotes, sorry, I just hate them) are the X-men. I’ve dabbled here and there, but largely could not get … Read more Your love letter to comics…by JC Cunningham
Your love letter to comics. I know what you are thinking, “shouldn’t the title be MY love letter to comics?” Admittedly this is kind of my love letter to comics, but the idea is that hopefully reading mine encourages you to think about yours. Comics are fun. There I said it. A lot of people … Read more My Top 5 Current Ongoing Series By Connor K.
1. Immortal Hulk In my opinion this is the best Hulk book we’ve had since “Planet Hulk”. Al Ewing and Joe Bennet have made the perfect mix of horror and super hero comics. Bruce Banner is human by day and THE IMMORTAL HULK by night reigning terror on anyone who wronged him as Banner. This … Read more My Favorite Guy by Shawn S.
There are three omnipresent questions in every comic guy’s life and yes we both call ourselves and will answer to “comic guy”. The sound of ripping tape triggers a Pavlovian response in every single one of us. Please don’t tell our significant others, as they will then have the perfect tool to insure that we’re … Read more My First Comic by Pete R.
To be honest, I’m not sure what the first comic I ever owned was and I’m not sure what the first comic I ever read was either. As kids my sister and I would go to the public library and check out all the comics they had over and over. Basically, if my sister thought … Read more FFS: Fun reading with Kevin H.
FFS, and comics. This should have a different meaning than what you’re expecting. Let’s talk about why you should love comics, why you should read comics, why you should collect comics: For Fun’s Sake. There is a derth of comic speculation going on right now and it has cast a pall across the industry like … Read more Why I know Walter Simonson’s Thor run is one of greatest comic runs ever! By Rick B.
So after over a decade of nothing important happening and sales dropping to the point of near cancelation, Marvel handed the struggling God of Thunder over to artist writer Walter Simonson. Simonson became a huge name with his award winning artwork on the Manhunter backups in the 70s. He was fresh off an exhilarating run … Read more |
