In anticipation of his upcoming series, we sat down with Matthew Rosenberg, the writer and co-creator of the upcoming ‘What’s The Furthest Place From Here?’. He had some things to say and some things to give away. Take it away, us! Graham Crackers Comics: You’ve been away from the indy scene for a bit. How … Read more
Chances are if you’ve been in one of our locations more than once, we’ve probably mentioned our subscription (also known as a hold or pull list) to you. Signing up for the pull list guarantees you a main cover of any title you wish to pick up… but what about the variant cover and last-minute … Read more
BATMAN SUPERMAN #22 DC COMICS How I pity the poor creative team who have to come up with the next issue after Gene Luen Yang and Ivan Reis’s epic story arc! But amazingly, Yang along with new penciller Paul Pelletier pull off this mind blowing little one-shot. Yes, that’s right, I said one shot. … Read more
BATMAN #113 DC COMICS Finally, Batman is starting to return to some semblence of order. With the world of Gotham completely off the deep end, the Batman returns and starts to throw down as he should. While we do delve into some unrealistic territory (a prototype electrical telepathy devise – really?), Simon Saint’s hopelessly … Read more
Every Tuesday, I drive to the Naperville Graham Crackers location to get the Diamond order as well as any special orders that might have been made throughout the week. It’s about a 4 hour round trip, which can get pretty boring without something good to listen to. I generally either jam out to my Spotify … Read more
In the early 1990’s, Captain America had taken a turn storywise, into new more human condition themes. Characters like Diamondback and D-Man had started to provide Cap with a more family oriented future. And while the stories were interesting and in some cases tear jerking, they didn’t seem all that popular. During this … Read more
BATMAN & SCOOBY-DOO! MYSTERIES #6 DC COMICS This whole review is one big SPOILER alert! But more importantly, it is proof that my generation had the best of all worlds! Just when you didn’t think that writer Sholly Fisch (which I stll believe is an anagram for something) could find a different set of … Read more
Although the world at large generally assumes we spend the bulk of our days thumbing through funny books and talking about the customers, that assumption is not correct. We run a big boy business, complete with tasks like counting, ordering, and filing. Our days are filled with a constant barrage of what to order, what … Read more
KA-ZAR, LORD OF THE SAVAGE LAND #1 MARVEL COMICS Welcome to Comics 101, I’m your instructor Doc Schaefer and today we’ll be looking at what a mess the character of Ka-zar has become. Ka-Zar the Great (his first official title) first appeared at Marvel in Marvel Comics #1 in 1939. He was a wonderful … Read more
It’s been awhile since we’ve had a new edition of Jake’s Gag Bag! Graham Crackers Comics’ exclusive humor blog series! For those that are new, I like to take a specific moment from a comic series that made laugh out loud, and then proceeded to live in my head rent free ever since. This time … Read more