by | Nov 13, 2019 | Articles, Events
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...
by Doc Schaefer | Nov 13, 2019 | Docs Corner, Reviews
TALES FROM THE DARK MULTIVERSE BLACKEST NIGHT #1 DC COMICS Wow! Dark and Blackest do not convey the depression in this book! This one is truly a Bummer with a capitol B. The universe is all but dead after one of the more confusing times in DC’s history. One...
by | Nov 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Comics are great, no if ands or buts about it. But with the amount of new books presented to us every Wednesday, some characters get lost and forgotten. Here are three fun characters that you should check out! CONCRETE – Dark Horse Comics Written and illustrated by...
by Doc Schaefer | Nov 6, 2019 | Docs Corner, Reviews
JUSTICE LEAGUE #35 DC COMICS It’s too late at this point to complain about beating a dead horse. All I can do is sit quietly and wait for this year (of the villian) to come to a close. The Anti-Monitor is back (but we already knew that) but this time he has...
by | Oct 30, 2019 | Articles, Back Issue to the Future, Managers, Reviews
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...
by Doc Schaefer | Oct 30, 2019 | Docs Corner, Reviews
TRANSFORMERS GALAXIES #2 IDW COMICS Jumping into issue 2 without prior knowledge, I actually found this interesting without knowing what had happened prior. Tyler Bleszinski’s story and dialog really spotlight some of the older Transformers that I remember...
by Doc Schaefer | Oct 29, 2019 | Docs Corner, Reviews
TOYS FOR TYRANTS #T4TCUSTSERV ISSUE From the folks at The Pulp Lab comes E.D. Brass newest creation. We all know that Wily E. Coyote gets his tech from his trusty Acme Catalog, while the rest of the super-villain world gets theirs from Skelnick Industries. These...
by | Oct 23, 2019 | Articles, Managers, Reviews
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...
by Doc Schaefer | Oct 23, 2019 | Docs Corner, Reviews
DIAL H FOR HERO #8 DC COMICS Unfortunately, Dial H slips a bit this time around. While still an interesting storyline with believable characters, Dial H appears to have picked up a case of that most dreaded of comic viruses, the over-complicating of a plot devise...
by Doc Schaefer | Oct 16, 2019 | Docs Corner, Reviews
METAL MEN #1 DC COMICS Finally! Somebody gets it and from an unlikely source on top of everything else. Including a certain “Nameless” cameo, the long and sorted history of the Metal Men as seen through the eyes of Will Magnus. With flashbacks and the...
