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[29 Jul 2010 | No Comment | 33 views]
Local Artist Update 7/29/2010

Just wanted to post a couple more things about our local artists.  Don’t forget to circle Saturday, October 2nd on your calendar – that’s the date for 24 Hour Comics Day this year, when we’ll have quite a few of our favorite artists, both professional and amateur, in-store to take on the challenge of writing & drawing a complete 24-page comic book in 24 hours!  We’ll be running it from 10am Saturday to 10am on Sunday morning, and the event is sponsored by many of our nearby downtown businesses.  Clem’s …

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Comics, Events, Games, Local interest »

[9 Jul 2010 | No Comment | 87 views]
Some weekend notes 7/9/2010

I had a few things that I wanted to Tweet / Facebook, so I will instead just put them into one post.  And probably wind up Tweeting / Facebooking them anyway.  How many of you out there would like to ditch the social networking train and go back to direct-to-tape voice answering machines and listed numbers?

Board Games, Games »

[7 Jul 2010 | No Comment | 72 views]
New Board Games 7/7/2010

A summary of board games that are new to our store in the last few weeks:

Comics, Store News »

[28 Jun 2010 | No Comment | 140 views]
For the Blackest Night enthusiasts

You know Blackest Night was probably THE mega-crossover, super-duper, amazingly-huge, probably-larger-in-scope-than-it-needed-to-be hit of 2009.  And partly 2010.  Since it didn’t finish until February.  But yeah, it was big.

Games, New Games »

[21 Jun 2010 | 4 Comments | 112 views]
New Collectible Game products 5/21/2010

This post is for all the new collectible games, or expansions to collectible games, or shameless money-grabbing random additions to collectible games, that have released in the last couple weeks and are currently for sale on our shelves!

Comics, Movies, Video Games »

[17 Jun 2010 | No Comment | 111 views]
Summer Pilgrimage

If you, dear comic and game fans, have not yet seen the movie trailers for what I predict to be the huge sleeper movie hit of the summer, SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD, I just wanted to provide you this opportunity.

Board Games, Games »

[14 Jun 2010 | No Comment | 113 views]
Our schpeel about the Spiels

I wasn’t positive that I was spelling the word “schpeel” correctly, and although the official Dictionary.com site doesn’t recognize it, it showed up in the Urban Dictionary, and that’s good enough for me.

Games, RPGs »

[10 Jun 2010 | No Comment | 83 views]
New Role-Playing Games

A summary of the role-playing games (or supplements & accessories) that are new to our shelves in the last couple weeks:

Comics »

[9 Jun 2010 | No Comment | 130 views]
Spotlight:  recent HC and TP collections

A handful of books that came out recently that a) you accidentally missed, b) you purposely missed, or c) you meant to come back to in a week or so, but the plethora of $3.99 issues in your weekly stack have prevented you from ever throwing it in the pile.  But if they’re in this post, they’re worth the money.  Really.