Thanks to you guys, we had a record-breaking attendance Black Friday at Cosmic Comics! Showing up to any retailer before six a.m. makes you a trooper. Showing up to a comic shop before six a.m. makes you a certified Bad Ass Mouther !, so shout-out to the seventy-five or so of you who waited in the cold on Black Friday. We saw more faces in the store this Black Friday … [Read more...]
Cosmic Comics Behind the Counter: Black Friday 2013
Not only will November 29th mark the sleepiest food-coma, busiest shopping day of the year; I will be celebrating a whole year at Cosmic Comics! Black Friday, Here we come! Everybody has their opinions about the Holiday Season, and that definitely includes me. Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Last-Minute-Christmas-Eve-Eve shoppers - I know them all. I'm definitely a Cyber Monday … [Read more...]
Natalie’s Iron Man 3 Review
A few days ago I got to attend the screening for Iron Man 3 thanks to being an employee of Cosmic Comics! As I was leaving the theatre I heard the inevitable "It was nothing like the comics" which I admittedly have no bias to since I never really read much into the Iron Man mythos. But I learned quite some time ago these movies that come out based on books, comics, etc are … [Read more...]
Locke & Key: Omega #3
Hands down my favorite ongoing series, Locke & Key, is a thrilling roller coaster of suspense and horror. With only 4 issues left to the impending finale of the Omega arc, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez definitely aren't holding back with the jaw dropping drama. This is one of those series that focuses on characters so much so that you can become so engrossed in them … [Read more...]
DC The New 52 Failures – Part IV
tpull's Corner tpull takes a look at DC The New 52 1 year later. Check out part 1 here to see how it began. DC The New 52: Lack of a checklist For the epic fail more recently, we have the first big crossover event in the DC The New 52 universe: the Night of Owls. Starting in Batman, they tried to have appearances related to the big story in all Bat-titles: Batman, … [Read more...]
DC The New 52 Failures – Part III
tpull's Corner tpull takes a look at DC The New 52 1 year later. Check out part 1 here to see how it began. DC The New 52 Continuity changes DC makes big announcements whenever they introduce a “diverse” character. They make tons of loud noises about being sensitive, and try to put a politically correct face on everything. Which made it all the stranger when they revised … [Read more...]
DC The New 52 Failures – Part II
tpull's Corner tpull takes a look at DC The New 52 1 year later Check out part 1 here to see how it began. More stories out of order DC’s next new big plan with Superman in DC The New 52 was to kill off Clark Kent. Legal reasons to do with the Siegel lawsuit, perhaps? No way to tell. But the irritating part is, you read Action Comics #10, and at the end is a … [Read more...]