Every Four Years There Comes the Rarest of Days

| January 16, 2012

CBH is getting ready! Stay tuned! Here, at the store, on Twitter, and Facebook.

Escape From Key West!

| January 15, 2012

Whew! I got out of there just in time! From Monday, December 26th to January 2nd, a large contingent of my family and I spent a great week in Key West, Florida. Sunny every day with the temps in the high 70s and a nice breeze, but that was going to change as a cold [...]

Top 20 Graphic Novels – December 2011

| January 14, 2012

From the TOP 300 Graphic Novels list Based on Diamond Comics and Publisher data. 1. WALKING DEAD TP VOL 15 (MR) 2. FABLES TP VOL 16 SUPER TEAM (MR) 3. WALKING DEAD TP VOL 01 DAYS GONE BYE 4. LAST BATTLE ONE SHOT 5. CRIMINAL TP VOL 06 LAST OF INNOCENT (MR) 6. NARUTO TP [...]

New Comics Arriving WEDNESDAY, January 18

| January 13, 2012

Plus see the New Comics Page where you can click pics for descriptions and previews! AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #678 – $3.99 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #678 VENOM VAR – $TBD ARCHIE & FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST #12 – $3.99 AVENGERS #21 – $3.99 AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #3 – $3.99 BACK ISSUE #54 – $8.95 BATMAN #5 – $2.99 BATMAN #5 [...]

DC NEW 52 – Second Wave

| January 12, 2012

Diamond Comics Distributors Retailer Website article: DC Comics has announced via its blog, The Source, that the “Second Wave” of DC Comics – The New 52 will launch in May of 2012 with six new, ongoing series. “The excitement of the initial launch of DC Comics-The New 52 was in seeing the re-imagining of these [...]

Top 20 Best Selling Comics from December 2011

| January 12, 2012

JUSTICE LEAGUE #4 BATMAN #4 ACTION COMICS #4 GREEN LANTERN #4 AVENGERS X-SANCTION #1 DETECTIVE COMICS #4 DEFENDERS #1 FLASH #4 BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT #4 SUPERMAN #4 BATMAN AND ROBIN #4 UNCANNY X-MEN #3 AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #2 AQUAMAN #4 WOLVERINE AND X-MEN #3 WONDER WOMAN #4 AVENGERS #20 UNCANNY X-FORCE #19 TEEN TITANS #4 [...]

Mensa has announced its winner – and now it’s our turn!

| January 11, 2012

Joe Forbes – come on down! You are this year’s winner in our Mensa Bracket Challenge for correctly predicting that The WHEEL would be voted as the Best Invention by the participating members of Mensa. Your major award is awaiting you at the shop! Second place went to Ken Wohner, a mentor at the Tome [...]

From the Booth: Reliving our childhood toons.

| January 11, 2012

Can Walking Dead season 2, part 2 bring the zombie gore Ken needs? Will Marvel top DC more than one month out of this year? And do you enjoy snarky comments at the bottom of your comic pages? All this and more on this weeks episode of From the Booth! Ken’s stack, Disney XD, Pandora! [...]

Comic Highlights: Wednesday, January 11

| January 11, 2012

THIS WEEK’S COMICS HIGHLIGHTS CBH picks the BIG books plus ones you might miss

Dave’s Stack – 1/11/12

| January 10, 2012

Everyone’s been waiting for my weekly Pull List, so here it is. At the end of the month, I will switch to my pick of the week. In the meantime, you lucky folks get to see everything that I read. (It’s all part of our new “get to know a Dave” program.) As a customer, [...]

Signing Report

| January 9, 2012

Yesterday the Comic Book Diner podcast guys barnstormed CBH. We had a great visit. Here are some photos taken by reviewer/reporter, Mike Clarke of BC Refugee Blog showing Jamar Nicholas, Rich Faber, and John Gallagher doing their stuff.

New Comics Arriving WEDNESDAY, January 11

| January 6, 2012

Plus see the New Comics Page where you can click pics for descriptions and previews! 7 WARRIORS #3 (MR) – $3.99 ACTION COMICS #3 – $3.99 back in stock ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN HC – $19.99 ALL NEW BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #15 – $2.99 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #677 – $3.99 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #677 [...]

Dave Rates “DC New 52″ for 2011

| January 5, 2012

The biggest story in the comic book world in 2011 was DC NEW 52. (We really appreciate DC Comics stepping up with something special for Captain Blue Hen’s 30th anniversary!) The new comics brought attention to the industry, with new and lapsed readers coming in to the store. Personally, I went from reading 2 DC [...]

Signing This Sunday

| January 4, 2012

From The Booth New Year, Same Comics

| January 4, 2012

On this exciting episode of From the Booth, Kens stack, 2012 events, random Hunger Games, and we start on the deep dark path of why I loathe True Blood but stop that as it could be a special episode all to itself.   Are you on Team Scott or Team Logan? We’re going to start [...]

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