Growing up, the X-Men were it. The bomb. The bee’s knees. Back in the 150 area. X-Men and New Teen Titans were the top books. Then in the 90s it was even bigger. Nowadays … not so much. Since I have been open, the X-Men have had a ton of good creators. I think Brubaker […]

Yes, more of me complaining about Marvel’s publishing procedures, but bear with me. I can explain. One of the things BOOM! Studios announced at the Diamond Retailer Summit in Baltimore in September was that they would be reducing their output by 15%. They feel that there are too many books out there for the number […]

As most of you know, Marvel and I have a general dislike of each other. It has absolutely nothing to do with their books. It has nothing to do with their creators. I just don’t like how they do things and they consider talking with me a waste of time. This was shown again last […]

So I have watched the Marvel announcement and I’ve read stuff online, but none of it really made sense to me. So this morning I watched the announcement again and took notes. Here is what I gleaned from it: – This has been planned since the beginning of Marvel Now. – The Marvel Universe and […]

My sincerest thanks for another great holiday and another fabulous year. It’s the last real New Comic Wednesday of the year and with people off or out early and last-minute shoppers, I think its going to be crazy enough today without running a sale. So, thank you again. I’ll do an end of the year […]

Today Diamond announced the Top sellers for January. Here’s my comparison. I’m pretty close. I’m actually surprised that my Walking Dead numbers are higher than the national average. Also, Avengers World #1 came in at #11 for me and Harley Quinn was #14. National Pittsburgh Comics 1 Batman #27 Batman #27 2 Detective Comics #27 […]

2013 was another great year for Pittsburgh Comics. It started with the insanity of purchasing the building (a stressful experience I never wish to repeat) and then pretty much cruised the rest of the year. Another amazing Free Comic Book Day, another creator signing and a couple of Adam Warrock concerts rounded out the “events” […]

Welcome to all of my new visitors and customers. I first posed this about a year and a half ago, but I realized that I should post it again because I keep getting more new people coming in (which is not a bad thing). Since I started my new email newsletter, my guess is that […]

This is part of the reason Marvel and I are not best friends. They tend to make things really confusing. No, I’m not talking about replacing Peter Parker with Doc Ock or why every book now has time travel after saying that time is broken and they can’t time travel anymore in Age of Ultron […]

So, I posted on the Facebook page yesterday my excitement over eight (8!!!) covers for Miracleman #1 in the new Marvel solicits. This morning I was reading Mike Sterling’s blog, Progressive Ruin (which I do often), and he had some comments about it. Now Mike has been doing this a lot longer than I have, […]