The Next Generation

The other day, four young men from Jr. High stopped by the store on their way home from school. They hung out for an hour or so, looking at comics and asking questions. They didn't buy anything, but they were obviously excited about finding a comic book store in the neighborhood, and said they would be back.

They HAVE been back, just about every day after school gets out.

The oldest one of the group is actually an avid comic book fan, and asked us if we were going to be getting in any more of two different series. I told him about pull boxes, and he asked me lots of questions about how they work, including how much they cost. I told him they don't cost anything. He said he'd think about it, and went back to looking through some back issues.

While he was looking, someone else came in and asked for the stuff in his pull box, which I promptly gave him and rang up for him. He thanked me and left.

A few moments later, the aforementioned young man came up and said that yes, he wanted a pull box, so I set it up for him.

He came in yesterday and asked if there was anything in his pull box, as though he had been doing it forever.

Warms my heart.

Back to School Sale

This weekend we are having a Back to School Sale at the Comic Zone. We are offering 15% off of EVERYTHING in the store.

We want to encourage our young readers so we are also implementing a new policy where we give a $1.00 in store credit for every A they earn on their report card in the current marking period.

We made one young man very happy with that news. He told me he got all A's last semester.

I don't know of any other comic book store that does something like this. I am proud of us for taking a stand for education!

Here is our press release about our stand on education: http://www.prlog.org/10317908-comic-zone-cares-about-education.html

Friday Fortunes

Comic Zone is going to venture into the new and unusual....

Starting this Friday, we will be offering Friday Fortunes!

In other words, come on on Friday nights - any time after 7:00 pm, and we will do a card reading for you using the Vertigo Tarot Deck for $20/reading.



The Vertigo Deck works like a regular Tarot Deck, but each of the 78 cards has a story behind it, a story related to Vertigo themes and characters. The images, drawn by comic book artist Dave McKean and published by DC Comics, are somewhat surreal with a gothic feel to them.

Avery will be doing most of the readings, although depending on how popular these Friday Fortunes become, I may be doing some, myself.

So come on by on a Friday night and find out what the future has in store for you.

Putting ourselves out there

Yesterday, Andy and I sat down and met with Gail Keith of Gail Keith Marketing. We had a most excellent meeting. Gail really helped us to get on track with some of our marketing efforts, giving us lots of advice on how to market effectively on a low budget. Today we have already begun implementing some of the strategies we discussed. In fact, one of the strategies was to create a fan page for Facebook, which I did and you can find here .

We will be tweeting a few times a day. You can find us here.

Stay tuned for more exciting news as it develops.

Oh - and sneak previews of upcoming events.....

Back to School Sale on Aug 22-23 = 15% off ALL items in the store
Comics Trivia Game on September 12th
80's Day on October 10th

and there is a very good chance we will have a Spooky Costume contest on Halloween.