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The Boys are back in stock! Here’s a deal for you: buy all six omnibus volumes and get 25% off! We have five sets available.

Handing out candy this year? How about trying mini-comics too? We still have some packs left over from last year, but not many. $4.99 for 25 comics.

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**edit: we will not be opening today due to technical problems. Hey all, we’re having technical difficulties and won’t be opening on time today(Saturday). If we can get them fixed early enough we will open, but it’s not looking good. Check here before heading in to see if we’re still closed. Sorry for the inconvenience.

In stock now, an excellent read!

Review by Aeryn Stardust Giga #1 October 28th, Vault You’ve seen giant robots battling mechs and kaiju, but what happens decades - even centuries - after the fighting stopped? So asks Alex Paknadel, the creator and writer of Vault’s upcoming series Giga. The mecha genre is indeed expansive, from its roots in Japanese science fiction franchises (Gundam, Transformers, Neon Genesis Evangelion) to Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim and video games as iconic as Metal Gear. It’s ...always giant robots, usually created to fight evil, sometimes piloted by humans - and never, in fact, do we see the aftermath. In Giga’s world the mechs are largely a mystery beyond legends and religious texts: they fought a war that saved Earth but destroyed all its cities in the process, then most inexplicably went into sleeping state. As a result, many homeless humans were forced to live in the machines they consider gods. Thirteen years after religious initiative and engineer Evan witnesses a deadly explosion, he discovers a mech in the woods, except this one isn’t sleeping - it’s somehow been murdered. I can already tell Giga’s concerned with questions as massive as its mechanical titans: human frailty, endurance, and where we assign our faith. I can’t wait to see one of my favorite genres deconstructed with an emotionally probing script and haunting art by John Lê. See more

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Review by Aeryn Stardust We Live #1 Available now, Aftershock We Live opens with an elderly man watching an ad about how humanity fights back against every obstacle - even our own extinction. I had to set the comic down and draw a breath at how deeply that hits home in late 2020. In We Live’s universe, it’s the year 2084 and humanity has endured our worst fears: devastating floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes, World War III, and even newly evolved killer animals. Barely a...ny of us are left, and the situation worsens when a mysterious message from the stars guarantees that the human race’s total obliteration is near. However, the unknown doomsayers offer to extract 5,000 children, implying their safety and survival. Each child receives a single bracelet to mark them for extraction and are permitted one companion to guide them to a retrieval point. Tala, sensible older sister to daydreaming Hotoro, has accepted her inevitable death as long as she can ensure her brother (who lives in superhero fantasies of wanting to save others) can live, but hasn’t the heart to tell Hotoro the truth yet. She remembers her dying mother’s guilt over bringing children into a world their parents couldn’t fix, but still rejoicing they were children born of love who represent hope amidst an apocalypse. Again, I was almost too overcome to continue reading, but I’m glad I did. Co-writer Roy Miranda spoke to similar feelings: We are living in a moment where we can’t think in future mode; there are too many variables in the game. Our present feels a lot like walking through fog. And in the middle of all this, we also harbor a powerful human emotion and the sentiment of fighting the adversities: keep walking, surviving, and thriving. We Live is about what individuals can accomplish in a lifetime, the endurance of hope, the innocence of children, and how humanity can face its demise with grace. Even the title is defiant - not a maybe, but we do live. See more