The “CB” in his name stands for “Comic Books,” of course.
Holiday decorations come early, for a specific reason.
WGN News stopped by to film a segment (or 5) on Local Comic Shop Day at Challengers.
Don Cardenas talks about his Packs of the Lowcountry Kickstarter.
Axel Alonso is out as Marvel Comics Editor-In-Chief. CB Cebulski is in.
We’re having a BIG Black Friday Sale!
One publisher’s loss is possibly another publisher’s loss.
It’s the biggest comics news story of the year, and we make you wait over 30 minutes before we start talking about it.
First we talk about Funko’s Initial Public Offering disaster.
New themed displays in-store, including Thor Ragnarok and the Justice League.
X-Men Red.
Looking at possible new locations, just in case we have to move.
DC Comics has signed Brian Michael Bends to an exclusive contract.
The timing of entertainment announcements, using Doctor Who and Superchunk announcements from this week as a guide post.
Men in comics are no better than men in Hollywood.
File down the serial number a little more.
At the time of recording, Patrick and Dal have seen Thor Ragnarok a combined 5 times.
This episode’s title has no actual bearing to the episode, but it is mentioned, so it counts, but “A piece of water” is just as accurate.
Rian Hughes, our favorite logo designer, has a book of his logos coming out in April.
Should we care about eBay exclusive Marvel Comics variant covers?
More egregious nonsense that’s only negative, x3.
We sidestep our own accountant to handle this year’s incorporation paperwork.
Marvel Universe Live: Age of Heroes was SO FUN!
And we DO wind up talking about Thor Ragnarok, a little.
Buy the comic, then we’ll talk about it. That’s your conversation.
What Chicagoland comic shop has been open the longest?
Patrick really wants to read a history of Chicago comic book retail stores.
Halloween Comicfest just happened and we don’t know if we promoted it correctly.
We received a graphic novel this week that had no data in Diamond’s system, yet we had customers’ orders for it. This is the story of getting Diamond to help us with it.
Some subscribers are really taking advantage of our subscription service.
It’s perfectly fine if you don’t know the pop culture references we use to pitch books.
We guess you only want MORE Batman comics.
Marvel’s movie-based collections don’t really work for us.
That leads into talk about Thor: Ragnarok.
The sharp drop-off of mini-series sales numbers.
The saga of one man looking for the first issue of Aftershock’s Fu-Jitsu #1.
$6,000.00 of dental work vs. one extra comic book.
We’re now Facebook verified!
Sean Dove has been added to our Halloween Comicfest event!
The difficulties of explaining Dark Nights Metal to people 3 months into the event’s run.
The New Age of DC Heroes vs. Challengers subscription pre-orders.