09.Dec.2009 – Shipping this week

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Shipping This Week: 12/9/2009

DARK HORSE COMICS

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Comic Zone: One Year Later

A lot has happened in the last year.

For example, a comic book store opened in Scottsdale, and managed to find its way to lasting for a full year.

At this time last year, the Marvel Universe was still being Secretly Invaded by the Skrull Empire. DC only had two colors of Lanterns. Image was not unified. The Ultimatum Wave had just crashed. Nobody was sure if Chris Claremont’s X-Men would last Forever. We were in the midst of what will hopefully be the last Crisis we see for a while, and there were no Mouse Ears to be found anywhere.

By this time next month, Disney will officially own Marvel Comics. Nickelodeon already owns the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Siege to end all major crossovers will be underway. The Dark Reign of a Blackest Night will be getting closer to the dawn of a new, Heroic Age.

And it will be a new decade with new challenges.

In the last year, at Comic Zone, we have made friends with many talented artists and writers in the local area. We’ve come to befriend many of our regular customers, many on a first-name basis.

In an economy that saw most other comic stores have to downsize, Comic Zone has been growing. But our quest to become the best comic book store Scottsdale has ever seen isn’t over, yet. This is where we need you, Zoners.

We need to know what you want to see. We’ve experimented with picking up a few toys here and there. What other action figure lines will you pick up? We’ve got both Magic: the Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh! cards for sale, now. Are there any other CCGs you’re collecting? We’ve begun taking in some used Anime DVDs. Would you like to see our used DVD collection expand? What else should we carry? Music? Apparel? Trading cards?

I don’t want a list of what you see in other comic stores. I want a list of what YOU want. I know what’s in the other stores, I used to shop there. And you know what? Most of that stuff is STILL there. It looks nice, but if it’s still there, it’s not selling. And it’s not selling because people don’t actually want it.

We want to make Comic Zone into YOUR comic/geek culture store. What kinds of things are YOU interested in? We’ll take special orders on anything and everything we’re able to get our hands on.

Come on in and let us know!

Our One-Year Anniversary is today!

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I just sent out this email:

Hey hey, Comic Zoners!

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but today is our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! That’s right, good ol’ Comic Zone has been around for an entire year! Can you believe it?

To celebrate, we’ve got various sales going on throughout the day (c’mon in
and ask what’s going on, because they’ll be changing all the time!), as well
as plenty o’ comic celebrities making in-store appearances: Our pal Tosh
Delaney of STUMP Comix will be in, signing his books and doing sketches.
Tony Parker, the penciller for Boom! Studios’ adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? will be in around 2pm. Jay Fotos,
writer, editor, and colorist of the Frank Frazetta-themed comics, including
the excellent Death Dealer series will be in this afternoon as well, signing
autographs on any and all of his comics. Around 4, Benjamin Gendenning of
Skulljammer.com and Tony Tibke will be swinging by, as will the Of the Earth
Bellydancer Troupe.

That’s right, Zoners. We’ve got belly dancers.

So swing on by! We open in just a few minutes, at 10am, and we’ll be rocking
all day until our usual close time of 8pm.

Thanks for a great year! Looking forward to seeing you today!

-Andy, Avery, Linda & Sean,

The gang at Comic Zone

PS: Happy Dress Like a Ninja Day.

Comic Book Artists Converge on Comic Zone for One Year Anniversary

On Dec 5th, 10am to 8 pm, four guest artists help Comic Zone celebrate their first year in business: Tosh Delaney, Tony Parker, Ben Glendenning, and Jay Fotos. Of the Earth Belly Dance Troupe will entertain customers, and chocolate cake will be had.

PR Log (Press Release) – Dec 04, 2009 – Comic Zone has been serving the community for the past year as the only comic book store in Scottsdale. They have had a lot of fun serving the community and now it’s time to PARTY!

On December 5, 2009, four guest artists will be featured at the store throughout the day to help Comic Zone celebrate their first year in business: Tosh Delaney of Stump Comix, Tony Parker, artist of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Ben Glendenning, artist of Skulljammer, and Jay Fotos of Death Dealer.

In addition, from opening at 10:00 am until closing at 8:00 pm, they will be having various sales and specials throughout the day.  As a special treat, Of the Earth Belly Dance Troupe will be providing entertainment in the afternoon, and there will be cake all day long. Come on out and help them CELEBRATE this special occasion!

Comic Zone is the best and only comic book store in Scottsdale, Arizona, conveniently located at 5909 N. Granite Reef Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85250, just off the 101. Take McDonald Drive to the third traffic light (Granite Reef Road) just two doors down from Casella’s Deli.

In addition to all of the latest and greatest comic books, trade paperbacks, and graphic novels, the store features ever-changing and ongoing sales on merchandise, regular video game tournaments, and much more. Come on by. You will like what you find!

http://prlog.org/10438884

What do comic book store owners do on Wednesdays when new comics are delayed?

Today is Wednesday and therefore it was supposed to be new comic book day, but because of the holiday(s) last week, we won’t get our books until tomorrow. So, we had a different sort of day at the store today. We spent a lot of time preparing for our big anniversary party this weekend.

It’s going to be a phenomenal event! We have so much planned. We have four different artists confirmed to be in the store throughout the day, some of them earlier, some of them later. The four artists are Tosh Delaney of Stump Comix, Tony Parker, artist of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Ben Glendenning, artist of Skulljammer, and Jay Fotos of Death Dealer.

We will also have our friends, Of the Earth Belly Dance Troupe here around mid to late afternoon, to add some festive entertainment to the day.

Of course we will have cake. And balloons.

And many specials throughout the day, including a great raffle!

Our press release is being finalized, and should be going out tomorrow. I’ll post a copy here once it’s done.

We are all very excited to have made it a year! Yay us!

And tomorrow? Well, tomorrow is NEW COMIC BOOK THURSDAY.  Woo hoo!