SUPER cool piece of art Mark gifted me today!!!

Happy New Comics Wednesday! Open at 10am today!

The Last Time We Spoke, a 2025 graphic novel by Jesse Mechanic, about his mother having died of cancer when he was 14 is a really powerful memoir of dealing with death of a loved one at a very young age.

Books I bought today (two are upcoming book club selections, one is a recommendation from a friend, and the fourth one is a graphic novel I haven’t heard of from last year).

Panels I Love. Art & words by Masami Tsuda from Kare Kano his and her circumstances, an excellent manga and anime, that I highly recommend everyone somehow find and check out!

Panels I Love. Art & words by Carla Speed McNeil.

Panels I Love. Art by Teddy Kristiansen, words by Steven Seagle.

Our $1 comics sale and 20% off sets continues through today until 4:30pm, come on by and say hi to Paul!

TODAY!!! From 9-4pm (we’ll be closing at 4pm), a BIG not seen before in the store $1 comics sale on our sidewalk & a 20% off sale on sets (we got a LOT more in recently)!

Panels I Love: Art & ink wash by J. H. Williams III, words by Alan Moore, please read all of them here, they’re as beautiful as J.H.’s art!

Panels I Love: Jack Kirby, writer & artist, Mike Royer, inker (my favorite Kirby inker)!

I’m starting a new thang here called Panels I Love. Art from this first one is by the fantastic art team of Stephen Bissette & John Totleben, words by Alan Moore.

Happy New Comics Wednesday! And this Saturday, the 4th of July, we’re open from 9am-4pm and having a BIG $1 comics sidewalk & 20% off sets sale!!!

Yard work, good thing it’s not hot out! Cleaning out some of Kate’s beds to make room for some cash crops (grin)!

1978!

Saturday, July 4th from 9am-4pm, we are having a BIG fresh dollar comics sidewalk sale in front of the store (you haven’t seen these comics for $1 at the store yet!) and a 20% off sale on all of our sets (we got in a lot more)!

The Last Picture Show from 1971, now THAT is a great movie, there can be no dispute about this!

JH Williams III did a FAB cover for the first issue of the new Mind MGMT mini series - we have the only signed copies in the world (sorry only available in store)!

This isn’t a cat, but I like this photo, that’s all.

Happy New Comics Wednesday! Summer of Supergirl one shot leading into this weeks Supergirl movie! JH Williams III cover on the new Mind MGMT first issue! For something REALLY different check out The Eye Collector!

Happy Pride Month! And yes, Tillie Wlden’s new, Charity & Sylvia, is a top shelf graphic novel, it’s so beautiful!

Happy Juneteenth, friends! Alternate Reality Comics is open today from 9am-6pm!

Spoiler alert for the Avengers Doomsday movie coming out in December!

Happy New Comics Wednesday! It’s ABSOLUTELY a big week of new releases! Open at 9am!

And another great recent graphic novel that sadly speaks too loudly about the world we’re living in and how people don’t realize that not all technology (most uses of AI) are not to our benefit.

How excited are you for this movie next week!?

Beautiful and yes, books are friends!

A+++!!!! Completely loved an beautiful on so many levels!

Happy New Comics Wednesday!

Noisy Valley The Art of Protest by Myfanwy Tristram is another good recent graphic novel.

Highest recommendations, A+++!!!

Brownstone, by Samuel Teer & Mar Julia is completely adorable and fantastic!

Happy New Comics Wednesday! Open at 9am today!

Tomorrow (Wednesday)! Deadman #1 by W. Maxwell Prince & Martin Morazzo, the creative team of Ice Cream Man, one of the best horror titles being published today, so you know you’ll be in fur a very different ride with their take on this character!

21 comics to catch up on from the last two weeks (some of these are tomorrow’s New Comics Wednesday releases), I should be done reading these by tomorrow morning (I’m working at the store today, also still trying to get over jet leg).

Five Gears in Reverse, the new hardcover Criminal graphic novel is another great one, but of course it is, it’s by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips! And as with any Criminal book, of this is your first one, it’ll read perfect fine all by itself.

It’s a sign, it’s actually TWO signs!

Happy New Comics Wednesday! Pierce will be opening at 10am and would love to see your happy faces!

Alternate Reality Comics received more copies of Tea Krulos’ 2020 book, American Madness The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness. The Phantom Patriot was one of Richard McCaslin’s real life “superhero” personas, he was an Alternate customer.

David and Regina Horowitz. These memorial stones, called Stolperstein (stumbling block or stone) were created by German artist, Gunter Deming in 1992 and they commemorate victims of nazi terror, with the Stolperstein being placed where they last freely lived.

First A+++++!!! graphic novel I’ve read in 2026 (this is going to be hard to top!), Arizona O’Neill’s almost 400 page hardcover, Opiods & Organs, is a fantastic look at the dark side of donating organs (but this book is not suggesting a person not become an organ donator).

Kim Deitch has a wonderful new gorgeously designed graphic novel out now, How I Make Comics!

Happy New Comics Wednesday! Absolute Green Arrow #1 - you’re going to want this, especially if you’re a horror fan! Big FC week, aren’t they all!?

EDC 2026 night 3!