Month: November 2022

Hey, Folks!

 

I’m technically off today and am getting ready to head over to my bestie’s place for Thanksgiving dinner, but I wanted to take a quick moment and get this shipping list and subscription form up and running for you to peruse! Many of you know that I have switched to a healthier vegetarian lifestyle about two months ago, but I have decided to cheat a bit today because, well, I’ve had turkey as a part of every Thanksgiving for the last 50 years and I don’t want to end my record. Plus, I really like turkey!

 

So, I hope everyone has a great holiday and has plenty of turkey this year! Brian and I will both be in the store tomorrow for the big Black Friday Sale and we will be looking forward to seeing many of you then!

 

Have a wonderful holiday weekend!

 

Eddie

Hey, Folks!

 

Okay, now, don’t laugh at me, but I was honestly stunned to be reminded on Tuesday that Thanksgiving is next week. How exactly did THAT happen!?! I mean, here I am just getting over the fact that Halloween is behind us and I look up in shock to see that Thanksgiving is looming over me like a zombie turkey with a hungry look in its eyes. I used to make fun of “old” people (mostly Steve) constantly going on about how much faster time goes by when you get older. Now I see the truth and it is truly horrifying. Is there a “slow down” button anywhere that I am not seeing?

 

Anyway, so Thanksgiving is coming which naturally means that Black Friday is on its way as well. Back in the Old Days Steve never liked having sales and I never really considered Black Friday as much of a draw for us, mostly because we are located so far from all of the in person shopping hubs in the Toledo area. I figured the stores in the Franklin Park mall area would be the ones who would most benefit from a big Black Friday sale. At some point, however, I decided that it would be worth trying. I don’t even remember why now, although it was probably around the time that I stopped hosting big Thanksgiving dinners at my house and therefore had no good reason not to be in the store on the day after Thanksgiving. In any case, Steve and I started running Black Friday Sales and they were very well attended and turned into one of the biggest grossing store days in November. In retrospect, it was a no brainer and we should have instituted it years before then. Now it is a very solid tradition and Brian and I will be bringing it to you again next week! So, without further blathering, I give you the 2022 Monarch Comics Black Friday Sale…

 

50% OFF BACK ISSUE BOXES

 

15% OFF SHOWCASE BOOKS

 

25% OFF HARD COVERS/TRADE PAPERBACKS (including items already marked down!)

 

15% OFF LUNCH BOXES/TIN TOTES

 

$3 OFF FUNKO POP VINYL FIGURES

 

$3 OFF ART SHORT COMIC STORAGE BOXES

 

That’s it for me this week, Folks! Please don’t ask me about the whole Taylor Swift ticket thing, it is simply too depressing to discuss. If you have any old gypsy curses to throw around, however, I would be quite happy for Ticketmaster to be its recipient. Have a great week and I hope to see you in the stoer next week for the big sale…😊

 

Eddie

Hey, Folks!

 

Another week, another comic shipment as we creep ever so much closer to the end of the year! I don’t have much to report this week although I did want to mention that Monarch Comics will be holding our annual Black Friday Sale this year on Friday, November 25^th! As per usual it will be mainly a preview to our annual post-holiday sale, but there may be some extra stuff on sale. I’ll have an official announcement next week…

 

I want to also take a moment to heartily recommend Batman & Joker The Deadly Duo #1 on sale this week. It’s written and drawn by Marc Silverstri and it was a true pleasure to read. The art is, of course, spectacular and the story is also on point. The best thing I can say about it is that returns to what I consider a “pure” super hero story and what I mean is that the good guys are good guys and the bad guys are bad guys…lol. It has also boiled away all of the psychodrama that has infested a lot of the Bat books for the last 10 years or so. And did I mention how truly gorgeous the art is? I’m honestly not sure if this tale fits into any current continuity, but honestly it didn’t even matter to me. The story involves a mysterious new (?) villain who has kidnapped Harley Quinn to lure in the Joker, some sudden appearances by some sort of monstrous Joker clones (?), and, of course, Joker roping Batman into a “team-up” in order to figure things out. If you are a fan of “basic” Batman stories and miss the days of, you know, simply fighting bad guys and solving mysteries rather than endless navel gazing and fretting over dead parents and stuff then this is the book for you!

 

Oh! One more thing! Please make sure that you put your name into the “NAME” field on the subscription form. I somehow missed activating the button that stops folks from sending in the order without adding a name and Brian and I got two orders from last week’s sub form with no names so we couldn’t pull the books.

 

I hope everyone has a great weekend and gets a chance to enjoy the mild weather before winter begins to bear down us!

 

Eddie