Halloween Comic Fest, Storytelling, and Reading group this weekend!

It’s going to be a busy Halloween weekend at Ash Ave Comics!

Friday, October 30: Untidy Secrets Presents: Tales of Ghosts and Zine Swap
Kicking off with Friday night’s Untidy Secrets Presents: Tales of Ghosts and Zine Swap beginning at 8 PM at the shop.  This month’s storytellers are Karen Wegryn, Dustin TheWind, Bradley Sutherland, and Sarah R; it is free, and and BYOB is encouraged.

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A good crowd at last month’s inaugural Untidy Secrets storytelling

 

Saturday, October 31: Halloween Comicfest
Saturday is Halloween, and that means it’s once again Halloween Comicfest!  There’s something for everyone this year with a range of full sized comics and mini comics, the best part is they’re free.  Halloween Comicfest is an all day event, and we’ll be taking 20% off all comics and graphic novels, 25% off all back issues, 30% off all toys/statues and shirts! Had your eye on something in stock? Swing by on Saturday to get it before it’s gone.

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Sunday, November 1: Ash Ave Comics November Discussion Group
Finally, Sunday, November 1st, is our Ash Ave Comic Book Club meetup for November!  We will be discussing volume one of Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini’s  series Low.  We’ll be meeting at 6PM, and, as usual, BYOB.

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A scene from our first discussion group, back in August of 2014!

 

Ash Ave Comic Book Club November Meetings: Low vol 1 and Preacher vol 2

The next Ash Ave Comics’ Comic Book Club discussion group is Sunday, November 1st at the shop!  We’ll be gathering at our usual time of 6 PM to discuss volume 1 of Image Comics’ Low by Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini.  We’ll also return to two discussion groups a month in November, like we did earlier this year when we began a second reading group to read and discuss the entirety of The Invisibles series.  This time we’ll be reading the complete Preacher series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, the next meeting will be held Sunday, November 15th at 6PM at the shop where we will discuss volume 2.

For December, we have Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s All Star Superman and Preacher volume 3 scheduled.

A reminder that our current Reading Club titles are 20% off of the listed price, and we encourage anyone interested in attending the reading group to prepay for the next monthly title a few weeks ahead of time.  Check out the cover image and summary of our next titles below.

Here’s our schedule for the next two months, all reading groups meet at 6 PM at the shop.

Sunday, November 1st: Low vol 1: The Delirium of Hope

Sunday, November 15thPreacher vol 2

Sunday, December 6th: All Star Superman

Sunday, December 13th: Preacher vol 3

 

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Millennia ago, mankind fled the earth’s surface into the bottomless depths of the darkest oceans. Shielded from a merciless sun’s scorching radiation, the human race tried to stave off certain extinction by sending robotic probes far into the galaxy, to search for a new home among the stars. Generations later, one family is about to be torn apart, in a conflict that will usher in the final race to save humanity from a world beyond hope.
  
Dive into an aquatic fantasy like none you’ve ever seen before, as writer RICK REMENDER (BLACK SCIENCE, Captain America) and artist GREG TOCCHINI (Last Days of American Crime) bring you a tale mankind’s final hour in the cold, deathly dark of the sea.
  
Collects LOW #1-6

 

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 In this new trade paperback collecting PREACHER #13-26, Jesse Custer, his girlfriend Tulip and their vampire friend Cassidy head west to a party of Babylonian proportions. Then Jesse flies to France to rescue Cassidy from the clutches of religious fanatics. His search leads him into battle against the forces of the mysterious organization known as The Grail.

Save on Marvel #1s at Ash Ave Comics in October!

If you’ve been paying attention to Marvel’s solicits for the last few months, you have seen that Marvel is planning to introduce a wave of new series beginning in the first week of October. Many of these series are highly anticipated and feature some of the industry’s most popular creators matched with Marvel superheroes. To help deflate the costs of these titles for fans who want to check out the new #1s, we are offering a 20% discount to customers who buy all of the Marvel titles listed below.  We offer a smaller 15% off discount to customers who only want to purchase a specific week’s releases.  There will also be a large slate of variant covers for each release, including the hip-hop variants.  Please contact us if you would like to participate in this offer, or have any questions about reserving variant covers.

October 7
All New All Different Point One #1  $5.99
Amazing Spider-Man #1  $5.99
Avengers #0  $5.99
Contest of Champions #1  $4.99
Doctor Strange #1   $4.99
Invincible Iron Man #1 $3.99

October 14
Captain America Sam Wilson #1  $3.99
Guardians of the Galaxy #1  $3.99
New Avengers #1  $3.99
Spider-Gwen #1 $3.99
Spider-Man 2099 #1  $3.99
Uncanny Avengers #1 $4.99

October 21
Astonishing Ant-Man #1 $3.99
Karnak #1  $3.99
Uncanny Inhumans #1 $4.99

October 28
Angela Queen of Hel #1  $3.99
Howling Commandos of SHIELD #1  $3.99
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1 $3.99