Everybody Dies!LMS!Tokidoki/MARVEL,TIN TIN NOW! Shop Meltdown!

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Dec 212010

GET YOUR GIFT ON! Everybody Dies! LMS! Tokidoki/MARVEL DC Comics toys, Star Wars toys, Marvel toys, TIN TIN! Oh, and so much more just in time for Wednesday Last NEW ISSUE COMICS DAY before Christmas!

From the mind of Ken Tanaka Everybody Dies-A Children’s Book For Grown Ups. $12.00

A last minute direct shipment of the most talked about book at San Diego Comic Con. This book sold out in 2 hrs! Buy yours now! Writer-illustrator Dan LuVisi’s two-year-and-a-half-in-the-making, 230-page graphic novel, Last Man Standing. $34.95

Find the latest batch of TOKIDOKI tees for Man and Woman $28.00

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Dec 042010

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Tintin for Grown-Ups. Zócalo Public Square

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Jan 192010

Jean-Marie Apostolidès, a professor of French and drama at Stanford University, last read the Tintin comic books — about a youthful globe-trotting journalist — when he was a boy. Decades later he picked the series up again. “I was amazed at the enormous artistic and literary quality of the series,” he said. “I realized I was confronting a great piece of art, and that was surprising.” Apostolidès, author of The Metamorphoses of Tintin: or Tintin for Adults, chatted with Swati Pandey of Zócalo about why Tintin never made it big in America, how he got over his initial controversial attitudes, and how he embodies the myth of eternal, powerful youth.

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Announcing: Meltdown’s Black Friday Sale

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Nov 232009

BLACK FRIDAY SALE: 11.27.09
All Comics, Manga & Art Books
8-9am: 30%, 9-10am: 20%, 10-11am: 10%
Throughout the day:
11am – 12pm: 16% off all MARVEL TPBs
12pm – 1 pm: 16% off all FANTAGRAPHICS TPBs
1 – 2pm: 16% off all DARK HORSE TPBs
2 – 3pm: 16% off all IDW TPBs
3 – 4pm: 16% off all IMAGE TPBs
4 – 5pm: 16% off all ACTION FIGURES
5 6pm: 16% off all ONI PRESS TPBs
6 – 7pm: 16% off all DRAWN & QUATERLY TPBs
7 – 8pm: 16% off all TIN TIN MERCHANDISE
8 – 9pm: 16% off all FIRST SECOND TPBs
9 – 10pm: 16% off all DC UNIVERSE TPBs

*discounts cannot be combined with ongoing sales or promotions.