This Sunday, December 8th, we’re hitting the road and appearing at two shows on the same day! Shelton will be at the Atlanta Comic Convention and Seth and Snaps will be at the Raleigh Comic Book Show. We hope to see you this Sunday! Of course, Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find is open 7 days a week and we’re always there to fulfill all your comic book needs and desires. See you soon!

Heroes will be at the VA Comicon this weekend, November 23-24, at Richmond International Raceway and we’ve got some great stuff planned for anyone who stops by our booth! Along with our world famous road stock we’ll be bringing pretty much every comic that special guest Rob Liefeld has ever created. VA Comicon is a great opportunity to get your books signed by Rob!

Special Offer! Anyone who purchases Deadpool Corps #1 from Heroes, a highly collectible #1 issue that is Liefeld from top to bottom, will be entered to win a copy of New Mutants #87 on Saturday or New Mutants #98 on Sunday. We will be selling our copies of Deadpool Corps #1 for only $3 each, that’s 25% off the original cover price!

Details:
SATURDAY
By buying a copy of Deadpool Corps #1 you will be entered to win a copy of New Mutants #87 and with rumors of an X-Force movie on the way featuring Cable, his 1st appearance will be hotter than ever!

SUNDAY
By buying a copy of Deadpool Corps #1 you will be entered to win a copy of New Mutants #98 the hottest modern book on the planet featuring the 1st appearance of Deadpool.

Items pictured are the actual copies we will be giving away.

More copies of both of these great comics will also be for sale at our booth along with tons of other rare Rob Liefeld items!

You must be present to win, prizes will be announced each day one hour before the close of the show.

Shelton will also tweet the winners, follow him on Twitter at [email protected]

You can buy as many copies as you like to increase your chances of winning.

If you enter and don’t win on Saturday you are still eligible for Sunday’s drawing!

Good luck and we hope to see you at VA Comicon this weekend!

Get your pencils sharpened! When you buy the Harley Quinn #0 sketch variant and regular edition for $10 you will be giving $5 to the Red Cross for Typhoon relief in the Philippines. Also, if you draw Harley on your cover and get it back to us by December 31st you could be awarded prizes at our Charlotte MiniCon on January 25th! Your covers will be judged by Amanda Connor and Jimmy Palmiotti! Buy yours online or in the store! More information HERE!

Well, we made it!  50 discussion Groups with hardly any injuries and downright few fatalities.  With the December holiday season looming over our heads like the Savage Sword of Damocles, we thought it would be nice to give our Discussioneers a break. (That’s what we call you behind your backs). Originally we were going to select an expensive comic strip collection, but darn it all to heck, this is the holidays and we’ve all designated a portion of our hard earned comic money to spend on those pesky loved ones.  So we thought we’d all save our money for a few months (hint!) and do something a little special for ourselves.

Our store manager, all around great guy, and capable cartoonist (if we say so ourselves) Justin Crouse recommended we do the following:  invite everyone to bring their favorite comic (single issue or trade paperback) and provide participants with a 10 minute platform to explain to the group why this is a particularly important story to them.   Then we’d spend a few minutes discussing their choice before moving on to the next person.  This way, we can enjoy all the camaraderie and comic discussion without rupturing our wallets in this leather-stretching time of the year.  Think of this as your opportunity to have 10 uninterrupted minutes to talk about one of your all-time favorite, desert island comics – the one you turn to every year or so for rereading.

An example:  I think of my five favorite books—the ones I will without fail re-read every few years–the ones by which I measure any new books I read.  For the sake of example, I might select the Post War Spirit Comics from 1947 to 1952.  I’d bring along one (or two) of the volumes in the Will Eisner Archive Series and try to explain succinctly why I find the work indispensable.  I would cite Eisner’s growth as a story teller, the development of the modern splash page, the way Eisner used his superhero hook to tell a variety of stories crossing into a variety of genres.  Any questions?  And now it’s your turn.

SAVE THIS DATE: Saturday December 14^th at 1:00pm.  We will meet at the store and then head over to the bakery (they serve good food and cocktails too– God bless ‘em!).  All we ask is that you bring along a copy of  the book you want to discuss.  We suggest you have an alternative on the ready in case  someone else already mentions your choice.  And if you want to join us for this discussion but are uncomfortable talking aloud — there is no pressure to participate. Just come for the food and the fun.

The idea is to offer an hour or two of vacation–an escape from all the stressful Holiday social obligations.  This is ‘ME’ time; this is comic book time!!!  So join us and let’s have some fun! See you on Saturday December 14^th at 1:00pm.

Heroes Pop Swap: Charlotte’s Pop Culture Swap Meet is happening this Saturday! Bring the whole family for great deals on collectibles both old and new! Pop Swap is also a great time to give your Halloween costume a test drive, we’d love to see it! We will have free comics for kids (under 12) in costume. This is a free event so please tell all your friends and we’ll see you at the store on Saturday!

Our next road show will be Comic Book City Con sponsored by ACME Comics on Saturday, October 26th & Sunday, October 27th at the Empire Room in historic downtown Greensboro, NC! We hope to see you all at this one!

Well, the Heroes’ Discussion Group reunited with a bang.  We talked about Saga on and off for three hours and spent the rest of the time talking comics with legendary penciller Steve Bissette who stopped by with our friend Craig Fischer on a lark!  It was a tremendous afternoon—I was less a moderator and more of a plate-spinner with an itch between the shoulders.  We had a blast.  Thanks to all of you who attended.

Now we turn our sights onto Halloween.  In the past we’ve done Walking Dead and From Hell.  This year it is time we jumped feet first into the Mike Mignola-verse and talk about Hellboy and B.P.R.D.  The amount of consistent quality pages delivered by Mignola and team centering on everyone’s favorite earth-bound demon and his fellow bureau agents of Paranormal research and defense is legion.  So, we asked all of our Mignolaphiles which books we should tackle.  Based on a consensus over-seen by our own Seth Peagler (thanks Seth!) we have decided on the following trade paperbacks:

• Hellboy: Wake the Devil—an early complete Hellboy story arc
• Hellboy: The Chained Coffin—a really solid collections of shorter Hellboy pieces
• B.P.R.D.—The Dead—one of the best of the early B.P.R.D. extended stories.

Topics will include:

• The art by Mignola (Hellboy) and Guy Davis (BPRD) and how their different styles affect the storytelling
• The supporting cast (certainly one of the largest and most interesting around)
• The way Hellboy/BPRD is published—can new readers jump in anywhere?
• The use of comedy relief
• The consistency of the series
• And for any who are already well-versed with Mignola’s work: What should the new readers pick up next?
• And a whole lot more!  If you’ve been putting these series off—this is a perfect time to give it a try!

We hope you will join us for a belated Halloween on Saturday November 2^nd at 1:00pm.  As usual we will meet at the store and repair to either the Tavern or Bakery across the way.

As usual, Heroes is offering the 10% Discussion Discount on these three books.  But as a special incentive–if you purchase all three we are offering a 20% savings.  That’s 3 Trades for only 45.00.  Just remember to remind the clerk of the discount when you check out.  (The overwhelming and ever-present smell of Mylar is starting to get to us.)

Hope you’ll join us and Happy Halloween!

Shelton is on the road again! He’ll be at the New York Comic Con all 4 days this weekend starting Thursday. He’ll have great Golden, Silver and Modern Age comics as usual. Follow Shelton and Heroes on Twitter for updates and special offers during the show!

Our next show will be Comic Book City Con sponsored by ACME Comics on Saturday, October 26th & Sunday, October 27th at the Empire Room in historic downtown Greensboro, NC! We hope to see you all at one or both of these shows!

Heroes is back on the road this weekend! We’ll be selling books from our great stock in other parts of North Carolina on Saturday AND Sunday! We hope to see you at one of these fun events!

This Saturday, September 28th we’ll at Stormcrow Comics in Archdale, North Carolina for the Stormcrow Art Extravaganza/Comic Book Sidewalk Sale. We’ll have some great Gold and Silver Age books with us! click the link or image for more info!

Next, we’ll be travelling to Winston Salem for Burke Street Comics’ Winston-Salem Comic-Con on Sunday, September 29! We’ll have our full road stock with us,  hope to see you there!

We’ll also be at these upcoming shows:

• New York Comic Con – October 10-13
• ACME’s Comic Book City Con – October 26-27

Thanks to all the great comic book fans who came out and said hello at the Florence Comic Con last weekend! Our next stop is Asheville, North Carolina. Come say hello to Shelton and Seth and check out our great comic book road stock at A.C.E. in Asheville this Saturday, September 21st! It should be a great time and we hope to see you there!

Heroes will be on the road almost every weekend in the coming months. Check to see if we’re coming to a town near you!

• Winston Salem – September 29
• New York Comic Con – October 10-13
• ACME’s Comic Book City Con – October 26-27