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We talk everything coming up this week at Acme Comics and Acme Comics Downtown.  Greensboro Geek Out at the Tanger Center with Charles Soule, Four Eyes Comedy Returns. The Cat Person/Dog Person comments continue!  Send you listener questions to ben@acmecomics.com

Jermaine Recaps his POST-ComicsPro experiecne venturing through Chicago, Muncie Indiana and more!  He brought gifts!  We add more to the Cat Person/Dog Person argument and answer a long awaited listener question.  Send your Cat Person/Dog Person ideas and all listner questions to ben@acmecomics.com!

Did you miss us? We missed you!  Jermaine and Austin break down their ComicsPro experience from a few weeks ago!  We finally hit some listener questions!  Cat Person and Dog Person? Tell us your feelings!

Ben sat down with our good friends Ben Hill and James Solomon, local creativees and creators of THE TIME POLICE! The Time Police is now on KICKSTARTER! It's another project that we believe in, created by good people! LINK TO KICKSTARTER

Austin has ventured into the desert lands of Arrakiss and has become a total Spice Girl.  We talk DUNE, catch up on listener questions and wrap up a wild wretling weekend!

A quick run down on whats going on at the stores! Ben went to Assembly Required and now has the custom action figure itch! Austin and Jermaine head to ComicsPro next week! What exactly happened with Ultimate Black Panther? Listen to ODD MAN OUT, friend of the store Dan Slagell's NEW podcast! 

Ben sits down for a relaxed fit conversation with his writing partner, good friend, and co-writer of the upcoming HOUND from MadCave Studios.  Join us on Saturday March 2nd for a signing with Sam Romesburg and Sam Freeman, the writers of HOUND !

Lord Retail took a tumble! Acme Comics Downtown is now your home for Pinball!  Listener questions galore! Send YOUR listener questions to ben@acmecomics.com Sorry, Dan! I changed the wording on your question!

We talk about many upcoming events, get off the rails as you'd expect, discuss this week's great new releases and dive into some listener questions from new callers!

There's an INSANELY cool collection of Spider-Man Comics coming to Lawndale this weekend!  Whats the future of Skybound's Universal Monsters line? We need your listener questions! Email them to BEN@ACMECOMICS>COM

A breakdown of the week at BOTH Acme Comics locations.  Whats up with kids nowadays?!  Avengers Twilight is the sleeper hit story of the year!  We tackle a little backlog of great listener questions Join us for the Four Eyes Comedy Showcase Saturday Jan 20th at 8pm! Acme Comics Downtown!

I know! I'm sorry. I messed up!  We talk Ultimate Spider-Man, Transformers 4, Rebel Moon, and of course MORTAL KOMBAT

It's our 2023 year in review!  Our favorite comics and graphic novels, our least favorite comics and graphic novels.  The best moments of the year!  We crown this year's ACME COMICS CUSTOMER OF THE YEAR!

Listen! As a man basically discovers LOTR for the first time! Laugh! As we stumble through the technical difficulties of this week's recording Revel! In the items that were sold for Christmas! Gasp! Over DUKE #1! Shriek in Terror! As we tease what's coming next year!

Godzilla talk! Listener Questions! A.V.P.V.G! Send your year end listener questions to ben@acmecomics.com

What's your favorite Christmas Movie?  Post-Jim Henson Muppets is good and Ben won't let Jermaine convince him differently!  A lot of comics talk! It's been a great month for new releases.  We discuss holiday shopping in the shops!

We discuss black friday and thanksgiving week, tonight's Batman '89 event, christmas at the store, Godzilla Minus One and more!  Thank you to our sponsors: WOOOO! Energy and Chad Merrit. 

We dicuss the latest book from James Tynion, The Deviant! GI Joe is back in action! A well-deserved listener question gets the main focus! Email your listener questions to ben@acmecomics.com

Ben sits down to talk with independet creator, Hunter Delaney!  Hunter is currently running a kickstarter for his independently publisher graphic novel, THE HISTORY OF HARDCORE!  Think Hip Hop Family Tree for Punk and Hardcore.  Acme Comics Downtown will have a limited number of copies of this book but we highly reccomend that you back this project!

Acme Comics Downtown is officially open!  Ben and Austin discuss the grand opening and all of the upcoming events that you'll get your chance to be a part of!

NOT CLEAN. Some cursing in this episode.  Ben sits down with Sam Freeman, writer of the upcoming BASIC INSTINCT series from Sumerian Comics and HOUND from Mad Cave Studios!  We talk about how Sam got into comics and how his writing style evolved from being a lover of film and comics and getting the opportunity to carry on the story of the critically acclaimed film. 

The Acme Comics Downtown Grand Opening is tomorrow Saturday October 28th! We dig into all of the details and answer some listener questions all while giving praise to James Tynion and Martin Simmond's DRACULA from Image Comics!

Recorded on Friday the 13th, October 2023!  Ben and Austin recap an already busy October and talk the Grand Opening of our SECOND LOCATION coming to Downtown Greensboro!

For the first time in quite a long time we welcome Pete Bowne back to the Podcast!  We talk about our night out at the Tanger Center for the Performing Arts!  The Nightmare off Elm St film series at the Carolina Theater is fast approaching!

Jermaine is out for this podcast!  Ben and Austin hit on some important Acme Comics events and tease some upcoming surprises!  If you're an avid listener, rush to acmecomics.com and enter to win two tickets to see INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE LIVE at the Tanger Performing Arts center!