Note that "HA" stands for "HEROIC AGE" - a MARVEL cross-over event. (Fixed stupid error.)

Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 19 May 2010 ( here )

Sorry for not getting this out, folks. I didn't leave good enough directions for the person who covered for me last week.

Note that "HA" stands for "HEROIC AGE" - a Marvel cross-over event. (Fixed stupid error.)

Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 12 May 2010 ( here )

OUR THANKS to EVERYONE who came out for Free Comic Book Day! We had a great time ( Read more... )

Note that NEW COMIC BOOK DAY is THURSDAY this week, due to the holiday.

This means we'll be open on Wednesday at 10am, but not until 11am on Thursday (closing at 10pm both days, as usual ( Read more... )

Hello folks!

We are selling tickets for the second annual Julius Schwartz Lecture, which brings J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of the cult science fiction hit BABYLON 5, to Cambridge, MA.

Cost: $10 each, CASH ONLY, at the Million Year Picnic comic shop

Lecture Date: May 22nd, 7pm

Lecture Location: Building 10, Room 250, at the ( Read more... )

Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 21 May 2008 ( here )

My apologies, ya'll. We had a hard time coordinating the information on this one. We also got shorted on a few titles - in particular, I don't think we got ANY copies of the All New Iron Manual.

But this is (generally) what we received last Wednesday & Thursday.

Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 14 May 2008 ( here )

DON'T FORGET!!! KARL STEVENS, author of WHATEVER, will be in the Million Year Picnic signing comics from 2-4pm TOMORROW (Saturday) May 10th, 2008.

The shiplist for this past Wednesday (just 2 days ago) is below and the few additional titles that showed up on Thursday are below that.

Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 7 May 2008 ( here )

Remember the Neil Gaiman show announcement?A day or two after it, there was some confusion with MYP folks thinking we'd sold out of tickets and telling some potential customers that (in person and over the phone) we were sold out or that the show was sold out ( Read more... )

Neil Gaiman's coming to town! The acclaimed novelist, screenwriter, and comic book demigod will be the featured guest at MIT's inaugural Julius Schwartz Lecture series at 7-10pm Friday, May 23rd. This promises to be a departure from Neil's standard (and always highly entertaining) readings. In the proposed format, Neil first will deliver a talk ( Read more... )