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About Me

Started in 1983, Acme Comics is the largest and oldest comic shop in the Triad area of North Carolina. We carry new comics, back issue comics going back to the 1970s, trade paperbacks and hardcovers, silver and golden age comics in various conditions, statues and busts, DC Direct and Marvel Legends, vintage Transformers, Hero Clix boosters and loose Hero Clix, Magic the Gathering boosters, posters and lithographs, t-shirts, and more.In addition to Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image, we carry comics from Abstract Studios, Archie Comics, Bongo Comics, D. E., Devil's Due, Fantagraphics, IDW, Oni Press, Silent Devil, Slave Labor Graphics, Top Shelf, Viper, and more!We do mail orders, in store subscriptions, whatever you need!

My Interests

Who DO you trust? Acme Comics is your Marvel Secret Invasion HQ! Starts: 4/2/08 Comic books, comic book artists, comic book writers, comic book inkers, comic book letterers, comic book companies, Marvel super heroes, DC super heroes, Vertigo, Wildstorm, Dark Horse Comics, comic book news

I'd like to meet:

People who enjoy comics of all types from any time period.

Movies:

Batman Begins, Batman, Batman Returns, Spider-man, Spider-man 2, X-men, X2, Blade, Blade 2, John Carpenter's The Thing, Dune, Star Wars, Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars Return of the Jedi, Sin City, Dick Tracy, 300, and Supergirl

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, The Wire, Batman Animated Series, Superman Animated Series, Justice League, Doctor Who, The Shield, Arrested Development, Flight of the Conchords

Books:

Ex Machina, Hellboy, Scott Pilgrim, Astonishing X-men, New Avengers, She Hulk, Thing, Ultimate Spider-man, Walking Dead, Ultimates, Daredevil, Batman, BPRD, All Star Superman, Manhunter, Y the Last Man, Powers, In My Lifetime, Monkey in a Wagon vs Lemur on a Big Wheel, Starman, Captain America, Criminal, Planetary, New X-Men

Heroes:

Mike Oeming loses to Mini Marvels' Chris Giarussco in armwrestling!Neal Adams, Mike Mignola, Brian Michael Bendis, John Romita Jr., Alan Moore, Brian K. Vaughan, Joss Whedon, Frank Miller, Geoff Johns, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Curt Swan, Jim Steranko, Steve Ditko, Bernie Wrightson, Dan Slott, Tom Beland, John Byrne, Paul Jenkins, Jae Lee, Ed Brubaker, Kurt Busiek, Bryan Hitch, Alan Davis, Robert Kirkman, Frank Quietly, Allan Heinberg, marc Andreyko, Mike Oeming, Greg Pak, Mark Gruenwald, Bruce Timm, Paul Dini

My Blog

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2008!!!!!

Acme Comics PresentsFREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2008!Saturday, May 3rd 10AM - 7PM- Comics featuring Iron Man, the X-Men, All Star Superman, Atomic Robo, the Simpsons, Archie, Hellboy, the BPRD, Transformers, ...
Posted by Acme Comics on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:42:00 PST

Here’ s a sample of what you miss every week when you don’t get the Acme Email Update!

So are you enjoying the New Acme Message Board? Clearly many of you are with 48 current members and more being born every day, 50 topics, and over 500 posts since last week! W...
Posted by Acme Comics on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:41:00 PST

Head up on a couple of 3/12 New Releases!

CEMETERY BLUES 2 - Fans have been asking for this and now its here! Don't miss out on Greensboro's own Cemetery Blues, now from Image Comics! Copies of issue 1 are still available so you...
Posted by Acme Comics on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:29:00 PST

I am official Marvel canon!

For those that don't know, I was a character in Ultimate Spider-man 86. Which was really cool in ways that I'm still learning about. I was looking through the Ultimate Secrets Marvel Handb...
Posted by Acme Comics on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:50:00 PST

Cemetery Blues Release Event! Saturday January 19th!

Our local boys Ryan Rubio and Thomas Boatwright (artist of The Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo graphic novel) have struck it big like we always said they would and their comic has been picked u...
Posted by Acme Comics on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:52:00 PST

Jermaine’s thoughts on Spider-man: One More Day

Everyone is asking me the same thing. Everyone. "Well, what did you think about One More Day?" I'd been putting the standard "no comment" out there, but knew that would only buy me s...
Posted by Acme Comics on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:47:00 PST

Marvel Must Read trade paperbacks! Key for lapsed or new readers!

Many of you are excited about Marvel's Secret Invasion story line coming in early 2008, but what are the origins of the event? While we expect it to be very new-reader friendly, this story will ...
Posted by Acme Comics on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:31:00 PST

Acme First Look for 11.29.07

A reminder that new comics will arrive on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29th due to the Thanksgiving holiday this week. The Acme First Look is up in the blog right here....
Posted by Acme Comics on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:26:00 PST

Acme First Look for 11.21.07

The new Acme First Look is posted on the Acme website now, which will be it's new home from here on out. You can find it in my blog by clicking on the "blog" link below navigation on the left side of ...
Posted by Acme Comics on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:19:00 PST

Acme First Look for 11.14.07

How about that Illuminati 5? How about it!? Try to say that's not the best comic you've read all year and we'll call shenanigans! Shenanigans, I tell you! But the good doesn't stop there... DC's po...
Posted by Acme Comics on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:38:00 PST