Local area artist Robin Ha (Almost American Girl, Cook Korean) has a new graphic novel out, The Fox Maidens. Robin was kind enough to do a limited edition, signed and numbered bookplate for us! “An epic new graphic novel fantasy – a queer, feminist reimagining of a legend from...
Best Sellers of 2023
posted by Big Planet Comics
Hi everyone! Here’s a look at our best sellers at all three of our stores this year. You can really see the difference between each location, but some books were popular everywhere. Comparing to 2022 is really interesting, we get to see the continued popularity of several books that did...
Best of 2023
posted by Big Planet Comics
It’s that time of year! When everyone makes their lists of the best of the year (even though it’s barely December!)So here are several of our favorites from 2023 (so far!)We’ve done 3 categories, Graphic Novels, Collections of ongoing series, and then finally a bonus list of...
Void Rivals announcement
posted by Big Planet Comics
Void Rivals is a thrilling new scifi series by Robert Kirkman, Lorenzo De Felici, and Matheus Lopes. There is a big surprise in issue 1, and Robert Kirkman himself will tell you about it! (Just come and pick up the issue at any of our stores if you want to read it spoiler free!)
Best Sellers of 2022
posted by Big Planet Comics
It’s been awhile since we’ve done this, so let’s look back at our best selling graphic novels and issues for the year! We finally published a new volume of our own local comics anthology, Big Planet Comics: Neon! This included a new short Zodiac Starforce story by our...
December Manga sale
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ALL manga at our Vienna, Virginia, and Washington DC stores is 20% off throughout December!This is a great chance to catch up on some Japanese comics, or try out something new. We’ll be posting some of our favorites here, but please ask if you want any other recommendations! Blue Period by Tsubasa YamaguchiAn aimless teenager stumbles into his high school art department and commits himself to becoming an artist. It also teaches the reader how to become a better artist, too! Kowloon Generic Romance by Jun MayuzukiReiko Kujirai is a 30-something real estate agent living in Kowloon Walled City. She’s constantly butting heads with...
Big News for College...
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BIG NEWS! Hey Big Planeteers!We know a lot of you shop at all our locations, so we wanted to let you know that we’re going to be passing the torch of comics in College Park to our friends at Third Eye Comics and their new Third Eye College Park location this July! Thank you all so much...
Weekly Final Order C...
posted by Miranda
Time again to take a look at comics coming out a few weeks from now! AKA Final Order Cutoff time! Comics orders are always due for us on EACH WEEK, at 4pm on Sunday! Keep that in mind so we can order books for you if you want them! IF YOU DO NOT MEET THIS DEADLINE WE CANNOT GUARANTEE WE...
Thanksgiving Week Ho...
posted by Miranda
Good news! It looks like our books will be on time this week! As of right now, it looks like there will be no delays on our new comics shipment! Here are our store hours for the Thanksgiving holiday: College Park: Closed on Thanksgiving, open Friday, 11/26 U street: Closed on Thanskgiving,...
Don’t miss: Lu...
posted by Miranda
Due to the Memorial Day holiday on Monday (when our final orders for Lunar Comics are normally due), we have to have the Final Orders in on Thursday for DC and other books distributed by Lunar! So we need your orders by 5PM on Thursday, 5/27! Please see the list below, and click the link to...
HOLIDAY HOURS 2020!
posted by Miranda
U STREET Wed, Dec 23: 11-7 New Comics Thu, Dec 24: 11-3 Fri, Dec 25: CLOSED Wed, Dec 30: 11-7 New Comics Thu, Dec 31: 11-3 Fri, Jan 1: CLOSED VIENNA Wed, Dec 23: 11-7 New Comics Thu, Dec 24: 11-3 Fri, Dec 25: CLOSED Wed, Dec 30: 11-7 New Comics Thu, Dec 31: 11-3...
DC Future State
posted by Big Planet Comics
DC Comics is showing the future of their universe in DC Future State, running in January and February, as a new set of miniseries by a cool group of creators comes out with some of DC’s favorite characters. Since some of these are some of our favorite creators (such as Becky Cloonan, Mariko Tamaki, Gene Luen Yang, Ram V, Christopher Priest, Marguerite Bennett, Dan Mora, Jen Bartel, Leila Del Duca, Joelle Jones, and Steve Pugh!), but all the titles are new Future State versions, we wanted to list all the info here so you can see which ones you are interested in. We attached a PDF you can look over for each title, who is creating it,...