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Jared

Jared

Jared got a copy of Tintin and the Secret of the Unicorn at age 3 and hasn’t looked back since. He has shopped at Big Planet Comics since 1994 and been a co-owner since 2004.

He can be found at the Vienna and U Street stores.

He wants you to read:
all Carl Barks
Hicksville
all Paul Pope
Tintin
Usagi Yojimbo

Kevin

Kevin

Kevin (mis)spent his youth reading Web of Spider-Man and What If? comics at Shop-Rite while his mom bought egg noodles. He lives in a pineapple under the sea and commutes to work in a boom tube.

Where can he be found? VIENNA4LYFE!

He wants you to read:
Captain Easy
Saga
all Tezuka
Steve Ditko’s Spider-Man
Akira

Nick

Nick

Nick learned to read Greek from all the Uncle Scrooge and Conan comics his dad would buy him on his family’s yearly visits to the motherland. He still doesn’t understand math having filled all his text books with issues of Spider-Man.

He can be found at the Bethesda store and can be easily identified by the Ben’s Chili Bowl stains on his clothes.

He wants you to read:
Everything We Miss
Prison Pit
Amulet
Spider-Man: Kraven’s Last Hunt

Miranda

Miranda grew up hearing that “comics were for boys” so naturally she saved up her babysitting money to buy her first graphic novel, The Long Halloween, without parental approval. Classic Harley Quinn fan, horror junkie, and magical girl fanatic; she put this bio up when no one else was looking.

She can be found at the U Street store.

She wants you to read:
Case of the Missing Men
Sailor Moon
all Junji Ito
Outer Darkness
Batman: White Knight

Nicole

When Nicole waited to get picked up after school, she’d go to her local comic store and buy the comics with the coolest covers. This has led to a comic box becoming a corner of her house filled with Hellblazer, Daredevil, and other gritty comics.

She can be found endlessly pricing back issues at the Vienna store.
She wants you to read:
Blue Period
Jeff Lemire’s Moon Knight
all Naoki Urasawa
Nice House on the Lake
In Waves