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DC Bookstore Crawl 2025!
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Apr24

DC Bookstore Crawl 2...

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Twenty-three independent bookstores across Washington DC are partnering for the annual DC Bookstore Crawl to help book lovers explore more of our region’s growing bookstore scene and offer them a way to celebrate with their favorites. While each store will be celebrating on Independent...

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NoVa+ Bookstore Crawl 2025!
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Mar31

NoVa+ Bookstore Crawl 2025!

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Fifteen independent bookstores across Northern Virginia, Frederick, MD, and Wardensville, WV are partnering for the second annual Bookstore Crawl! We’ve created a special Passport to help book lovers explore more of our region’s growing bookstore scene and offer them a way to celebrate with their favorites. While each store will be celebrating on Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 26th with their own festivities, we will all be handing out this special Passport. Throughout May, customers can visit as many stores as they’d like to collect store stamps. Once they have visited 4 stores, they can collect a book prize. Those who...

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Looking Back 5 Years Later
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Mar25

Looking Back 5 Years...

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It’s hard to even remember everything that happened as the Covid pandemic swept across our area. It’s been five years since the official reaction began. It’s amazing how quickly everything seemed to develop. Here’s a brief timeline of all the changes that occurred....

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Best Sellers of 2024
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Dec30

Best Sellers of 2024

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Hello again everyone! Here’s our annual look at our best sellers across all three of our stores. We like seeing these trends, but also the individual flavors of each store and its customers. With 3 years to look back on, we can see that some things continue to be popular year after year, whether the newest volume of an ongoing series, or just a mega popular book that never goes away! But there are also some great new books that do extremely well. First up, we have The Fox Maidens by local superstar Robin Ha, which we were lucky enough to get an exclusive bookplate for. Transformers was a breakout hit, with the first volume matching...

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Best of 2024
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Dec09

Best of 2024

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Between everyone working at Big Planet Comics, we had so many favorites this year! So you should be sure to find something amazing to read from among all these great comics! We divided our lists by graphic novels and comic books. As always, let us know if you want recommendations or if you think of a great one that we missed! Best Graphic Novels of 2024 All of these graphic novels are 20% off throughout December at all of our stores. Stop by and try something new! All Princesses Die Before Dawn – Quentin ZuttionA French slice of life comic that takes place on the day of Princess Diana’s death. Beautiful art and heartfelt writing make...

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New Big Planet Comics shirts
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Aug01

New Big Planet Comic...

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Our new shirts are here!Available in blue or white, with amazing art by friend of the store Andy K!You can see more of Andy’s art in our Big Planet Comics anthologies, or athttps://www.instagram.com/andykillustrationhttps://www.andykillustration.com/

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DC store moves to 1524 U St!
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Jun28

DC store moves to 15...

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Our Washington DC location has moved… 2 doors over to 1524 U St NW! The new location is larger and with a lot of natural light, so we’ve already added a bigger section for classic comic book back issues and will be adding more of everything else as we fill out the store.The new...

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The Fox Maidens bookplate by Robin Ha
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Feb13

The Fox Maidens book...

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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...

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Best Sellers of 2023
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Dec30

Best Sellers of 2023

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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 really well last year. Saga 10 is still a bestseller, but Saga 11 finally came out so expect that to be on our list in 2024. Perennial favorite series like Something is Killing the Children 1, The Department of Truth 1, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin showed up again too. A few books got a big boost from specific moments. James Gunn...

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Best of 2023
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Dec01

Best of 2023

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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...

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Void Rivals announcement
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Jun15

Void Rivals announcement

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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!)

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Best Sellers of 2022
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Dec28

Best Sellers of 2022

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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 hometown heroes Kevin Panetta and Paulina Ganucheau, so of course that was one of our bestsellers! Media had an impact, with Moon Knight, Spy X Family, Demon Slayer, Batman: The Long Halloween, Heartstopper, and Chainsaw Man all selling well after their screen adaptations became popular. Controversy elevated a few, as censorship attempts reminded people to...

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