How To Market The Comic Store In Your Future... and is the dog the real owner of Rodman Comics?
Rod Lamberti Archives
Comic Store In Your Future: The new Superman movie has successfully brought people into comic stores, and it's all thanks to James Gunn.
Comic Store In Your Future, on the importance of keeping on smiling through the Diamond Comic Distribution chaos
Comic Store In Your Future: As Marvel Comics gives up on the beef, what's in a number? For Rod Lamberti, it means everything.
Comic Store In Your Future asks how long it takes comic book stores to get new customers into reading comics.
Comic Store In Your Future talks to Alternate Reality Comics' owner Ralph Mathieu about... everything to do with running a comic book store.
Comic Store In Your Future has 2025 starting like a dumpster fire, after Diamond Comic Distributors went bankruptcy
Did Diamond Hurt The Comic Store In Your Future? One store tells tales and regrets of days of distribution past.
Comic Store In Your Future Asks "What If... Diamond Was Still A Monopoly?" How would the last few weeks have gone down?
So You Want to Open A Comic Store In Your Future? Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics in Ankeny, Iowa takes us through the ups and downs.
Comic Store In Your Future asks... Do You Remember Your First Comics? Rod Lamberti takes us through a few of them...
Comic Store In Your Future... with 2024 ending like a dumpster fire, Rod Lamberti takes a look at challenges a comic store currently faces.
A Comic Store In Your Future looks at the very near future for comic shops and makes some wishes for us all in 2025
Comic Store In Your Future: 14 years behind Rod Lamberti and nothing but hope ahead for Rodman Comics in Ankeny, Iowa
When a 9.4 graded Amazing Spider-Man #129 with the first appearance of the Punisher goes missing in the post, Rod is on the case.
Comic Store In Your Future visits the World's Biggest Comic Store, Mile High Comics for the very first time.
In July, DC Comics started moving their new comics on sale dates from Tuesdays to Wednesdays. A foolish thing to do...
I was finally able to watch My Comic Shop Country. A feature-length documentary that came out in 2019, on Amazon Prime.
Marvel Comics' Dan Buckley said, "the days of having a 500-issue run is probably a reach, but we are looking at having less limited series"
"Even after over thirteen years of owning Rodman Comics and thinking I have seen it all, I am still proved wrong."
I went to my first ever Zenescope Event in Las Vegas and enjoyed the heck out of it. It had comic artists and writers on hand, no actors.
Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics did a Zenescope Livestream event for his store, over two hours and ended up making over a grand.
Rodman Comics over the years, has faced derecho storms, pandemics, shoplifting sprees and now the greatest threat of all, a divorce lawyer.
The future of the comic book industry has been debated a lot over the last few months. But how did 2023 go for us? And how will 2024?
Readership is a driving force in the comic business; however, publishers seem to neglect them more and more over the years.
Foils are being used by multiple comic publishers. Why does one only give 16% off while the others give a better discount to stores?
The comic market seems to be leaving basic marketing for comics behind. Void Rivals #1 is the comic that I have gotten the most grief about this year
As a small comic store owner, what do I see in the current comic book market? Some strong signs and some not-so-strong signs.
In this month's Comic Store In Your Future, Rodman Comics owner looks back at Free Comic Book Day 2023 and how it looks from the retailer's point of view.
Planet Comicon Kansas City was held on March 17th through the 19th this year. How was it? Was it better than last year? Will I go back?