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Readership is a driving force in the comic business; however, publishers seem to neglect them more and more over the years.

Comic Store In Your Future is back How crazy will the collectibles market be for 2023? Hopefully, not very crazy How did 2022 end for us? Not bad The first thing we did in 2023 was to count the inventory Doing so confirmed what I already knew, Magic the Gathering is pushing out too much[...]

Why hasn't there been a Comic Store In Your Future for a while? I have been surprisingly super busy We had our twelve-year anniversary in October, which I started writing about, and I did not get it done We have on Black Friday our sale and one last sale that we are already working on[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes Comic Store In Your Future weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. And it's time to ask questions. In-store things are going gangbusters People are calling for anything from comics (Fortnite) to cards (Pokémon) I have a ton of work to do[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes Comic Store In Your Future weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. And this week, sleep is on his mind… A few days ago, I was in bed wondering why it was 1:30 in the morning, and I was still awake[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes Comic Store In Your Future weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. And it's time to ask questions. Why do people collect comics? For the thrill of the chase or for the love of money? For the entertainment or for recapturing one's childhood? When I was five years old, I started[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. And it's time to talk Marvel. What a year!

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. And it's time to talk, penguin. Most people,

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes Comic Store In Your Future weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here And it's time to look at masks. Is the finish line in sight? Thankfully more and more people are getting vaccinated New York City even reopened movie theaters The return of normal, could it be here in[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes Comic Store In Your Future weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here And it's time to look at 2021. 2021, the year of firsts Roughly over a week ago, I was thinking there really isn't much super-hot comic-wise coming out anytime soon Then I read the upcoming Batman/Fortnite: Zero[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes Comic Store In Your Future weekly for Bleeding Cool Find previous columns here And it's time to ask questions. Some of what I write may not seem to be a big deal to a few people though these are just some things people can do for their local[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. And it's time to write about change. At times

A great way to get people to go elsewhere. Comic Store In Your Future – Being Your Own Store With Lunar, I can email a question and get an answer back Diamond, not so much I had a person ask about a Pop figure he ordered and wondered where it was I checked the release date and[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes Comic Store In Your Future weekly for Bleeding Cool Find previous columns here. And it's time to write about change. Sales have been hot here in store Calls for products we do not even carry, such as sports cards, keep coming in daily I have been looking into them[...]

So without further delay, here is 2021's first Hot 25 comics. Comic Store In Your Future: 25 Hot Back Issues And Not Just Star Wars Aliens #1 Dark Horse 1988 1st Aliens in comics $75 Amazing Spider-Man vol 3 #4 2014 1st appearance of Silk $100 Amazing Spider-Man vol 3 #10 2014 1st appearance of Spider-Punk $25 Amazing Spider-Man Annual[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. And it's time to write about change. Change

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. He writes of 2020 and 2021; 2020 is over. With

Comic Store in Your Future - "At my comic store for business purposes, I hope when someone walks in, they see it as well-lit, the store is clean"

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes Comic Store In Your Future weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. The year 2020 is about over Many people will be glad to see it go and are hoping for a much better 2021 There were a lot of lows Shutting down for months was never something I[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. And he is looking to a potential 2021. What do I hope to see in

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here.  This week? Christmas. It is the season, the

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes Comic Store In Your Future weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. What a year, and 2020 still isn't over Stores were forced to close DC left Diamond Comics as their distributor, causing some people to act like the sky was falling Others were bringing up the failure of[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics in Ankeny, Iowa, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. Happy Thanksgiving, all, and we have a lot to

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here.  This week? Shoplifters. Inventory, retail is

It must have taken a heck of a hit from FedEx. In The Orbit Of Lunar – Comic Store In Your Future Photo by Rod Lamberti. I am hoping this is not a sign of an upcoming brutal shipping season With the virus and the holidays coming up, I am guessing there very well could be a[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes Comic Store In Your Future weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. On October 10th, we celebrated ten years of Rodman Comics! It went very well There were things I would have liked to have done, such as a group picture of our customers; of course, with the coronavirus,[...]

Find previous columns here.  Comic Store In Your Future columns has been coming out now for years I had to double-check when the first one was officially posted It was back on Feb 28th, 2017 I had written before for Bleeding Cool, though currently, I am not able to find the past articles One article I[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. Welcome back to 25 Hot Comics! There are a lot of hot comics

It is a mess. So How's 2020 Going So Far? Comic Store In Your Future We, of course, announced the celebration of our 10th anniversary after the last Rod Deals was done before all the new announcements about the virus We will, of course, use Facebook to show off the sales If people wish, we will do[...]

As DC cuts, Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa is not happy about whenever the next Captain Marvel relaunch will be...