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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...

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. He writes about Derecho-time this week. The

Rodman Comics wasn't going to do Free Comic Book Day this year, Then they took it away. So what did one comic book store do next?

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics in Ankeny, Iowa, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. Welcome back to 25 Hot Comics. Even with

Too much of a gap between issues. DC's New Distributors Better Than Diamond? Comic Store In Your Future Photo Rod Lamberti. 2020 Wolverine actually sold due to the fact people want something featuring Wolverine while waiting for the next issue of his main series If not for DC, we would be in a world of hurt for[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics writes about wearing % a face mask to visit your local comic shop and why doing so is the polite thing to do.

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics asks if abandoned pull boxes could mean the end of your local comic book store - are you guilty of this?

The question now is which characters from the JSA will be making it to the big screen? Could Cyclone be one of them? 25 Modern Comics May Increase In Price – Comic Store In Your Future. Justice Society of America #1 $9 from 1992 Jesse Quick's first appearance A favorite character of mine back in the day[...]

"Our Comeback will be bigger than our setback!" That is the slogan for Diamond Comics, formerly the only carrier of comics for comic stores.

DC Comics has left Diamond, which is bad for one comic store but not for the reasons you might have thought - Rod tells us why.

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. In these uncertain times, I just found out last

Will you find Corona Collectibles in a Comic Store In Your Future? Rod Lamberti looks at the progonosis of what is coming down the pipe

Will they up their game after DC went and got vendors? After years of Diamond not worrying about competition how will they handle it? Will we see some improvements? Will stores that cut back their comic business due to dealing with Diamond look to increase their business now that there are other vendors? Will customers[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa writes the Comic Store in Your Future column weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. and catch up with Bleeding Cool's coverage of the current Diamond situation and how it affects the comic book industry with this tag Lamberti writes, I just wrote my last check to Diamond Comics[...]

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa writes the Comic Store in Your Future column weekly for Bleeding Cool Find previous columns here and catch up with Bleeding Cool's coverage of the current situation and how it affects the comic book industry with this tag Lamberti writes, We are now into week #2 of no new[...]

This is the first full week of being closed due to the Governor's mandate along with our first Wednesday of no new comics.

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. This article will give an update on our

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. We are in uncharted territory. I am still

Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. As many of you know DC Publisher, Dan DiDio, is no longer with

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Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. Getting stuck in a rut. Last month's comic

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