Tony is putting up BACK ISSUES on our @MYPComicsOnline Instagram page — https://www.instagram.com/mypcomicsonline/ — drop us an email if you’re interested in anything you see there!
In case you missed it Tuesday evening (5/26/2020), MYP shop owner Tony Davis was on NPR’s All Things Considered talking with Ari Shapiro (the segment is 8 minutes and 23 seconds long): “How Small Businesses Could Prepare For Reopening”
Hello! It’s the 2020 pandemic, butwe are still selling books! (Even though our physical location is closed to the public… for now!) If you live in the greater Cambridge, Watertown, Arlington, Medford, Somerville, Waltham, Belmont, or Lexington area, we will deliver them to your mailbox or front porch for FREE! We are also willing to ship you books. Contact us via email, millionyearpicnic@yahoo.com, or call 617-492-6763. (If you have to leave a message, we’ll get back to you.) You can also check our Instagram and Twitter pages for times when Tony will be in the store fielding calls. Status reports go out on our mailing list, here. You can buy a gift certificate via PayPal to blanton7772000@yahoo.com (but please DO NOT email that address). We are fundraising via classes for kids (scroll down or click here). We will let you know when we can do curbside pick-up again or when we might open our doors.
BOSTON POWERS #1: The first issue of a new, all-ages comic book from the Boston Comics Roundtable: superhero comics set in and around Boston. A young superheroine and a vampire fight it out in a swamp near Salem; a boy discovers his own hidden powers while facing down his demons at the Roger Clap Elementary school in Dorchester; a group of superkids has to deal with delays on the T while hurrying to battle a pink slime monster at the Prudential.
If you live in the greater Cambridge, Watertown, Arlington, Medford, Somerville, Waltham, Belmont, or Lexington area, and you buy ANY GRAPHIC NOVEL in addition to Boston Powers #1, the Million Year Picnic will deliver your order to you for FREE!
We are also offering curbside pickup again, starting on Tuesday, 26 May 2020. Check Twitter and Instagram for our hours during the pandemic.
If you prefer to have your copy of Boston Powers #1 shipped, there’s an additional fee of $3.50 for postage: $6 + $3.50:
The five locally-based superhero sagas in the first issue of a new all-ages comic book series Boston Powers were created by local writers and artists, all belonging to the Boston Comics Roundtable (BCR), an organization of comics makers that has been meeting regularly, holding events, and publishing anthologies since 2006. This is the group’s first series designed specifically for kids. Three issues are planned for this year, each featuring all-new, original super-characters, taking on monsters, supervillains, and evil corporations in recognizable locations.
“We wanted to emphasize the silly, colorful, imaginative excitement of the superhero genre, the reasons we all fell in love with it as young comics readers” says Dan Mazur, who edited the collection. “And by inventing superheroes whose turf is in and around Boston, we hope to have made something even more fun for local kids.” While the comic book promotes positive values and diversity, Boston Powers first goal is to entertain its readers and show them their own towns and neighborhoods as locations for adventure and fantasy.
Boston Powers was funded in part via a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year. The first issue of Boston Powers was to have debuted at the Boston Kids Comics Fest on April 27th, an event that was postponed due to the current health crisis. The comic book will instead be available for order online or via phone through the Million Year Picnic. Retail price is $6.00 for the 40 page, full-color comic.
If you’re looking for ideas for kid-friendly books to buy in order to qualify for FREE delivery, may we suggest the following? Contact us via email, millionyearpicnic@yahoo.com, or call 617-492-6763 (if you have to leave a message, we’ll get back to you) to arrange payment for BostonPowers #1 PLUS the comics or graphic novels of your choice!
It’s a SHORT list, but Diamond’s sending us new comics this week! We are still closed to the public, but we are still selling books! If you live in the greater Cambridge, Watertown, Arlington, Medford, Somerville, Waltham, Belmont, or Lexington area, we will deliver them to your mailbox or front porch for FREE! We are also willing to ship you books. Contact us via email, millionyearpicnic@yahoo.com, or call 617-492-6763. (If you have to leave a message, we’ll get back to you.) You can also check our Instagram and Twitter pages for times when Tony will be in the store fielding calls. Status reports go out on our mailing list, here. You can buy a gift certificate via PayPal to blanton7772000@yahoo.com (but please DO NOT email that address). We are fundraising via classes for kids (scroll down or click here). We will let you know when we can do curbside pick-up again or when we might open our doors.
Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 20 May 2020
ANTI HERO TP BATMAN #89 3RD Printing BATMAN GIANT #4 BIRTHRIGHT #43 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #14 DAPHNE BYRNE #4 (OF 6) (MR) DCEASED UNKILLABLES #3 (OF 3) DEADLY CLASS #44 (MR) DOCTOR WHO 13TH SEASON TWO #4 DOLLHOUSE FAMILY #6 (OF 6) (MR) DREAMING #20 (MR) DUNGEONS & DRAGONS INFERNAL TIDES #3 (OF 5) EC ARCHIVES IMPACT HC GHOSTED IN LA #10 (OF 12) GOON #10 GREEN ARROW YEAR ONE DELUXE EDITION HC GREEN LANTERN BY GEOFF JOHNS TP BOOK 03 JUSTICE LEAGUE #44 JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK TP VOL 03 THE WITCHING WAR JUSTICE LEAGUE ODYSSEY #20 KILL WHITEY DONOVAN #5 (OF 5) (MR) LIVEWIRE TP VOL 03 CHAMPION LOST CARNIVAL A DICK GRAYSON GRAPHIC NOVEL TP LUDOCRATS #1 (OF 5) (MR) MIRKA ANDOLFOS UNSACRED #5 (MR) OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #45 (MR) RED HOOD OUTLAW #45 RED SONJA #15 SAVAGE DRAGON #248 (MR) SNOTGIRL TP VOL 03 IS THIS REAL LIFE STAR WARS ADVENTURES CLONE WARS #1 (OF 5) SUPERMAN SMASHES THE KLAN TP SUPERMAN THE GOLDEN AGE TP VOL 05 SUPERMANS PAL JIMMY OLSEN #10 (OF 12) TRANSMETROPOLITAN TP BOOK 03 (MR) WONDER WOMAN & JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK WITCHING HOUR TP YOUNG JUSTICE TP VOL 01 GEMWORLD
— (A) = Adult Readers GN = Graphic Novel HC = Hardcover (MR) = Mature Readers OGN = Original Graphic Novel (never released as issues) SC = Softcover TP = Trade Paperback YR = Young Reader
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