Pop Roc, a New Kind of Comic Shop Owned by a WWE Wrestler, Opening in New York on Friday

Pop Roc is the name of a new comic shop opening on 337 East Ave, Rochester, New York, previously a Magic Wings. But it’s also a coffee shop. And a cereal bar. And, frankly, a brand-new type of comic shop.

And it’s co-owned by former WWE Crash Test Dummy Colin Delaney, alongside Jason Hilton, Nick Andolina, and Liz Andolina.

Opening on Friday, they will have original coffees from local roasters Fifth Frame and CanalTown, Death Wish coffee (which contains the highest amount of caffeine allowed), and a wall of energy drinks — as well as mocktinis formed from them.

Hilton’s collection of toys will be repurposed as décor, and Pop Roc will offer a comic discovery program that offers some comics for free to anyone and others to those who pay $20 a month. The program allows you to read what you want in store from 20 chosen titles a week, and eventually those comics will be donated. Seriously. They say:

Our “Comic Discovery Program” will let you read brand new books, the day they come out, before you buy them. Try that at any other comic shop at your own risk.

This allows you to read books you may have never gotten a chance to read. Maybe you never even thought you wanted to read but suddenly find yourself unable to put it down. Maybe you just couldn’t afford to read those title and now you can.

That’s pretty cool if you ask me.

We will offer around 20 new titles a week in the program. That’s up to 80 titles a month. If you’re doing the math, that’s well over a $300 a month value.

Hopefully people will sit and drink some coffee, energy drinks or even have a bowl of cereal. You could also grab one of the latest Funko Pops, an old school G1 Transformer or one of our exclusive fanny packs. All while being able to just sit, read or watch some cool cartoons.

Which means the famous cry from comic shop owners, “hey, this isn’t a lending library,” can now be countered with the riposte, “kinda is.”

Don’t spill your fruit loops on them though.

Anyone fancy going along to the opening on Friday? Colin Delaney is suggesting there may be some surprise guests.

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About Comics Really is Launching Seven Comics About Nuns This Month

Yesterday, as part of a collection of April Fool’s posts by comic book publishers, and related, we included About Comics decision to become About Nun Comics. But it wasn’t an April Fool – at least, not their publishing plans.

The reprint effort leads off with Two Little Nuns, the first of Bill O’Malley’s four books of nun cartoons. Originally published in 1950 by the Catholic magazine Extension, the book was an immediate smash, going through six printings in under a year. It launched long-time cartoonist O’Malley’s book career, and he would go on to do books of original cartoons about a range of topics – parenthood, medical care, golf, and more. But with all his success, the nun cartoons were always what he was best known for.

Along with that comes reprints of five books of nun cartoons by Joe Lane, a pre-Golden Age comic book artist and World War II Navy veteran who became Extension‘s main nun guy in the wake of O’Malley’s departure. These books – More Little Nuns, Our Little Nuns, Nuns So Lovely, Vale of Dears, and Yes, Sister! No, Sister! – were all originally published during the 1950s.

The seventh book is a new collection of old cartoons. Nun Funnies! has hundreds of cartoons by Joe Lane, one for every day of the year, including most of the cartoons from the five smaller Lane collections as well as additional cartoons not found in any of the other books. Lane’s work used African and Native American caricatures that are properly understood to be inappropriate today. To maintain the reprints of the original collections, these cartoons are included in the smaller books. However, the Nun Funnies! collection skips these cartoons.

If this is successful, About Comics already has plans for further books of nun cartoons. The books now available through Amazon and wholesale:

• Two Little Nuns by Bill O’Malley (ISBN 978-1936404766), 5.25″x8″, 76 pages, black and white, cover price $7.99. Original edition issued 1950.
• Nun Funnies! by Joe Lane (ISBN 978-1936404773), 8.5″x11″, 136 pages, black and white, cover price $14.99.
• The following books by Joe Lane are each 5.25″x8″, 76 pages, black and white, cover price $7.99:
  • More Little Nuns (ISBN 978-1936404780), original edition issued 1950.
  • Our Little Nuns (ISBN 978-1936404803), original edition issued 1954.
  • Yes, Sister! No, Sister! (ISBN 978-1936404827), original edition issued 1956.
  • Nuns So Lovable (ISBN 978-1936404797), original edition issued 1957.
  • Vale of Dears (ISBN 978-1936404810), original edition issued 1958.

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