Atomic Comic in Tacoma, owned by Puyallup resident Shane Ziemer, will celebrate seven years of business this summer. Ziemer shares that interactive customer service is the best thing about his store. "We're here to make suggestions. There's a comic out there for everyone and my staff and I will help find it." The Tacoma store has a huge section for comics with over 400 different titles (Walking Dead, Batman, Captain America, Thor, GI Joe) and several 1000 graphic novels (Green Lantern, X-Men, Avengers, Spiderman).
11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Monday - Saturday, 12 p.m. - 6 p.m. Sunday
[Atomic Comic, 4020 South Steele Street, Tacoma 253.472.1908]
Comic Book Ink is friendly and inviting. Definitely family-friendly, the store offers age-specific comics appropriate for adults and younger kids like Super Dinosaur, a very popular semi-sci-fi adventure novel about a boy genius and his pet dinosaur and for older folks the locally produced DVDs The Gamers and Journey Qwest from Dead Gentlemen Films (former PLU students). Munn stocks over 300 current comics and graphic novels, trade paperbacks, Steve Jackson Games like Munchkin, miniatures and models.
11 a.m. - 8 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Sunday
[Comic Book Ink, 2510 South 84th Street, Lakewood, 253.761.4651]
www.comicbookink.com
Olympia's Danger Room Comics boasts the largest selection of kid-focused comics in the area. New owners Casey Bruce and Frank Hussey have reorganized the store and pumped up stock offering more genres of comics than you can shake a pen at- mainstream, arty, literary, underground, pop culture, sci-fi, crime, fantasy and more.
11 a.m. - 8 p.m. Monday - Friday, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. - 6 p.m. Sunday
[Danger Room Comics, 201 Fourth Avenue West, Olympia, 360.705.3050]
All three stores offer local, national and overseas shipping, carry apparel, posters, figurines, statues, toys and video games that are all super hero-related with pop culture under tones. Think Star Wars, Marvel and DC and more.
Speaking of more, the Olympia Comics Festival is this weekend at the Capitol Theater Saturday, May 21st. Don't miss panel discussions, question-and-answer, signings, performances, and workshops.
http://olympiacomicsfestival.org/
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