Black Friday Sale and Thanksgiving Hours

maxsantacolorOur ninth annual Black Friday sale is coming on Friday, November 24th. Come kick off your holiday shopping and earn bonus gift certificates!

From the time we open (10 AM) until the time we close (10 PM) on Friday, November 24th, any purchase you make will also earn you bonus holiday gift certificates. For every $25 you spend, you’ll get $5 on a gift certificate, and you can break those up into individual $5 gift certificates, one big gift certificate with the whole amount or any other combination you choose. So for example, if you spend $100, you’ll get $20 in our special holiday gift certificates.

Rogue Card members will get a special bonus! If you show your Rogue Card, you will get $5 on gift certificates for every $20 you spend! And yes, you can buy a Rogue membership on Black Friday, although the $35 membership fee won’t count toward your total for gift certificates (that’s just not fair to everyone who bought them on other days).

So come on in and get a little extra bang for your holiday-shopping buck. Or pick up something for yourself and get some bonus money to give away as gifts. But make sure and stop in for this one-day event!
Boring Rules Stuff:
Just like our regular gift certificates, these have no expiration date, and can be used for anything in the store. We’ll be using these throughout the holiday season. They cannot be used on the day of purchase, but can be used as early as Saturday, November 29th.
The amount used to calculate bonus gift certificates is the pre-tax value of merchandise (within reason – a $24.99 or $24.95 item will get you the $5 gift certificate). $5 is given for each full $25, not a fraction thereof.
We will be closed on Thursday, November 23rd for Thanksgiving. There are no comic shipping delays related to Thanksgiving.

Ladies Night Holiday Edition

LADIES! Do you like comics? Do you like games? Do you just enjoy getting your geek on? Are you looking to make some awesome new friends? Then join us for LADIES NIGHT, hosted by our lady staff, on Saturday, December 9th from 8 PM – 10 PM!

We’re doing tacky sweaters for this one! Hanukkah sweater, Kwanza sweater, Christmas sweater, a hideous sweater your grandma gave you for your birthday. WEAR IT.

Let’s make this event 17 and up. As always, please feel free to bring snacks and treats for the group.

RSVP please, so we can get a headcount for food and drinks.

See y’all there!

Doomsday Clock Midnight Release

The much-anticipated sequel to Watchmen, Doomsday Clock #1, releases at 3 minutes to midnight this Tuesday, November 21st! We’ll close at 9 PM as normal and then reopen at 11 PM! Come out and join us for some cake, Watchmen and comics discussion, and your first chance at the first issue as well as the variant covers!*

DC has also encouraged retailers to sell their other releases for the week, so we will be selling new DC Comics along with Doomsday Clock!

*We’ll issue tickets for those who want to buy variants and draw random numbers to determine who goes first. One variant per person until we know everyone who wants one had a chance to buy them.

Gaming with Rogues – Codenames

On the third Saturday of every month, Rogues Gallery will host a casual gaming night – each month will focus on a different game. The game night will begin at 6:30 PM and run until 9:00 PM, when the store closes.
This month’s game is on November 18th, and we’ll be playing Codenames Duet, as well as other Codenames variants!
 
Codenames is aboard game for 2-8 players. Two teams compete by each having a Spymaster give one word clues which can point to multiple words on the board. The other players on the team attempt to guess their team’s words while avoiding the words of the other team.
So whether you’ve played before or just want to try it out, come join us for Gaming with Rogues! And don’t forget that with your Rogue Card, you can get 10% off on Codenames from now until the end of November!
 
Also, Gaming with Rogues is an open game night, so folks are welcome to play any game in our well-stocked boardgame and card game library or bring a favorite game of their own!

Local Comic Shop Day on Saturday, November 18th!

November 18th is Local Comic Shop Day! Local Comic Shop Day celebrates locally owned independent comic book specialty stores, showcasing their unique and vital role in being the primary fire-starters of pop culture.

We’ll have a limited selection of LCSD merchandise available. We’ll have special variant covers for Star Wars Adventures #1, Optimus Prime First Strike #1, Maestros #1 , Captain America #695, Sherlock Frankenstein & Legion of Evil #1, and Justice League Vs Suicide Squad #1. There will also be hardcovers of Planet Hulk, Animosity the Rise, 4 Kids Walk into a Bank, Black, Young Terrorists, Secret Weapons, and Batman Hush 15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, and the Robotech Kerschl Super Pack, Rick & Morty Treasury Edition, and Oni’s Tales from Johnny Wander!

We’ll have limited copies available, so make sure and show up early for the best selection!

In addition, DC Comics is celebrating Justice League Day, so we’ll have free copies of Justice League #1 by Geoff Johns & Jim Lee with a special movie-themed cover by Ivan Reis while supplies last!

Ladies Night Spoopy Edition!

LADIES! Do you like comics? Do you like games? Do you just enjoy getting your geek on? Are you looking to make some awesome new friends? Then join us for LADIES NIGHT on Saturday, October 28th, starting at 8 PM, hosted by our lady staff!

This Ladies Night is HALLOWEEN THEMED! Come in costume! Come in Halloween colours! Come in both! ^_^

There will be Halloween themed board games, snacks, candy, and music. Teala could probably also be convinced to put on a spooky movie later on in the evening 🙂

Let’s make this event 17 and up. As always, please feel free to bring snacks and treats for the group.

RSVP please, so we can get a headcount for food and drinks.

See y’all there!

Halloween ComicFest on Saturday, October 28th!

Halloween ComicFest takes place every year on the Saturday on or before Halloween at participating comic shops worldwide, with this year’s event taking place on Saturday, October 28.

This year’s free comic offerings include DC Superhero Girls, Ghostbusters, Hellboy, Sabrina, and lots more! You can check out a full list of what’s going to be available here.

Come out early for the best selection and get some free comics! Take advantage of a chance to show off your Halloween costumes for the next week, and come celebrate one of our favorite holidays with us!

Gaming with Rogues – Unearth and Boss Monster

On the third Saturday of every month, Rogues Gallery will host a casual gaming night – each month will focus on a different game. The game night will begin at 6:30 PM and run until 9:00 PM, when the store closes.
This month’s game is on October 21st, and we’ll be playing Brotherwise Games’ new game Unearth and their older game Boss Monster!
 

Unearth is a bend-your-luck game of dice placement and set collection. Designed by Jason Harner and Matthew Ransom, it plays in under an hour with 2-4 players. Each player leads a tribe of Delvers, represented by five dice (3 six-sided, 1 four-sided, and 1 eight-sided). Players take turns rolling and placing dice in an attempt to claim Ruins.

The game’s elegant core mechanic is accessible to players of all skill levels. High rolls help players claim Ruins, while low rolls help players collect Stones. This opens two paths to victory: claiming sets of Ruins or using Stones to build Wonders. Delver cards help you affect your dice rolls or dice in play, and Wonders can grant abilities that impact the late game.

Inspired by a love of classic video games, Boss Monster: The Dungeon Building Card Game pits 2-4 players in a competition to build the ultimate side-scrolling dungeon. Players compete to lure and destroy hapless adventurers, racing to outbid one another to see who can build the most enticing, treasure-filled dungeon. The goal of Boss Monster is to be the first Boss to amass ten Souls, which are gained when a Hero is lured and defeated — but a player can lose if his Boss takes five Wounds from Heroes who survive his dungeon.

Playing Boss Monster requires you to juggle two competing priorities: the need to lure Heroes at a faster rate than your opponents, and the need to kill those Heroes before they reach your Boss. Players can build one room per turn, each with its own damage and treasure value. More attractive rooms tend to deal less damage, so a Boss who is too greedy can become inundated with deadly Heroes.

Players interact with each other by building rooms and playing Spells. Because different Heroes seek different treasure types, and rooms are built simultaneously (played face down, then revealed), this means that every “build phase” is a bidding war. Spells are instant-speed effects that can give players advantages or disrupt opponents.

So whether you’ve played before or just want to try it out, come join us for Gaming with Rogues! And don’t forget that with your Rogue Card, you can get 10% off on Unearth and Boss Monster from now until the end of August!
 
Also, Gaming with Rogues is an open game night, so folks are welcome to play any game in our well-stocked boardgame and card game library or bring a favorite game of their own!

Ladies Night Book Club!

LADIES! Do you like comics? Do you like games? Do you just enjoy getting your geek on? Are you looking to make some awesome new friends? Then join us for LADIES NIGHT, hosted by our lady staff!

This month, we’re doing a book club on Saturday, September 30th from 8 PM – 11 PM! Teala has chosen THE WICKED + THE DIVINE VOL 1 as our first graphic novel. Here’s the synopsis she stole from Goodreads:

“Every ninety years, twelve gods incarnate as humans. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are dead. The team behind critical tongue-attractors like Young Avengers and PHONOGRAM reunite to create a world where gods are the ultimate pop stars and pop stars are the ultimate gods. But remember: just because you’re immortal, doesn’t mean you’re going to live forever.”

It’s a pretty Rated R book, so this event will be 17+.

We would also like to add that we do not discriminate here at Rogues Gallery. If you identify as female/femme you are most welcome.

As always, pretty please RSVP on the Facebook event, just so I can get a rough headcount.

Hope to see you there! 🙂

DC Deck-Building Tournament in October!

We’ll be hosting a tournament for one of our favorite games, the DC Deck-Building game, on Saturday, October 7th starting at 1 PM! We’ll have room for up to 15 players, and we’ll have Vixen promo cards to give away to up to 10 players!

Come on out and give the game a try, we’re happy to teach it if you haven’t played before, or if you want to get some practice, come out and play on our Tuesday night open boardgame nights!

The game should run until about 4 PM, depending on turnout and how long the rounds take.