Where the past meets the future
Staff picks for the week of 6/12/24! Hate Revisited comes out on top with near unanimous support from the Time Warp crew, with the returns of Scarlet Witch and Gotham by Gaslight coming in right behind! All of these and so much more are available right here at your favorite comic book store: Time Warp!
We’re happy to see everyone enjoying our anniversary sale this year (details in our prior post here), and we’re back with this post to announce the big finish!
This Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday–September 26th, 27th, and 30th–we’ll have some extra bonuses to the anniversary sale!
We hope you all visit on these days and take advantage of the sale! Thanks for all the support, and we hope you all have a good time with us as we approach year 37!
Hello, Time Warp faithful! Starting today, March 15th, and going through Saturday, April 11th, we’re doing another one of our beloved March Madness sales!
This year, we’re doing something a little different: special sales for each day of the week, and a flat 3 for $1 in our fifty cent comics boxes the entire duration of the sale! Check out the whole calendar here:
We’re happy to offer these savings to you, our wonderful customers who keep us going. We hope to see you take advantage of these sales while they last!
Hello, friends of Time Warp! This Saturday, November 23rd, is Local Comic Shop Day, an annual celebration of stores like ours! This means you have a chance to get some exclusive comics made specially for the day! You can check out the full list of 2019’s special comics here, on the Local Comic Shop Day website.
Local Comic Shop Day is largely a first-come-first served affair with these exclusives; however, some of these items were produced in extremely limited quantities, and we want to give a fair chance for everyone. We are holding a raffle to see who will be able to purchase these particular LCSD items:
LCSD 2019 ABSOLUTE CARNAGE #5 (OF 5) VIRGIN VARIANT – We have 1 of 600 copies!
LCSD 2019 LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #1 – We have 1 of 600 copies!
LCSD 2019 NEW MUTANTS #1 ARTIST VARIANT – We have 2 of 1000 copies!
For every $10 you spend on Saturday, you will receive a raffle ticket that you can use on one of these three exclusives! If you’re the winner at the end of the day, we’ll let you know and put the comic on hold for you to purchase.
We will also have a selection of exclusives from prior LCSDs to check out as well!
We hope to see you there, and good luck with your raffle tickets!
Surprise, Time Warp faithful! Here’s another great signing to look forward to.
On Wednesday, October 23rd, from 2 PM to 4 PM, we’ll be hosting STEVEN T. SEAGLE for a signing! He is best known as a member of Man of Action Studios as a co-creator of the hit animated series Ben 10, but he’s also written plenty of comic books, including the introduction of Big Hero 6, who Disney have adapted the team into film and TV. Between stints on Uncanny X-Men, Sandman Mystery Theater, as well as writing the Eisner-award winning It’s A Bird, and the Eisner-nominated Kafka, Steven T Seagle has created work for readers young and old, and of all tastes. His Wikipedia page is a helpful guide for seeing all the work he’s done over the years, and there’s lots of it!
We hope to see you all there! Feel free to say hello and get some books or perhaps some DVDs from your collection signed. You can RSVP to the Facebook event here.
Another October is here, which means it’s time to celebrate one of comic culture’s most exciting holidays: 24 Hour Comic Book Day! The goal of this yearly event is to encourage artists to create an entire 24 page comic in 24 hours, and Time Warp will be open from 10 AM Saturday, October 5th to 10 AM Sunday, October 6th hosting an amazing list of local artists who are taking on the challenge!
In addition, we celebrate with our beloved flash sales that change every few hours, which is working in conjunction with our current anniversary sale–which means this will be one for the record books!
On top of $1 regular Marvel, DC, Independent, and Media back issues all 24 hours (with exceptions being books on the wall, in the case, and non-media issues in the silver/bronze age island), we’re offering these time-sensitive sales as well:
10 AM – 1 PM: 35% off all softcover books and graphic novels!
1 PM – 4 PM: 35% off all busts, statues, action figures, and Pop! vinyl figures!
4 PM – 7 PM: 35% off all hardcover books and graphic novels!
7 PM – 10 PM: 5 for $1 from our fifty cent comic bin!
10 PM – 1 AM: 20% off our silver/bronze age comic section!
1 AM – 5 AM: 35% off posters, shirts, and supplies!
5 AM – 10 AM: Home stretch, last chance! 25% off store-wide (exceptions listed above apply)
We hope to see you at any point during the day! Or night.
Be sure to sign up for the event on Facebook, and keep your eyes peeled on our website and our social media pages for one more fun announcement celebrating our 35th anniversary… Ut!
Attention, Time Warpers!
We have some super limited items for Local Shop Day that we are going to raffle off. When you spend $25 in Time Warp on Saturday you will receive a raffle ticket for your choosing of Green Lantern #1 (limited to 500), Black Bird #1 (limited to 500), and lastly Marvel Knights 20th #1 (limited to 500). We will call the winners the following Sunday. Everything else will be first come first serve so make sure to show up early! We will also be having a sale on select graphic novels; $1 for softcovers and $5 for hardcovers!
This Saturday, our annual anniversary sale comes to a close with its greatest event: 24 Hour Comic Day! From 10 AM Saturday to 10 AM Sunday, we will have a pack of local artists in the back of the store, each of them attempting to create an entire issue of comics from start to finish–and the store will remain open for business!
Not only can you watch these artists create in real-time (and ask them about their work), but you can also enjoy our beloved flash sales! Here’s this year’s sale schedule:
(Click to enlarge, or come get a paper copy in the store!)
24 Hour Comic Day remains a favorite for us here at Time Warp, so we hope to see everyone there for another day (and we mean day) of fun!
Come see us at Fort Collins Comic Con! August 25th-27th at Northside Aztlan Community Center! We will have a booth set up with comics, toys, and graphic novels!
Get your badges here! https://fococomiccon.com/
Denver Comic Con is less than two weeks away! Are you prepared? As always, there will be plenty of fantastic guests, panels, costumes, and, of course, exhibitors–like us! This year Time Warp has a fantastic spot and we’ll be one of the very first booths you see as you walk into the convention floor, BOOTH 801! We’ll have hundreds of graphic novels, toys, comics, and plenty of great sales throughout the weekend. For those of you who won’t be able to go to the show, fret not–the store itself will also be open during the weekend with regular hours.
This year’s March Madness sale is underway! This year, however, we’re mixing things up with an ongoing back issue sale, as well as special daily sales! However, Saturdays are special… We’ll update this post every Monday throughout the duration of the sale to announce what kind of sale you will be able to enjoy on the coming Saturday!
This Saturday, April 7th:
All comics in our Marvel, DC, and Media back issues will be $1, and those in our Independent back issues section will be $0.50 on Saturday, April 7th!
This excludes our Silver/Bronze Age, All-Ages, and Underground comics sections, as well as the Walking Dead box.
Here’s the calendar for the rest of the sale, if you missed it!
3/22/18 UPDATE:
In planning our sale, we forgot about Easter! The store will be closed all day on April 1st. However, the sale meant for that day will be added to the last day of the sale. Therefore, on April 11th, as a last hurrah for the sale, enjoy a buy 2 get 1 free sale on Marvel graphic novels, as well as 20% off all action figures!
The calendar has been changed accordingly.
With the beginning of the NCAA basketball tournament, so begins our annual March Madness sale! This year we’re doing something we’ve never done before–special sales that change every day, in addition to an ongoing 50% off sale on our Marvel, DC, Indie, Media, and All-Ages back issues!
Click the calendar above for details. As for the Saturday sales, keep your eyes on this site or our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts on the Mondays before to see what they will be! Enjoy this spectacular savings season while it lasts!
Hey Time Warpers! If you’re not already aware, Marvel is gearing up for their new Marvel Legacy initiative with a huge batch of special holographic lenticular covers that pay homage to classic Marvel covers. You can see all of these lenticular covers, as well as the original covers that they are paying tribute to, at http://marvel.com/legacy.
If you’re interested in any of these special covers, please let us know in an email, or in-store so we can order them accordingly. If you’re at the store, we can give you a sheet that has all of the covers on a checklist that you can use to tell us what you would like.
Here are few of these marvelous covers for your viewing pleasure! Give them a click to see them animate between the new cover and the classic one–and remember, you can see all of these covers via the aforementioned link!
Inspired by College Basketball tournament brackets, our resident comic nerds have pooled their brains to bring you a bracket of a more Super variety. Stop by our store to pick up a blank bracket for just one dollar, then bring it in filled out by March 15th for your chance to win!
The tournament is a single elimination style mash up of all your favorite comic book stars, as imagined by your favorite comic shop.
Come to the store and fill out a bracket! You can take the bracket home with you, if you want to research some of the characters, or you can fill it out in store. In either case, be sure you’ve got your submissions in by Wednesday March 15th. This marks the start of the NCAA tournaments, but more importantly this marks the beginning of our March Madness sale!
We will compare your filled out bracket with our official rulings. We came up with our rulings based on what would happen if these two combatants came into conflict. Would they settle it with fists? Who would yield first? Drawing on our collective years of comic book knowledge, as well as recent events in many different comic book universes, we have come up with what we believe to be definitive answers to these questions.
You can purchase as many brackets as you want for $1.00 a piece. Additionally, file holders may purchase their first bracket for the low low price of $.25!
Grand prize is a 100 dollar gift certificate to Time Warp Comics!
Second place is a 25 dollar gift certificate to Time Warp Comics!
Third place gets one standard Funko Pop of their choice!
Fourth place gets one current book featuring the Competitor of their choice!
Ties will be decided by random drawings.
We’re Excited to bring you this contest, and we hope you’re excited to participate!
If you have any questions, drop us a line here, or pop by the store!
Stay tuned for More announcements about our March Madness sale, coming soon!
And check back often for our Match-up Write-ups!
Greetings fellow mortals! I have recently embarked on a mystical journey through the fantastical realm of the good Doctor Steven Vincent Strange, and thought I would catalog my adventures for any fellow uninitiated Time Warpers who wish to become more familiar with his character. In this first installment of a continuing saga, I will briefly delve into the details regarding how the Stupendous Steve Ditko and Scintillating Stan Lee worked together to construct his character.
The year was 1963! After the successful launch of the Human Torch’s solo recurring series in Strange Tales, Ditko and Lee were working to create a character that would continue to boost sales and bring new readers to the magazine. Ditko answered the call of duty with Strange Tales #110, the first appearance of Doctor Steven Strange. In the story, a tormented man seeking a mystical solution to a terrifying recurring dream comes to Doctor Strange for answers. The story takes place in a universe where Doctor Strange’s magical powers and mystical teachers have already been established—his origin story was not revealed until a few months later with Strange Tales #115.
As Lee and Ditko became more familiar with the character his universe quickly became quite densely populated with characters, mythologies, and languages. Stan Lee tasked himself with creating spells that rang true to Doctor Strange’s persona and did not disrupt the rhythm of his character. Thus, by the hoary hosts of Hoggoth, Doctor Strange’s characteristic alliterative incantations were born. From the start Stan Lee was plagued with meticulously researched questions regarding the origins of some of these phrases and spells—but alas! They were plucked from Lee’s prolific and peerless mind. According to the man himself, “there’s always the chance that an alien power from some distant dimension had taken control of my senses when I started writing Dr. Strange. The reason I say that is—the spells must have come from somewhere. Perhaps I couldn’t have made them up. After all, if you’ve read all the stories, you know as well as I do, that they always work!”
But what of Steven Strange’s beginnings? In an eight-page story four issues after his first appearance, Lee and Ditko go on to reveal his origin.
Thus ends the first installment of Georgia’s Doctor Strangification! I will continue my journey into the magical worlds of Doctor Strange next week, turning my attention to his origin story as told in Strange Tales #115.
