The time has come! This weekend, Saturday, July 13, and Sunday, July 14, will be BLASTOFF’s final days of operation in North Hollywood. Jud and Scott will be in the house all weekend, so come on by and take advantage of our biggest sale ever! All “new” and current comics are on sale for $1! […]
The little girl sat at our children’s table two or three times a week. Sometimes, weekends. Her mother would fit herself into one of the tiny chairs, purse in her lap, reading a Spanish romance novel. The girl would build a small stack of Archies and Tiny Titans and keep them within arm’s reach. She […]
You’d think a great Spider-Man movie would have to take place mostly in New York. Au contraire. So many great Spidey stories have been travel stories, whether Spidey was in Florida confronting the Lizard, or the Savage Land working for JJJ, or off to London to try to win back Gwen Stacy. So even though […]
BLASTOFF WELCOMES COLLECTOR’S PARADISE TO NORTH HOLLYWOOD Award-winning SoCal retail chain to take over for departing vintage-comic boutique North Hollywood, CA, July 2019 – Blastoff Comics and Collector’s Paradise are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement that will allow Collector’s Paradise to take over Blastoff’s popular brick-and-mortar location at 5118 Lankershim […]
We are delighted to announce that our friends at Collector’s Paradise will be taking over our spot in the North Hollywood neighborhood! We couldn’t bear the thought of leaving our community without a quality bookstore, so we reached out to the best retailers we knew to come in and set up shop here at 5118 […]
Looking for some reading material before you head off to enjoy the fireworks? We’ve got you covered! BLASTOFF will be open Thursday, July 4th, from 11 am until 5 pm! Come on down to North Hollywood!
So many of you have come in to see us this week to take advantage of our sale and say goodbye, And as of last night, many of you commented that the shop didn’t look right with so many empty shelves. We completely agree. So last night, after we closed the doors, we rolled up […]
“A thing isn’t beautiful because it lasts.” – The Vision, Avengers: Age of Ultron It is with much regret that we announce that Blastoff will be closing its doors at the end of July. Why? Opportunities arose that could not be passed up, and with Jud’s recent move to San Diego to take on the […]
It was one year ago today that we lost the great Harlan Ellison. In a lot of ways, Harlan was kind of the patron saint of BLASTOFF, encouraging us and supporting us even before we had the store open, when Jud and I were just setting up the online business. And his trusting us to […]
So about six weeks before AVENGERS: ENDGAME came out, I began re-watching the entire Marvel Studios filmography and commenting about it on social media. Just because, I guess. (Although truth be told, I didn’t finish until much after ENDGAME’s debut, for reasons not worth getting into here.) With ENDGAME poised to return to theatres with […]
One of the things Jud and I are proudest of when it comes to Blastoff is our podcast, which ran throughout 2017. We wanted our podcast to be just how we had envisioned the store and the website: steeped in comic-book history and emotionally relevant. All of these podcasts are the work of many hands: […]
When Jud and I opened BLASTOFF seven years ago, it was important to us to be a different kind of comic-book store. And we’d often be complimented about our store’s appearance, which was certainly gratifying. But we wanted to be different not merely in appearance and practice, but in philosophy. In my many years of […]
Last week, we were talking about the forgotten heroes of World War II comics, Hillman’s Airfighters, and their star attraction, Airboy, a kid pilot with an amazing robot plane named Birdie. Let us continue: In time, Airboy becomes an authorized if unofficial member of the Air Force, often going out on missions at the behest […]
