@challengers.bsky.social
Chicago/Bucktown 📚 Striving to prove the best thing about being in a comic shop, is being in a comic shop! ✏️ And if you can't come in, shop online: http://challengerscomics.com 👔 WIth your dapper hosts, Patrick and W. Dal!
Challengers NEW RELEASES for Wed 02/25/26!
SPIDER-MAN/VENOM DEATH SPIRAL! PUNISHER 1! BRUTAL DARK (AN EZRA CAIN MYSTERY) 1! ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN 17! ABSOLUTE MARTIAN MANHUNTER 9!
#newreleases #newthisweek #newcomics #keepreadingcomics #newgraphicnovels
Sunday! Feb 22! Noon! @thearchangelo.bsky.social @jmiah720.bsky.social ASHES Signing!
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FUN FACT! If you preorder my new book Let's Make Cocktails! from @challengers.bsky.social by March 9, you will get a FREE exclusive art print by me. This is what it looks like!
More info on the event and the preorders:
challengerscomics.com/pages/event-...
In its February issue, CHICAGO Magazine features @chicagocomics.bsky.social and @challengers.bsky.social in its "Store vs. Store" feature
01.02.2026 21:55 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
February is for Lovers… of COMICS! Look at all these lovely New Releases for 02/04/26! DC K.O. BOSS BATTLE! DC x AEW #1! BATMAN #6! STORM EARTH’S MIGHTIEST MUTANT #1! MAGIK & COLOSSUS #1! And SO much more!!
#newcomics #newgraphicnovels #newthisweek #newreleases #keepreadingcomics
While our name was not derived from this, we take a moment to remember the crew of the Space Shuttle CHALLENGER. 40 years, never forgotten. We literally have a very small piece of a heat shield from the Challenger (from a previous flight) hanging in our shop.
28.01.2026 19:56 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Be the first to watch the hilarious action thrill ride ANACONDA at home! Starring Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Steve Zahn and Thandiwe Newton. Get it on Digital Today!
28.01.2026 18:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The battle for Chicago rages ever on!
(We actually love being in the same industry as our @chicagocomics pals and will share the spotlight with Eric & Co. anytime!)
From Chicago Magazine, Feb 2026. Thanks to Tom K!
It’s a MASSIVE list NEW RELEASES for 01/28/26! Absolute Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash AND Martian Manhunter! Joshua Williamson takes over IRON MAN! And SO MUCH more!!
#newcomics #newgraphicnovels #newthisweek #newreleases #keepreadingcomics
Sal Buscema, you will be sorely missed. Please say "Hi" to John for us. Thank you for everything.
27.01.2026 22:08 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I trimmed 2/3 of it off at Thanksgiving and it looks so tiny to me now!
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HIGHEST POSSIBLE CHALLENGERS RECOMMENDATION!
Orders for END OF LIFE #1 close tomorrow (1/26/26) so add it to your Pull List right now!!
You will thank us for it, as we thank Kyle Starks, Steve Pugh and Vertigo!!
I assure you, we’re open.
Cold can’t stop Comics!
Comics will warm your soul!
Open normal hours all weekend.
Matt. This is the first thing everyone always asks. If this worked, at all, we’d do it. There are MANY reasons to not do this, but the most basic is… the cards of delinquent subscribers never go thru.
21.01.2026 18:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We’re now selling C2E2 tickets!
You KNOW Saturday is going to sell out and we’ll get dozens of phone calls for Saturday tickets, so don’t procrastinate this year!
Tickets can be purchased on our website, but cannot be shipped; local pickup only.
Next Month! ASHES #4 Signing with Jeremiah Wolffe & Archangelo Crelencia @ @challengers.bsky.social 2/2/26
19.01.2026 19:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Here’s Challengers’ NEW RELEASE WALL for 01/21/25!
#newcomics #newgraphicnovels #newthisweek #new-releases #keepreadingcomics
The BIGGEST SpongeBob movie ever is now on Digital! SpongeBob and Patrick dive into the deepest darkest depths of the underworld where no sponge has gone before. The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants is now available on digital.
17.01.2026 17:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here’s Challengers’ NEW RELEASE WALL for 01/14/25! So pretty!!
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This is a wonderful review of Challengers from MSN's "The 15 best comic book shops across the United States that fans swear by" www.msn.com/en-us/health...
11.01.2026 23:58 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1A reminder that while this is a comic book account, comic books are absolutely political because they ALWAYS have been.
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Here are the official first NEW RELEASES for 2026! 01/07/26
#newcomics #newgraphicnovels #newthisweek #newreleases #keepreadingcomics
This week on Off Panel, retailer Patrick Brower of Chicago's @challengers.bsky.social returns for his annual visit to the podcast to talk about the year that was for his comic shop, what worked, Absolute heat, what didn't, Marvel's struggles, how he's feeling about 2026, and more.
05.01.2026 17:27 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 3
Here’s our NEW RELEASE WALL for New Year’s Eve! Plus, leftover stuff from last week.
Challengers is open normal hours on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
#newcomics #newgraphicnovels #newthisweek #newreleases #keepreadingcomics
Once again GREGORY TITUS KILLED IT on our Christmas card! He’s the artistic juggernaut that keeps on giving, and he’s a DAY ONE Challengers supporter.
Thank YOU for being with us this year… in-store, online, via our podcast, or just here in the internet. Thank you. And Merry Christmas.
Whenever @challengers.bsky.social throws the metal signal my way, it’s my sworn duty to answer.
Hope your loins are girded for what we are dropping on y’all next year.
Merry Christmas Eve NEW RELEASES!
Challengers is open 11-6 on Christmas Eve and CLOSED Christmas Day.
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Challengers’ NEW RELEASE WALL PHOTOS for DEC 17, 2025!
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Don’t sleep on @thekylestarks’ new series WRESTLE HEIST from @imagecomics, and not just because we’re in it! Get it because it’s GOOOOD!! Oceans 11 meets WrestleMania! A grand heist caper set in the world of pro wrestling!!
(…and we’re in it!!)
It’s a Grim week for New Releases, JACK Grim that is (you’ll get that once you read Ultimate Batman #15)! Challengers’ NEW RELEASE WALL PHOTOS for DEC 10, 2025!
#newcomics #newgraphicnovels #newthisweek #newreleases #new #shoplocal #keepreadingcomics #challengerscomics #imissgrimjack
