Join us to discuss Ed Brubaker's Sleeper

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EMPIRE'S COMICS GRAPHIC NOVEL DISCUSSION GROUP

 Date: Thursday, June 11 2015
Time: 6:30 – 8:00pm, PST
Location: Empire’s Comics Vault
Just show up or, RSVP on Facebook

Sleeper: A Synopsis

In "Sleeper," a story that unfolds in the Wildstorm comics universe, Holden Carver, aka "The Conductor," is a covert operative whose encounter with an alien artifact has infused him with an impressive suite of powers: he's unaffected by physical pain, has the ability to heal rapidly and can store and weaponize any pain inflicted on him. Carver views these powers as a curse, but that hasn't stopped him from putting them to "good" use while working deep under cover to penetrate a potent criminal organization with a global reach, headed by a villainous mastermind named Tao.

But now Carver's International Operations handler is in a coma and no one knows that Carver is really a good guy. In fact, with all the really nasty, underhanded things he's had to do to rise as a trusted assassin within Tao's syndicate, Carver's not even that sure himself anymore.

Join us

Written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, published by DC Comics under the Wildstorm imprint, Sleeper melds noir, spy craft, and super humans.

Join us Thursday, June 11 from 6:30 - 8:00 pm to discuss. 



Transcend the Boundaries of Time and Space: Trillium

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Empire's Comics Graphic Novel Discussion Group

Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015
Time: 6:30 – 8:00pm, PST
Location: Empire’s Comics Vault
Just show up! Or, RSVP on Facebook

Trillium: a synopsis

When a trippy, time-bending, otherworldly flower transports scientist Nika Tensmith from across dimensions from the year 3727 to 1921, she meets and forms a life/universe altering connection with shell-shocked, WWI veteran, William Pike.

Though the fabric of time is fraying all around them, their refusal to let each other go, combined with black holes, aliens, pyramids, warmongers and a sentient plague that threatens to wipeout humankind, spawns writer and artist Jeff Lemire's romantic space opera, Trillium.

Join our dizzying discussion through time and space as we talk all things Trillium on the night of March 12 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.
  • Is the concept innovative or cribbed from various, superior sci-fi stories? 
  • Nika and William's relationship: Epic, cosmic, love story or flimsily contrived, drug-induced infatuation? 
  • Upside down panels: Mind-bendingly effective or simply annoying?
  • Did you take the time to decode the alien language? C'mon, be honest! Was the cipher an engaging element or a distracting gimmick?
  • Lemire's art: Sloppily ugly or beautifully weird?

Be part of the discussion.
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015
Time: 6:30 – 8:00pm, PST
Location: Here at Empire’s.

Repeat Graphic Novel Sale This Saturday

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50% off select graphic novels
Select titles only. Pictured titles
may not be included.
Last week many of you attended Sacramento's first Wizard World Comic Convention. As a result, lots of you missed our graphic novel, trades and collected editions sale.

We've heard you! So, we're bringing it back for one more day!

50% Off Comic Book Graphic Novels

This Saturday, March 15, 2014, receive 50% off select titles of graphic novels, trades and collected editions. The store opens at 11 a.m. See you there.