Comic Shops First priority: find a comic shop. New Comic Book Wednesday doesn’t stop just because you’re getting adjusted to dorm life. Strange Adventures (5110 Prince Street) is the downtown go-to, and Monster Comix Lounge (2089 Gottingen Street) is a haven for gaming. And a bit further of a trek from campus, but most definitely […]
Cape & Cowl Comics and Collectibles
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Best Comics Store
Gold Winner Strange Adventures, Dartmouth Silver Winner Cape & Cowl Comics & Collectibles Bronze Winner Giant Robot Comics Hall of Fame Strange Adventures, Halifax The folks at Strange Adventures refer to the Dartmouth location as a sidekick, or as owner Cal Johnston likes to say, “the plucky younger sibling” to Strange Adventures Halifax, which was […]
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Best Comics Store
Gold Winner and Hall of Fame inductee Strange Adventures, Halifax Silver Winner Cape & Cowl Comics and Collectibles Bronze Winner Strange Adventures, Dartmouth Editor’s note: With this 2017 Best Comics Store win marking at least 10 golds in a row, Strange Adventures joins the pantheon in the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. The cartoon […]
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Best Comics Store
Gold Winner Strange Adventures, Halifax Silver Winner Cape & Cowl Comics & Collectibles Bronze Winner Giant Robot Comics Strange Adventures is a superhero of Halifax’s retail scene, a thriving business that earns kudos from around the planet. So what’s its secret power? “Customer service more than anything else,” says longtime manager Dave Howllett. “We help […]
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Best Comics Store
Gold Winner Strange Adventures, Halifax Silver Winner Cape & Cowl Comics and Collectibles Bronze Winner Monster Comic Lounge Strange Adventures is as invincible as Iron Man in our Best Comics Store category. But with great Coast accolades comes great responsibility, and the comic purveyors are proud of their long history promoting the diversity mainstream comics […]
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What do you think needs to be fixed?
[Image-1] We reached out to public figures, community leaders and business owners to find out how they would fix the city. Some edited responses were printed in this week’s issue, but below are the full replies we received. “More use of our wonderful harbour. We should have extended hours on our downtown ferry, with more […]
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Best New Business
Gold Winner Patch Halifax Silver Winner Cape and Cowl Comics and Collectibles Bronze Winner Sailor Bup’s Barbershop This summer Patch became the first of its kind in Halifax—a fabric store/sewing room hybrid, offering both a fleet of sewing machines and sergers and an adorable selection of patterns and fabrics to both experts and wannabes. We […]
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Best Comics Store
Gold Winner Strange Adventures, Halifax Silver Winner Quantum Frontier Games & Comics Bronze Winner Cape and Cowl Comics and Collectibles Strange Adventures POWs! BIFFs! and THWACKs! its way to gold yet again, but owner Calum Johnston remains humble: “It’s a tight race as the Halifax area is very lucky to have a number of top […]
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Cape and Cowl crusader
If you’re a nerd in Halifax, you’ve probably heard of Jay Aaron Roy. He’s the director of popular podcast and live comedy show Geeks versus Nerds. If you thought he couldn’t get any nerdier, think again: now he’s opening a comic book store. The shop, called Cape and Cowl, is slated to open this summer […]
