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Peep some of this week’s new release comics, including the very first issue of Hello Kitty’s very first comic book serie...
08/12/2026

Peep some of this week’s new release comics, including the very first issue of Hello Kitty’s very first comic book series (which comes with a collectible sticker sheet)! Plus, new Godzilla’s Monsterpiece Theatre AND a new erotic body horror meets historical thriller from Marguerite Bennett! There’s a little something for everyone this week- what are you most excited about?! Let us know in the comments!

Come visit Kira Palmer & Izzy at Ministry of Brewing today! They’ve got tables bursting with bestsellers, book club pick...
08/09/2026

Come visit Kira Palmer & Izzy at Ministry of Brewing today! They’ve got tables bursting with bestsellers, book club picks, and more with choices for all ages! Plus, our friends from Greedy Reads are just across the aisle with their own fabulous selections! A great way to celebrate National Book Lovers Day 📚🥰

This is the last call for titles featured here on our ✨official✨ FOC (Final Order Cutoff) post! We hope the details prov...
08/08/2026

This is the last call for titles featured here on our ✨official✨ FOC (Final Order Cutoff) post! We hope the details provided here help you decide which titles you’d like to preorder, but we’re always here if you have questions!

We’ve chosen 19 titles on FOC Monday, but there are many more wonderful comics & graphic novels on final order this week that you might enjoy, and you can find those linked in our bio or at the “Weekly FOC” page on our website!

As a reminder, comic shops submit orders for upcoming releases every week, usually for comic titles releasing in 3-4 weeks (and graphic novels sometimes a few months in advance). One of the best things you can do to support your local comic shop (including us!) is to pre-order titles you’re excited to read before their FOC date. This also makes sure your shop has a copy set aside just for you!

In this post we’ve rounded up 19 titles with Final Order Cutoffs of Monday at 8pm, listed below in alphabeticalish order:
1. The Art of Junji Ito Collection (art book)
2. Avatar: The Last Airbender- The Kyoshi Warriors (collected trade)
3. A Beginner’s Guide to Leveling Up (graphic novel)
4. The Big Shakedown 1 (of 4)
5. Crowbound 1
6. Doom Patrol 1
7. Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft 1 (of 4)
8. A Ghost Arm Made of Angry Ghosts (hardcover graphic novel)
9. Havana Split (graphic novel)
10. Identical (hardcover graphic novel)
11. Legion of Super-Heroes 1
12. Long Lost: The Complete Edition (collected trade)
13. Major Taylor (hardcover graphic novel)
14. Muppets Take the Marvel Universe (one-shot)
15. My Journey to Her (manga)
16. Superman: The Stranger 1 (of 6)
17. Tales of Wonder 1 (of 5)
18. Teen Titans 1
19. Wandering Son (manga)

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[ID: Twenty graphics showing the cover art for and listing descriptions of the titles listed above, as well as noting the preorder deadline of Monday 8/10 at 8pm]

We know the weather is a bit frightful, but we promise in here it’s delightful! Come out to Highlandtown Arts District F...
08/07/2026

We know the weather is a bit frightful, but we promise in here it’s delightful! Come out to Highlandtown Arts District First Friday Art Walk and support these four amazing artists popping up inside Dreamers & Make-Believers: Mikayla Story, Inversion Studios, Yuki Clarke, and Stinker Creations!

This is the last call for titles featured here on our ✨official✨ FOC (Final Order Cutoff) post! We hope the details prov...
08/02/2026

This is the last call for titles featured here on our ✨official✨ FOC (Final Order Cutoff) post! We hope the details provided here help you to decide which titles you’d like to preorder, but we’re always here if you have questions!

We’ve chosen 19 titles on FOC Monday (tomorrow!), but there are many more wonderful comics & graphic novels on final order this week that you might enjoy, and you can find those linked in our bio or at the “Weekly FOC” page on our website!

As a reminder, comic shops submit orders for upcoming releases every week, usually for comic titles releasing in 3-4 weeks (and graphic novels sometimes a few months in advance). One of the best things you can do to support your local comic shop (including us!) is to pre-order titles you’re excited to read before their FOC date. This also makes sure your shop has a copy set aside just for you!

In this post we’ve rounded up 19 titles with Final Order Cutoffs of Monday at 8pm, listed below in alphabeticalish order:
1. The Art of Gravity Falls (art book) *preorder gift!*
2. Batman: Bad Seeds- Sunset (one-shot)
3. Birds of Prey: The Origins (graphic novel)
4. Black Tower: The Raven Conspiracy 1 (of 6)
5. Bleeding Hearts (collected trade)
6. Delusion (graphic novel)
7. Doctor Strange: Endless Nightmare (graphic novel)
8. Fixation 1 (of 3)
9. FML (collected trade)
10. Folk of Dooney Hollow 1 (of 5)
11. Forever Home 1 (of 6)
12. Forevr (graphic novel)
13. I Hope This Email Finds You in Hell (novel)
14. Next Level: One Shot (one-shot)
15. Roots of Madness (collected trade)
16. Six of Us 1 (of 7)
17. Spider-Woman: 50th Anniversary Special (one-shot)
18. Star Trek: Deviations- Evermore (one-shot)
19. Worst Man (graphic novel)

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[ID: Twenty graphics showing the cover art for and listing descriptions of the titles listed above, as well as noting the preorder deadline of Monday 8/3 at 8pm]

We are BACK! And while we didn’t win the big award, we are back with big smiles, big feelings of excitement for what’s t...
07/29/2026

We are BACK! And while we didn’t win the big award, we are back with big smiles, big feelings of excitement for what’s to come, and only medium regrets of not taking more pictures! Thanks to everyone who made this the best Comic-Con International yet 💛

This is the last call for titles featured here on our FOC (Final Order Cutoff) post! It has been a busy weekend here in ...
07/25/2026

This is the last call for titles featured here on our FOC (Final Order Cutoff) post! It has been a busy weekend here in San Diego so we hope you’ll forgive us for using a cover roundup rather than an ✨official✨ post, but we’re always here if you have questions!

We’ve chosen 20 titles on FOC Monday, but there are many more wonderful comics & graphic novels on final order this week that you might enjoy, and you can find those linked in our bio or at the “Weekly FOC” page on our website!

As a reminder, comic shops submit orders for upcoming releases every week, usually for comic titles releasing in 3-4 weeks (and graphic novels sometimes a few months in advance). One of the best things you can do to support your local comic shop (including us!) is to pre-order titles you’re excited to read before their FOC date. This also makes sure your shop has a copy set aside just for you!

In this post we’ve rounded up 20 titles with Final Order Cutoffs of Monday at 8pm, listed below in alphabeticalish order:
1. Archie 1
2. The Big Bad Book of Kaiju (short story collection)
3. Bite Me (graphic novel)
4. Cells at Work! Cat Volume 01 (manga)
5. Daughter of a Thousand Faces (graphic novel)
6. Diablomachia Volume 01 (manga)
7. Earth to Chris Cleevy (graphic novel)
8. Instant Noodles & Beyond (graphic novel cookbook)
9. The Last Driver 1 (of 5)
10. Lazarus Order 1 (of 8)
11. The Lord-Magear’s Apprentice Volume 01 (manga)
12. Nightmare Library Book One (manga)
13. No Gods No Masters 1 (of 5)
14. Prima Apparata 1 (of ?)
15. Star Trek: 60th Anniversary Special (one-shot)
16. Stray Dogs (hardcover collection)
17. TaleSpin 1
18. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splinter’s Dojo (illustrated novel)
19. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Godzilla (collected trade)
20. Tomb of Apocalypse 1 (of 5)

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[ID: Twenty cover art images for titles listed above, with a preorder deadline of Monday 7/27 at 8pm]

This is the last call for titles featured here on our ✨official✨ FOC (Final Order Cutoff) post! We hope the details prov...
07/18/2026

This is the last call for titles featured here on our ✨official✨ FOC (Final Order Cutoff) post! We hope the details provided here help you to decide which titles you’d like to preorder, but we’re always here if you have questions!

We’ve chosen 19 titles on FOC Monday, but there are many more wonderful comics & graphic novels on final order this week that you might enjoy, and you can find those linked in our bio or at the “Weekly FOC” page on our website!

As a reminder, comic shops submit orders for upcoming releases every week, usually for comic titles releasing in 3-4 weeks (and graphic novels sometimes a few months in advance). One of the best things you can do to support your local comic shop (including us!) is to pre-order titles you’re excited to read before their FOC date. This also makes sure your shop has a copy set aside just for you!

In this post we’ve rounded up 19 titles with Final Order Cutoffs of Monday at 8pm, listed below in alphabeticalish order:
1. 1000 (graphic novel)laddin 1
2. Batman & Robin Year One Dynamic Duos 1 (of 12)
3. Crownsville (collected trade)
4. Deep-Sea Aquarium Magmell (manga)
5. Emily Kado & The Spiders’ Secret (graphic novel)
6. Gigantic (collected trade)
7. Harley Quinn in Paradise (graphic novel)
8. Hollow Twilight (novel)
9. I Punched an Alien and Now We’re in Couples Therapy (novel)
10. Like Swimmers (hardcover graphic novel)
11. Nothing Butt Nightwing (graphic novel)
12. Once & Future Omnibus
13. Queens of the Crypt (graphic novel)
14. Regicide 1 (of 4)
15. Renaissance of Raven (graphic novel)
16. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin (collected trade)
17. This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want (novel)
18. Undercover Monster (graphic novel)
19. Yum 00EX 1 (of 4)

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[ID: Twenty graphics showing the cover art for and listing descriptions of the titles listed above, as well as noting the preorder deadline of Monday 7/20 at 8pm]

Today is National Tattoo Day, so we thought it might be a fun chance to shoutout some of the Dreamers Team’s nerdy ink! ...
07/17/2026

Today is National Tattoo Day, so we thought it might be a fun chance to shoutout some of the Dreamers Team’s nerdy ink!

We made a little matching game to link the team member to the book related to their tattoo. A person might have more than one (or have none) on a page!

Think you know the answers? Sound off in the comments (you just might win a priiiiiize!)

P.S. the titles shown here and those from the same universes are 10% off today as part of our “Special Tattoo Day Collection”

P.P.S. Staff portraits by the amazing

🌴 This Saturday & Sunday, we hope you’ll join us for The “Send Us to San Diego” Summer Sale! 🌴We are deeply honored to b...
07/16/2026

🌴 This Saturday & Sunday, we hope you’ll join us for The “Send Us to San Diego” Summer Sale! 🌴

We are deeply honored to be making the trip to the Eisner Awards for the second year, but as you can probably imagine, this trip is quite expensive! To help us raise funds (and get ready for a little fall refresh in the shop), we will have thousands of items on sale!

🤑 With comic books starting at 33 cents and graphic novels at just 2 dollars, you won’t want to miss this sale!

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