BIG PLANET COMICS READY FOR DARK KNIGHT RISES, BEFORE WATCHMEN

Big Planet Comics on Cordell Avenue is decorated for this Friday's blockbuster, The Dark Knight Rises, and the controversial new Before Watchmen comics series.

NEW 

BIG PLANET COMICS 

STOREFRONT IN 

TRIANGLE TOWERS 

LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT 

Another Robert Dyer @ Bethesda Row Exclusive!!! 

Big Planet Comics has moved into its new downtown Bethesda location, in Triangle Towers on Cordell Avenue.  Adding color and light to the new storefront are these awesome Batman and Superman logo signs in the window.

The Superman logo remains the best of all superheroes.  This is one of the better Batman logos, although I'm still partial to the Batman Forever version.

EXCLUSIVE PICS

OF

BIG PLANET COMICS'

NEW BETHESDA

STOREFRONT

The first sign - literally - of the new Big Planet Comics shop in Triangle Towers is up.

A neon sign is about all there is right now, but this Wednesday, April 18, Big Planet moves from its current location at 4908 Fairmont Avenue, to this landmark Bethesda apartment tower at 4849 Cordell Avenue.

The storefront will be behind the car in the above photo.

An interesting fact about Triangle Towers: WHFS first broadcast from this building, and there is still a radio broadcast antenna on the building's roof.

BETHESDA'S

BIG PLANET COMICS

IS MOVING

What may soon be the last bastion of comic books in Montgomery County is moving. Fortunately, true believers, Big Planet Comics will be moving just a couple of blocks from its current location at 4908 Fairmont Avenue.

On April 18, Big Planet will reopen in a brand new spot at 4849 Cordell Avenue. So they're staying right here in Bethesda.

That block of Fairmont Avenue is undergoing perhaps the biggest upheaval of any street in "Old Town" Bethesda. Except for Relic and Bold Bite, and a few who may stagger around from BlackFinn, it is dark and dead at night. A number of storefronts are vacant, and one building is even condemned - "Do not go in there," as Ace Ventura once said!

JBG is building a new residential building at the corner of Fairmont and Norfolk, and there are some complaints that the ground floor will not have active businesses at night on Fairmont. That is indeed something to fix about that project, as the whole point is to activate a dead block there at night.

Expect more tear downs on that block of Fairmont in the next 1-3 years. But the street is a great location with lots of promise.