The Wow Cool | Alternative Comics store, opened early this year in Cupertino, California, by Marc Arsenault, was burglarized over the weekend, with the thieves making off with "several hundred dollars of comics and books."

"The thief or thieves were bizarrely selective in their choices of books to remove," Arsenault, who purchased Alternative Comics in 2012, writes on the Wow Cool website. "Several new Alternative Comics-published books were removed, including copies of Derf Backderf’s True Stories, Devin Flynn’s Hawd Tales and four copies of Noah Van Sciver’s A City of Whiskey and Fire. Also missing were about 2/3 of a couple of shelves of big fancy art books and our hodgepodge shelfs of larger art books and political and slice of life comics including books by Henriette Valium, Keith Knight, Lloyd Dangle, and Neil Gaiman, including at least one signed edition."

Arsenault said the thief, or thieves, used "a very large rock" to shatter a window and enter the store, which shares space with multimedia studio/mail-order house Wow Cool and indie publisher Alternative Comics.