Chimera’s Comics

My son saw this store when we were passing through the area. On our return trip through we stopped in after lunch. Really cool store. Large selection of comics, unique figures and cool shirts.

Great shop, only wish they had a bigger selection :)

Staff is friendly and helpful. They have a pretty nice assortment of comic books and action figures, though I’d definitely hope to see a wider variety of action figures in the future. They also have some nice pint glasses!

Nice comic shop in LaGrange. Not a lot of comics stores in the area otherwise. The shop is clean and modern. Not a lot of back issues to choose from, but some older comics do stay on the racks. They also carry some magazines if you want to grab something on your way to the train.
I wouldn’t recommend shopping there during one of their gaming nights. The tables that are set up and the assorted Magic/​Heroclix players standing around make it difficult to get to some things.

Worst comic store I’ve bought at with bad business sense and poor customer service.
Twice I’ve ordered comics from this store and both times the orders were not entirely fulfilled.
After voicing my disappointment with the employee who ordered my books, the manger has the nerve to call me at home and instead of apologizing for the reoccurring mistake, tries to tell me off.
Poor business mentality.
I’m also amazed that the manager who wasn’t even in the store accuses me off yelling; the tone of my voice was far from yelling, get your facts straight.
Once again, like other reviewers have mentioned, maybe the manager should try to solve the problems this store faces instead of making accuses and being rude to customers.
Furthermore, scroll down through the reviews and you’ll see I’m not the only one with a 1 star review.
I will never shop here ever again. I’ll order online and not waste my time here with rude employees.

I’ve been coming here for the last two months since I got back into comics again… it’s been a while probably around the time carnage and spawn first came out… back in the day… but it was an easy transition since I’ve been coming here. very friendly staff, good selection and the place is very welcoming… plus I’ll be honest it can be very overwhelming at times to decide what to read and collect but I’ve narrowed it down to about six titles so far… plus they have a good subscription service so you can never miss an issue… I pretty much been stopping by every week to see what’s new that just came out… I definitely recommend this shop to anyone that’s in the la grange area… definately got me into collecting comics again…

Best Comic shop in Chicago!

I’ts an OKAY comic book shop with some interesting items, but the service isn’t very good. I rarely get a «hello» when I walk in or offer to help from the staff. When I’m done finding what I want, I feel like I’m bothering them by interrupting them from talking or playing some game they are involved with doing.

I was a long time comic reader but now only read a couple books a month. However, my kids (4 and 6) both enjoy reading comics. Chimera’s has a great all ages section. We stop in about once a week and let the kids pick out something.
The staff is always very friendly. They also offer a subscription service and even though we only reserve about 4 comics, they still give us a discount.

My girlfriend and i had a pleasant shopping experience this afternoon Sept. 21, 2014 at chimera’s comics in la grange. We came in on a sunday 1hr. Before their closing time. As soon as we walked in we were happily greeted by carmelo chimera who was behind the cash register. Now I haven’t been to a comic book store in a long time but we were surprised how everything was so organized and stock with racks and racks of comics and a vast selection of figures all along their walls. Also they have a bin of discounted comic books in back of the store that are all a dollar. Also a female employee guided us around the store to find what we needed for my nephews. And after Mr. Carmelo rang me up we held a conversation and showed me all the new poster prints they just received and invited us back to the 24 hr comics day on the first Saturday in October where they would be artists present to autograph their new poster prints. Thank you for the great service Mr. Carmelo Chimera and staff, highly recommend this shop. Will return soon.

Great little shop, magic and heroclix fans so deff check it out .well kept and clean :)

We go to this comic book store quite often as my husband and 4 year old son love comics. The staff is friendly and well versed about comic books. My son loves Hero Clix and recently we went into Chimera’s to buy an A Bomb Hero Clix. They did not have it that day and my son was disappointed. Mr. Chimera happened to be in the store that day. He invited us to see his personal Hero Clix collection. Then, he gave my son over $ 25 worth of his own Hero Clix because he felt bad that he didn’t have the one my son wanted that day. We thought that was so nice of Mr. Chimera. This really made my son’s day! We were already big fans of this comic shop, but after experiencing Mr. Chimera’s kindness and generosity, we will never go anywhere else!

Best shop in La Grange! Steve and Carmelo are beyond welcoming, fun, and knowledgeable. I have been to a lot of shops and none compare to the service that they provide. Their selection is great and if they don’t have it they will order it for you. I have a big pull list and been out of town for months and they keep it going without any guilt trip. Carmelo and Steve feel more like friends than salesmen. They also put on solid events that make the store a social gathering. If you are looking for a fun, non pretentious shop with a great selection this is your place. These guys know their stuff and do more for promoting comics to new readers than any other shop. If I could give them more than five stars I would

I have been collecting comics since the late 1980s and took a break in early 2000. I had no intention for getting back in to collecting until my brother decided to take me to Wizard World ComicCon in 2012. While there, my love for comics was rekindled and I was desperately looking for a shop that could be «the one» for me.
Having to drive to my in-law’s house in LaGrange, I pass this shop a lot. After ComicCon, I decided to stop in and I’m glad I did! The décor is perfect… large iconic characters all over the walls, art, toys, books, and more thoughtfully displayed throughout the store. I thought this was a much better place then many stores I’ve been to locally.
I had worked at a comic shop for many years as a pre-​teen until I went to college, so I was used to getting taken care of with monthly subscriptions and mindful pulls of new books that I might like. I joined Chimera’s Subscription club as soon as walked in to the store. I have been a customer for over a year now, and they have not disappointed! (although I don’t get a mindful pull of a new book… but they do respond well to adding what I like once I tell them I want something)
I highly recommend you stop in and check these guys out. You will be taken back a time in your childhood that should have been some of the best times in your life… but the best part is that time is NOW!

Been a fan of this store since Day 1. Knew Steven from a previous store and was excited for him and his partner to open this place.
From the 1^st day this store opened until now this place has come leaps and bounds !
I recently opened up a subscription service here and like the service I have received thus far !
One cool thing I would like to request is to have a day where fans can all come in and collaborate with each other about the cool stories or favorite characters.

Clean, well-​laid out store, with creative display ideas like putting all the rare old comics behind panels in old stand-​up screens. I had no trouble finding anything, and despite the fact that the guy behind the counter was clearly super busy, he took time out to answer my question about whether a comic had been collected, and while they were sold out he went to pains to tell me when it would be back in stock. Super nice, super friendly! As a lady who’s had bad experiences with leery or unpleasant service in comic book stores in the past, I was thoroughly impressed, and I’ll definitely go again when I’m back in La Grange.

Chimera is a store that is good but should be great, but as you can see I’m going to give it a low rating from my own personal story with the company so do with it what you will.
First off, I used to work in a comic book store with great selection and a crappy owner so I can empathize with a lot of things comic book retailers go through. It is actually one of my future goals to open up a place so I attempt to learn all I can from every retailer I come across.
Anyway, my story starts during their Halloween Contest of 2012. I suppose this gives a name to a face when I post this, but whatever, it’s not like I’m going back anyway.
On Halloween Night I entered their store after work with a Captain America costume featuring a lot of handmade elements including my own shield. I asked the cashier if I could enter the contest to which he said I could submit an entry to the owner’s email directly.
Having been officially entered I made the mistake of thinking that the voting was done by ‘liking’ my picture of facebook rather than voting on a poll I had no idea was on the site. With the last day looming I contacted all my facebook friends and easily got them to vote on the poll eclipsing Steve Rogers (ironically), beating her vote by something like twenty votes before the end of the night. By the close of the contest I was up like 250-​some-​odd votes. Good publicity for the young store, right?
It would be almost a whole month we me inquiring whether I had won. Of course I had won! I had brought in 250-​some-​odd-​votes to the party and added attention to the store!
Instead I got an email from the owner telling me I was in second place for these reasons: 1.) I was a late entrant, which is bogus because I was still accepted to the contest, and 2.) I did not have enough votes by the time of the vote closing, which was also bunk because upon contacting Mr. Chimera prior to the end of the contest I had confirmed that I still had one full day to rally my troops to vote, which I am proud to say I did.
So Mr. Chimera uses these reasons plus the nagging of other entrants that I was entered late to justify that I had indeed merited only silver.
This got on my nerves because he didn’t even bother to talk to me before making a decision on the contest! He just makes a decision because other customers complain. I would’ve bought into it if he attempted to compromise, but his response to me was that second-​place was waiting at his store for me and that I can call it first place, HE DIDN’T REALLY CARE (the last capitalized part of the sentence was taking verbatim from his email).
So could the guy who felt slighted and earned 250-​some-​odd votes easily call up his pals to trash the store here on Unilocal?Sure I could have, but this is the first and last I will write about this. This may seem like an empty threat to the owner, but I could have painted Unilocal red with bad reviews from many different people because of this, could have brought his correspondence straight to the BBB, and went to the local press to slam the store, but the soft part of me still wishes well for a small entrepreneur comic book owner to learn from this.
After this I have no acrimony toward the store and truthfully hope they do better. In customer service you learn to try to appeal to the customer as best you can and to hear that Mr. Chimera simply did not care was indicative of a business practice that will ultimately fail. So instead of reasoning with me, the customer that usually spends $ 20-​$ 30 at a comic book store weekly, I have a bad review here on Unilocal,no confidence in what looked to be a good store, and a tale to tell.
And if he’s reading this, seriously dude, I could have done worse than just write a truthful review.

A very beautiful shop that has a lot to offer. Great for kids and anybody that loves comics. Bright, clean and easy to find what you are looking for. I hope they will host more events in the future. Friendly staff so don’t be afraid to ask if you are looking for something or to ask what’s good to read!

When Chimera’s first opened, I was not impressed at all. The walls were bare and there were barely any comics. Now that about a year has gone by, I can definitely see how much they improved their store.
Their selection of comics is very good. My boyfriend has multiple subscriptions there and gets a pretty nice discount for comics because he’s a subscriber. The actual building is very nice. It’s clean, organized, and smells like fresh comics!
The employees are usually pretty good. The owner, Carmello, is very nice and helpful. You can tell he loves his job. Some of the other employees are shy, but still nice enough. The employees sometimes play board games when waiting for customers, which can somewhat be off-​putting for some people who are looking for severe professionalism, but for everyone else it shows how casual and fun the business is. Check out is usually pretty efficient. The only complaint I would have would be whenever the phone rings, the person at the register must answer, even if it’s in the middle of another customer’s transaction. I understand that this is a new business and they may be understaffed right now, but I’d say it’s something for them to consider.
I’m very glad LaGrange finally has a comic shop! And an excellent one at that!

I am totally me of those guys… been watching The Walking Dead on TV, found out it was a comic first (still is ongoing too!) and it piqued my interest in comics /​graphic novels. So I went in… thankfully La Grange has this place!
Told the guy what I liked and such and he took me right over to some comics I might like… bought them on the spot and have been back a few times to get more issues.
Glad this place is here — they really seem to know their stuff.