According to Comics Dungeon manager Chris Casos, the burglars got about "$4 in change" from the new coffee shop. Undeterred, they moved down the street and "threw a big rock through our front door and that also hit the register and till," Casos explains. "The alarm went off almost immediately when they walked in," and an upstairs neighbor called the police.
Like virtually every sensible business on the face of the planet, Comics Dungeon doesn't keep money in their registers overnight, so the burglars came away empty-handed. According to Casos, "They knocked over some stuff," but they didn't steal anything. The best part is that while Comics Dungeon employee Jon Vermont was cleaning up the mess the next day, he discovered that the burglars lost $80 of their own money during the burglary. Casos speculates that one of the burglars must have tripped over the power cords behind the Comics Dungeon's registers ("We always trip over those cords," he says), whereupon the money probably fell out of the burglar's pocket. Like a true comics fan, Casos helpfully explains, "They're like Bizarro burglars."
The burglars are still at large. Casos says the comics store got "totally lucky;" they're fully insured, the front door has already been fixed, and the equipment that was destroyed by the rock—parts of the register and the computer keyboard—will be replaced in "a day or two."
