Super-Fly Comics and Games is adding a second Yellow Springs address, and this one is built more for sitting down than for scanning a wall of new issues. The Annex, pitched as a tabletop room with enough leftover ambition for mats, a stage and maybe a podcast booth, is the shop's answer to players who wanted somewhere dedicated to play.
In a business report published Nov. 12, Reilly Dixon of The Yellow Springs News wrote that owners Tony Barry and Jared Whittaker plan to put the operation in a 2,500-square-foot suite at Millworks Business Park, 305 N. Walnut St. The space was formerly Tuck-n-Red's Spirits and Wine, and it sits next to Yellow Springs Brewery. The downtown storefront at 132 Dayton St. keeps its regular hours. A full opening is set for August 2027, with soft openings planned for this month and for Free Comic Book Day in May 2027.
A Slow Roll, and a Long Menu
Whittaker described the launch as a "very slow roll-out." The program is less restrained. Barry told the News the Annex is supposed to handle three jobs at once: more room to play, more inventory, and a community request for a dedicated place to sit down with a game. Large tables are the center of that pitch. The retail side is planned around cards, dice, comics and a wider board-game selection, including Magic: The Gathering, Monopoly, Mahjong, Catan, chess and checkers.
The same suite is also slated for a matted area for jiu-jitsu instruction, competitions and casual grappling. Barry is pursuing a black belt within a few months. An existing stage would stay available for possible live music, which is not a random extra: Doctor Meat, Whittaker's heavy-metal outfit, already has a use for that kind of room. Upstairs, the partners may add a recording space to revive Super-Fly's podcast. Barry has also floated table reservations or rentals for parties, role-playing campaigns and tournaments, plus a day-pass meant to help cover costs without shutting the room to drop-ins.
That is a stack of mays next to one firm calendar mark. August 2027 is when the Annex is supposed to open, and it is also when Super-Fly will have been in business for 20 years.
Two Thousand Dollars in Dice
Barry said the shop has already placed one dice order worth $2,000. Set against the hobby's published scale, that is a local receipt, not a land grab. The News cited an Arizton report valuing the worldwide board-game industry at $21.5 billion, with a projection past $39 billion by 2031, and a BoardGameGeek estimate of more than 180,000 distinct titles. Yellow Springs does not need 180,000 titles on Walnut Street. It needs tables, and a reason for people already next door at the brewery to wander over, or the other way around.
Barry framed the spending as a choice to invest in Yellow Springs and contribute to town. The village, he said, is home to him and his community. Anyone who wants the unromantic version of the plan can call the shop at 937-767-1445.
A Crash, Then a Line at the Door
The expansion report also looked back at a rougher stretch on Dayton Street. Earlier in 2026, it said, a drunk driver crashed into the store. An August account in the same paper put the merchandise damage at less than $500 by Barry's estimate at the time. No injuries were reported, and Yellow Springs Police arrested one person. Business continued as usual in the week after the collision, The Yellow Springs News reported then.
Customers did something the damage figure did not predict. The November story said sales rose afterward as people helped cover the merchandise losses. Free Comic Book Day had already shown what a crowd looks like here: Barry estimated about 1,000 people came through and called it the store's best business day since opening. Pinning a May 2027 soft opening to that same date is either sentiment or a practical bet on foot traffic. It can be both.
One Counter, Then Two Addresses
The gaming half of Super-Fly is not a new idea bolted onto a comic shop. In a 2015 interview with the News, Jared described the workload in one sentence: a comic book store, a gaming store, and tournaments that had to keep going. He was the manager then. Tony was the owner. The current report lists both men as owners.
An earlier profile, written when Barry put the business at 11 years, identified Whittaker as the store's first and still only full-time employee. It described weekly role-playing sessions and game tournaments that did not always draw much of a crowd. Sales were down and hard to rebuild, the store was carrying debt, and Barry had hired an accountant for the first time, the profile reported. That is history, not a current balance sheet. The Annex is the present answer to an old shortage of room, and it is still a plan: a soft opening this month, another in May, and an August 2027 debut in a former wine shop, with dice already on order and the original counter still working at 132 Dayton St.
