Sales in time to move
We will enter our second week of sales in preparation to move. This week’s sales will be:
20% off all Trades and Hardcovers
60% off the old wall – before March 2014
Bundles are all half off
Any mugs, glassware or action figures are 40% off
All dollar books now 40 cents
All fifty centers now 20 cents
These will start Tuesday afternoon
Auction
We have also been asked about several pieces of either art or items in the shop. We don’t know a better way to do this, so, we are going to have a silent auction on some of it. Items such as Neon, the original sign, very select framed art and the “in case of zombie, break glass” sign.
Silent auction starts on Wednesday.
Drink and Draw
The next D&D will be on Thursday, April 10th at 8:00. We will still be at Beaverdale’s Good Sons and will discuss if we move the event in May.
Some crap from the internet
I think one of the many things that has soured me on this industry in recent years is the comic “news” industry. Many are self serving tool’s paid to regurgitate corporate comic opinion and put forth reviews that serve to only further make comics a wasteland of stupidity.
I feel the greatest of these are the single-minded focus on very bad and getting worse comic movies. Yes, Yes, I’ve railed on this before and perhaps things are not any better than they were ten years ago, only magnified. Maybe I‘m wrong and all these great and awesome comic adaptations really are the vanguard to a new golden… I can’t even finish that sentence. If you haven’t seen the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trailer, yeah, I’m right. http://comicsalliance.com/first-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-live-action-movie-trailer-arrives-video/ Ah, garbage.
And if that wasn’t enough, how about the sexist advertisement for Hardees (I have an argument going with my wife on if Arby’s or Hardees is grosser, I guess she wins now. However, we both agree that environmentally and socially, the worst loser is McDonalds… but I digress.) Help sell your movie with sexist tie-ins to disgustingly foul food no one should ever put in their body, I love Hollywood… no I don’t. http://comicsalliance.com/hardees-carls-jr-x-men-days-of-future-past-mystique-western-x-tra-bacon-burger-ad-video/
Enough about that crap, let’s talk comics, but not cut them any slack. Really one of the worst problems right now – have we ever really got rid of this issue – is lateness. Image with all its flair and quality has slid into some bad and reoccurring problems with it. As a retailer I can see the jump a high quality book gets when it is first released and, because of a great initiative by Image, offered to us at returnable quantities, we can get it into many people’s hands.
Then it runs late and momentum dries up like an Arizona pond.
Image isn’t alone on this. The latest of the late is Sandman. Really DC, you didn’t see this as running behind? Are you blind?
http://comicsalliance.com/sandman-overture-three-delayed-july-vertigo-neil-gaiman-jh-williams/
Gaiman takes responsibility for the lateness, but don’t you think this still comes down to the company saying, “we didn’t have issue two even started before we solicited issue one. It is OUR fault.”
Sorry for all the negativity. We need something positive. How about a great article that highlights some of Peter David’s runs on books.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=51815
I’m a VERY big fan of Peter the Great. I got in on his Hulk run pretty early on and stayed with it though my college days (that was a long time ago.) What ended up being an over ten year run on the Hulk, he created one of the best runs on any character ever; certainly one I would put up against nearly every other super hero run in the industry’s long history.
David is one of the greatest of the greats and personally I don’t feel he gets enough credit for the work he has done (remember he is a novel writer of some renown too.) His current reworking of X-Factor has been a nice fun read too. Nothing like the old X-Factor run that preceded it (maybe the reason it is titled All New, huh?) This is a mix of Mutants – or at least former X-Men – who are now employed by a giant company with some shady people running it, don’t they all have them though?
The main character in the series is Gambit, someone who I’ve never really liked, but with David writing him, he is fantastic. Like with all his runs, he can take B or C level characters and make them great; proving that there are no bad characters, only bad writers.