Reach

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Are you there God? It's me, Norrin Radd

So this guy comes in looking for Silver Surfer stuff. He wants newer stories, not old ones. So he's basically denying himself the best material right off the bat there, but never mind that. After I aim him in the right direction and hook him up with the names of some of the trades we don't have in stock at the moment, I ring him up and he says:

'I have an agreement with God; that when I die I get to cruise the universe as his Silver Surfer.'

....bo-kay. He said it real matter of fact like and didn't seem to be joking. So a few conclusions from this:

1) That direct line to God thing must be handy

2) Dude, if I knew I could just make that shit up and it was good to go when I die I would have been planning for my afterlife way back

3) Why do so many people seem to lack that important thing that tells you it's best not to say certain things in public?

Now, as far as an afterlife choice goes, granted, that one is almost sweet despite the endless brooding and whining that comes with being the Silver Surfer. I myself would have had trouble deciding on an afterlife full of either Transformers or monkeys, but now that I know that I can just change it up willynilly I guess I can have both.

You had me at crucified on Stilt-Man's legs...well, ok, you had me before that

I like reading Let's Be Friends anyway, but the first panel of this strip pretty much cemented my eternal love for it. Just check the white board out.
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Primate of the Moment

I like to believe the gorilla is pointing out a flaw in the dude's math. But that's just me.

Fwugga

Bleh, been a bit since I posted. Just too dang busy and tired lately =/

Have a new point of sale system we've been working with and the data entry is evil, plus just normal monthly Diamond orders and a few other things. Ideally I should have some more time to catch up and actually get crap posted all up in here.

A few things of interest:

-This whole Captain America #600 thing. Now, I will start with saying that I probably should have increased our orders on the issue much more than I did. However, between the economy sucking ass and the general fall of sales in Marvel books for our store I decided to be conservative in my orders. Also, because there is an entire series called Reborn written by Ed Brubaker, we pretty much figured that the actual return would not be in #600 and that issue #600 would essentially just be a double sized hooplah. A well written hooplah, but just a hooplah. Not a 'ZOMG-WE-SHOULD-ORDER-200-COPIES' kinda deal.

So, my order increases for #600 after the announcement of the media involvement are on back order, meaning we won't get any of them on the actual release date. Meaning that whatever I get on the Monday shipment (the day the larger media will break the news of whatever the hell is happening in the issue), will be just enough for the subscription customers and very few off the street people. That means there is virtually no real benefit for paying the extra shipping to have the books delivered on Monday, other than just to say we did it.

So, once again, I have to ask the obvious question: Why will the assholes at Marvel not just over ship copies and charge for whatever isn't returned? They do it. They did it for Dr. Doom & The Masters of Evil. WHY NOT DO IT WITH SOMETHING YOU KNOW WILL SELL OUT.

I know the actual answer, it just contains too many swear words for me to actually print.

-C'mon, really? Did you have to print X-Men 2099 in a collection? And charge $29.99? When Marvel decides it's time to publish Ravage 2099, that's it. I'm pretty much done with ever trying to understand comic book marketing departments.

-On the plus side, Marvel did release this over the past week:

And it is just as awesome as that cover leads you to believe.

That's pretty much all I got in me for the time being. I'll try to zip online again soon to write some more hopefully.

For now, watch this:

Primate of the Moment

Can't really go wrong with Gorilla Man from Agents of Atlas.

This is one of those me being lazy posts because today was kinda long. And yes, there is such a thing as seeing too many comics in one day.

Books I Think You Need

It was kind of a meh week this week, wasn't it? I mean there was some decent new stuff and titles I expect to be regularly great, but all in all a smaller week and that is definitely reflected in overall store traffic and the girth(or lack of) of the subscription boxes.

The one thing I think might get overlooked though is the fantastic Brinkley Girls hardcover put out by Fantagraphics.

Edited by Trina Robbins, you would be doing yourself a favor by checking it out

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http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=The-Brinkley-Girls-The-Best-of-Nell-Brinkley-s-Cartoons-from-1913-1940---Previews-Pre-Order.html&Itemid=113

Curse you Fantagraphics, I'm trying to save money you bastards.