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Saturday will be my 10th wedding anniversary (we started dating 16 1/2 years ago)! I don’t pretend to have any secrets to making it work. I’m 100% the person that orders the gift for an occasion the day of and forwards the confirmation email when the time comes. I don’t see any point in flowers. I leave half the conversations when she calls me on her lunch break with an expletive, hanging up to deal with some developing crisis right in front of me. I may or may not have thrown uncooked bacon at the wall on Sunday because there wasn’t a clean pan to put it in.
But I think the last five years have been a whole lot better than the first five. We thought we’d never move out of our townhome, which was way too small for two people, two dogs, two cats, and the potential for kids, and now we’ve got four bedrooms, three bathrooms, two living rooms, and an acre of land to spread out on. I don’t think either of us thought we would ever leave the jobs we had in 2016, and now the store just finished its best quarter to date, my side hustle is going strong, and Carly will be starting a new job next month. We lost the two pups we had when we got hitched, but we lucked into Lois, the cats come around sometimes, and we get to dote on our niece and nephew multiple times a week. And we’re addicted to Disney.
I know none of that would have been possible without her. We’re going to Carowinds!
The following titles are scheduled to ship on Wednesday, July 7th (Tuesday, July 6th for DC) excluding some re-orders and providing nothing changes by the time the final invoice arrives on Monday:
Amazing Spider-Man #70 - “Sinister War” part 1 with Roge Antonio, David Baldeon “Handbook” and Peach Momoko “Marvel Anime” variants available!
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2 - Carmen Carnero and Ron Lim “Connecting” variants available!
America Chavez Made in the U.S.A. #4
Avengers #46 - Peach Momoko “Marvel Anime” variant available for cover price!
Basilisk #2 - 2nd printings of the nationally sold out first issue available NOW!
Batman #110 - cardstock Jock and Riccardo Federici variants available!
Batman Adventures Continue II #2 - cardstock Max Dunbar variant available for premium cover price!
Batman Damned TP
Batman/ Fortnite Zero Point #6 - final issue with a cardstock Kin Gung Gi variant available for premium cover price!
Batman Secret Files The Signal #1 - cardstock Cully Hamner variant available for premium cover price!
Beasts of Burden Occupied Territory #4 - final issue!
Bettie Page & Curse of the Banshee #2
Black’s Myth #1
Buffy the Vampire Slayer #27
Captain America #30 - Taurin Clarke “Spider-Man Villains” variant available!
Captain America Dawn’s Early Light Epic Collection TP
Children of the Atom #5
Clans of Belari #1
Commanders in Crisis #10
Conjuring the Lover #2
Crime Syndicate #5 - cardstock Francis Manapul variant available for premium cover price!
Crush & Lobo #2 - cardstock Dan Mora variant available for premium cover price!
Cyberpunk 2077 Your Voice TP
Deep Beyond #6
Extreme Carnage Alpha #1 - kicking off a new weekly event following up on King in Black, with Jeff Johnson “Connecting” (x2), Leinil Francis Yu “Wraparound”, and Skottie Young variants available!
Fangs TP vol. 1
Fight Girls #1 - I can’t say no to Frank Cho interiors!
Fire Power #13 - can you believe Chris Samnee launched the series with an original graphic novel, did a second full series while working on this one (Jonna & the Unpossible Monsters for Oni), cranked out a double-sized issue to mark the first anniversary of the book, and didn’t even take a month off?!
Fire Power TP vol. 3
Future State Batman Dark Detective TP
G.I. Joe A Real American Hero Yearbook #2
G.I. Joe Snake Eyes Deadgame #5 - final issue!
Geiger #4
Goddamned TP vol. 2
Godkiller Tomorrow’s Ashes #1
Good Asian #3
Great Pretender TP vol. 1
Green Lantern #4 - cardstock Bryan Hitch variant available for premium cover price!
Haunted Mansion Little Golden Book HC
Hellboy & BPRD Secret of Chesbro House #1
Hellions #13
Hey Kids Comics Prophets & Loss #3
Hollow Heart #5
Immortal Hulk #48 - Joe Bennett “Homage” and Peach Momoko “Marvel Anime” variants available for cover price!
Inkblot #10
Jenny Zero #3
Justice League #64 - cardstock Jason Howard variant available for premium cover price!
Justice League Infinity #1 - giving Justice League Unlimited the Batman the Adventures Continue treatment with a cardstock Scott Hepburn variant available for premium cover price!
Justice League Unlimited Girl Power TP
Karmen #5 - final issue!
Life is Strange Coming Home #1
(The) Lot #1 - a new Bad Idea series by Animosity creator Marquerite Bennett and artist Renato Guedes that takes you to the seedy demonic underbelly on Tinseltown, like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood!
Magic the Gathering #4
Mamo #1
Masters of the Universe Revelation #1 - prequel store to the upcoming Netflix animated series produced by Kevin Smith, with a Mike Mignola variant available for cover price!
Miskatonic TP vol. 1
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic #99
Next Batman Second Son #4 - final issue leading into I Am Batman, with a cardstock Rachta Lin variant available for premium cover price!
Nice House on the Lake #2 - I wish the 2nd printing for #1 had arrived a week earlier so we could get some new readers on board, but this is a fantastic sci-fi concept!
Nightmare Before Christmas Little Golden Book HC
Nocterra #5
Ordinary Gods #1
Out of Body #2
Post Americana #6
Red Sonja Black White & Red #1 - like Marvel’s Black White & Blood and DC’s Black & White/ Red & Blue/ Black & Gold series!
Runaways #37
Sensational Wonder Woman #5 - cardstock Dike Ruan variant available for premium cover price!
Serial #5
Skybound X #1 - celebrating 10 years of Robert Kirkman’s Image Comics imprint, shipping weekly throughout July, and featuring a brand-new serialized Walking Dead story by Kirkman & Invincible artist Ryan Ottley, plus revisiting past & present Skybound series starting with Ultramega and Manifest Destiny!
Slay Bells #1 - you know Bad Idea would have to get on board for a Christmas in July concept, brought to you by Zeb Wells & David Lafuente!
Star Trek Year Five #22
Star Wars Adventures #6
Star Wars Bounty Hunters #14 - “War of the Bounty Hunters” tie-in with Chris Sprouse “Lucasfilm 50th Anniversary” and Guiseppi Camuncoli “Headshot” variants available for cover price!
Star Wars High Republic Race to Crashpoint HC
Stranger Things & Dungeons & Dragons TP
Suicide Squad #5 - cardstock Gerald Parel variant available for premium cover price!
Swamp Thing #5 - cardstock Brian Bolland variant available for premium cover price!
Symbiote Spider-Man King in Black TP
Transformers Escape #5 - final issue!
Trials of Ultraman #4
True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys National Anthem TP
Undead Unluck TP vol. 2
Walking Dead Deluxe #18
Werewolf by Night #32 Facsimile Edition - reprinting on of the hottest Bronze Age books of the moment, the first appearance of Moon Knight, for $3.99!
Wonder Girl #2 - I’m giving this one one more issue to get as fun as the Future State mini was. Cardstock Will Murai variant available for premium cover price!
Worst Dudes #2
Wrong Earth Night & Day #5
WWE New Day Power of Positivity #1 - it’s been about four years since WWE had a book on the shelves, so I would have loved some returnability or a more appealing price point ($3.99 instead of $7.99) to find a new ceiling since our customer base has probably grown 400% in that time.
Wynd #8
X-Force #21
X-Men #1 - it’s a brand-new day on a brand-new planet (see Planet-Sized X-Men) and a brand-new creative team (Gerry Duggan & Pepe Larraz) with Nick Bradshaw, Juan Cabal, Carmen Carnero, Joshua Cassara, Russell Dauterman, Patrick Gleason, Rian Gonzalez, Rob Liefeld, Peach Momoko, Iban Coello, Tomm Muller, R.B. Silva, Natacha Bustos, and Skottie Young variants available