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On Saturday, I finished my first marathon! I woke up one day in March and just decided it was something I could probably do and got after it. 21 weeks of training on a 16 week program because I had to reschedule at the last minute around Free Comic Book Day and at one point I got bit by a bug on my ankle while mowing the lawn and it swelled up like a grapefruit for two weeks. Now it’s done, 400+ miles under my belt. I was a little disappointed in my time, I thought my training runs had prepared me to get in under five hours for sure, but I hit the wall at mile 18 and everything slowed to a crawl. Then I googled the average finish time of the Disney Marathon in 2020 (it was 1.12 before the pandemic and I’m already registered for 2022 in January) and it said it was 5:48, so I still would be in the top half and that made me ride a high the rest of the day.
On the comic front, I started re-reading James Robinson’s Starman, inspired by the compendium that came out last week. Any fears about how the 27 year old series would hold up (I was recently jilted by Justice League International) were assuaged in page one, panel one. It’s such an amazing, grounded survey of the entire DC Universe and I’m already more connected to everything of himself that Robinson put into Jack Knight than ever before.
The following titles are scheduled to ship on Wednesday, September 8th (Tuesday, September 7th for DC) excluding some re-orders and providing nothing changes by the time the final invoice arrives on Monday:
Amazing Spider-Man #73 - “Sinister War” fallout with a Federico Vicentini variant available!
Army of Darkness 1979 #1
Avengers Tech-On #2
Batman #112 - “Fear State” part 2 with cardstock Jorge Molina, Lucio Parrillo, and Kael Ngu variants available!
Batman/ Catwoman #7
Batman/ Fortnite Zeropoint HC - complete with all of the download codes!
Black Cotton #5
Black Manta #1 - cardstock Sanford Greene and Francis Manapul variants available!
Blue & Gold #2
Boruto TP vol. 12
Bountiful Garden #1
Canto III Lionhearted #3
Champions #9
Cinnamon #2
Conan the Barbarian #25
Conjuring the Lover #4 - cardstock Ryan Brown variant available for premium cover price!
Crush & Lobo #4 - cardstock Paulina Ganucheau variant available for premium cover price!
Cuphead TP vol. 2
Daredevil #34
Dark Judges Fall of Deadworld HC vol. 3
DC Super Hero Girls Ghosting TP
Deadbox #1
Deadly Class #48
Deadpool Black White & Blood #2
Defenders #2
Devil’s Dominion #5
Dragonball Super TP vol. 14
EC Archives Shock Suspenstories TP
Elric Dreaming City #2
Elvira Meets Vincent Price #2
Eve #5 - final issue!
Excalibur #23
Excellence #11
Extreme Carnage Toxin #1 - Jeff Johnson “Connecting”, Skottie Young, “Symbiote”, and Philip Tan variants available!
Good Night Hem HC - love me some Jason.
Green Lantern #6 - cardstock Bryan Hitch variant available for premium cover price!
Green Lantern Annual 2021 #1 - cardstock David Nakayama variant available for premium cover price!
Helm Greycastle #4 - final issue!
Infinite Frontier #6 - final issue with cardstock Bryan Hitch and Puppeteer Lee variants available!
Joker/ Harley Criminal Sanity HC
Joker Presents A Puzzlebox #2 - Shawn Crystal variant available for cover price!
Justice League Infinity #3
Ka-Zar Lord of the Savage Land #1
Ka-Zar Marvel Tales #1
Kiss Phantom Obsession #2
Last Book You’ll Ever Read #2
Last Flight Out #1
Last Witch TP
Malika Warrior Queen TP vol. 1
Mamo #3
Masters of the Universe Revelations #3
Mazebook #1 - Jeff Lemire is never better than when he’s writing and drawing for himself!
Me You Love in the Dark #2
Mighty Marvel Masterworks Avengers TP vol. 1
Mighty Morphin #11
Moonshine #27
Ms. Marvel Stretched Thin TP
My Hero Academia TP vol. 29
Never Never #3
Nice House on the Lake #4 - cardstock Tiffany Turrill variant available for premium cover price!
Nine Stones #1
Not All Robots #2 - I was very pleasantly surprised by the first issue, must be something about robots acting like people like D4VE, Descender, Made in Korea, etc.
Ordinary Gods #3
Redshift #2
Savage Avengers #24
Search for Hu #1
Second Coming Only Begotten Son #4
Sensational Wonder Woman #7 - cardstock Tula Lotay variant available for premium cover price!
Seven to Eternity TP vol. 4
Shang-Chi #4
Six Sidekick of Trigger Keaton #4
Spider-Ham Great Power No Responsibility TP
Star Trek Mirror War #0
Star Wars Adventures #9 - finally, enter Boba Fett, you know, for the kids!
Star Wars Doctor Aphra #14 - “War of the Bounty Hunters” tie-in!
Star Wars High Republic Edge of Balance TP vol. 1 - brand-new, in-canon manga graphic novel featured on Free Comic Book Day!
Star Wars War of the Bounty Hunters #4
Stein’s Gate 0 TP vol. 1
Suicide Squad #7 - cardstock Kevin McGuire variant available for premium cover price!
Suicide Squad Annual 2021 #1 - cardstock Geral Parel variant available for premium cover price!
Swamp Thing #7 - cardstock Francesco Mattina variant available for premium cover price!
Trover Saves the Universe #2
Unbelievable Unteens #2
Undead Unluck TP vol. 3
Wasted Space #23
Whistle TP
Witchblood #6
X-Force #23