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This weekend my love is turning 40, and doing so much more gracefully than I stumbled over the hill last year! To celebrate, we’re going to one of our favorite places in the world, my parents’ condo in North Myrtle Beach, and hitting all our favorite haunts, from Murrell’s Inlet to Cherry Grove. The forecast is not looking great, but it only adds to the excitement when you play mini golf in the rain, and the rest of the time we don’t mind getting cozy and reading.

The day of days is almost upon us, Free Comic Book Day 2025! Thousands of books have been received, sorted, and stamped and are now just waiting to go home with you absolutely FREE! Brian “Smitty” Smith has been exercising his hand to be ready to sign all of your copies of Transformers: Worst Bot Ever, featuring the first appearance of a brand-new Decepticon! Graphic novels, toys, and back issues have all been restocked to go our Buy 2 Get 1 FREE sale! And most importantly, Dewey’s cake squares are baking to give you that extra sugar rush to really boost the excitement of the event!

A special treat during this year’s Free Comic Book Day celebration is that our guest Brian “Smiity” Smith has written one of the Free Comic Book Day offerings, Transformers: Worst Bot Ever, and we have enough for everyone to get one signed! We’ll also have plenty of copies of Smitty’s all-ages graphic novel series Pea Bee & Jay and Band Camp on hand for purchase! If you’re lucky, you may even get a quick sketch from him!

Next Friday, April 18th is officially Superman Day 2025! To mark the occasion, we’ll have a brand-new golden age-sized reprint of the Big Blue Boy Scout’s first appearance in Action Comics #1, a new deluxe edition hardcover of Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely’s opus All-Star Superman, and the set-up for all DC’s big plans for Clark & friends to coincide with the new movie in the Summer of Superman Special ! We’ll also have freebies of the first issue of All-Star Superman, the first half of the first issue of Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale’s tear-jerking Superman For All Seasons, and a preview of the brand-new Jimmy Olsen Supercyclopedia!

Stephen’s So-Called Emo Life!

• Fahrenheit 182 - blink-182 bassist & co-vocalist Mark Hoppus’s new memoir. I know there won’t be a ton of sex or drugs, so the rock & roll bits better be really juicy!

• Nintendo Switch 2 - I can’t say no to a new Mario Kart, so I better start saving my pennies now!

• Death of a Unicorn - Will Poulter stole the whole show!

Happy Opening Day, everyone! I’ve been more disconnected from the team than I have in any other off-season, not really keeping up with the news or listening to the Talkin’ Yanks podcast. I know they got former-MVPs Cody Bellinger and Paul Goldschmidt, but the news that Garrett Cole is out for the whole season and Giancarlo Stanton, Luis Gil, and Clark Schmidt are hurt to start was enough to keep my spirits down. However, Opening Day is a clean slate for every team including the Yankees, and it’s with that sentiment that I tune in now!

This week I’m out visiting my parents who are snowbirding in Tucson, AZ for the month! Aside from getting a wicked sunburn on the back of my hands during our first hike, it’s been a great trip, with awesome views, great food, and unique experiences, like visiting the Mt. Lemmon Skycenter telescope array.

The most exciting thing that happened around the shop lately was that Jay got a visit from non other than T.J. Miller himself, best known as Weasel in Deadpool, Erlich in HBO’s Silicon Valley, Hud in Cloverfield, and Fred in Big Hero 6! He was in town doing shows at the Comedy Zone and stopped by to pick up a couple of action figures as gifts.