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Happy birthday to my wonderful wife Carly! Unable to help my own nerdy tendencies while trying to make sense of her love of makeup, I got her some of the Agent Carter Besame Cosmetics collection...and a second pair of Airpods. I'll also know if she actually reads the blog by figuring out if I just spoiled the surprise or not.

This is without a doubt one of the coolest projects we've ever pulled off! One of those things that just popped into my head with a tag of "wouldn't that be funny," transitioned to an Adobe project way beyond my meager means, and then with the help of my friends became an insane reality! See you Saturday for Free Comic Book Day!

Pumped for Infinity War tonight! I won't be in the first show at 7:00 at the AMC Classics Greensboro, because out of me and Jay, one of us has to close and the other has to continue to pass out FREE copies of Infinity Gauntlet #1 and spread the word of Free Comic Book Day to the masses!

We're getting PUMPED for Free Comic Book Day 2018, now just a little over two weeks away! We keep uncovering more and more books to add to the stock for $1 comics (or 20 for $10) and $5 trade paperbacks (or 5 for $20), we had to make more room for our latest Funko shipment, which means more $8 Pops (or 4 for $25) for the fire, and then there's even more overstock figures for our deep discounts!

Today marks our official one year anniversary! In that time, we've been open 363 out of 365 days, we opened late, closed early, and left the shop in Bret's hand a full day once each. I'd like to take more time to pontificate some more stats, but we've got 12,000 Free Comic Book Day books waiting at the back door to be counted and stamped, plus you'd probably rather hear about...

Hopefully I'll see everyone out at Twin City Comic Con this Sunday, April 8th from 10 AM - 5 PM at the Millennium Center in downtown Winston-Salem, especially since in addition to being the best show this side of I-40, Sunday will be exactly a year since our debut preview night at the Greensboro store!

Late posting this week because of a ton of rearranging in the back of the store that's going to free up space for some VERY exciting new additions, hopefully in time for Free Comic Book Day, and then Jay and I went to see Ready Player One with our friend Brian after hours.

It's been a wild week to celebrate one year of weekly new book, what with NC Comicon - Oak City rivaling HeroesCon for our most successful show (highlighted by saying goodbye to our first appearance of Thor and first Captain America in the Silver Age), in the span of two days we purchased and sold not one but two copies of the first appearance of Thanos (plus three Marvel Legends Infinity Gauntlets), and yesterday was our third highest Wednesday (so thanks to everyone that came by for that)!

This weekend I'll be taking the lead as we set up at NC Comicon - Oak City this Saturday and Sunday at the Raleigh Convention Center! Last year's Oak City was kind of me and Jay's public coming out party as part of Ssalefish after our previous work experience, and it was not without it's added stresses and trials, but this year I'm ready to get back to the basics, namely the best hamburger, fries, and shake I've ever had at Chuck's!