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The work really never ends! After getting back from vacation, knocking out those 1,000+ pre-orders for our Batman #50 variant, having a huge week in the shop, and overcoming a few big coloring deadlines, I turn my attention to the most daunting task of all...bagging, boarding, and sorting my own comics from the last six months or so!

Thank you so much to everyone that came out, both at midnight and through the day, for making yesterday our third highest sales day of all time, trailing only our two Free Comic Book Days, and over 50% over our Halloween Comic Fest and the day Action Comics #1000 was released!

A reminder that in-store you may purchase 1 copy of the full color, full trade dress version (limited to 3,000 copies worldwide) of our Ssalefish exclusive variant for the standard $4.99 cover price, with any additional copies that you'd like for $20 each. The black & white, minimal trade dress version is $20 as well (limited to 1,500 copies) and we have a very limited number of the sets of 3 that include the full color, virgin version (limited to 1,000 copies) available in-store ONLY (all 900+ online pre-orders have SOLD OUT) for $50! Before anyone asks, you can't use the $4.99 full color offer as a discount on the whole set.

Happy HeroesCon weekend, but since I'm writing on Wednesday to get out ahead of everything, I figured I'd catch you up on a couple other things, namely my contribution to Brian "Smitty" Smith's SpongeBob Comics #81 and my friend Douglas's work on Mighty Avengers.net.

Our Batman #50 exclusive variant cover is so good it got me to change by desktop wallpaper for the first time in almost 3 years. Josh Middleton killed it. And this is the guy that co-created X-23 and set the speculation world on fire with his Batgirl #23 cover. It's so tasteful and elegant. Very Audrey Hepburn. I love it.

Last night I bought my first Pops since 2014 (back with Arrested Development's George-Michael Bluth "Mr. Manager" spoke to me), but I couldn't resist the Bronx Bombers! Aaron Judge has filled the whole in my heart left by Derek Jeter retiring (also in 2014, and evidenced by this post from last May). The high socks, the freckles, I dig it.

I'll probably go all-in on the Sandlot Pops, too, if I can find the Wendy Peffercorn & Squints Target exclusive 2-pack (I think I've mentioned before that I'm a completist). All baseball Pops, all the time!

Still can't wrap my head around going to see a Star Wars movie when it's nice outside after Force Awakens, Rogue One, and Last Jedi in December, or seeing two Star Wars movies in the same year for that matter, but I'll be at the AMC Classics 18 tonight between 6:30 and 7:30 for the first showings of Solo!

One of my quiet goals running up to our one year anniversary was a hope that we'd hit 1,000 Facebook Likes. We came up a little short at 996, but split the difference with the 1,014 followers on there and you've got 1,005. I'll count that as a win! And with the new Facebook 10-point rating system, we're certified NM+!