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Keeping everyone up to date with the latest, DC is continuing to ship new books to go on sale every Tuesday (and we’ll have all of them available on their release date) via their alternate distribution channels, and Diamond Comic Distributors, the direct market (comic shops)’s exclusive source of Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, IDW, Boom, Dynamite, and until very recently DC, is targeting Wednesday, May 20th for a return to regular, full weekly releases!

Since the current North Carolina Stay-at-Home order is in effect until Friday, May 8th at 5 PM, that’s when we’re planning on opening the store again with all necessary precautions in place, but anything can change at any time with shipping companies, printers, publishers, distributors, and governments, so for now we’ll cross our fingers and continue to use our Shipping Next Week section, ComicHub, eBay, and Amazon to get you what you need!

An update on the state of the store & new releases:

Thanks to so many of you for helping out in any way that you can over the last four weeks! With your support and our renewed focus on eBay and Amazon, we’ve been able to generate a normal month’s worth of revenue to help bridge the gap between the shutdown and incoming small business assistance. It means the world that you’re thinking of us, and we hope you’ve enjoyed the deals you’ve gotten from stock that we hadn’t otherwise gotten a chance to put out in the store.

I wanted to give you a heads up that thanks to DC’s alternative distribution channels, starting next TUESDAY, APRIL 28TH, we’ll have some new releases coming through again.

If you’re in the retail or food & beverage industry, suspended or active, we’d like to do our part in saying “thank you” by offering 20% OFF a graphic novel of your choice to help you while away the time while on the bench or decompress from what has to be a pressure cooker of a work day. Just bring proof of a most current pay stub and we’ll hook you up.

Comic shipments are still on, Concord passed its fire inspection yesterday so we’ll still be having our soft opening on Wednesday, March 25th, Twin City Comic Con is still planned for Sunday, April 19th, and Free Comic Book Day is the first Saturday in May (5.2 this year). If anything on the distribution or governmental level changes any of that, we’ll be sure to let you know, but otherwise it’s business as usual at all three locations.

Ever since I realized that February 29th, which itself only comes around every four years, was going to fall on a Saturday, commonly considered outside comic book circles as the best day of the week, for the first time since I was 7 years old, I knew I wanted to do something special, something that would only come around a few times in a life span!

Thus you reap the benefits of my wonder on Saturday, February 29th, with 29% OFF almost the entire store! It DOES include the backwall!

Check out the new (hopefully reusable) bags coming to a Ssalefish near you next week!

The story of the week has definitely been me and Colton’s big construction day down in Concord yesterday (and Bret and Colton collecting everything we’ve been stashing around the Triad for the last three months and getting it down there on Wednesday), assembling fixtures and hanging slatwall. We were going through the pictures on my phone last Saturday, and I was shocked that we got to this point in less than a week, cause when Greensboro was finally at this point, it only took us two more week to open. That’s not me saying we’re gonna be open in two weeks, but it shouldn’t be too long now…

New word on moving in is Friday!

Other than that, Jay is in L.A. visiting family until next Wednesday, so you’ll probably see a LOT of me (or Hannah if I sandbag her here and run off to Concord to play with Jay & Colton)! He’s even at Disneyland today! Jealous!

We’re supposed to get the keys to the Concord store space on Monday, but they still need to paint, add the racing stripe to the top, and polish the floor, so we’ll see! After that, I probably won’t be around Greensboro for about a month!

In the meantime, Colton will be at the Charlotte Mini Con this Saturday at the Westin Charlotte, promoting the new store, pushing supplies to the collector-centric crowd, and moving everything we have that Adam Hughes has ever done!