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I am Groot.

This late post was actually intentionally late because I “went dark” on the internet yesterday to avoid any potential WandaVision spoilers! I don’t think what I’m about to say next is a spoiler, but feel free to avoid it if you’re extra cautious!

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The Vision Complete Collection, Vision Quest, Marvel-Verse Wanda & Vision, and Scarlet Witch & Vision paperbacks should all be back in print by early summer!

Falcon & Winter Soldier in just two weeks!

Several of milestones this week, our 200th week of new comics (on time every Wednesday at that ::knocks on wood::) and our longest tenured Greensboro employee’s last week at the shop (though both had some gaps along the way)!

For the last three years I’ve been so impressed by Hannah’s ability to manage 18+ course hours at school and a full time job (when I was at UNCG, I felt put upon if I was taking 12 hours and working 12 hours) and her fortitude and practicality in all situations. We knew when she graduated in December that she was destined for so much more.

In all honesty, her dependability and stalwartness has caused Jay and I to step up our game as business people (Disney is a tough resume to live up to) and personally with her resolution to social awareness and health, and she’s allowed us to live richer and fuller lives outside of the store than we had before her.

It completely slipped my mind to post yesterday because I’ve been virtually attending the ComicsPRO Annual Meeting, which is where retailers get together with various vendors, distributors, and publishers to analyze the state of the industry, see what we can do to improve for everyone involved, and get some sweet swag!

It’s interesting, while we were shut down from mid-March through mid-May and listing on eBay like mad during that time, because Carly & I don’t have kids and we don’t work from home, this is my first time using the tools that so many people have become so experienced with this year, like Zoom and Whova.

Time for another Bad Idea: Tankers #1 by Robert Venditti & Juan Jose Ryp is about mech-suited mercenaries bank-rolled by an oil conglomerate traveling to the time of the dinosaurs to ensure a richer petroleum-based future for humanity! If we learned anything from Jurassic Park, what could go wrong?!

Despite the publicized troubles in fulfilling orders for last month’s Eniac #1 with first printings, rest assured that everyone that rose up and reserved theirs by the deadline is still guaranteed the real McCoy!

Enjoying WandaVision on Disney+? We are! It’s definitely fun in a different way from the excellence of The Mandalorian and most likely the buddy cop show that Falcon & Winter Soldier will be, and the way the theories fly after every episode reminds me of when Lost or the later seasons of Battlestar Galactica were on. And since they’re based on comic book characters, or recommendations if you’re enjoying the series are Avengers Disassembled by Brian Michael Bendis & David Finch, Young Avengers by Allan Heinberg & Jim Cheung, and Vision by Tom King & Gabriel Hernandez Walta, all available on the shelves right now!

It’s been an epic two days down in Florida with my brother David and his family! Yesterday was my niece Ellie and nephew Nash’s first visits to the Magic Kingdom, today was just me & Carly at Hollywood Studios, tomorrow is a down day and then Saturday is both Universal parks! Then it’s back to the Boro first thing Sunday morning so I’m at the shop in time to process the books below!

We first teased our involvement with Bad Idea Corp back on March 10, 2020, right before we knew that the entire world would be falling apart. Now, almost a year to the week later, you’ll be able to experience it for yourself when Eniac #1, written by Matt Kindt and illustrated by Doug Braithwaite, finally hits the shelves!

Bad Idea is a brand-new publisher that you can only get in comic shops, and only about 200 shops throughout the country at that (we’re the only store within 60 miles that will be carrying them), founder by Dinesh Shamdasasi, who also revitalized Valiant in 2012, and their first low-key release, David Lapham’s Hero Trade, has sold as high as $900!