I’m out of town this week in Utah with my family (we did my choice of Disney last September) and you can’t really appreciate the scale or majesty of this town of Santa Clara from the pic. We’re going up to Zion National Park, so assuming I don’t fall off Angel’s Landing tomorrow or get swept away by the river in the Narrows on Friday, I’ll see you all next week!
Read MoreOne of my favorite books for this current week’s packed slate of new releases was Crashing #1 from IDW, focusing on a trauma doctor trying to treat superheroes and their individual unique physiologies in a hospital that wants to leave on the curb because of the insurance liability, plus she has a pill problem that’s got her in the thrall of the villains. ::whew:: If that sounds good to you, pick up a copy and get it signed by series creator/ writer Matthew Klein on Thursday, September 22nd from 3 PM - 6 PM at the Winston store!
Thank you for the great response to our new t-shirts! I’ve had an idea for the design for years, always figured I’d find just the right person to draw it for us and roll it out for a Halloween Comic Fest, but it seems HCF is a thing of the past and I was bored one day, so I finally made it happen myself! Only $12.99 while supplies last, and they’ll be available at all three locations starting Thursday!
Read MoreIt’s hard to say if I’m more excited about the half-cocked idea Greensboro and Concord are executing tomorrow to be up and operational Friday at both stores, or the ad I made this morning to promote it. My favorite part is that I called Colton to ask for a straight-on selfie of him looking surprised, he asked if it could wait until he took a shower, I said no, it would be better right now without telling him what it was for, and I was totally right! You can follow along as we make this fever dream a reality in our Instagram stories!
Very much feast or famine lately when it comes to new releases, 86 titles last week, only 61 this week, 93 coming your way week!
Read MoreAs those of you that come around for your DC new releases early on Tuesday already know, my mom has been helping me process our shipments since she retired from her full-time career in January 2021. Well, this week we had an extra special set of hands to help, my 90-year-old grandma Adeline, who came back south with us after her party in New Jersey last weekend! I’m glad she got to see everything put together as it should be since when she came last October we were still half-in-the-bag from our leaking roof.
Remember our September Warehouse Sale is this Saturday, September 10th from 11 AM - 4 PM in the same location behind Field Trip at 929 N. Church St. here in Greensboro! We’ve added almost 20 long boxes of dollar books to entice those of you that somehow managed to look through everything last time (a difficult feat from what I understand), plus lots more discount paperbacks, toys, and more surprises!
Read MoreWith today’s delivery of my Fabrikor display case from Ikea, my basement remodel, begun over two years ago while we were still shut down for COVID, is finally complete! Now I’ve got more room for books on those shelves, but with the Iron Fist by Ed Brubaker & Matt Fraction, Silver Surfer by Dan Slott & Mike Allred, and She-Hulk by Dan Slott omniboo on the way this fall, I’m still gonna have some tough choices to make soon.
The unanimous staff favorite Eight Billion Genies will be fully restocked on the new release all next Wednesday, and we’ll be offering the same Buy 3 Get 1 FREE offer for new readers that was such a hit last time, so much so that it got the attention of Charles Soule himself!
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Stephen’s So-Called Emo Life!
Hanging Rock State Park - about an hour northwest of town, we did a six mile hike to warm up for going to Zion National Park in Utah next month.
Hokkaido Sushi - three “doors” down towards Wendover from the Shoppes on the Curve (where we’re located), they don’t have an all-you-can-eat option, but me and the folks on the shop staff ate our fill for cheaper than the normal all-in price at other places, and it was delicious!
Bunheads - an Amy Sherman-Palladino diamond in the rough on Hulu, a half season flop from 2012, between Gilmore Girls and the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. It reminds me of Brian Michael Bendis espousing the virtues of Lorelai and Rory’s banter and the way it influenced the dialogue in Ultimate Spider-Man and New Avengers and Powers.
We’ve decided to push back the date of our next Warehouse Sale to Saturday, September 10th to avoid Labor Day, once again in the back of Field Trip at 929 North Church Street in Greensboro, once again from 11 AM - 4 PM! We’re adding to the stock from all three Ssalefish locations, so even if you got to see everything the first time, which I understand was pretty difficult and took a while, there’ll be thousands of new items for you to get your hands on.
But we’ve got stuff going on all over! This Saturday, August 20th, meet writer Christos Gage, scriber of the current Fortnite x Marvel Zero War crossover (and DC’s 2021 Batman Fortnite), plus Netflix’s Daredevil TV series, Superior Spider-Man & hundreds of other comics at the Winston store from 12 - 2 PM!
Read MoreTo say that last week’s Warehouse Sale exceeded our wildest expectations is a gross understatement! While I was holding down the fort at the Greensboro store and unable to attend myself, the pictures and reports that came back were overwhelming, with as many as 40 people in the space shopping at one time and at least 10 people in attendance all day long!
Suffice to say, we’ll be back at it next month as we promised we would if demand called for it, so mark your calendars for the weekend of September 10th and stay tuned for exact hours of operation while we reorganize and load back up on comics & toys!
Read MoreWe’re putting the finishing touches on the five-ever Warehouse Sale taking place this Saturday, August 6th from 11 AM - 4 PM at 929 North Church Street here in Greensboro! In addition to boxes teased in the picture, I have nine more long boxes offered up by Concord, boxes of $5 variant covers that Jay was continuing to curate today, and bins and bins of toys and other surprises behind those curtains!
Parking is available in the parking lot around the left side of the building, along the street, and in the dentist’s office next door! We’ll see you there!
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