News for the week of November 17 - 23, 2008

The all time consuming new store is humming right along. Thanks for all the compliments on it I appreciate it. Its just too bad that for me all I see is a ton more work before I think it will really be ready. This week we should finally get the security system in - I e-mailed last Monday to see what was taking so long and they hadn't shipped it yet because they were waiting for me to respond to a question that ...oops, their records show they forgot to e-mail me about. Anyway, I answered - yes, I really do want what I ordered. They shipped it last Tuesday finally along with the security tag deactivator.

The poster rack for the valley should show up this week and that along with two other small fixtures, the basic framework of the shop will be complete and I can finally start to fill it up the way I want to.

The sign people never did show up like they promised. After all my laudatory words about them a few weeks ago, they have blown us off for several weeks now. Of course on the positive side, if they don't come and fix the sign, I get to keep the extra grand that I owe them.....

We are going to be putting in a lot larger selection of t-shirts at the division store this week if everything works out the way I want it too. Of course that means probably next week or sometime after that......

With the dawn of the new ice age or depression or recession or whatever is happening to the economy now (personally I blame Miley Cyrus and iCarly) we have to tighten up the way we are doing things. Basically I am going to have to cut orders for smaller unknown comic titles as I cant take the chance that they might sell and eat them if they don't. Bigger more popular titles will also have to be trimmed so there are less going into overstock. What that means is that as I make these adjustments, more books will be selling out - we will reorder as quickly as possible but most comic stores are in the same position so we will be fighting over the same stock at our distributor.

The best way to make sure that you get all the books you want is to add any books that you are interested in to your instore subscription. That gives me the ability to order the books directly for you and lock them in. If you don't have a subscription, now would be a good time to start one. You get 10% off all your new comics and back issues and graphic novels and you will be safe from the books you want selling out before you make it to the shop. Its a completely free service and you only have to come in once a month to keep it going.

-craig!

New This Week

DC
AIR #4
AMBUSH BUG YEAR NONE #4
BATGIRL #5
BATMAN & THE OUTSIDERS #13
BATMAN GOTHAM UNDERGROUND TP
BRAVE & THE BOLD #19
COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS TP VOL 04
EX MACHINA #39
FABLES TP VOL 11 FLASH #246
GREATEST HITS #3
HELLBLAZER #249
HEROES HC VOL 02
JACK KIRBYS THE
DEMON OMNIBUS HC
JOKER HC (restock--FINALLY!)
JSA KINGDOM COME SPECIAL MAGOG #1
RANN THANAGAR HOLY WAR #7
ROBIN #180
ROBIN VIOLENT TENDENCIES TP
SCALPED #23
SPIRIT #23
STORMWATCH PHD #16
SUPER FRIENDS #9
SUPERGIRL #35 NEW KRYPTON
SUPERMAN SUPERGIRL MAELSTROM #2
TANGENT SUPERMANS REIGN #9
TERRA #2
TINY TITANS #10
TRINITY #25
WORLD OF WARCRAFT #13
X-FILES #1

Marvel
AGE OF SENTRY #3
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #578
AVENGERS INVADERS #6
DEADPOOL #4
ENDERS GAME BATTLE SCHOOL #2
ESSENTIAL MARVEL SAGA TP VOL 02
FANTASTIC FOUR #561
FOOLKILLER WHITE ANGELS #5
GHOST RIDER #29
IRON MAN #35 SI
MARVEL ADVENTURES AVENGERS #30
MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR VOL 10 TP
MARVEL ILLUSTRATED THREE MUSKETEERS #6
MOON KNIGHT #24
PUNISHER BY GARTH ENNIS OMNIBUS HC
PUNISHER MAX #64
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #25 SI
SPIDER-MAN PREM HC KRAVENS FIRST HUNT
SQUADRON SUPREME#5
THUNDERBOLTS #126
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #58
ULTIMATE HULK VS IRON MAN TP
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #127
UNCANNY X-MEN #504
X-FACTOR #37
X-MEN LEGACY #218
X-MEN MAGIK STORM AND ILLYANA PREM HC
YOUNG X-MEN TP VOL 01

Other New Releases
ANGEL AFTER THE FALL #14
ARCHER & ARMSTRONG FIRST IMPRESSIONS HC
ATOMIC ROBO DOGS OF WAR #4
BACK ISSUE #31
BAD PLANET #6
CASE CLOSED GN VOL 26
CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #5
DANIEL X ALIEN HUNTER GN
DOCTOR WHO FORGOTTEN #3
DYNAMO 5 #18
FAIRY CUBE GN VOL 03
FAR WEST PKT MANGA TP VOL 01
FIREBREATHER SERIES #3
GOLD DIGGER ANNUAL 2008
GOON #30
HALLOWEEN FIRST DEATH OF LAURIE STRODE #2
HELM #4
INVINCIBLE #55
KABUKI REFLECTIONS #11
KEKKAISHI GN VOL 15
LEES TOY REVIEW #193 NOV 2008
NEW BATTLESTAR GALACTICA GHOSTS #2
PAX ROMANA #4
RED SONJA #39
SAMURAI DEEPER KYO GN VOL 31
SAVAGE TALES #10
SIMPSONS COMICS #148
SIMPSONS COMICS -
TREASURE TROVE #2
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG SELECT TP VOL 02
SPAWN #186
STAR TREK ARCHIVES TP VOL 02 BEST OF THE BORG
STAR TREK LAST GENERATION #1
STAR WARS KNIGHTS OF OLD REPUBLIC #35
STREET FIGHTER II TURBO #2
STYLE SCHOOL GN VOL 03
TRANSFORMERS MOVIE SEQUEL REIGN OF STARSCREAM TP
TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT OPTIMUS PRIME 3D
TRIGUN MAXIMUM TP VOL 13
UNCLE SCROOGE #382
WALKING DEAD HC VOL 04
WALT DISNEYS COMICS & STORIES #697
WANTED TP MOVIE ED
WILD SKETCHES TP VOL 03
YOUNGBLOOD HC VOL 01

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