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I've been on a Venture Bros. deep dive. The only thing I can trace it back to is thinking about heading up to New York Comic Con in October, where five years ago I saw the best panel I've ever attended, Let's All Smoking, hosted by show creator Jackson Publick and his main man Doc Hammer. Whatever it was, I've been rewatching the whole series from the beginning (if you don't like that episode, you don't like one of my all-time Top 5 moments of TV), reading all of the behind the scenes junk on every episode in the Go Team Venture art book from Dark Horse, and completing my 8" Biff Bang Pow figure collection.

Whelp, I wasn't planning on it when I got up yesterday morning, but I bought a new car last night! Don't let the small size fool you, I can get 14 long boxes in the back!

That comic is a perfect representation of my favorite kind of humor, and makes me extremely wistful to revisit the Perry Bible Fellowship (not always safe for work) and Wondermark. I can't believe I had completely forgotten about this interview I did with Nicholas Gurewitch at HeroesCon in 2008 (check out my LG flip-phone on the table as back-up/ for optimal audio fidelity)!

I had the pleasure today of having lunch with my old friend Joe Scott, proprietor of Geeksboro Battle Pub, formerly Geeksboro Coffee & Beverage Company, formerly Geeksboro Coffeehouse Cinema, now located across from Target at 2618 Lawndale Drive. Sampling the Lady Vengeance (tatter tots, teriyaki tri tip steak, sriracha), the pimento beer cheese with homemade pita chips, and the big ol' bacon wrapped meatball, and everything was spot on!

Thanks to everyone for all of the birthday wishes yesterday, and in particular to one of our customers, Josh, who did just as Instagram suggested and brought me an iced coffee! Most importantly thanks to you guys that took part in the sale and made it a great New Comic Book Day!

As usual, there's a LOT going on this week! Jay & I made a house call this Sunday and ended up buying 3 long boxes or trades and hardcovers, a dozen statues, and over 5,000 comics! We've been posting several pictures of the books on our Instagram & Facebook pages, and the statues are already in the cases and graphic novels are out on the shelves, but it's going to take us weeks to completely process everything, from the backwall down to dollar books. 

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.