An Apology

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 7, 2013

Categories: Site News

I’ve been very quiet the last couple of weeks. I started a new thing, which I’ll formally tell you about soonish, and that’s soaked a bunch of time; then I got the BookScan numbers which soaked a bunch of other time; and then 2 weeks ago I cracked a tooth, which lead inexorably to “Oh, you need a root canal, ha!”, and so I’ve been in blinding pain for most of the time. Yeah, whine whine, just telling you why I’ve been quiet, and will be for a little while yet to come. (Like, the root canal’s second appointment is in a week, then the crown the week after that, then it’s off to ComicsPRO, and…..)   -B

Arriving 2/06/13

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 4, 2013

Categories: Shipping Lists

A lot of great comics out this week!

Arriving 1/29/13

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 28, 2013

Categories: Shipping Lists

Looks like a great week of new comics!

What’s wrong this this picture?

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 22, 2013

Categories: Reviews

I tlooks like a logo designer threw up on this cover!

Arriving 1/23/13

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 21, 2013

Categories: Shipping Lists

Why are there three “Green Lantern” comics in a single week? And…. other questions!

New Tilting is up

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 18, 2013

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Talking about Marvel NOW! and it is available, as usual, at CBR. Comment here if you can’t over there. -B

The Digital Bits

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 14, 2013

Categories: Site News

You may recall that when we started the digital store here, I promised that I would keep things transparent and out in the open about our results. So, here ya’ go.

Arriving 1/16/2013

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on

Categories: Shipping Lists

On the one hand, this week is less than half the size of last week’s shipment? But, on the other, SAGA! The new FABLES TP! ONE TRICK RIP OFF! Yeah, those three right there are nearly equal to the rest of last week combined…

Spiders and such

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 11, 2013

Categories: Reviews

Hey, the holidays are over, more free time becomes available, back to reviewing, I think. Yay? The “big news” of the month is all about Spider-Man, and I’d like to discuss ASM #700 and SSM #1, but will be doing so in several spoiler-ific ways.  If you don’t want spoilers, don’t travel below the “more” line (or, if you’re on RSS, look away now)

Arriving 1/9/13

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 7, 2013

Categories: Shipping Lists

Now who would have thought there would be SO MANY books and comics in the second week of January, of all times?

Comix Experience 2012 Best Sellers: Books

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on December 31, 2012

Categories: Retailing/Industry

We sell more books than periodicals (dollars this year: 55% books v 40% comics), so this is my favorite category! I believe this is a wonderfully amazingly diverse list of material sold.

Comix Experience 2012 Best Sellers: Comics

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on

Categories: Retailing/Industry

The full year is now over for us, so how the hell did we do?

On Sale 1/2/13

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Categories: Shipping Lists

NEXT YEAR’S COMICS, TODAY!  It’s MAGIC!

Arriving 12/26/12

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on December 24, 2012

Categories: Shipping Lists

D’oh, I knew I forgot SOMEthing this week…! Next week’s list will be up sometime on Friday….

WALKING DEAD: I’d never heard this before

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on December 22, 2012

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Obviously, this story had to have happened… it just had never happened to ME before.

NOT on sale on 12/19/2012

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on December 17, 2012

Categories: Retailing/Industry , Shipping Lists

A poster in the comments thread in the “arriving” thread mentioned a few books I didn’t list — that’s because they are NOT meant on sale on 12/19. These books are to be HELD until 12/26, and any store that DOES sell them (in person, or online) is breaking Street Date and, frankly, is a giant cad.

Arriving 12/19/12

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on

Categories: Shipping Lists

The week before Christmas marks the single largest ship week of the year — a massive one hundred and four new periodical comic books. Wowsers!

“Any retailer who doesn’t know how to order a comic by issue #7 is bad at thier job”

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on December 14, 2012

Categories: Retailing/Industry

(Which I must have read 10 times in the last 2 days, from 10 different people) OK, so let’s talk about how one might need more copies by issue #7 (for crying out loud!), using some Actual Numbers.

[*ding*] Image Comics has LEVELED UP!

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on December 13, 2012

Categories: Retailing/Industry

So I didn’t really say anything here on the first part of the SAGA no-reprint saga, but Rich Johnston got TWO stories out of it, the second of which of which quotes me, and I somehow don’t think there’s going to be a “retailers respond to the GOOD news” post over there (since Rich is, let’s face it, a muck raker), so let me take what space that I can to publicly give some props to Eric Stephenson and Image comics for not only listening to their retail partners, not only for totally accepting the blame, but for then finding an entirely inspired solution to just how to use a carrot to get MORE copies of SAGA into the retail…  Read More…

Arriving 12/12/12

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on December 10, 2012

Categories: Shipping Lists

Triple-Twelve?  Awesome!

Adventures in Schizophrenia

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on December 7, 2012

Categories: Retailing/Industry

This really just happened. A young guy, clean and well dressed, just came in, and said “May I ask you a question?” Sure! “Well, what can you tell me about the Justice Lords? I mean I know about Batman and Superman and Static Shock but I think it is the future and I really like Batman but then a giant black guy made him suck his cock, and…” Then he suddenly got a wild look in his eye like he’d just been caught doing something dirty, and he proclaimed “I better get the hell out of here!” and BOLTED for the door. Ah, retail, always with the joy!   -B