Even though I did pick up a regular version of the new Scott Pilgrim Color Edition hardcover featuring Envy Adams, as did many of you this week, I was glued to my computer yesterday for the chance to get the Collector’s Edition with the Evil Ex variant direct from Oni! I was lucky enough to be at SDCC and NYCC when they debuted the first two, but since I couldn’t make it to the Toronto Comic & Arts Festival or Phoenix Comic Con, it’s “add to cart” for me. I can’t risk them being sold out by the time Comic-Con comes around!
Also, Jermaine and I along with one of our most trusted advisors had a very State of the Store kind of meeting today and we agreed that it would probably be best if Acmecast went back to just posting one episode a week. The twice-weekly schedule has been great to grab new listeners and ensure no rock is left unturned, but I never meant to record, participate in and edit both of them myself. Also, it doesn’t leave a lot of time to record mega “file shows” like the Avengers Assemble and Thanos Quest series on Sundays so that when we do need to skip a live week due to scheduling, we have something to fill in the gaps. I appreciate all the support and feedback our listeners give, and I look forward to spending 90 minutes with you at a time once again!
Just when you thought it was safe, we’re up to our old tricks again! The reason isn’t simply boredom though. We are constantly striving to find the best and most logical ways to present comic books and graphic novels in a visible and attractive way. And it gives our fine customers incentive to check out the store top-to-bottom every visit! Prepare yourselves for an Incredible Change!
Jermaine, Stephen and Jody go cover to cover on the FREE DC Entertainment Essential Graphic Novels & Chronology for 2013, looking at what made the list, what didn’t and the whys and wherefores of it all, then it’s back to a heeping helping of Comics at the Table including two original graphic novels, two books about dreams and MORE!
Then Jermaine and Stephen are joined by Geeksboro Coffeehouse Cinema’s Joe Scott and Spartivity’s Joe Schram to give a broad view of the road that’s brought us to today’s conversation about the final frontier before they blow the doors off Star Trek Into Darkness with a SPOILER FILLED discussion!
No, I did not forget about you guys!
1) Something has happened to Acme Comics.com. I’m trying to get to the bottom of it, but in the meantime, I had to recreate all of the lists that I usually fabricate for the site here on Tumblr, including the list of stuff coming out on the First Look.
2) It didn’t feel right writing out the list until I had seen Star Trek Into Darkness! I didn’t make it to the Wednesday night premiere because my tummy was upset, but I did make it to a showing last night with Carly and we both loved it!
3) I’m not back-dating this to cover my tracks! I’ve just got OCD and if I looked at the Tumblr page and everything wasn’t in perfect symmetrical order, I would lose it.
Thanks to all of you that have already purchased your tickets for Comic Book City Con 2013! Consider yourselves Founders! If you have not, click on the bold link above!
The road to CBCC has only just begun!
Jermaine, Stephen and Griffin analyze the subjectivity of humor in a medium that started with reprints from the “funny pages”, discuss the fate of comic book movies as time passes whether the bubble eventually bursts or not, and close the book on the fesitivities of Free Comic Book Day 2013!
I should have known when Joe Quinones said he was coming down for Free Comic Book Day that it would cost be personally, and above is the proof! That’s the original art for FF #6 Page 11 featuring my fave Darla Deering and the Yancy Street Gang! At the bottom of the page is the corner box from Defenders and a baseball!
I’m glad I got that second day of rest on Monday, because things are just as crazy for me this weekend! Carly’s birthday is tomorrow all day and my mom is graduating with her Master’s in Statistic’s tomorrow night, then Saturday we’re having a dinner to celebrate everything, and Sunday is Mother’s Day, for which my grandma will also be in town!
Whether you came out this past Saturday for Free Comic Book Day or heard about it on WXII News 11, WFMY News 2, the Greensboro News & Record, Bleeding Cool.com, Comic Book Resources or wherever else, you know that it was our biggest, smoothest event yet!