Contest of Challengers

•Friday customer interactions. •How's the Sale going? •INVOICING! And why we hate it. •A Manage Comics feature Dal would literally give a tooth for. •In interesting Sales Tax find. •Advance previews! Radiant Red (again), World's Finest and West of Sundown. •DC's upcoming crossovers and why we cringe at the very idea of them. Contest of Challengers #572

SNOW PROTOCOL •Fun with Facsimile Editions. •Questionable Creators vs the Characters they create. •Snow Protocol!! •Santa Clauses •Creating new items in Shopify vs ComicSuite. •Some minor Manage Comics quirks for the week. •Thanks, Patrons! •Patrick has no idea what Star Wars Crimson Reign is about. •Issue #1 of the upcoming Batman Killing Time mini-series is real good! •Looking at all the Substack comics that dropped this week. Contest of Challengers #571

Contest of Challengers #570 FRUGAL + VICIOUS = FRICIOUS •Compendiums vs Trades, as more publishers are going for the larger collections. •The comic shop mainstay that is MAUS. •A brief interlude about Joe Lycett. •What non-superhero trades will we always keep in-stock? •Publishers, it's okay to let properties die. •Dal's amazing Shopify hack! •The ease of using Manage Comics as a consumer. •Hand-adding existing subscribers to a new/companion title is not a quick task.

TREADING WATER •The story of an Avengers Endgame Iron Man Pop Vinyl online order. •Local Pick-Up is NOT Free Shipping. •The attempted installation of fiberoptic internet. •Shopify is changing how we pay them. •The Herculean task of January Initial Orders. •SAGA is back!!!! •A look back to our retailing philosophy of 2012. •Dal has read PDF's of the up coming Image titles: LITTLE MONSTERS, GHOST CAGE, STEP BY BLOODY STEP, and RADIANT RED.

LADDER UP! •We have a new ladder and Patrick is very excited for it. •Why one fan does not like the current Buffy comics. •Getting next week's Marvel Comics on Friday rather than Monday. •How to ring up subscriber purchases when Manage Comics goes down. •Another Amazing Spider-Man #1 is coming. •DC disappoints with their limiting availability of fun covers. •At this point I kind of stopped taking notes, but there's plenty more stuff. •We totally forgot we were going to talk about the 2021 best sellers. Whoops. •You can also catch Patrick on this week's OFF PANEL podcast with David Harper!

NOT MORE DIFFICULT; WORSE (this episode's title is not in reference to Manage Comics) •We're in our new Studiotorium (TM & © 2022 Challengers Inc) •Checking in with Andrew •How to do an exchange in Shopify •Thor #20. Ha ha. •Thank you, Bad Idea, and no thank you. •Manage Comics from the User side. •How many subscribers didn't come in at all in December?

Next Week: The Best-Sellers of 2021!

WE DID NOT STEAL YOUR PHONE •I promise you; we did not steal your phone. •Which of next week's books have we read? "We" being Dal, as Patrick is so far behind. •This was the week we switched to Manage Comics, so there's LOTS of Manage Comics talk! •Immortal Hulk vol. 10 collection misprint. •This is a timeline, not 'greater than' symbols: ComicSuite/RMS>RMH/Pullbox>Shopify/Octopus>Manage Comics/Stocky/Shopify •We're really on board with Manage Comics and it's better for all of us. •Thanks, Patrons!

Next Week: The other half of Manage Comics! The user interface!

A "Good Problem" is Still a Problem •Early solicits for April that we can't do anything with yet. •Comic news websites. •Too much talk about Doctor Who. •We still don't "get" social media. •Looking ahead to 2022. •Holiday decorations after Christmas. •Manage Comics Is. •Movie talk! Sorry. But there are no spoilers.

Thanks to Markisan Naso ("By The Horns", "Voracious") for this episode's segment breaks.

•Retail at Christmas. •Somewhere in the episode will be the yearly playing of Stan Lee's "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" and a new Holiday song from The Divorce Gun! •Random shipments all throughout the week make it hard to plan your day. •SO MANY boxes (inside of boxes), as well as bubble wrap. •Reporting damages via Hachette's new online portal. •Christmas traditions. •Are you ready? It's just about Manage Comics time!! •New and exciting issues with Diamond's POS system. Visitors in town for C2E2.

The Time Dilation of C2E2 •Checking in with Jeanna! •C2E2 2021 •C2E2 Pandemic protocol •Consignment woes •What we bought at C2E2 •Checking in with Molly Jane