Contest of Challengers

All Star Comics fires shots from afar using someone VERY close to home. Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR #1 arrives this week! Oh, USPS. Why do you only have 1 good mail carrier in our area? Everything new Bad Idea does makes it seem more about limited/collectability than about reading good comics. Stopping in at Chicago's Vertical Gallery. A series of connected one shots vs. a mini-series. Too many themed cover options for one title! "Time Traveler" the movie. DC's Infinite Frontier #0.

Pokemon Shining Fates was released today and… well, we carried all of it. For now… Rumors of a DC Comics buyout by rich fans. DC final order orders can be less final than we'd like. Buying comics for more than cover price. Bad Idea working with Diamond? New rules for publishers offering returnability thru Diamond. Todd McFarlane's vision of the future of comics is… Image comics from the mind-1990's.

Digging Our Own Grave DC is Digital First, Retailers Last. Affidavit Returns can be tricky when not everything is listed on your invoice. The books we wish were selling better. This year's SALE was way more frustrating than ever before, with higher highs and lower lows. Plus, more procedures to pull it off with an online component. Ordering collecting supplies is more challenging than ever before. How you can use Final Order Cutoffs/Final Orders Due to your advantage! And also, New to Order!

Rip-Off Culture Friday customer interactions (no, we do not cut hair). Frozen water pipe BEFORE the Chicago Deep Freeze. It's SALE TIME! The practice of music sampling (in a comics podcast??). Never attribute to Malice what you can attribute to Stupidity. Several new Bad Idea happenings this week alone! What will Marvel do about Immortal Hulk #43? Or really, HOW will they do it?

My Love for You is Like a Truck Just when you've got all of 2020's taxes are sorted, 2019 rears its head again. Polite, thorough communications. Missing 1 Lunar box for next week's DC books. The generous people of the internet. We will be carrying EVERY BRZRKR #1 cover. A new international sales battle! Good comics of your future, including: Fear Book, Orphan & 5 Beasts, Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters, and Silver Coin. Also, Nocterra.

On the Rocks. We join the recording in-conversation about the act of viewing Wandavision. We don't talk about the show itself, but the art of trying to stay spoiler-free in today's social internet age. Subjective not objective. The Bad Idea Preview Book dropped and it's bringing out the worst in too many people. Our Bad Idea "Hero Trade" contest(s)! Possible monthly raffle drawings for some fun merch. New year; new accountant. Final orders for BOOM!'s BRZRKR (BERZERKER) #1. A year without in-store events.

Don't Let Perfect be the Enemy of Good No, the Sale is NEXT month. Why do so many people need x2 copies of all the Future State books? Our new Instagram name. Tom Taylor is writing Batman? Santa must have gotten Patrick's letters! Seriously, Kaijimax is SO SO SO GOOD. Previews Dal has read: Shadecraft, Orcs and Karmen. Slower sales in January. Shipping damages in the time of Covid-19. Sammy Hagar's Piece charity pizza.

Our yearly "I Love You But I've Chose Comics" sale is coming up and Anissa Espinosa designed this year's shirt! The difficulty getting the Transformer "Scorponok" and other items. Week 1 of DC's Future State is under way, so how are they doing? This week's annoyance: Star Wars High Republic #1. Top Graphic Novel sales for 2020 (https://challengerscomics.com/index.php/announcements/item/2310-top-graphic-novel-sales-for-2020) Wrestle Kingdom 15 (at the very end).

Our Year, In Words. It's a look back at our 2020, in as chronological of an order as we can remember but seen thru the eyes of 2 people that have come out the other side with our business intact. So less of a "can you believe that??" look back and more of a "so that happened" reminiscence. There's also a brief story about insurance, and the monthly Patreon thank yous. Also, just a tiny bit of wrestling talk, the tiniest of bits.

Spatial juxtaposition. Emotional dissonance. We're Not Santa. It's okay to ask us for help. We're here to help you. Well, not HERE, but in the store. Mechanical engineering. Why we'll never fully embrace Instagram. Comics of your future: ULTRAMEGA. FEAR CASE. Thoughts on WW84. #RIPBrodieLee