Stop Being Offensive
400 episodes of this? Damn.
We “acquired” 2 new back issue cabinets. After days of work, they’re not what we expected.
November was not a great sales month and it ended on a really bad week. Construction + snow = a less than $100 day (for the first time in many years).
Patrick’s car need over $1900 of work done in November.
Subscriber visits over the Holiday season and the GoFundMe for Cave Comics.
Speaking if subscribers, it’s time to drop more of them out of our pull and hold service.
The Mutiny, a Chicago icon dive bar, is closing after 30 years.
The new Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic looks pretty good.
Publisher output the week of Christmas is not that great this year.
Working Hard vs. Hardest Working
This episode was recorded immediately following our 2018 Black Friday sale.
We never seem to sell out of the stuff we want to get rid of.
Getting burned when subscribers have books on hold for months that they never wanted.
Reminding subscribers, in person, the value of our weekly emails.
The detailed account of either a subscriber losing 2 comics or us making 5 mistakes 2 months in a row.
How Monday pick-up was taken away from us.
Are customer attitudes regional or national?
One final Lumberjanes Day reminder.
Christmas shopping as customers, not retailers.
The Chicago "Put-That-Back-We’re-Not-Buying-That" Fair
Rest in Peace, Stan.
Recorded live from the show floor of ChiTaG, the Chicago Toy and Game Fair, the worst we have ever done at a convention.
This one almost broke us.
Don’t Know What Ya Got Until Someone Else Buys It
The level of engagement we feel defines Challengers.
When trivial information becomes exceedingly useful.
“+ Conversation” doesn’t apply to movie theories.
Selling some 1978 Marshall Rogers Detective Comics for 99¢ we didn’t know we had.
Store signage only works if people are willing to read signs. Or see them.
Changes to our personal work schedules for the first time in years, and why.
ChiTaG is one week away and we THINK we’re ready.
Grant Morrison’s Green Lantern #1 came out this week.
Lumberjanes Day is coming up! So is our Black Friday Sale and more events!
The Job Gets Harder as You Get Older
The Isola collection available in comic shops doesn’t have the prologue story that the Barnes & Noble edition has.
Somehow we missed ordering 3 issues of Die! Die! Die!
The 50 Most Favorite Comic Shops in the US (not the Best; the most Favorite).
Sincere regards to Barry and Jayme of Southern Fried Comics as they’re choosing to close their shop.
Patrick has 2 similar ideas for plastic and tote bag usage in the shop.
We now have an actual comic book spinner rack of $1 comics.
What if we really made a go of Halloween Comicfest in 2019?
We have a new Lumberjanes Event coming on December 1st with multiple creators.
The Mark Waid Legal Defense Fund.