Why, as a small, retail business, would you not offer gift cards?
Once again, our Peoples Gas account was swiped by a condo resident in our building.
The Record Store in Howell, NJ, is going out on their own terms.
Oh, Border Town... Maybe there should have been borders around him, to keep everyone else safe.
“TKO does things a little differently than most publishers.” True, but that isn’t necessarily different GOOD.

I dunno, how do YOU swipe credit cards thru the card reader?
An update to a prior subscriber story, and Patrick’s 2 favorite ways to overreact.
Sending comics to prison. For inmates; not to punish the comics themselves.
Our lateral back issue filing cabinets are now fully functional.
The Avengers Endgame trailer is out and Patrick will not watch it. But Dal will. And did.
The effect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe on Marvel Comics.
There is going to be a 3rd Conan series, and he’ll be in Avengers No Road Home.

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.

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.

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.