How was business on this first Friday in October? Let’s say B+.
Local Comic Shop Day returns this November, and while we took 2018 off, we’re back at it… for one amazing reason.
Mack-eh-WITZ?
Thanks, Patrons!
A whole bunch of new comics for 2020, as announced at the New York Comic Con! That’s literally half the episode, but there are some pretty big announcements in here! And, some clunkers!!
Bonus Saturday evening postscript!

Patrick is an old and more-broken-than-before man. But he breaks for you.
Raina’s GUTS is the best-selling BOOK in the country.
Graphic Novels are dead—all hail Graphic Books!!
Graphic Books return to the New York Times best-seller lists! Huzzah!
Diamond Comic Distributors restructures.
How Patrick’s love for BBC Radio 1 got Challengers a new customer.
Too many new comic publishers releasing too many new books.
Why can’t Challengers find success with the new Chris Ware RUSTY BROWN book?
Please vote for Challengers for Best Comics Shop in the Chicago Reader Best of 2019 Survey! http://chicagoreader.com/vote in the ‘Buy Local’ section.
The new Batman creative team!

DC is making a Svengoolie/MeTV promo comic. How can we get a store signing for that?
Thank you for all the ALZ5K donations! Patrick survived.
Some titles just shouldn’t ship in the same week as other.
A follow-up on last week’s discussion on damaged comics.
The ridiculous math that is Diamond Comic Distributors’ shipping fees. Seriously, we throw out some actual numbers—see if you can follow along. We can’t.
A disconnect between the WWE Network and iTunes subscriptions.
We wrote a few pages in a new comics retail guide, “Selling Comics.” It’s like people think we know what we’re doing, or something.
Gustavo Duarte is coming back to Challengers, all the way from Brazil!!
What does Dal really think of the JJ Abrams “Spider-Man” #1?