Hey, Folks!
Well, my second big week is finally here! A new comic storyline? More mutant mayhem? The third episode of Ahsoka (yes, but not what I’m talking about)? More big key Bronze age comics coming in the door? NO! We are three days away from my first wedding anniversary with Hillman Crawford and two days away from our exciting big reception party celebrating it with a very special rededication ceremony! It has certainly been a year for me with our marriage, my move out to the country to live at Hill’s place, two of the biggest collections it has ever been my privilege to sort through, our honeymoon vacation in the Bahamas where I finally got to swim with the pigs, and many more events both big and small. The excitement has begun to ramp up this week mostly because I was feeling kinda anxious about it, but then we paid off the catering bill and I sorta settled down a bit. It looks like cooler and clearer weather for the big day and I can’t wait to have our “first dance” at the party. Also let me just say that I LOVE being married to tis guy. He is truly the best!
Please remember that because of the big event Monarch Comics will be closed on Saturday, 9/9. I will be off for the whole weekend, especially if I can get all my paperwork done today. Brian will be here normal ours on Friday and Sunday and everything will be back to normal next week!
So a weird thing happened at the store on Tuesday afternoon. I was in a pretty good head space because the party had all been paid off and my involvement had shrunk to appearing when and where I’m told AND our weekly UPS shipment from Diamond had shown up a couple of hours early. I was getting ready to start unpacking everything when the postman stopped by with a bill and a small package. He told me that the package was supposedly sent out by the store and was being returned by the US Customs for some sort of problem. Now, understand, I knew I hadn’t sent anything out of the country in years so I was very curious what the ding dong this was going on here. I looked at the package and it claimed to have “4 mini action figures” in it. Although my name was nowhere on it, the store’s name was printed in the “from” section and there was a phone number that was neither mine nor the store’s. After a bit of a struggle I got the package open and guess what? It was decidedly NOT an action figure and was instead some sort of marijuana product. I couldn’t tell exactly what because it was all vacuum sealed and I once I realized what was going on I didn’t want my finger prints on anymore of it…lol. I chased down the postman and asked him what I was supposed to do and he told me to just call the post office and report it. Well, I did it and two days later I finally got the problem sorted through and ended up just having to deliver the now opened package to the local post office. If this ever happens to you then just go to the post office and don’t bother with the phone calls. It will take more time and it will all end up in the same place. Now here’s hoping that the FBI doesn’t show up and throw me on the ground before putting a black bag over my head and disappearing me, especially when I’ve got a big and expensive party to throw on Saturday.
We are now at the second month in a row that Image has not had a catalog presence outside of a checklist in Diamond Previews. I have no idea if the Image catalog will return or not or if Image will start printing it’s own catalog a la D.C. and Marvel, but you can still find online information at previewsworld.com. Also, if you have any questions then Brian and I should be able to help at the counter. Well, as long as I haven’t bogarted the computer and taken it home with me…lol.
I haven’t changed the signs in the store yet, but I have decided to extend the Dollar Box 2 for a Dollar sale through the end of September. We still have tons and tons of Dollar Books stacking up and I need the load to be a little bit lighter as I head into the home stretch sorting through the Jersey collection. I do believe I have another 25 boxes of comics to sort through and I suspect a lot of them may end up in the Dollar Boxes…we shall see!
Okily dokily…time tog et to work and get all of this weekly crap done so that I can comfortably take tomorrow off. I hope that everyone has a great weekend and I hope to see y’all soon!
Eddie