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Ed-itorial 8/7/19

August 15, 2019

Hey Folks!

It has been a great summer for comics and we are only just getting started! Tom King is ramping up the suspense for his final story arc in his historic Batman run. Jonathon Hickman is three weeks into his stunning new X-Men storyline with the second issue of House of X. Donny Cates begins the gooiest crossover story of the season this week with Absolute Carnage. The carnage of DC’s take on the zombie apocalypse, DCeased, hits a feverish pitch. The monthly runs of Daredevil, Deathstroke, Green Lantern, Immortal Hulk, and Justice League continue to hit it out of the park. We even new titles like Marvel’s Agents of Atlas and Image’s Coffin Bound debuting!

There are some new POP vinyl figures on preorder this week. These particular POP figures continue Funko’s celebration of Marvel’s 80th anniversary and include the first appearance of Deadpool, Iceman, and Wolverine as well as a brand new Electro with the classic costume! I will be posting on our Facebook page later this afternoon to start taking preorders for the figures. I only have until Monday, 8/12, to get my preorders in so let me know if you’d like me to hold one for you ASAP. All of the figured will be retailing for $10.99 and have an estimated release date of 10/12!

POP MARVEL 80TH DEADPOOL FIRST APPEARANCE VIN FIGURE 

POP MARVEL 80TH FIRST APPEARANCE ICEMAN VINYL FIGURE

POP MARVEL 80TH WOLVERINE FIRST APPEARANCE VINYL FIGURE

POP SPECIALTY SERIES MARVEL 80TH ELECTRO VINYL FIGURE

Thanks for having patience with me as I struggle to keep up with the demand for Hickman’s X-Titles. As I should have expected, Marvel didn’t bother to do much of an overprint for these books, so when the new series ended up being more popular than anticipated I have been forced to rely on unfilled backorders and second prints to keep up with the demand. We still have a few copies left of House of X #1 and Powers of X #1 still in stock, but we are essentially sold out of House of X #2. I do have a ton of copies of it currently on backorder and they may still be filled once Diamond finishes processing all of their shortages and damages, but I’m not holding my breath. The second printing of House of X #2 is set to be released 8/22 and we will have those in stock.

HOUSE OF X #2 2ND PTG LARRAZ VAR

I’m also hip deep in my efforts to make it easier for you to get your hands on your favorite comic book variant covers. I posted a listing of all 94 open order variants available from Marvel for (projected) release of October. Yes, you read that right…94 different variant covers and that doesn’t count the regular covers or the ratio variants. I would say that was crazy, but the really crazy thing is that out of the 94 solicited variants only 22 of them had cover images available. You can now understand why ordering the darn things drives me to distraction. I’ve completed the database of DC open order variants and I am in the process of downloading the images associated with their covers. More of the images are available, but it is also complicated by the fact that in October DC will be offering a ton of “regular” or primary covers with an acetate overlay while keeping the regular cover price. THOSE should be a joy to order. In any case, if you see something in the postings that you are absolutely SURE you want please let me know and I will make sure that the cover gets ordered and held for you!

Have a great weekend, Folks, and I look forward to talking to you again next week!

Eddie

EDitorial 7/24/19

July 27, 2019

Hey Folks!

Welcome to the latest edition of the Monarch Comics Shipping List and Subscription Form. This is the place to find out what we’ll be carrying on the rack next week as well as a pretty comprehensive list of all the wonderful comics that are available for order!

House of X #1

Of course, the big week has finally arrived and House of X #1 is here! Well, actually, it is temporarily NOT here because I sold out of all our copies yesterday! Never fear as we have more copies due in Friday afternoon right on time for the weekend! I was frankly amazed at the reception the title received although with the amount of hand selling and pushing I did I suppose I shouldn’t be. Of course, the $50,000,000 dollar question is WAS IT WORTH THE WAIT!?!

The simple answer is “yes”. House of X #1, like many of Jonathon Hickman’s projects, does a fantastic job of setting up an entirely new paradigm for our merry mutants. It is a slow build, as is typical for a Hickman joint, but he does manage to throw tons of cool and interesting science fiction ideas into the mix as he is essentially building a new mutant society from the ashes of the old. The main plot point in the first issue starts with a new perspective on the mutant island Krakoa and proceeds from there. Hickman takes Grant Morrison’s idea of a mutant homeland in a similar fashion to Matt Fraction’s Utopia, but runs in the opposite direction with it. They got me hook, line, and sinker with this terrific first issue.

My initial July orders are due in this week and I will be working on them all afternoon so if you have any special orders or requests then now is the time to raise your hands and let me know. This is the order form that I will be pulling back on the amount of variant covers that I carry on the rack due to my complete inability to properly gauge demand and order them correctly, particularly with the Marvel and DC stuff. So, if there’s anything in the way of variant covers that you have possibly seen on online then please contact me and if they are available to me then I will happily order them in for you. I’m knocking around the idea of creating a monthly post spotlighting which covers from which companies I have access to, so watch this space for any announcements pertaining to this new feature.

POP DC Heroes Red Death PX Vinyl Figure

We have also received the POP DC Heroes Red Death PX Vinyl Figures this week. If you preordered one of these attractive little figures then we have them behind the counter waiting for pick up. They will be retailing for the SRP of $11.99. We will hold all preorders for two weeks before putting them back out on the rack unless we here from you, so stop by the store today. As of this writing we only have one more of the figures out on the rack, but they may change as folks who preordered them don’t show up.

Oooookay…short note this week, mostly because it was a small ship week and I do have about a million things to get done before the end of the day. As a quick aside, has anyone besides me noticed that when you have a ton of things on your plate the work day flies by and you run out of time as opposed to when you have nothing to do and the clock essentially stops and stares at you? This is gonna be one of those days for me!

Have a great weekend!

Eddie