Gregg Schigiel: Alright everybody, Stephen’s unavailable for this week’s RE: COMICS discussion, and while I’m confident I could ramble on about something all on my own, that sort of defeats the purpose of the comics conversation aspect. So with great pleasure I am honored to be joined in this week’s talk by none other than Lord Retail himself. I welcome you, Jermaine, to RE: COMICS.
Sitting here at Grandma's breakfast table in the Garden State enjoying a cinnamon muffin and checking out what's in store for us next week! Boy, is it a doozy! My phone us also up to some interesting new tricks that should provide some new headaches and surprises this week, so I hope you all enjoi!
 This week Gregg and I mull over the recently proposed Sequential Art and Entertainment Guild, but things get really interesting next week. At that time we'll see what happens when Gregg moves on in my absence and takes his comic talk straight to the top, Jermaine! Will our heroes soldier on without me? Will Jermaine figure out how to attach a word document to an e-mail!? Find out next week, same blog place, same blog time!
Good to be back in the 'Boro working on the blog, but it's not to be for long! Next Friday I'll be up in the Garden State for my cousin's wedding, typing from Grandma's house, but travel always brings new food and new comic book stores!
It's rare that the landscape of the comic industry has the potential to change so much in the course of just one week. Every time Gregg and I thought we'd nailed down our topic some new news would break and we'd have to segue into the next topic! Whatever the fall-out ends up being, maybe you heard it here first!
EARLY EDITION! Kicking back in the hotel room for the evening, catching up on the blog so I can hit the floor bright and early for HeroesCon 2010! not much to report yet from the scene except a great dinner with Chris G. and running into the Dales out in the street. All that and a whirlwind of live music and classy folks at the Epicenter.
 
Stephen Mayer: It's a new Heroic Age! It's a Brightest Day! I shot a couple of books your way for you to peruse at your leisure. Without going into specifics or talking price yet, what were your pre-conceptions of the more "optimistic" company lines from the Big Two and what are your first impressions based on what you read?
This time next week I'll be in Charlotte at HeroesCon! We'll have a more in-depth listing of tips and tricks in the e-mail on Tuesday, but don't forget to drop the Acme name to everyone you meet down there and if you see me on the show floor don't be afraid to hit me with any questions you've got or just say "hi"!
Also, we'll be CLOSED this MONDAY for Memorial Day, so new books won't be until THURSDAY next week!
Comes Great Responsibility!
Sub Changes
One of the main responsibilities of the Acme subscriber is
maintaining and updating your subscription list!
Some of you keep
a super-tight list and can truly sit back and leave the heavy lifting
to us. But lately we've seen too many people miss out on too many of
the titles they were most looking forward to, simply because they didn't
let us know what they wanted and didn't add the book to their
subscription list! Here's some tips:
Before we finish up waxxing poetic about our inaugural year that was and get to work talking about new material, I want to take a second to thank Gregg for doing this with me. In all seriousness, he's a very busy guy living in the most exciting city in the world, but that doesn't stop him from talking comics with me every week no matter how late he's gotta stay up to do it. I cherish our talks and mulling things over with him does more to form my opinions of the industry I'm in than any message board could. So thanks, Gregg!Â
