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No, I did not forget about you guys!

1) Something has happened to Acme Comics.com. I'm trying to get to the bottom of it, but in the meantime, I had to recreate all of the lists that I usually fabricate for the site here on Tumblr, including the list of stuff coming out on the First Look.

2) It didn't feel right writing out the list until I had seen Star Trek Into Darkness! I didn't make it to the Wednesday night premiere because my tummy was upset, but I did make it to a showing last night with Carly and we both loved it!

3) I'm not back-dating this to cover my tracks! I've just got OCD and if I looked at the Tumblr page and everything wasn't in perfect symmetrical order, I would lose it.

I should have known when Joe Quinones said he was coming down for Free Comic Book Day that it would cost be personally, and above is the proof! That's the original art for FF #6 Page 11 featuring my fave Darla Deering and the Yancy Street Gang! At the bottom of the page is the corner box from Defenders and a baseball!

I'm glad I got that second day of rest on Monday, because things are just as crazy for me this weekend! Carly's birthday is tomorrow all day and my mom is graduating with her Master's in Statistic's tomorrow night, then Saturday we're having a dinner to celebrate everything, and Sunday is Mother's Day, for which my grandma will also be in town!

Just got home from kicking off our screening of the Iron Man 3 premiere at the Carmike, and with that, and the rotating gatling gun and flashing repulsors above, the weekend is underway!

I feel like with all of the excitement, we've been forgetting to drive the point home that we will be CLOSED all day on Monday, May 6th to cool down from all the festivities! Guests will still be in town and we'll be podcasting about everything that we saw and did before it slips away, but if you see us around the shop, just ignore us. We won't be back to business until Tuesday, May 7th at 10 AM!

As I type, I'm waiting on editor-in-chief Scott Allie and the rest of the crew from Dark Horse Comics to start their Gold Sponsor focus group at the Diamond Retailer Summit that precedes C2E2 here in Chicago! We have an unbelievable room at the Sheraton Tower this year, as evidenced by the view up above!

Amidst all of the craziness this next week, don't forget that we'll be holding a release party for Chris Giarrusso's new original graphic novel G-Man vol. 3 Coming Home on Wednesday, May 1st! Chris will be signing and doing FREE sketches from 10 AM - noon and then again from 4:30 - 7 PM at the shop!

Unlike the previous two volumes of G-Man material, this will be the first time this story has ever been in print, so you can be on of the first to get your copies signed. In stock right now are G-Man vol. 1 Learning to Fly and G-Man vol. 2 Cape Crisis if you feel compelled to go back and read the whole series!

I don't want to brag or anything, but Jermaine, me, Carly and a bunch of our friends will be reprising our roles as eyewitnesses from volume 2, and we'll be happy to sign copies as well to up the value that much more!

Finally, as long as there are no hang-ups, Acme Comics Presents will have G-Man & Great Man t-shirts in stock in Youth to XXL sizes for only $10!

So proud of everyone today.

When the truck rolled up at 11:30 with 2.5 TONS of books on board, none of the guys hesitated to run out and bust their backs getting them in (you can see us unloading the third pallet above). Then we counted them in record time after a quick lunch. Right now, as I type, there are no less than seven Acme customers pitching in with stamping as Liz oversees them.

Free Comic Book Day is always the most stressful time of the year for me. I lose sleep over it like I didn't the night before my wedding. I was very worried about taking off a week before the big day for C2E2, but after seeing how locked down everything is after today, I'm care free.

However, I'm bummed to say that we're all a little too tucked to record an Acmecast tonight, but we'll be back on Monday with advance reviews of lots of the books you'll be looking forward to on May 4th!

Many of you here in the Triad have had the opportunity to pick up G-Man Coming Home #1 via WFMY's Read 2 Succeed program or copies here at the store, but did you know you can pick up Coming Home #2 via Comixology right NOW and then grab the whole series in print when creator Chris Giarrusso does a special signing here at the shop in advance of Free Comic Book Day on Wednesday, May 1st from 10 AM to 12 PM and 4:30 - 7 PM?!

The growing tradition of our Free Comic Book Day posters is a great one, including names like Chris Samnee, Jeremy Dale, Brian Hurtt and, with 2013's poster debuting above, Maris Wicks! I think she did a fantastic job growing the mythos of the Acmebat with her bat buddies, and she captured a real all-ages feel that will do a great job capturing the imagination of visitors both here at Acme and at the Greensboro Science Center and Greensboro Children's Museum! I should have a printable version ready by tomorrow so you guys can give us a hand spreading the word!

I want to remind everyone that's interested in helping out with this year's Free Comic Book Day preparation and execution, we'll be holding a meeting next Tuesday, April 9th at 6:00 PM here at the shop!

Sorry I'm late! I've got a headache and I had a doctor's appointment before work, we had a meeting with Downtown Greensboro Inc., an emergency at the store, and then a meeting with the Greensboro Grasshoppers, all before recording and editing the podcast!

No excuses! I offer this piece of art by Lucy Knisley as a burnet offering for forgiveness!

I often run a fine line between retailer and fan, whether story or the almighty dollar are more important, and when digital comic questions are raised like the ones surrounding Marvel's Infinite Comics and Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin's Private Eye, that line gets even blurrier. Read the comics below, then hear plenty more about it on tomorrow's Acmecast #138!

On top of that, we're talking with BPRD and Sledgehammer 44 artist and Winter Soldier and Loose Ends writer Jason Latour at 2 PM for a podcast interview going up next week and I'm putting together a little archive project that you can get a taste of below!

Sorry I'm late! We've been on the phone with Kelly Sue DeConnick for the last hour talking Captain Marvel, Avengers Assemble, Ghost, Pretty Deadly and Winter's Tales (In fact, we're still on the line with her now, but I'm running the board through a USB input, so my typing isn't picking up on the microphones)! It's been a doozy of an interview and I hope you guys enjoy it tomorrow!