Thursday, September 29, 2011

A Special Announcement Regarding Reviews of DC's New 52 (and thanks to @AustinBooks)

Hello, Signal Corps.

I have fallen into a bizarre and amazing situation courtesy of our friends at Austin Books and Comics (conveniently located on sunny Lamar Boulevard in fabulous Austin, Texas).  I have been extended an invitation to receive copies of all the DC New 52 #1's that I did not read for review.  And I am totally going to do it.

Fortunately, the offer they made works within my own review policy, and will actually be getting these comics on loan (yes, I will return them... except the ones I really like).  Then I'll be handing over more money to Austin Books, which is, I am perfectly aware, Brad's evil scheme.

Austin Book's owner, Brad Bankston
There's no clause that says I need to say anything nice about any books, or even anything nice about Austin Books, but when local merchants go out of their way to see that a customer such as myself is done a huge favor (completely unprompted), and just because they know I am a particularly serious DC dork, then I say:  I AM TELLING YOU TO SHOP AT AUSTIN BOOKS AND COMICS.*

It seems this is a good guy doing a solid for a guy who likes Superman.  And that's what makes the world go-round, people.

You can expect the next round of New 52 reviews to begin this weekend.  Yes, I will cover Red Hood and Catwoman.

Don't worry Brad and Brandon, I will keep my cat away from the comics and will limit the number of grape jelly sandwiches I consume while handling the comics.




*seriously, I've been to shops all over the place, and ABC is still the best one I've visited.


3 comments:

Simon MacDonald said...

Congrats Ryan! Sorry to hear that you're going to be spending more money though :)

Things I want to visit in Austin if I ever get down:

1) Austin Books & Comics
2) Your house
3) The place where all of my team mates work

The League said...

I'm surprised you haven't been down here yet for work. Start acting you're totally lost at work and like you need help and maybe they'll send you down here?

Simon MacDonald said...

I've been everywhere but Austin for work this year. Boston and Portland, OR already with Denver and San Francisco coming up. If I was on the other project I'm sure I'd have been down 4 or 5 times already.