¡Viva Variants!
Uel has set aside the above 1/25 and 1/50 variants as chance-based enticement to anyone who steps up and buys the normal version. Why should these awesome covers be limited to the billionaire class? (To our billionaire customers, don’t worry, we’ll still move Heaven and Earth to get your variant fix.) May the odds be ever in your favor!
Too Much Horror Business
-Our next-to-last chance Halloween auction got just one bidder. Sad Trombone.
-But our Buffy 8-pack auction got some bidders. Happy Trumpet.
-But the Angel 8-pack got zero bidders. Sadder Trombone (poor Angel and Spike [and Giles]!)
Let’s consider the Buffy auction closed — winner, you’ll be notified next week as per our usual leisurely pace. As for the Angel 8-pack, let’s give it another shot, but you’ve got till Sunday 11:59PM to reply to this by email with your bid ($25 minimum).
But what to do with the unbidden horror books we have left?
The Most Expensive Comic in the World
Uel has long had a childish scheme to make a small print run of comics with an unspeakably obscene title to be distributed to every comic book shop in the country, to be presented as the cheeky answer to a much-bemoaned question to any comic shop clerk, “What’s the most valuable comic you have in the store?”
Of course we’ve never done it, but it just so happens our pal in the wilderness of Wisconsin (and part of the Fantastic Comics theme band) has printed up a small run (just 20!) of his own filthy lowbrow magnum opus entitled Drunk Plans and sent us a copy, so we’ve decided to christen this the Most Expensive Comic in the store.
We’ve had some choice titles pass through the store. We’ve even had a Stanley Mouse painting sitting at the old store for years, but even that was at a fairly bargain price (for art) of $10,000.
So we’ve priced this up at $1 million — clearly the most valuable book in the store, and it’s not even slabbed. You can come touch it! Just ask Uel, what’s the most expensive comic you have?
We’re also proud to carry Matt Seneca’s latest work, Pure Evil. At $7.95, it is definitely more affordable than Our Most Valuable Comic, but no less transgressive! Uel will be hyping this comic up heavily in the coming weeks.
The option of "seeing if they float" is also part of a tradition other than a liquid litmus test for insufficiently obedient women with allegedly unusual powers. In the days before ecological conscientiousness, a joke among us who worked in the engine rooms of ships was to suggest that recalcitrant mechanical parts be "float tested" (i.e. thrown overboard.)