Not to blame everything on a bad user interface, but our distributor’s ordering system is set up so that if you click on the quantity box of an item, it’s preset to zero. This means that if you forget to delete the zero before entering your number, you’ll end up ordering ten times as much as what you wanted, and that’s how Uel ordered 20 copies of the new Poison Ivy trade instead of two.
That’s a lot of Poison Ivy! Rather than eat the shipping costs to return it, we have a better idea:
Drop $50 cash on our Sidewalk Sale books (if it’s Saturday and it’s sunny, there’s probably a sidewalk sale), get the $25 Poison Ivy trade for free.
Or buy the Poison Ivy trade at full price and get $10 of store credit good on anything on your next visit.
Check out an unsanctioned preview of issue 1 (the trade collects issues 1-6) — there’s a bit of a Last of Us horror vibe with mushroom zombification and such.
Too Much Horror Business
To that end, we’re noticing a lot of books that are selling are trending towards horror these days. We may as well replace our manga section with Junji Ito books. Ed Piskor’s gory and self-published Red Room consistently outsells mainstream titles. If no one’s snagged the last copy yet (from the knee-to-toe-level front display facing you as you walk into the store), you should also check out Spa by Erik Svetoft.
On the one hand, I’m a little bristly whenever anyone employs Lynchian as an easy adjective for any horror that superimposes quotidian middle-class life with its dark underbelly, mostly because I’d argue most David Lynch material is more comedy than horror (he even did a comic strip for the LA Reader)…
…on the other hand, Spa is often at times quite funny, and let’s face it, Lynchian. We not only have an authorized preview to point you to, but here’s a taste of his animated work — very much in the same vein of Spa.
All this is to say, if horror is what the kids want, should we go Full Goth?