Bad news, good news and better news...
As you all know, we have a HUGE HELLBOY ARTIST'S EDITION event planned at The Comic Bug tomorrow. We've run into a pretty huge obstacle in that the shipment of books is still being held at the port in Long Beach and it doesn't look like they'll be released to us in time for Saturday's event. We've tried everything from bribing longshoremen to literally getting on our hands and knees and begging for the books to be released to us, but there is apparently an arduous process when it comes to shipping product from overseas and they make exceptions for no one. We are truly sorry to report this bad news today. That's the bad news.
The good news is WE'RE STILL HAVING THE EVENT tomorrow! We won't let a little thing like not having the book we're celebrating get in the way of a great time celebrating an icon in the comic book industry! Mike Mignola will still be here signing from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. tomorrow. We'll still be raffling off all of those great items we've been showing you through the week for those who pre-purchase the HELLBOY IN HELL ARTIST'S EDITION. You'll be able to take home your exclusive HELLBOY ARTIST'S EDITION SHOT GLASS tomorrow and, for the first 25 people who have pre-purchased the book in-store, you'll be able to take home your BPRD ARTIFACTS! We'll have a gallery of Hellboy pages in the back of the store for you to see. And we'll have IDW's copy of the HELLBOY IN HELL ARTIST'S EDITION for you to peruse so you can see what you WILL receive once Long Beach releases the books to us.
The BETTER NEWS is that Mr. Mignola and IDW have agreed to produce an exclusive HELLBOY IN HELL ARTIST'S EDITION print that we WILL have here tomorrow to hold you over until the books arrive! This print will be limited to 150 units and was not part of our original plan, but consider it our way of apologizing for the inconvenience as well as a way to make your ARTIST'S EDITION extra special as soon as it arrives!
As soon as we get the books, Mr. Mignola will sign them and we can either hold them here for you at the shop for pick-up or, for those who are travelling a distance, we'll ship them to you on our dime. Signed, sealed, delivered!
Again, we are really sorry for this snafu. We tried to do something really epic to commemorate this very special publication and got wrapped up in the red tape of customs. But we can STILL have a fantastic time and still deliver on everything we've been promising you. We hope that you will still join us and celebrate 20 years of HELLBOY greatness tomorrow!