Hey, Folks!
My, is it a grey and rainy day out there today, or what? I keep surprising myself when I realize that next weekend is actually Christmas! I mean, I’ve never been a big holiday person anyway. Frankly, I have simply worked retail for too long for it to be anything another holiday that I have to build my schedule around din order to help others have a better experience. And this Covid crap has made certain other things more difficult. I mean, I used to LOVE making huge batches of Christmas cookies and putting them out on the counter for everyone to sample and enjoy. In the current reality, I’m afraid I can’t really do that anymore, but I have decided to make a couple of batches of holiday favorites and bag them up to hand out this year. I have no idea how many I will actually get done before next Wednesday, but Hill and I are going to give it the ol’ college try and see what we can knock out this weekend. I’ve already prepared some of my iced pumpkin cookies dough and I am going to throw together some gingerbread and sugar cookie dough tonight. I’ll probably throw in some shortbread tomorrow afternoon and we will try to get everything frosted up on Saturday and Sunday. Of course, our trip out to see the new Spider-Man movie has to be worked into he schedule as well! In any case, there will be at least an attempt to instill some holiday cheer into the store next week…😊
I made a post on Facebook the other day, but I think it bears mentioning again the holiday hours for Monarch Comics! They are as follows…
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24TH, CHRISTMAS EVE: 11AM-5PM
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25TH, CHRISTMAS DAY: CLOSED
SUNDAY, DECEMEBER 26TH: 12PM-5:30PM
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31ST, NEW YEAR’S EVE: 11AM-5PM
SATURDAY, JANUARY 1ST, NEW YEAR’S DAY: CLOSED
SUNDAY, JANUARY 2ND: 12PM-5:30PM
I have also decided after discussing it with aide de camp, Brian, and giving it a good hard think that I will be moving up the start date for Monarch Comics Annual Post-Holiday Sale. Traditionally, it would always start on January 2nd, but I have decided to just go ahead and begin the festivities on Sunday, December 26th! I mean, that week between Christmas and New Years is traditionally a pretty small ship week so I want to give everyone a reason o stop by the store…lol. They sale will be as follows:
25% HARD COVERS/TRADE PAPERBACKS (INCLUDING ALREADY MARKED DOWN ITEMS AS WELL AS SPECIAL ORDERED TITLES!)
25% OFF SHOWCASE COMICS (THESE ARE THE COMICS DISPLAYED IN THE SHOWCASES AT THE COUNTER)
50% OFF BACK ISSUE BOXES (THESE ARE THE BACK ISSUE BOXES IN THE REAR OF THE STORE)
$2 OFF POP VINYL FIGURES
This sale will continue between December 26th to February 28th!
I also want to mention that obviously I am aware of how short our stock of comic book supplies are right now. All I can say is that there are orders in motion that should stock us up pretty well on some items for the next several months. I should, for instance, have 200 small comic boxes, 10,000 modern/current board, 5,000 silver age boards, and a few other things as well. I can’t give you specific dates, but hopefully all of this restock will be in by January 1st!
Okily dokily…I was gonna go on a bit more about stuff and things, but my sainted UPS driver just came by and dropped off some more boxes for me and I should get them unpacked. Of course, there will be one more EDitorial before Christmas but I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday!
Eddie