Aziz left these at Tuvalu Cafe:

Many thanks, Aziz.

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Airman Chris left these among the magazines in a glitzy office lobby:

Take that, Downey Jr.

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AIR #2 is in stores today. For those of you who speculated there were going to be more fantasy elements…you were right.
Also, an AIRlift Update: For various reasons, I have been asked NOT to encourage people to put copies of AIR on bookstore shelves. Consider my wrist slapped.
So we’re taking it to the streets. I’m [...]

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This one comes courtesy of D. McLachlin from Calgary, Canada. We are now International.

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Jared B. stuck this on an auspicious shelf in Bethlehem’s Moravian Book Shop–which, he tells me, is the oldest continuously operative bookstore in the nation. (Est 1745.)

Keep ‘em coming!

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Operation AIRlift update: Lee gets the prize for the first successful drop!
Raleighites, this is hiding in your local Barnes and Noble:

Well done, sir. Well done.

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You may remember the loooong thread in Azz’s forum about new ways to keep monthlies viable and get more people into reading comics. I thought a lot about what people observed and suggested, particularly in regard to mainstream bookstore/media exposure. I thought about getting my first monthly out of the gate in a crashing economy. [...]

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And okay, Willow, you got me. I’m officially hooked. It’s a beautiful and intriguing sort of post-9/11 fairy tale, part Gabriel Garcia Marquez, part “Lost,” all very fresh and exciting. I can’t wait to see where it leads next.  Here’s wishing you a long long run.

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“One of the stronger first issues of a Vertigo title that I have seen recently…recommended.”  –Comic Book Resources
“Wilson and Perker create a world of lounges, cockpits and terminals that are more fantastically dangerous and sexy than the real things can be.”  –PopSyndicate.com
“…entertaining from start to finish, and it still provided a few ambiguous moments to [...]

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The rumor, it be true! As your King I return from my long sojourn across the nets and webs, and NSFW’s.  And as your King… In honor of the release of the first issue this Wednesday, as King I hereby proclaim this to be AIR week at Standard Attrition. A celebration, to besure!
As my loyal subjects, [...]

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So yeah, I forgot about that one-day-until-your-book-drops feeling.
It’s slightly mitigated by the fact that I got a very complimentary note from Neil Gaiman several weeks ago.  (I say that like I get emails from my literary idols every day, but it’s all a pose. After I read it I had to lie down.) But even [...]

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I thought I wasn’t going to sweat this one. Usually when my stuff comes out I’m halfway around the world–I’ve published a number of articles that I’ve never seen in print. So I’ve learned to be process-oriented rather than outcome-oriented. I don’t get attached to books and articles and essays as physical, public things. When [...]

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