Episode 443 - X-Retail (feat. Katie Pryde of Books With Pictures) (Patreon)

In which we walk down X-Plain Memory Lane; everyone needs Bitch Planet; HoX/PoX wouldn’t stay on shelves; we learn how to make sure a comic doesn’t get canceled; Marvel should have kept publishing those Krakoa-era anthology TPBs; X-Men is indeed a soap opera; and you can jump in here ’cause we’re all confused.

X-PLAINED:

• The most crowded X-year
• Books With Pictures, official best comics shop in the world
• Our upcoming 10th birthday party
• Katie Pryde’s X-history
• Prioritizing marginalized nerd identities
• Lapsed X-readers
• X-sprawl
• The Dawn of X books that worked (and the one that didn’t)
• The frustration of discontinued collection formats
• The perfect number of X-books (again)
• Drama and kissing
• What we want after Fall of X
• Readers’ single issue vs collection preferences
• The power of the preorder
• Katie’s (naming) origin story
• Readers versus speculators
• How to organize a comic book store
• Non-X recommendations for X-fans
• The glory of Judge Dredd
• X-Men who can be trusted to watch a comic book store

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