Follow along, won't you?

Like an expectant mother, I just confirmed that Teddy and the Yeti #2 is currently being shipped from the Comixpress warehouse in New Jersey to my parents' place in Undisclosed Location, PA.  UPS is making this...uh..."delivery"...so we can all wait in anticipation while this new...um..."addition" is making its way to the world.  Okay, so the newborn child analogy only goes so far.  I will be seeing an actual baby - my nephew Jacob - for the first time on this trip home, so maybe I just have that mindset right now.

Anyway, the books got on the truck a little later than I was lead to believe, which means that I'll be pushing the envelope on my signing date with Evil Genius a bit.  The books are supposed to arrive on Friday - I'll have a better idea tomorrow about whether the first signing, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm, is still feasible.  The second, from 6:00 to 8:00, shouldn't be affected.

If you click on the following link, we can all track issue #2's impending arrival together!  Marvel as Teddy and the Yeti makes its midnight journey across the Keystone State.  Gasp in suspense as I push my commitments to the limit and try to get to the comic shop on time!  If you time it right, you can show up at my parents' house and get the VERY FIRST copy out of the box!

I hope that truck doesn't break down.

Teddy and the Yeti #1 New Dimension Comics exclusive version is here!

I had a box waiting for me when I got home yesterday from Comixpress - when I opened it up I found, underneath tons of shredded paper for padding, the New Dimension Comics version of Teddy and the Yeti #1!  Check out the tour above.

The books look good and the Alan Gallo-Karin Rindevall cover looks great.  The interior coloring is just a bit brighter than the regular edition from Brenner, which is good when reading the Andromeda Jones story, though the Yeti has a little bit of a pinkish hue to her in a few panels.  In any case, you wouldn't notice a big difference unless you put the two copies side-by-side, which of course I did.

The next step is to ship these copies off to New Dimension Comics (I know, why didn't I just have them shipped directly to them?  Because I needed to inspect them first.  I NEEDED TO!), where they'll decide just when and how they'll go on sale.  I won't be selling any of these directly - hence, the "exclusive" tag - but I'll have a link to the NDC website on my main site.  It's great to check this off the "to do" list!

Issue #2 off to the printer

Issue #2 went thorough its proofreading stage, some small edits were made (I can't believe I wrote "onto" instead of "on to"...seriously, I should know better), and now the pdf file is off to the printer.  It's out of my hands!  And that's a great feeling.  We're still on schedule for a February release, which is just where I wanted it to be.  Most folks got a hold of issue #1 at the December 30th Indy Comic Book Week release, so those people will have to wait even less than the folks who got it when I took it around to stores myself.

Issue two, just like the New Dimension Comics exclusive edition of #1, is being printed through Comixpress, a fairly well-known small print run printer.  Issue #1 (the one with the Phil Hester cover) was printed through Brenner, and the folks there did a wonderful job; I'm not switching because of any problem I had with them.  Their pricing scale, combined with Diamond's suggested minimum print run, is set up more for larger print runs, and that ultimately doesn't fit the numbers for an independent book like Teddy and the Yeti.  Now that I'm distributing through Haven (and going door-to-door in some cases), I can be a little more conservative in how many books I print at once.  If I run out of books (what a great problem that'd be!  Assuming they didn't just get dumped in a lake or something), I can just place another order with them as necessary.

I'll be taking a few days off before getting down to the details on issue #3, but that issue, honestly, is pretty well put together as it is.  The entire book is colored (minus the cover) and about a third of it is already lettered.  So maybe I won't have as many late late nights this time around.  One can dream...