Back to the Past

Those of you who pick up the new Overstreet Comic Book price guide each April are no doubt familiar with the market report printed in the beginning of the book. If you aren't, here's a quick pointer: Each year, the Overstreet guide has a handful of advisors discuss (based on their experience) what was hot and what was not during the past year.

Typically, the advisors tend to be the dealers who work the convention circuit traveling from town to town (New York, San Diego Comic-Con, Atlanta Fair, Etc.), which is an attempt to find the broadest cross section of comics sales, not just picking regional areas where certain titles always sell.  Keep in mind that this market report is really directed at the pre-1970's comic-buying crowd, which represents a typically much higher price tag than a collector digging through dollar boxes of recent back issues.

As I read the report, my mind drifted off to what my version of the market report would say for the past year:

Good day, BTTP aficionados!

Things are always changing, but it seems like in the last few years those changes are happening faster and faster!  For most computer users, the windows you keep open on your system bear little resemblance to what used to be there even just 5 years ago.  Are you Twittering? Or Youtubing? Or Facebooking? Stuff that you might have said you'd never use in the past!

As a retail store, driven to find better ways to connect with our customers, we are always interested in improving and expanding communication channels.  We still love hanging out and yakking over the counter and shuffling our bits of paper that tell us who wants what...and yet we are finding a definite bonus to meet with you out in the social web as well!  You seem to like it, too, based on how many of you are opting to use our online subscription system.