Awright, here’s the deal…

All the rave reviews for our time traveling comedy story in SSCA #4 is making artist Phil Meadows and I a bit wistful about our first tale that ran in Job Wanted. We received our copies rather late, when there wasn’t a lot of time for sending out advance copies for reviewers. And of those reviewers, some of their addresses were wrong, or they got them late in the mail, or the address went to the person who runs the web site instead of the reviewer. (Augie de Blieck said he was looking forward to reviewing it…and then he didn’t get his copy! Bwaaaah!) Suffice to say, the number of reviews was meager.

For a while, we thought that Diamond was going to relist “Job Wanted”, since Shooting Star Comics relists their previous anthology whenever their next anthology debuts. This failed to come about because….and this is how stupid the system is…since we didn’t sell all that many copies the first time, they didn’t want to relist it. Since we were trying to sell a $6 book in the same month that every comic shop in the world has all their petty cash sunk into “JLA/Avengers #1”, you’d think they’d let us try again.

SO! …

If you’ll review the book now, you can get it for free.

I’ve got 1000 copies of this book left to sell, and now it’s exclusively sold over the Internet. Most reviewers review books the week they’re on the stands, but this is a one-shot so what does it really matter? I’m selling it for a buck less than the cover price and throwing in free shipping, plus I can sign it if you like, so this is BETTER than buying it in the store!

If you’re a reviewer, you can get a free copy of Job Wanted by e-mailing me. Give me your name, address and link me to an example of your reviews to prove you’re legit. If you review in print, just tell me where. I don’t care where you write, so long as you have a readership that’ll buy the comic. (Also, include whether you would like to be on review copy mailing lists, which I’ll save and forward to both Shooting Star Comics and Dimestore Productions. You’ll get more free comics, so long as you review them.)

All I ask is that agree to review the book and that you include a link to the site where they can buy it, regardless of whether your review is positive. If you can spare a few words for our story “Enigma In Outer Space“, that would be a bonus.

Everyone else: To help out a fellow American who’s down on his luck (a favorite line from 8 Ball Bunny), click over to Job Wanted and buy a copy now via Paypal (or e-mail me for alternative payment methods). I’ll have your book in the mail ASAP!

Reminder: Phil and I will be at WizardWorld in Chicago next week, so you can meet us and get a copy there, too. We’ll be at the Shooting Star Comics booth during specified signing times.