Two shows instead of one.

Ok, so those first two lines don't match with each other. But I'm not talking about cutting back on the number of shows I'm going to. I'm talking about cutting back on what I will take to each show.

I'm having to trim down from everything I was initially planning to do in Tampa this Saturday because of my decision to also attend Baltimore a month later.

I originally had about 40 books I was going to submit to CGC in Tampa, both for SS and for Universal labels. But since I am having to coordinate for two shows now, I have decided to cut back quite a bit.

I have one book for Mike Zeck.

I have three books for Zeck and John Beatty.

I have two books for Ron Wilson.

I have one book for Marv Wolfman.

I have three books for Wolfman and Keith Pollard.

I have one book for Wolfman and Frank Brunner.

I have two books for Bernie Wrightson.

I have two books for Julian Totino Tedesco.

And I have four books for plain Universal grading.

That's 19 books total. I was going to get eight more copies of Original Sin signed by Tedesco, but since I would be paying like $43 total apiece to get them done, I don't really think I can make much money off of them in resells, assuming they all got 9.8s anyway. So I'm not going to take all of them. Besides, I can get my copy of Original Sin #0 triple signed in Baltimore, so I'll do that one there.

If anyone is planning on attending Tampa, maybe I'll see you there.

As soon as I'm done with Tampa this weekend, I will be working on finalizing what I will take to Baltimore. Again, I won't be doing as much as last year.

Last year, I got over 80 books signed in Baltimore!!!! No way I'm doing that many this year. Gonna try to keep it to 20 books or less. Besides, I want to be able to spend more time with my big brother perusing through the tons and tons of dealer boxes that will be there, looking for awesome books.

The show was expanded to three days this year, so hopefully I will get everything signed on the first day and have the rest of the show to really dig into some boxes and thoroughly enjoy the rest of the show. I've gotten much more interested in doing that as of this year anyway.

I will do another journal on my plans for Baltimore when the time is nearer. In the meantime......

IT'S TAMPA BAY TIIIIIIIIIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Below is the back cover of one of the MGNs that I hope to have Bernie Wrightson immortalize in more ways than one. (Sketch?)

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