This is Comic Geek Speak episode 777.

Let's Talk Shop looks back at 2009 with Brian Hibbs.

Welcome to Comic Geek speak. I'm Brian Deemer.

I'm Shane Kelly.

And thanks for joining us.

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All right, in this episode, we've had him on the show many times before, Brian Hibbs, who owns the Comics Experience in San Francisco.

He is going to talk to us about 2009 and how it affected him as a retailer.

Okay, and joining us now is Mr. Brian Hibbs. Welcome back to the show, Brian.

Hello, happy to be here.

It's been a long time.

It's been since June.

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