This is Comic Geespeak, episode 829.

Let's Talk Shop with South Philly Comics.

Welcome to Comic Geek Speak.

I'm Brian Deemer.

I'm Jamie D.

And I'm Adam Berto.

And thanks for joining us. This episode of

Comic Geek Speak is sponsored by the Pittsburgh Comic-Con. Those of you listening, it's this week.

Is everybody in this room going? Yes, sir.

Oh, that's right. You have to go, Merritt. You're doing a trivia panel. And Jamie and I are going to drive out together a little, well, a couple days from now. Very cool. And pants and Peter will be there. And there's a chance Kevin might show up as well. Yeah, he says he's never been to Pittsburgh before. Yeah, we'll have a full contingent of CGSers there. Anyway, go to the Pittsburgh Comic-Con.

Go to Pittsburghcom.com for all the other information, but there are a host of artists.

It is always a fantastic show for meeting artists and getting a little face-time with them as it's not a super-packed show, but it's still busy enough to have a nice con feel, but lots of artists

there. And lots of great, it's a great shopping show as well. We always get lots of deals there.

We all spend way too much time rooting around through the 50% off-trade paperbacks and 50-cent

comic bins and stuff, but we always come home with good halls. And it's a great con for hanging out afterwards because pretty much everybody goes to the hotel bar, and it's just right there, so everybody's concentrated at one place, and you get to meet everyone. So it's a great, great show for that. We have our usual outings to the Permanati Brothers restaurant, and the Golden Corral, of course, is nearby, so Pants will be going frequently. Actually, I will too for breakfast. That's a great place to load up. Well, for breakfast before the con, one day, I'm good for them. My stomach can't handle two days in a row, but one day, I'm good, yeah. And, of course, let us not forget the geek throwdown at the Gypsy Cafe. I think, Jamie, you and I are both drooling over that. mouth mouth has been drooling for like two to three weeks on that. I'm leaving early on Friday to get there in time.

Yeah. And we want to mention that Angry Nome Comics is, of course, going to be there, Stefan, Sean Gabourine.

And they are going to have short stack volume one. They, one of their comics that they've been working on.

And it's a collection that Jimmy Palmeotti calls Better Than Buying a Shortstack of Mainstream Comics, which is high praise indeed coming from Palmiotti.

This 138 page trade collects the first four issues of the horror anthology series

shortstack.

That's 52 two-page stories written by Sean Gabarine and illustrated by 45 different artists

from around the world.

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