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Chapter 229: Second issues and reprints...

• Tour continues!

• Chatting with Kieron!

• Last chance to order issue #2!

• Plus a reprint of issue #1

• The Mixtape - Tour songs edition!

Hey,

hope your week went well. Some rough stuff going on pretty much everywhere so I just wanted to say I really appreciate you taking the time to read this. Means a lot.

This is just going to be a pretty quick update on a few things. First of all, we are through the first week of the YOU’LL DO BAD THINGS vs. WE’RE TAKING EVERYONE DOWN WITH US signing tour. 10 shops (well actually 11 because we did a secret one), 8 states, thousands of comics signed. Huge thanks to everyone who came out to the signings. Tyler Boss and I have survived so far.

Later today we’ll be in Guelph, Ontario at The Dragon. And Tomorrow we’ll be at The Beguiling in Toronto. You can see the rest of the dates below.

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I will also say that WE’RE TAKING EVERYONE DOWN WITH US is the best reviewed current comic series. Or tied for it. Kind of crazy. But here is the little chart from ComicBookRoundup.com to prove I’m not lying. Very nice company to be in. Fuck yeah, Image Comics.

I thought I shared this earlier but can’t hurt to do it again I guess. The always amazing Kieron Gillen and I chatted about the new book and you can read it over on the Image Comics site right here.

Kieron’s understanding and insight into comics is only matched by his enthusiasm for promoting them. And both of those things are dwarfed by his considerable talent at making them. He’s very complicated. But the bigger point is you should all be reading THE POWER FANTASY right now and sign up for his excellent newsletter if you haven’t already.

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While Tyler and I get ready for the next leg of our signing tour (a.k.a. sitting in his house watching movies), this weekend is also the dreaded Final Order Cutoff for WE’RE TAKING EVERYONE DOWN WITH US #2. So if you liked the first issue please let your local comic shop know you want to grab the next issue too. To get you excited you can check out all the awesome covers we have for the book.

Here is Stefano’s gorgeous cover.

And we have this very stylish one from the amazing Christian Ward. If you didn’t read his new series SPECTREGRAPH you really missed a good one.

The amazing Elia Bonetti teamed up with Stefano for this stunning cover.

And the brilliant Jorge Fornés supplied us with one of my all time favorites. Make sure to pick up his amazing series DANGER STREET.

But that’s not all! We’ve been hearing from a ton of people that their local shop sold out of WTEDWU #1 before they could get a copy. The first bit of good news is that the amazing die-cut covers by Josh Hood shipped late and only just got to comic shops on Wednesday, so your local shop might have those. But we have been sold out at distribution since before the book dropped, so if you want a first print better hurry.

Which leads me to the second bit of good news. We are reprinting issue #1 just in time to hit shelves alongside issue #2. FOC for the reprint is also this week so if you missed the book or you want all the covers, let your local shop know. And check out the new covers.

And we also have this very gorgeous 1 in 10 variant cover by my MULTIPLE MAN partner Andy MacDonald and Rico Renzi.

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And don’t forget to check out our new exclusive covers for WE’RE TAKING EVERYONE DOWN WITH US #1, YOU’LL DO BAD THINGS #1, and WHAT’S THE FURTHEST PLACE FROM HERE? vol. 4.

Neat.

When on tour in Canada, you play Canadian tour songs.

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That’s it for me.

Stay safe. Take care of each other, eh.

-Matthew Rosenberg

Buffalo 4/4/25