Here is a move that's going to make some people take notice:

At the date and time of this writing, WE HAVE PUT THE MARCH SOLICITATIONS FOR MAY, 2010 RELEASE ONTO THE STORE SYSTEM NOW.....instead of waiting the normal extra few weeks to make sure that the Previews catalogue reaches you!

This almost scoops everyone out there!
The items will be up there, and we have included the Previews as an item so you can at least see what the front cover will look like, even though you won't receive your copies until a couple of weeks from now.
Orders can be placed any time up to and including March 27, 2010.
This is even more reason to join the comic service if you're not currently a member. And yes, this is in preparation for the e-commerce changeover, so we won't be trying to put new items into a store system that's in transition.

Have fun ordering!

As this is being written, 1730 items for April release are being uploaded to the servers. The graphics will follow shortly. Then we might get enough time to mess with the index page and actually update some of the graphics and feature items. Now if you take the "guaranteed" from the other day literally, then we missed it by about 10 minutes. However, it's still technically Friday for another almost 2 hours on the west coast. So that qualifies as promises kept. Kinda. ...All in the name of new e-commerce.....

So much for the idea of having the new listings for April up early this month, right?
We have not been idle. We got so engrossed with the e-commerce development that the new list got put further and further and further back, until....well, here we are. It'll be up by Friday, the 12th at the latest, guaranteed. Thanks for your patience.
Meantime the new system will, when implemented in the next few weeks, offer a whole plethora of innovations previously unavailable on our site, and possibly unavailable anywhere.
Incidentally, on a slightly unrelated topic: If you were one of the lucky ones to get a new publications list in the mail, and you have not yet returned it or e-mailed us an update on your list, would you please do so asap. We want to have everyone as current as possible.
Meantime, the snow continues to fall, but not here. This winter has been really weird, because places that should be snow-free, like Washington and Baltimore, have been inundated, while here we've been fairly lucky....so far. Having said that, I probably just messed things up for the next 39 days until spring. Yes, we are counting. It can't come too soon.