We started the year with a goal. Four books, White Knife, Unbelievable Laundry Detergent Man #5, Starbomb and Bride of the Wolfman. At the start of the year the creator and artist of ULDM informed me that he won't be able to work on the book due to family issues. I really hope he's been able to get that straightened out.

That left us with 3 new books for the year.

White Knife debuted for Free Comic Book Day and ACen (Anime Central) and did wonderful. It got a great reception from the fans out there that bought it. We even hosted a release party at Instant Press Studios later in May and had many friends and family over for the event. By the end of the year I have to say it did really great. I can't wait to see what 2010 brings us.

Starbomb debuted for Fallcon in St Paul, MN. It was supposed to be out for Wizard World but yours truly dropped the ball on that one. Fortunately for Fallcon we had the artist on hand and he helped move the books. At an in store signing on October 31st at Alternate Reality (www.myalternatereality.com) even more copies sold. It's getting a great reception and I hope it does better next year. The artist Dann Phillips is wrapping up another project and should be working on issue 2 soon.

Bride of the Wolfman debuted October 31 at Alternate Reality for Halloween. I still say I am amazed at the warm reception it received. For the first time out at a local shop signing release it did really well. The first sale of the book was to one person and he bought 3 copies. He seems to have been a regular customer at the shop and he just loves supporting the local guys. Thinking that that would be all the sales for the day (I'm very negative when it comes to my own stuff) I was just surprised time after time that people just walked over to us and bought the book. Dave Gruba should be proud as well. His book just newly released was selling nicely and was catching quite a bit of attention.

Next year, well, I don't even want to start thinking about next year yet but honestly, we have our schedule. I won't say what it is buy I will say that you won't be disappointed. It's going to be a blast and the number of shows we have lined it will be even better for us.

Hope to see all of you soon.

-Rene for Instant Press Comics