PrintWatch: Image Comics Gives BTGTF Offer To Shops For Second Prints
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We all know that BOGOF means Buy One Get One Free. But what about BTGTF? Well, in this case, it s Buy Three, Get Two Free. Image Comics is issuing a number of second printings this week, and encouraging retailers to stock up by making the discount deal more appealing, and putting more copies on shelves where they may., potentially be bought. And also making the print runs of second printings a little moe financially savvy.
The comics currently part of that are
Ice Cream Man #24,
ICE CREAM MAN #24 2ND PTG (MR)
Time Before Time #1 Review: Subtle and Elegant
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Time Before Time #1 is a brand new noirish science fiction tale that takes on the idea of working for a better life and feeling like there s no way out. With a heartless corporate-style organization exploiting fairly rare technology to extract fortune and, of course, spread suffering around.
Time Before Time #1 Cover. Credit: Image Comics
In the year 2140, Tatsuo works for a group called The Syndicate, which gets second-hand time machines and uses them for a variety of criminal-related purposes like relocating people to points in the past or poaching from the future. In a means similar to the company stores of yore, Tatsuo is in hock to the Syndicate, trying to work off a debt that keeps rising. He dreams of running away with his love and finding a new life, and circumstances work to deny him in interesting directions.
UCM to end sponsorships of all Kansas City-area charter schools
Dia Wall
and last updated 2021-05-13 14:25:47-04
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â The University of Central Missouri is moving away from sponsoring charter schools, which will affect seven schools in the Kansas City area.
The university made the decision public on Thursday, saying it will end the sponsorships by June 30, 2022. It will continue to work with the schools until they transition to new sponsors.
A release from the school said the Board of Governors made the decision to more closely align its resources to pursue its mission, which is focused on providing a quality post-secondary education to students in Missouri and beyond.
A winning season for Syracuse Crunch: No Covid, extra development time
Posted May 13, 2021
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Almost every day, all players and the coaching staff were tested for Covid.
Forty-seven players have worn Crunch jerseys this year, 30 from Tampa Bay and 17 from Florida. Over the course of three months, there was not a single positive test on the team. No games were lost or rescheduled because of Covid-related protocols stemming from the Crunch (overall there have been 58 such impacted games across the AHL this year).
“That was my biggest fear. Every day you wake up, you check your phone and (Crunch trainer) Brad Chavis and I spoke three or four times a day,” said Syracuse general manager Stacy Roest. “Every night you get your results of that day’s testing. Once a positive test comes into your group, it shuts things down and it also ultimately affects Tampa and their ability to call players up. I’m very proud of our group, and how disciplined they were. They boug