If we had any sense, we wouldn’t be comic book retailers.

So the new hot book of the week is Dynamite’s Ben 10 #1, based on the cartoon from some years back and apparently in short supply in these here parts. Notably, this wasn’t an item that flew off the shelves to the normal New Comics Wednesday crowd, but rather primarily moved to new customers who came in the next day…presumably fans who heard about the book online via whatever fan channels exist for the property. Apparently it had relatively high orders for an indie book, though as that article breaks it down, actual regular copies available to all stores (outside the “blind bags” and the retailer exclusives) were only about two-thirds of the print run. And like every book from Dynamite, there were multiple free-to-order variants, and multiple ratio variants, and the pricier foil covers, and so on. I got multiple calls to the store looking for copies of this, from, as I noted on the Blooskees, increasingly more distant area codes, so it very much appears that demand far outsripped the…