[Above, Top Shelf offers you a $3 steal. Below, The Dispatch steals 3 minutes of your time.]

1. It’s time again for the massive Top Shelf $3 Sale!
2. Believing this a little bit makes me mope inside.
3. The trailer for Mike Dawson‘s new book Troop 142 has a pretty fun soundtrack.
4. Rob Clough names his favorite comics of 2010.
5. Yours truly was interviewed about MIX for the City Pages.
6. This week’s featured MIX exhibitor on MPLS.TV is CCS grad Andrew James!
7. Did you know that Floating World Comics moved? And it looks real nice in there.
8. Halloween is coming! Will you dress as a comic book character? Because we’re going to have a contest for that. STAY TUNED.
9. SPX this weekend!

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- Sarah Morean