Quick for Quick

Dec 06, 2025

December is the fastest month, right?

crop of an illustration of Jeff by Gurihiru.

December moves almost as fast as Hayden draws. And only one of those is helpful to me. But as December IS moving with incredible speed, this newsletter’s gonna be fast too…

First up — everything has shipped — HUZZAH!!!

And we’ve got a little over a week before I shut the store down for the year. So below is your last promo code for 2025. The store WILL close on Sunday, December 14th, so any orders you want before January 2026 need to be in by then.

Orders will be processed quickly (for once!) and ship Priority Mail 2-day — so if you’re in the US your order should arrive in time for Christmas, but I cannot guarantee that it will arrive in time if shipping internationally as customs and delivery times vary wildly.

Everything I’ve got on hand is in the shop, though I will likely be adding a few sketch covers by yours truly next week — so keep your eyes peeled if you’ve been tying to get your hands on one of those.

One notable thing is that I have a small handful of the ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN VOL 1 hard covers that have the Jim Lee “CONVENTION EXCLUSIVE” dust jacket. The books inside are the same as the Hayden Sherman hard cover (as you can see in the image above) just the Dust Jacket (and availability/price) are different. These are rare (I can’t even find any on ebay) so they may go fast? Fair warning.

And your 22% off begins HERE: just enter THEFASTESTMONTH at checkout for 22% off your entire order. One code per order. Thanks!

Gurihiru illustration for the Jeff/Daredevil Short

A new short with Gurihiru got announced this week — Jeff and Daredevil’s first story! This will be collected in the next IT’S JEFF print collection and you can read more about it here.

I posted back in October about a private CGC signing that Hayden, Jordie, and yours truly will be doing. And it got pushed back into 2026, which is good news as the deadline for submissions has been moved back to December 31st — so there’s still time to send something in if you were hoping to do that!

All the information is at the link!

We also did a really fun podcast to promote the signing — all three of us — and I hope to post that soon as I think you guys will dig it — it’s my first podcast ever with Jordie! Omg.

Teamed up with my friend Ken Plume for his show Bit of A Chat and while we mostly stuck to the usual geek stuff, those of you that have become TASKMASTER fans will get some much needed love too.

Available for iOS and Android

I ALSO did a cool podcast with Elias Rosner at Make Mine Multiversity — and for once, thank the gods — this isn’t a podcast about ME.

Elias asks guest to pick a comic (or comic run) and I picked a REAL wild one — EXCALIBUR #42-#50 by writer/artist Alan Davis (as well as Mark Farmer inks, Glynis Oliver and Joe Rosas colorists, and Michael Heisler lettering). If you haven’t read it before it is an absolutely wild (very fun) read.

Listen, you don’t put TECHNET in your big debut MR. & MRS. X book unless you’re a REALLY big fan. I love these weirdos.

I don’t have time this week for a lot of sneak peeks this week…BUT Absolute Wonder Woman is gonna meet Absolute Batman REALLY soon and since we know December is the fastest month now, I guess I gotta give you SOMETHING.

Art by Hayden Sherman, colors by Jordie Bellaire, lettering by Becca Carey:

Last things — holy cow on this Absolute Zatanna cosplay amirite?! And this week was the last issue of BIRDS OF PREY. It was bittersweet and I’ve honestly been just trying not to think of it too much, but I wanted to thank all of you for all your kind words, and most especially to all the support you’ve shown the book for the past 2+ years. I hope it won’t be my last time writing those Birds, as I truly love them.

Hang in there, everyone. Fastest month gonna try to get us but WE WILL OVERCOME. ;D

Kelly <3