I may be in Phoenix the first half of the week of Sept. 15th and in Tucson the later half of the week. 

Who out there lives in Arizona and might want to meet up to talk comics and pop culture?

I met Rick Marshall, the former news editor at ComicMix this month and he's a heck of a nice guy and really smart as well.  So after he and ComicMix parted ways, anyone taking up the reins there has a pretty big set of shoes to fill.  They've hired Bob Greenberg for the task.  He worked at DC up until a couple years ago and has apparently been contributing stories to ComicMix previously.

I don't want to prejudge things but I do hope he continues to try to include news about independent creators and the digital side of comics in the mix over there.