Comic timing

We've been trying to sort out the pressing of physical CDs for Weird & Wonderful for months. The cover art for the front was, as regular readers will know, put to bed months ago, the photo for the inside front cover was in the bag in March, so what's really been holding us up was the back cover or, more precisely, the permission to use one of the two photos I'd found on t'Internet.

Permission for the first of the two was granted almost as soon as I asked, but the owners of the second were, shall we say, slightly more "legal" about the whole process, requiring a signed contract for limited use to be exchanged (by fax) and taking several months to even decide that approach was acceptable. Still, to give them their due, they did eventually come through and I was able to place an order for 100 CDs a couple of weeks back.

We had wanted them to be available for sale at the hotpot, but it seemed unlikely that hope would materialise, as the original delivery estimate was for June 10 and that didn't take account of international shipping. Sure enough hotpot came and went, with no sign of the discs.

They arrived in this morning's post.