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Your local risible shop is have a daylight y' all . LCS owner are worried , and this DC Comics Diamond intelligence has everyone itch their head .
Comic store owners were sway today by the news that DC Comics , after 25 years being distributed by Diamond , have pulled aBaltimore Coltsand are leaving . Yes , starting in a couple of week , your local comic shop will no longer be supplied with Punchline version byDiamond Comic Distributors . While many on social medium who do n’t own depot ( and some that do , to be fair ) are rejoice at the news , most comic shop class owners are not . Ninety pct of you read this mightily now probably go to your shop every week , corrupt your comics , and you ca n’t be bothered / don’t care how they get there . That ’s fair , but to those of us who DO worry about how to get you , your cartoon strip are alot worried .
apportion with Diamond for anything is like rend teeth . necessitate any comics retailer , and they can perish along many lesson of this , from charge and shipping issues to damage merchandise . Most of us would concur that Diamond needs competitor . Most would also harmonise that DC Comics doing this during a pandemic when there are still huge clod of funny shop that are not even clear or just reopen is a tough idea . This form of wholesale change is a pain in the fanny when it is done at a reasonable time , let alone right now . Making it even dumber , we now also have not one , not two , but three allocator to deal with since we have to order DC Comics tpb / hcthrough Penguin . Thanks for tripling our transportation cost DC Comics . What would have been the job with rolling this out throughout the summer and working out the kinks ? Why give this stage business to two of the big competition amusing shops have to already compete with ( DCBS and Midtown Comics ) ?
So , what to do ? If you are a shop that has seen itself annihilate by the pandemic , you probably are operating at a low profit , to begin with . The extra shipping price that fare with these two novel distributer are drop dead to eat further into that . Our store is just die to have to carry and chop up from other areas . Survival without DC Comics is not a reality . deplorably that means few chances on indie Holy Scripture for the time being . What other options are there ? Not carrying DC will drive customers away , so that ’s out . Maybe focus heavier on their backlist and what you already have on hand . you may let the cat out of the bag to other stores in the area and maybe put in one central gild and spread the merchant marine cost around .
There are no prosperous answer here . After verbalise with some people today , the Direct Market for comics may be on its last stage . I go for not , as comic shop are a lively cog in the industry and community they reside in , and woefully it feels like nobody is film the time to interest about us . One thing I do know is we need your support more than ever . Spend the extra couple bucks and buy that vivid novel or statue from us instead of Amazon or some other online retailer . break up UP YOUR pull ! And just give your local shop a break for a couple of workweek while we count on all this DC Comics stuff out .
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