jimsupreme

It was inevitable... Diamond and myself have never really seen eye to eye -they have helped & equally hindered the comics industry for over 30 years. I could go on for days about the companies they've "killed" via their almost unattainable new book order pre-requisites or how shops were made to order a certain amount of Marvel or DC books just to keep their contract with the distributor when they had Marvel & DC - many shops simply could not justify these costs nor did they have the customer base too and especially now, after the pandemic with sales down 25-50% at many shops they have needed to lower their orders just to stay in business. now, of course we also have the added competition of Random House and Lunar (among others) which has further hurt the industry as each company has companies exclusive to them just as Diamond does so dealers are forced to make decisions mainly on what they get a dealer discount for as most anyone that's worked in a comic shop can tell you we