As deliveries continue to improve, we are now getting 90% of the comics a month we did do prior to lockdown.
Our biggest problem has been that, for a two-week period during lockdown, DC did not ship comics to Diamond UK, the comic supplier for all comic shops in the United Kingdom. This was time taken to relent on their abrupt disassociation with Diamond as a whole, and agree to continue supplying the UK branch of the company (Diamond US still miss out).
While we have had about 90% of these orders now filled, but we do have a few holes…
- Hawkman #23
- Green Lantern: Season 2 #3
- Batman and the Outsiders #12
- Catwoman: 80th Anniversary
- Joker / Harley: Criminal Sanity #4
- House of Whispers #20
- Flash Giant #4
- DC Superstars #9 (Facsimile)
Unfortunately, we had to allocate these titles for our customers based on the earliest placed orders (a method we have always employed), so I would like to take this opportunity to apologies to any Acers still waiting for any of these books and we do hope to fill all of the orders eventually. However, this situation has been compounded by DC’s last minute cancellation of a number of variant covers, meaning that if any of you ordered a variant issue instead of the regular edition of these titles, you could miss out on the issue altogether. As I stated previously, we are doing all we can to supply everybody, and if you have concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Lastly, this month a mix up between DC and Diamond UK has meant that the DC Connect listings coupled with our physical order forms are missing about twenty five issues (these are only missing from the paper order form and can still be found on all online listings). The missing titles are as follows:
- 383/8212 Batman #100 Jiminez 1-25 Card Stock Variant £12.99
- 383/8213 Batman #101 Jiminez 1-25 Card Stock Variant £12.99
- 383/8205 Dark Nights: Death Metal #4 £3.85
- 383/8206 Dark Nights: Death Metal #4 Darseid Finch Card Stock Variant £3.85
- 383/8207 Dark Nights: Death Metal #4 Superboy Prime Garner Card Stock Variant £3.85
- 383/8208 Dark Nights: Death Metal #4 Green Lantern Artgerm Card Stock Variant £3.85
- 383/8209 Dark Nights: Death Metal #4 Mahnke 1-25 Variant £9.99
- 383/8210 Dark Nights: Death Metal #4 Greg Capullo 1-100 Black and White Card Stock Variant £52.99
- 383/8217 Dark Nights: Death Metal – Rise of the New God #1 £4.58
- 383/8218 Dark Nights: Death Metal – Rise of the New God #1 Bosslogic 1-25 Card Stock Variant £10.99
- 383/8219 Dark Nights: Death Metal – Robin King #1 £4.58
- 383/8220 Dark Nights: Death Metal – Robin King #1 Roberts 1-25 Card Stock Variant £10.99
- 383/8221 DC: The Doomed and the Damned #1 Prestige £7.65
- 383/8222 Detective Comics #1029 £3.10
- 383/8223 Detective Comics #1029 Lee Bermejo Card Stock Variant £3.85
- 383/8224 Far Sector #8 £3.10
- 383/8225 Far Sector #8 Inhyuk Lee Variant £3.10
- 383/8226 Flash #763 Wonder Woman 1984 Nicola Scott Variant £3.10
- 383/8232 Mad Magazine #16 £4.58
- 383/8203 Last God: Sons of Lost Children #1 Resub £3.85
- 383/8236 Wonder Woman #764 Wonder Woman 1984 Adam Hughes Variant £3.10
- 383/8235 Wonder Woman #765 Wonder Woman 1984 Movie Poster Variant £3.85
- 383/8292 Joker / Harley: Criminal Sanity #5 £4.58
- 383/8293 Joker / Harley: Criminal Sanity #5 Variant £4.58
If you’re an Advance Order Customer, don’t miss them!
It has been bad enough dealing with general pandemic precautions without these added complications!
On a Lighter Note…
The good news is that the comics that have been published are really great reads! The Batman / Joker story line is keeping everyone excited and interested in Batman again, and the Empyre series from Marvel is excellent. Thor is outstanding, the Avengers continue to be compelling, and Daredevil keeps amazing me each issue!
Our stores in Colchester and Southend are now both open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Despite the reduced opening hours (60%), sales are only down by 25%! This may make us rethink our opening hours completely for the future. At present, people are shopping for items they want and not idly milling around town. They come in and then go. Is this the shape of shopping to come?
More good news is that Kerrie, Marc, Glenn, Lea, Guy, Martin, Evil Stu, Chris, David, Ben, Alex, Tina and, lastly, the old Biffter are all still well and fighting fit and we hope you all are too.
Mission for the month:
Keep safe everyone, enjoy any extra spare time you have and order responsibly when Previews drops through your letter box… by that I mean splurge out!
