They've got four months or more
What will happen after quarantine ends?
Eli Rodriguez
Henry Clark
>How long will it take for industry/Diamond/LCS to resume operation?
This is assuming quarantine is lifted in both the US and Canada, where the bulk of the printing is done, and publishers have books ready to go to print. Diamond will have to assess the damage done to both retail and publishing, and likely give those stores that survived time to revise orders, if not completely cancel all purchase orders. Considering the time to revise orders at retail, the time for Diamond to collect and issue new POs, and time to print and ship, it's probably 3-4 more weeks before you see any new books.
Jack Williams
This is ridiculous. They should just distribute digitally in the mean time as a temporary stop gap. We should not be forced to wait like this because of pissy retailers. Even in the most ludicrous best case scenario, were looking at 2-3 months? What if this continues to go on even longer? What if it goes on until next year? At what point do the publishers break down and just put out the content they're sitting on digitally or some other way?
Jordan Anderson
They're trying not to let the shutdown kill LCS' but they're going to fail.
This correction has been a long time coming, a 6+ month shutdown is just the final nail in the coffin.
Sebastian Ortiz
I know. I called them pissy retailers. I want the stories I was excited for and I want them sooner, rather than later, or even worse, never. When are they going to face reality and give up on this lost cause?
Carter Russell
This pissy retailers is the only reason why comics are alive. On the other hand, they deserve this fate for always being the money slaves of Big 2.
Joseph Collins
It will be digital singles --> print trades. The only way there will be print floppies is if the companies set up some kind of mail order print-on-demand service for collectors who can't give up their bag-and-board habit, as a way to still take their money without the expensive infrastructure of distributors/stores. If there are still stores, they'll be primarily Funko Pops and TTG with a shelf of trades like most record stores.
Gavin Morris
They shouldn't be. The american comics market never should have let itself become such a niche hobby unlike Europe and Japan. And those direct market isn't likely to survive this regardless of how you feel about. The publishers are going to have to find a new way to produce and distribute material longterm. In the meantime I want what was suppose to come out.
Jayden Martin
>This pissy retailers is the only reason why comics are alive
Nah, Diamond and retailers desperately trying to hold on to a closed market is why comics have been so shit for so long in terms of sales. People don't fucking go to LCS', they only buy trades at fucking Barnes and Nobles.
Instant-publication via the internet should've been made the main focus for a decade now.
Luis Diaz
Sure kid, want to also tell me about how Smash for the Switch is only a port?