Yeah. I'm thinking that shit about them getting stuff in stores by May 20th was bullshit and Alterna was 100% percent correct about Diamond telling them they're not distributing anything until August.
Can the publishers just give up and start publishing digitally already? Because if Diamond comes back it's not going to be in time to save enough LCS for the direct market to still be remotely viable.
Reminder NO NEW COMICS TILL AUGUST
Depends if the federal government does anything to aid small businesses. If anything is put in place to freeze rent payments. It's not just comic stores that are in trouble. An incredible amount of everything is in deep shit.
DC is already going to start releasing digitally next week. I expect Marvel will too.
which they need to, comics need to adapt or die. You can still have print but they really to focus on a more digital product.
DIGITAL IS NOT GOING TO SAVE COMICS, RETARDS. No one is going to fucking buy digital propaganda books when they need to pay for food.
Really? Source, Please?
Furlough isn't that big of a deal. They're not fired. However they won't get paid until something changes.
DC is in a better spot than Marvel since the former is owned by AT&T, which is still in business. Disney is fucked. But like said, people aren't going to buy comics, even digitally, right now
I just want the books I was anticipating.
The article updated it to be mid may, outrage-fag
>Furlough isn't that big of a deal. They're not fired. However they won't get paid until something changes.
Actually it is. Furloughing your employees is perfect for the company as they only promise to pay people should the company start production again.
The employees meanwhile don't get any money, and they don't know if the company will need them ever again, or even still be around.
No just he said, she said
Alterna said they were told things wouldn't restart till august.
Some random LCS store guy said they were told things would be back by May 17-20th
Now Diamond lays off their purchasing division, about only month exactly before the new books are suppose to be shipped.
Things aren't looking in random LCS guy's favor.
Read the first post in this thread you absolute retard. Bleeding Fool is outright admitting that they don't know jack shit and then goes on to say that Diamond has stopped paying their employees.
Obviously they would not do this if they expect to be shipping comics mid-may.
>getting stuff in stores by May 20th was bullshit and Alterna was 100% percent correct about Diamond telling them they're not distributing anything until August.
The likeliest scenario is that they will be shipping stuff they already received at their distribution centers, then focus on purchase orders for the big 2~4 publishers for a few months. There's a lot of work to do here, because this is affecting at least 3 month's worth of purchase orders collected *before* the coronavirus shutdown.
The previously announced plans of spreading out payments to vendors over several months means that smaller pubs won't be ready to print new stuff by May anyway. They don't have the cash to do so.
The May date and the August date from Alterna are not contradictory. The main thing to worry about is if the shutdown continues past the last week of April. Then we can forget about both of these months.
The chatter from Marvel sounds like they are expecting Diamond to take care of them. Diamond is not going to take care of anyone, they just delivered your books. The weak men at Marvel are the ones who are responsible.
What’s peoples problem with digital?
There used to be a bunch of Chinese video stores about 6 blocks from where I lived. They had tons of bootleg dvds for super cheap. Like $4-$6 bucks each. They had things on DVD that hadn’t even hit theatres here. They all went out of business because all the bootleggers got bootlegged by people uploading everything online. Why pay $4 for something you can get for free. Same with all the CDs shops that had bootleg anime soundtracks etc. Bootleggers getting bootlegged is funny, but this exact thing will happen to comics if the publishers all go digital. Who is going to buy a digital file when you can get a hacked version for free? All digital will just hasten the death of the industry.
Yeah that's why iTunes and Netflix are on their deathbeds.
Furloughing employees means they get to go on unemployment while still having a job if and when things re-open. Unemployment probably won't be enough for everyone, but it's certainly better than just being fired.
They're going to have to make buying comics digitally more convenient than piracy, is all. Which it kind of is, even now.
>Why pay $4 for something you can get for free.
The price point will definitely have to go down. There is absolutely no good reason for a digital file to be the same price as a physical copy.
I know nothing. Why do comics need a "distributor"?
Why do they need comic book stores, for that matter? Can't you just mail comics directly to the readers?
No, they can't inflate their sales that way.
>Can't you just mail comics directly to the readers?
It's more expensive than it sounds. Comic book shops are the biggest customer the industry has. They buy the bulk of the material and then it's their job to make the money back that they spent by selling it to customers.
If the comic shop middle man is gone, they couldn't sell their books in bulk anymore. They could only sell what individual customers want to buy.
>They could only sell what individual customers want to buy
nobody cares. Adapt or die
Brilliant! Let's make comics edible.
Monthly comic books are mostly bought by collectors.
Oh no! Companies that have been fudging their numbers for 30 years would have to start acknowledging the books customers do and don't actually want to buy? Well, we cant have that.
They're not collectable.
The only people who buy capecuck floppies anymore are dying boomers who think "Ironheart #1" will ever be worth more than the shitty paper it's printed on.
>Who is going to buy a digital file when you can get a hacked version for free?
Funny, because this works out fine for tons of webcomic creators, who literally put out everything for free to begin with, and still make decent wages completely and entirely off donations.
Collectors and speculators are the problem with the industry.
>No one is going to fucking buy digital propaganda books when they need to pay for food.
Yeah they would. People are still buying comics right now, just not new ones.
Collectors and speculators were the only thing keeping the industry alive.
The problem is that the comics are bad.
>Collectors and speculators were the only thing enabling the industry to continue with predatory business practices and sub-par storytelling.
FTFY
>it's my parent's fault they only hire shitty SJW writers
If you people would close your wallets to garbage instead of eating shit sandwiches and asking for seconds, it might just light a fire under the industry's ass to make a better product.
We did.
Marvel and DC don't care.
They continue to publish woke cuckshit years after they already know it doesn't sell.