Welcome back (finally) to our weekly newsletter, Projections.
The reason the newsletter went from weekly to on hiatus for so long is we went from a weekly Wednesday invoice emailed to us from Diamond Comics to nothing back in November. I would use the Diamond invoice to type up what was coming in for next week. Diamond Comics, a vendor for comics that comic stores use and still has exclusive comics through them suddenly had all kind of issues. Invoicing, shipping, and more went out the window with Diamond. At first Diamond blamed it on Diamond leaving one of their warehouses sooner than they expected. This is what I passed along to our customers though it did not make any sense to me. Then Diamond announced they had declared bankruptcy, which made some sense for their issues. Recently a buyer was announced for Diamond, things seemed to be turning a corner. No, as I type this news today came out that the buyer pulled out of going through with the purchase. So, what next? I wish I knew.
Been so long from the last time I updated this the format has changed.
Saturday, May 3rd is Rodman Comics Day and something called Free Comic Book Day! We will be open at 11. Supplies are limited on the Free Comics. The comics are not free to comic stores, if any free comic book day comics are left they are given out to kids. Be it through giving them to movie theaters or when Rodman Comics is in the Summerfest parade. Which gets more new people into comics than it does by giving them away at the store. Everything not already discounted will be 20 percent off. We will be having auctions Check out our Facebook page to see a sample of what is being auctioned off!
On April 30th the newest Heroclix set Smash and Grab comes out!
Comics due out from Lunar on Wednesday, April 30!
All In Saga trade
Batman Superman World’s Finest 2025 Annual 1
Batman the Long Halloween the Last Halloween 7
Bitter Root the Next Movement 2
DC X Sonic the Hedgehog 1 second printing
Detective Comics 2025 Annual
FCBD 2025 Phantom 0
FCBD Speed Racer 0
Feral 12
Flash 20
GI JOE A Real American Hero Duke 1
Image Firsts King Spawn 1
Image Firsts Spawn Scorched 1
Invincible Compendium trade vol 1
Invincible Compendium trade vol 2
Justice League vs Godzilla vs Kong HC
Long Comic Storage Box
Magazine Bags
Marks Spears Monsters 4
More Fun Comics 73 Facsimile Edition
Power Company Recharged 1
Question All Along the Watchtower 4 reorder
Question All Along the Watchtower 6
Rocketfellers 5
Transformers Deluxe Hardcover Book 1
True War Stories trade
Void Rivals 18
Due in on the same Wednesday from Penguin
Godzilla vs Spider-Man 1
HellHunters 5
NYX 10
Power Rangers Prime 6
Rogue Savage Land 4
Star Wars Rise of Skywalker
Ultimate Spider-Man 16
Weapon X-Men 3
Wolverine Kitty Pryde 1
Diamond is currently unknown, I looked today on their website and could not get any info about the shipment from an invoice to tracking. Last week the invoice would not upload to the computer so we are skidding backwards with Diamond. If we do not have Diamond in on time we will just post the list of comics on Facebook along with a few pictures due to not having all of the comics that were ordered through Diamond. We do we still use Diamond? One reason is because Diamond still has exclusives with some publishers, such as Dynamite and Zenescope. Another is in case Penguin makes a mistake (such as when they lost every copy of Ultimate Black Panther 1 and could not ship it) Diamond will hopefully come through (and they did with Ultimate Black Panther at the time). There are other reasons though I believe that is enough for now.
Life would be so borrowing with out drama some would say. I will try to get back to a weekly update on our website. It does help me know what is coming in the following week. Hoping Diamond gets back to normal soon.