My bid for Diamond (20 bucks and an original 45 of Chris de Burgh’s “Dont Pay the Ferryman”) was rejected.
One final reminder about leaving your pick for your favorite 1990s indie comic in the comments to this post here. Just read the rules first! I’m shutting down the comments after this weekend (I think I can do that) and I’ll start tallying the votes.
I haven’t really been monitoring the comments there, except for when I was asked to rule on Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell (nope, sorry, it began serialization in 1989) so I don’t know how far off the rails everything got there. I trust everyone behaved themselves.
In other news…sorry my entries have been a little on the brief side this week. A combination of some long days at work and a sudden new eyeball issue have been bit of a distraction. (No biggie on the eye thing…the main problem is under control, but apparently I’m now allergic to one of the eyedrops, in case anyone here has seen be in person and wondered about my irritated eye with the swollen lids.) I should be back up to speed soon. Especially if I’m about to discuss a couple dozen different 1990s comic book series.
In other news:
- Yup, Batman #158, with the first part of the new “Hush” storyline, has been unleashed. And as I noted in my previous post on the subject, there are plenty of people buying more than one cover of the thing, which is likely what DC was hoping for. Anyway, sold about what I was expecting, with enough left over for the stragglers who see, like, part four on the shelf and are all “THERE’S A NEW HUSH STORY!?”
- So Diamond Comics Distribution has a buyer, a company called Alliance Entertainment. Actually, when I first heard the news, it was “ALLIANCE BUYS DIAMOND,” and I was all “wait, Diamond’s subsidiary game company Alliance bought it?” until I discovered it was a totally different Alliance. I’m not sure where it’s going after this, given Diamond is in its diminished form, and I can’t be the only store that’s shifted everything it could away from Diamond to other distributors. I just placed my monthly order with them and it’s the smallest its ever been. My weekly bill from Lunar Distribution is larger than that month’s Diamond order.
It’s definitely a “wait and see” thing, though I’m sure Diamond-exclusive publishers Dynamite Entertainment and DSTLRY are breathing tentative sighs of relief.
- Marvel’s slow rollout of who’s gonna be in their upcoming Avengers: Doomsday film was quite the stunt, as it seemed to be all over social media for hours the other day. Looks like this film will be just total mayhem but, and I hate to beat this drum again, there’s a lot riding on this film being a box office smash. And it already sounds like the movie is going to cost a lot of money, so a billion dollar take is almost certainly a necessity. We’ll find out soon enough.
There you go, All The News You Already Knew About. Thanks for reading, pals, and with any luck I’ll be back to normal blogging next week.
I once went to a donkey sanctuary sponsored by Chris De Burgh. But didn’t realise, because the signage wasn’t visible, until we were in the field with the donkeys and looked back and there was his giant face on a billboard looming over the scene.
Ah, Chris DeBurgh. You were an absolute favorite until you realized love songs pay the bills more than songs about playing cards with the devil on a Spanish train full of ghosts.
Also: Tom, I’m 100% jealous of that experience. Not so much the donkey sanctuary, but just that sudden, out-of-nowhere realization.
@ Tom W.
At the sanctuary, did you see a donkey in red…?
I don’t know how much of a relief it is for publishers—Alliance wasn’t interested in the comics part of Diamond and doesn’t seem excited about it. I think they’re going to relatively quickly decide the comics part isn’t worth the hassle.
“Alliance”
CDs are quite different than comic books!
Interesting.
” (20 bucks and an original 45 of Chris de Burgh’s “Dont Pay the Ferryman”) was rejected”
Should have made it $30 and a 12 Inch Sugarhill Gang single.
I’m surprised to hear that Dynamite and DSTLRY are still Diamond exclusive. Maybe they had contracts they couldn’t break? In any case, it sounds like they won’t be exclusive much longer if Alliance isn’t interested in distributing comics.
I wrote this in the comments elsewhere, but I hope From Hell gets an honorable mention in the ’90s Countdown since it wasn’t in the ’80s Countdown. Such an amazing comic.
Seems crazy that we’re already approaching the big finale of this MCU phase, and I actually had to google to see what films had led us to this. It’s a half-remembered hodgepodge at this point.
Seems crazy that we’re already approaching the big finale of this MCU phase, and I actually had to google to see what films had led us to this. It’s a half-remembered hodgepodge at this point.
“I’m surprised to hear that Dynamite and DSTLRY are still Diamond exclusive. Maybe they had contracts they couldn’t break?”
Or, the people in charge of those companies are just INCREDIBLY stupid.