Save your local comics shop from the Coronavirus killing businesses!

[lordultimus]

Donny Cates: Retweet this please! Comic shops need our help right now and it's easier to do than you think! We can do this, guys!

Comments

[beyondthefringe]

My LCS treats me very nicely. Healthy discounts for pre-ordering, and they know what I like.

Of course, I also keep them well-supplied with homemade pickles, jerky, and cookies, so they're spoiled. :)

[deh_tommy]

These always make me feel guilty because we don’t have dedicated comic shops near us.

[bruinsfan]

I just went to my local comic shop yesterday and spent more than my weekly usual. Business is down, but they're remaining open and just adjusting hours to cut out some of the dead times.

[penguinzero]

My local comic shop is closed for walk-up business (as is all non-essential retail in San Francisco), but they've put up on their web page that they're willing to do shipping for any orders. I'm planning to contact them this week and have them ship me my pull box -- I'm trying to minimize non-essential deliveries, but I figure once every two weeks or so should probably be manageable.

[penguinzero]

An update to this: Diamond has announced that they're halting all shipping starting with the April 1st releases. Since Diamond has an effective monopoly, that means that the entire physical comic industry is going to be shut down starting then and going on however long Covid isolation needs to last.

This is going to have huge ramifications on comic shops, creators, small publishers, even the large publishers to some extent. Most of them are going to have trouble surviving weeks or months of no product sold, barring some extraordinary intervention from the government. Whenever we recover from the pandemic, we could be emerging into a landscape stripped clean of most of what we had before.

[silverhammerman]

I was just about to post this over on the weekly off-topic discussion. Needless to say, this is big.