Late Shipment
Having a little insider knowledge of comic book shop-ping, the monopoly that is “Dymond Comics Distributing” is madness. It invokes the madness, that is. Poor Marty and Midge are dealing with some of what causes the madness. Art imitating life.
Motto of the old phone company: “We don’t care. We don’t have to.”
Back in our comic book days, we had two distributors: Diamond and Bud Plant. Both were located in Phoenix and both were within a half-mile of each other. My store was only 30 minutes away, so I picked up my books rather than have them shipped. Saved time and money PLUS I had a face-to-face relationship with the people at the distributors.
Bud sold his company to Diamond the year we closed, but it was nice having two (friendly) competitive distributors.
I ordered Dopey Donkey!
RN… there’s a song about that…
Pete… Bud… Plant… so on applications and stuff it would read… Plant, Bud. hahahahahah… garden joke.
Okay… well, Diamond now is a monopoly and apparently has horribleness involved with it. So say many people I know who deal with’em. Thus the toon.
Jack… Yah… me, too. I also ordered “Monkey Brains” and “Peanut the Talking Pigeon”.
A comic about a talking pigeon!? I like it already.
I knew you would…
My quirky favorite was ‘Mazing Man. I won’t copy it here, but read the Wikipedia on him. (Spell it ‘Mazing Man). One of DCs cleverest characters. Gentle, fun, goofy, and touching.
Trust me, it isn’t just the comics business that gets this. I worked in a lot of places that got orders, and most of them used the same supplier. Once someone gets a monopoly on an area’s deliveries, expect chaos and lots of ignoring the complaints!