Diamond Doings: Drip, drip drip and a lease assigned
Bits and pieces of various Diamond news: Dynamite gets discovery; Sparkle Pop makes a promise and gets a lease; lawyers get paid
Image Comics announces 27-day comics shop exclusivity window
Comics shop owners should be happy about a new 27-day exclusive just announced by Image Comics
Diamond updates: “AENT’s self professed naivete defies credulity.”
Previews will publish its last issue next month, the final closure of Diamond foretold, and Raymond James fires back at Alliance Entertainment.
So what happened at this week’s Diamond/Sparkle Pop hearing, anyway?
The court has decided that Sparkle Pop can no longer sell any of the consignment inventory they hold
Distribution notes: IPG offers terms for comics shops; Phillbo adds Abstract
Book distributor IPG will begin offering terms specially formatted for comics shops; and Terry Moore's Strangers in Paradise omnibus will be carried by Philbo Distribution
Diamond Doings: 31 separate lawsuits against publishers and the case against Sparkle Pop
Diamond is suing 31 publishers to stake claim to the ownership of their inventory; and more from Sparkle Pop
Stuart Schreck ankles Diamond for Dark Horse
Stuart Schreck, formerly of Diamond and DC Comics, has joined Dark Horse in their direct market sales department.
Lunar and DC react to early sales of bagged Batman #1 – but it’s...
DC Comics and Lunar have issued a statement cracking down on seller breaking the street date on sales of bagged variants....but is it enough?
Batman “Blind As A Bat” Blind Bags are already being sold on eBay and...
Batman #1 is still a week away from release, but retailers are already selling it online, raising many questions
Diamond fires back: “Sparkle Pop’s brazen and unauthorized actions must be stopped.”
Diamond has filed a motion asking Sparkle Pop to stop selling the contested consignment inventory, and asking for legal fees and punitive damages
Diamond’s consignment plan stayed until 9/30 but they are running out of time and...
The judge stayed Diamond's plan to sell their consignment inventory until September 30th, but this still leaves publishers and what remains of Diamond in a tough spot.
The Day in Diamond: Image settles and the Second Great Mystery
Court filings reveal confusion about the sale of Diamond's inventory - and Image Comics settles on favorable terms
