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Thank FOC It's Friday #9 – Buffy The Variant Slayer…

Published Fri, 28 Dec 2018 17:00:15 -0600

Welcome to Thank FOC It's ~~Friday~~ Sunday, a weekly-ish mailing list, similar to The Daily LITG, but (mostly) every Friday and planned to coincide and cover the demands of Final Order Cut Off. The date when retailers have a last chance to amend their advance orders for comic books without penalty. A last chance for publishers to promote books while orders can still be added. And a time for credits to be amends, new covers to be revealed and a final push given. This is an attempt to sift through them all and find the most relevant items.

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It's been Christmas week. But lots has gone down. Checking today' Previews publications reveals Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen's Ascender is out in April and we are a year away from Iron Man 2020 returning. Look for new Christian Ward and Frank Cho comic books too…

Ez-Diamond VP Purchasing, Bill Schanes has been remembering the trials and tribulations of small press, returning $4 million of Image Comics titles and how a jilted lover of a Marvel exec saved Diamond during the Great Distributor Wars of 1995.

Stanley Artgerm Lau can still sell a cover…

We have new stores opening in Canada, another store is saved from closing, a store is closing in New York, while another one is saved.

A retailer points out that comic stores earn more from a comic than a more expensive Magic The Gathering card pack... and make sure you watch your measurements.

Outside of the comic store, Titan cancels its newsstand magazines, Marvel puts packs in Walmart, alongside DC's sixth issues and DC has an exclusive Target comic

When is a comic not a comic? When it's a copy of Man-Eaters…

And this comic shop had a very different opening on Christmas Day.

Dark Horse just found the solicit for Call Of Duty: Zombies 2 #4 and FOC'ed it. Also hitting FOC… The Avant-Guards #1 by Carly Usdin and Noah Hayes is gearing up for its FOC date with this newly announced FOC cover by Siobhan Keenan.