Here’s something that bound to get you to stop working and completely waste your time.
Last night I was e-mailed a link of Diamond’s Spring Book Catalog .pdf (Products with Release Date from January – April 2010).
I’m not sure how long the link will work (forever, perhaps). Also please note that, for whatever reason, DC Comics, Fantagraphics, Boom! Studios, Drawn and Quarterly and few others are not listed.
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Are DC books (trades, as opposed to monthly titles) still distributed by Diamond, or is that handled by Random House now?
The reason those other publishers aren’t listed is because this Diamond’s catalog for Mass Market book distribution (to book retailers), which is a seperate operation from Direct Market distribution (to comics shops) and works on a slightly different schedule, et cetera.
While Diamond still distributes DC product in the Direct Market, Mass Market distribution is now through Random House.
Acts of Vengeance Omnibus from Marvel? This seems like a really bad idea… Omnibuses should be for collecting complete (or semi-complete for the extra massive) runs or storylines. Assembling 800 pages of comics by different writers and artists and featuring a slew of different characters based on some arbitrary theme is just going to be extremely hit or miss. I suppose it’s still a good value, but seriously, does Marvel actually think this is going to sell better than a second omnibus volume of Amazing Spider-Man or Uncanny X-Men? They shouldn’t need a coinciding movie release to justify publishing one of those.