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Boom Studios Make Collections Returnable – Starting With Once & Future

Boom Studios took to the stage at the Diamond Retailer Lunch in San Diego Comic-Con will all manner of announcements for retailers. And they brought a couple of friends to talk about Once & Future, Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora.

Boom Studios Make Collections Returnable – Starting With Once & Future

They met an enthusiastic retailer reception, and Kieron Gillen kept thanking the room for their undying support, in what Bleeding Cool contributor Joshua Stone told me was far too quick an English accent to transcribe. But apparently, Gillen did get across that Once & Future is a pop book, with obscure Arthurian law, The Mummy, Indiana Jones and his own Dr Aphra.

Boom Studios Make Collections Returnable – Starting With Once & Future

That's a thing. Retailers at the event would all be getting advance preview first issues, which should be available on eBay by now, probably. I'm told someone is already asking $60. The comic is FOCing this weekend…

But all the love for Once & Future gave Boom people more to say.

Boom Studios Make Collections Returnable – Starting With Once & Future

That every issue of Once & Future will be returnable. Applause.

It won't have variant covers. Lots of applause.

And the Once & Future collection will be returnable to comic stores as well. Stunned applause.

That it had been picked for the Comics Omnivore Selection and Boom would be providing free copies to retailers on issues from #2 onwards.

Boom Studios Make Collections Returnable – Starting With Once & Future

And they are going to advertise all over the place. including on Bleeding Cool. I wonder, can anyone tell me if they've started? This article seems evidence enough of it.

Boom Studios Make Collections Returnable – Starting With Once & Future

They were also pushing that as The Wicked + The Divine is about to end, that Once & Future can slip into its place for the readers of that book. Though I'm sure Image Comics would have something to say about that, instead of slipping in Die

This was all announced by Marvel Comics at the Diamond Retailer Lunch taking place right now. Keep an eye on more from the Diamond Retailer Lunch at San Diego Comic-Con with this handy Bleeding Cool tag.


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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