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Diamond In Negotiations With Image Comics Over Further Distribution

Diamond Comic Distributors now in negotiations with Image Comics over further distribution... but this week is a wash

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported that as a result of Diamond Comic Distributors announcing they were entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Lunar Distribution, who have the exclusive distribution rights to Image Comics titles, told comic book stores that Diamond will no longer be subdistributing Image titles from Lunar to comic stores. Image Comics would print anything that was ordered by this week's final cut-off date of the 13th of January but would not let them be undistributed by Diamond, only distributed through Lunar. So retailers would have to transfer those orders to Lunar, who would honour them. And going forward, they could only order directly through Lunar. Now Diamond has e-mailed retailers to confirm this turn of events from their perspective, stating;

"We have received a copy of an email sent to retailers stating that Image Comics has chosen not to fulfill Diamond Comic Distributors customers' orders for products with an FOC date of January 13, 2025. We will be meeting with Image to discuss this issue, but will not be able to do so in time to affect these products. We are honoring Image's request that we cancel orders for this week's affected products ONLY. As to products with FOC dates of January 20 and beyond, we will update you as soon as we have discussed the issue with Image and have a resolution. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work with our industry partners to minimize disruptions for our retailer customers. We will provide updates as soon as they are available. If you have additional questions regarding this information, please contact Diamond's Retailer Services Department. Thank you."

Here are the affected Image Comics titles from last weekend's FOC.

• ROCKETFELLERS #1 3RD PTG
• HACK SLASH BODY BAGS #3 (OF 4)
• SPAWN #361
• DUST TO DUST #1 (OF 8) 2ND PTG
• ROCKETFELLERS #2 2ND PTG
• DOLL PARTS A LOVESICK TALE #1 (OF 4) 2ND PTG
• CHEW NOMNIBUS TP
• GUNSLINGER SPAWN #40
• NAPALM LULLABY #9
• ROCKETFELLERS #3
• SACRIFICERS #14
• KAYA #25
• JUVENILE #3 (OF 5)
• SNOTGIRL #18
• WALKING DEAD DELUXE #106
• EAST OF WEST END TIMES COMPENDIUM TP
• REMOTE SPACE TP
• CRIMINAL TP VOL 03 THE DEAD AND THE DYING NEW PRINTING
• ROGUE SUN TP VOL 04
• SPAWN SINNS WAR TP

How this will affect Diamond UK, which almost exclusively subdistribute Image Comics to British comic book stores, as well as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, IDW, and the rest, is still currently unknown. When Lunar tried directly distributing DC Comics titles to UK stores from the US, the shipping cost was higher than the comic books being shipped.

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