Yes, because of the Memorial Day holiday, new comics are scheduled to arrive in comic book stores on Thursday this week in the United States.
What does that mean?
Well, it means that our Canadian friends usually get their books on Wednesday and then laugh at us as they read comics while playing hockey with pucks made out of bacon. And it also means that the occasional US store gets lucky and gets their books on Wednesday and then people come here and say “Well, I don’t know what you are talking about, I got my comics today” and then there is mass confusion.
Depending on what Diamond decides to do the new comic book list will either update on Monday as usual or it might not change until Tuesday. We won’t know for a few hours. And be sure to check in on Thursday for the Pick of the Week!
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I call shenanigans. What did our ancestors fight for if not for us to be able to get our comics on Wednesdays?
Yes, and after we play hockey with our bacon hockey pucks, we fry them up and eat them (while reading Wednesday’s comics of course)! Mmmm, try that with your so called "baseball". 😉
😛 to that.
I only have like four pulls this week anyhow.
If we can’t get our comics on Wednesday the terrorist win.
You forgot about our Tim Hornton’s and our poutines. 😉
What we do without this website to keep us informed about the ways of the world.
@Hermit: Damn right. And the beer has alcohol in it here.
@DarthDuck: So there’s only one terrorist out there? Oh man.
It’s great to be Canadian eh!
i dunno, in canada we often get delayed comics because of us holidays. i guess they get printed in quebec, shipped to diamoond then sent back to the great white north.
That means Friday or *Gulp* Monday in Australia.
And what it means for our Australian iFanbasers (all 3 of us?) we have to wait until Friday. Boo.
I’m psyched for this week. Probably most excited about Seth Meyers and Bill Hader’s "Short Halloween" Spidey book.
God bless all you service men and women. Who needs the Watchtower with you guys armed to the teeth like a living bleeding Rob Liefeld drawing?
LAME!
Yes. Holidays are lame.
Yeah, but on Thursday at least you’ll know you only have to wait six days until next Wednesday instead the entire seven!
@wadeWilson: There’s Myself, Yourself and Edward I think. Who else is from OZ?
Yes, just the one. But I hear he’s damn good. (At being bad)
That means a WHOLE day more before I have an excuse to go flirt with the guy at my LCS. God. Damnit. I might need to make a trade run or back issue dive to make up for this. Cute guys are so expensive.
@itsbecca: What it means is that you can go there on Wednesday and Thursday and flirt with the guy at your LCS. If you’re willing to look a little silly at forgetting about the book release delay then you have basically doubled your time with him this week.
Also, he may already have the books in stock but just hasn’t put them out yet so, if he likes flirting back, you may get your books before everyone else in the US.
@gOofgnewt: nah, mate, Impact Comics is still getting their comics in on friday. that’s what it says on their website, anyhow
Excepy for Christmas; all holidays are lame. Well actually count out Thanksgiving….any holiday which requires you to stuff your face is a good holiday. Damn that goes for 4th of July….Okay other then those three, holidays sucks.
I CURSE YOU TO HELL FLAG DAY!!
I like the way you think @reg5000.
Underneath all the comic book geek lies the heart of a romantic.
Sorry if this is against the rules or something, but here’s the list for this week courtesy of my LCS:
@ g0ognewt
There’s me, but I think I’m the quiet one in the Aus team.
@ delphan: I’m from Australia! *waves hand frantically*
right on, guys, i hope we can have a matty johns style night out together sometime (i don’t)
@edward: Topical and inappropriate. Good combination. Then again, 99% of people here will have no idea what the hell we are talking about.
I’d like to take this opportunity to say that NFL is boring.
@reg5000: seriously? a comic fan who doesn’t like footy? i’m stuned. so reg5000 doesn’t stand for Reg Ragan?
ha ha. Nobody knows what we’re talking about!! heh
Based on the list kwisdumb posted, I’ll be getting Ghost Rider (Last Tony Moore issue!), Ms Marvel (First Sana Takeda issue!) and Tarot Witch of the Black Rose.
Plus Wolverine Weapon X and Super Young Team from last week.
Cool two more Aussie iFanbasers I didn’t know about. *awkward fake Aussie accent* "G’day mates"
Rinky-dinky fucken die
@edward: I said NFL. American football.
Anyway. Looking forward to getting my pull list sorted. Stupid Memorial Day.
What kind of country is this where I can’t read my week’s comics until Thursday? It’s insane! I bet communist China gets there comics promptly every Wednesday at the same time every week no matter what! Oh, if the founding fathers could see us now, what calamities would they be lamenting on our comic book reading! What calamities!
37th!
So does Canada get their comics from Diamond as well? If that is the case, since Diamond is in America, shouldn’t the holidays effect their schedule as well?
I know with this being a Monday holiday that they should already have their books in the country by then, but what about the times Christmas and New Years fall on a Thursday or Friday and they still get their books on time?
Not whining, just curious about the "system"
shenanigans!! Get your brooms!!
Sad…it’s my last week at my LCS before I move!
Finally a big week. Green Lantern, New Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, two Spider-Man books, Incredible Hercules, probably Knights of the Dinner Table as well (it was listed two weeks ago but hasn’t come in). At least it won’t be boring; I’m looking forward to seeing what "American Son" has in store in ASM, and Hercules in the Underworld looks like fun.
Not being able to pull my comics by noon on a Tuesday makes me a sad panda.
The comics page has been updated.
Cool its only in the states eh I was worried for a second there bub.