I Have Questions; You Have Answers

I hope you do, anyway.

1. Does anyone out there know the origin of New Comics Day? Specifically, I'm interested as to when it became Wednesday and why. My memory is that when I was in high school our New Comics Day was Friday, because I remember going to the comic book shop the day of football games in my jersey. At the same time, I believe my comic shop was buying from an Indianapolis comic shop rather than one of the distributors out there, so that could explain a couple of days' difference. Basically, though, I have no idea.

2. I don't get a lot of new trades and definitely don't get a ton of new trades from Vertigo. I have the new Northlanders trade, and what struck me was the paper stock. It was more like comic book paper stock instead of glossy paper, if that makes any sense. Does anyone know what kind of paper that is, if it's a line-wide usage, and how long it's been used?

3. I came too late to a thread discussing this to get a non-stupid answer: if there are other-colored "Lanterns" now, how do they explain their not being around until now? I mean, I understand on Star Trek how it works when they discover a new race of slighly bumpy-headed people, but this is more like discovering an entire officer class (say diplomat) with its own shirt color (say hot pink) roaming around the ship someplace.

4. Here's a basic question about the Direct Market. Who pays for the shipping on the delivery of comics? Is shipping an explicit or implicit cost?


 
posted 8:05 am PST | Permalink
 

---

 
Daily Blog Archives
February 2012
January 2012
December 2011
November 2011
October 2011
 
Full Archives