Please Universal and Penguin Random House, have your people talk with their people and make one consistent brand for the day. The industry has spent some 20 years working to brand the day as Free Comic Book Day. Tossing in Comic Giveaway Day just works to dilute that branding. Granted, most customers do not care. They just care about getting free comics and do not care if it is Free Comic Book Day, Comic Giveaway Day or Make Your Annual Appearance to Get Free Stuff Day but it certainly makes it easier on the stores and precludes the distributors from having to make different posters showing the books offered from each one. Give us one poster showing the top books or the books publishers are willing to pay to have appear on the poster.
Sunday, June 28, 2026
New comics for 7//26
100 BULLETS THE US OF ANGER #1
2000 AD PROG #2487
ABSOLUTE GREEN LANTERN #16
ABSOLUTE MARTIAN MANHUNTER #12
ADVENTURE TIME QUADRUPLE FEATURE #1
ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN BOOK OF EL #10
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #32
ARCHIE COMICS CELEBRATES AMERICAS 250TH
AVENGERS JLA #2 (OF 4) FACSIMILE
BABYLON COVE #2
BATGIRL #21
BATMAN #11
BATMAN #127 FACSIMILE
BATMAN GREEN ARROW THE QUESTION ARCADIA #4
BLADE RUNNER TOKYO NEXUS TO LOSE IS TO WIN #3
CHALLENGES OF DOOM: MR. FANTASTIC #1
COMICS THE MAGAZINE #5
DC W.I.P. SUPERGIRL WOMAN OF TOMORROW #1
DC X SONIC THE HEDGEHOG THE METAL LEGION #3
DEAD ACRE #1
DEAD SAMURAI #8
DEADMAN #2
DICK TRACY #18
DOCTOR STRANGE #8
EC CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #12
EVENT HORIZON: INFERNO #3
EYRIE MAGAZINE #11
FANTASTIC FOUR #13
FAR CRY: CULL THE HERD ISSUE #6
FRANKENSTEIN: NEW WORLD–THE SPEED OF DARKNESS #3
GATCHAMAN RED IMPULSE #3
GHOST MACHINE THE OFFICIAL GUIDEBOOK #4
GODZILLA [KAI-SEI ERA] #12
IRON MAN #7
JADE WARRIORS #1
JSA #21
KILLER INFLUENCES #1
LAST STARFIGHTER #1
LILO AND STITCH 626 #2
LION KING #4
MADAME TARANTULA MAGAZINE #1
MALEVOLENT #5
MARVEL SWIMSUIT SPECIAL: BRAND NEW BEACH DAY #1
MINOR ARCANA #16
MORTAL THOR #12
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH #3
ORDAINED #3
POISON IVY #46
POWER RANGERS UNLIMITED #1
PUNISHER #6
RADIANT BLACK #43
RED SONJA NOIR THE PLUNDER AND THE PRINCESS #1
RED SONJA SHE DEVIL WITH A SWORD #3
RIPCORD #4
ROYALS #4
SHAOLIN COWBOY: STAYING A.I.LIVE #1
SHE-SPAWN #3
SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT DARK WINTER #1
SPAWN #377
SPAWN SCORCHED #52
STAR WARS: ROGUE ONE – SAW GERRERA #1
STARHENGE BOOK TWO A KISS FOR ATTICUS #1
SUPERGIRL SURVIVE #2
TEAM AMERICA RACING FULL THROTTLE EDITION #1
THE BEAST OF BORIKEN #1
THE CITY BENEATH HER FEET #3
THE DOGSITTER #1
THE OTHER/HALF #3
THE TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION #2
TMNT: JOURNEYS #11
VAMPIRELLA SUMMER SPECIAL 2026 #1
WADE WILSON: DEADPOOL #6
WALKING DEAD DELUXE #140
WHAT IF…? SECRET WARS #1
X-MEN UNITED #5
YOUNG HELLBOY: THRILLING SKY ADVENTURES #2
ZORRO #2
Friday, June 26, 2026
Games Workshop New Releases for July 11th
here is what we have coming from GW for release on July 11. A couple of items have already been spoken for
47-92) ASTRA MILITARUM: CIAPHAS CAIN: 4
(47-57) ASTRA MILITARUM: HIPPOGRIFF AFV: 4
(47-45) ASTRA MILITARUM: CENTAUR RSV: 4
(47-48) BATTLEFORCE: ASTRA MILITARUM PLATOON: 2
(51-36) BATTLEFORCE: TYRANID SWARM: 1
(71-44) BATTLEFORCE: CHAOS S/MARINES WARBAND: 1
(49-71) BATTLEFORCE: NECRON HOST: 1
(31-176) LEGIONES ASTARTES: MAXIMUS BATTLE GROUP: 0
(31-175) JOURNAL TACTICA: ZONE MORTALIS: 0
(31-156) LEGIONES ASTARTES:WHIRLWIND MISSILE TANK: 1
(BL3338) THE SABBAT WORLDS CRUSADE (A4 HB): 0
(BL3329) CIAPHAS CAIN:FOR THE EMPEROR (ILLUS. HB): 0
(BL3322) KRAKENBLOOD (PB): 1
(BL3332) VAGABOND SQUADRON (PB): 1
(BL3348) STARSEER'S RUIN (PB): 1
Sunday, June 21, 2026
Packing slips
1.
This is one I have asked for before I doubt I will see any change. With
every new release, Wizards of the Coast and, to a lesser extent, Konami and The
Pokemon Company send us a boxful of promotional materials to use promoting that
set. Pokemon sends us dice sets, stickers, promotional cards, and activity
cards but no indication as to how they want us to use them. Similarly, Wizards sends us a box filled with
assorted promo cards, posters, pins and this time dice and dice bags with the
list of items in the kit and their assorted uses posted on the Wizards website.
For pity’s sake, put a list in the box that we can use when we open it to see
what we are supposed to get and how Wizards wants us to use it. If that is not
feasible (and it should be given that whoever packages the kits manages to get
the correct items into it almost all of the time), then how about putting a
slip of paper with a QR code printed on it taking us to the page listing the
items. If it is too much trouble to change the QR code each time, then keep the
link static and change the listing of promotional items on the page as each new
kit releases.
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Allocations
1.
Every brick and mortar retailer with which I
have spoken reports getting allocated on Pokemon product while online retailers and streamers
seem to have plenty of booster boxes to crack open on camera and to sell. Given
that the brick and mortar locations are the ones running events which keep
people playing, maybe making sure they have the product which their records
indicate they can sell. Given the amount of demand for each new product
release, getting new product into the hands of influencers instead of into the
hands of stores selling the product would seem to take precedence. I doubt I
will see any change
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Warhammer 40K Armageddon
The new Warhammer 40K 11th edition Armageddon set releases this Saturday. We have enough copies to cover pre-orders and will have some left over for the shelf. The new core rule book will release on the 27th. The currently codexes will remain usable for this edition, at least for the forseeable future.
Monday, June 15, 2026
New Releases for July 4th
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