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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9463181" data-attributes="member: 59816">You've described it exactly. The pandemic managed to break DC's contract with Diamond, and they decided that they would leave because they could but I don't think that they ever gave much thought to if they should (and what it would do to the industry). Of course, Marvel saw DC doing something stupid and said, "Hold my beer!" which caused a cascade of dominoes. Despite all the continued attempts to spin it as a good decision, the comic industry is significantly poorer for the breakup of Diamond's "monopoly" (it wasn't really). The industry likes to pretend that us Retailers are resistant to change, but most of those guys went out of business decades ago. Those that are left have been asking for change for years and years, but we'd like change that actually makes things better rather than worse. The US comic industry has been colossally mismanaged for most of its history - it's been filled with self-loathing since that idiot Wertham took a shot at it in the 50's. It absolutely could be a big deal, but it's held back by a lot of backward thinking.Thanks. It's got its problems, but I still like doing it more than I like working for other people. (To be fair, I barely know what working for other people is like, I was 19 when I started my store... which also means that I probably wasn't "brave" so much as young and foolish!) But I've done alright!</blockquote>