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[astridv]

I made another bike tour to the comic shop across town in the hope to pick up my missing Black Widow issues, but they somehow lost my order again. Whyyyy. I have #1-4 (#2 is my favorite so far) and I got 6, but I can't read 6 without 5 because it's an arc. And I've already seen people talk about #8 so I dunno what's happened to the next books.

At least with my new bike it's always a nice tour so there's that...

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[ratcreature]

Maybe you should look into a competent comic store that does mail order. My store has never not delivered an US order or subscription I had placed with them in time (i.e. placed when the preorder was due), and usually managed to get me comics I asked for late.

[astridv]

Until recently I placed my order with that store in Hamburg you recommended me (I think it was you) and it was never a problem, the comics got delivered to my doorstep a week after they came out. I just figured I could save over a Euro per book if I bought it from the local store, plus I'd get them a couple days earlier (haha).

I'll wait another few weeks, see if they can get it done right without more hickups. They assure me it's very unusual but I'm starting do doubt their general competence when it comes to US comics.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, that was my store. And yeah, yours does seem incompetent. I've been buying US comics from mine for over twenty years, from small press to mainstream, sometimes just one or two series, sometimes many, but basically if I had an advance order or subscription I have gotten the comic on time (unless the US publication was late as happens not infrequently of course), except one time when German customs had held up their whole US shipment because there was one comic in it that the censorship youth protection people that apparently look at comic imports deemed obscene or offensive or something. And even then I got mine the next week.