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astridv ([personal profile] astridv) wrote2014-06-04 07:55 pm

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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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[personal profile] ratcreature 2014-06-04 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
ratcreature: RatCreature is buried in comics, with the text: There's no such thing as too many comics.  (comics)

[personal profile] ratcreature 2014-06-04 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
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.