PILGRIM demand high!
We’re hearing that due to various factors, including Diamond’s warehouse move, many re-orders for SCOTT PILGRIM #5 — at least in New York — have been delayed. Tuesday’s midnight signing at Jim Hanley’s Universe was a complete sell-out and last night’s Rocketship signing was as well, with people lined up out the door in the cold night air to get an autographed copy.
How popular is SCOTT PILGRIM?
It’s currently at #356 on Amazon, but rising daily.
02/5/09 at 8:54 am
None up here too.
02/5/09 at 9:19 am
Hee hee! My market prediction is slowly coming true! Amazon is replacing the direct market. I’m having a hard time caring if Diamond is going to ruin the direct market or not when most of the books I want are available from Amazon - at a better price and with better customer service!
02/5/09 at 9:43 am
Amazon? Right on!
02/5/09 at 10:11 am
The comic shop here in KC where my friend and I ordered ours said they didn’t get enough in, so we’ll have to keep waiting
02/5/09 at 10:41 am
I got a copy and it’s SHINEY.
02/5/09 at 11:18 am
Yes, the book is shiny both inside and out. I bought a copy for a co-worker yesterday, who put it on her desk. For the rest of the afternoon every time I passed by her desk the book would catch my eye. It’s a great cover!
02/5/09 at 12:13 pm
Comics Toons N Toys* in Tustin CA had scads of copies. But then they’ve always been all about the indy comics. Much better customer service than any faceless website!
*shameless non-paid plug from a customer
02/5/09 at 12:35 pm
Hey Kenny, who do you think distributes Scott Pilgrim to Amazon? If you said Diamond, you would be correct…
I’m just saying.
02/5/09 at 12:37 pm
Plenty on the shelf at Comic Relief in Berkeley yesterday.
02/5/09 at 12:47 pm
Lee’s Comics in Mountain View, CA sold out yesterday. I got the last one.
02/5/09 at 12:53 pm
I was at Comic Relief at about 5 p.m. yesterday, and they had sold out entirely!
02/5/09 at 1:19 pm
sold out at my lcs
02/5/09 at 1:45 pm
Hey Jeremy, you’re missing the point. Amazon is replacing the superhero obsessed direct market. I won’t mourn the loss of the direct market because I don’t read floppies. For me, it’s not the Diamond part I care about. I’m just happy there’s a one stop shop for comics I want to read.
Nothing’s worse than trying to shop at a direct market store because they usually haven’t even heard of books like Mome, Scott Pilgrim, or anything like that. So, I’m saying I don’t care if Diamond destroys the direct market. That’s all.
02/5/09 at 2:40 pm
Does Diamond really provide for Amazon? Because their dates are rarely in line with Diamond.
02/5/09 at 3:45 pm
Speak for yourself, Kenny. There’s a ton of great Direct Market stores all over the country that do a fine job stocking non-superhero, non-Big 2 comics.
02/5/09 at 3:52 pm
This is so awesome and awful at the same time. I hate that people aren’t able to get their hands on copies immediately, but so glad the book is finally getting the attention and demand it has for so long deserved.
02/5/09 at 5:11 pm
Our shop sold out and Diamond shorted the re-order, so it’ll be a while before we can get any at my LCS as well.
02/5/09 at 5:46 pm
I got mine! Mhahahaha! And it’s GREAT!!! Mhahahahaha!
02/5/09 at 8:45 pm
I’m reading mine right now with a glass of fine Argentine malbec.
02/5/09 at 11:35 pm
I just finished mine over a can of PBR and a slice of cold pizza. And now for the wait that will feel like forever…
02/6/09 at 2:32 am
I copped mine from Comic Factory IV out here in Winnipeg. Their last copy! Kinda made the purchase that much sweeter.
02/6/09 at 2:46 pm
[…] The Beat also reports that the two signings that took place in New York, for the release of Scott Pilgrim vol. 5, both sold out of their copies of the book, and that re-orders have been delayed. […]
02/6/09 at 3:59 pm
This is awesome and couldn’t have happened to a nicer creator or cooler book. I think the Amazon / comics factor is going to become a much bigger story in 2009.
02/9/09 at 2:26 pm
[…] Maybe it’s just because nobody can get their hands on it. I, for one, couldn’t find a store in town that still had it in stock. But fear not, a kindly clerk at Chicago Comics says a restock shipment will arrive later this week to satiate fans of the hipster-slacker-anime anti-hero series. […]
02/20/09 at 1:03 am
[…] As Heidi MacDonald pointed out yesterday, demand for the new volume is so high that some retailers, and fans, are coming up short. […]