I've been looking at Daredevil actually.

Of course then I'll want the whole run and will be back to ebay trying to buy back issues.

Huh. All I'm getting tomorrow is Robin #128, and for only one title, I'm thinking of just getting it next week with my other titles.

Except I know people will be discussing it here, and it'll kill me to not discuss, so....I'm weak. I'll probably get it tomorrow.

As I'm sure CaBil can attest, there have been times when the comics distribution system got incredibly shaky and almost took down the entire industry.

The major crisis was the mid 90s when Marvel attempted to go direct by buying out one of the major regionals, cutting out the others.

The Distributor wars was an about 18 month period as distributors tried to sign exclusives to make sure they surivived. Diamond Comics managed to buy exclusives with DC and Image, and thus became the only reasonable counterweight to Marvel, destroying all of the regional and one other national distributor(Capital City?). This is also the time when there was a massive cutback of services, from when there almost a dozen regional DIamond warehouses with their own trucks that delivered to the comic book shop directly and allowed some handselling to retailers to promote specific books to a single national warehouse using UPS to deliver.

When the Marvel distributor collaspsed (Heroes World?) because of its inability to scale up to service the whole country, DIamond was the only distributor left and picked them up...

This distributor collaspse was a major contributing factor the mid-90s comic collapse...

Re-reading IC, I'm curious if they are going to address the issue of which villians DIDN'T get mind-wiped. Specifically, Ollie mentions that Dr. Light was worse than anything he'd seen at Arkham Asylum. That naturally leads to the question - why not mind-wipe the Joker? How many people would be alive or at least healthier (mentally or physically)? Was it because Bats would know something was up?

Also, a who's who in the DC-verse question vis-a-vis IC: Who's performing the autopsy? That's not Bruce, is it?

I know the answer to this!

It's Dr. Mid Nite. But I can't tell you anything about him.

I know the answer to this!

Thank you! If he'd been in costume I would have recognized him.

Thank you! If he'd been in costume I would have recognized him.

It actually identifies him as Dr. Mid-Nite in the text. Of course the name means nothing to me, so it didn't help.

The name means nothing to me either.

I would concur that if the Joker suddenly became toothless that Bats would be suspicious.

So, Dr. Mid-Nite is a falconer?

Morning Edition has a piece on ComicCon this morning -- it was at 7:50-ish, which means it should repeat at 9:50-ish.