8/05/2015 no new valiant books anywhere in Nashville

[nycjadie]

I haven't seen the Bloodshot Reborn 6 blade. Very cool.

[wwise03]

Beaumont, Texas had Bloodshot and Imperium this week. They are both fantastic, as you would expect. I thought I read somewhere that this was a Diamond breakdown.

[Peter]

Yes nothing in Australia, wow first week for so long I haven't picked up a Valiant book, withdrawals

[lorddunlow]

This sucks. Went to my shop today and not only were this week's books not there, but he said that he never received a copy of Ninjak #4 for me. I had stopped in the week it was released and he said he was shorted and should receive it in a week. It never came and he said he realized this when #5 arrived. He tried to reorder and said it was sold out at Diamond. :!

[slack]

Ninjak 4 was a problem for me too. my former LCS didn't receive it at all. I ended up picking it up on a trip out of town the next week.

[Joshua]

I went to 4 shops last Wednesday in Utah that did not have new Valiants.

[lorddunlow]

I went to 4 shops last Wednesday in Utah that did not have new Valiants.

According to Dino on Twitter (in response to tweet from SonicDan), it appears to be a distribution snafu along state lines. Some states did not receive any VEI books.

[Tony_H]

Comixology is showing that Bloodshot 5 and Imperium 7 will ship this week--I've got the pull list on a different tab right now.

[kjjohanson]

From Facebook:

AtomBang Freeman: Diamond has two warehouses. Sometimes, not often, a shipment gets released in time to make it to one and not the other before they go out to stores.

So, I recommend that those of you who are geographically lucky not spoil it for the others. wink emoticon

So, does this mean Diamond didn't release the shipment in time to get it to their own warehouse, or that Valiant didn't get the shipment to Diamond in time? I'd hate for VEI's perfect record of never missing a street date for their new monthly comics to be busted, so I'd rather blame Diamond. But I'd like to know the truth. I guess if some shops did get the issues at least, then their record isn't busted yet either way, but it's tarnished by this slip, whomever is at fault.

I have the two books in hand, so *some* definitely shipped on time.

As for Ninjak #4, I have an extra copy or…fifty…

[CongoBill]

None at my LCS here in San Diego. So bummed!!!

I've been picking up mine from Yesteryear lately, they seem to have a good selection.

Yeah, Michael at Yesteryear seems to be the lone comic shop owner in San Diego that really supports Valiant. I've picked up some of the rare variants from him and he also did a Yesteryear Comics version of Ninjak #1. Unfortunately, he is a bit of a drive away from me so I get my weekly books from a shop closer to my house. But I visit Yesteryear pretty regularly to pick up recent back issues I may have missed since he has most of them discounted. Yesteryear is a good shop.