Dirty D’s F.O.C. (7/9/23)

Hello, CHU Nation! I hope everyone is surviving the hottest days ever recorded on earth! Although we all know the dinosaurs had it worse. So stop complaining.

As I’m sure you all noticed, I didn’t have an FOC article last week. That’s mainly because Marvel, DC and a few other big-boy-wannabees didn’t put much out for final order cut-off. Mainly on the account of the 4th of July holiday falling on a Tuesday, and most opting for the long weekend. And the only book worth talking about everyone was talking about. So I took a long weekend myself! Continue reading “Dirty D’s F.O.C. (7/9/23)”

Final Order Cut-off Highlights for 1/25/21

Final Order Cut-Off is the last day that shops can guarantee their orders for comics. After Final Order Cut-Off, or FOC, these books will only be available to retailers on Advance Reorder. And that is not guaranteed. So here are the highlights for Monday, 1/25/21’s FOC list. Continue reading “Final Order Cut-off Highlights for 1/25/21”

Final Order Cut-Off in Review from Sept 10th, 2018

There were plenty in the comic flipping community that frowned upon articles that point out final order cut-off of books. Some claim this hurts comic flippers despite the information already being out there along with publishers emailing out such notices on their own books.
Last time I checked, CHU was a website for comic book flipping among the other noise we generate.
So perhaps we should revisit some of these highlighted books to see how much our highlights affected the secondary market, which I’m pretty certain made zero impact if we had mentioned the books or didn’t mention them.
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Diamond Comics Advance Reorder List for 9/7/24

The Diamond Comics Advanced Reorder List is a great speculator tool. It shows what books the retailers are going back and ordering before the final order cut off. These are the hot new series everyone is talking about, the reprints of recent sold out books (gives you a cue to what to search for in your LCS), the second issues to a recent hot book, or just what people are coming in asking about. What ever reason, these are the books stores are scrambling to get more copies of. Here is this weeks Diamond Comics Advanced Reorder List for 9/7/14: Continue reading “Diamond Comics Advance Reorder List for 9/7/24”