48 Bleeding Cool stories from the past two weeks... including Image dumping Diamond for Lunar.

That was quite a hit today, wasn't it?

So Image Comics has left Diamond Comics Distributors in favour of Lunar. When the word started to break last night I was contacted by a number of panicky British retailers. They remember what happened when DC went that route and suddenly comic shops in the UK were paying more in freight for directly shipped comics to their stores than the comics actually cost. DC walked it back a couple of weeks in dealt with Diamond UK directly for the UK market. Not so Image Comics, they ate giving the whole caboodle to Lunar, though Lunar will then allow Diamond - and Diamond UK. Which, for British comic shops who make around 15% of Image’s direct market sales, means another middle man but at least the costs will only be outrageously high rather than insanely ewe-wateringly ridiculous.

It did give context to Diamond’s rush to point out their ongoing deals with Opus, AWA and Massive Publishing which might make a percentage market share between them.

Anyway, here are a few stories you might have missed in your rush from Bleeding Cool over the last couple of weeks. Feel free to share.

1. Image Comics Quits Diamond To Go Exclusive With Lunar Distribution

2. Diamond Comic Distributors Is Suddenly Very Busy With News

3. The Good Omens Official (And Ineffable) Graphic Novel On Kickstarter

4. Eleven Comic Book Stores Open, Six Close and Two Re-Open

5. Marvel Drops Retailer Discount on Foil Variants, Prices Push Up

6. Swag From The Upcoming Dallas Diamond Comics Summit

7. What Happened After Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD #18? Marvel Reveals All

8. Dead By Daylight To Debut At MCM London At Forbidden Planet Booth

9. No More Free San Diego Comic-Con For Comic Stores, Must Pay $330

10. Roy Thomas Complains About Fire And Ice Comics, Dynamite Responds

11. Zoom Rockman's Jewish Hall Of Fame As A Comic Book Gallery

12. Creators React to Thomas Woodruff's Eisner-Nominated "Graphic Opera"

13. 16 Days For New UK Comics Creators To Claim £2500 Prize & Hotel Room

14. Marvel's "Classified" Comic Revealed as a Ms Marvel Title?

15. Creative Director Mike Carlin Retires From DC Comics After 37 Years

16. PrintWatch: Amazing Spider-Man #26 Gets Spoiler Second Printing

17. DC Comics Removes Editorial Note About Batman & Dark Crisis

18. Spider-Man Attacks Eric Gill Statue in London, Outside The BBC

19. Sean Murphy's Plot Holes in Massive/Whatnot August 2023 Solicits

20. Zoe Quinn Writes Wednesday Addams in IDW August 2023 Solicits

21. Dave Sim Does Harvey Pekar in Cerebus In Hell: Aardvarkian Splendor

22. Marvel Comics Just Brought Back The Ultraverse But No One Noticed

23. DC Comics & Dynamite Will Both Have Fire And Ice Comics Out

24. What The Eisner Nominees Are Saying About Being Eisner Nominated

25. Zoom Rockman's Jewish Hall Of Fame Comics & Caricature At London's JW3

26. Serious Truck Accident For Diamond Comic Distributors In New York

27. Writer Of Ms Marvel's Death, Zeb Wells, Also Wrote The Marvels Movie

28. Tom King's Artwork Is In His Latest Batman Comic (Spoilers)

29. Jonathan Hickman Writes G.O.D.S. One-Page Stories Across Marvel Comics

30. "The Chip" – Oni Releases Secret Xino Ashcan to 300 Stores

31. Riri Williams Ironheart Comic NOT For August (UPDATE)

32. Pablo Cartaya & Miguel Díaz Rivas Throw An MG Curveball Graphic Novel

33. Frontera's Julio Anta & Jacoby Salcedo's Paco & Tiny MG Graphic Novel

34. Comics People React To Frank Miller Drawing A Wolverine Cover

35. Kickstarter Approves, Then Removes, Comic Stolen With A.I.

36. Ten Years On, No One Cares About a Muslim Batman Unless He's Pregnant

37. Elizabeth Agyemang Sells How to Be a Heroine Graphic Novel to Penguin

38. "Ghosts" Book To Be Published Alongside The End Of The Sitcom

39. Is Wonder Woman's New Daughter Lizzie Named After Queen Elizabeth II?

40. Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur's Wreck And Roll Scholastic Graphic Novel

41. Prince Of Persia's Jordan Mechner- Replay Memoir of an Uprooted Family

42. How Late Is The Justice Society Of America, And Other DC Comics

43. Bad Idea Sponsor Diamond Texas Summit Bus Tour

44. BINC Pays to Send Comic Store Employees to Diamond Summit in Texas

45. Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, Vault & Whatnot Fundraise Trans Lifeline

46. Jayme Brodie Auctions Her Debut MG Graphic Novel, Stick Together

47. Mark Millar Image Comics Crossover Starts In Today's Nemesis Reloaded

48. Apple Launches Webtoon Comics Publisher For Apple Books App