Maybe they’re sending them to CBCS for pressing…
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I did the same thing and still waiting.
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I’ve bought the same set from Golden Apple and Frankies on the same day with Frankies being the second they went up for sale and Golden Apple being the last set in stock 12 hrs later. Received Golden Apple 9/6 still not even a tracking # from Frankies the set was suppose to be Frankies brick and mortar grand opening set but I received it elsewhere at the promised delivery date.
The only reason I’m not too pissed and haven’t cancelled about $1000 in orders with them is any preorder customer I have waiting on something from Frankies has been uber patient and hasn’t even messaged asking where their books are. But as soon as the shit from Frankies slides down hill and makes me cancel an order I’ll cancel all my orders with them. They say they will be caught up in a couple weeks but I’ve seen no tracking # added to 15 orders with them since they said they were fully staffed.
@Alana Not sure if you saw my post, but also watch for the ole “Shipping label created” deal… One of mine I thought was all set, is in that situation. Label being created means jack to me relative to actually getting the book.
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Do you use the Shop app to track your orders? At least when the label gets created you get to see a map of your books sitting there not moving lol
@Alana Yep, I just go to my account on their site and look at all the unfilled orders. They marked the item from June 22nd (Thor #6 Peach) fulfilled and shipped on 9/24/2020 but if I click the Fedex tracking they provided on their site…it’s just a shipping label was printed.
Delayed fulfillment with retail drives me crazy. I can’t imagine waiting since June. I love TFAW, but I’m mildly irritated that I now have my next order processing, but I haven’t yet received my last order from two weeks ago (I’m set up for every other week).
Anyway, back to SIKTC! It’s great! Covers! Bloody Blanks!
Actual question: at what point do we get tired of the same lead character holding a bloody weapon for a cover? This universe needs to expand if it’s going to survive.
Yeah, two weeks ago the fires (and then week+ of smoke) kind of screwed everything up in the PNW. FedEx, UPS, etc. were all shut down almost a week, so anything in and out is just a massive game of catch up. I have some stuff we ordered for our kids to be able to do their school at home that’s sitting in a FedEx transit center 30 miles from our house for over a week now because they got so backlogged, so I can understand the pain!
As for the covers, I wish some of these shops that just do exclusives would invest in a good creative director who can work with artists more or come up with more unique ideas for covers. I get that “main character done by known artist” sells, but with the world they’re building in the series and the concept of monsters being hidden and stuff, there are so many cool things you could do on the cover other than Erika holding a blood machete.
Yep my PGX order out of Oregon had a week and half delay due to the fires before FedEx picked it up.
Frankies went on sale. I get the feeling its going to be a high print run book.
And probably not a great chance of getting your book in 2020. I like the cover, but I think I’ll pass on this one. Anyone getting it?
I did 
why not. worse come to worse i will send him a msg when i go visit my Bro in law in Raleigh and pick it up at his store
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So, after totally sleeping on this book and realizing I should not have, I went into a shop yesterday on the way home from vacation and there on the rack were #s 3-8. They also had the virgin #6. All cover. Grabbed an Antithesis #2 off the wall as well!
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@Mudable, that’s the kind of score we all wish we could randomly happen upon lol. Nice grabs, and the story is really good too!
Dang! My stores don’t even have issue #10 on the shelves anymore!
If anyone has any of the latter printings of the earlier issues they’d like to trade for other stuff, please let me know!
The Black Cape cover just went on sale 15 minutes ago. Only 300 total in the print run. Act fast if you want one.
boom has 500 minimum print run
That’s what I thought too, but Black Cape is saying 300. They signed a deal with Boom to do exclusives for issues 11-15, so my guess is Boom cut them a deal.
Or, they did get 500 with plans to just sell 300 making sure they got enough 9.8s. Might explain the high price tag for the raw issue at $30.