Update for 4/29/2020

Dear AMAZING Comix Experience customer,

The weeks have dragged along without any real new news on the comics front, but Diamond Comics has finally announced that they believe that distribution of new comics will resume again soon, possibly as soon as May 20th (this is still not, however, a 100% firm date as I write this)

However, as most of you are aware, the six-county San Francisco Bay Area has announced that “Shelter in Place” will continue throughout at least the entire month of May with “non-essential” businesses like Comix Experience remaining closed to walk-in business.

As you may imagine, this makes planning for what to order of newly-released periodicals (most of which genuinely had a shelf life in The Before Times that was measured in days, not weeks) a pretty daunting task when we’re pretty certain that we are not allowed to be opened!

This means that it would not be responsible for us to order “rack copies” of these comics at this time. ALL PREORDERS FROM OUR “SUBSCRIPTION” CUSTOMERS WILL BE ORDERED AS USUAL.

If you are NOT a box-holder at either of our locations, and you are interested in obtaining the new periodicals that will be released while we are still mandated to be closed, then you should contact us immediately at either divisadero@comixexperience.com or ocean@comixexperience.com to set up a subscription of your own! We will need to get your payment and shipping information (we can also hold your comics for you to be picked up after this is over), as well as a list of books you want to receive. PLEASE DO THIS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE: our deadline for the 5/20 comics will be Monday May 4th.

EVERY week, Diamond provides a list of books that are on what we call “Final Order Cutoff” – you can find that list here: https://www.previewsworld.com/FinalOrdersDue. This list is NOT FINALIZED until FRIDAY AT NOON – as I write this for example, there are zero Marvel comics listed yet for 5/20, despite our understanding they will be offering a full selection! In order to have the time to process your order, we need to have your requests in hand by MONDAY AT NOON. This is true every week! We very much recognize that this is a sub-optimal situation for many of you, but this is the reality that each and every new periodical buyer in the San Francisco Bay Area (and probably the entire West Coast) is going to have to adjust to for at least a few weeks of releases.

Let us continue to remind you that we are still doing mail order using our 7000+ piece inventory that’s locked in the store. You can find our temporary work-in-progress webstore at https://comix-experience.myshopify.com/

We thank you for your patience during this challenging time. We’ll be here for you on the other side!

-B

Brian Hibbs, Head Cheese, Comix Experience