Star Trek: Countdown TPB released this week

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Christopher, shops are going to receive the trade today.

Whether or not shops hold the book until the 8th is an open question. There's nothing to prevent them from selling it as soon as they get it. I can't think of any way that a sanction against a comic shop would work.

Stores can get nailed if they sell DVDs before the street date, so why wouldn't this happen with books as well?

 

[Therin of Andor]

I don't usually buy comics or graphic novels (I either "borrow" from friends or libraries) but is this one worth owning?

There are lots of online preview pages around - five for each issue. But reviews are polarized, so take pot luck. Either you want to own a copy, and support IDW with its promotion for the new movie, or you are happy to borrow one.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Stores can get nailed if they sell DVDs before the street date, so why wouldn't this happen with books as well?

Depends on individual publisher/distributor agreements. Some books do have street dates, eg. all the recent Harry Potters, with some bookshops being fined for breaching the date.

 

[Man of Steel]

I don't usually buy comics or graphic novels (I either "borrow" from friends or libraries) but is this one worth owning?

There are lots of online preview pages around - five for each issue. But reviews are polarized, so take pot luck. Either you want to own a copy, and support IDW with its promotion for the new movie, or you are happy to borrow one.

Where can I find online previews and/or reviews? I haven't seen any...

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Stores can get nailed if they sell DVDs before the street date, so why wouldn't this happen with books as well?

Honestly? There's no way to police a street date in the comic industry. What you have are three thousand individually-owned businesses, with three thousand different ways of operating at the point-of-sale. There's nothing unified, no reporting. If a retailer sold the Countdown trade early, no one would know.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Where can I find online previews and/or reviews? I haven't seen any...

Gosh, Marc, they get linked here all the time:

"Countdown" #1:
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0901/09/idwfirsts.htm

"Countdown" #2:
http://trekmovie.com/2009/02/20/exclusive-4-page-preview-of-star-trek-countdown-2/

"Countdown" #3:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/40444

This section has "Crew" #2 (but description accidentally swapped with "Angel"), and "Countdown" #4:
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0903/26/idwfirsts.htm

Interview with creators:
http://trekmovie.com/2009/03/03/won...t-exclusive-interview-with-countdown-writers/

There are review threads for each issue over at the ST XI pages of this bbs.

 

[Ronald Held]

I have to wait two weeks from yesterday, when my comic shop will have it for me.

 

[JD]

Stores can get nailed if they sell DVDs before the street date, so why wouldn't this happen with books as well?

Honestly? There's no way to police a street date in the comic industry. What you have are three thousand individually-owned businesses, with three thousand different ways of operating at the point-of-sale. There's nothing unified, no reporting. If a retailer sold the Countdown trade early, no one would know.

This has been one of my biggest pet peeves with buying comics at the shops, since they are independant they tend to be small and in bad parts of town. I've also found that they tend to be rather hard to track down at times. It took me forever to find the one closest to me, and then once I going there regularly, it ended up moving to another strip mall. And now isince I never really go to that part of town, t's been ages since I got a chance to get out there. Which is why I keep wishing that somone could get a bigger chain going.