
So I was using Mile High Comics to buy new comics for decades, but they sort of went non-responsive, and then I used TFAW, and they shut down, and now I’m using G-Mart and DCBS, but as you can see above — the most basic things, like a new Tadao Tsuge book published by Drawn & Quarterly, and DCBS doesn’t even have that.
So the last few months I’ve had to buy most comics through bookshop.org:

Because they have all this stuff, except:

They don’t have Robert Crumb’s first new book in several decades, Tales of Paranoia, because they don’t do pamphlets. So where do I buy that then? Is DCBS going the way of TFAW and is going into shut down mode?
Are there no Internet comic shops left that carry basic US comics? The situation after the Diamond collapse — is everybody going bankrupt?

Do we have to order directly from each publisher now? Buying US comics now takes 10x as long even if I know perfectly well what to buy. All of this has meant that my supply of new American comics has tapered off severely.
Let’s see… Oh yeah, I used to use Midtown Comics, but stopped. Perhaps they suck less than DCBS these days? Yup, they have both Boat Life and Tales of Paranoia… but not the Spy Seal collection:

DCBS has that one:

*sigh*

Oh, if I search for “Spy Seal TP”, then I get it, but not if I just search for “Spy Seal”.
*slow clap*
Comics web sites aren’t very impressive, are they? Anyway, I wonder whether the reason for all this kerfuffle is that they’re just confused by all the distributors they have to deal with these days.
But Midtown looks promising, at least, so I think I’ll switch to them again. I last used them in 2018, and I have no idea why I ditched them in the first place. Oh well.