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| Normally Comic-Con International: San Diego offers retailers with Diamond Comic Distributors free passes for San Diego Comic-Con, part of their non-profit educative mission. However this year, with rollover tickets from the cancelled 2020 show, as well as demand from new attendees, the show has had to be making cuts across the board over who can attend and in what capacity. Instead, this year, comic book retailers are being given the opportunity to buy a limited number of tickets for San Diego Comic-Con, up to two per…

| When comic book retailers ordered the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin hardcover by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, they knew they had a mainstream hit, and also had a week's advantage in terms of sale date over bookstore customers. But the book was late and, in the interim, IDW signed an exclusive distribution deal with Penguin Random House, making Diamond a sub-distributor of PRH. Which means that this policy has changed. And now comic book retailers, even though they will still be receiving the book a…

Amber Heard, whose lawyers have said that she is not capable of paying damages to ex-husband Johnny Depp that he has been awarded in their defamation trial, has now been spotted at a discount store. Amber's budget shopping comes soon after she faced questions about flying on a private jet, despite claiming financial crunch. Also Read| Amber Heard steps out of a private plane in first sighting since trial verdict, Twitter asks 'but isn't she broke?'Amber was seen shopping at a TJ Maxx, a discount department store, where…

| The Sandman TV show drops on Netflix on the 5th of August. And on the 8th of August, comic shops will have free Sandman Special Edition comic books in store (Lunar Distribution willing). They will contain an excerpt from Sandman Volume 1 by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg, alongside a reading guide to the whole comic book, and the available volumes. And featuring this cover from the TV series, with the actor Tom Sturridge who plays Dream Of The Endless. Free Sandman Special Editions In Comic Shops When…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Food wastage in farm shops, agricultural cooperatives and farmers' stalls is between 1% and 2%, a much lower percentage than in supermarkets, where 5% to 10% of fruits and vegetables end up in the rubbish bin. This is the result of a study by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) carried out as part of a project that aims to…

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, on June 5, 2021.Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFTX has been on the hunt to buy brokerage start-ups as the crypto exchange expands into stocks, and its CEO takes a major stake in Robinhood.The Bahamas-based company has approached at least three privately held trading start-ups about an acquisition, according to sources familiar with those negotiations, who asked not to be named because the deal talks were…

Angelenos can now visit “Harry’s House,” a pop-up shop promoting pop musician Harry Styles’ new album of the same name.Coinciding with the release of the English singer’s third solo record, a prime destination for Styles merch and Instagram photo-ops opened Friday in West Hollywood at 805-811N. La Cienega Boulevard.Other “Harry’s House” locations are in New York, London, Dallas, Chicago, Toronto, Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam. More details about the promotional campaign are available on Styles’ website.Styles recently…

New Delhi: While the first few days of lockdown 3.0 was dominated by liquor stores, another category of merchandise that made their way to the list of essentials in phase three were books and stationery. Though less of a celebrity than liquor stores, book stores across the capital had been raring to reopen. Monday saw many such small and medium bookstores open in Delhi after nearly two months. Amid images of customers flouting social distancing norms and thronging liquor stores, images appeared on social media of…