Gail Burt of Metropolis Comics in Downey, California saw Rich (Dreamland Comics) Biedrzycki's comments on reorder strategy (see 'Rich Biedrzycki of Dreamland Comic Responds') and sent us this clarification of her earlier post:

 

I don't know where Rich got the idea that I think a title is dead after 7 to 10 days -- I have a long wall in my shop where I move each week's titles down one section as the next week's books come in.  In my shop, titles stay on the wall for 4 weeks.  They come off as the next month's issue comes in, if a monthly and on time.  What I was saying was that, while I don't mind going to back issue bins with more than one or two copies of something perennial like Superman, Batman, JLA, Amazing Spider-Man, etc., I very much do mind going to the bins with 10 to 20 copies of something like The Human Torch, which is the only Tsunami title selling in any quantity for me -- and which I believe will die completely as soon as Marvel cancels the title.  When I said there are some titles I am thrilled to sell out of, it's mainly the ones that are junk when they come in that I'm referring to -- although I will say that there are those books that simply have a much shorter shelf life than others innately.  And in terms of 'doing a happy dance' after an issue sells out being the death knell on ever making money on that title again, all I can say is, I think you misunderstand my point. 

 

We also have people come in and frequently pick up the first three to six issues of a book when we have back stock available.  On the ones that continue to do well, of course we hope to keep stock on hand.  On the ones that fizzle out after an initial hot streak, however, we would obviously much rather have sold out long since than end up with a boxful left unsold.  I think somehow that Rich feels I was knocking him, when that wasn't the case at all.  My point was not in saying that he's wrong - my point was merely that not ALL titles are ones you want to have lots of back stock on, and it would be great if we could be prognosticators who could foresee the ones we'd love to have back stock on for years to come, versus the ones we wish we'd gotten rid of while we could.