Kirby Tardy of Tardy's Collectors Corner in Grand Rapids, MI, saw Steve Bennett's comments (see 'Confessions of a Comic Book Guy -- Case In Point') and thinks national release dates have questionable value:

Nice to know this finally shipped for you, we are still awaiting it, it seems Michigan is not on the same shipping schedule as Ohio!  Very interesting that the national release date does not work at all times.  I wish we could get away from this foolishness and have the distributor just ship the blasted items instead of saving them for...???

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