Your Pull List Starts Here
Publishers set their print numbers weeks before a comic reaches a shelf. Put in a reservation before that deadline and we include it in our order. Nothing is charged today, and you can change your mind.
The mechanics
What happens after you reserve
This is the part nobody explains. The comic you are reserving does not exist yet — it has not been printed. Here is the whole chain.
Now
You reserve it
Pick a title before its FOC date. $0 leaves your account.
FOC date
The deadline closes
Final Order Cut-off. We submit our order to the publisher, and your reservation is part of the number we ask for.
~3–4 weeks later
It gets printed
Usually we receive what we ordered. Occasionally a publisher shorts or cancels — if that happens we tell you.
~1 week out
We invoice you
Books are inbound to the shop. Now you pay — and only for what actually arrived.
Release week
It ships to you
Boarded, bagged, and out the door.
This is why reserving early matters. Once a FOC date passes, the print quantity is set — the only copies that exist are the ones shops asked for in time. A sold-out first print usually is not a shop running out of stock. It is a book that was never printed in that number.
Straight answers
What a reservation is — and what it is not
We would rather set this out plainly than let you find out later. A reservation is a request we act on, not a promise we cannot keep.
What it is
A place in the order we send the publisher, and a standing note that you want the book.
A price you can see up front, and an invoice that only ever covers what arrived.
Something you can change your mind about — tell us before that title’s cutoff and it comes off.
What it is not
Not a guarantee. Publishers cut allocations, push dates, and cancel books. When that happens to your reservation, we tell you and you are not billed.
Not a charge. Nothing is taken when you reserve, and nothing bills automatically without an invoice.
Not a contract you are stuck in. Cancel a reservation or a subscription whenever you need to.
Getting access
Three steps to switch it on
Advance ordering is a service we extend to established customers, because the shop buys the books before anyone pays for them. One delivered order confirms a real address, and access opens from there.
Make an account
It is where your Pull List lives, and where your reservations and invoices show up.
Order once from the shop
Anything at all. One single comic counts.
It ships — access opens
The moment tracking updates, advance ordering switches on by itself. No forms, no waiting on us to approve you.
Not activated yet
Once it is on
Reserve a single issue, or follow a whole run
Reserve
Pick any open title and request up to two copies. Want more than two? Message us and we will sort it out — that cap is there to stop one person clearing a shelf, not to limit real collectors.
Nothing is charged when you reserve. You are invoiced only once the books are physically inbound to the shop.
Subscribe
Follow a series and each new issue of that run is reserved automatically — same series, same cover — so you are not tracking deadlines yourself.
It all lives in your Pull List, and any series can be cancelled from there at any time.
Deposits
Why a deposit exists on the big commitments
Reserving costs nothing up front and the shop buys the books before anyone is billed. That is the one part of this system worth abusing: a script can run up hundreds of commitments the shop then has to pay for, and a real reader ends up short a book because of it. Past a certain size a deposit puts a real card behind a large pull list. It is not an extra charge — it is part of what you would owe anyway, taken early and applied to your invoice.
10 or more books on reserve
Once your combined reservations and subscriptions pass ten, a one-time $25 deposit plus tax opens up unlimited reserving and subscribing. Reservations you already have are unaffected, and you are never asked for it again.
Items $50 and up
Omnibuses, hardcovers and big-ticket variants reserve with a deposit of 50% of the cover price, rounded up. These are the books a shop is left holding if an order turns out not to be a real reader.
A deposit comes off your invoice, it is not added to it. When we bill you, what you already put down is deducted from the balance and you pay the difference. Changed your mind? A deposit is refundable up to that item’s cutoff — 9 PM ET the night before its FOC date — and if the book never arrives, whether that is a cut allocation, a cancelled print run or a distributor minimum not met, it is refunded in full regardless.
Questions
The things people ask
What is a FOC date?
Final Order Cut-off — the last day shops can tell a publisher how many copies they want. Every title on our advance list shows its own FOC. Reserve before it and your request goes into our order. After it passes, the print quantity is set for everybody.
When do I actually pay?
Not at reservation. We invoice you when your books are inbound to the shop — usually about a week before they land. You pay for what genuinely arrived, nothing more.
What if the publisher shorts or cancels the book?
Then you are not billed for it, and we will tell you rather than let you wonder. Allocations get cut and books get cancelled in this industry more often than anyone would like. It costs you nothing here.
Can I cancel a reservation?
Yes. You can change or remove anything on your list up to 9 PM ET the night before that item’s FOC date. After that the distributor order is placed and it is final. Subscriptions can be cancelled from your Pull List whenever you like.
Why do I need an order before I can reserve?
Because the shop pays first. Reserving means we buy those books weeks before you are invoiced. One delivered order confirms a real address and a real reader — after that the requirement never applies to you again.
Is the deposit an extra charge?
No. It is part of what you would owe anyway, taken at reservation and applied to your invoice — when we bill you, the deposit is deducted from the balance and you pay the difference. It is not store credit and it is not a fee. It exists so that a large commitment has a real card behind it, which is what stops an automated order from running the system up.
Refundable up to that item’s cutoff — 9 PM ET the night before its FOC date. After that we have already bought the book. If the book never arrives, the deposit is refunded in full regardless.
How many copies can I reserve?
Two per title through the site. If you want a bigger stack of something — a gift, a full run, a shop order — message us and we will handle it by hand.
Stop missing books
that were never printed for you.
Every open title, every deadline, in one list. Nothing charged today, and nothing you cannot change your mind about.