Hunt Valley-based Diamond Comic Distributors, one of the nation’s largest distributors of comics and pop culture goods, has filed for bankruptcy protection. In a Chapter 11 filing Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Baltimore,

Although it's not entirely surprising for Diamond to make such a decision given what's publicly known about both the company and comics industry in a post-pandemic world, the news still came as a shock to most — from employees of the company to publishers,