New SHIFT comic anthology shifts – to wrong stores!

By John Freeman on October 18, 2025 • ( 0 )

SHIFT Volume Three Issue One is on sale this week – available to order direct here – but it appears something has gone wrong at the anthology comic’s distributor and something didn’t know its WHSmith from its TG Jones.

SHIFT Volume Three Issue One has shipped to the wrong shops across the UK

“Our entire stock has been assigned to the wrong area,’ publisher SHIFT GMC say, “and you’ll currently find a multitude of copies at Morrisons Dailies, Londis and independent newsagents.

Over the coming week, copies will be repatriated to their intended destinations, but as we’re sure you’re wanting to get it asap to enjoy with a morning coffee over the weekend… please check the Google Map below to find current stockists.

Do note, this list isn’t exhaustive, there are still more to add, so if there’s nothing pinned in your area, it’s still worth checking a nearby store. Or, as we said, order a copy from Get My Comics direct.

If you haven’t picked up this comic anthology before, as we previously reported, SHIFT Volume Three Issue One is the perfect jumping on point, with four new stories starting in the issue. The lineup includes the debut of “Terminal Man” by Kelvin Gosnell and Oliver Fret, a strip originally serialised in CRASH and ZZAP64, two fondly-remembered long-running computer magazines published the mid 1980s; “Hypersonic”, written by Dan Abnett and Steve White (Marvel UK, 2000AD), with art by Gary Erskine (Dan Dare, Knights of Pendragon); and much, much more!

Be ready for SHIFT to arrive in select newsagents soon – check out the SHIFT section of the Get My Comics website here

• Grab your copy of SHIFT Volume Three Number One here

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.