/shelf/ Your Shelf or Shelves and General Buyfag thread

>>89900433
Will bump for you, OP.

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>>89900433
I'm too lazy for shelf pics, but this is my most recent get. I have Realm of Kings and Annihilation Conquest Omnis on the way.
Now, I am going to read some Stern Spidey.

>>89900433
>Flash section

Beautiful. I wish I wasn't a poorfag.

>>89901350
Thanks, but the funny thing is I'm not even that much of a Flashfag, I just started buying the first Johns omni back then and felt I needed to buy the other two.
That Marvel sale plus 2 more GL omnis is going to strain my purse though.

>>89901830
That came out wrong. I bought only them when they showed up over the course of two years because I saved the money for it when I was a poorfag myself.

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These just came in from half.com today. Allegedly used but I'm impressed with their condition. Overall only about $25 for them all. I love the internet, senpai.

Think I am going to sell my Simonson Thor Omni.

>>89902104
how much are the going rates for those nowadays?

>>89902162
>Simonson Thor Omni.
250.

>>89900433
>Mein Kampf and The Koran

That's quite a range of reading material, OP...

>>89902476
Haven't even opened the Quran yet, so far it's just decorational.
Mein Kampf is pretty enlightening though...

>>89902162
>>89902389
It's also super heavy, easily the heaviest omni I own and the only Marvel one uncomfortable to read. I like The beta ray bill stuff and the invasion of Hel, but then there is a whole lot of Sal Buscema art and the story just kind of goes to shit.

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No new purchases, but boy has it been a long, long time since I last posted my shelves. I'm rearranging some, so why not?

Don't mind the box to the side, we're doing some early spring cleaning and have stacked donation boxes in the library.

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>>89902767

>>89900433
All this showcase presents causes me physical pain. Wish Infinite Crisis got back in print, and the Koran and Mein Kampf aren't necessarily in opposition, remember how Hitler valued different cultures and diversity with his honorary aryans Japanese and Middle Eastern allies.

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>>89902767
Does "DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore" include the original Killing Joke coloring?

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>>89903005
>All this showcase presents causes me physical pain.
Oh, my friend... I have such sights to show you...

>>89903005
2 of the showcases are going to get dropped off, the upcoming Adam Strange omni collects the showcase and more and the upcoming LoSH omni collects the first 3 Legion archives (slightly more than the first showcase)
But the Showcases aren't a bad thing at all.

>Wish Infinite Crisis got back in print
what do you mean? the Infinite Crisis Absolute is brand new, hit it. Or do you mean the omni? I wish I had that one more than the absolute because I had to get the TPBs from the stuff in it instead.

>and the Koran and Mein Kampf aren't necessarily in opposition
times change, but let's not talk about that right now.

>>89902535
that's not kampforting

>>89900433
>Motherfucking Lem
You have good taste, I won't steal YOUR car.

>>89903845
just relax in the showers

>>89904013
Thanks, I guess. now stop playing on your cellphone and unclog my toilet instead

>>89904107
>implying I'm not stealing jobs all the way in the UK

>>89904597
brexit

so anyway, how about those comics? you guys going to buy any of those marvel omnis?

>>89900433
Honestly, the only comic books I've ever bought were Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 and Justice Society of America: The Golden Age. The first because I loved the game and I loved the comic. The second because I really loved that comic, especially all the less powerful heroes that populated the Golden Age.

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Newest additions are Black Science 4&5 and Plutona. H8 and R8

>>89905246
so many started series, so few finished ones

>>89905343
Kinda hard to find some of these due to lcs not carrying them and I don't have a credit card not poor just pay strictly with cash or checks but I'm slowly working on it

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I bought this today at Bed Bath & Beyond, and despite how much I hate Funko Pop shit, this just seems like a cute little Deadpool thing. It's suppose to be a plush version of those shit vinyl figures, but as Deadpool it just works by looking less like a Funko Pop thing. There were also different colored variants of him and this was the last regular color.

>>89906111
how big is that thing?

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>>89906594
It's a small one, about 5 inches. There's a big one, but the small they are the less they retain the Funko Pop skull shape. I wouldn't mind the small Batman one too, also because he has a mouth which isn't a feature on them. Though I can't believe how minuscule the line is since it's based on the ridiculous amount of characters they're shitting out in their vinyl line.
https://funko.com/collections/pop-plush

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Some of our loots.

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>>89907033

>>89907033
I know the transparent parts are supposed to be lantern constructs/energy and with other figures it's lasers and whatnot but I always need to think of explosive diarrhea

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>>89907069


I actually didn't buy these, but definitely considered it....

>>89907100
It's coming out of his foot though....

>>89900433
>BREAKING: Marvel is literally throwing out Omnis for almost free:
>https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/02/09/marvel-liquidiate-almost-fifty-omnibus-titles-comic-shops/

Didn't that guy just make this up to get money from referring people to the amazon links? I mean a fair few of those are out of print.

>>89907202
besides the point.

>>89907227
nope, they're really doing it, read the next link.

>>89907115
w-what exactly are these? cake pans?

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Got these about a week ago. I recently discovered the work of Junji Ito and ive been binge reading his horror series.

>>89907503
mousepad. The butt is supposed to be a rest for your wrist

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>>89908341
top choices
>Absolute Wonder Woman
>Vol 1
oh shit there's going to be 2 of them? I somehow thought it was just 1 volume all-in-one, wasn't aware there were 30+ issues, no wonder they have to split it.

>>89908594
what the fuck man, what the fuck?

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>>89909121

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Bought these this week.

Any good?

>>89903116
I believe so. Apparently, this collection was the first time TKJ was reprinted in trade format. I was not aware of that until looking it up just now.

>>89909330

Pretty good indie taste, man. I really like Southern Bastards, haven't read the others except for Black Monday Murders.

>>89909668
Read the first two issues of rumble and instantly got hooked so bought the three trades.

Wytches I bought because Jock basically

>>89909330
Sheriff of Babylon is really good, haven't read the others.

Has anything more come from that Bleeding Cool story about a bunch of Marvel Omnibuses getting cheap soon?

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>>89910006
I just got an e-mail from my LCS saying they'd be available for 50% off. Which ones should I buy? I only have ASM and X-Men (which obviously aren't ones going on sale) so far.

>>89909121
>>89909160
rate plz

>>89910394

4/5. Pretty solid choices, but please put them in alphabetical or size order.

>>89910198

from a quick overview my picks are

Busiek/Perez Avengers
Hawkeye
Howard the Duck
Spider-Man by Stern
Lee Kirby FF

>>89910198
Stern and the Kirby stuff for sure.
I like Annihilation Conquest, but space capes are my jam.
I am going to pick up the Liefield X-Force. Don't judge.

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>>89900433

>>89910745
what's the cheapest place to get trades and hardcovers in australia? Amazon?

>>89910716

if it's cheap enough i'm getting the crossing

>>89911269
Idk mate I don't live in Stralia but yeah I use amazon or IST.

>>89902767
Those Birds of Prey trades. I am so jealous, even though they have cheap non-glossy paper. It's going to be at least a year, if not two, before we get the reprints of Simone's run - and I want it so desperately.

TFW no one has Stephanie Brown's Batgirl trades. Maybe when the reprint goes out this summer I'll see more of them. :(

>>89911294
That looks really, really dire, anon.

I've got a lot of older batman stuff, and I'm looking to see if there've been any worthwhile new stories for him in the last 5 years or so.

My lcs recommended court of owls, so I got that, but that seemed like it kinda went to shit at the halfway mark.

>>89911907
Black Mirror is probably the best Batman related story since you've stopped reading. Kings run has been good too dependent upon your level of autism. He usually uses body language instead of dialogue, the first trade is out.

>>89902476
>quite a range
Not really, they're both about bashing Jews aren't they?

>>89905246
>Monster Girl Encyclopedia
Goddamn pervert.

>>89911984
Thanks, I'll check it out.

I read the first volume of King's run and that was fine.

Didn't bug me nearly as much as what snyder did with mr. freeze and how that also didn't fit with the timeline of court of owls at all.

>>89912050
Oh no man, Snyder is the worst outside of Black Mirror and Court of Owls. Zero Year is meh, everything else he wrote was pretty terrible and out of character.

>>89912050
I really enjoy Batman Eternal, which make three nice trades.

>>89912077
A lot of his stories seem to ride on the premise that batman is semi incompetent.

So many things he does or that get by him make no sense.

>>89912050
Batman and Robin, 'Tec with Tomasi, current Tec, All Star Batman and Year Zero are all pretty fun, Dark Knight III, Batman Europa and Eternal were good. And obviously Batman Inc, honorable mention to early Batwing.

>>89912118
Don't even get me started mate. Not only that, he feels the need to subvert all of Batman's history with some big secret reveal. He's a hack and I thank the powers that be every day that he was finally taken off the book after years of torture.

>>89912122
Jesus dude.
Don't recommend All Star or Europa. Literally fan fic tier. Alfred sells out Batman for Christ sake and Joker and Bruce are written like they are in love.

Don't ever rec anything again.

>>89912157
When I got to the stuff with Dick being groomed as a talon in the circus in court of owls I kinda wanted to just stop.

Then, to drive it forward, batman decks robin in such a way that he removes the loaded tooth?

That he NEVER EVER found before despite dick likely having extensive medical testing?

wtf?

>>89912157
All Star is still running, and there's a Capullo reunion event in the works.

>>89912190
There's more than one way to write a character, I enjoy dopey Donner Johns Superman as much as I enjoy space explorer with Busiek and man's man with Byrne. I can enjoy romantic hopeful action hero under Snyder as much as I enjoy boilerplate detective with Brubaker and larger than life eccentric with Morrison. If you sitck with "NOT MUH" you're in for a very bad time with Big Two comics, and more likely than not future forum account on ByrneRobotics.

>>89912253
I'm not even gonna argue with you.
If you are the kind of person that enjoys Europa unironically well then there is no hope for you.

>>89912285
Good, arguing over fictional men in spandex is silly. (:

>>89912320
They are gods that deserve respect and worship.

>>89902635
I love that spiderman poster, where did you find that?

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>>89910437
>>89910716
Thanks--Stern was already on my list, so that's a no-brainer for me, but I'm interested in expanding my omni collection to more than the good ol' webhead.

I'm not terribly well-versed in space capes yet, but capes tend to be my jam regardless...does it make sense on its own or are there arcs that should be read first for that omni?

Also how's Werewolf By Night?

That's a lot of questions, so here's my tiny, but growing collection. I have a fair amount of single too, but they don't have much rhyme or reason, nor do they photograph well while "shelved".

>>89910436
The first shelf is Spider-Man only, I actually moved X-Statix to the bottom, so the top is consistent. I do want them alphabetical. Size order never bothered me.

I ordered Panther as my Christmas gift to myself and it still hasn't arrived
fuck Amazon real hard

>>89912624
What kind of shitty 3rd world do you live in?

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>>89912911
Southern California

>>89912952
Id call. Thats way too long unless the book is out of stock.

>>89912969
it's directly from Amazon but supposedly shipped through USPS and has no tracking info

>>89912911
WAKANDA!

>>89913016
Id definitely call.

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Dept. H HC with sketch.

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>>89912354
A friend back home is dating a dude who does webcomics and is really into kaiju and toku stuff. His name's Brett Cook and he's got a page called Animated Trigger. I got that Supaidaman print along with one of Dragon Ranger & Dragon Caesar/Green Ranger & Dragon Zord from him and he threw in a bonus print with characters from his series Cannonball Fist.

I think he just has his comics listed on his site and sells prints at cons, but if you email him and tell him you're interested in one of his prints you saw online, I don't think he'd have any problems selling you one.

>>89913203
Fuck yeah, thanks anon

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I think this is still up to date.

>http://cheap-comics.com

What are their shipping prices? I live in eastern Europe, must be far from them.

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Anybody reads the new venom I haven't read A Venom in years & Pick the new one up in hope it's good like the carnage.

>>89913927
This is beautiful, anon. And I need to get me those JoJos.

>>89914141
its the worst thing ever


I wish my lcs had a return policy

>>89914039
bump

>>89910006
it's like you don't meticulously study the OP

>>89900433
it´s strange how Timber wolf was so popular and then Wolverine stole all his hype.
The X-Men little by little drain all the hype from the Legion

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Latest purchases. Pretending is Lying really impressed me. Definitely not your typical autobio stuff. NYRC is putting out some amazing comics. Escape Route was cool too. Kind of reminded me of Hayashi Seiichi or Sasaki Maki.

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>>89912455
for Annihilation Conquest it's better to read Annihilation first (which is miles better anyway. Conquest is still extremely good, but original Annihilation is the best space crossover ever so there's that) plus the few lead issues of GotG and Nova between the two. War/Realm of Kings has a bit back reading in X-Men, which surprisingly isn't listed there: Read X:Men - Rise and Fall of the Sh'iar Empire, then the stuff listed. But the question is if you really want to do that, since it starts the
>muh Inhoomins
shit.
In any case, read the original Annihilation stuff, it's one of Giffen's finest works.
It's not actually a crossover per-se, since it was meant to streamline the convoluted crap that was Marvel cosmic at the time and make it accessible to new readers. And it did an incredible job doing so.
Why the fuck did they never reprint the Annihilation Omni?

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>>89915665
I need to update all my shelf pictures.

>>89915630
Wolverine was always written as a main character. Timber Wolf was always just in the background.

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>>89912624
why haven't you told them yet? why haven't you ordered a replacement? why haven't you checked the package code and its wherabouts yet?

So when are these omnis supposed to be going down in price? They probably won't even drop in price here in Aus and I don't want to miss out on any online deals

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Latest stuff to arrive as well as Vision Vol. 2

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>>89915721
cheap-comics says it's going to happen in around 2 months, but that's europe. dunno about the americas

>the King Collection
>Checkmate
>all that Sixth Gun
good man

>>89915669
Thank you, Anon. Funnily enough, I started Thanos way back in the day, but it was right before I destroyed my graphics card through overuse.

I've heard of and read some of of the Inhuman nonsense, but are the X-Men issues themselves decent? I might give it a shot anyway because, despite current problems, I do have a soft spot for the X-Men.

I wonder that about a lot of omnis too...heaven knows what makes the publishers' decisions.

>>89915694
what do you recommend from those

Just preordered the Scurry hardcover. Never see webcomics collections on shelves, does anyone actually buy them?

Oh and any other neat animal comics, web or print?

>>89916064
Sunstone started off as a webcomic and I bought all five books of that. I might buy Order of the Stick once it's all finished.

>>89915813
>but are the X-Men issues themselves decent?
they're readable but most people think they're boring. not bad, just boring. brubaker sometimes has problems writing non-crime stuff.

>>89916077
>I might buy Order of the Stick once it's all finished.
will it ever be? it must be literally thousands of pages by now. how many tpbs you reckon will that be?

>>89916329
Not as many as you think. The two prequel books + six books for the series itself I think.

>>89916329
>>89916383
Also the latest chapter was 1065.

>>89915865
I'm not sure if they're all still available, but Olivier Schrauwen's stuff (Greys & Mowgli's Mirror) are fantastic. Lando also has great stuff. Mostly wordless trippy sci-fi comics. Sec is really good if you're into comics as poetry. If you're completely new to the scene, check out the Frontier series published by Youth in Decline. It's a pretty good starting point. Very well curated.

>>89916064
I'd like to pick up the Nedroid books at some point, but I'm worried the books themselves will be terrible quality. I also pre-ordered the Super Mega Comics book.

>>89915750
Interesting - I saw most of the old Checkmate TPBs at a used book store a couple of days ago. But they missed the last arc and collected the abomination of an arc Chimera instead. So I dunno why one wouldn't wait for the new trades.

>>89902635
What's up with that Abe Sapien?

>>89917592
Looks like the movie version.

>>89902635
>those Rurouni Kenshin volumes
>Me and the Devil Blues
You know what I hate about these threads? They make me want to buy things.

>>89912455
I really liked werewolf by night. I've read my omni twice end to end in the year I've owned it.

>>89915630
Cockrum is to blame.

>>89915669
All you need for Annihilation, imo is the Surfer Mini and the event itself. The other minis are... not so good.
Fwiw, Conquest has a lot more nipple shots. The main artist understands how cold it is n space.
Anyway grab the conquest omni.

>>89916137
I find his crime stuff all a little too samey as well.

>>89918066
They also all look the same due to Sean Phillips drawing everything.

stick around

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1/7

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>>89920570
2/7

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>>89920587
3/7

>>89920604
4/7

Sheriff of Babylon vol. 2 arrived today

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>>89920642
5/7

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>>89920669
6/7

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>>89920695
7/7

>>89916537
>I'd like to pick up the Nedroid books at some point
On my list but I haven't gotten them for the same reason and because I rarely have a spare 70 bucks lying around. Anyone have them? How are they?

>>89920718
>>89920695
>>89920669
>>89920642
>>89920604
>>89920587
>>89920570

Shit taste

>>89921445
Why you gotta be a jerk to people?

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Nothing further will be accomplished today.

>>89921512
Thanos looks kinda deformed with all that upper body mass.

>>89921488
Only when their shelves are full of nothing but shit

>>89900433
Finally calculated the cost of all the comic issues and TPBs I'm selling. 1035 comics brings the value to 4450 dollars. Anyone know a good place to sell this in a bundle, I've got 6 boxes full of em.

>>89904107
brit cunt

>>89910437
>Busiek/Perez Avengers
>and Fagtion Hawkeye
does not compute

>>89907069
I got a Destiny statue I use as a book end along with the Death one. To represent the beginning and the end of the DC universe. My collection is is an in-universe chronology of the DC timeline, starting with Sandman: Endless Nights and ending with the start of the New 52, Justice League: Origins.

Fuck BWB for selling "very good" as "new" books. Thats why their prices are so low.

>>89910437
Is there a list for these soon-to-be-discounted omnis? The last I bought was Superior Foes and Howard the Duck, Man-Thing, and Werewolf by Night have been on my maybe list for ages since I already have the Essentials.

>>89911720
Not to rub it in or anything, but I got all except the first Simone trade for about $2 at 2nd & Charles when I lived in Ohio. I got them for the missus, but she's so busy all the time that she's not gotten to read any of them. I've only read the first two, which I've been thinking to upgrade to the new printings so there's no overlap between printings.

>>89917592
>>89917636
Oh, you mean Babe Sapien? He's just showing off his fishy physique.

>>89917762
>Me and the Devil Blues
I got lucky and found both for about $8 apiece after they'd gone OOP.

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>>89923138
>Is there a list for these soon-to-be-discounted omnis?
are you blind or something? read the OP

just got Green Latern Corps vol 1 today

Looking forward to buying that second volume of Byrne's FF to finish it off if it goes $60 or below but didn't they try and blow these out before?

Ready for the new Zelda book to hit IST too.

>>89923204
Haha usually it's just photos and not links in the OP, so I totally overlooked that.

>Werewolf By Night
>Howard The Duck
>Golden Age Cap
>West Coast Avengers v2
Welp... I'm gonna be buying at least WCA to go with my volume one.

Heck, most sellers on eBay already have Howard down around $30, so if it goes lower than that, there's no way I can pass it up.

>>89921512
These are very nice, btw, now that I've had a chance to look through them.
I like that the Conquest omni has the annihilation saga in it.

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>>89900433
DCfag incoming

>>89922215

...you're joking right?

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How "out of print" is Crisis on Multiple Earth's vol 5? I'm kicking myself in the ass for not grabbing one while it was instock at IST a few weeks back.

>>89909330
I enjoyed Wytches. Good spooks and art.

>>89924450
it's obviously just like floppies

>>89924521
checked for it (for you) recently and all euro sellers are out of stock as well but got vol 1-4

>On a whim, check for how much some original art from my favorite artist would cost
>Get a sketch off eBay for thirty bucks
>Decide to grow my art collection
>My other favorite artists go for fucking thousands.

Fuck, looks like my David Mack picture is going to be lonely for a while. I expected Mignola stuff to go for a lot, but I didn't realize David Petersen was that popular, I can't even find anything from Barbucci and Canepa, and all the others make me inquire for a price, but I'm too nervous after that.

>>89913927
>the shitty Dragon Ball 3-in-1s
They're cheap, but their paper quality is ass, and they're not actually uncut. Good that you're reading the manga tho. Not many DB fans do that.

>>89912006

One was written by a murderous warlord and other was written by whatever punchline you want.

>>89925484
well good thing Mohammed verifiably couldn't write.

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What are ya'll reading?

>>89927297
GL omni 1, after that that new Conan Omni

>>89927297
Silverfish by Lapham

>>89927297
Either Cages or Bone next depending on my mood.

>>89927297
Beasts of Burden

>>89927297
Frank Miller's DD; I'm in the process of reading through my entire DD collection again,

Does anyone know when those Marvel omnis are supposed to drop in price?

>>89925413
>they're not actually uncut
Can you point out the censored parts you're talking about? They re-released volume one Bulma after complaints, but left the black guy from the bunny gang's lips edited out. Otherwise, I don't know of anything off-hand that was censored aside from maybe a couple of guns being referred to as lasers or something during Boo's arc.

>>89927982
cheap-comics.com says it's in about 2 months for europe. could be earlier for america

>>89928029
*re-released volume one with nude Bulma after complaints
Dammit all, my PC's been a bitch with typing today for some reason.

>>89927982
A lot of them already had heavy price drops recently so you should be able to find em online

>>89925413
Why couldn't they have just rereleased the VizBig editions, but without all the censoring? Those had decent paper and color pages at the very least.

>>89928183
I know exactly what you mean. That would have been awesome.

>>89927297

Hopefully.. Sandman Mystery Theatre v1, 52 v1/2 or Swamp thing, but I've been in a reading rut lately really tired from work and all i wanna do is have a couple beers and watch netflix in the evening.

>>89913927
What kept you reading Fables? Or more specifically buying it? I finished the series but I thought it kind of shit the bed halfway through.

>>89928141
Just found someone selling a brand new copy of the Stern Spider-Man omnibus for 60 bucks. Tempted as fuck but I've already spent like 65 bucks in trades and back issues in the last month.

>>89929354
That's how much I got it last year

>>89929404
Oh really? That's the cheapest I can find it online right now.

>>89929354
don't. we're talking about price ranges of 30 bucks and lower as soon as the sale actually starts.
You can literally get a second omni.

>>89929945
Ah, I wasn't sure if that price included the recent drop or not because i'm seeing it going for at least 25-30 bucks more everywhere else online. Thanks anon, I came really close to buying it.

>>89929651
It's going OOP soon so get it soon

>>89929945

I'm really hoping this price drop hits Canadian amazon or maybe my LCS... I've wanted the hawkeye omni since it came out but could never justify the cost

>>89932196
goddamnit don't people read the OP or ANYTHING here? that's the 3rd or 4th time someone chips in and spouts nonsense.

So will the sale hit Amazon and IST?

>>89932299
It's not nonsense idiot. Rich listed some OOP books on that list.

http://marvelmasterworksfansite.yuku.com/topic/30690/waiting-clearance-Omnis#.WKPAs_krLIU

>>89932430
so explain to me why is he supposed to waste 60 bucks on it when it's going down to 30 or lower?

>>89932493
Because it might never go down to $30 and the book is going OOP

>>89932533
not going to happen that soon.

>>89932404
It will hit Amazon marketplace probably but it specifically says through comic shops so it's going to be Diamond distributed stuff because of that IST should probably have a sale when they get their shipment since they get stuff from Diamond.

>>89932533
the sale hasn't even started yet. cheap-comics mentions "in 2 months" and lists 45€ for the Stern Omni. cheap-comics usually sells omnis at list price or sometimes even slightly higher, it's usually not worth checking except for OOP stuff like the X-Statix omni, which they still sell.
judging from that, the price for americans will be at around 30-40$. 60$ is too expensive.

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>>89900433
I have a question for anyone who owns the Flash by Manapul omni, or really any collection of the Grodd arc

Was this spread done on any kind of foldout pages at all or was it broken up for different pages?

>>89932781
sadly it was broken up

>>89932881
Dang, that's too bad. This is by far one of the most incredible things Manapul's done, I'd even buy an art print of the whole thing if he released one

>>89932971
>I'd even buy an art print of the whole thing if he released one
does he have a twitter? ask him.

>>89933077
Oh shit he sure does, and I think he's pretty active too. Good idea

I got Dc Universe by Neil Gaiman recently, Is it any good? I'm debating whether to take it back or keep it.

>>89933932
can't you just take a look inside?

>>89928029
>>89928070
There's a thread all about the edit's on Kanzenshuu.
http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=28640

Basically, Popo's lips are still edited, the mild cursing from the original translation is still gone, some title pages are still missing. They still use Hercule and not Mr. Satan, and censor signs like Satan City to say Herculopolis, etc

Up

>>89923138
>I got lucky and found both for about $8 apiece after they'd gone OOP.
That's so cheap. Goddammit you're one lucky sonnova bitch.

>>89937335
I just hope somebody publishes the new stuff in English so I can continue the series.

>>89938235
>new stuff
They uncancelled it?

>>89924183
i bought it for $30. totally worth it.

>>89934474
It's shrink-wrapped.

>>89922905
Tell more, please. I am thinking about buyng a few book from them. Are they reallt in bad condition?

>>89922905
>>89939216
surprised. never had that problem. everything they sold "new" to me was new. everything I bought used from them (I buy a lot of regular HC books and most older ones are only available used) was under the "used" category

>>89939388
What about their packaging?

>>89939460
amazon standard

>>89939216
they use standard paper envelopes for trades and small hardcovers. The real shitty ones. But in my case the package was not damaged and the book was showing heavy signs of shelf wear, all corners were white (hellboy in mexico trade) the edge of the cover was white in many places. Show them pics, they were really fast to offer 3 options of refund (50% the money, replacement book or full refund with the book back) i chose the replacement book, it came like this, plus a lot more damage to the corners, and the package was not bent, so i assum the send me a "very good" book 2 times. Even the hardcover book i order (midnight circus) was not damaged but the cover was really marked (like those marks you see when you put the book in certain positions on the light) like it has had many put in put out of the shelf. They have really nice costumer support, but they kinda suck for what i experienced. The orders take 3 weeks (to poortugal) its a week more than arts and crafts and 2 weeks more than book depository.

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>>89942363
forgot pic

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>>89942363

>>89942363
I live way too far and wanted to buy a few BIg books, I hope they wont fuck em up

>>89942378
>>89942422
Holy fuck man, that's horrible, but I can't say I had any problems with them.
I ordered the DC One Million omni from them and it arrived in mint condition and proper packaging.

>>89944043
>>89944062

dont get me wrong, i might have been unlucky. And i will continue to use their store, because their costumer support is top notch really, very fast and polite. The oposite of Arts and Crafts for example, you try and emailed them, you get one week of automatic emails saying that in 2 days someone will answer you.

>>89938284
Yeah. After I read all the scanlations online in '07, I thought I was like years behind on it when I finally bought the two print volumes. Turned out that the print volumes were everything I'd read online and that the author just stopped working on it after that. Now it looks like he's finally picked it back up as of, I think, last September, so I hope a publisher in the US will pick up where it left off and maybe get some reprints of the first volumes out for folks that missed the initial release.

>>89942422
this is a thing on most of my mignolaverse trades no matter how well they're packaged

>>89927297
Absolute Infinite Crisis

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Salvation Army finds from Friday. Now I've never hidden my hatred for Watchmen but I have said if I found it for a dollar I'd give it another try. I had been a decade since I read it last time. Plus I think reading it physically over digitally might help. If not, I'll give it away even though it looks to be a first print from '87. Batman looks to be a first print as well. Not bad for $2.16.

>>89948392
lucky finds

>>89924521
in the same boat
I had a chance to buy a complete lot with v5 for cheap, but I already had the rest of the volumes. So I passed. Kicking myself now as well.

>>89945309
I hope they reprint that stuff, Me and the Devil Blues is so good and it deserves more.

>>89948472
A coworker found Secret War there last week. Annoyed he got to it before me.

>>89948587
>Secret War
What's so special about it? Isn't that just one of the many forgettable Marvel crossovers? Pretty sure I read it once but for the life of me can't remember anything about it at all.

>>89946115
Yeah DH paperbacks are a real mixed bag of quality, those digest Mister X trades are awful. Meanwhile they make probably the best hardcover collections of any publisher

Canadabros a dude on Amazon's marketplace has a bunch of new DC and Marvel omni's on sale for $46

He has no reviews though

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>>89949809
... and?

>>89950097
Do I really need to explain why I posted that or are you just that retarded

>>89950142
don't you think you could give us a link instead to see for ourselves?

>>89949809
is it you?

>>89949809
still waiting for that link so I can actually help you out, you know?

>>89948392
Cool,i found a bunch of old ass Lobo trades and comics a year ago at the Salvation Army.

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>>89948392
>I've never hidden my hatred for Watchmen

>>89951058
why would I be selling my shit?

>>89952310
Fuck off dude. I always post deals in these threads

>>89953715
>offer help
>gets told to fuck off
are you mentally underdeveloped?

stick around

>>89952801
Just the fact that it is seemingly mandatory to think it's the greatest makes me like it less.

>>89956091
I know how you feel... but it's very well put together even if I don't find the story or the characters very engaging, I think the execution is fantastic.

>>89956137
Yeah, that's true, it's fucking brilliant- but it has nothing that I want from a comic.
The movie, whilst imperfect as an adaption, is a pretty good bronze age cape story, though.

Probably not the best place to ask but I don't want to make a thread for it.

Been getting in to comics a bit recently, mainly been lurking. So far i've read The Incal, Sandman, Watchmen, Hellboy vol1, Habbi, and Killing Joke. I own Bone, Daytripper and Jimmy Corrigan but I haven't read them yet, I'veborrowed Planetary off a friend as well.

I'm looking for some recs but not really sure what's good, i'm thinking of Megahex, Wonder Woman omni, Nikopol Trilogy, Love and Rockets, The World of Edena. Any thoughts on these ones? Any recs of your own? I don't really want anything too long.

I browse these threads for ideas but i'm not really sure at the moment.

>>89958408
I don't know dick about Wonder Woman, but the others are solid.
It is hard to suggest cape comics, because taste vary so much, but the first Amazing SpiderMan omni is good comics.

>>89958408
If you like Watchmen, check out V For Vendetta. If you like Killing Joke and want more Batman stuff, check out The Dark Knight Returns and Batman Year One. Is there any one genre/area/character that peaks your interest?

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I got a bonus from work and money was going supernova in my pocket.

So enjoy these comics I bought today.

For starters, my box had Voracious and the two Dark Crystal books I had the asked them to order.
Slightly bummed cause I assumed the books would be hardback like how my first vol is.

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>>89958776
Grabbed these too. Sorry for mango included.
Read the first volume, and enjoyed it enough to say "fuckit grab it all while I can"

Nameless and other I haven't read but previews way before the singles were gonna come out, so they were fuckit purchases too.

>>89958408
>Megahex
This is much less essential to the Jodoverse than Metabarons or the other Incal books.

If you liked Incal more for the art, then definitely pick up Edena. Moebius adiopts a more minimalist approach to linework on that one, but it really only shows how good he was at his craft. Not much Jodo-penned stuff that's outright bad, either.

For other trippy sci-fi-mystic stuff that doesn't get mentioned too often around here, there's Dreadstar: The Beginning, Arkwright Integral, and Moonshadow (I prefer Blood as far as DeMatteis goes, but that may be a bit too out there for you).

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>>89958832
My LCS has these wrapped up bricks of entire series.
I sometimes grab a miniseries cause they're cheap.
I also bought more bags and backs to put them in cause I don't remember EXACTLY how many this entire JSA run is, bit I wanna make sure I have enough bags.

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>>89958896
I only realized later that I bought the 2nd volume of RASL, so I can't even read it cause I don't have the first.
But fuckit it was only $3.

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>>89958939
As I mentioned about the RASL,
My LCS has a kinda "take these off our hands" shelves of trades they sell for garage sale prices of $2-3 each.

I pretty much grabbed everything that caught half a second of my interest.
Was surprised for Infestation, considering I actually enjoyed it back when it came out and assumed others did too.

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>>89959009
I was actually really proud of these miracles of grabs
Since both the Hellraiser and American Vampires volumes were the next ones I needed to collect.
It was like buying the 6 pieces for a puzzle you could never finish, for 1/10th the original price.

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>>89959059
Tomorrow I am going to look on Amazon for the Vol2 of Toyfare so I can have 1-8.

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>>89959101
After spending too much at the LCS
I left and went to the Used Bookstore next to it and spent too much there, too.

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>>89959152

>>89958408
Nikopol Trilogy is a piece of shit, don't waste your money.

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>>89959200

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>>89959239
And most importantly,
The absolute Sullivan Sluggers that had been in the bookstore window starring me down for 3 years.

Sorry for spamming this, but just had to do it while the buying rush was still there and before the regret kicks in cause my bookshelves have no space.

>>89952801
That issue 4 was such a chore to get through I deleted the file before I even finished the book. It was so fucking boring. But my tastes have changed in the last decade, I'm willing to give it another go. Eventually.

>>89956091
That never helped.

>>89952499
I check the SA by work at least twice a week just in case. Found some gems there over the last 5 years.

>>89949703
I just feel the need to read it at least once. And for a dollar or 2 I don't mind buying it.

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Been a while since i posted in one of these, so here's an update of my shelf.

The Big Book of Hell and The Huge Book of Hell are just out of shot to the far right.

>>89959916
>That fat Perez WW omnibus
Nice. That the entire run or it skips a few unneeded issues?

I keep seeing more and more of those lethal weapon size omnibuses and I keep having enough spending money that they're a possible option.

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>>89960199
it goes from issue 1 through 24, there's a second volume coming out soonish which im definitely going to get.

>>89960199
>>89960286
It should be noted that vol 1 collects the entirety of Perez's WW work as writer-artist, while vol 2's 25-50 are issues he just wrote

>>89958896
>My LCS has these wrapped up bricks of entire series.
There's a guy who does that at DragonCon every year, it's always a steal. Last year I got all of Graham's Prophet and Darrow's pre Dark Horse Shaolin Cowboy

He had a longbox that was just every issue of Warlord for $75 and I was tempted

>>89946115

None of mine are like that, not even the ones from Amazon..

>>89948392

well i guess if you read it digitally in 2006 yeah that would warrant a second look... fucking drama queen.

>>89960199

Keep in mind that how you like reading comics is a big factor in getting an omni... because theyre heavy as fuuuuuck.

What Rebirth trades should I get?

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This just came in the mail. I love Immonen. He's a master storyteller, best in the biz. His work can practically be used exactly as storyboards for films.

>>89902884
those Tomb of Dracula omnis are so hard to find... so jealous. Marvel won't reprint them in Epic format so only way to get in color is omnis.

>>89963275
none, wait for the deluxe hcs
if not, get Superman

>>89963584
is this good? Millar's been knocking it out of the ballpark

>>89959916
>cheap plastic Godzilla with lipstick
Man, I've not seen one of those since I was about five years old.

>Perez WW omni
My wife got that in the mail a week or two ago as a late arrival Christmas gift from my parents.

>>89963771
I honestly only bought the first because I couldn't find the Essential trades at the time, since all my other Marvel Horror titles are in that format and I feel the B&W adds a Universal Monsters sort of ambience to the stories. I knew I couldn't pass it up when it was still at my first LCS during their anniversary sale (75% off storewide that year) and have since had it signed by Wolfman, which is still cool even though he was kind of a dick when I met him.

>>89953715
>why would I be selling my shit?
to support your drug habit

any good Image recs from you guys? i avoid Image because a lot of their books shit the bed after getting a devoted following

>>89966450
What do you like?

>>89966450
Black Science
Chew
Deadly Class
East of West

>>89924879

I don't know if or when Petersen with stuff will go up but I know his con sketches are probably going to be $250 a pop at the few he's going to this year.

>>89966450
>>89966522
Pretty much these. Remender is usually a safe bet when it comes to image titles. I'd also recommend nailbiter which is ending next month.

>>89900433
>http://www.cheap-comics.com/news-i-8.html
>For those who are in no hurry, I will do a pre-order sale for delivery in 2 months.
>The prices below are the prices paid when you can wait for them.

For fucks sake, why do i have to be paid in a shit currency like sterling?

>>89966496
DC New Frontier
SOLO
Corto Maltese
Green Arrow The Longbow Hunters
Superman For All Seasons
Miller DD

>>89966986
Don't think I can help you. Refer to>>89966522

>>89966522
Cool I already have the first 2 hardcovers of Chew, the rest there seems up my alley and I do like Remender. How is his Seven to Eternity?

>>89967007
Can you sell me on Chew? The premise seems kind of dumb but a lot of people seem to like it.

>>89967007
Off to a slow start so far, but great art

>>89967067
I've only read the first hardcover so far but the characterization is really well done. The plot of "eating food to solve crimes" sounded a bit too silly for me when I was going into it but the book balances serious moments with comedic moments very well so that neither feels played out. The art is pretty good too. I'd recommend trying out the first issue online somewhere to see if it appeals to you.

>>89966986
Stray Bullets
Brandon Graham related things
Shaky Kane/David Hine
Casanova
Criminal

>>89967148
I did like King City even though I don't usually do humour based stuff, his Prophet series is supposed to be good yeah?

>sandman slipcase still out of stock
are they seriously going to let it go oop?

>>89958698
In terms of Cape, Wonder Woman and maybe Superman, not big on cape to be honest. Thought about checking All Star Superman out. Having said that I will try some cape if the story is good.

Genre I'll honestly try anything. I like sci fi.

>>89958887
Megahex is a comic about a depressed witch, I see it on peoples shelves a lot. I'll check them out thanks.

>>89959222
I'll skip it then.

>>89967176
Yeah, but it's very different from King City.

>>89966849
The pound is stronger than the euro and shipping wouldn't be too high since it ships from the Netherlands.

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>>89958887
Anon...

>>89960199
Omnis are the best bang for your buck, no question- and that is without even taking the oversized art into consideration.

>>89964824
Yeah I think it's good.

>>89925413

I have only read the manga.

Watched some of the anime as a kid, but the filler makes it unwatchable now. Watched Kai after reading it, but as far as pre-DBZ and post-Cell goes my only experience of it is the manga.

>>89968640
You didn't miss anything mate, the manga is the best way to experience it. Just like always.

So since people brought up manga and /a/ doesn't have shelf threads, does anyone have Tezuka's Buddha? I'm wondering if I should or shouldn't get that.

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These came today, I managed to score a second, undamaged copy of Sir Alfred (even though the "damage" to the last of the Fanta stock was minimal) so I'm buzzing about that. Didn't read the webcomic so excited to read Highbone Theatre, I love Joe Daly, as I love my beach community.

>>89969000
Why two Alfreds? That's less copies for others :(

>>89968868
I don't have it but I've read it and bigly enjoyed it.

>>89969137
Well I suppose Tezuka's work would automatically be enjoyable.

>>89969151
I didn't care that much for MW.

>>89969112
'Cause the first one was one of the "damaged" copies from Fantagraphics, my "LCS" got a load of stuff from Spit -and-a-Half so I thought I'd get a totally mint copy and frame the print from the one I got from Fantagraphics (and have a reading copy, since it's so fucking good). Okay? Hey John Porcellino might still have soe copies left, dunno if it means owt but the Fanta copy was numbered 752/1000, the Spit...copy is like 634/1000. I dunno, I'll check if you need a copy, /co/mrade...

>>89959152
Now this dude, this dude has his priorities in order! (Even if our tastes are wildly different, I gotta tip my porkpie hat to you, sir)

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>>89907033
Oh we're allowed to post toys on here?! My best mate bought me this. I might start a little collection, I really want a Sof' Boy doll but they're ridiculously expensive. In fact I just want ALL the toys on Roy from the I.T Crowd's side of the room

>>89948392
That IS a first print. Lucky mofo!

>>89932781
That's the one flashy panel composition I've seen from recent (ish) capestuff that actually serves a purpose to the story, holy fuck, good on that artist.

>>89918066
Oh God all his books with Sean Phillips are the same! I did enjoy Sleeper though but that was fucking ages ago. My mate gave me K Is For Killing, I read it, fucking hell here we go again.....Brubaker fans should check out Lowlife, the old Fanta comic he wrote and drew. It's semi-autobio, he drew kind of like Chester Brown circa his autobio period. It's certainly more interesting than the stuff he's been cranking out with Phillips for the last howeverthefuck number of years

>>89915865
I second Mowgli's Mirror and Greys, Schwauren is fanfuckingtastic

>>89927297
Been reading through my Megg Mogg and Owl stuff in anticipation of One More Year. I have the landscape zine, life zone, and worst behavior to go, halfway through amsterdam, read megahex yesterday.

>>89915665
I NEED THAT DOMINIQUE GOBLET BOOK. NYRC books are fucking KILLING it, I got Beyer's Agony and gonna order Peplum soon but after seeing the sample pages TCJ ran of Pretending...I really really fucking want it. Goblet is a fucking legend in France and in certain Western comics circles (hipster cunts like us, basically). Plus female autobio is sorta my "thing". Not sexually! I just think that on the whole they do a better job of telling their own stories than the boys

>>89956091
I didn't like it as much the first time myself, because I was reluctant to read all that shit between the chapters, but I really dig it now.

>>89969112
Fantagraphics STILL has some "lightly damaged" discounted copies left (they're hardly fucking damaged at all, there was a slight bend on the back bottom right of the comic that extended to the last six or seven pages, dunno if that's the case for all the copies), Spit-And-A-Half have sold out.

>>89970133
I read Fatale and Criminal in short order and found that not only could I not keep the straight in my head, but that I never want to look at Sean Phillips ever again. His art is like a boring, rainy november sunday.

>>89970592
Yeah...have you seen his painted stuff from when he started?! Like, erm, he did an arc with that mustachioed, muscular dandy vampire character from The Megazine...was it Deacon something?!? Anyway I remember first seeing his stuff all those years back and I wasn't keen on him then, he was part of the wave of, not Bisley imitators per se, but as the old editor (?) of Toothy sez in the documentary about the comic: "suddenly anyone with a toothbrush and some red paint were putting hyper-gory exit wounds everywhere" (I'm paraphrasing). And I'm with you on his current style--lots of technical ability, very, very little interest. No wonder he gets called a hack.
Changing the subject I watched Mad Max: fury Road for the first time recently and was STUNNED by how much "Brendan McCarthy" there is on the screen...it's like one of his early, balls-out mental comics come to life! So fucking impressed. You can literally point to anything on the screen at any time and go: "McCarthy...McCarthy...McCarthy...OHHH that's PURE McCarthy...", know what I mean? Plus the direction, cinematography, story, SFX and script hardly take away from it's sheer fucking awesomeness...fucking blind guitarists with instruments that shoot flame..."McCarthy!"

>>89901337
I was just about to get this.

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>>89948392
>>89970028

>>89970846
I never said anything about Alan Moore!....

>>89969892
No need, I have #761.

>>89971354
Oh, sorry, I inferred you didn't have a copy, /co/mrade. Kudos for the great taste man (I'm totally not vollsticks, btw....).

>>89971354
Forgot to ask, did you get one of the lightly damaged discounted copies from Fanta? If so what were the imperfections on your copy? Just wondering, like...

>>89971418
It's pretty obvious that you're vollsticks.
And the 2000AD Phillips comic was Devlin Waugh (I bought a trade of it last year that Phillips signed. Also bought an original Hellblazer page from him). When/where has he been called a hack? I haven't seen those kind of remarks on tcj/hooded utilitarian/whatever.

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>>89971503
Yeah, I bought it 4 months ago. Had I waited, I could have gotten additional 40% off on Black Friday. I thought they would have ran out of copies quickly but they're still on sale...
The lower right corner is just slightly/barely bent and the plastic sleeve has a small hole in it, not sure if that happened before or after I got it.

>>89971617
Heh. I guess it is!
Devlin Waugh! THANK YOU! Can't remember if his first published work was for Toothy or The Megazine...did he do anything for Crisis? The one devlin Waugh arc i remember was where he was in some underwater facility battling other vampires(?) or something. I actually liked the character desu. It was a John Smith creation, wasn't it? The only reasons I said about him being a hack is a) 'cause of the byline on his website ("hardest working man in comics or hack? You decide!", or something like that) and b) he had a good few drubbings and accusations of hackery in the print TCJ and on the old messageboard. Like I said technically he's great but I just find his work very soulless...
>>89971741
Ah right thanks Anon. Are you the guy who put "This post is for vollsticks" on your comment after we'd been discussing the comic and it's availability, by any chance?!

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>>89970846
>not a mandrill

>>89970231
The TCJ preview is what made me buy it. I'm usually not a fan of autobio comics because of the tendency for them to be diary comics. I hate those. Pretending is Lying luckily isn't like that.

>>89968249
>The pound is stronger than the euro

For now, within the next two months Article 50 will be triggered and we'll probably reach parity.

At which point, i may as well buy them in pounds.

>>89972007
Have you read summer of Love by debbie Drechsler (I always recommend that one!)? Or A Child's Life by Phoebe Gloeckner? Or any Aline Kominsky-Crumb stuff? If you like interesting, "non-diary" autobio stuff then I'd strongly recommend those. Also Julie Doucet's autobio stuff, especially My New York Diary (it HONESTLY doesn't read like a diary!) or her dream journal My Most Secret Desire? Also Carol Tyler and Mary Fleener make GREAT autobiographical comics. For male autobio I HIGHLY recommend Sick by Gabby Schulz, one of my favourite books of 2016, so raw it's like being punched in the gut with a spiked knuckle-duster. You really feel dragged along with him through this awful illness he experiences...Monsters is amazing, too (though that's credited to Ken Dahl, the pen name he started publishing under), it's about how herpes destroyed his most meaningful relationship and it's recently gotten a second printing (first go for pretty crazy money now), they're both put out by Secret Acres. I hope you'll give at least some of these a try, that's if you haven't already.
But yeah those TCJ previews convinced me, too. I'd already seen bits and bobs of her work but was kind of on the fence about it, plus she has very little (if anything (else)) in English, AND L'Association published Pretending...and they're pretty much the first 12 years of Def Jam Record's output in terms of sheer reliability, like you KNEW every release would never be anything less than great...Cheers Anon!

>>89971873
The character was co-created with Phillips, according to the internet.
He's more of a "craftsman" than an "artist" (like say McCarthy) mostly because he hasn't written anything and focused on illustrating. I have bigger problems with his partner in crime (nyuk nyuk) Brubaker. I've only liked his autobio stuff and Criminal. Gonna try Sleeper this year, tho.
I do wish I could browse the TCJ messageboard.
Yup, that was me.

>>89908341
I just got Absolute Azzarrello Wonder Woman recently too. It's beautiful.

>>89910067
I hate hate hate the design of the East of West trades. The stupid diagonal lines down the side just make it look lazy.

>>89972561
Ah, I thought it might have been, dude!
Yeah, I get the "craftsman" angle, he's a grafter, I guess. I just don't get that spark of invention I do from (tries to think of a mainstream artist, fails, goes for usual standby), say, Steve Rude or...Rafael Grampa.
Didja read Brubaker's Lowlife, then?
Oh the TCJ messageboard was a thing of wonder...you'd get most of the alt. "stars" commenting, Chris Ware occasionally, I recall Dash Shaw and Santoro were on there a lot, LOADS of narkiness and sometimes downright offensive attacks on creators from Kim Thompson...I was only on there for the last 18 months approximately but the place was a fucking riot, especially when johnny Ryan chipped in! Tomine and Al Columbia posted fairly regularly on there, too....

>>89966314
Lol, I haven't seen smoked weed let alone taken drugs

The Unwritten is getting collected in those bigger 12-issue books. Anyone got the first one?

>>89973076
Yeah, I read Lowlife. Crazy to think he went from doing that to doing Westworld.
Such an injustice that it was deleted.

>>89912253
All Star Batman is not a good comic for reasons besides "not muh."

>>89913927
Why Absolute Haunted Knight? You liked it that much?
You should finish Stray Bullets by the way.