Shelf Thread?

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>>92853439
I need to get some McKean stuff

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the mike mignola artist edition is super rad

>>92853531
yea, hes cool, im going to try to implement his weird kinda style in my classroom

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dump complete, would love to see what shit everyone has got

getting pay for my overtime today, let's see how much it is and then I'm going to buy some omnis.

>>92853576
>Hellboy in Hell and other stories
>IDW
uh... I thought Hellboy is Dark Horse exclusive?
Or is that one of those artists editions?

>>92853317
>shelf thread
>doesn't stick to the useful thread format

>>92853975
sadly no one does.

>>92853966
artist edition

>>92854071
ah all right

>>92853317
Placed the order for Claremont's X-Men omnis 2 and 3 not fifteen minutes ago. Got the 1st Johns Green Lantern coming in tomorrow. Rise of the Black Flame is already on my desk, waiting to be read.
I'm thinking I've got June covered as far as reading is concerned.

>>92854926
>Got the 1st Johns Green Lantern coming in tomorrow.
I wish there was a GLC omni as well

>>92854799
nice hellboy stuff man

>>92855159
where is the capeshit?!
GET OUT
REEEEEEEEEEE

>>92855159
cool

>>92855293
Watchmen, Warlock, Jack Staff...

>>92853317
Solid.
When I was freshman I had pretty much nothing. GL rebirth, a few random Batman Trades, and that's it.

>>92853725
Oh shit all of these were you?
I assumed only OP's image.

Where's a freshman be able to afford all this?

Its not much, but Im working on expanding it.

Not pictured is all the ones i've gifted friends, of whick KC is next on the chopping block.

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>>92857969
Forgot the image.

>>92858036
I like rex mundi

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Only new addition so far is the Rick & Morty Vol.1 - it's huge, same size as the Hellboy Library Eds - and I'm still waiting on the other deliveries for my birthday.

>>92858191
Its actually the one book there I've yet to read, got it for my birthday a while back and i've never gotten round to cracking it open.

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>>92858274
>cracking it open
please don't

>>92858432
kek

>>92855159
Nice collection. A bit jealous of that Neat Stuff box set. I already got all the trades with the entire content of Neat Stuff that was published in the 90's so I don't really have a good enough reason to buy the box other than the look of it.

>>92853513
What the fuck, that Black Science HC is HUGE

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>>92855293
Fuck off geek!

>>92858638
Yeah I don't like double dipping either although if Fanta puts out a Hate slipcase I'm probably gonna get it to replace the paperbacks

>>92853655
>Joe the Barbarian deluxe
good choice there.

>>92853671
>Essential Wolverine's font is the wrong way
really activates my OCD

>>92853966
>>92854071
noticed afterwards that you actually wrote that in the post but I had the image open and didn't see that there was anything written under it.

>>92858744
I would maybe do that too since my Hate paperbacks are worn out from too much reading.

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My latest purchases. Waiting for One More Year by Simon Hanselmann and A New Low by Johnny Ryan.

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Just finished thet Veryigo Destiny book. Damn that was nice and gothic (as in old era and art style).

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Recent pick ups
Mercy and The Pyscho are from lcs

>>92859124
*Vertigo

My to read/part way through stack. Although i think I'm missing a couple. Most of those were 2.50 except Constantine and Tipping Point.

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>>92859189
Oops. Pic here

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>Fourth Power
Someone asked about this in a previous shelf thread. It's good. It's a pretty standard European scifi story, but I bought it for Gimenz's art and I'm not disappointed.
>>92855159
Why does Love and Rockets bore me to tears? I can recognize that it's objectively a "good comic," but it just does NOTHING for me.

>>92859740
Gimenz is fantastic. Bumped out of pic >>92859124 is Leo Roa cause it's too fucking tall a book.

Love your Jodo collection, I recommend getting Son of the Gun too

>>92857670
ive been collecting all throughout high school

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1/2

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>>92861286
2/2
my last order. my new one should be getting here friday

>>92859648
damn, that's a lot of omnis

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>>92861286
>>92861312
BEST IN LIFE
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got these from used bookstores over the past two days

>>92862888
> all that Gunsmith Cats
Nice find

>>92855159
I pose to you the eternal question:
Jaime or Gilbert?

>>92862888
>gunsmith cats
excellent taste

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My Shelf, nothin new... I spend too much on floppies cuz I have a problem.

>>92863717
I keep meaning to look into custom binding for my floppies

>>92863266
Jaime, but Human Diastrophism to me is the best thing ever done in Love and Rockets yet there's a pretty consistent decline after that for me up until Gilbert started doing all those minis leading up to V2. He has since then been doing a good job not just in L&R but in most of his projects even though he's never hit that peak again so while I think Gilbert at his best is better than Jaime he doesn't hit that mark often enough for me to says he's overall better than Jaime who I has Wigwam Bam, 100 Rooms, The Love Bunglers under his belt. I think Jaime not stretching himself to other things has been better for him in regards to maintaining a consistent quality over the the last 30+ years.

>>92863789

Its really expensive and a semi-complicated process, which is why I'm just going with binders and inserts, need to sort all my floppies out though ive got a bunch to probably sell/donate

I'm getting some taxes back this month so I was hoping to buy some nice stuff, but it seems like every second hand seller on Amazon UK has decided to stop shipping abroad (or at least to here). And Book Depository doesn't have half of anything.

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>>92853317
>Top Shelf
Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea
Hellboy: The Midnight Circus
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953
Hellboy: Vol. 1 (friend is borrowing it)
Hellboy: Vol 2
Hellboy: Vol 3
Hellboy: Vol 4
Hellboy: Vol 5
Hellboy: Vol 6
Hellboy: Vol 7
Hellboy: Vol 8
Hellboy: Vol 9
Hellboy: Vol 10
Hellboy: Vol 11
Hellboy: Vol 12
Hellboy in Hell: Vol 1
Hellboy in Hell: Vol 2
B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth and other Stories
B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs: Vol 1
B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs: Vol 2
B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs: Vol 3
B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs: Vol 4
B.P.R.D.: 1947
Witchfinder: Vol 1
Witchfinder: Vol 2
Witchfinder: Vol 3
Witchfinder: Vol 4
Frankenstein Underground
The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects
Sledgehammer 44
Grim Death and Bill the Electrocuted Criminal
Baltimore: Or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire
Baltimore: Vol 1
Baltimore: Vol 2
Baltimore: Vol 3
Baltimore: Vol 4
Baltimore: Vol 5
Baltimore: Vol 6
Baltimore: Vol 7
Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears
Ghost Rider: The Road to Damnation
Ghost Rider: Vol 1
Ghost Rider: Vol 2
Ghost Rider: Vol 3
Ghost Rider: Vol 4
Ghost Rider: Vol 5
Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch - Addict
Ghost Rider: Vol 6
Ghost Rider: Vol 7
Ghost Rider: Vol 8
Blade: Undead Again
Blade: Sins of the Father

>>92864016
Yeah that's probably a better idea, I wouldn't trust sending my comics in the mail anyway. I just hate the bags and boards

>>92864359
*Hellboy 1,2 and 3 are on loan to a friend)

>Middle Shelf
Daredevil: Lady Bullseye
Daredevil: Return of the King
Daredevil: Visionaries
Deadpool: Secret Invasion
Cable and Deadpool: If Looks Could Kill
Origin
Wolverine: Origin 2
Wolverine Origins: Deadpool
Wolverine: Old Man Logan
Daken: Dark Wolverine
Hulk: Planet Hulk
Hulk: WWH - World War Hulk
Marvel Noir: Spiderman - Punisher
Bullet Points
Gambit: Once a Thief
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Avengers
Captain America: Man out of Time
Watchmen
John Constantine - Hellblazer: Vol 1
John Constantine - Hellblazer: Vol 2
John Constantine - Hellblazer: Vol 3
John Constantine - Hellblazer: Vol 4
John Constantine - Hellblazer: Vol 5
John Constantine - Hellblazer: Vol 6
John Constantine - Hellblazer: Vol 7
John Constantine - Hellblazer: Vol 8
Swamp Thing: Vol 1
Swamp Thing: Vol 2
Swamp Thing: Vol 3
Swamp Thing: Vol 4
Swamp Thing: Vol 5
Swamp Thing: Vol 6
Preacher: Vol 1
Preacher: Vol 2
Preacher: Vol 3
Preacher: Vol 4
Preacher: Vol 5
Preacher: Vol 6
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Vol 1 (on loan to a friend)
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Vol 2
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Vol 3 Century - 1910
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Vol 3 Century - 1969
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Vol 3 Century - 2009
Nemo: River of Ghosts
Nemo: Heart of Ice
Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
The Mask
The Mask Returns
The Mask Strikes Back
Witch Doctor: Under the Knife
Witch Doctor: Mal Practice

>>92864359
>>92864828
>Bottom Shelf
Death
The Sandman: Overture
The Sandman: Endless Nights
The Sandman Omnibus Vol 1
The Sandman Omnibus Vol 2
The Book of Revelations
Tank Girl: Vol 1
Spawn Origins Vol 1
Dante's Inferno

>>92862888
The Nao of Brown is fantastic.

>>92864115
That's probably because of brexit

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1/5, the stuff with tattered or too skinny spines is Caniff's terry and the pirates; Copra; a bunch of old Corben comics and shit.

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>>92865923
2/5

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>>92865923
3/5

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>>92865976
4/5
I really like the omni format. Most of these are gifts from my wife, who is pretty great.

>>92866159
5/5
Most recents: John Carter, Star Wars, X-Force, ASM 3 (Kane cover).

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>>92866205
6/5
Hurr

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1/2

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Hey I finally got off my ass, cleaned up shelf, and got new material so I can post again.

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>>92866725
2/2

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>>92866773
New stuff came today

>>92863997
That reminds me, my (signed and sketched from when I met Jaime in London at Paul gravett's comika festival talk/signing) copy of the Jaime art book has been lent out to a friend (I usually keep it next to the Clowes Abrahms book, hence the unsatisfactory lean on that shelf>>92866773)

>>92858998
Oh shit jelly af at that Dirty Stories vol 3 with the amazing Columbia cover! Where didja get that and how much did you pay if you don't mind me asking?

>>92853317

>All that Alien and Predator stuff

You alright, nigga.

>>92866159
Shame you wasted money on the GoTG omni, since that's already collected in all your War of Kings omnis. Or is that Bendis's run?

>>92864475

They also have to cut the spines off to bind the book properly so you end up with even more gutter-loss than you would have had.

I mean, they look nice on a shelf and theres lots of old comics out there that haven't been collected in any way by publishers but its a very specific need.

>>92868583

Its the Jim Valentino Omni with the 90's stuff.

>>92868867
oh all right.

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(1/2) Recent buys, loving the damaged item discount on IST and getting books from thrift stores on eBay. You literally just pay the cost of shipping, and use a hair dryer and Goo Gone to get any library stickers off.

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>>92869304
(2/2) Rearranged the oversized books and am pretty much out of room now, I've gotta stop. What are y'all reading today?

>>92869341
New52 DC Universe Presents: Deadman. I was somehow under the impressing when I read it last time that it's bad so I wanted to get it out of the way and read it first but it's actually pretty good.

>>92869341
I've said it before but I fucking love your shelf, great books and aesthetic

>>92869572
Have you read the Kelley Deadman stories?
>>92869635
Cheers, anon.

>>92859185
i know this is a recent pickup but i was wondering how northlander is?
>>92859236
is fables still good 12 trades later? i have the first 2 but i hear it goes downhill after a certain point.

>>92869341

Man, that looks even better than it did the last time I saw a pic.. Dunno where you got those shelves but theyre fantastic, also whats with all the wood panelling do you live in a cabin or a converted sauna or something?

>>92869700
>Have you read the Kelley Deadman stories?
nope, I'm not particularly a Deadman fan to begin with, it's just that I want to read all the New 52 stuff and consequently that run is simply on my list.

>>92869304
Oh that's a first printing of City of Glass, right? Great, great, great comic. People talk about "unfilmable" novels--City of Glass was "uncomicable"--'til Karasik and Mazz got their hands on it. Superlative drawing and Karasik's breakdowns (or "paneling" as /co/ likes to refer to it) are fantastic, an excersise in masterful formalism which isn't just expirimentation for it's own sake, it serves the story and it's theme's so well. Might well be the best-composed comic I've ever read. And I love Mazz's "worn-out dripping brush" style, such beautiful mark making. I love Aesterios Polyp but that Rubber Blanket period and the few years after that comic ended are his best period, I think.

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>>92870465
stuff I'm recently bought from instocktrades

>tfw I was going to buy the Perez Wonder Woman omnis but the price shot up like $20
I blame the movie for this

>>92870022
You should make recommendations for the upcoming storytime weekend of pain, then. What's the best and worst of the N52 you've read so far?
>>92869929
My mother's old shelves, living with my parents above the garage.
>tfw 23 new graduate living with parents.
Fuck Long Island.
>>92870228
I love Asterios Polyp and am really excited for CoG. Gonna read the novel before the comic, like I'm doing with Baltimore right now.

>>92865923
>>92865952
I need better glasses

>>92866749
>all that bendis avengers

Why anon, why...

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>>92870520
also scored Peter Milligan's entire run on Shade The Changing Man for 100 bucks. Everything's VF/NM

>>92870660
It's a good book; not a massive Auster fan but I like some of his stuff. The comic really brings it to life. I need to pick up some of Spiegleman/Mouly's Little Lit kid's comics, the imprint that evolved out of Neon Lit (I may be wrong but I thing CoG was the only thing published by Neon Lit, it was a RAW offshoot, pretty sure the comic had finished by then),they have some great cartoonists doing stuff for them.

>>92869771
Not the Northlander anon and not sure what issue that is but Northlander is one of my favorite comics. I love how it jumps around time and has a huge variety of stories and I especially love the more simple ones like the hunting one.

Can't tell you about the Fables one, haven't read it yet. I hear it's not as good as the earlier stuff but we shall see, it was cheep.

>>92870743
Damn, I'm jelly. I wish DC would give it the treatment they're giving Doom Patrol, Hellblazer, and others.

>>92870743
My nigguh, the later back issues are so expensive. Check out Enigma by Milligan, if you haven't already.
>>92870824
Any recs? I'm so clueless when it comes to comics like those.

>>92870704
Nah, I need to remember how shitty the cam is on this tablet.

>>92870660
The New York Trilogy is heavily rooted in noir (it's a postmodern take on the genre) and can get hard to follow at times, Auster's prose definitely isn't for everyone. He also loves to go on little tangents, like in Invisible he talks about working in a library in great detail and it's ultimately pointless.

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>>92871089
I actually got it from a local book store a couple of months back. I also forgot to post it earlier, but I also got his Human Target miniseries last Friday from the same store.

>>92865952
would you recomend reading the savage sword of conan before the other conan series to the left of those?
i feel like the savage sword of conan omnis are more for your money

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Here is a shitty crop of what I have in the mail. I'm not proud of how much I've spent on them.

>>92871089
Check out my shelves see if anything titles or authors take your fancy and I'll give you some more info on them. You could start with Aesterios Polyp or are you the same anon with CoG?>>92866725, >>92866773

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>>92870660
Out of the stuff I've read so far or back when they were fresh (before I stopped reading comics for a few years):
Worst: Hawk and Dove, thanks to Liefeld art
Static Shock because I simply don't like the character at all
Batwing, similar plus how they handle Africa
Grifter/Team 7 because it basically goes nowhere
Fury of Firestorm is just shit (I never liked Firestorm to begin with, but that run is even worse than anything that came before)
Teen Titans and The Ravagers are horrible as well.
I don't really like anything Batman related either, it's a chore going through all that shit, I tell you. Out of the bunch, Batgirl is surely the worst, closely followed by the first few arcs of Nightwing.
Oh and same goes for Green Arrow, I could never stand him. Never. And the first arcs are fucking horrible to boot.

Good/Best stuff for me: All-Star Western (Hex is such an enjoyable bastard, it's unbelievable and he teams up very well with Doc Arkham), Manapul's Flash (the story is above average, not really great but above average, but Manapul's art is so fucking marvelous),
O.M.A.C. was great, shame it lasted only 8 issues (Giffen's art really complimented it though)
Threshold was fucking amazing, too, but same problem here, only 8 issues. Nice twist on some of the cosmic stuff plus Captain Carrot and the Amazing Zoo Crew, plus an enjoyable Larfleeze backup.
Cancelled after 8 issues? There's a pattern here: Blackhawks had an interesting premisse and I see where they wanted to go with that plus Checkmate, Team 7 etc covert-ops and secret agent stuff, but that never took hold because no one bought the titles.
Justice League Dark had some pretty good arcs, much better at least than the Hellblazer/John Constantine stuff.
Azzarello's Wonder Woman is an extremely good coherent story, but holy shit does it take a dip into the toilet when the Finches take over.
Demons Knights was great, too. Paul Cornell is a great writer, really liked him on Captain Britain and M.I.6

>>92871284
I'd really love to get those, I don't know why Fanta hasn't reprinted them and done others.

>>92871284
>>92871284
Why not? Collectively those are two of the best ongoing series ever made and some of the best comics EVER, period! Cherish them, tasteAnon!

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>>92871386
Fantagraphics is being jewey with it. They have printed the set numerous times in paper backs that would cost you about 3x more to collect all of.
>>92871402
I love this series but I paid $77 for Locas and $70 for Palomar. But used and Palomar in unknown quality.
>>92871284
And here is my first shelf. Haven't posted in forever since I got laid off.

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>>92871548
Shelf two.

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>>92871369
Then there's GL/GLC/New Guardians/Red Lanterns. Really enjoyable if you read it in one go in the proper release order or in their arcs
I didn't like the Superman family revamps at all by the way and I say that as a huge Superman fan, so fucking happy they pulled the Rebirth retcon with Superman. Supergirl's costume was pretty shit and I don't really know where they were going with her except apparently she must have been so fucking angry that she turned into a Red Lantern later on, so that's actually something I can look forward to.
I don't know what happened to Superboy, but he is too tightly tied into the shit heap that is Teen Titans so I won't get my hopes up.
The Captain Marvel backups in Justice League were a bit weird but strangely enjoyable
Oh and that reminds me, out of the bunch I thought Catwoman was the most enjoyable Batman family book, at least the arcs I read, dunno how it goes later, but I heard he goes and makes herself some kingpin of crime, much like Penguin did? Doesn't sound that bad.
Oh, I forgot I, Vampire. Now that shit was really good and it ties into Justice League Dark. at least it lasted 19 issues (20 with issue 00).
Also Savage Hawkman isn't so bad at all if you read it in one go.

>>92871548
Eh, the paperbacks that have those stories are less than twenty bucks( I think some are even 15) each and there's in total like 2 volumes worth in each hardcover, online you could probably drop a little over 100 total to get them all (altough the two volumes that collect assorted work would probably push it over a bit more)

>>92871345
Yeah, Asterios is the shit. Mome looks like a promising anthological showcase of talent.
>>92871369
>>92871633
>Giffen
He's almost always solid. But yeah, his titles never last very long. Justice League 3000 is probably his best N52 title.
>Red Lanterns
How far in did you get? Soule's run is great, red Supergirl should have lasted longer.
>Catwoman
The Nocenti stuff? Damn anon, you've got some fortitude.

>>92871746
http://www.fantagraphics.com/howtoreadloveandrockets
There are quite a large amount of books to get them all. Truthfully, I always go for the hardcover edition.

>>92871275
Yes, Savage Sword is kickass.

>>92870741
That run wasn't that bad

>>92871828
Mome was great, I heard from an artist who appeared in there that Fanta are doing another anthology he was invited to submit to, again gonna be edited by Eric Reynolds..Wally Gropius by Tim Hensley (and of course, his Sir Alfred #3) are brilliant, idiosyncratic comics, very funny wordplay, very high levels of craft, wonderful drawing...Gropius was originally in Mome, who else...oh, I really recommend Sammy Harkham's Crickets, I genuinely think it's the best ongoing on the shelves right now. 3 and 4 have been reprinted (firsts are going for stupid money now), not sure if 5 has been or if it's due for a reprint and #6 is out now--3-6 are all one arc, Blood of the Virgin, about an editor/screenwriter/director in LA in the 70's who works on horror B-movies. Crickets 1 and 2 were published by D & Q and have the Black Death storyline--good, but not as utterly indispensable as 3 to 6. Harkham also edits the ground-breaking Kramers Ergot anthology. If you like really weird shit get into Matthew Thurber--1-800 MICE is the most original, innovative comic I've ever read and one of my all time favourites.
And as has been discussed, you can't go wrong with Love & Rockets.....
>>92871548
Dude that's a fucking good price! And I don't think Fanta are benifiting from keeping those huge compendiums OOP, just sayin'....anyone got issue #2 of the new series yet?

>>92872498
Good looks, anon. This small press and alternative stuff is all so foreign to me, I dismiss most of it, but will take a screenshot of your recs.

>>92869304
How is Baltimore? If I'm into the mignolaverse would I like it? Is it all in tpb or do they have bigger collected additions?

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Today's comics

>>92873058
I went into it blind, but am halfway through the novel now, and the writing captures Mignola's nuances just as well as his Hellboy/BPRD work. It's concluding soon and there hasn't been word of an omni/library treatment.

>>92872498
That's a good point but I just dislike how Locas 2 and Luba are still in print but not Locas 1 and Palomar. I'm being salty. And you can see issue two on viewcomic.com

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So about a few months ago I commended this book and after waiting a couple weeks I decided to call B&N:they told it was lost ,so they refunded me.Guess what I found on my doorstep today.Yup feels good

>>92866749
Is that the 2014 Final Crisis trade? I'm thinking about picking it up, but thought it would look larger (at 390 pages)

>>92872669
No problem mate! Big respect for steppiing outa your comfort zone, and I don't mean to be patronising.
Also it seems the only alt comic /co/ agrees on universally is the Meg, Mogg and Owl stuff (and L & R, debatably). Not a fan myself desu but I respect that it is a good, funny, well crafted comic, just not really my cuppa tea for some reason. So maybe give that a look, too? Also the female creators on my shelves are well worth investigating, especially Carol Tyler, Julie Doucet and Debbie Drechsler. I'm a big Aline Kominsky-Crumb fan, too. Might check her hubby out while you're at it!

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Finally finished setting up from the move. I'd like to get a better shelf in the future though. Missing Sin City 1, Maus 1&2, and Watchmen since I loaned them to my grandfather.

>>92870910
It really deserves it, but might be kind of hard to break up story arc by story arc. The three trades that DC put out collected 19 issues, which was mostly the first complete arc, but there was another 6 issues that acted as the epilogue to everything that happened before. Each of the DP books have 14-16 issues each.
Three omni's might work for it.

>>92873952
Oh, those are still in print? I guess maybe they didn't sell to the same level as the early stuff, or something...seriously I'd be salty too, I know what you're saying...gonna wait 'til my LCS reorders (I tried to get it with Sticks Angelica, Frank 3d and The Lost Art of Ah Pook Is Here book but they'd sold out), don't mean to sound holier-than-thou but I don't pirate alternative or small press stuff, making money for those creators is hard enough...I couldn't give a shit about DC or Marvel but they don't put out (much) stuff I wanna read, anyway. But I will buy it if it's good, like Tom King's The Vision or The Flintstones or Zdarsky's Howard The Duck. Tried to get back into capes the last twelve months, spent money on recs from capefriends and ended up giving away all but five titles, the creative bankruptcy at the Big Two at the moment is fucking staggering.

>>92875004
I always buy the stuff that I may "pirate" which really means the stuff that I see story timed here or on a viewing website. I just use it as a way to get the whole story before my order comes in. I have no self control so I can't wait for books to arrive. And I'm a comic collector as well, but being unemployed as changed my views on it. I'm pretty close to dropping almost everything I read.

>>92873058

I picked up a few arcs of the floppies, if you like mignola-verse stuff youd like it for sure, just another little branch of the tree

>>92875167
Like I said man, wasn't trying to be high and mighty, I respect your views and you obviously have the right to do what you want, it's just that I choose to not pirate small press stuff. But full disclosure I have storytimed a few things on here, just because I want people to read them.
>>92872669
Also really recommend Dave Cooper's comics, especially the Suckle/Crumple/Ripple trilogy (which I believe is OOP but still available cheaply). Great comics, Ripple is a dark tale of sexual obsession, indebted to crumb undoubtedly but very much it's own thing. Unfortunately Cooper doesn't make comics anymore but the stuff he has done is gold. Ripple originally appeared in his Weasel anthology which I very much recommend if you can get hold of the floppies.

Stick around

>>92871275
You can read the old bronze age stuff in almost any order you like.
The reading order of the 2004 run ist totally fucked up if you go by the floppies but it is ordered properly in the colossal conan and the paperback omnis that are currently released.

>>92874395
Very lucky.

>>92878421
okay

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>>92853317

I haven't bought any non-weeb comics in years

>>92880112
>>92866725
>king city
i tried reading this in a store and i was't very impressed. should i continue?

>>92869771
Northlander anon here, it's pretty good despite being roughly half the size of the first trade.
I would say it's more of an anthology title showing different events in the Viking era.
I recommend it.

>>92880112
is Vinland Saga about Vikings?

>>92880112
At least it's not nothing but moe.

>>92867833
Found it brand new actually from an independent bookstore. My guess is that they had it since it came out but hadn't sold it until now and that they were totally unaware of what it goes for on ebay. It was quite cheap too, just 13 bucks.

>>92872498
>Mome was great, I heard from an artist who appeared in there that Fanta are doing another anthology he was invited to submit to, again gonna be edited by Eric Reynolds

Yup, it's titled "Now" and there will be no ongoing series in it like there was in Mome thankfully. Just short stories by a lot of the same people who were in Mome and lots of new ones.

>>92882040
It's about many things, including carrying longboats, raiding England, farming and growing up both physically and mentally.
Great stuff.

up

>>92873311
latest lobster arc was fucking good

>>92885391
Never read any, what's the series like on the whole?

>>92863316
>>92863085
is gunsmith cats: burst worth it? haven't read it yet but i've heard mixed things about it.

>>92880329
I have mixed feelings about it. Ilike the environment and the characters, but he fucks the ending up.

>>92869304
Wasn't that Baltimore hardcover a seriously limited print run? Damn good haul, I'd order from IST only I'm not Americlap

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>>92883252
sounds interesting

>>92880112
To be fair the weeabooks that you do have are pretty close to western comics anyway.

>>92887570
nice. Have a minute to show the inside of that monsters book? Looks cool

>>92880112
Those Vinland Saga HCs are great. I hate how so few manga series are released like that.

>>92880112
>>92880112
>Planetes
>Vinland Saga
>Wolfsmund
my man of african descent

>>92887790
In what way?

I want to get some shit from Fantagraphics but I haven't imported shit from the US before.

>>92880112
How's Gundam Origin?

>>92859999
>Son of the Gun and Leo Roa
No foolin', those are the next two Humanoids books I was planning to get.

>>92882622
You spawny bastard! Good on yer, dude.
>>92882654
Oh, right, Joseph Kimball told me about it last fucking November on flickr and urged me to submit to it, daft cunt that I am I hardly ever look at my flickr account, did so the other day, Joe (who likes my comics for some reason--dunno if you have the issues he was in but he sort of draws like a cross between Ware and Charles Burns but more going on in the picture plane, amazingly controlled brushwork, very "poetic" comics, MOME was the first time he was ever published) said basically "no worries, you can still submit, you should" so I may do so, I have a kind of "experimental" piece in mind. Anyway Joe fucking rules, such a nice guy and such a talented cartoonist. Hafta check out the Fanta blog, haven't been on it for ages (do they still call it Flog!?), I stillcan't believe Joe told me about it last fucking year. Urgh, I'm a div. Still, sounds wicked.

>>92888254
Where are you? Post is a lot and you should be able to get your LCS to order you everything they put out (if you have an LCS), I mean it's all in {spits} Previews and it'll be loads cheaper for you in the long run.

>>92890262
I'm from Chile.
I have a LCS but it fucking sucks. I don't really know about stores on other cities, the comic culture is dead here.

>>92888361
From the two volumes I've read, pretty great, haven't gotten far into it or watched the anime yet, from what I hear about it on /m/ a lot of the prequel stuff is pretty contrived and dumb, but the manga is worth it just for those watercolor pages.

>>92890728
Don't worry dude I'm not a fucking /pol/tard! Shit, well, I'm not sure if Previews (Diamond Distribution's monthly catalogue that every Western comic shop gets) is an international publication but you should ask if your closest comic shop has a copy. Well, we get Previews in the UK so why not Chile?
If that's a no-go, though, your best bet probably IS ordering from Fanta. They package stuff really well and dispatch shit VERY quickly. Whatcha thinkin' of getting, Anon?

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>>92890175
Yeah, I know abpout Kimball's stuff. Great artist but maybe not my cup of tea storywise. There are no news about Now on Fanta's page or on their facebook page. They only recently made a statement about it on their instagram and linked to The Comics Reporter. Scroll down a bit and you'll find an interview with Reynolds:
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/briefings/blog_monthly/2017/05/

>>92890870
Thanks man.
I was thinking about buying Dungeon Quest and pre-ordering Zegas. There are a lot of other comic books I want to cop, but I want to start with those.

>>92891109
Oh, right. That's a great cover! Thanks for the link, dunno why but I haven't read TCR for AGES and it usedta be like my morning newspaper with my breakfast, y'know? I should start re-reading, Spurgeon is great, his tenure as the TCJ (print) editor was a great time for the mag, and comics in general. Turned me onto Highwater and the Fort Thunder artists, Kevin Huizenga, John Kerschbaum, Jordan Crane....this is when they were all still self-publishing. I have We Told You so waiting in my "hold" box at my LCS, might get it next month. Thanks again Anon!
>>92891156
No problem, great choices, I'm a BIG Joe Daly fan--funnily enough I'm starting a YT channel devoted to alternative/small press/arty/obscure comic reviews and my first review was for Highbone Theatre. Haven't uploaded it yet. Is The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book still in print? That's a must if you like Daly. And d'you mean Zegas as in the Michael Fiffe comic? Obviously it's your call but it, er, it isn't very good. I read it when it was serialised on Act-i-vate about 6 or 7 years back, not my cup of tea, but then he really isn't my cup of tea generally, so....shit, can't believe Fanta are publishing Fiffe...if you like Daly's stuff check out Forming by Jesse Moynihan, similar humour, similar drawing styles except Moynihan uses painted colour...they both had a piece in the (last?) MOME, I think they were sequenced one after the other and their stuff worked well together. Either way man I hope you get what you want with the minimum of fuss, mate!

>>92885804
>he fucks the ending up.
Nah, the ending is about characters mattering more than the plot.

>>92891109
That kind of looks a bit like Miss Lasko-Gross' style...I don't think it is, though, but I haven't seen anything from her in years so maybe her style has progressed....

>>92891872
I just started getting into alt comics this month because I discovered that Brian Chippendale (my fav drummer) has some comics.
Dungeon Quest is great, Daly's humor is pretty cool. I haven't read Red Monkey or his other works yet, but I'm planning to.
About Fiffe, I really like his artstyle and i'm enjoying Copra, so I think Zegas will be ok.
Gonna check Moynihan too, thanks for the rec.

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did anyone here get Inessential Garbage with One More Year? What's in it?

>>92892338
>I just started getting into alt comics this month because I discovered that Brian Chippendale (my fav drummer) has some comics.

that's a rough starting point, Brian's comics are really hard to read

>>92892338
No problem mate! If you like Fiffe then fair enough man, you'll probably like Zegas then.

Great "gateway" into alt comics there, dude! Lightning Bolt are cool af. His comics are great, I really like Puke Force, I read it when it was serialised on Pictureboxes website but I think I'll get the D & Q collection. Check out Gary Panter if you like Chippendale, a lotta people think he's kind of the "godfather" of that kind of "ratty line" art style. Dal Tokyo and his Jimbo comics in particular are very, very good. He's also done loads of album covers--Zappa, The Residents, he even makes avant-garde noisy guitar music himself but is probably most famous for designing Pee-Wee's Playhouse. I have all of Daly's stuff except Dungeon Quest #3, I fucking love the guy!
Wonderful to see more alternative comics fans on this board!
>>92892537
Are you some kind of homosexual?
just kidding!

>>92891923
It's by Rebecca Morgan. She's not a cartoonist. Her style reminds me of Dave Cooper's paintings a bit.

>>92892421
No, since it's sooo much cheaper for to order the book from bookdepository than from Fantas webshop. I don't live in USA. What does it contain?

>>92892685
I dont know, thats why i'm askng. I'd pay extra even if it's 10 bucks cheaper on amazon but shipping to Europe is 50 bucks which is just retarded

>>92892663
Thanks. I can't see Cooper in that image really myself, too "realistic" but I haven't seen any more of her art so I dunno.
Cooper is/was one of the best cartoonist ever, in my opinion. Weasel was so, so, fucking good. D'ya know he draws on white mylar with a graphite mechanical pencil now? He says "it's everything I ever wanted from pen and ink" (most of his comics were done with a Hunt 102) and damn, he really can get a really varied line from the process--there's a video of him on YT somewhere showing him drawing...damn I wish he'd make JUST ONE more little comic...gimme 48 pages and I'll be fucking happy.....do you like Stephane Blanquet's comics? He reminds me of Cooper quite a bit....
>>92892743
I was saying to >>92892338 about Fanta's insane postage rates, it cost me 12 quid postage JUST for one copy of Sir Alfred #3.....But having said that they dispatch VERY quickly and package their shit really, really well.

>>92892663
Btw do you remember that cartoonist in MOME who did those very cartoony, fine-lined comics about a girl called Meals and her friends at school? She did a comic in the last MOME about a worm, a bird and a bucket (?), her name was Elizabeth something, I can't be arsed t go upstairs and check...I really liked her stuff, so well-crafted and delicate. OH! And Johnathan Bennett! That guy deserves a fucking collection, he's absolutely fantastic, best (male) autobio cartoonist I've read in fucking ages--well, I don't think I've read a better one since to tell the truth (I just think women tend to do autobio better).

>>92892421
i dont know if its even out yet

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Got these in the mail today. I'm glad that Kago continues to get releases in the West. I need to pick up that Fakku book when it comes out.

I'm going to read Crickets now to see what all the fuss is about.

>>92882654
I'm hoping they bring back Schrauwen for Now.

>>92887837
Kodansha has been doing a fair amount of hardcover releases these days. Yen Press too.

>>92894775
Good picks my man. Like I said earlier ITT Crickets is the best ongoing out. Is four a second printing? I'm guessing 3 is also unless you paid like 120 dollars for a first
>tfw you always buy 2 copies when it comes out and sold a first printing of #3 for £120

>>92874804
Love those figures man

>>92885391
The end was brutal
>>92885557
It's fun if you like robots, Nazi gorillas, Nazi's getting their asses kicked, gun fights, that kind of stuff. It also takes place in the mignolaverse so some of the stuff or characters tie into stuff that happens later on In the BPRD

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>>92873311
>>92885391
where do i start with hellboy and lobster johnson? would like to get into it.
is pic related a good read before lobster?

>>92896180
>where do i start with hellboy
Vol 1

Hellboy in Hell takes place after all of Hellboy.

With Lobster Johnson just pick up vol 1 and enjoy, it's in the same universe but it's detached enough to enjoy on it's own.

>>92891922
And it sucks, anon. I fucking knew some jerkoff apologists would rush in and "explain" it though.

>>92896388
Stepping up to help his ex was way more satisfying than fighting the evil monster.

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>>92896440

>>92896434
porque no los dos?

The ending sucked.

>>92896755
>porque no los dos?
Because it made him decide which was more important, solving both wouldn't have done that.

>>92896440
...so I guess you don't like comics at all, then. 'Cause we got fucking everything in this thread. Methinks perhaps you are the one with garbage taste, Mr. Pissy Cuntflaps.

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>>92896440
Thanks, I will

>>92897448
K I N O
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>>92897682
Danger 5 is fucking hilarious

>>92853975
>>doesn't stick to the useful thread format

What do you mean? I never photograph or post my things.

>>92896180
Hellboy at Vol. 1, LoJo at Vol 1 - but honestly I'd read BPRD before LoJo.

>>92899231
He meant we have a regular thread header to start off this thread. This should be in the OP:

Post your shelves, recent purchases/hauls, news about buying comics and any upcoming stuff.

Don't know where to buy? Try these:
http://www.amazon.com/
http://www.instocktrades.com/
[your local comic shop here]

Are you Euro or UK and don't know where you buy? Try these:
http://cheap-comics.com (EU)
https://www.archonia.com/comicshop/en/ (EU)
http://www.speedyhen.com (UK)
https://www.bookdepository.com (free worldwide shipping but known to manhandle books)

New list of things out next week:
http://www.comiclist.com/index.php/newreleases/next-week

>>92894935
I'm pretty sure they're both second printings. I paid MSRP for both of them.
I was pretty impressed with it. 4 really drew me in. It wasn't at all what I was expecting. When I read it was about the filming of a B-movie, I was expecting something off the wall (e.g. Like A Velvet Glove Cast in Iron). It's much more grounded than that. Only 2 issues in, and I already care about the characters. I'm really digging the art as well. He has a great sense of how to do time. I think the ending sequence of 4 where he drops off Oswald is a good example.

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>>92900379
Yeah man I know I storytimed #4 when it came out. I love Joy! To me Harkham is at the very top of the game at the moment and like you I fucking LOVE his art, he's a big fan of Roy Crane and you can see it, you're right about his time/pacing, too, he keeps a regular grid with a few breaks from it...I love the editing scene in #3 and the actor who takes himself too seriously in #4. 5 is amazing too, won't give too much away but Seymour's wife and kid go back to Australia but there's a beautiful sequence in a strip club (featuring Gil Kane and Charles Schulz, lel!)....and in #6 there's a sequence of Seymour and Moira just looking at each other, with their heads rested sideways on the roof of Seymour's car, very few words, it's all done with the eyes, so fucking skillful...I LIKED Crickets 1 and 2 but the Blood of the Virgin arc is something else. Oswald is a cool character, he's that 70's stoner stereotype almost but Harkham makes shit so much more nuanced....I love Crickets. Get 5 and 6 asap /co/friend. They're ALL fucking amazing but 5 in particular, like I said the strip club scene and the one stripper's routine...amazing.
I'm saving up for an original page at the moment, I don't care which one, I just want an original Harkham page.
I love Crickets, therefore I love anyone else who loves it. BUY 5 AND 6 MY DUDE YOU'VE READY BOUGHT THE TICKET NOW GO ON THE RIDE

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>>92887570
Sure.

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>>92887797
Meant to quote you. Here's some more.

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>>92900863
>>92900918
>take photo sideways
>they post correctly
Sure, whatever.

What a great thread

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>>92887797
>>92900863
>>92900918
>>92900965

>>92900838
I'm going to get 5 & 6 sometime next week. Definitely part of my next purchase. I'm not usually a huge fan of having a strict grid when it comes to comics, but Harkham did it in a way that I didn't even notice, so I'll give him that. I think the reason I didn't mind it was because he wasn't too strict with having a grid. He has little sequences that would break from it or have splash pages/panels. He doesn't use the same "camera angle" either, which I feel is a bad habit that a lot of cartoonists have. He also doesn't seem to have a problem with "decompression" as some people here would put it. He lets the scenes breathe, showing the little moments between moments and setting the tone. Not all the time, but when it makes sense. I like that. Now I'm gushing over Harkham like you do. That's not what I wanted at all.

>>92887777
It is. The main character's journey from an edgy murderer to a pacifist filled with regrets is really well done.

>>92901322
I love consistent gridding. All the best use it--if it ain't broke, don't fix it! When you set up that strict rhythm it "means" more when you break away from it. And like you say, you don't notice the best cartoonists employment of a consistent panel breakdown. Why do nearly all alt cartoonists use a simple grid? Because it FLOWS. I could go into all Santoros grid theories but I won't, they make perfect sense. Also you're spot on about Harkham's "camera angles"--he has a real knack for making a simple talking heads scene visually interesting. I love the exploding,sorry, melting head sequence in 3 and how Harkham lays it down-also the little recipe! Plus his environments look SO CONVINCING. And that's deceptively hard to pull off, to have characters convincingly interacting in a space,isn't it? Like the best, he makes the hard stuff loak effortless. ...didja read his recent TCJ interview? It was great. It's still me I'm posting from my phone. I will gush about B.O.T.V at any opportunity, mate!

>>92901001

Not a huge godzilla fanboy but that is fuckin awesome, would love it as a poster.

>>92880112
>Vinland Saga
>Gundam The Origin
>Gundam Thunderbolt

Muh nigga.
That’s some good taste, I will try to get Planetes

>>92888361
Pretty nice, I have it to volume V and it has been pretty good.

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For bumps and giggles, my previous purchases.

>>92905985
It was a nice random find. Gonna have me looking up a few new characters once I read it.

Going to order War of Kings, Realm of Kings and Road to War of Kings omnis later when I'm on my real break.
Why the fuck won't they reprint the Annihilation omni? FUCK!

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Fuck it, shelves.

>>92907762
I just want a fucking Eternals omni reprint. Or a new edition that also includes the 80s maxi series, like they did with Squadron Supreme.

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>>92907803
And the to read... dresser. It was slowly starting to get smaller, but the recent purchases negated that quickly.

>>92853628
The Stand is probably my favorite text-only book, but I've never read the comic adaptation. Is it any good?

>>92907820
>It was slowly starting to get smaller, but the recent purchases negated that quickly.
I know that feel

>>92902524
I think I would have liked it more the other way round

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been loving dc rebirth so far. i usually wait for trades but i couldnt pass up the button. cant wait for doomsday clock.
>>92907820
Damn, are those ALL to-read?

>>92908352
Give or take 10 books, yes. Yes it is. Currently working on Bighead, then I think I'll tackle all the Sin City there.

>>92908450
i hope watchman is one of those 10 books that you've read by now.

>>92908559
*men

>>92908559
I've made it no secret when I first read Watchmen a decade ago I absolutely hated it. I said I'd give it another try if I ever found it for a buck at the salvation army and, well, a few months ago it was there and I sorta kept to my word. It is at least on my to read pile, and I will get to it before the end of the year, much to my chagrin. It is a first printing so that makes it a bit more tolerable to have on the pile.

>>92853484
But anon what are you going to do if you bring a girl into your room and she sees this? She'll be disgusted