Shelf/ recent purchases and hauls thread

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OP here, I'll start. These arrivied in the mail yesterday.

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Nothing new

I haven't bought anything new in a while. I might just head to Manhattan next week and check out Strand just to fix that and buy anything.

Canadian, we actually have a slight sale!

https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/sale/deals-of-the-week/books/teen-manga-graphic-novel-offer/

Buy one, get another half-off. Yay....

>>94844891
make it booksetc.co.uk next time

My copy of Watchmen came in on Monday, which was quite convenient as my internet got knocked out by some idiots from the phone company.

It's wednesday, let's see if this survives.

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>>94844891

>At least 15000 parcels are stuck at a sorting terminal outside of my city
At least I know where my books are

>>94844901
Lucifer and Morrison Doom Patrol Hell Yeah!

>>94844901
>Lucifer
>Doom Patrol
>The Flinstones

my man

>>94846498
it should, this is the worst non-5th week Wednesday in months
anywhooooo whats some secret good stuff that has come out recently? any other recs? these threads are how I found out about a bunch of good stuff but looking at shelves is somewhat overwhelming and mundane to me. thinking of getting The Wendy Project, My Favorite Thing is Monsters, and Josephine Baker graphic novel but haven't heard much actual criticism about any of them

>>94847148
lots of stuff you don't see here every day. all that vertigo, sgt. rock, Amethyst, A BROKEN BOOSTER GOLD SHOWCASE

>>94848115
Aside from like three DC books I'm basically only following Dragon Age: Knight's Errant at the moment. Which is ok as long as you are interested in Dragon Age but doesn't work as a stand alone at all.

>>94844891
OP where did you get the shelves from?

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Just came in yesterday
More coming on fedex later
Where is my For Asgard sequel??

>>94849375
googled around a bit, check "volans shelf"

>>94850081
>volans shelf
thx anon, appreciate it

>>94845318
damn...I just spen my load

Speaking of literal shelves, I need a new Detolf or Klingsbo soon. What are some good bookshelves I can get to replace my Target shit with at ikea? I know the BIlly and the Kallax are the standards, but any other just basic bookshelves? Anything enclosed so I could use it as both a bookshelf and a display case.

>>94850010
>Where is my For Asgard sequel??
You'll have to be satisfied Rodi's 'semi continuity' based books. Have you read Thor and Loki: Blood Brothers, it's just as good. He also did Astonishing Thor, which isn't quite as good but it's the story that gave us Alter Ego. And Thor going against Ego and The Collector is fun. I don't really recommend The Deviant Saga that much, but it's still pretty decent. Better than a lot of Thor books

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>>94844891

>>94850220
>blood brothers
i'm gonna buy that soon

If I wanted the entire Death of Superman saga where could I buy that? Not seeing anything collecting all of it anywhere

Never mind. I'm going to buy the seperately. Found the omnibus and I'm scared it'll tear itself apart if I try to read it.
It's nice its getting the TDKR treatment for their animated movies though

>Gotham by Gaslight movie
FOR WHAT PURPOSE

Birthday next month. Can't decide if I want to try and continue a series I'll eventually get myself either way and ask for the Absolute Sandman or if I should try something new and as for either the iZombie or Rachel Rising omnibus instead since I'm not sure if I'd buy those on my own.

>>94850171
IKEA's FINNBY is as basic as it gets. They're good quality, will survive eternity but can only hold about 13kg/29lb, and they aren't very deep (24cm/9.4in). My Absolutes would fit exactly inside it (with about 2cm0.7in to spare), would they be any bigger, they would poke out.
If you plan to put regular books into them you'd probably have a hard time with stuff like artbooks, travelling albums etc.
Another thing about FINNBY you should know is that you should reeeeallly fix them to a wall. they may actually topple over if you put too much stuff at the tops. That problem doesn't exist with BILLY or KALLAX, they're massive enough.

BILLY are deeper (28cm/11in), absolutely no problems there and they're even more massive, practically indestructible (each shelf can carry 30kg/66lb), but a bit more pricey.
There's a cabinet-style version available that has glass doors. if you have the money, think about investing into that, they cost easily 4x as much as the regular one though and it's probably 8x as much as a FINNBY.

With KALLAX, keep in mind that they have no back wall. That makes them excellent room dividers though if you need that.

With the other IKEA choices, check the technical details of each shelf (scroll down to "product information), I don't really have any experience with them.
LIATORP, AVDALA, HEMNES, GERSBY... dunno, just check them out. If you actually visit an IKEA warehouse they should have display items there.

stick around

Anyone know the deal with that new New Gods omnibus coming in December? I was thinking of getting it but it's contents aren't clear. Some places have it listed as
>SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #133-139 and 141-148, NEW GODS #1-11, FOREVER PEOPLE #1-11, DC GRAPHIC NOVEL #4: THE HUNGER DOGS and a story from NEW GODS #6
While others say
>SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #133-139 and 141-148, THE NEW GODS #1-11, THE FOREVER PEOPLE #1-11, MISTER MIRACLE #1-18, plus later stories from NEW GODS #4 and DC GRAPHIC NOVEL #4.
So which is it? I'm assuming one of these is out of date but I can't find anything to confirm which.

>>94844901
All of those are pretty good, nice pick up

>>94845318
Looks like Shade, the Changing Girl is already on clearence. 13$ already.

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I'm sorry for my lack of new shit
>>94844901
>Flintstones
I dig it
>>94847148
Lots of nice stuff here as well

Any advice on selling? I'm trying to sell a bunch of French comics (bd) in NYC. One store I went to doesn't buy them. It's a lot. Couple hundred.

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Just came in the mail an hour ago.

Whoever replied to me that recommended me the Spider-Man stories I should get, thank you so much. I always enjoy coming in this thread to chat about which books I should get or look at what other people gotten. This is my first time getting an omni and can't wait to read it.

>>94852067
it'd actually make sense not to put the Mister Miracle stories into that because they made a separate collection for that and I'm not sure the omni can even survive a reading in its full form, I actually see it break apart from its own weight.
Really can't tell you what's what, I'm happy I own the original 4 omni version.

>>94850607
>cabinet-style version
Doors and extra shelves for BILLY are simply sold separately.
Can't afford doors now? Get them later.
Found doors in the bargain bin but no use for them? Get the book case later.

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>>94853002
>planning ahead
get a load of this guy

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Oh wow, I didn't know they sold doors for the Billy. That's neat.

>>94852067
the one with mister miracle is on edelweiss and also matches with the page count

>>94853498
you have to install them yourself though. you also have to install the door handles yourself (at least my brother had to do that on his wardrobe and you don't want to see how that turned out), so you better have someone handy that knows how to do that shit or it ends an eyesore.

>>94853517
the official solicit from DC Comics doesn't list the Mister Miracle issues though.
http://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/jack-kirby%E2%80%99s-fourth-world-omnibus

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>>94853639
You have to hang the door yourself but the knobs and the holes for the hinges are already there.

I bought a DC HC from Amazon a while ago and today I got an email that said my purchase came with a free digital Marvel trade, which is pretty weird IMO...

>>94850220
Rodi is the best Thor writer

>>94853966
which book did you buy and has it arrived yet?

>>94854280
I bought Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 1 and it has arrived but I haven't read it yet because exams are happening.

Is there anywhere else with discounts like Hamiltonbooks?

>>94854280
>>94854452
I checked and the promotion was actually attached to the order number for my pre-order of the upcoming The Legion trade. Which I haven't even paid for yet.

>>94849375
It's from a website that only ships in my country. But I would suggest googling "modular shelf" or something like that and maybe you'll find something similar.

>>94854629
Hamiltonbooks should go into the next OP.

Also Barnes & Noble has those buy-one-get-one-free promotions from time to time.

I thought I'd do something a bit different for Christmas this year. I decided to get my brother the Nedroid books and a print, and then thought to go from there. My sister would love Lackadaisy, but I'm not that close with my other brother. I know he likes Voltron and Rick and Morty, but nothing too specific.

So, any Voltron fans here? Any good art books or technical manuals or something like that I can get for my older brother? I know there's the Rick and Mort comics, but I was going to get him the art book for his birthday next month, so I don't want to drown him in Rick and Morty.

>>94854709
Menards was selling a similar bookcase for even cheaper prices a few months back but that might only be where I live.

Setting up book-cases for under 100 USD is getting harder and harder these days. Even second-hand shops don't have banged-up shit you can fix.

>>94855759
If you want just the cheapest money can buy, Walmart and Target sell 30 dollar shelves that aren't completely terrible as long as you baby them a bit

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Someone near me is selling the Judge Dredd pinball machine. I wanna buy it so bad.

>>94856140
Doesn't look like a bad price. Do it if you have the money. I've always wanted a pinball table. Black hole is my favorite.

>>94856140
You can talk him down to 3500.

>>94856384
I've had my eye on getting the Judge Dredd one for a while now and and I totally wanna do it. but my grandma had a heart attack and I maxed my credit card taking care of her for a while so it'll have to wait.

stick around

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Newest package. Officially hit 25 hardcover duck books. Still haven't cleaned up my shelf from moving.

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>>94857888
and this came a few days ago. wanted to try something a bit different, not bad so far, a little too abstract/surreal for my taste (both story-wise and aesthetically), but not enough to turn me away, interesting read

>>94857724
classy purchases

Found two Transmetropolitan trades at a tiny used book store. The pile also had most of Sandman there and the Black Orchid miniseries, so I think someone had to dump their Vertigo comic selection.

>>94853654
Dc's solicits are always wrong

>>94850221
I found the first three volumes of Pluto in a used bookstore recently. I couldn't order the next ones fast enough after finishing.

Yesterday I bought Maus I at a used bookstore for $2.50.

>>94845081
That bank was fucking dumb, they could picked something better.

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No new stuff incoming.

Going to finish off The Goon and Scott Pilgrim, and then that's probably me done until the new Hellboy/Abe Sapien stuff comes out in the Winter.

Buying them ASAP so I won't get screwed on the hardbacks like the Plague of Frogs HCs I'm still salty about.

Then - the big save up for Absolute Sandman.

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>>94858456
guess you'll have to get a surprise package then while I just read my 4-book HC version again.

>>94844891
i recently got the first volume of "Invisible Republic" (used at a discount price) and a few mtg cards. not brand new out of booster packs, mind you. fuck that. wizards of the coast just wants your money.

when i'm done reading the first volume of IR, i'll see if i can get credit for a trade on the 2nd volume

>>94844901
>Lucifer
>Flintstones

cool, cool.

>>94859103

Bookshelf is an IKEA Billy, by the way. £15 for this white version (40cm wide, 106cm tall), and you can get ones that are twice as tall, twice as wide, and twice as tall and wide. White's cheapest, but all very reasonably priced.

Went for three of these to form a sideboard when I have them all set up, and the narrow width helps prevent any warping.

>>94858557
You can find them relatively cheap in Amazon. That's how I got them.

>>94844891
Бългapин лoл.

>>94844901
Lucifer is the shit, good buy

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>>94860226
>he didn't finish reading the post

how do you guys read those huge fuckin omnibuses
do you lay in bed to read them or what

>>94861106
I lay in bed and have a pillow stacked between my chest and the omni. alternatively you can lay it in front of you on the bed and sit cross-legged or you can put it on a table/desk and sit there to read it.

>>94861106
I'm currently reading mine on my desk at the moment.

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>>94847148

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>>94861831

>>94848115

Kill or be Killed
Ragnarok
Black Hammer

>>94852508

If you're *IN* NYC, find somewhere in Quebec that might want them. its not far away. just google Montreal comic shops and call around.

>>94861148

and as you can see, every way is really inconvenient.. ppl in shelf threads just have them for epeen values

>>94861106
That's how I read everything. Biggest book I have is Deadly Class book one and it never really got in the way but maybe it's different for omnis

>>94855937
Just build it yourself. Book cases are the easiest thing to build

>>94857966
oh man, that looks fucking cool. Can you post a couple pages of that? That looks up my alley

>>94858030
Black Orchid is just ok but the rest, did you grab it all?
>>94858625
nice find too

People getting lucky this week

>>94857724
>Donald Duck Timeless Tales 3
Does it have up to issue 21 where the monthly series ended? The next Mickey Mouse Timeless Tales supposedly will.

>>94862964
Bull. A lot of areas charge excessive amounts for planks. By the time you're done sanding, staining, sealing, drilling, and assembling; it's often cheaper for something already made. Even before you consider the amount of labor put into it. In areas with a high demand for wood its really hard to find knot-free boards that won't split. Even if you're really careful with them.

We're moving into more /diy/ territory if it still exists. But not every region has the same prices or resources.

>>94863210
I'm planning out my own shelf (just need to go back to my parents farm for all the right tools). Going to use MDF cause that's strong and cheap. Not going to cost much at all.

Sure, if you are going to go with high grade plywood or planed hardwood it will fly up in price. But we are talking economy style here, and MDF is fine, you are painting it anyway.

Would anyone care to explain to me how The Mask Omnibus can cost $25 retail, but be $300 online?

>>94863459
I'm not a carpenter. I've done little else but repair or strip a couple of pieces and retreat them. Or reinforce wood with small pieces when things go hellishly wrong.

I'd just rather buy a fully made piece than risk putting things on painting fiberboard. It's not that things would go wrong, it's that I don't know they wouldn't.

Or I could spend the time making several better pieces and selling them locally to make up for the cost or make an outright profit. People really love handmade stuff.

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Accidently made a dupe thread, sorry anons

Got these in the mail today, I was the anon who started collecting trades this year

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I bought a new shelf and have no idea how to organize it.

>>94863788
YOU DON'T KNOW THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM?

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>>94863788
Most guys will put things they use the most in the middle or within reach, comics books etc they they don't want getting harmed or above where they don't reach into, and things they are less fond of end up on the bottom where they have to kneel or bend over to access. Book/comic/DVD shelves organize themselves with use.

>>94863859

ah...ah i think he might have something wrong with his MEDulla OBlongA-TAAA

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Might as well join in, apologies for the light in the upper left.

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>>94864339
Figured I'd go with a trinity thing on top.

NTT reprint finally coming out next week.

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>>94864387
Top shelf is for omnibuses and hardcovers just because the spacing isn't ideal on the shelf I'm using.

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>>94864428
I guess you could say I like Hellblazer.

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>>94864551

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>>94864551
good taste

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>>94864579
So the shelf I try to keep for either long series or just personal favorites, everything else gets exiled to drawers until I get another shelf.

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>>94864659

>>94864579

>The Question in tpb including V1.... ohhhhh you bastard I'm so jealous

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>>94864690

>>94864690
How heavily featured is Tommy that he's on the spines of both volumes of The Demon?

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>>94864749
And that does it for me. Can probably afford to do some downsizing desu or at least branching out a bit more from DC. Was thinking of trying either Dredd or Hellboy next.

>>94864806
Been a while since I read it but from what I remember volume 1 has his origin arc and in volume 2 he helps Blood with his plan to protect himself from Etrigan.

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>>94864339
All that Everything! Seen you guys with the Animal Man omnibus makes me remember the time it was within my grasp and let it slip. but hey I salute you, my all star superman brotha.

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>>94865090
Might as well repost my stuff. nothing new and that kraken has been long gone.

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>>94865090
>>94865135

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>>94865157

Also, would be worth getting the absolute Death over the Death Deluxe edition? Seems like they have the same content.

>>94864339
Which Kyle figure is that? Is it from the Morrison JLA line of figures?

>>94864339
Nice set of Hellblazer trades. I need to get on that before they stop printing some of the less-loved runs (Jenkins)

stick around

>>94864690
where should a person start with morrison's batman?
batman and son?

how's ordering from instocktrades? how long does it usually take for them to ship comics?

>>94864690
shit also how's sheriff of babylon? i love gerards art but king is hit or miss for me.

>>94867564
Not that guy, but Sheriff is a great little story. There's a deluxe coming out next year though that has both trades in it.
It's the third part of the Trilogy of Best Intentions (with Vision and Omega Men)

>>94867690
damn, i dont know if i can wait that long for a hardcover.
omega men is another one ive been wanting to read. and its collected all in one paperback.

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>>94867531
That's where his run begins, but you might want to get some of the build up too.
Here's a nice guide.
http://crushingkrisis.com/crushing-comics-guide-collecting-dc-comic-books/collecting-batman-comics/batman-grant-morrison-complete-guide-trade-reading-order/

>>94867786
>Morning Glories
I'm so sorry

>>94862359
How is that inconvenient? If you argue like that, you could say everything is inconvenient besides sleeping.

>>94862359
>epeen values
I got the DC One Million Omni because it was $30 and I don't think it's collected in any other edition.

Rec me some underrated gems, preferably collected.

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Should I?
I know next to nothing of these except faintly remembering the cartoons.

>>94868667
They're pretty fun, though a bit repetitive and very predictable. Also the books that taught me my first piece of fashion advice, so there's that.

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>>94868667
Yes, absolutely go for it. Asterix is fucking amazing, at least until BD 28. After that it definitely gets down the shitter, but having a box like that more than compensates.

>TFW my IST order is 49.97.
I guess it gives me an excuse to get more comics.

>>94863788
You should organize it by selling everything but that Girls comic and just collecting copies of Girls and Trouble

>>94868590
Books of Magic is criminally underrated

>>94867564
>i love gerards art
why?

>>94868590
Hawkworld, Skreemer, Kid Eternity, Green Wake, Gotham By Midnight, Phantom Stranger, Empty Zone, The Kitchen, The Empty Man, Escapo.

>>94870308
not that anon, but he's pretty damned expressive

>>94865475
It's the JLA classified figure, picked it up from my LCS.

>>94867564
I liked Sheriff but I also like most of what I read from King. Been meaning to pick up volume 2 but I sidetrack easily with purchases.

>>94870400
When? When he traces? I will admit that he really stepped it up on Mister Miracle though.

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got these earlier, love me some tardi

>>94868738
That list is extremely well prepared.

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>>94868667
so which books are in it? all of them or is there a cut-off at a certain date?

>>94868667
how much is it? i've been looking for a lot of BD stuff from my childhood like Asterix, Tintin, Lucky Luke, but there's so many editions.

Found the first volume of Clean Room at a local store, is it worth reading?

>>94872866
37 books

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>>94863013
sure man. it's not that expensive even, at least not for a hardcover color book. maybe it's the small format

Best ways to remove stains from paper? One of my comics got stains from a fruit :(

>>94873504
First volume is good, second is very uneven (fighting cancellation numbers), and the third drops the ball hard at the end (like most horror stories).

I liked it, but it was very uneven overall.

>>94873961
Then that's all of them if Asterix and the Chariot Race is in it, which was from this year.

Why is Marvel so expensive, /co/mrades?
Who are they kidding?

>>94875387
Having trades that are reasonably priced will kill floppy sales and those poor little LCS's.

That's actually what their head of PR said last year.

>>94875573
Really makes you think...

Also I fully recommend Fury Max to anybody. It's good stuff

>>94874138
Potatoes. They soak that shit right out.

>>94875573
>will kill floppy sales
it makes sense in its own way, that is, if you ask $5 for a floppy.

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>>94868590
Sugar & Spike. It's a real blast. It ran in a stupid anthology alongside some aggressively mediocre stuff. Buying it would support the creators financially but also in the sense that the publisher sees that they're in demand and gives them more work. Also encourages the publisher to do more out there stuff.

>>94870300
>>94870394
>>94876828
thx xoxo

>>94876828
The LoSH issue in that collection is top tier fuckery and I love it to pieces

>>94870308
I like the way he utilizes the 9 panel grid.

>>94877734
indeed. I didn't know it was collected.

>>94867765

The trades for Sheriff are out, this is just for the hardcover....

>>94868738

Ive been looking for this damn image for a while, I thought i had it already, didn't, and nothing i searched on google worked, just had a similar but really lame version.

>>94878669
That's more King.

>>94867870
Yeah... It kinda interested me at first since it is basically that live-action Cartoon Network show Tower Prep meets LOST. But it's pretty obvious they have no idea what they're doing now. But I started it so I gotta finish it. Wish Mind the Gap hadn't been cancelled.

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>>94857966
Sorry, I think this is the worst thing he's ever fucking done, and I have every issue of Lose, all his Koyama/D & Q books, it's literally like he hacked it out in maybe two hours. But, good for you for trying something different, sorry for being a negative nelly
>>94863013
Believe me, it's not. get Dressing odr Sticks Angelica of ya want prime Deforge.

Okay doing this for like the third time in a week...1/7

>>94882289
2 and 3/7

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>>94882320
Forgot pic, 2 and 3 out of 7

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>>94882339
4 and 5/7

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>>94882370
6/7

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>>94882394
7/7

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>>94882420
Newest stuff

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>>94882513

>>94882545
Forgot to say, ordered four Dungeon/Donjon books at half price (between £3:75 and £4:99) from my LCS, Spy Seal #1 annnnd my motherfucking copy of Alack Sinner: Age of Innocence came in stock today! Buzzing. Also getting latest Palookaville, should land early next week all being well....

>>94882339
Caught Ted Stearn's (Fuzz & Pluck Moolah Tree, Spltisville and s/t--he was also in Rubber Blanket issue #1, comic trivia fans) name in the storyboard dept in th last Rick & Morty episode! 'Course, now it's cool we all HATE the cartoon, right?!

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Latest pickups from a couple of weeks ago.

Bike got stolen last weekend so I guess that eats up my recreational cash for the foreseeable future..

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How'd I do

>>94884796

I have no fucking idea... but it all looks interesting and something I'd love to check out.

>>94885199
Those Question covers are great, kinda reminds me of Vertigo covers, but less abstract.

>>94885199
My Lcs has 4 of those Question annuals- are they worth checking out if I've never read anything at all with him before

>>94884796
Fuck, don't think i've ever seen a Batton Lash comic in a shelf/buyfag thead!

So /co/, what are you reading right now?

>>94888492
Finished the New Teen Titans vol. 4 yesterday and now I've started reading Lucifer book 1. Starts out pretty interestingly.

>>94888492
Conan Omni vol 2

>>94884796
Does he fuck Wonder Woman?

>>94888492
Currently in my backlog
Dave McKean's Cages
Prophet 1
She-wolf 2
MLP: Fiendship is Magic
Contract with God trilogy
Wicked+Divine hardcover
Alabaster: Wolves
Lackadaisy 2
Bizenghast 1
Gloomcookie 2

What the fuck do I read next? My backlog's getting to be big enough that I look and just shrug instead of read something. And I have more in the mail.

>>94890339
besides Eisner, that's all gay shit
read like anything else in the world

>>94890417
>talking shit bout Dave McKean
Hello Summer

>>94888492
Depends on how this hurricane goes.
Likely rereading Rachel Rising and finally reading Prince Of Cats if the power goes out all weekend.

>>94888492
Promethea. Just got done with the first volume. Holy fucking shit!
Making my way up through some Moon Knight. reading up on some Houston, it's... okayish. Didn't like Moench's stuff much.
And I'm 3 volumes into Sunny. Enjoying that.

>>94874061
oh man, that looks cool as shit. Definately putting it on my list.

>>94890417
>this shitty taste
How do you make it through life?

>>94890417
>Eisner
i bet you only even know that because of the awards

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anyone ever read this?

>>94890339
I'm really, really, REALLY tempted to buy the Alabaster Mimi books...her (?) style is so decorative, almost like a lace doily but with a very solid understanding of the fundamentals of cartooning. Also she's one of those creators, like rege, for instance, whose style is immediately recognisable as hers and no-one else's. Plus the books look so damn nice....

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>>94893151
I was actually talking about Alabaster, written by Caitlin Kiernen. You mean Mimi and the Wolves by Alabaster. Coincidentally, I also have that.

I definitely recommend it. Really fantastic story. I'm glad I bought the first three at the same time because I would have been unable to wait for the second volume. I grabbed a print from her site too and she was pretty nice in emails. Definitely worth the pickup. Go buy the three now.
http://www.alabasterpizzo.com/shop/mimi-and-the-wolves-acts-i-iii

>>94890438
>Tfw one of the founders of FP and Titan shows you glorious b & w pages and character designs for a series of James Bond gn's based totally on the original books--you know where he drives one of those old rolls Royce's with the cylindrical front chassis, kind of looks like an elongated oil drum (not a car expert myself, obviously...) such glorious brushwork, like a realistic version of the loose-ish slightly more cartoony stuff he does now. Also saw unpublished Sienkiewickz and Bisley sketches.

But lets be real, for a looong time his storytelling was pretty bad, Arkham Asylum was lotsa paint smears and shadows, uninteresting talking heads etc...I get it wasn't supposed to be an "adventure comic" but guys like Xaime or Bagge can make a talking-heads sequence look like...well, poetry. And Wild Orchid was even worse, like McKean just wanted to show off his airbrush skill and mastery of the human form (or just call it, "mastery of photo-reffing"). His stuff now (especially b & w brushwork is a lot better but c'mon >>94890438, I bought the first Black Orchid and Sandman #1 when they came out so I'm hardly a fucking "summerfag", just someone who thinks very deeply about my passion. Oh and McKean's Nash book was dope.
>>94893254
Oh my mistake, thanks. My LCS have had the first two in for AGES, gonna phone 'em to put them in my box rightaway, thanks Anon. And yeah, I did say "the Mimi comics", wasn't aware there was another title with the same name. Cheers!

>>94884796
Need to find that Smax myself.

>>94893421
Try the dark net,be careful of that "White Cobra" no1 though, even a little snort of that shit'll kill you if you're opiate intolerant

>>94893378
*Black Orchid

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Never been so happy to get a book. This is my first big /co/ purchase, never bought an absolute or omni before. But god damn it feels nice. I've never really admired a book for how well It's made before but the bindings in this are extremely high quality and it's kinda surprising how much that pleases me. I do believe I'm hooked on Absolute / Library editions.

Also pleased that this book doesn't have skewed images, i read that complaint about the first volume, which was origionally printed on a different sized page. So maybe it's just that one that is skewed and if it is i don't care cauae i already have that one in origional size. Volume 1 and 2 are areiving today amazon and 3 is shipping as well.

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>>94893712

i need a new shelf

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>>94886852
Read all of it starting with ditkos question

>>94893661
Nice Ellis collection. I think this is the first time I've seen all of Transmetropolitan.
>>94893696
nice Sandman and Lucifer too

>>94893731
Hah, this pic won me a 50$ Adhouse gift certificate...anyone remember The Panellists blog? They had a series of details from various comics, everything from Kirby to Porcellino, and this was part of their header.
Classic Toth image.

>>94845318
Turns out that post is a bit misleading. The sale is actually 25% off both titles, not 50% off the lesser item like those sales usually are.

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>>94862359
This is probably the same retard a couple threads ago who said trade buying is useless because they're not rare

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Friendly reminder that the kickstarter for Scurry volume 2 starts on Tuesday.

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How's the binding on the new edition? Is it good like the Green Lantern Omnibus New Edition binding?

>>94892625
No but I'm saving that image to bump threads with.

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It's been a pretty lean few months, but I couldn't resist a few small orders.

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>>94896034
yeah that was actually the idea.

>>94893696
Those Marvel Miracleman trades are such trash.

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Signed up to that new 2000AD collection. 2 hardcovers each month.

Been meaning to dive into some non-Dredd 2000AD for ages so this seemed a good place to start.

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>>94897253

I fucking hate this phone.

>>94896086
How much hot glue is that Harley gonna see?

>>94888492

Plans for this weekend are to finish Batman Reborn, which I read about half of a few weeks ago and really enjoyed.

Then finally get onto the Perez Wonder Woman omnibus which must have been on my shelf about a year now.

Then try and muster the will to get back into Claremont X-Men. I was enjoying both X-Men and New Mutants, then hit Secret Wars, which is a miserable slog. I think I'm about 2/3s of the way through that and haven't been able to face going back to it.

>>94897396

kek, none, as I saw the leak of the movie and wasn't impressed, but it had already shipped. I'm leaving it wrapped in plastic in case that edition ever increases in value a litte. Unlikely, but I have no reason to open it.

>>94896940

Are they? Details? I was planning to pick them up soon.

>>94897472
Not him but the recoloring is SO bad it's just... a damn crime. have you seen those Moebius recolors? it's that bad. And it was also massively censored.

Ordered two books off Amazon the other day.
One has come in, but it's not appropriate for this board.
The other, Supergods, I'm still waiting on.

Trying to decide what I want next, I have a bad combination of being a cheapskate and wanting a good edition of things.
I'll play retail for Absolute Final Crisis, but not resale.
Might get Absolute Sinestro Corp War, it's cheap.

>>94896086

Aside from being glad I picked them up, I'm now really pissed that WorldWatch didn't continue. Anyone know why? It was a borderline porn parody of the Justice League, with great art and near not-Hulk rape. It should have been flying off the shelves if Crossed, The Boys, and the rest of the edgy shit's success is anything to go by. Was it too soon?

>>94897565
>And it was also massively censored.

In what way? Was the lady Miracle no longer sexually tormented over decades?

I've not had the displeasure of seeing that art, I'm afraid, but hopefully someone will be kind enough to post examples, or even make a thread.

>>94897602
I'm not that same anon, but I found a link of comparisons:

http://mistahphil.tumblr.com/post/69617657544/miracleman-color-comparisons-from-left

>>94897253
How much and where do i sign up?

I just found out about 2000ad`s 'submission' policy. You have to write a four page comic that has a major twist that the editors didn't see coming. If they like that 4 page story they will LOOK at a story you want to piblish through them. Otherwise you can go to hell. Even Moore and Gaiman had to go through that process. They don't fuck around

>>94897926
Yep, and that's why they managed to cultivate such a good crop of writers over the years. Write short and creative stories with very limited space.

>>94897577
You can't leave us hanging like that. Why board inappropriate? What is it?

Also pics or it didn't happen.

>>94897581
Amerifats like goreporn not pornporn

>>94897982
Dangerous. Mentioning the author's name aloud would start a shitstorm.
No camera, so no pics.

>>94897730
Some of that recolouring is an improvement, some of it worse. But it would probably look better on glossy paper than reprinting the old newspaper colour on glossy paper, that is shit. Honestly the origional colouring is really bad, the new colourer isn't much better but for most of those i would pick recoloured

>>94898068
Oh fuck off, 4chan isn't for being timid. shelf threads only have shitposting from people who don't buy comics. Dangerous tells me nothing.

>>94897253
>>94897276
that sounds damn good

>>94893713
Yay!

Holy shit, i didn't know he did some stuff with Tori Amos and Neil Gaiman. These books have stuff from many of my favorite creators

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>>94898201
Fuck. Forgot pic.

>>94896940
>>94897730
it really doesn't bother me at all.

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Dude hasn't made a video in months, did he die?

>>94898248
Doesn't he do livestreams with 2 other people, or has that stopped?

>>94898134
>being timid
I'm trying to avoid bringing /pol/ into this thread and you're accusing me of being timid.

>>94898297
pfft, it's no problem. I had a quran and Mein Kampf beside each other on my shelf for half a year and it was only occasionally mentioned by other people as a curiosum, never started a shitstorm.
on the other hand the book you're talking about better be a comic. if it isn't comic related, then you shouldn't have mentioned it to begin with.

>>94898376
The only thing to get a reaction out of /co/ is the "Girls" omnibus

>>94897926
>How much and where do i sign up?

http://www.2000adcollection.com/

£20 a month (£23 if you want the figures too). Two books a month.

80 books planned at the minute, but this company has done Dredd and other series before, and they often extend a line if it does well.

>>94898076
>Some of that recolouring is an improvement
Fuck off Alonso you piece of shit.

>>94893712
Damn, I am behind. I thought there was only 6 Definitive Powers collections. Need 2 now.

>>94897253
How much is that? Sounds like a cool idea.

>>94898493
and Trouble

>>94898528
>doesn't understand how colours work on different paper

>>94893378
No way. Arkham Asylum is brilliant in art and writing. The messiness is there for a fucking reason. The whole comic is a breakdown of his mental state and this is why things get artistically crazy.

Also, you are an idiot. Signal to Noise was one of his earliest works and is one of the most celebrated comics put out by him

>>94898296
I think it stopped

>>94898760
Would an idiot own Signal To Noise?>>94882289
Justify McKean's shortcomings all you want, I can disagree in a civilised manner, some people cant, poor things. Lots more to get mad at in this world than criticism of your favourite photo-referencer.

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>>94898848
>of your favourite photo-referencer.

>>94898694
I do, new colors are just ugly and stupid and in a lot of places ruin the damn scenes.

>>94891216
I own Minor Miracles

>>94898869
Hahah yeah, he's NEVER photo-reffed in his entire career, le celeb laughter maymay really showed that guy!!
Storytiming at the moment so I'll be ignoring your next extremely erudite and informed musings.

>>94893378
based poster defending my taste
>>94887236
whats that

>>94898848
I'm not just referencing my own taste. Signal to Noise is one of the most praised comics ever written.

>>94898977
>being this mad
I was laughing about actual the joke you dingus. don't get your panties all twisted.

>>94899273
Then how come I never heard of it bitch?

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My order from In Stock Trades finally came in

>>94899985
fine choices

>>94898848
>your favourite photo-referencer
> implying photo referencing is in any way invalid.
Like any artistic technique it's all in how you use it. People like Bill Sienkiewicz and Arthur Ranson do amazing work.

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>>94900212
Ranson is a great

>>94899953
got 'em

>>94899953
>pleb

>>94899985
what kind of abstract painting is this? there are shapes that look like words but....

>>94900560
It's called 'Low quality cell cam'

>>94900645
how do I 'into' this new fad? Is it simply getting Parkinson's? Or can I just get an old school flip phone and drink a lot of coffee?

>>94900743
>don't turn on any lights and just use the setting sun
>dont wait for camera to take in light
>snap shot while walking
>dont take a second pic
>?????
>profit

>>94900825
Can I just get black out drunk and post on 4chan? It's what I normally do anyway

>>94898986
Comic about a law firm run by supernatural beings; werewolves, Frankensteins, shit like that. Good idea but not the greatest comic. Lash's wife Jackie Estrada is a big-wig in something to do with ComicCon and (I think?) the Eisners

/co/, what is your favorite collected edition? Whether it be presentation, size, price, or any combination.

>>94861106
I read omnis in bed, in the car, at my drawing table or in my giant ass bean bag. The same places I read anything else.
I have 33 Marvel Omnis, and 2 DC omnis.
I am more or less convinced that the "binding will crack" is a myth.
>>94852614
Before you make a final decision n the Fourt World omni, you might want to check the four books you have- if you look at the paper along the edges, it is likely starting to yellow- mine are, anyway.

>>94901934
I have read my Werewolf by Night omni 3 times now. I can't defend myself. I don't even know if it's any good. I just like it.

>>94901934
Meat Cake Bible

>>94901934
sorry to pollute the thread with so fuck of samefagging but Kabuki is my favorite comic ever. the early stuff is great for historical perspective and a better take of Japanese culture than /a/ can ever get, cause they don't acknowledge their racism or other historical flaws. The later stuff takes what Sienkiewicz and McKean to the next level and makes fine arts the story and tells it through that. I've gone to some art gallaries and seen people attempt to make 'comic' pages a display. but they all fail cause they are just making a comic page, not a work of art as well. Mack does both

>>94901934
My Hellboy Library Editions. I've never read a DC Absolute to compare, but they're the best put together hardcovers I've seen in comics in terms of format.

Page 9 bump.

>>94899985
>God Country
Nice

>>94852508
You got any L'Asso stuff? I'll bite ya hand of, and my own, for that shit...

>>94897276
Are these still available in UK newsagents? Would kill for Halo Jones(the book, I mean. She don't need no man defending her honour....)

>>94904861
You should be able to buy the individual volumes online. I know the Judge Dredd ones can be

>>94898223
Man, no dis intended but why oh why do people enjoy this McKean/Sienkieicz/Storey copyist so fucking much?! It's like if Sienkiewicz was STILL drawing like Neal Adams and everyone was jerking off over him...I truly don't understand it at all.
And lets be honest, 90% of painted comics are cancer
>>94898513
Why are they getting TV ads if they're not available to the casual buyer? Seems weird...
>>94899273
Yeah, it was actually panned to fuck whenit was originally serialised in trendy UK fashion/lifestyle mag The Face (or was it i.d?!) and it's reputation has hardly grown over the years. D you remeber the Face, Summer?! See , I can be an immature little cockgrease too...
>>94900212
I'm not, saying that, sick of this fucking argument, it's the ones who make it soooo fucking blatant that shows artistic and imaginative shortcoming. I could name like five legends who photo-reffed but who subsumed it with their own style so well that you just didn't know. I never implied it was invalid. Although it IS when it's so fucking blatant...

>>94904928
Are you in the UK? There was a TV ad for the Slaine volume on tonight, which makes me think they're available in shops ("first issue £1:99, usual price £9:99")...I'll have a look in my lunch hour tomorrow, they're obviously out if they're being advertised on national TV.....

hello where are the comics

>>94898248
>>94898296
They moved the show to its own channel. He still does it, I think he's just busy a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_tgpCPZaMM0ZiO7Ii9IfVQ/videos

>>94901934
The Brubaker Captain America Omni's.

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A bit late, but never not gonna post this when I catch the thread.

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>>94844891

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>>94907126
I want that statue.

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>>94907181

>>94907181
Yo whats on the bottom shelf?

My aesthetic is books that do that

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>>94907207
it was a part works series i collected, its got some sweet books

>>94907238
Fuck those will be hard to find

>welcome back rank
>road to damnation

FUCK

>>94907264
its a great collection and i discovered a few titles like road to damnation and captain Britan, crooked world that Alan Moore wrote which i didnt know about
dc released one but i only got a few once in a while they reissue them i am hoping they do that with the dc set

>>94901934
Generally, Absolute Editions are top tier for me, but I really like the archive editions as well, same for Marvel Master Works HCs.
The one book I love to bits would probably be my Legion of Three Worlds HC though.

>>94901945
My 4th world omnis are still fine.

>>94905030
>Why are they getting TV ads if they're not available to the casual buyer? Seems weird...

They're sold in newsagents too.

>>94907743
Thanks for conformation, assumed that was the case, friend, cheers.

>>94907264
You can find them as mostly full sets on ebay and stuff.

>>94905030
>And lets be honest, 90% of painted comics are cancer
How about you go fuck yourself

>>94908386
Funnily enough I always anally masterbate during these threads

Most painted comics aren't cartooning, they're fucking illustration, dude. If you like that stuff then fine. It amazes me how people get so triggered because someone doesn't like something they themselves enjoy. Nothin' but love for ya, Alex!

>>94905030
>And lets be honest, 90% of painted comics are cancer
lets be honest, you have clearly shown you have zero artistic taste

>>94909258
Whatever, I'm not saying it's "bad art" (just completely uninteresting to me) but if anything stops the pace dead of (most) comics, it's a painted one. Everyone who wrote for (print) TCJ bitched about painted comics and their detrimental effect at least once.
Besides, taste is entirely objective. Now Alex,can you PLEASE fuck off? Taking photos of your bodybuilder friends in cosplay is a sure-fire way to distance the reader from a comic. Put the paints away, you can be an interesting artist . Occasionally.

I'm the biggest The Dude stan there is but even I think that fully painted comic he did was missing something.

Oh, Austin English is pretty cool, though!

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>>94909350
>just completely uninteresting to me
you find good art uninteresting?

I know taste is subjective but you are making an arguement against good art and for boring minimalist cartooning. That's fine where it fits but many complex ideas just can't be expressed like that. People like Dave McKean and David Mack use ALL the tools of their trade to express an idea. They will use minimalist cartooning right next to a realistic painted depiction to juxtapose ideas. When they use paint it is for a reason, not just for pretty art, they are causing the reader to think about what they are reading.

There is a very good reason why these people are highly praised by artists and writers alike

>>94908786
>It amazes me how people get so triggered because someone doesn't like something they themselves enjoy
Said the guy that claimed "90% of painted comics are cancer. Oh and judging by the following post it seems you mean Alex Ross. Very clever anon, very clever of you. You strike me as one of the many autists on this stupid fucking board that are far more concerned with the tools a creator uses than a finished product.

>>94897253
Is this only UK ;-; damn looks cool otherwise, but i'm sure if they shipped to Australia it would be a killer on the wallet

>>94910142
Not at all, a good artist could draw with a fag end if they want to. but keep arguing on a Guecorican Sheep-shearing board, it must fullfill your life somehow. Or, y'know, just pot shelves or recent buys so we can be astounded by your highly evolved taste. Hope to speak later, Alex (you should be paying Steve Rude royalties, btw).
>>94909555
No such thing as "good" or "bad" art. Just interesting and uninteresting.
Personally I think that page is just boring as sin and sticking objects to pages as if it's some crazy avant-garde development just makes me cringe desu.
Again, I find Mack boring as fuck, more of an illustrator, a maker of pretty pictures, than a cartoonist/accomplished visual storyteller. McKean's gotten better at that but I much prefer his loose b & w brushwork to his painted stuff.

Apart from maybe McKean it's just fandom who praise guys like Mack.

>>94845081
do u like mike mignola?

>>94910412
>Guecorican Sheep-shearing board
Holy shit, you posted the meme! Ha ha ha Based! Wow!

>so we can be astounded by your highly evolved taste.
Do you seriously gave no self awareness? You sound so pretentious it's funny, you unironically think you're smart when in reality, you're quite dumb. You make these dismissive stupid statements while generalizing. And see a specialist about your Alex Ross obsession, it's unhealthy.

>>94911738
Oh mate I totally know I'm an idiot. Only a twat would spend so much money on comics and obsessing over Alex Ross. Also guilty as charged, I'm probably the most pretentious person I know. I've even stopped liking Rick And Morty because it's popular now. I hate popular things, probably where my obsession with Alex Ross springs from, or at least that's what my psychiatrist says.
You're a really perceptive dude! Wait...you're not my psychiatrist, are you?! Can I politely ask to see your shelves again, though? I feel we have a good rapport going.

>>94910412
>No such thing as "good" or "bad" art. Just interesting and uninteresting.
Assuming you're not just exaggerating to make a point, I disagree with that. I am an objectively worse artist than Mike Mignola, for example. My art is bad by any measurable quality, and his art is good by most. He uses shadows and negative space better than I could ever hope to.

>>94861831
Why is JSA 1 and 2 separate?

>>94913900
Same with Sandman. Last time anon posted, they said they tried to organize by release date

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>>94844891
I just picked these up today.

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>>94914427
Shelf update. I'm just recently getting into collecting trades.

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>>94910412
I am pretty much done with arguing with you, cause you just don't seem to understand art, you weren't taught to think about what you are looking at and thus you pass it over without analysis. I just have one question to ask, have you read the Bendis/Mack Daredevil run? Not many artists are skilled enough to get across the amount of trama the boy has gone though, it's extremely heartbreaking. This isn't the page I was trying to show, but it does it well. The page I was meaning is drawn in light pencil marks, it depicts how the boy killed his father to save Daredevil. The light and minimalist pictures juxtaposed next to the painted Urick really get across that these are extremely tramatic memories that are being suppressed and Urick is barely getting them from this boy.

It's fine if you don't LIKE how it's drawn, but to not understand that part means you don't analyze how the art is telling the story. In this sense the art is telling the ineffable part of the story (as IMHO good art should be, it shouldn't be used purely as a descriptive expression, it should get at the deeper parts of the story).

>>94914427
nice stuff.

>>94914427
>>94914512
Nice start, I have never read The Shadow but it sounds like something I would enjoy. I should see if I can find some at the library

>>94914583
why does it repeat the same picture? looks tacky.

>>94914667
It's reinforcing the trama. It's meant as a long pause to hold the note. It's showing us the kid is frozen in time.
>end of the line, mister
>end of the line, mister
through out the story the kid is stuck on repeat. His trama is making him unable to face what happened and move forward. So the repetition is a very useful tool in this book.

I don't always agree in reusing art, but sometimes it's a very useful tool

>>94904774
Hey, I already asked, motherfucker! First dibs!
>>94913130
>>94913130
A "bad" picture can be a lot more interesting than a technically perfect yet soulless "good" piece of art. I mean, you're aware of the heta-uma movement within manga, right?
>>94914583
>Pretty much done arguing
>Keeps arguing
Look, don't cast aspersions on my art education; that's something I will not stand still for; I'm grounded and knowledgeable in a LOT more than just comic art, mate. Humblebrag incoming was told I got the third highest mark in the country for my art history thesis on Berthe Morisot, so, please, don't pull the "you obviously don't understand; it's too deep for you".
I said 90% of painted comics are cancer, and I stand behind that. However it does NOT mean they I have no respect for any technical ability for someone like Mack--I certainly cannot paint like him, I'm patently awful with colour...but again, in your image we have the obvious photo-reffing, which I have never said is a BAD THING IN COMICS--only when it is blatantly obvious. The best photo-referencers subsume the stuff under their own style, look at Toth, Rude, Corben and Joe Kubert--it wasn't GLARING. But here I feel that it is and it just "pulls me out" of that special "reading-as-looking" experience only great comics provide.
And I haven't read Mack's DD, only Kabuki vols 1-3 because a mate really rates his stuff so I gave it a go. So as I said in upper comment, not "bad" art by any means, just uninteresting to me and not the best example of medium specificity by a long run.
I don't mind arguing, I'd just rather be civil about it, y'know? I know this is 4chan but, fuck, a little manners goes a long way....

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I got some new shelves, a glass display, and this Hellboy statue that I spent way too much cash on. But it's killer. It'll look neat next to my library editions. Thinking about trying to make some bookends that look like the base to put beside it on the top of the case.

>>94914930
>posting Nazi pictures post-charlettesville

>>94914583
Not the stupid anon you're arguing with but Mack is a tracing hack. He will occasionally do a good page or something but he's a crummy storyteller.

>>94915007
>can't post Indiana Jones / Cap team-up fighting nazis post Charlottesville.

Feelsbad.

>>94914930
Huh... looks like a detolf, but the door is the wrong side. Is that a detolf?

>>94902246
Tfw Dame Darcy PM's and friend requests YOU on FB and you stay up 'til 3 in the morning talking about...well, the kind of things you'd expect Dame Darcy to talk about! Kinda embarrassing though 'cause I'm not particularly into her stuff....!
>>94904774
It's such a shame there's very little L'Asso stuff in English. I have all the David B. books bar The Littlest Pirate, Incidents...and best of Enemies are great but Black Paths is my fucking jam. I even bought Tengu off of E-Bay and some Mattt Konture stuff, the Krokodile Komics albums. Struggle through with my basic French...it's a utter CRIME there's not more J.C Menu stuff in English, I'm sure there may be more but I have THREE shorts by him--the story from the last Weirdo, a piece from one of the SPX anthologies and a comic in one of the old themed Top Shelf anthologies. Oh, and the few bits he's done for Donjon. Never read any Stanislaus, though, have you? Also, apologies, I was too busy arguing, I actually DIDN'T ask first, sorry man! Props for good taste too. Oh shit J.C Menu is in the first issue of the new Fanta anthology NOW, btw! Drops 20th next month.
>>94852508
Seconding L'Asso question. If so pls respond to [email protected]. Please!
>>94913130
Btw not exaggerating at all. It's like music; some of the most technically inept musicians have made epoch-defining musicthat will live on through the ages (thinking of, say, Lou reed's guitar playing, for example, or Satie's rudimentary playing abilities).
>>94914731
There would be better ways of doing it, though, however I quite like the way the kid's drawings lead the eye through the page. Plus I admit to being prejudiced against fancy (and oftentimes unnecessary) page breakdowns (or "paneling" as you like to call it around here). That works but the "what happened, Timmy" panel is so superfluous as to be almost useless. And the pairing of Timmy with the guy on the left (the therapist?) really serves no purpose, in fact I think if Mack had...

>>94914731
(cont)...just covered those two panels in that dark blue it would make more sense in service of this theme of alienation and playing with time.
>>94915018
Aww, you're just lovely.

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>>94915526
2/3

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>>94915552
3/3 sorry for sideways, Phoneposting

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Finally got down to the LCS today, got some catching up to do... I'm behind on my reading already.

>>94916593

Damn, thats a bit blurrier than i thought it was... Need to find a good camera app, the one on my phone has like zero options.