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[JJD]

I still can't reconcile paying so much for digital content. When I can buy a 2.99 book from my LCS for 2.25 (25% discount). Even 0.99 sales feels too much. 0.99 should be normal price and then 0.50 for sales or something.

It's really shitty! I remember Marvel and DC excuses for increasing their prices blaming it on rising costs and a smaller market, arguing that if they could they would like to charge less and be available to more people....

Well they don't have to worry with printing and shipping costs with digital, and they have a huge almost untaped market there, and yet they still charge the same thing digitally.

They should just openly admit that they are greedy. It would be more honest. I doubt Comixology's take is bigger than printing/diamond/retailers.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Shanna and Wolverine are separated, and Shanna teams up with...Amadeus Cho?

YYYYEEEESSSSS

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/...rs/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

[SpiderJerusalem]

wtf another .1 Spider-man? get out

 

[Owzers]

Fantastic Four is a 2.99 book, it's Age of Ultron tie-in is 3.99.

Marvel making my decisions for me.


Can't decide if i want to get Age of Ultron in print for the digital codes ( presuming they have them) or wait for the OHC.

 

[SpiderJerusalem]

New Bandette! huzzah!

 

[FoneBone]

YYYYEEEESSSSS

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/...rs/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Sweet, I was wondering when he'd be showing up again.

 

[Owzers]

wrapping up the marvel march solicits, i might get Red She Hulk tpb. The trend continues of premiere hardcovers collecting 5 issues for 24.99, at least Avengers is 1-6. Fantastic Four trade collects the first two FF issues and the first three Fantastic Four ones.

 

[kswiston]

I'm going to have to pare down these Marvel Now! titles pretty quickly. I can't believe how many of those titles will be on their 8-9th issue by March :/

Not sure if I will bother with Age of Ultron yet. If I do, I am skipping all of the tie-ins. I only read the Uncanny X-Men and WatXM tie ins for AVX and don't feel like I missed much.

I read Avengers Arena now that it is actually out. Art is good, but I am not sold on the story. I will probably pick up issue 2 since it is out in a week to see if the pace picks up.

 

[JJD]

This is hilarious.

The cover for Ultimate Ultimates 22

Spoiler

I miss the original Fury..

 

[Supermanisdead]

Ultimate X-Men was pure perfection this week. Everyone needs to be reading this comic.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Fantastic Four is a 2.99 book, it's Age of Ultron tie-in is 3.99.

Marvel making my decisions for me.

Also

(A) TBD

: /

 

[sazabirules]

Seems like a good place to post this.

Any reason why Gotham Central collected editions are listed as hardcover when they're paperback? I just got book 1 in the line of duty and it's a paperback. Are there hardcovers i don't know about?

Wiki says

Title Material collected ISBN
Gotham Central Vol. 1: In the Line of Duty TPB Gotham Central #1-5 ISBN 1-4012-0199-7
Gotham Central Vol. 2: Half a Life TPB Batman Chronicles #16,
Detective Comics #747,
Gotham Central #6-10 ISBN 1-4012-0438-4
Gotham Central Vol. 3: Unresolved Targets TPB Gotham Central #12-15 and #19-22 ISBN 1-56389-995-7
Gotham Central Vol. 4: The Quick and the Dead TPB Gotham Central #23-25 and #28-31 ISBN 1-4012-0912-2
Gotham Central Vol. 5: Dead Robin TPB Gotham Central #33-40 ISBN 1-4012-1329-4
Gotham Central Book One: In the Line of Duty HC Gotham Central #1-10 ISBN 1-4012-1923-3
Gotham Central Book Two: Jokers and Madmen HC Gotham Central #11-22 ISBN 1-4012-2521-7
Gotham Central Book Three: On the Freak Beat HC Gotham Central #23-31 ISBN 978-1-4012-2754-8
Gotham Central Book Four: Corrigan HC Gotham Central #32-40

 

[Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!]

This is hilarious.

The cover for Ultimate Ultimates 22

Spoiler

I miss the original Fury..

Hes still around in fury my war gone by which is one of the best marvel books being published

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Plentiful feels. (aka “Meaningful emotional character beats” for people who aren’t on tumblr)

They know the audience for this book

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Hes still around in fury my war gone by which is one of the best marvel books being published

Indeed. Classic Ennis and God Tier Cartooning.

 

[JJD]

Sadly it seems X-Termination

Is not going to be as interesting as it seemed. It's just a mini event of X-men comics most people don't care about (Astonishing, X-treme and Age of Apocalypse).

Kurt is just trying to go back to his original Age of Apocalypse world and might end up destroying 616 to get there.

Seems to go against what Remender was planning to do with the character.

Spoiler

He asked forgiveness for betraying the team, while now he's just like "well fuck it, and fuck everything else too"

.

The abrupt ending of Remender's X-force run is one of the biggest Marvel crimes of the last years, even if he managed to bring the series to a satisfying conclusion. The potential of the future stories was huge.

Also this line on the Astonishing X-Men solicit made me laugh out loud:

With Nightcrawler wreaking havoc on the very fabric of reality, Wolverine calls in his street team.

Wolverine is just trolling.

 

[Pie and Beans]

Uncanny Avengers just isn't worth the death of Uncanny X-Force's momentum. Even worse is Remender trying to cram unused X-Force centric plots now into UA. Bad form.

Spidey book of the year right here folks. What an almightily awesome and fun supporting cast its bagged itself with just 12 issues on the market.

 

[TheKaeptain]

All you really need to know about Batman And Robin #15 is that it's a whole bunch of call-backs to pretty much everything you'd think a Batman comic starring a returning Joker would call back to, with a pretty goddamn amazing pay-off. Great fucking stuff.

Also, it has this.

(actually, Patrick Gleason does much, much worse things in the issue, but this is the big money shot)

That page was the shit.

Spoiler

DC better not kill Robin.

 

[Angelus Errare]

Aaaaaaawh yeeeeah, Dani Moonstar up in dis bitch!

And I hope Misty is never drawn like that again. =3

 

[8bit]

Fury Max is listed in those solicits as part 10 or so, is an ongoing I've missed or will there be 8 issues next month?

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Fury Max is listed in those solicits as part 10 or so, is an ongoing I've missed or will there be 8 issues next month?

You've missed months of the best comic on Earth.

 

[frye]

Fury Max is listed in those solicits as part 10 or so, is an ongoing I've missed or will there be 8 issues next month?

How did you miss that splash montage of Fury doing shit in different time periods in the first issue????

fury maxxxxxx (owns)

e: i meant collage not montage

 

[Owzers]

Dont' make me regret my decision to drop Batman and Robin after #13 :l

 

[Supermanisdead]

Danielle Moonstar is the best comics character ever.

 

[GrandHarrier]

Dont' make me regret my decision to drop Batman and Robin after #13 :l

YOU GON' REGRET IT SON.

I love the book. Up and down it's always fun.

 

[slightconfuse]

Might get back into the ultimate universe


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[Angelus Errare]

Danielle Moonstar is the best comics character ever.

We back to bro status

respeckt knuckles

 

[B-Dubs]

Batman was awesome as hell, as usual.

Scarlet Spider was amazingly funny and looks to be tying into what's going on in Amazing, that last panel.

Spoiler

Kaine is Superior confirmed

? I can't say I would hate that development,

Spoiler

he'd be in 3 books and god knows the world needs more kaine

.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

Debating whether I should go to the shop today; there's only one new release waiting in my pull folder that I can see, but there's also...

Yo.

 

[TheKaeptain]

Dont' make me regret my decision to drop Batman and Robin after #13 :l

You missing out boy.

 

[Pie and Beans]

Scarlet Spider was amazingly funny and looks to be tying into what's going on in Amazing, that last panel.

Spoiler

Kaine is Superior confirmed

? I can't say I would hate that development,

Spoiler

he'd be in 3 books and god knows the world needs more kaine

.

Nah, I'd love it if he was, but nah, Superior Spidey is scientifically minded. Kaine is... not that.

Letter is most likely going to be from the enemies Kaine's pissed off over the years sending him a "oh we're coming to totally fuck you, dude" message. Might even be from the Kravens like a very formal invite to The Hunt. "Dear Kaine Parker, we are going to start hunting you as game from the 12th of December, yours sincerely, Fucking Nutto Kraven Family"

 

[B-Dubs]

Nah, I'd love it if he was, but nah, Superior Spidey is scientifically minded. Kaine is... not that.

Letter is most likely going to be from the enemies Kaine's pissed off over the years sending him a "oh we're coming to totally fuck you, dude" message. Might even be from the Kravens like a very formal invite to The Hunt. "Dear Kaine Parker, we are going to start hunting you as game from the 12th of December, yours sincerely, Fucking Nutto Kraven Family"

The return address was Julia Carpenter. It might be a psychic warning though, she is kind of a dick like that. Kaine is a Peter clone, dude can be science-y if he wants to.

 

[Pie and Beans]

The return address was Julia Carpenter. It might be a psychic warning though, she is kind of a dick like that.

Oh shits, didnt catch that. Still, don't think he's Soups Spidey, but this could be an open invitation for Kaine to take a road trip and kick some inferior costumed ass across town, maybe Flash will be up for a tag-team. WAR OF THE SPIDERS.

Kaine is a Peter clone, dude can be science-y if he wants to.

Clone yes, memories and education no:

 

[Supermanisdead]

We back to bro status

respeckt knuckles

 

[Dan]

Seems like a good place to post this.

Any reason why Gotham Central collected editions are listed as hardcover when they're paperback? I just got book 1 in the line of duty and it's a paperback. Are there hardcovers i don't know about?

The 'book' collections were originally released in hardback. As always, DC lets the hardbacks go out of print once they start re-releasing them in paperback.

 

[Shin Johnpv]

I just read Action #14. First time I've been really disappointed with Grant Morrison and this run.

First of all, the idea that Superman can hear a cry for help from that far away is ridiculous. Not to mention that sound wouldn't travel through space. So stupid.

But then he flies to Mars? I thought the Superman 5 years ago in Action Comics couldn't fly yet. Did I miss something?

It was also a really odd choice to have a cliffhanger at the end ... then go directly into the backup story which takes place two weeks later and everything is fine.

Anyway, when did he learn to fly?

It's more of Morrison's awful storytelling, which involves jumping all over the place for no reasons. His last issue on this book can not come soon enough.

 

[MisterHero]

Superman learned to fly when he first decided to take on Brainiac. It involved him jumping from Earth all the way onto his ship.

He switches between his Metropolis costume and the armor for Justice League, so it's definitely perceivable that continuity is being messed with.

 

[Owzers]

You missing out boy.

like most DC new 52 books, they squandered all my patience with the first long arc. I didn't get into the 8 or 9 issue Nobody arc and i was buying too many batbooks so it had to go.

 

[B-Dubs]

Oh shits, didnt catch that. Still, don't think he's Soups Spidey, but this could be an open invitation for Kaine to take a road trip and kick some inferior costumed ass across town, maybe Flash will be up for a tag-team. WAR OF THE SPIDERS.



Clone yes, memories and education no:

That would be awesome. Also the Alpha solicit for March has some interesting info, New Spidey looks to work for horizon.

 

[Kung Fu Grip]

Wiki says

Yeah the Vol. editions are trade paperbacks. Book 1 to 4 is what im confused about. Everywhere but Barns&noble list them as hardcovers. But book 1 i have is paperback. As im sure all the rest are.

If there are hardcovers i would actually prefer those. I like the quality of hardcovers.

 

[frye]

Yeah the Vol. editions are trade paperbacks. Book 1 to 4 is what im confused about. Everywhere but Barns&noble list them as hardcovers. But book 1 i have is paperback. As im sure all the rest are.

If there are hardcovers i would actually prefer those. I like the quality of hardcovers.

Dan answered your question a few posts up. The new Gotham Central collections were released as four hardcovers and have now been collected as paperbacks.

 

[SpiderJerusalem]

Debating whether I should go to the shop today; there's only one new release waiting in my pull folder that I can see, but there's also...

Yo.

That's out? My wife just got me the Harley one for my birthday. Gonna ask about this next time I go!

 

[Spike Spiegel]

That's out? My wife just got me the Harley one for my birthday. Gonna ask about this next time I go!

Yep, called the LCS a little while ago to confirm mine came in.

 

[Blader]

Not sure what to think of the Rorschach/

Spoiler

Taxi Driver

crossover. A little embarrassed that I didn't get it immediately either. :lol

 

[Kung Fu Grip]

Dan answered your question a few posts up. The new Gotham Central collections were released as four hardcovers and have now been collected as paperbacks.

Scrolled right past it.

The 'book' collections were originally released in hardback. As always, DC lets the hardbacks go out of print once they start re-releasing them in paperback.

Thanks. I figured they were a first run thing.

Book 1 is amazing so far.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Not sure what to think of the Rorschach/

Spoiler

Taxi Driver

crossover. A little embarrassed that I didn't get it immediately either. :lol

My only thought is that I'm so glad my LCS doesn't carry that dreck. I forgot it even still existed. I saw that news today and I was like "What's that? Before Watchmen is still going?"

 

[Father_Brain]

A+X justifies its existence with one solicitation:

A+X #6
KIERON GILLEN & PETER DAVID (W)
GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI & TBD (A)
Cover by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI
• Kieron Gillen’s worlds collide as Loki and Mr. Sinister team up. You didn’t think the heroes would have all the fun, did you?
• PLUS: Captain Marvel teams up with Wolverine!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99

 

[Owzers]

A+X justifies its existence with one solicitation:

A+X #6
KIERON GILLEN & PETER DAVID (W)
GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI & TBD (A)
Cover by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI
• Kieron Gillen’s worlds collide as Loki and Mr. Sinister team up. You didn’t think the heroes would have all the fun, did you?
• PLUS: Captain Marvel teams up with Wolverine!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99

Doop + Iron Fist by Immonen in #5 is tempting too. I don't know if i'll get those two issues or trade wait.

 

[Kizer]

YYYYEEEESSSSS

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/...rs/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

This is a thing that I want.


Also, I have not read any of the new bat books just yet, but the idea of

Spoiler

Alfred dying

bothers me more than any teenage hero death.

Spoiler

because Alfred is DC's best character.

 

[Machine]

My only thought is that I'm so glad my LCS doesn't carry that dreck. I forgot it even still existed. I saw that news today and I was like "What's that? Before Watchmen is still going?"

Are you basing your opinion that the books are "dreck" on having read the books or on the mere fact that their existence offends you in some way? I'm not reading them myself, but some people at my LCS whose opinions I respect are buying them and have said that some of the Before Watchmen titles are actually quite good.