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[phazedplasma]

New series or old series?

New. Issue 2 is out today.

 

[GhostRidah]

New. Issue 2 is out today.

Yeah, the new series. Pick it up, so worth it so far.

 

[kswiston]

So it's not available digitally? That's shite, I was just about to go buy my comics...

From the article on Bleeding Cool, it seems like the book won't be on comixology for 3 months. I'm not sure how big digital comics sales are, but it seems to me that Millar is leaving a lot of money on the table. Especially since some of the people who would have grabbed the series on Comixology will now just grab it off a torrent instead of waiting 3 months. American comics are not easily obtainable in print everywhere.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Word around town is that Quietly is killing it in Jupiter legacy

Could have ended that sentence four words early, saved your fingers the typing

;D

 

[bernardobri]

Is Jupiter's Legacy a sequel to something I missed, or was it renamed? Coz' as much as I like Quitely I don't seem him turning out a sequel in six months.

The comic was named originally Jupiter's Children, but due copyright issues they renamed it.

 

[Tizoc]

Yeah, the new series. Pick it up, so worth it so far.

I think I'll wait for the trade ^_^;

Speaking of cosmic: Anyone remember REBELS featuring Vril Dox?

Now THAT was an awesome series, really liked Vril's jackass personality and how he interacted with the other members of his team.

 

[ElNarez]

Oh, in Young Avengers #4 McKelvie takes the spread game to the next fucking level like his name was motherfucking Nutella. Plus it's got drama and machinations out the goddamn wazoo. YOU NEED THIS BOOK.

 

[Acid08]

I'm at least going to buy the first issue of Jupiter's Legacy. I feel like buying Image #1's is usually an alright idea.

 

[SpiderJerusalem]

Word around town is that Quietly is killing it in Jupiter legacy

I liked it

 

[AEREC]

Splurged on a bunch of New 52 stuff yesterday on ComiXology:

Justice League 1-4
Batman 1-6
Wonder Woman 1-3
Batgirl 1 & 2
Batman & Robin 1 & 2
Aquaman 1-4
Green Lantern Rebirth 1-6 (planning on jumping into Green Lantern 2005 and lead into the new 52 version since that's one story that didnt seem to get a reboot)
Superman 1 & 2
Action Comics 1 - 3

The rest of these I just got the first issue since they are .99 cents on ComiXology:

Animal Man (hear good things but the art is horrible)
Swamp Thing
Supergirl
The Flash
All Star Western
Green Arrow (havent heard anything good about this but I like the character)
Nightwing

Will probably focus on Justice League, Batman, Wonderwoman, and Aquaman the most for now and pick up the rest later.

 

[SpiderJerusalem]

I want to have FF's babies

 

[ElNarez]

I want to have FF's babies

Really fucking amazing issue. There's a post filled with snide jokes at Gail Simone's expense to be made about it, but literally every thing in this issue could be celebrated, from the throwback diagram of the Baxter Building to Jen's workout mixtape to the characterization of the Yancy Street Gang to that fucking cliffhanger. Hot damn this was good comics.

 

[Quake1028]

Yay!

 

[slightconfuse]

Is there a FF trade out?

 

[frye]

Is there a FF trade out?

Yeah, but there's some Fantastic Four in there too since they tie in together a bit in the first few issues.

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

That's a good pickup right there. China is a literary superstar.


Where's my boy Jon Bones at?

 

[GrandHarrier]

Fucking lool

Millar drawing the line on digital, bitches.

"I think digital could be a useful tool, but I'm increasingly concerned for friends in retail that they're going to get shafted here," the wrier explained. "I really think day and date release is a disastrous idea and makes no economic sense at all to comics as a business. It's potentially ruinous for comic stores, and in the long term it's not going to do publishers any favors either. I see the attraction on a very superficial level. They think they're cutting out the middle men and all the guys taking a piece of their gross, but there's an equivalent number of hidden costs in digital too, and it's short term thinking to obliterate the life-blood of the medium. Retailers are as big a part of comics now as the characters or the creators. They're not just an outlet. These are carefully crafted communities and owned and staffed by people with a genuine passion for what they're doing in a way that the 'Amazon Also Recommends' box isn't quite going to match. I've got an awful lot of friends on the retail side and so many of them are hanging on by their finger-nails right now. Even a five or ten percent dip could be enough to put huge numbers of comic stores out of business. I know two huge American retailers, like really famous stores, in this position, and once they're gone these guys are gone forever. Retailers stuck with us through the '70s collapse and the '90s post-speculator boom. Shouldn't we be showing them a little loyalty now? Everything from the chair I'm sitting in to the keyboard I'm typing on has been paid for by royalties that retailers have made me, so I feel quite passionately about this."

 

[Owzers]

what is the verdict on digital harming stores/print? Aren't print sales looking good, relative to past years?

 

[B-Dubs]

Honestly, I'm a little disappointed in Talon. It's still a quality book, just really predictable. I still like it and all that, it's just that it seems incapable of surprising me. Other than that, everything I read this week was awesome.

 

[Dysun]

Batman Inc 10 and Uncanny Avengers 7 were both great.

Batman

Spoiler

Loved the final page, manbat + exosuit ahh yea!

 

[Pie and Beans]

- Holy shit, Batman Inc was good stuff. Pre Nu52 Batman going out with a bang, might as well be the definitive "Final Batman" while it does.

- WatXM was amazing. These students are finally coming into their own and Aaron has made the whole journey endearing. This is also the only book where Wolverine is an actual character for once.

- Uncanny X-Men is damn lucky it had Irving art to break up Bachalo's B-work this week and it focussed on Magik because crikey are those kids already annoying.

- Uncanny Avengers. Why is Remender still doing this narration thing. Literally rolled my eyes at the "untime" one. Just... too much stupid shit. When the stakes are all this ludicrously overpowered, I find it hard to care. Oh and all the stupid manufactured team friction. Least it had one good joke in it I guess.

- Going off Avengers mainline massively. I don't even know why the book is called Avengers. Between it and UA, everyone on Earth is dead anyway.

- New Avengers is good, if only because its Hickman continuing his FF run without er, really admitting it, and pretending its Avengers!

more to yet read because its one of those fucking weeks Marvel, I mean christ.

 

[Pie and Beans]

Actually fuck that, partway through reading Scarlet Spider 16 and this is the best Spider-series of all fucking time.

 

[sazabirules]

Honestly, I'm a little disappointed in Talon. It's still a quality book, just really predictable. I still like it and all that, it's just that it seems incapable of surprising me. Other than that, everything I read this week was awesome.

It was another predictable issue this month? If it continues on this path along with the new artist being crap than I may have to think about dropping it.

 

[Freezasaurus]

I liked Jupiter's Legacy. I'm in for at least a few more issues.

 

[slightconfuse]

anyone else notice the LEgion flight ring on booster. did he have that before in JLI?. guessing there might be more to it

 

[Acid08]

Actually fuck that, partway through reading Scarlet Spider 16 and this is the best Spider-series of all fucking time.

Ugh no.

 

[GrandHarrier]

anyone else notice the LEgion flight ring on booster. did he have that before in JLI?. guessing there might be more to it

If I remember correctly, he has both a Legion Flight Ring and a Brainiac 5 Shield Belt.

Both are Brainiac 5's, left in the past to be found in the 25th Century so that Booster can steal them.

 

[Tawney Bomb]

East by West #2 - It's only the second issue, but I'm still really enjoying it, Hickman seems to be pacing it well and there is a ton to explain still.

Morning Glories #26 - This series may get hate for moving so slow, but I've been enjoying it since the first issue and this is another solid issue.

Anyone reading IDW's Judge Dredd or Transformers: Regenration One? Considering reading one or both was just curious what others were thinking about them.

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

Mark Millar is a man of honor, but is a skid mark on the comics medium. I refuse to call him a writer.

 

[Splatt]

Well, that was certainly a rushed ending for I, Vampire.

Shame Lemire poached Andrea Sorrentino for Green Arrow. The art in the last issues in I, Vampire has ranged from shit to even more shit.

 

[thecouncil]

TMNT #21 final page was pretty great.

 

[GrandHarrier]

Well, that was certainly a rushed ending for I, Vampire.

Shame Lemire poached Andrea Sorrentino for Green Arrow. The art in the last issues in I, Vampire has ranged from shit to even more shit.

According to an interview, there wasn't even going to be an issue #19 for I, Vampire. But Fialkov pleaded a case for one more issue and it was given. So, it could have been worse?

 

[Freezasaurus]

According to an interview, there wasn't even going to be an issue #19 for I, Vampire. But Fialkov pleaded a case for one more issue and it was given. So, it could have been worse?

Again, I say - Fuck DC.

 

[Acid08]

Mark Millar is a man of honor, but is a skid mark on the comics medium. I refuse to call him a writer.

What do you think of Frank tho?

 

[GrandHarrier]

Again, I say - Fuck DC.

People not buying it would seem to be the bigger failing. It lasted several cancellations while it was hovering around 16k.

 

[frye]

yeah i, vampire did shit in the direct market

 

[Freezasaurus]

What do you think of Frank tho?

 

[slightconfuse]

New avengers gets better each issue

 

[slightconfuse]

Fraizer irving needs to draw a book set in hell.

OH LORD DAT ART IN UNCANNY 5.

 

[frye]

whoa hey ho before watchmen finally finished today!

and no one cares!!

 

[Freezasaurus]

whoa hey ho before watchmen finally finished today!

and no one cares!!

Did it? Dude, I haven't paid attention to that book since...... when did they announce it?

 

[Acid08]

Did it? Dude, I haven't paid attention to that book since...... when did they announce it?

Yeah, never cared really.

Did any of it end up being good?

 

[slightconfuse]

i thought BW was over or cancled a long time ago.

also this

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/04/24/whatever-happened-to-the-before-watchmen-epilogue/

also Miles Morales getting some of that Lady HawkGuy

Then we’ll be getting into a story where everyone’s kind of rooting for Miles to get over it, and get back into the game, but he just cannot perceive of that ever happening. We’ll be meeting Cloak and Dagger, Bombshell from our last volume of Ultimate Spider-Man will be returning, and Gwen Stacy will be part of the book. And his new girlfriend, Katie Bishop. What? Teenage Kate Bishop. Ultimate Kate Bishop.

 

[frye]

Did it? Dude, I haven't paid attention to that book since...... when did they announce it?

Oh yeah, the Comedian book is the last one after being delayed for a few months. There was supposed to be an epilogue issue at one point to tie everything together but googling it now I only see BC saying it won't be happening.

 

[Acid08]

i thought BW was over or cancled a long time ago.

also this

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/04/24/whatever-happened-to-the-before-watchmen-epilogue/

also Miles Morales getting some of that Lady HawkGuy

I should read some USM but everyone just says how boring it is and I can't justify spending money on it.

I did like the kid in Spider-Men.

 

[slightconfuse]

i hopping on for Ultimate cloak and dagger

 

[Dysun]

Bendis comics today were pretty good, enjoyed Uncanny X-Men 5 and GotG 2. First issue of Uncanny I really liked cover to end. Art was great, wouldn't mind alot more of Irving and less Bachalo

I see why you guys like Hickman, I'm digging both normal Avengers and New Avengers. Took me awhile to warm up to the first one.

 

[Owzers]

if digital weren't insanely priced i could see myself going digital only and forgetting about selling my print issues when done. I was just thinking about how i'm several months behind on some titles and if i were digital only, i'd only buy books when i was ready to read an issue and i wouldn't have a pile of singles all the time.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

So after hitting the LCS for my weekly floppies, I drove across town to check out that clearance sale on graphic novels at Books-A-Million, that Az987 talked about earlier. I walked in, went straight to the back of the store where they keep the marked down products and, after staring for a few minutes, pulled out my phone and started taking pictures of the entire 4ft section of shelving devoted solely to clearance graphic novels. Then, I purchased about $100 worth of said books, drove home, and after fixing dinner used the pictures to compile a list of everything they had.

Here it is (bolded are my pickups).

-Agents of Atlas: Dark Reign TP (Parker/Pagulayan)
-Amazing Spider-Girl: Brand New May TP (Defalco/Frenz)
-Amazing Spider-Girl: Maybreak TP (Defalco/Frenz)
-Astonishing Spider-Man and Wolverine TP (Aaron/Kubert)
-Astonishing X-Men Ultimate Collection vols. 1 and 2 TP (Whedon/Cassaday)
-Avengers vol. 1 TP (Bendis/Romita/Hitch)
-Avengers vol. 3 HC (Bendis/Acuna/Guedes/Peterson)
-Avengers The Initiative: Disassembled HC (Gage/Slott/Kurth)
-Avengers Prime HC (Bendis/Davis)
-Avengers X-Sanction HC (Loeb/McGuinness)
-Brian Michael Bendis: 10 Years at Marvel TP (Bendis/Various)
-[DARK HORSE] Buffy Omnibus vol. 1 TP (Whedon/Powell/Bennett)
-Captain America: Allies and Enemies TP (Various)
-Captain America: Man Out of Time HC (Waid/Molina)
-Captain America: Prisoner of War HC (Brubaker/Deodato/Guice/Samnee)
-Captain America: Reborn HC (Brubaker/Hitch/Guice)
-Captain America: Red Menace TP (Brubaker/Epting/Perkins)
-Captain America: The Trial of Captain America HC (Brubaker/Acuna/Brettweiser/Guice)
-Captain Marvel: Secret Invasion TP (Reed/Weeks)
-Civil War by Stuart Moore
-Daredevil: Father TP (Quesada)
-Dark Avengers vol. 2: Molecule Man TP (Bendis/Deodato)
-Dark Reign: The Underside TP (Tieri/Santolouco)
-Dead of Night featuring Devil-Slayer MAX TP (Keene/Samnee)
-Destroyer MAX HC (Kirkman/Walker)
-[DARK HORSE] Devil TP (Kishi/Madhouse)
-Fantastic Four Season One HC (Aguirre-Sacasa/Marquez)
-Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne vols. 1, 6, 7 and 8 (Byrne)
-Fear Itself: The Avengers HC (Bendis/Romita/Bachalo/Deodato)
-Fear Itself: Deadpool and Fearsome Four HC (Various)
-Fear Itself: Hulk HC (Parker/Casagrande/Hardman)
-FF vol. 1 HC (Hickman/Epting/Kitson)
-Foolkiller: Fool's Paradise MAX TP (Hurwitz/Medina)
-GeNext TP (Claremont/Scherberger)
-GeNext: United TP (Claremont/Meyers)
-[IDW] Hearts and Minds: A G.I. Joe Graphic Novel by Max Brooks
-HULK vol. 6: World War Hulks HC (Loeb/McGuinness)
-HULK: Fall of the Hulks Prelude HC (Various)
-The Last Defenders TP (Casey/Muniz/Giffen)
-Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter vol. 1 HC (Dabel Brothers)
-Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures HC (Hamilton/Ruffner/Booth)
-Marvel Adventures: Avengers Captain America TP (Various)
-Marvel Adventures: Avengers Thor TP (Various)
-Marvel Apes: The Evolution Starts Here TP (Kesel/Brown)
-Marvel Digest: Avengers United TP (Tobin/Van Lente/Son/Caramanga)
-Marvel Digest: Captain America The Fighting Avenger TP (Clevinger/Guruhiru)
-Marvel Digest: Spider-Girl vol. 11 Marked for Death TP (DeFalco/Frenz)
-Marvel Digest: Star Comics All-Star Collection TP (Various)
-Marvel Digest: X-Men First Class vol. 2 (Parker/Cruz/Rousseau/Coover)
-Marvel Essential: Dazzler vol. 2 TP (Various)
-Marvel Essential: Ghost Rider vol. 3 TP (Various)
-Marvel Essential: Human Torch vol. 1 TP (Lee/Kirby)
-Marvel Essential: Marvel Two-In-One vol. 3 TP (Various)
-Marvel Essential: Power Man and Iron Fist vol. ?? TP (Various)
-Marvel Essential: X-Factor vol. ?? TP (Various)
-Marvel Europe TP (Faraci/Morvan/Tito/Jean-David)
-Marvel Illustrated: Kidnapped (Stevenson/Thomas/Gully)
-Marvel Illustrated: The Last of the Mohicans (Cooper/Thomas/Kurth/Medri)
-Marvel Illustrated: The Man in the Iron Mask (Dumas/Thomas/Petrus)
-Marvel Illustrated: The Three Muskateers (Dumas/Thomas/Petrus)
-Marvel Illustrated: Treasure Island (Stevenson/Thomas/Gully)
-Marvel Super Hero Team Up TP (Various)
-Marvel Universe vs. Wolverine HC (Maberry/Campbell)
-Marvel Zombies 4 TP (Van Lente/Walker)
-Marvel Zombies 5 HC (Van Lente/Kano)
-Marvel Zombies: The Return HC (Various)
-Marvel Zombies: Supreme HC (Marafino/Blanco)
-Mighty Avengers: Secret Invasion Book 2 HC (Bendis/Pham/Kurth)
-The 'Nam TP (Murray/Golden)
-[IDW] Nanovor: Game Day TP (Burnham/Torrent)
-New Avengers vol. 1 HC (Bendis/Immonen)
-New Avengers vol. 2 TP (Bendis/Immonen/Acuna/Deodato/Chaykin)
-New Avengers: The Reunion (McCann/Lopez)
-New Exiles: The Enemy Within TP (Claremont/Grummett/Diaz)
-New Exiles: Soul Awakening TP (Claremont/Grummett/Diaz)
-NYX: No Way Home TP (Liu/Abdrasofszky)
-Patsy Walker: Hellcat TP (Immonen/Lafuente)
-Philip K. Dick's Electric Ant HC (Dick/Mack/Alixe)
-Secret Avengers: Mission to Mars HC (Brubaker/Deodato)
-Secret Invasion: Home Invasion TP (Brandon/Postic)
-Spider-Man: The Icon HC by Steve Saffel
-Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane: Sophomore Jinx (Moore/Rousseau)
-Spider-Man: Season One HC (Bunn/Edwards)
-Spider-Man vs. Black Cat TP (Various)
-[IDW] Star Trek: Countdown TP (Orci/Kurtzman/Jones/Johnson)
-[DARK HORSE] Star Wars Clone Wars vol. 7 TP (Blackman/Lane/Ching/Scott)
-[DARK HORSE] Star Wars Legacy: Shards TP (Ostrander/Duursema/Wilson/Foreman)
-[DARK HORSE] Star Wars Legacy: Tatooine TP (Ostrander/Duursema/Parsons/Anderson)
-Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born HC (David/Furth/Lee/Isanove)
-Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home HC (David/Furth/Lee/Isanove)
-Stepehn King's The Dark Tower: Treachery HC (David/Furth/Lee/Isanove)
-Steve Rogers: Super Soldier HC (Brubaker/Eaglesham)
-Thor: Balder the Brave HC (Simonson/Buscema)
-Thor: For Asgard HC (Rodi/Bianchi)
-Thor/Iron Man: God Complex TP (Abnett/Lanning/Eaton)
-Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers HC (Rodi/Ribic)
-Thor: The World Eaters HC (Fraction/Ferry)
-[IDW] The Transformers: The Reign of Starscream TP (Mowry/Milne)
-[IDW] The Transformers Spotlight: Revelation TP (Furman/Su/Roche/Khanna)
-[DARK HORSE] Troublemaker vol. 1 TP (Evanovich/Jones)
-Ultimate Adventures: One Tin Soldier TP (Zimmerman/Fegredo)
-Ultimate Comics Avengers: Next Generation HC (Millar/Pacheco)
-Ultimate Comics Avengers vs New Ultimates: Death of Spider-Man TP (Millar/Yu)
-Ultimate Comics Captain America HC (Aaron/Garney)
-Ultimate Comics Spider-Man HC (Bendis/Pichelli)
-Ultimate Comics Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man HC (Bendis/Bagley)
-Ultimate Comics Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man Prelude HC (Bendis/Lafuente/Pichelli/Samnee)
-Ultimate Comics Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man Fallout HC (Bendis/Hickman/Spencer)
-Ultimate Comics Thor HC (Hickman/Pacheco)
-Ultimate Comics: X-Men vol. 1 HC (Spencer/Medina)
-Ultimate Comics: X-Origins HC (Loeb/Adams)
-Ultimate Fantastic Four vol. 6 TP (Carey/Kirkham)
-Ultimatum: Spider-Man HC (Bendis/Immonen/Lafuente)
-Uncanny X-Force: The Apocalypse Solution HC (Remender/Opena)
-Uncanny X-Men: Breaking Point TP (Gillen/Dodson/Pacheco)
-War Machine: Iron Heart HC (Pak/Manco)
-War of Kings TP (Abnett/Lanning/Pelletier)
-War of Kings: Warriors TP (Cebulski/Gage/Faerber/Dazo)
-What If? Classic vols. 2 thru 6 TP (Various)
-Wisdom: Rudiments of Widsom MAX TP (Cornell/Hairsine/Garcia)
-Wolverine: Blood and Sorrow TP (Moore/Williams/Lapham/Smith)
-Wolverine: Dangerous Games TP (Hurwitz/Spurrier/Remender/Carey)
-Wolverine's Revenge HC (Aaron/Guedes/Sudzuka)
-Wolverine vs The X-Men TP (Aaron/Acuna/Palo)
-X-Campus TP (Artibani/Medri/Di Salvo)
-X-Men: The Characters and Their Universe HC by Michael Mallory
-X-Men: Curse of the Mutants HC (Gischler/Medina)
-X-Men: First to Last TP (Yost/Medina/Pacheco)
-X-Men Season One (Hopeless/McKelvie)
-Young Avengers: Sidekicks TP (Heinberg/Cheung)
-The Zombie: Simon Garth MAX TP (Hotz/Powell)
-Zombies Christmas Carol (McCann/Baldeon/Treece)

It looks as though Diamond once again cleared out a warehouse of old stock by selling it to BAM at cut-rate prices; the receipt even says "Marvel Diamond Comics" for a few of the items purchased. Prices marked were as low as $2.97 for some items, as high as $9.97 for others, with most falling in the middle range. And as you can obviously tell, the selection was almost exclusively Marvel, with a few books from smaller publishers IDW and Dark Horse; the only DC item that I noticed was a TDKR writing journal that was probably just misplaced.

Your mileage may vary.

You wouldn't happen to be

Spoiler

Bats/Joker?

No, I don't work for DC. ;p

 

[Auron_Kale]

Sad that my LCS was shorted on East of West #2 so gotta hunt for that along with FF#2. But I got stuff today lol.