Future Foundation
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How the fuck have I never checked out In Stock Trades before tonight? 45% off DC trades?
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COMICS! |OT| February 2014. Flowers? Candy? Please. Get that guy/gal an omnibus!
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It comes up fairly often as IST lol.
Freezasaurus
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Marvel used to be 45% off as well. Now they're down to 42%. Also, every week, select new-releases are 50% off. New books for the week are usually put up for sale around 5PM EST on Tuesday.
CheapGraphicNovels.com sells new & preorders hardcovers for 50% off. But they do charge $7 for shipping. So it's best to order a few books at once so you only pay the shipping fee once. I'm thinking about preordering the Annilation omnibus, Cataclysm and the Infinity Guantlst omnibus from CGN soon.
Same, and X-Men is basically the one book where he can let loose and have people have adventures and talk about their feelings because this kind of soap-operatic shit is the bread of butter of the franchise.
Plus he's got the Correct Beast opinion, which is that Ape Beast is superior to Cat Beast, Lion Beast, or Goat Beast
It collects the entire series pretty much, which equates to about 4 trades. So you're looking at equivalent of 4 £10 tpbs. Reasonable price I'd say. A quick look on amazon uk shows the first three trades in stock, so you can always go that route rather than the omnibus.
Future Foundation
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Some browsing and about $60 later, I've got the Power Girl trade, as well as Born Again, All-Star Superman, and new The Great Darkness Saga.
How do people like the content from the Annihilation and Infinity Gauntlet omnibuses? Both of those caught my eye (especially since I haven't read any space stuff yet, and that sounds pretty fun), but having that $125 MSRP, it'll be really hard to convince myself to buy without knowing what I'm getting into. Are one or both of those top-tier stories?
Regarding that $125 MSRP though, with Infinity Gauntlet I get it, since it's over 1200 pages, but Annihilation is 880. That's pretty lame. And it's a shame too, since I probably would've went for it for the inevitable $50 price point.
Serpentine
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Matt Fraction's Defenders run as a whole is forgettable as hell BUT Defenders #4 is a really solid Doc Strange solo issue drawn by Michael Lark and it's really good, so if you see that lying around, i recommend reading it
Thanks! I'll definitely keep an eye out.
doniewhalberg
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I'd be more inclined to agree with Dan if the publishers weren't just as bad. Bleeding cool is not the national news. It's a niche site known for spoilers, no-one is going to go on there and not get what they wanted. Mavel or DC literally will put a comic spoiler in the national news months before it happens if they think it'll get coverage. It actually makes Tom Brennan's (editor at marvel, previous worked for CBS news actually) tweet backing Slott up kind of funny: "Imagine if E! or whatever played footage of the last scene of House of Cards" since Marvel will literally ask the equivalent to do this.
That said, if we ignore the contradictions, as a general rule of thumb I agree. I think posting spoilers does mess with people's compulsions on a base level, both in their will to not look at them and then spread them, even in they didn't want to know/see them originally. Once people know that they're there, they have a much harder time not looking, and it would be better for the world if they weren't there on BC. This isn't really Rich Johnston's problem though.
GrandHarrier
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On the topic of spoilers: I've never understood this backlash against them. I mean, sure, I get that there are people who are going to want to avoid them but that's on you, the Spoiler Avoider. I've always operated on a belief that it's fair game once the information is public.
CalhounBurns
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So I want to read the new series of Amazing Spider-Man when that starts in a few months - how essential is Superior Spider-Man going to be? Will I be able to jump right into the new series or should I start getting Superior trades now?
I'm assuming Superior is coming to an end with the launch of Amazing?
I'm assuming Superior is coming to an end with the launch of Amazing?
Jedeye Sniv
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Fixed! Messi, don't bother with the stuff I've lined through, very not necessary at all. Well OK there's like one bit in the Ra's book that counts but it's shit, wiki that bit. Suprised Freeze didn't stick 52 in there too since a very key bit happens there to kick it all off.
Basically, just buy the first book. If you like it, buy the second one.
Comics fans are so OCD.
Jedeye Sniv
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Buy trade paperbacks from amazon/InStockTrades. Sounds like singles in your country are a crapshoot.
Slott completely embarrassing himself as usual. As Rich pointed out, the comic was already available worldwide on Comixology but Slott seems to think the world revolves around America when it comes to spoilers.
I recently started reading The Unwritten and, man, it's awesome. But I am wondering if all the foreign language parts are google-translate-and-typos-quality like the german in volume 2... If you obviously have nobody who actually speaks the language to give it a quick look (really, Vertigo?) just use the <this is a foreign language!> technique instead.
Tizoc
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IMO Return of Bruce Wayne should be read AFTER Vol. 3 of B&R, granted some stuff would be a little confusing reading it later but I feel that seeing Bruce's sudden return adds to that 'Morrison' naritive feel
GrandHarrier
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All this [Earlier] talk of statues is making me want to buy a statue.
Why am I looking at the Power Girl / Huntress duo statue? It's so expensive. Stop.
Why am I looking at the Power Girl / Huntress duo statue? It's so expensive. Stop.
Jedeye Sniv
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I hope not, omnibuses suck
I want 3 OHCs collecting the entire run in an easy to ready and good looking format. First would be the entire Black Glove saga through to RIP, second would be all of B&R including RoBW, third would be Inc. Would be perfect.Judging from thenway Superior has run and is looking to end, Amazing is going to be about Peter trying to put his life back together after Otto royally screwed it up. If you want to know exactly how badly Pete's life was ruined, then read Superior.
However, given Marvel's love of slapping #1 on everything and the timing of Amazing's return, I doubt you'll need to know the particulars to enjoy it.
ThyMusicMan
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LIST:
AMAZING X-MEN #4
DISNEY KINGDOMS SEEKERS OF THE WEIRD #2
MARVEL KNIGHTS: THE HULK #3
NEW WARRIORS #1 (maybe?)
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEADPOOL #3
PUNISHER #2
UNDERTOW #1
AMAZING X-MEN #4
DISNEY KINGDOMS SEEKERS OF THE WEIRD #2
MARVEL KNIGHTS: THE HULK #3
NEW WARRIORS #1 (maybe?)
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEADPOOL #3
PUNISHER #2
UNDERTOW #1
Just don't put the spoiler in the title of the article so that people casually browsing get it spoiled as well as those who want to read the spoilers.
GrandHarrier
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Sure. But if I was the type who wanted to avoid Spoilers I'd probably avoid sites like Bleeding Cool in general.
Discount comic book store. Fairly sure they are both owned under the same company no?
Ah, that's the one. They are owned by the same company? That's weird.
It depends. Sometimes you can get spoiled in completely unrelated topics, when threads start to drift and people are a bit lax with spoilers.
It's not that much extra work to wrap something in spoiler tags.
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Starting up Flashpoint. Shit was good, right?
slightconfuse
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Read the batman mini. Instead
Always thought flashpoint was wasted potential . It could have been DCs ultimate line!.
JetBlackPanda
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what do you guys use for physical comics ordered online? My local shop is ok but they sell out way to fast. Also its hit or miss for some stuff.
I grabbed a few comics on my iPad and its ok but I really like owning an actual book.
I grabbed a few comics on my iPad and its ok but I really like owning an actual book.
Most use discount dcbs discount comic book store. I use Tfaw.com or rarely Midtown comics
JetBlackPanda
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Thanks I will check it out.
Sometimes, you can get spoiled just opening your twitter.
shadyspace
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Anybody ever use cheapgraphicnovels.com?
cablenathan
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This has probably been asked a thousand times but is there any UK equivalent of instocktrades? Basically I'm looking for anywhere that does deep discounts on hardcover graphics/trades.
Placed my first order with them last week (X-Force Omnibus). I believe they're located on the west coast...will probably be a while before my order reaches NYC.
Not sure if sarcastic.
What I mean is that if I'm avoiding spoilers I'll stay clear of the obvious threads. But sometimes that shit bleeds into other threads. I'd like to be able to avoid spoilers for certain things without going on a total internet/GAF blackout. Spoiler tag usage helps.
I suppose I'm mainly talking from a forum perspective. I try to avoid twitter usage altogether unless I'm really curious about what a particular creator is up to.
I'm using CGN for all my hardcover orders/preorders from now on. Half off if you preorder (or buy during the week of release), and they have great packaging. Hard to beat that.
I mainly buy hardcovers (omnibus & event trades) anyway. So going with CGN makes sense for me
Tawney Bomb
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Started catching up on things I'm behind on and checking out new things.
Got the #1 for Pretty Deadly, Velvet, Rat Queens and Rocket Girl on the Image app, enjoyed them, a little iffy on Rocket Girl though, didn't grab me like the other three did. Rat Queens may be my favorite of the bunch, but I'm partial to westerns. What's GAFs opinion on Rocket Girl, worth continuing?
Got the #1 for Pretty Deadly, Velvet, Rat Queens and Rocket Girl on the Image app, enjoyed them, a little iffy on Rocket Girl though, didn't grab me like the other three did. Rat Queens may be my favorite of the bunch, but I'm partial to westerns. What's GAFs opinion on Rocket Girl, worth continuing?
I like it but it's not as good as the others
Tawney Bomb
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That's enough of an endorsement for me to check out a few more issues, I do enjoy Reeder's art.
Pai Pai Master
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I'm grabbing the rest of the books I've missed and I'm really conflicted on this current Kieron Gillen Iron Man run. Don't know if I should grab these first three books or not.
I've heard mixed things about how it started out...did it get any better after the first few issues?
I've heard mixed things about how it started out...did it get any better after the first few issues?
Velvet is amazing. It gets better with every issue, Bru and Epting designed a fantastic femme fatale who actually looks like a real female spy would in that time period. Stuff went down in issue 3.
Apparently it revealed some stupid long-lost brother thing for Tony that will probably be retconned within a few years. A lot of people are saying it's pretty bad, I'd wait until Gillen is off the book.
TetraxShards
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If you want a Gillen book, grab the Complete Collection trades of Journey Into Mystery that are coming soon, or the Young Avengers trades.
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