MHWilliams
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Oh shit. Finally grabbed the Plantary Omni to replace my hardcovers.
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COMICS|OT|October 2017- The only thing scarier than Messi's avatar are Marvels sales
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Oh shit. Finally grabbed the Plantary Omni to replace my hardcovers.
Freezasaurus
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It's a nice book. You'll dig the cover under the dust jacket.
Bezos needs to pay his internet tax!
Oooh man. It's incredible.
Freezasaurus
Member
You've never read Planetary?! Oh my.
There are only a few books from before I started reading comics that I have gone back and read.
Freezasaurus
Member
I get it can be daunting and a lot of times it's not really necessary. But some self-contained stories are very much worth reading.
Man, if I only read stuff from 2015 on (when I started reading comics), I'd have missed out on soooo much good stuff, haha. Probably 90% of my collection is pre-2015.
Freezasaurus
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I got back into comics around 2007 when I picked up the Planet Hulk hardcover. I don't even want to think about how much I've spent on comics since then. More than I've spent on figures certainly. Comics were the real threat all along.
BKatastrophe
Member
I bought the Hellboy In Hell LE today. I now own the entire Hellboy run in LE.
I truly am a god.
Blasphemers
I truly am a god.
I know right?
Blasphemers
Yeah, but it was still fun. Except the whole Harley-making-out-with-Floyd-while-he's-wearing-Joker's-face.
Freezasaurus
Member
New week new list
Sherlock Frankenstein & The Legion of Evil #1
Batman The Drowned #1
Batwoman #8
Wild Storm #8
Invincible #141
Kill or Be Killed #13
Captain Phasma #4
War Mother #3
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Grayson omnibus
Low DLX HC Vol.1
Sherlock Frankenstein & The Legion of Evil #1
Batman The Drowned #1
Batwoman #8
Wild Storm #8
Invincible #141
Kill or Be Killed #13
Captain Phasma #4
War Mother #3
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Grayson omnibus
Low DLX HC Vol.1
MHWilliams
Member
You're in for a treat.
Also ordered the Superman Rebirth omnibus, since I had been planning on picking it up for a while now.
EdibleKnife
Member
Can't wait for this!
Goddamn, that looks awesome. Might pick that up too
Freezasaurus
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RedHoodedOwl
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The issues that features the villainess with that massive hole in her head was the weakest story of Morrison's run.
The omni is Tomasi/Gleason's run during the New 52.
I'm not huge into them myself.
More_Badass
Member
Was only a matter of time, but finally decided to check out some 2000AD comics. Got some Nemesis The Warlock and Slaine, might check out Rogue Trooper
Nemesis seems super cool. Very Prophet-esque
Nemesis seems super cool. Very Prophet-esque
RedHoodedOwl
Member
Oh, my mistake, Paul Cornell wrote that arc.
BKatastrophe
Member
So I started Forever Heroes, finally resuming Johns' JL run. I wonder if they'll ever reconcile Bertinelli working for Owlman.
Oh, another piece of DC lore that Dawnbreaker draws from: charging the Ring of Volthoom requires the user to basically stick their hand in a Cthulhu monster portal. Dawnbreaker summoned Cthulu monsters. Another power ring connected to Old Ones.
Oh, another piece of DC lore that Dawnbreaker draws from: charging the Ring of Volthoom requires the user to basically stick their hand in a Cthulhu monster portal. Dawnbreaker summoned Cthulu monsters. Another power ring connected to Old Ones.
MHWilliams
Member
Oh my golly gracious. I am going to have to display that Batman and Robin Omnibus without the dust jacket. LOOK AT THIS:
The best thing Marvel and DC have done recently is printing art directly on the cover. I hate dusk jackets.
They still usually don't print a lettered spine directly on the cover, though, unfortunately. Luckily, this B&R one does.
BaroqueSampson
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Uncanny Avengers wasn't available when I got to the promo, so I snagged McFarlane Spidey on my lady's account and the Jason Aarow Doctor Strange hardcover I was missing. In the last couple months I'm now up an omnibus, a trade, and an echo dot all free from amazon promos.
Based Prime
Based Prime
The whole Amazon book thing had me looking at different graphic novels/comics, one's that came out before I started reading them. I came upon Alan Moore's From Hell, has anyone read this book/can anyone recommend it? I do enjoy mysteries, and from a very brief synopsis I read it seems to focus on Jack the Ripper (which sounds very interesting). Should I give it a go?
I originally had the Splatoon art book as my free book but decided to cancel, and get the Planetary Omnibus instead. I, too, have never read it.
Some Nobody
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This is early. I can't even think this far ahead when I haven't even written any reviews for last week's. (Ugh. Producing 1000s of words every day for low wages is kinda miserable.)
Oh my golly gracious. I am going to have to display that Batman and Robin Omnibus without the dust jacket. LOOK AT THIS:
That looks pretty awesome. What does this book cover?
And Steph there.<3
I've only read the first arc (and thought it was great). I've heard from most people that have read it that it's fantastic. And yeah, it's Bruce and Damian.
BATMAN AND ROBIN #20-22, BATMAN AND ROBIN #0-40, BATMAN AND ROBIN #23, BATMAN AND ROBIN ANNUAL #1-3, ROBIN RISES: OMEGA #1, ROBIN RISES: ALPHA #1, SECRET ORIGINS #4 and DETECTIVE COMICS #27.
Wow, how many pages is this? I'm roughly counting the pages from the issues you mentioned and it's easily over 800.
1,248!
BKatastrophe
Member
My friend read it and said it was the biggest ripoff ever and a hack story.
His opinion is literally the only negative one I've heard/read. There is a recurring complaint that I've seen that it is almost too long given the extensive detail. If you're someone who's super into Jack the Ripper, supposedly it's am extremely interesting read, especially since it was based on letters from one of the supposed suspects.
Thanks for replying. I actually don't know too much about Jack the Ripper, but I do love mysteries. I was trying to read some reviews on the book and I guess they made a movie about it in 2001 with Depp lol. I'll have to watch that as well someday.
Anyone else have any thoughts on From Hell?
BKatastrophe
Member
The movie got a horrendous reception.
Mind you, 90% of my Jack the Ripper knowledge comes from the Last Podcast on the Left, which did a five-part series on him. From Hell was included in the material they used as research (along with pretty much everything ever made regarding the topic, the Jack the Ripper museam, etc.).
Yep, so long as the first order hasn't shipped yet.
Thanks, I canned east of west hc vol 1for Izombine omnibus. I have the trades but only read the first two so it will still be newish, I dont need to rebuy east of west in hc form until the third volume plus its 29 at ist and zombine is 43. I was hoping for journey into mystery Omni but that is too high, thought about Low hc and hellboy in hell library but both are lower value too.
Vic_Viper
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Wait, Is it any book under like $50? Was East of West and the Hellboy books available for the offer? Do you have to have Prime? I already used my Audible trial awhile ago but I can use a family members.
Definitely dont need prime but you have to see if your account is eligible, at the top of the page of something like east of west book one it will say get this hardcover and 2 audio books free, not everyone is eligible.
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1447997&page=1
MHWilliams
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Why?
They didn't say you needed to have had bought 2 books in the past 6 months. If I had known that, I would've bought 2 books since there's some I wanted to buy and then I would've used the trial. Now I'm screwed since my account has the trial but I can't get the free physical book.
MHWilliams
Member
It's weird, because I didn't buy a physical book in the past two months, but it went through fine.
I think its one of the three criteria you need. I didnt buy physical, just some kindle sale books, but I never used an audible trial before.
When I did the trial I did it through them saying I could get a physical book for free, did yours not mention that when you did the trial?
It's actually 6 months, that was a typo on my part.
Someone in that thread said they hadn't bought any in the past 6 months, though, and they got it. So who the hell knows.
MHWilliams
Member
Oh, that makes sense. Picked up some books in the last Marvel sale.