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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 5, 2024 9:34:27 GMT -5
With that project, with his experience of writing his own stories, he found himself frustrated with Starlin's story, as he felt it was spinning its wheels, repeating the same cycle of beats (fighting, talking, getting beat, getting back up and rinse and repeat). It killed his enthusiasm, plus the workload of two compromised projects took its toll on him and his confidence. he already had the failure of the unrealized JLA/Avengers (killed by Jim Shooter) and Games, and now he was replaced on Infinity Gauntlet, because he fell behind. When I finally read Infinity Gauntlet, I found the story underwhelming. I enjoyed Thanos Quest more even though it's the appetizer. As a Starlin and Thanos fanboy (I dunno why Cei-U even talks to me lol) I totally agree. The lead up was actually better than the event.
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 5, 2024 16:51:32 GMT -5
I dunno why Cei-U even talks to me lol) You're just so darn likable, adam, that I can't hold your terrible taste against you.
Cei-U! I summon the benevolent condescension!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 7, 2024 17:19:48 GMT -5
It feels like the Fantagraphics hardcovers of Don Rosa's Duck stories went out of print in about a month. The print run had to be miniscule. There. I said it.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 7, 2024 17:39:27 GMT -5
It feels like the Fantagraphics hardcovers of Don Rosa's Duck stories went out of print in about a month. The print run had to be miniscule. There. I said it. Wouldn't be surprised; but, what do you think the demand would be, relative to the Barks stories?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 7, 2024 17:57:10 GMT -5
It feels like the Fantagraphics hardcovers of Don Rosa's Duck stories went out of print in about a month. The print run had to be miniscule. There. I said it. Wouldn't be surprised; but, what do you think the demand would be, relative to the Barks stories? One has to assume less, though I'd think that the Barks stories are more readily available as they'd been reprinted far more often. I'm used to it in strip reprint books. But it just seems odd. But then I tend to forget that if it ain't superheroes it doesn't count.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 7, 2024 18:02:37 GMT -5
Wouldn't be surprised; but, what do you think the demand would be, relative to the Barks stories? One has to assume less, though I'd think that the Barks stories are more readily available as they'd been reprinted far more often. I'm used to it in strip reprint books. But it just seems odd. But then I tend to forget that if it ain't superheroes it doesn't count. It could be a simple cost vs expected sales situation, though I would think you could sell those stories to bookstores and other outlets just as well as barks. We got the Barks collections, at Barnes & Noble (classified for the humor section, rather than graphic novels, though). Might be something in the contract, given that at least some of it was from the Eggmont publications. Maybe there was a limitation, based on the rights. Just speculating, though I think it boils down to Fantagraphics figuring Don Rosa's name sells to a hardcore audience and the Bark stories being beloved classics to Baby Boomers and kids who grew up with Duck Tales, in the late 80s and 90s.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 7, 2024 19:04:22 GMT -5
It feels like the Fantagraphics hardcovers of Don Rosa's Duck stories went out of print in about a month. The print run had to be miniscule. There. I said it. I'm not a fan, but I'm guessing you're talking about the individual volumes? Because the Don Rosa "The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" Deluxe Edition volume that Fantagraphics put out in 2022 is still fairly widely available here in the U.K. This one... It's not cheap though: £147 on Amazon.co.uk and up to £180 elsewhere online here in the UK. Here's the amazon link: amzn.eu/d/4YU0rx4
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 7, 2024 19:14:32 GMT -5
It feels like the Fantagraphics hardcovers of Don Rosa's Duck stories went out of print in about a month. The print run had to be miniscule. There. I said it. I'm not a fan, but I'm guessing you're talking about the individual volumes? Because the Don Rosa "The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" Deluxe Edition volume that Fantagraphics put out in 2022 is still fairly widely available here in the U.K. This one... It's not cheap though: £147 on Amazon.co.uk and up to £180 elsewhere online here in the UK. Here's the amazon link: amzn.eu/d/4YU0rx4Yeah, the individual volumes of Rosa's work. Life and Times has been pretty readily available in one format or another for at least the last 15 years. But the rest...not so much.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 7, 2024 19:25:07 GMT -5
I'm not a fan, but I'm guessing you're talking about the individual volumes? Because the Don Rosa "The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" Deluxe Edition volume that Fantagraphics put out in 2022 is still fairly widely available here in the U.K. This one... It's not cheap though: £147 on Amazon.co.uk and up to £180 elsewhere online here in the UK. Here's the amazon link: amzn.eu/d/4YU0rx4Yeah, the individual volumes of Rosa's work. Life and Times has been pretty readily available in one format or another for at least the last 15 years. But the rest...not so much. Ah, OK. Well, it might still be worth browsing Amazon.co.uk because they seem to have a fair few Rosa hardcover collections still available. Plus maybe other UK online sellers like reedcomics.com or booksellers like Blackwells. Dunno what shipping to sunny Idaho would be, but it's maybe an option?
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 7, 2024 19:57:57 GMT -5
Sometimes that is not always possible, due to North American publication rights vs European rights and/or British rights. If you are talking actual Fantagraphics editions, you should be able to buy from a UK source, as those would be licensed for US sale. Sometimes, those books have a local publishing partner who holds region-specific rights. Doesn't stop individuals from selling other editions for export; but does affect commercial entities, with decent legal advisors. With Disney's international publishing, it can get a little murky. Eggmont had original material done for their market, which was then licensed back to US publishers, like Gladstone. Whatever the case, one thing is for sure, Disney's lawyers are well fed.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 7, 2024 20:31:17 GMT -5
Sometimes that is not always possible, due to North American publication rights vs European rights and/or British rights. If you are talking actual Fantagraphics editions, you should be able to buy from a UK source, as those would be licensed for US sale. Sometimes, those books have a local publishing partner who holds region-specific rights. Doesn't stop individuals from selling other editions for export; but does affect commercial entities, with decent legal advisors. With Disney's international publishing, it can get a little murky. Eggmont had original material done for their market, which was then licensed back to US publishers, like Gladstone. Whatever the case, one thing is for sure, Disney's lawyers are well fed. On a vaguely related matter, once upon a time, I used to buy a lot of comics from the U.S. because even with the overseas shipping it usually worked out considerably cheaper per issue to buy from there rather than pay the extortionate prices UK online comic stores ask for old American back issues. And best of all, there was no customs duty to pay on paper goods coming into the UK (and still isn't, as far as I'm aware). Unfortunately, the price of shipping -- international shipping especially! -- has gone crazy in the U.S. over the last decade or so. Add to that the weakening exchange rate of the pound versus the dollar, and it's just not a financially sound option to order anything from the U.S. anymore.
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Post by Rags on Feb 7, 2024 20:37:36 GMT -5
England has its own line of Marvel Hardcovers and you get a nice mural on the shelf as a bonus.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 7, 2024 22:16:53 GMT -5
Sometimes that is not always possible, due to North American publication rights vs European rights and/or British rights. If you are talking actual Fantagraphics editions, you should be able to buy from a UK source, as those would be licensed for US sale. Sometimes, those books have a local publishing partner who holds region-specific rights. Doesn't stop individuals from selling other editions for export; but does affect commercial entities, with decent legal advisors. With Disney's international publishing, it can get a little murky. Eggmont had original material done for their market, which was then licensed back to US publishers, like Gladstone. Whatever the case, one thing is for sure, Disney's lawyers are well fed. On a vaguely related matter, once upon a time, I used to buy a lot of comics from the U.S. because even with the overseas shipping it usually worked out considerably cheaper per issue to buy from there rather than pay the extortionate prices UK online comic stores ask for old American back issues. And best of all, there was no customs duty to pay on paper goods coming into the UK (and still isn't, as far as I'm aware). Unfortunately, the price of shipping -- international shipping especially! -- has gone crazy in the U.S. over the last decade or so. Add to that the weakening exchange rate of the pound versus the dollar, and it's just not a financially sound option to order anything from the U.S. anymore. Tell me about it; I work for a retail & printing division of an international shipping company and we have a lot of international shipping, from local customers, predominantly from India, but the two universities here have large international student populations, too. It's anywhere from $80-120 to ship just documents to India and packages climb up quickly. We get people asking about international rates, who have never shipped outside the US (except maybe through the postal system) and their jaws drop open when I tell them their package is likely to be over $200, then actually pull up specific rates and find out I was optimistic. Europe isn't as bad as Asia, Africa or Latin America, though, particularly Western Europe. The more populated the area, the better the rates seem to be, which figures, due to infrastructure. Some of our customers use services that ship packages to a domestic location, then transport them via maritime transport. That ends up being more affordable to them. Fuel costs are a big factor, as a lot of the small parcel carriers use only air transport for international delivery. Canada is the only international surface transport destination we have. Mexico is too unstable for the risks.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 7, 2024 23:08:51 GMT -5
When my middle son was in the Peace Corps in Benin it was luxuriously expensive to send him anything. We did…but not like we would have if the postage wasn’t three times the cost of anything we sent.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 9, 2024 0:41:24 GMT -5
When my middle son was in the Peace Corps in Benin it was luxuriously expensive to send him anything. We did…but not like we would have if the postage wasn’t three times the cost of anything we sent. I see it everyday, especially with people returning items to online vendors. If they don't have a pre-paid return label, they will quite often stand dumbfounded when we give them rates, especially for bulk items. We explain that the shipping they paid to receive it was probably with a shipping account, where they were getting volume discounts. These days, better retailers at least will deduct the return label cost from your refund, but at their discounted rate, rather than a standard rate. We often counsel people to talk to the vendor's customer service to see if they can get a label through them, at their rate, with the deduction from the refund. It usually works out well. Too many find that the cost of returning something to California is 2 and 3 times what they paid!
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