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Post by Trevor on May 24, 2016 11:50:02 GMT -5
Not even remotely interested personally. I have thousands of dollars worth of purchased comics to read and re-read before I consider a rental plan.
But for new users? Yeah, never buy a comic again and just join this and MU (and I imagine the soon-to-be DCU).
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Post by hondobrode on May 24, 2016 15:28:24 GMT -5
You and I are in the same boat, Trevor, but, it would be great for the casual fan.
Not sure if they'll be rotating what they offer or not.
I looked at Image, and saw that Invincible was offered, but not Invincible Universe.
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Post by Trevor on May 24, 2016 18:26:32 GMT -5
Yeah, the more I hear talk of it, it's more like a sampler platter. First trades of lots of series, but not a everything binge read sort of thing. And I've heard talk of the companies rotating. Still, nice for newbies to sample a lot before they buy, or for casual readers.
I've always thought that companies should offer the second issue of everything for free. Sneaky, and I'd hate it, but I bet it would increase sales.
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Post by madthinker on May 24, 2016 20:32:26 GMT -5
I ran into this Garth Ennis offer at Humble Bundle and bought my first digital comics...thought the $$$ was going to a good cause. www.humblebundle.com/books/garth-ennis-dynamite-bundleCan any of you bargain hunters share some advice for setting my laptop up to read them? What format to download, reader recommendations, ect.? Thanks in advance for the help. |
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Post by hondobrode on May 25, 2016 0:18:31 GMT -5
I ran into this Garth Ennis offer at Humble Bundle and bought my first digital comics...thought the $$$ was going to a good cause. www.humblebundle.com/books/garth-ennis-dynamite-bundleCan any of you bargain hunters share some advice for setting my laptop up to read them? What format to download, reader recommendations, ect.? Thanks in advance for the help. I read them 99 % of the time on my iPad, but, I'd suggest reading them in their original form on your laptop. Does this help ? |
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Post by Trevor on May 25, 2016 17:21:43 GMT -5
It might be expired by now, but on Facebook, DC Films was giving away digital copies of Rebirth 1.
Just read it, best book I've read in years.
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Post by madthinker on May 25, 2016 18:28:25 GMT -5
I ran into this Garth Ennis offer at Humble Bundle and bought my first digital comics...thought the $$$ was going to a good cause. www.humblebundle.com/books/garth-ennis-dynamite-bundleCan any of you bargain hunters share some advice for setting my laptop up to read them? What format to download, reader recommendations, ect.? Thanks in advance for the help. I read them 99 % of the time on my iPad, but, I'd suggest reading them in their original form on your laptop. Does this help ? I tried downloading ComicRack, but I'm still having issues actually viewing the books. Learning curve for me... |
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Post by hondobrode on May 25, 2016 21:38:50 GMT -5
I'll bet it timed out, as in, that promotion is over now.
They run them fairly frequently though.
As far as Unlimited, I was thinking about it today, and I think I'm going to do it anyway.
It gives me more to sample and help me from spending on stuff that sounded good that ended up not so good. Rare but it happens (I'm looking at you Zero).
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Post by hondobrode on May 26, 2016 21:11:09 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Allen on May 27, 2016 17:17:56 GMT -5
Message from TwoMorrows:
Remember the good old days, when Superman and Batman were friends, and Captain America wasn’t a Nazi? If you’re having trouble, let TwoMorrows jog your memory with our Memorial Day Magazine Sale, where our comics (and LEGO) magazines are 40% OFF at www.twomorrows.com! This includes all but the latest (and upcoming) PRINT issues of: Alter Ego Back Issue BrickJournal Comic Book Artist Comic Book Creator Draw Jack Kirby Collector Rough Stuff Write Now & more It even includes special BOOK-format issues: Alter Ego: Centennial (a.k.a. Alter Ego #100) Joe Kubert: Creator & Mentor (a.k.a. Comic Book Creator #2) Swampmen (a.k.a. Comic Book Creator #6) Kirby Five-Oh! (a.k.a. Jack Kirby Collector #50) Lee & Kirby: The Wonder Years (a.k.a. Jack Kirby Collector #58) The sale runs through June 6, and is for PRINT EDITIONS ONLY, ordered from our website. (New and upcoming issues are not included, but are available at our everyday 15% off discount.) Have a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend, everyone! |
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Post by hondobrode on May 27, 2016 19:31:43 GMT -5
I've been ordering from Bud Plant for 25 years now, and I wanted to share some of the closeouts he has for his annual Spring Clearance sale.     Kinstler's work hangs in museums, boardrooms, banks, private collections, The White House, and in the homes of his clients and friends. Before portraiture became his life's work, he spent two decades honing his craft on illustrations for pulp magazines like The Shadow, Doc Savage and Detective Tales. He went on to draw the comic book adventures of Hawkman, Jesse James, Zorro, and the obscure but provocative White Princess of the Jungle. He's well known to comic collectors for his brilliant line drawings on the inside front covers of hundreds of Avon's early '50s titles, dozens of which are reproduced here from the original art. He also encountered such notable figures as James Montgomery Flagg, Dean Cornwell, and James Bama. Over 375 illustrations accompany this biography, enlivened by Kinstler's memories and the recollections of friends and editors. Limited to 700 copies, signed by artist and author, slipcased, with an extra color signature plate and 16 extra b&w plates. EVERETT RAYMOND KINSTLER Signed Deluxe Low Stock $95.00 $79.00 Signed & limited, 700! The Artist's Journey through Popular Culture 1942-62. Our Highest Recommendation. By Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Everett Raymond Kinstler. The deluxe edition is slipcased, bound in full cloth with gold-embossed titles, and includes an extra color painting on the signature plate signed by Kinstler and Vadeboncoeur. Well known for his brilliant line drawings on the inside front covers of hundreds of Avon's early '50s titles, dozens of which are reproduced here from the original art. Over 375 illustrations accompany this biography, enlivened by Kinstler's memories and the recollections of friends and editors. 16 extra b&w plates. click for Bud's Spring Clearance Sale |
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Post by hondobrode on May 31, 2016 14:16:41 GMT -5
More Indie Eisners Featuring Becky Cloonan!  As a lone hunter tracks an elusive beast through the forest, he reflects on his life and past love through a series of flashbacks, bringing the story to a climax that is as romantic as it is savage. This powerful short story begs for multiple read-throughs, never giving concrete answers, but (like the best enigmatic endings) leaves your own conclusions satisfying. "Beautiful, haunting, and refreshingly mysterious." -Mike Mignola 
On the eve of a great battle, a humble squire is tasked with delivering a letter to a seemingly abandoned castle at the heart of an ill-famed swamp. Met with mysterious apparitions on the way, he slowly unveils the truth behind his journey as his past is re-written over the course of the story.  A fisherman's wife tends the garden and animals while her husband is at sea, but secrets buried under the waves begin to bubble to the surface revealing a secret treachery and forgotten truth. The third and final book in a trilogy of critically acclaimed stand-alone stories by award winning creator Becky Cloonan.  Zenescope Entertainment's epic, fantasy-horrors series continues with a brand new mind-bending installment. The Liddle family has never been normal. Even before Alice would meet her future husband, Lewis, her mind was haunted by secrets of her dark past. Alice tried to live a normal life and raise a family with two beautiful children, Calie and Johnny. But it was only a matter of time before Alice's past caught up with her. Upon learning that the nightmarish Realm of Wonderland has been targeting her family through her mind, Alice, sacrificed herself, finally ending the nightmare... or so she thought. After her mother's suicide and the murder of her father at the hands of her brother, Calie Liddle sacrificed her brother, Johnny, to the Realm of Wonderland. Now, Johnny - alone and scared - is trapped in the hellish landscape. What will become of him and what will become of the Liddle bloodline? |
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Post by hondobrode on May 31, 2016 14:27:12 GMT -5
 Madwoman of the Sacred Heart Vol. 1 This series is rated Adults Only DISCLAIMER: graphic sexuality The comedic and ironic misadventures of a confused Philosophy professor on the path to spiritual awakening. Alan Mangel has it all. As a popular Philosophy Professor at the world famous Université de La Sorbonne, he is wealthy, married and academically acclaimed. On his sixtieth birthday, however, Alan's life will crumble as Elisabeth, a beautiful young student, claims she received a vision from God that he is to impregnate her with the second-coming of John the Baptist. As Alan gives himself up to the wild forces bullying him through life, he engages on a spiritual journey that challenges his very reality. Everything once true is proven to be false. Everything once false is proven to be true. One of the most compelling and personal works by legendary international comics superstars Moebius and Alexandro Jodorowsky ( The Incal ).  Jughead (2015-) #1 IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF COMIC BOOK REBOOTS LIKE ARCHIE #1, ARCHIE COMICS PROUDLY PRESENTS... JUGHEAD #1 -- FROM THE COMICS DREAM TEAM OF CHIP ZDARSKY (Howard the Duck) AND ERICA HENDERSON (The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl)! Riverdale High provides a quality education and quality hot lunches, but when one of those is tampered with, JUGHEAD JONES swears vengeance! Well, I mean, he doesn't "swear." This is still Archie Comics after all. Indie Eisner Sale!  Expecting To Fly #1 Mandy Something awful has happened to Shelley, Ryan's dad is "fun" but probably not in a good way, and Tim seems to sail through everything unscathed. Together they'll make sense of it.  Giant Days #1 Esther de Groot arrives at university and immediately makes a. friends and b. enemies. Things get out of hand quite quickly.  Murder She Writes #1 A pleasant writers' retreat becomes a snowbound fear factory as a prominent author is murdered, and it falls to youth sleuth Charlotte Grote to unpick the web of lies, deceit, smoking and ROMANCE. |
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Post by hondobrode on May 31, 2016 14:48:22 GMT -5
 Scary Go Round: That Successful children's author Shelley Winters is on a book tour of the United States when she passes through the idyllic town of Heaven, Arizona. The Heaven Lemon Festival is in full swing, the locals are delightful, and the stage is set for a very nice time indeed. So why, exactly, do people keep disappearing in the night? And what is that strange FLIT FLIT sound on the wind?  Human Soup #1 John has lost his swimming pool locker wristband, and a very important meeting is mere minutes away. Will he escape an awful, watery fate? Drawn in 24 hours as part of the Lakes International Comics Festival in October 2015. 
1999 In 1999 I had no direction in life. I was a college drop-out living with my mom, and working at a sub shop. No plans, no real interests - Except for Nora. I want to sleep with Nora.  Musashi Miyamoto Musashi, the legendary samurai, is known throughout the world as a master swordsman, a spiritual seeker, and the author of the classic Book of Five Rings. This graphic novel treatment of his amazing life is both a vivid account of a fascinating period in feudal Japan and a portrait of a courageous, iconoclastic samurai who wrestled with philosophical and spiritual ideas that are as relevant today as they were in his time. |
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Post by hondobrode on May 31, 2016 18:20:44 GMT -5
 The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts: A Graphic Novel The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts is a classic collection of martial arts parables, written by Issai Chozanshi, an eighteenth-century samurai. The stories, which feature demons, insects, birds, cats, and numerous other creatures, may seem whimsical, but they contain essential teachings that offer insight into the fundamental principles of the martial arts. This graphic novel version based on Chozanshi's text brings these tales alive in a captivating and immediately accessible way. Infused with Chozanshi's deep understanding of Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto, the tales elucidate the nature of conflict, the importance of following one's own nature, yin and yang, the cultivation and transformation of ch'i (life energy), and the attainment of mushin (no-mind). Ultimately, the reader learns in a visually exciting way that the path of the sword is a path of self-knowledge and leads to an understanding of life itself.  Cold Mountain: The Legend of Han Shan and Shih Te, the Original Dharma Bums Here is a graphic novel portrait of the wild antics and legendary poetry of two of China's greatest poets. Han Shan (known as "Cold Mountain") and Shih Te lived during the Tang dynasty (618-906 C.E.) and were critics of authority (both secular and religious) and champions of social justice. They left their poetry on tree trunks and rocks, and they were also reportedly monastics, drunks, cave dwellers, immortals, and many other unconventional and wondrous things. There is much delightful uncertainty about this "Laughing Pair"-including whether or not they actually even existed. What is known is that the poetry attributed to them was hugely influential in both China and Japan, and to the Beat writers in the United States during the 1950s and '60s. Acclaimed manga creator Sean Michael Wilson, along with illustrator Akiko Shimojima and expert translator J. P. Seaton, brings these renegade poets to life, revealing their humor and wackiness and also their penetrating insights into the human condition.  The 47 Ronin: A Graphic Novel Here is the first historically accurate graphic-novel version of a legendary event in Japanese history. In the eighteenth century, forty-seven samurai avenged the death of their master in a plot involving over two years of secrecy. After succeeding in their mission, the masterless samurai all committed ritual suicide. The story, which is a national legend, remains a most potent example of Japan's deeply rooted cultural imperatives of honor, persistence, loyalty, and sacrifice, and of bushido-the samurai code. "A masterful retelling of one of the greatest stories in Japanese culture. An engrossing, engaging, emotional and unforgettable epic."-Jonathan Ross, BBC television presenter  The Book of Five Rings: A Graphic Novel This graphic novel version of The Book of Five Rings, the iconic book of confrontation and victory by the famed seventeenth-century duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi, illuminates this brilliant manifesto, which has long inspired martial artists and anyone interested in cultivating a strategic mind. With evocative drawings and a distilled but faithful text adapted by acclaimed manga writer Sean Michael Wilson, The Book of Five Rings comes alive both as a guide to swordsmanship and strategy, and as a view into Musashi's world. |
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