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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 0:39:27 GMT -5
I just backed Cosmic Detective an OGN by Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, and David Rubin on Kickstarter. Kickstarter linkThe campaign ends in under 36 hours.   Sounds like it's right up my alley... It's 452% funded, so no question if the campaign will raise enough for it to get published. -M |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 4, 2020 18:44:43 GMT -5
I’ve purchased all of the recent DC digital series: Batman, Batman Adventures, Superman and Wonder Woman. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for from the big two—fun one and done stories featuring iconic characters devoid of event interruptions. The 99 cent price is also perfect and exactly what I and many creators have been preaching about digital/print pricing. I’ll keep supporting as long as DC keeps publishing them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2020 22:39:25 GMT -5
I’ve purchased all of the recent DC digital series: Batman, Batman Adventures, Superman and Wonder Woman. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for from the big two—fun one and done stories featuring iconic characters devoid of event interruptions. The 99 cent price is also perfect and exactly what I and many creators have been preaching about digital/print pricing. I’ll keep supporting as long as DC keeps publishing them. Those were the lead stories and original content in the DC Giants aimed at a mass audience. Not surprisingly, those Giants have done horribly in the direct market even though they sold well at Walmart. The contract with Walmart may be coming to an end, so no word whether they will continue these as digital only publications without having to honor the Walmart contract for content. Not sure if they sell enough as digital only to make it profitable or profitable enough when the margins are calculated. However it goes, they will stand as a testament of just how niche and inaccessible direct market super-hero comics have become to mass audiences when you contrast these stories with the standard fare Marvel and DC churn out on a monthly basis, and it becomes easier to understand why direct market comics are not connecting with mass audiences who love and purchase super-heroes in just about every other media format than monthly periodical comics. -M |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 5, 2020 11:18:56 GMT -5
I’ve purchased all of the recent DC digital series: Batman, Batman Adventures, Superman and Wonder Woman. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for from the big two—fun one and done stories featuring iconic characters devoid of event interruptions. The 99 cent price is also perfect and exactly what I and many creators have been preaching about digital/print pricing. I’ll keep supporting as long as DC keeps publishing them. Those were the lead stories and original content in the DC Giants aimed at a mass audience. Not surprisingly, those Giants have done horribly in the direct market even though they sold well at Walmart. The contract with Walmart may be coming to an end, so no word whether they will continue these as digital only publications without having to honor the Walmart contract for content. Not sure if they sell enough as digital only to make it profitable or profitable enough when the margins are calculated. However it goes, they will stand as a testament of just how niche and inaccessible direct market super-hero comics have become to mass audiences when you contrast these stories with the standard fare Marvel and DC churn out on a monthly basis, and it becomes easier to understand why direct market comics are not connecting with mass audiences who love and purchase super-heroes in just about every other media format than monthly periodical comics. -M I wasn’t aware that these stories were originally from the DC giants. They’re an interesting look at what modern mainstream comics could be if the event/write for the trade paradigm didn’t exist. So far I think the Superman series is my favorite. To me it’s like the character has been emancipated from the last two decades of continuity—all the fat has been trimmed. I particularly like the focus on Lois and Clark as investigative journalist. At least DC is trying. |
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on Jun 10, 2020 14:33:07 GMT -5
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 10, 2020 17:20:50 GMT -5
I’ve purchased all of the recent DC digital series: Batman, Batman Adventures, Superman and Wonder Woman. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for from the big two—fun one and done stories featuring iconic characters devoid of event interruptions. The 99 cent price is also perfect and exactly what I and many creators have been preaching about digital/print pricing. I’ll keep supporting as long as DC keeps publishing them. Those were the lead stories and original content in the DC Giants aimed at a mass audience. Not surprisingly, those Giants have done horribly in the direct market even though they sold well at Walmart. The contract with Walmart may be coming to an end, so no word whether they will continue these as digital only publications without having to honor the Walmart contract for content. Not sure if they sell enough as digital only to make it profitable or profitable enough when the margins are calculated. However it goes, they will stand as a testament of just how niche and inaccessible direct market super-hero comics have become to mass audiences when you contrast these stories with the standard fare Marvel and DC churn out on a monthly basis, and it becomes easier to understand why direct market comics are not connecting with mass audiences who love and purchase super-heroes in just about every other media format than monthly periodical comics.
-M I don't think they were all that different than what's normally been put out in the monthlies, so it seems more like a testament to the idea that if you put comics where families shop and at a price point and size that makes them a good value for an impulse buy people will buy super hero comics rather than an indictment on the current style of storytelling in your standard comic. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2020 0:55:21 GMT -5
Have no idea what's in this 9.99 cover price book, but I got it for 10% of that so who cares?
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Post by Duragizer on Jul 21, 2020 22:11:48 GMT -5
 Never read/heard of this comic/author before, but as soon as I checked out the interior art, I had to buy it. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2020 22:22:52 GMT -5
Never read/heard of this comic/author before, but as soon as I checked out the interior art, I had to buy it. There are a handful of us here who have sung its praises, and it won an Eisner, so it's been out there to be discovered here on the boards for a couple of years now. -M |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 3, 2020 6:10:31 GMT -5
Picked up a few things at the Zagreb comics show last weekend (which pushed back from May and held in a different location due to the pandemic).  My collection of Groo books is growing slowly. The only time I buy them is when I see them at local shows or bookfairs like this. Also got this Batman book out of curiosity (I guess it now counts as a classic comic, but I didn't want to break the post up):  I'm trying to expand my horizons and finally read some manga (or manga-adjecent material) and the low price made this seem like a good first step. Also snapped up these from the same dealer, as he was giving them away for free:  Only posting this today because I held the books in a plastic-bag quarantine for most of the week just in case. Otherwise, I was super-paranoid about even going, and I was not only masked but wearing form fitting gardening gloves the whole time as I was browsing, and I only stayed long enough to see what the vendors were selling then got out of there. |
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Post by profholt82 on Oct 6, 2020 20:53:29 GMT -5
Here are most of the new books I've picked up over the last couple of weeks. As far as the big players, I've been mostly enjoying the whole Joker War story in the Bat books as well as the crazy alternate universe story in Venom. However, Nick Spencer's Spiderman still does nothing for me, and I doubt I'll be able to bring myself to pony up the $10 for the big 850th issue spectacular this week. No thanks. As far as the indies, the new books Stillwater and Dept of Truth showed a lot of promise. I'm sad Gideon Falls is winding down to the last couple issues, but excited to see how it'll finish. And I grabbed issue 7 of the new GI Joe comic based on a recommendation from an armed services website of all places. It's a poignant story about the difficulties of coping with PTSD.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2020 22:16:51 GMT -5
I picked up the first Injustice: Gods Among Us omnibus. I've not read any of it, but I've really enjoyed everything I've read by Tom Taylor.
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Post by Dizzy D on Oct 7, 2020 1:18:53 GMT -5
I picked up the first trade of Tartarus, an Image sci-fi/fantasy book by Johnnie Christmas and Jack Cole. Set in the far future, the first chapter deals with the escape of the warlord Surka from a maximum security prison to reunite with her baby daughter, Tilde. Fast-forward several years later and Tilde, now an adult, does not know who her parents really are, but during a checkup a doctor discovers that her medical files are faked. She escapes to the colony of Tartarus, a place where several factions are located, each with their own agenda while Tilde is pursued by the Empire she was recently working for.
I really like the art and it's a pretty dense read with all different factions and characters including. A lot of worldbuilding so far, but we also get a good feel for Tilde and the other main characters. Other characters are still mostly unknowns, but it kinda fits with Tilde being dropped inside a network of competing factions with very little information on what each group wants and represents.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2020 2:35:03 GMT -5
I liked Advanced Reader Uncorrected Proofs, especially if they're affiliated with Batman in some way.
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Post by berkley on Oct 15, 2020 17:19:10 GMT -5
I might check out Cosmic Detective and Tartarus: the premises sound like they could have potential and the art samples look good in each case. Monsters I've looked at but it hasn't quite grabbed my interest to the point where I want to read it. Still a possibility I'll try it sometime though.
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