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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 18, 2024 5:40:39 GMT -5
I decided to start posting here to keep track of my new comic book buying. Got this yesterday  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 18, 2024 10:21:54 GMT -5
My poor eyesight priced the book at 59.99, and although surprised, I believed it for a moment.
But man, 267 issues... That's impressive. Erik Larsen can be proud. (I never read a single issue, but my hat's off to his achievement!)
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jan 20, 2024 6:33:06 GMT -5
My poor eyesight priced the book at 59.99, and although surprised, I believed it for a moment. But man, 267 issues... That's impressive. Erik Larsen can be proud. (I never read a single issue, but my hat's off to his achievement!) Yeah, I've tried to get into Savage Dragon a few times but I could just never stick with it but it's a great achievement for him none the less. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2024 21:43:24 GMT -5
England's Misty Winter (Horror) Special 2020....comes with 2 horror stories. MRP might like this as she's in red...some English dealers are gouging on this one, 3-4 times cover....
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 22, 2024 6:20:11 GMT -5
My poor eyesight priced the book at 59.99, and although surprised, I believed it for a moment. But man, 267 issues... That's impressive. Erik Larsen can be proud. (I never read a single issue, but my hat's off to his achievement!) If you look quickly it does appear to be 59.99. There's no way I'm paying that, though. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 22, 2024 10:23:26 GMT -5
My poor eyesight priced the book at 59.99, and although surprised, I believed it for a moment. But man, 267 issues... That's impressive. Erik Larsen can be proud. (I never read a single issue, but my hat's off to his achievement!) If you look quickly it does appear to be 59.99. There's no way I'm paying that, though. Ten dollars for a funnybook? Why I remember when... |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 26, 2024 17:32:55 GMT -5
Wife asked me to do an Ollie's run today and we had a 15% off coupon, so of course I checked out the graphic novel section and it looked like they just got a shipment of new DC stuff in. Came home with quite a bit of more recent stuff... Absolute Wonder Woman by Azzarelo and Chiang-not big on Azz but love Chiang's art and storytelling  An absolute style slipcase edition of Watchmen where each issue gets an absolute treatment...  some recent HC editions and a big ole Hellblazer volume...  a poster-sized portfolio of some of Artgerm's covers...  some modern Batman...  and Superman/Supergirl  and one of the 10 packs of single issue comics-I've been slowly picking up issues of the Batman Urban Legends anthology series (cover price $7.99 each) when I find them cheap, and this one had 2 issues I needed in it, plus some other interesting modern DC stuff   so not a bad haul of modern stuff at a really good price. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2024 14:10:40 GMT -5
Spider-Gwen Smash #1 Virgin variant
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 22, 2024 7:17:28 GMT -5
Visit to the comic shop yesterday  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 25, 2024 21:15:53 GMT -5
I bought the first TBP of Titan's Conan.
It's all right. Reads like a 1980s Savage sword of Conan couple of issues, but with more attention paid to Howardian lore. The art looks like a John Buscema impression.
Modern sensibilities inform the story, but that's to be expected (although since Cimmerians' hatred of the Picts is mentioned in Howard's stories, I would have kept it).
I didn't dislike it, but unlike the Dark Horse reboot, this is basically more of the same... without retaining the old Marvel continuity. No Red Sonja, a different battle at Venarium, and Conan is in Aquilonia at a tome he should be on the Black Coast.
A good effort, to be sure, and better than the recent Marvel reboot, but I would have preferred the franchise to remain at Dark Horse with people like Truman, Van Lente or (sigh) Busiek at the helm.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2024 17:59:01 GMT -5
The Conjuring HC, has a $24.95 cover, got for closer to $7
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 29, 2024 21:35:36 GMT -5
I have a lot of Aaron's Avengers on the way... I wasn't super interested at the time, but for about 1.5 an issue for the first 22 issues with a couple variants I went for it.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 1, 2024 17:28:13 GMT -5
I have a lot of Aaron's Avengers on the way... I wasn't super interested at the time, but for about 1.5 an issue for the first 22 issues with a couple variants I went for it. I actually thought most of it was pretty fun in a bombastic Saturday morning cartoon kind of way. It lost me at the end as it kept endlessly tieing into the parade of Marvel events that I had zero interest in but when it was self contained towards the start I loved it. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 1, 2024 17:33:22 GMT -5
I have a lot of Aaron's Avengers on the way... I wasn't super interested at the time, but for about 1.5 an issue for the first 22 issues with a couple variants I went for it. I actually thought most of it was pretty fun in a bombastic Saturday morning cartoon kind of way. It lost me at the end as it kept endlessly tieing into the parade of Marvel events that I had zero interest in but when it was self contained towards the start. I was chugging along reading it (and the tie ins) on Marvel Unlimited for a while and enjoying it when I was in my "I want to read Marvel stuff mood" through most of '21, '22 and the early part of '23, but that mood fizzled and I haven't read the end of it (or much Marvel stuff at all in the last 6-8 months. I'll likely get back to it and finish it up when the Marvel mood strikes me again, but I have no idea when that might be. My mood is more DC and the Marvel mood lasted 2 1/2 years so who know how long until the pendulum swings back that way. -M |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 1, 2024 18:38:17 GMT -5
I actually thought most of it was pretty fun in a bombastic Saturday morning cartoon kind of way. It lost me at the end as it kept endlessly tieing into the parade of Marvel events that I had zero interest in but when it was self contained towards the start. I was chugging along reading it (and the tie ins) on Marvel Unlimited for a while and enjoying it when I was in my "I want to read Marvel stuff mood" through most of '21, '22 and the early part of '23, but that mood fizzled and I haven't read the end of it (or much Marvel stuff at all in the last 6-8 months. I'll likely get back to it and finish it up when the Marvel mood strikes me again, but I have no idea when that might be. My mood is more DC and the Marvel mood lasted 2 1/2 years so who know how long until the pendulum swings back that way. -M I don't know if I'd want to get back into it as I just didn't care for all the events it became apart of. The Phoenix mortal combat style event was almost half decent but after that it just got silly and lost any semblance of having its own narrative as a book. |
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