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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 19:28:34 GMT -5
This is how one of the comic shops in Indiana reacted to the crash of the Diamond truck I posted about last week... putting this sign on their door... good on them for trying to track down books for their customers, shame on Diamond for not keeping their client =s in the loop (they found out about the crash form Bleeding Cool and got 1 chain form note via e-mail their shipment might be affected-great customer service by Diamond, oh yeah, they're a monopoly, they don't need to do customer service, they have all the comic retailers by the balls and can do whatever they want because retailers can't get their product form anyone else... if I were an independently wealthy lawyer I would love to take on a class action anti-trust suit against Diamond pro-bono for their clients. -M
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 23, 2016 21:43:56 GMT -5
My friend who runs a comic shop always complains about Diamond distribution's "customer service". As a monoply, they just don't care unless you are a huge account. Diamond is just another part of why the whole industry is screwed up
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Post by dupersuper on Feb 23, 2016 22:22:43 GMT -5
Grrrr...forgot my work laptop at home and had to use the desktop at my station. Our profiles are supposed to load when we login, but most of my stuff is missing. I had to spend the 1st hour getting worksite URLs from every one and trying to sign into everything. Also, my earphones were in the computer bag, so no listening to aftershows or watching Izombie at work tonight.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 23, 2016 22:37:10 GMT -5
Dupersuper have you read any Steel? I got a handful of issues spattered out throughout the first 20 issues of the series in a lot I bought. I always associated him with Superman so figured you'd be the expert. Plus Louise Simonson writing. What is your take on the series if you've read it.
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Post by hondobrode on Feb 23, 2016 22:45:33 GMT -5
I haven't read them since the 90's, but that was a surprisingly good series. Went to # 51 IIRC.
Great character too
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2016 0:03:00 GMT -5
I didn't find as much as my kids did at the book fair but I got a few things. A Contract With God. This will be my first Will Eisner read. I've admired plenty of his work but not read any. Grabbed two William Faulkner books; Intruder in the Dust & The Unvanquished, because I like old pulp novels and novels from that era and I know Faulkner is well thought of. Even mentioned by Bukowski a few times. The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams. I had this movie suggested to me from watching Watership Down. But since it's availability on Netflix is still unknown I thought I'd read the book first. Anxious to hear what you think of A Contract With God. I read that in high school and really fell in love with Eisner's non-Spirit work so hard with that early graphic novel. I read it last year for the first time. I really liked it. I have a thing for anything that gives glimpses into that period that I may not have seen before. I even find things in the Mickey strips that give insight into the period sometimes. A Contract With God felt like a foreign comic to me. Just something about it. The pacing maybe. Reminded me of Spaghetti Bros.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2016 0:05:17 GMT -5
Went to see a movie -- The Witch -- yesterday for the first time in nearly 5 years, since I'd have caught Insidious in mid-2011. I was pleasantly astonished at how low mantinee prices have gotten around here, or at least at the cinema in question: $4.39. That's 11 cents less than our long-defunct second-run theater used to charge, though that ticket did include a very small coke & bag of popcorn (neither of which I could indulge in anyway). It's also precisely what a $3.99 comic would cost at the shop next to the theater, given the 10 percent sales tax in force here. How was the movie?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2016 9:55:42 GMT -5
Went to see a movie -- The Witch -- yesterday for the first time in nearly 5 years, since I'd have caught Insidious in mid-2011. I was pleasantly astonished at how low mantinee prices have gotten around here, or at least at the cinema in question: $4.39. That's 11 cents less than our long-defunct second-run theater used to charge, though that ticket did include a very small coke & bag of popcorn (neither of which I could indulge in anyway). It's also precisely what a $3.99 comic would cost at the shop next to the theater, given the 10 percent sales tax in force here. How was the movie? I liked it a lot -- very dark (both in mood & look) & ominous. Could have come straight from a case history as related by Increase or Cotton Mather, which seems to have been the director's intention.
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Post by dupersuper on Feb 24, 2016 20:51:00 GMT -5
Dupersuper have you read any Steel? I got a handful of issues spattered out throughout the first 20 issues of the series in a lot I bought. I always associated him with Superman so figured you'd be the expert. Plus Louise Simonson writing. What is your take on the series if you've read it. The Simonson run is fun, but the Priest run is awesome.
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Post by dupersuper on Feb 24, 2016 20:55:04 GMT -5
I haven't read them since the 90's, but that was a surprisingly good series. Went to # 51 IIRC. Great character too 52
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Post by hondobrode on Feb 24, 2016 22:58:20 GMT -5
I remember it just passing the 50 mark.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 24, 2016 22:59:06 GMT -5
Dupersuper have you read any Steel? I got a handful of issues spattered out throughout the first 20 issues of the series in a lot I bought. I always associated him with Superman so figured you'd be the expert. Plus Louise Simonson writing. What is your take on the series if you've read it. The Simonson run is fun, but the Priest run is awesome. I did like his take on Black Panther. Thanks for the feedback.
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Post by Mormel on Feb 26, 2016 5:00:01 GMT -5
True fact: this morning I heard the song 'Let It Go' from 'Frozen' for only the second time in my life.
Another reminder of how I've been living under a rock when it comes to contemporary popular culture.
Also -controversy time!!!- I think 'Let It Go' doesn't hold a candle to 'Part of your World', 'A Whole New World', 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight', or 'Colors of the Wind'. Nyah!!
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 26, 2016 5:52:36 GMT -5
True fact: this morning I heard the song 'Let It Go' from 'Frozen' for only the second time in my life. Another reminder of how I've been living under a rock when it comes to contemporary popular culture. That scares me as I have no clue what you're on about...
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 26, 2016 8:16:51 GMT -5
Another reminder of how I've been living under a rock when it comes to contemporary popular culture. Wait... You mean there's something above this rock???
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