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Post by Reptisaurus! on Oct 24, 2014 16:46:27 GMT -5
Fantagraphics lets VAST amounts of stuff got out of print. I remember trying to buy a volume of MOME like, 6 months after it was released and not being able to get it through a comic store. They have a handful of perpetual, long term sellers - Peanuts, Ghost World, Love and Rockets and the like - but the rest of their stock isn't much more permanent than the most recent Ghost Rider trade.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 19:12:20 GMT -5
Fantagraphics lets VAST amounts of stuff got out of print. I remember trying to buy a volume of MOME like, 6 months after it was released and not being able to get it through a comic store. They have a handful of perpetual, long term sellers - Peanuts, Ghost World, Love and Rockets and the like - but the rest of their stock isn't much more permanent than the most recent Ghost Rider trade. Fantagraphics keeps far more than a handful of items in perpetual print. Sometimes they are temporarily out of print, and restocked a handful of months later. Months though, not years. They have a vast amount of true niche product as well. The BLAB! mags go out of print. But X-Men and Batman are not BLAB! mags. I'd say that's the Ghost World and Love And Rockets of Fantagraphics. Anything that is a continuing ongoing series of reprints, volume one will be in print as long as new volumes are coming out. You'll be able to buy every volume of every reprint series they have (countless, COUNTLESS reprint series coming from Fantagraphics) at the very least until the final volume is published. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Oct 30, 2014 6:37:46 GMT -5
Speaking of Fantagraphics keeping things in print, I REALLY hope they get Vol.4 of Prince Valiant back in print soon. I'm working my way through Vol.3 right now and I'm absolutely in love with these stories.
I got Vol.1 of the Spider-Man Epic Collection and I can't recommend it highly enough. It seems to be the exact same paper and reproduction quality as the softcover Masterworks, which is what I was hoping. I have to say that this puzzles me since you get around twice as many issues, the same quality, but a lower price. You even get examples of original art pieces with art directions, a bunch of unused covers and a few pages showing all the members of the original Marvel Bullpin. Suffice to say I'm not buying anymore softcover Masterworks (thankfully I only got three) and I'm going to load up on these volumes. Marvel really has it over DC in terms of how much they put into their collected editions.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 4, 2014 18:22:25 GMT -5
Christmas is coming, and it's always a good opportunity to introduce my mother to classic comics she would be unlikely to hear about otherwise, not being much of a comic-book person.
Luck struck this week, as a local bookstore had a two-book collection of Jaime Hernandez' Locas (up to the point where Maggie finds Hopey again) on sale for half the regular price. My mother was enthralled by Beto Hernandez' Heartbreak soup series, and I can't wait to see what she thinks of Jaime's the death of Speedy Ortiz.
(In case you wonder, over the past few years I got her addicted to the works of Eisner, Boulet and Taniguchi. Let it not be said that I give her just any old crap)!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 11, 2015 19:48:28 GMT -5
I've just finished the first collection of Dan Slott's She- Hulk run, "single green female"... and I LOVED IT,
The stories were extremely funny, but also very clever... and FAR more realistic, if one thinks about it, than many more "serious" books (when serious is synonymous with devastatingly grim storylines involving people in costumes, mutilation and torture).
I had fun readin Slott's stories. I cheered when Marvel continuity was used to great effect, with the book never feeling like it was bound by it. I almost cried laughing when I saw things like the Silver Surfer with an ice pack on his head and a splint on his board after a very difficult fight. I just had to share my mirth with my significant other when the "continuity-erasing gun" was used on Knight-Man.
As She-hulk says herself in one of the stories, "do you remember when we had fun?"
Many thanks to Mr. Slott for his utterly fun stories, and to Mr. Bobillo for his wonderful non-traditional super-hero artwork. You just have to see his Beta Ray Bill!
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Post by Spike-X on Apr 11, 2015 21:24:52 GMT -5
Christmas is coming, and it's always a good opportunity to introduce my mother to classic comics she would be unlikely to hear about otherwise, not being much of a comic-book person. Luck struck this week, as a local bookstore had a two-book collection of Jaime Hernandez' Locas (up to the point where Maggie finds Hopey again) on sale for half the regular price. My mother was enthralled by Beto Hernandez' Heartbreak soup series, and I can't wait to see what she thinks of Jaime's the death of Speedy Ortiz. (In case you wonder, over the past few years I got her addicted to the works of Eisner, Boulet and Taniguchi. Let it not be said that I give her just any old crap)! Damn dude, your mum has good taste! |
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Post by Spike-X on Apr 11, 2015 21:25:36 GMT -5
I've just finished the first collection of Dan Slott's She- Hulk run, "single green female"... and I LOVED IT, The stories were extremely funny, but also very clever... and FAR more realistic, if one thinks about it, than many more "serious" books (when serious is synonymous with devastatingly grim storylines involving people in costumes, mutilation and torture). I had fun readin Slott's stories. I cheered when Marvel continuity was used to great effect, with the book never feeling like it was bound by it. I almost cried laughing when I saw things like the Silver Surfer with an ice pack on his head and a splint on his board after a very difficult fight. I just had to share my mirth with my significant other when the "continuity-erasing gun" was used on Knight-Man. As She-hulk says herself in one of the stories, "do you remember when we had fun?" Many thanks to Mr. Slott for his utterly fun stories, and to Mr. Bobillo for his wonderful non-traditional super-hero artwork. You just have to see his Beta Ray Bill! I really need to read these. |
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