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First time sharing, please don't bully me too hard.

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i now have
dr. strange 1,3 omnibus'
Justice league internation 1,2,3 omni
justice league grant morrison omnib
justice league rebirth
batman englhart, lopez, year 1, long halloween
ngihtmare on bleeker, she hulk epic final
spider man kravens last hunt, sinister six

>>144581928
> batman no mans land
> grant morrison

wish i had the space to buy those
have the stupid green lanturn omni that features blackest night but not number 8
and not the other stories

brightest day, not neccessary

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>>144581928
2

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>>144582004
3

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4

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>>144582040
5

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>>144582047
6

>>144581928
needs more green lantern, add green lantern corps by tomasi and bolland.

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>>144582062
7

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8

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>>144582100
9

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>>144582111
Last one.

>>144582066
Funnily enough Batman and Robin by Thomasi was probably one of the next purchases but I might chuck GL Corps Vol 1 on since it's not too much on the site I use.

>144582202
any batman stories you'd reccomend for someone with a limited interest?

i have long halloween, year one, englehart and lopez, and the 66 omnibus lol

>>144582235
Superman/Batman so that only half the comic is Batman? What got me into Batman more than other characters is the Dark Knight Returns.

>>144582142
nice collection, anon

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Latest. New Dynamite Diva was great. Jasper is a hell of an ink slinger. Waiting on a commission from him at the moment.

>>144582571
Where do your source to alt shit ?

>>144582202
I liked batman and robin by tomasi too. Is a really good one.

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My newest pickups

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>>144582731
And my updated shelf. Honestly don't think I can fit a single other book on here so I think I'm gonna shift my DC/Marvel/Star Wars books to the one spare shelf I have on my manga/anime bookcase.

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I've shifted my shelves around a bit since the last time I posted to try and open up some more space. I'm rapidly reaching the point where I need to either somehow fit more shelves into my room or sell off the books I know I won't read again, or both.
I've got the Cap by Gruenwald Omnibus and the Hitman Vol 1 on the way at the end of this month, and those are my last firm purchases for the rest of the year. I MIGHT pick up Black Panther by Priest Vol 2 sooner rather than later, just so I have that for when I get round to Vol 1, but otherwise I'm just focusing on reading and enjoying all that I have here already.

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Just need Mr and Mrs X and I'll have every solo/duo Gambit work thats been released. I don't know why the fuck his 2001 omnibus was so much easier to find than Mr X considering that one released in 2019

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Say no to omnibus editions.

>>144582752
A man of taste and distinction. Needs more Gladstone tho :^)

>>144581431
finally /shelf/ and I have nothing new because I put all my money into Titan Conan pre-orders.
the first Superman by Busiek book might be on its way tomorrow though

>>144581945
I REALLY need to get that Alita box and they REALLY need to make a Last Order box, too.

>>144581928
why is that Book of Cain the wrong way round?
>Stephenie Meyer
are you a grill?

>>144582018
never seen that Longmeadow Press book
https://ebabble.net/longmeadow-press-dc-collections/

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Made a collage.
>Not pictured
Green Lanterns TPs by Humphries
Sandman: Brief Lives.

I'm debating whether or not to buy Tomasi's GL-Corps run. It seems like it skips the issues Tomasi didn't write. Is it a good read or does it overlap too much with Johns' GL?

Speaking of Johns' GL. Who was the retarded that decided not to add at least the GLC tie-ins to Wrath of the First Lantern? You missVolthoom escaping and Simon's capture
>>144581945
Excellent taste. Why did you not bother with GL-Omni 3?
>>144581928
>>144582040
>Arkham Saga
>Injustice
Is it worth the price? I heard it was online exclusive meh tier.
Love the collection btw!
>>144582731
>>144582752
Jealous as fuck Especially the Barks collection.
>>144583464
It encourages my hermit behavior.

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>>144583557
Also recent haul

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>>144583491
>Titan Comics
Conan by Titan Comics, that is
>tomorrow
I meant monday

I had Street Fighter Swimsuit Special vol 2 preordered but amazon.de delayed it for weeks so I finally canceled it. will have to reorder over one of their marketplace guys (and I might find it cheaper there if I order directly and cancel amazon out of it)
inb4
>don't order from amazon
couldn't find it anywhere else

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>>144583624
JLI Vol 3 is bound in a package pre-order with Uncanny X-Force and Absolute Superman by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank

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>>144583635
Invincible Iron Man Omni Vol 2 and Vol 3 package-deal end of August

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>>144583635
I am too lazy to make pics of all side of the rotating shelf

>>144583666
Checked and based spinny shelf anon

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>>144583666
I put way too much money into all the Star Wars books I got there over the last months but now I am done with Star Wars, can't see myself buying any more of it ever.

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>>144583698
and done. nothing has changed in this shelf for a couple months now I think

>>144583698
Any big ol Rinzler and McQuarrie books are absolutely worth it desu.

>>144583491
Stephanie Meyer and Diablo books are both the missus. I think it's upside down so she knows which one she's currently reading in the boxset.

>>144583557
I'm a big fan of tie-in media so I'm not sure if I like it because it's good or because it's just fun to have more to the games I love.

>>144582671
From the artists themselves typically, but I also grab stuff from webstores like Copacetic, Wig Shop Web Shop, Partners and Son, Secret Headquarters, or Floating World.

>>144583464
>Say no to omnibus editions.
My man. Give me weird mixed editions over boring uniformity any day.

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I bought pic related the other day, I should be getting it in the mail by Monday.

>>144583464
>>144583828
If you have both omnibuses AND trades (and any other format besides), then your shelf will have even more mixedness going on

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>>144581431
I just spent $250 on comics because of Prime day, I'm a consoomer NPC I know
packages arrives today, tomorrow and monday
I think that's enough comcs buying until christmas season
I'll post pics when they arrive

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>>144583972
>I think that's enough comcs buying until christmas season

>>144583557
the red lanturns and orange lanturns were more important to me

just picked up Batman Robin omnibus by tomasi and miller

also picked up nova omnibus

have a before watchman omni that looks pretty cool

have a silver surfer omni with the original cover, but it's just a dust cover, i may have overpayed, DC at least has a cover under the cover, marvel doesn't do that

>>144583843
They're usually ugly and not very well printed, especially for the price. I will say I'm very impressed with the ones Taschen puts out, but they're also out of my price range. I'm happy scooping up these old Pocket Books and Fireside reprints from 70s rn. I also don't mind collections that give you a "best of" or a specific storyline, turning into a completionist is a dangerous path.

How come no one talks about Y the Last Man anymore? Did hipsters quit reading comics back in 2022?

Huge sale today at my LCS. Anything to look out for or essentials to keep an eye on? My friend told me to check out Image's "The king of Spies".

>>144583972
never buy comics

paper backs, omni's ok
but comics age like shit a lot of times
because they use cheap shitty paper

only a few brands of comics don't age like shit
and im not talking about marvel and d.c. their comics are basically printed on the shit in the sunday paper

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>>144583972
>250$
Seems about right for two, maybe three great books or a whole lot of sweet sweet slop. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

>>144584043
i guess the series being so bad and cancelled with no one caring put an end to the general audience interest in it, i honestly don't wanna re-read it again soon, because its one of those formative books from back then that i just remember being floored with, i'd faster re-read ex machina.

>>144582752
Sluggo is lit!

>>144584068
Newsprint is glorious, shut up

>>144584068
they're all TPB and omnis my dude I buy very little floppies nowadays

>>144582111
>>144582904
>Frank Miller DD
Did FM DD get a reprint? As i recently saw a lcs having the omnibus for $65.

>>144582142
Based /ck enjoyer

>>144584082
hardcovers are generally too expensive for me :(
Also I noticed a couple of the books I bought now show up as unavailable after I bought them, I think I snatched literally the last copies of a couple of these books

>>144584338
Yup, it got reprinted Jan 2023. They also just reprinted the companion omnibus a couple months back as well, if you were interested in that too.
My copy there is the one from 2016/17 (whenever it was) though, so I can't speak to the quality of the new one.

why are japanese peoples shelves so aesthetically pleasing anons

>>144581431
Why has Marvel been so slow with 2025 Omnis? By this time last year I had written down like 20 Omnis. Now I have just 5, including DC. They usually announce ~70 Omnis per year, and now they haven’t even done 20 IIRC, while July’s almost over. When will Omar announce more stuff? I’m anxious for the War Of Kings Tie-Ins to be reprinted and complete my Annihilation Era. Still, not complaining money wise. But it’s weird. When will they do Doom 2099 and Punisher 2099? They did X-Men and GR, which were far less popular, but we’re still waiting for the good stuff. Well, at least they moved on with the Dr. Strange stuff. Now let’s see them start collecting 90s Silver Surfer.

>>144584405
>I’m anxious for the War Of Kings Tie-Ins to be reprinted
that'd be Prelude to War of Kings?

>>144584405
I'm sure there'll be more omnibus announcements happening soon. Omar tends to do them in waves, and it's been about three weeks since his last reveal. IIRC the brunt of announcements for the following year tend to all be in August/September. Just need to be patient.
I think it's also partially because Marvel announced a lot of their late 2024/early 2025 omnis much earlier in advance this time around, at least as I recall it, so it figures that it seems there's been less announcements made recently

>>144584405
i picked up a doom 2099 lot
but honestly it isn't worth it

i'll repeat comics are shit, really jus a way to stay away from overpriced omni bus' IMO

>>144584474
That and Road To WoK.
>>144584532
That tracks. Well, I won’t complain for spending less, I collect other stuff too, I could use a breather.

>>144584563
The vast majority of entertainment is schlock, I don’t care, I like what I like for reasons that can be basic. I love Doom, I’ll buy all Doom stuff.

>>144584567
Tbh, it's perversely nice to watch an announcement and see it's not a run you want. I've got my eye on the ASM Vol 6 and the Dr Strange omnibus he announced recently but other than those two, there haven't been ANY Marvel omnibuses announced for 2025 so far that I'm interested in. It's a relief

>>144584589
I feel you. I am momentarily disappointed when it’s a reprint of something I have or a book I don’t care about, but then I think that I won’t have to spend another 100€, so it wraps around to leaving me content.

>>144584367
Hardcovers tend to get fucked up less than paperbacks because Amazon plastic wraps them. I ordered a copy of OMAC by Kirby a few years ago that was bent up as fuck. Luckily putting one of my omnis ontop of it fixed the issue, but then there's also times like when I bought two Usagi Yojimbo saga volumes and they were literally torn around the spine and front cover

>>144584749
I have gotten a couple dinks here and there but nothing as bas as that, I only buy heavily discounted stuff anyways so I accept that risk, like similar prices to instock's damages section, so with amazon I get the chance of MAYBE having dinks instead of guaranteed to have dinks with cheap prices

The only time I feel I got screwed over to almost return it was with my Fables compendium 1 had a sticker on the fuckign front cover, I got it off and rubbed the glue off after some minutes of trying, but I was furious after that
It was a third party seller for $20 anyways, so again I take some risks for discounts lel

>>144584846
are you me?

>>144581431
I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but a reprint of Absolute Promethea was in the October solicits. I wonder if Absolute Top 10 is gonna get a reprint too.

>>144584577
i have no issue buying it
it's just i spent a pay check on it
and will probably be able to read it in less than 10 hours
and the quality of the comics after decades isn't good

i wasn't talking about the story
just the paper it's printed on and the price...

>>144585437
Hey a couple months ago I bought the Top 10 compendium for around $35 and it has 824 pages, it's still available too
I see the absolute edition that came out a decade ago only has 503 pages, what material is it missing there that is included in the Compendium? you want a reprint of that one or an absolute edition of the Compendium?

>>144585461
You could’ve read it online if money was an issue. And your post wasn’t indicative of you referring to the quality of the paper rather than the quality of the story. I’m sorry you wasted your money and all, but that’s why I just wait for Omnis.
>>144585437
I myself will probably pick up Promethea, but I’m waiting for TLoEG reprints.

>>144585511
>>144584749
I found this vid btw
https://youtu.be/J5aXZ5H2OyQ?t=796
I haven't gotten to that last part of the book yet but it seems you can miss that whole post-Alan Moore stuff

>>144585692
meant to reply to this post >>144585437

My birthday is in three days and I asked my wife for these three books. Here's to Good Luck.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/The-Complete-Web-of-Horror/3850203072?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=8351

“Corpse on the Imjin!” And Other Stories (The EC Comics Library, 1) https://a.co/d/bONIHHN

Gaddafi's "The Green Book" https://a.co/d/e6nFYvi

>>144585540
>I’m waiting for TLoEG reprints
Aren't the rights to that series kinda fucked? DC has the first portion of it but the later stuff is owned by Moore and published by Top Shelf. Not sure Moore or DC would be willing to budge for the series to get a proper reprint.

>>144584998
I still need to read Hush. Even tho I bought the animated DVD from Walmart on a black Friday sale

Bump for /shelf/

>>144584998
This is the second time I've seen someone with Bea Wolf in a /shelf/ thread

>>144582571
Name of top two left, second row left, and third row middle?

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>>144583972
First delivery, the Valerian books and Conan are Mexican editions
Volume 4 6 and 7 are no longer available anywhere so I guess I'll have and incomplete Valerian collection until it gets reprinted :(
Also Panini's reprints of savage sword are pretty cheap so I'll pick up more of those

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Please post more shelves

>>144586987
And I'll also pick up the rest of the TMNT ultimate collection next time I get some more spending money, vol 4 is on the way for tomorrow, I love classic black and white Peter and Kevin art

>>144586995
fellow mexislob, or are you a gringo that finds old memin historietas based and redpilled?

Make more comic book threads.

>>144586987
>Volume 4 6 and 7 are no longer available anywhere so I guess I'll have and incomplete Valerian collection until it gets reprinted
unfortunate. I have the full English collection, which is nice, but it's slowly fading OOP as well. already had to buy vol 2 used when I did

>>144587103
There's too many damn cartoon threads these days
Though frankly, considering the state of the comic book industry, I can see why there are barely any comics threads

>>144587198
it's not even the cartoon threads, it's the Marvel/DC movie threads that annoy me the most, some random completely unimportant news that no one actually cares about pops up on twitter or whatever and there's instantly 3 thread about it

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From the last time I went to the LCS two weeks ago. Was going to go today but just not in the mood.
But hey, I do own two cool trades now

>magister why didn't you just buy Epic Collection 17 if you wanted Kraven's Last Hunt?
Ignorance

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I was on vacation recently. I had been eyeing this at an indie bookstore there for a while. I saw a video about its creator recently and finally picked it up.

>>144584068
he didnt buy back issues off of amazon
also fuck you, i got 80 year old copies that look nice

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Meanwhile today I just got this bookshelf today at a local consignment shop. Though I think this is gonna be for animu figures. Gonna paint it blue.

>>144587561
at least it's not the generic IKEA slop shelf that 90% of this thread has including me

>>144587561
>>144587573
You'll never beat my in-built wall shelves

>>144582731
how's the gummi bears?

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>>144587625
My uncle had some nicr ones, but didn't want to damage the wall removing them. I just took some old cabinets in his basement to use as bookcases.

>>144587093
They are based af you cant release shit like this in modern times, these are a real treasure

>>144587561
rare glimpse at the comic shelf in its infant state

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>>144581431
recently got picrel and to my surprise its actually a decent read

i want to sell my entire collection what is the fastest and simplest route? ebay? midtown comics? collection buyers? also should I CGC anything ? never done it and it kinda sounds like a scam

>>144589260
Do you have any comics that might be worth more than $100?
if not then not even worth it

>>144587526
>I saw a video about its creator
care to share?

>>144587526
nice. i read that a few years ago.

>>144581431
recent pickups:

unbeing
star trek: defiant
rook
the forged

I've been trading in and selling off a few of my omnibuses. I bought a lot of them when I had cash to burn but honestly they've just been sitting on the shelf so I'd really like to downsize.

>>144590575
How much you pay for them and for how much you sell them?

>>144590800
Depends on which one. Typically I haven't gone over what you'd get at places like IST or CGN. Some I sold for a good bit. For some reason X-men vs Apocalypse the 12 fetches a pretty penny So I like 120 something for that. Everything else was more or less what I paid for it. I'm not really looking to gauge anyone as much as I'm looking to clear up the shelf and maybe cover some other books I want.

>>144589667
I forget if I heard about the artist "disappearing" in the upheaval in South America, but this vid really goes into detail:
https://youtu.be/gidIRzuOjDc

>>144590575
Debating on that myself. I have a few, but I think I prefer smaller hardcovers. Though the Sandman Absolute Editions look great on a shelf. Would definately keep those. They are cemented in a shelf in a wall above my bed, next to some original Mike Dringenberg art.

>>144591496
I like the oversized pages but a lot of them end up being a bit too heavy to really read comfortably unless you got a desk or something. The smaller ones are so bad but anything over like 900 pages is just like lugging around a brick. And they eat up a lot of shelf space really fast.

>>144583464
Nah I like some omnis like my golden age Superman. The Batman Adventures Omnibus is really nice too.

So what's the best way to buy TinTin? I looked it up and there's multiple different box sets.

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War comics shelf

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Misc. comics

>>144583841
At least you got the part that matters...

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I can't be assed to take a photo but I recently bought a shit ton of Warlord floppies because DC still sucks at collecting shit not called batman into trades.

>>144587625
Post them

>>144592474
Apparently it ranked 11/62 in a list of wanted omnibuses by NearMintCondition, so we may actually see some moves on reprinting it in the next few years. Which would be really nice. I want to get into it.

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>>144583491
>Titan Conan pre-orders
Do we have any idea of what content they're going to be leaving out of these, compared to the Marvel editions? I understand that the Solomon Kane/Dracula crossover is presumably off-limits.

>>144594011
Really? Neat. Maybe they'll put something out. I don't need anything super fancy but at least something would be appreciated.

>>144594031
>Do we have any idea of what content they're going to be leaving out of these, compared to the Marvel editions?
As I understand mostly What If stuff.

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>>144581431
Still got four more books on the way, including The Sons of El Topo, but here's the rest of my recent purchases

>>144594923
I keep meaning to get into Elfquest. How you like it?

>>144594953
It's baffling that it was able to exist in the American comics scene as early as it did. Wendy Pini basically starts it off as a fully formed cartoonist and storyteller and then just keeps going with an epic fantasy adventure the likes of which simply didn't exist anywhere else in the North-American comics scene at the time (Cerebus aside, but Cerebus is obviously a very different beast).
Give it a try.

>>144595003
Neat. I really just want to find more fantasy comics in general. I've read Bone, all the Conans, Cerebus and a not insignificant amount of the DnD comics so anything that's quite overtly has elves and shit in it is interesting to me.

>>144595027
Well then Elfquest is pretty much what you're looking for. I would also recommend Wika by Olivier Ledroit (the artist for Requiem: Vampire Knight), that's a single hardcover volume.

>>144592257
Redpill me on Dave McKean's Cages and the Crumb couple's book

>>144595003
>Elfquest was one of the first comic book series to have a planned conclusion.
Based
>All issues of Elfquest published prior to 2014 are available online for free.
Giga-Based
https://elfquest.com/reading-room/

>>144594031
>>144594224
I guess those licensing issues about the What If comics were the reason why it got pushed back over and over.

>>144595073

Cages is basically this huge allegory about being an artist. Very metaphorical and naval gazing, could be construed at pretentious, but I liked it. The art is very different from McKean's painted comics like Arkham Asylum or Mr. Punch. His artstyle in Cages is very minimalist and angular, almost like Picasso.

I wouldn't reccomend trying to collect all of the Complete Crumb comics volumes unless you're some sort of R Crumb super fan. The first couple volumes collect the comics he made as a child, and as an artist who had evolved drastically throughout his career, I really prefer Crumb's art from the 80s onwards to his underground work.

>>144595455
But I was asking about the "Drawn Together" volume by Robert and Aline that's on the shelf next to Cages

>>144595381
That can't be the reason. They'd have to have known that was off the table when they started and it wouldn't be hard to just snip those issues. There's not that many.

>>144587526
I've wanted Eternault for a while but when some anon posted it to /co/ 8-9 years ago, it seemed to just randomly end with zero conclusion or pay-off.

Adding to it, there are like 2-3 different versions of it. The original apolitical version from the early 60s, the cunty remake version from the 70s which was done in response to the asshole Commies getting their shit kicked in, and a version done in the 80s and continued on and off through the 90s by the artist after the writer got killed for being an evil commie terrorist.

>>144595941
Now I'm a bit confused and shit. What the fuck is Eternaults and what's this about the book getting someone killed and communism?

>>144595947
Legendary comic from Argentina

>>144595775
so what else do you think was the reason for these pushbacks? seems reasonable to me that they tried to haggle with Marvel about it and that negotiations just drew out more and more

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>>144596048
I have a couple guesses. I imagine there could have been some issue with the printer. I don't much about the printing process but these are chunky books so a lot could go wrong. I also head one of the lead editors left the company for.... I don't know why, and that could have messed things up too.

More importantly though if there was some issue with other rights holders I'd bet money they got into conflict with Dynamite over the use of Red Sonja. Who contrary to popular belief, isn't really a REH character and separate IP license on her own.

It's a long story.

Eternaut is a sci-fi invasion story by Hector Oesterheld, an Argentinian comic writer and hardcore communist and drawn by Francisco Solano Lopez and Alberto Breccio, who was more apolitical.

Oesterheld told the story twice and the version in >>144587526 photo is the original version which ran from 1959-1960 and drawn by Lopez. A remake (drawn by Breccio) ran from 1969-1970 and a sequel to the original (drawn by Lopez) was launched in 1975, before Oesterheld and his family (also hardcore communists) were killed for being part of a communist terror cell that was active in Argentina during the 70s.

The basic story is that aliens invade earth starting in Argentina. Think Mars Attacks, but with the caveat that you never fucking see the actual alien invaders, who are a faceless and unseen figure tormenting Earth and the heroes, who are middle class intellectual types in Argentina society who are having a party when the first strike (poison snow that kills on contact with your skin) is unleashed.

Version one is apolitical and ended several months shy of the magazine that carried it going out of business. The second version was canceled because readers hated the art. Rather than fire Breccio, Oesterfeld got an extension to rush an ending.

Both versions featured the same cop-out ending: the heroes turn an alien spacecraft into a time machine and go back in time and one character turning the whole nightmare experience into a comic to warn humanity.

>>144596111
The remake version (rebranded Eternaut 1969 when Fantographic published it) is very political in that the aliens are explicitly made into a metaphor for American meddling in South America/Latin America.

The sequel (which has never been released outside of Argentina) came as Argentina fell under military rule and a huge crackdown on communism, backed by US meddling. Oesterfeld and his daughters were hardcore communists and got involved in a violent communist terrorist cell, much to the horror and disgust of Lopez, who didn't care or give a fuck about politics. And from the details about the sequel that have leaked out over the years, Oesterfeld went full Chris-Chan, writing himself into the story as narrator and sidekick to the main lead, who became a soap box sadie communist freedom fighter to match Oesterheld's IRL transformation into a communist terrorist.

After the series finished, Oesterfeld and his daughters and their husbands all got captured by the military and straight up killed. Lopez and Oesterfeld's wife and the original publisher then spent the next couple of decades fighting over ownership of the strip; a couple of one-off stories came about but no continuation, partly because Lopez repeatedly stated that he wanted to pretend the sequel never happened as far as hating how Oesterheld politicized the strip and the main character (plus self-inserting).

The only reason the strip finally got translated/released in the US in the last decade, along with Netflix acquiring the rights to make a TV show off the property, is that most of the people involved in the rights dispute are now dead and the original publisher being the last man standing.

Is the new Michelinie/Bagley Spider-Man omnibus worth tracking down? Or should I skip?

>>144596149
It literally just got reprinted. It's good. Michelinie was largely a very solid spidey writer who was on the book a good while.

>>144596149
If you don't have the Epics (Round Robin, Hero Killers, and Spider-Slayers) yes. It's probably the most comprehensive of the Michelinie Spider-Man omnibuses (all the Annual X-Overs are included) BUT, without the DeMatties Spectacular Spider-Man run, you lost a lot of context for important shit going on in the book that comes to a head by the end of his run... IE Peter's parents coming back alive and well, which is part of Harry's scheme to torment and terrorize Peter.

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>>144596164
I'm pretty eager for the Michelinie/Larsen reprint coming myself. Between these two that will more less collect a good chunk of my time as a Spidey reader. And with the Gruenwald Cap and a small scattering of looming Epics I'm uh.... well I think I might be done collecting omnibuses. Like completely. There's nothing else I really want to collect that I don't already have.

>>144596158
Only Round Robin got reprinted. IIRC Hero Killers and Revenge of the Spider-Slayers are still in print. Which makes the omnibus a bit weird given that it should have been held back until all three are OOP.

>>144596111
>>144596121

Should also note the art styles: Solano Lopez have a funky style similar to EC Comics artwise whereas Breccio had a more abstract style of artwork with a lot of black shadows and empty space and looked like something from an issue of Warren Magazine horror-wise. Along with Breccio drawing the main character's survival suit like a realistic biohazard suit whereas Solano Lopez drew a more fantastical looking diving suit converted into a biohazard suit.

Should I hold off on buying the reissue of the standard edition Great Darkness Saga trade that's coming out later this year or should I hold out in vain that they'll reprint the expanded HC version with Annual #1 and the issues leading into the Great Darkness Saga and the aftermath issues?

My copy of GDS from the 00s is about to fall apart from being read too much over the years.

>>144583828
Where do you find these artists?

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Wew lads, haven't been here on /shelf/ for a few months at least. Here's my latest haul.

What are you most looking forward to right now? For me it's the new printings collecting Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon. I also feel light-headed thinking we're going to get 600-page volumes collecting Ashita no Joe and Legend of Kamui. Shinichi Sakamoto's The Climber is getting an English release, too. Manu Larcenet's adaptation of Cormac McCarhty's The Road. Final Cut by Charles Burns.
>>144596367
I feel like I might be missing out not getting all those EC collections

>>144583464
>>144583828
I always see people on reddit whine when their omnibus spines don't match up but me and my scattered collection of tpbs from across multiple generations is just laughing in contentment.

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>>144596378
>I feel like I might be missing out not getting all those EC collections
You can still buy the most of them for a reasonable price unlike Russ Cochran's EC Library slipcases.

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What's the best place to get Akira 35th Anniversary Box Set?
Amazon sells it for $170, seems like the cheapest option, but I'm afraid the beautiful box would get damaged.
I see it's also in stock at Barnes & Noble, same price as Amazon, but no free shipping.
Should I wait for Black Friday and bigger discounts?

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>Marvel
>DC
>Superheroes
>More Marvel
>More DC
>More superheroes

There's more to comics than Batman, Spider-Man and Superman.

>>144596625
What did you have in mind?

>>144596422
good stuff

>>144596643
Anon doesn’t have anything in mind or he would have seen that there are lots of non big 2 in this thread. He’s just here to take a dump and move on.

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Physical Media ok to share too?

>>144596965
>no Homer head case for S6
Fake fan

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>>144596983
I mean it kinda still counts

>>144586887
Nagari by Mickey Z, Underground Kingdom Comix Presents 1 & 2, Cowlick Comix 7, new issue of NOW from Fanta

>>144596342
Mostly Instagram (both their personal instagrams and from people who post their libraries), but sometimes through anthologies or reviews in things like Bubbles or TCJ. I also browse web shops and just see what they have that's new.

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lost my shelf pics in a HDD crash and been too lazy to take new ones

>>144597112
>Nagari by Mickey Z, Underground Kingdom Comix Presents 1 & 2, Cowlick Comix 7, new issue of NOW from Fanta
Thanks I'll check them out

bump

>>144596085
god I wish female humans were real

>>144597016
Wish this wasn't so expensive

>>144596625
but that's not what interests me about comics. if I want to read something deep I'll grab a regular book

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Recents:
>>144598296
Same.

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Why didn't anyone tell me this book is absolutely top notch. Probably in Marvel's 1% of best books.

>>144596965
Not too shabby Anon

>>144596625
>There's more to comics than Batman, Spider-Man and Superman.

You mean like horror and Sunday Funnies?

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>>144592197
>Historical comics shelf
Big Book of Bad
Big Book of Death
Big Book of Thugs
I genuinely enjoyed this more than I could ever explain.

>>144596367
Great Haul. I love seeing Corbin's work

>>144598809

Those Big Books are a lot of fun. A lot of great artists attached to those comics. Each story is 2-4 pages max so they never overstay their welcome.

>>144598548
Look, I'm a Shooterfag, but Secret Wars is nothing more than a mediocre toy advertisement. The only good parts are the issue under the mountain and Spider-Man soloing the X-Men

>>144596422
how are dark horse's EC archives compared to these fanta collections?
is it just that fanta is black and white and Dark Horse has tacky new colors?
I got one dark horse EC archive books and really hate those colors but I like that they reproduce each issue faithfully within the collection, because I'm not sure I'm down with chopping stories from random issues and arranging them by artist, half the fun of EC is paging through the book and getting a diverse range of artstyles and storytelling

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>>144595506

My bad. It's charming seeing a autobiographical jam comic by one of comics' most famous cartoonist couples. It's charming, sometimes their daughter also contributed.

As a comic, I wasn't the biggest fan. Aline Kominsky is not as good of an artist as Crumb.

>>144599040
>40 years later we're still playing horsey
What a relationship

>>144598934
I liked the back half when it refocused with Doom as the protagonist hanging out with his new friend Claw

>>144596572
steal it

>>144596572
>>144599803
NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW

>>144598934
Well we all know the series was to push the toy line but it doesn't stop the series from being top notch and with like any series, we can pull it apart and make it come through as mediocre. Too each their own. I loved it. Easily a top ten marvel book I've read in recent memory.

>>144599004
I'm also wondering this.

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>My comic shelf completely broke under the weight of my books in the middle of the night
My collection is fine, but dammit fml

>>144598880
I'm actually checking them out on eBay. While I'm watching the pirates vs Phillies game.

>>144600045
I always want you nighas, like OP half his shelves are giving under their weight but you fuckers are always acting like a shelf bending 10° is normal or something

>>144600045
Buy one of those metal shelves from the hardware store that you have to build yourself. Way cheaper than the particleboard stuff you can buy at the furniture store and way stronger

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I'm still looking for Miracle Man tpb3 from eclipse

>>144600042
>>144599004
Basically this:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t781RH8z2oE
>is it just that fanta is black and white and Dark Horse has tacky new colors?
Correct, and Fantagraphics EC books are slightly smaller.
> got one dark horse EC archive books and really hate those colors but I like that they reproduce each issue faithfully within the collection
It doesn't matter much to me because there's no continuity, every story is a one-shot.
I guess it's even better for collectors: say you don't like the art of Jack Kamen so feel free to skip 6 volumes and save your money for something you can actually enjoy.

>>144600045
L brackets centered under every shelf. Even on high end furniture. Also secure units to the wall. You'll all thank me later.

>>144596378
Last volume of the Astro City metrobooks. The Darkness complete collection vol 3. Might snag that Tim Drake Robin compendium because I got the Nightwing one a couple months ago. . Other than that, some of those DC's Finest sound great. Mostly just saving money for that Shade the Changing Man omni in the new year.

>>144596422
Based Morrison enjoyer

>>144600477
>>144599004
>>144596422
My favorites are
>Reed Crandall
>John Severin
>Bernie Krigstein
>Harvey Kurtzman
>Johnny Craig
>Wally Wood
so those are the ones I collect. I also prefer reading issues the way they came out as opposed to creator-centric books, but those atrocious colors really ruin it. The Creepy and Eerie reprints of Dark Horse however are in B&W, so collecting those together with the artist collections I want from Fantagraphics is a really satisfying experience!

>>144596965
Impressive but could use some aqua teen

>>144600477

I don't own any EC Comics. I dislike the smaller size of the Fantagraphics reprints and the horrid digital recoloring of the Dark Horse reprints. My LCS has the Russ Cochran slipcase of Tales in brand new condition for 300$. Next time I go, I'll bite the bullet and buy it.

>>144601156
>they/them

>>144586987
That Panini edition of savage sword really convinced, slightly oversized good printing, I really liked it
Just ordered another 5 books, meaning my total spending is now closer to $300, these volumes are really fucking cheap
Also it seems their stock is dwindling, a few of the middle volumes are already missing which is making me nervous

>>144582571
Very nice. I live close to Partners and actually try not to go so often bc it adds up very quickly money wise. But it is an unbelievable selection, kid in a candy store type thing.

>>144589249
they made a fake scott lang autobiography?

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>>144602069
did you watch ant man 3?

>>144602317
nta. but I did and regret about it. The first one was great though.

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Did a tidy up this week and got my stuff into a state I'm reasonably happy with, but I still need to take close ups of the shelves. I need to get some proper lighting too, but that means dismantling everything to install it into the kallaxes, and that's a project for another time.

>>144602317
>did you watch ant man 3?
lol no. i haven't watched an mcu movie since the first ant-man.

>>144602069
>>144602389
>>144602416
in Ant Man 3, Scott wrote a book. Marvel (or more likely Disney) contracted some book lackey to write an actual book. you can buy it on amazon. ive even seen it at midtown comics.

https://www.amazon.com/Look-Out-Little-Scott-Lang/dp/1368090133/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2DL2Q45UUH5TZ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1DlG7X4Q8HbFbTvZvJD7xLw6Ta5H5YADIKzdogURj_8zOdXtMTh8hWtSl-2I51hZ-9GK7C-ypODURH98N8Ff2d9yEakO2eWQeTnDdLP6QZXp8l7CXKbgPckG-t7mzeT0_rat5WtBtAxQ_m7tJPPCqjgGTjbaP9VKBsT6le2xmBA.FDi7CEbGceSPAoH-z1bYr2er6k38jaEapzo1zMGKvzg&dib_tag=se&keywords=look+out+for+the+little+guy+scott+lang&qid=1721597280&sprefix=look+out+for+the+li%2Caps%2C95&sr=8-1

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>>144602416
>>144602427
Literal superheroes liked it and gave it rave reviews so if you don't you're a stupid. In the book Scott says that Hulk and Hawkeye are the ones who suggested he write it by the way.

>>144602427
>>144602457
seems funny. might pick up a used copy off amazon if it's cheap.

>>144602485
i picked it up cheap as a joke im only a chapter in but its not that bad. dont take that as me saying its good though

im going to sell my entire collection and there is nothing any of you fags can do to stop me

>>144596378
>What are you most looking forward to right now?
Superman Triangle era omnibus
Ashita no Joe

>>144602520
i'm gonna buy your books and there is nothing you fag can do to stop me

>>144602394
>Hobbs Lane
Bernard and Quatermasspilled

>>144596378
>What are you most looking forward to right now?
Triangle Era Omni
Astro City Opus Edition
Fantastic Four Omni vol 5

>>144596378
>What are you most looking forward to right now?
Triangle era Superman
Conan reprints
Reprint of of F4 Intro the Time stream epic

>>144603301
>Fantastic Four Omni vol 5
I'm really own the fense about this one. F4 is one of my main books I collect but all these issues are in the epic format which I already have so I may pass. I don't have the room to double dip as much as I used to.

>>144596381
>people on reddit
>implying anyone on reddit counts as a person

>>144603336
no one forces you to double-dip on FF, you have to decide that for yourself, especially with the recent price-hikes

>>144603360
I mostly just go there to check for announcements and bargains. Outside that though they really are just a bunch of trend chasing shelfers who will brag about buying every modern piece of crap that they leave in shrink wrap. Oh they'll make fun of old comics all day, especially the 90s but watch what you say about Bendis or Slott.

>>144598548
trash

>>144597263
Based eurobro

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>>144586987
Even more stuff, this is a pretty wacky spread I know
I already have the rest of Grant Morrison's Batman in trades except for the first run of Batman inc.
Also that Enki Bilal book was ultra cheap, not my most wanted Bilal book but everything else is unaffordable af, at least I have some CULTURE in my shelf now
Emily speaks to my 2004 emo self, what can I say UwU
and more tmnt
also I saw a YouTube vid about Bill Mauldin and was inspired tp buy this book

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>>144603784

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>>144603796

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>>144603838
>those house of secrets/house of mystery spines

>>144596572
I bought mine from Amazon. It was shipped by some fulfillment service and it was really well packed. Check out the Amazon reviews, irc, many of them mention the packaging.

>>144601951
I'm very jealous. I'm out in Ohio, and we really have no good shops. We do have the Billy Ireland museum though so there's that. I always try to stop in to Partners (and Desert Island) when I'm out on the east coast.

>>144601621
Morrison has since said they don't care what you call them

>>144604982
Then why persist with the confusing pronouns?

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>>144581431
Staying with relatives until I find a new place, so most of my stuff is in storage. Keeping a few comics in my room though.

>>144605366
Something along the lines of that is what they prefer to be called but it doesn't matter

>>144605569
based familychad

>>144603838
Solomon Kane rules

I can't decide. I have an ereader that I use a lot but it has no color. Should I buy another ereader just for color comics?

>>144606008
Yes, some comics use color very effectively and it be a shame not to appreciate it.

>>144603838
The goon hehe

>>144606166
The only problem is that the kobo libra color seems to have less saturated colors due to it being an eink screen and not a LED screen.

>>144602520
anything interesting in your slop pile?

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does this count? it has comic strips in it

>>144606445
Watchmen tpb
Spider-Man One More Day tpb

>>144606536
oof

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>>144606523
also floppies

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>>144606575

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>>144606593
gold-early bronze DC is awesome.

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>>144606612
if anyone actually collects floppies I'd recommend using hipcomic auctions.

>>144606575
I love those corny old teen romance comics drawn by middle aged men

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Books this month. I got the Tintin box set plus the two books not in the box on the prime day sale. Also Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?, which is a story I can't imagine being better suited to Eric Powell. He played it surprisingly straight though.

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>>144606736
I enjoy the letter pages

>>144606785
>I got the Tintin box set plus the two books not in the box
Isn't Tintin and Alph-Art included in the box?
How is the text size? I heard it's too small and uncomfortable to read.

>>144606808
>Dear Confused,
>Your parents are right. Be a slut.
>Sincerely,
>Julia Roberts.

>>144606888
No, Tintin in the Congo isn't in the box, it's the "controversial" one. And Alph-Art isnt' either. It's the last incomplete story Herge was working on when he died, and wasn't released back in the day.

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>>144606906
>And Alph-Art isnt' eithe
Weird, the description on Amazon says it is and you can see it in the box, the last one on the right.

>>144606888
>How is the text size? I heard it's too small and uncomfortable to read.
Missed this. These are full sized books. I'm guessing whoever you heard that from had digest sized books or something? Not that I've ever seen digest sized Tintin, but I have seen Asterix in that size, and yeah it's not ideal.

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>>144606943
Haha, turns out we're both half right. Alph-Art is in there. I haven't really cracked the box yet. Congo definitely isn't though. The box starts with book two, Tintin in the land of the Soviets.

So I have a papertback and a hardback of Alph-Art. Not even mad, it was AU$19

>>144603793
Do you have to write like a tool?

>>144607192
yes

>>144603448
>>144603336

I have been putting off getting Into the Timestream because I have the three regular Simonson FF trades. But they fucked over people by sticking the start of the DeFalco run with the end of the Simonson run, so I need that trade to fill in the gap.

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>>144582571
>The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss

>>144607201
ok

>>144607622
Woah. It's just like getting a message from every girl I ever liked, neat.

>>144606659
>if anyone actually collects floppies
I think I want to try and get back into that. Collected editions make a nice reading experience but I was just sorting my current collection and just thumbing through it... I got lost man.

>>144607707
I don't really buy collected stuff. I just buy the floppies I want and read them online.

>>144607770
depending on where and what you're getting it can honestly be a lot cheaper if you're lucky. Like big key issues always command a pretty penny but nobody really gives much a shit about the random in between ones.

>>144604982
>>144605580
>they

>>144606612
>Anti-Supergirl Rally
Now I just feel bad for her

>>144608169
>looks hot
>strongest being on the planet
>Now I just feel bad for her

>>144608361
>attractive people can't have problems! Only ugly hags like me get to have feelings!

>>144608383
>intentionally forgetting "strongest being on the planet"
you cannot beat me, I have sever autism

>>144608439
>I have sever autism
Explains why you're missing the actual problem.

>>144608449
there is none

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Busy /shelf/ thread, it's good to see. I even got a pickup to share
>>144585740
good comic book taste anon, I love those EC books and obviously Web Of Horror is based

>>144608529
>the complete web of horror
cover looks more like sword and sorcery

>>144608449
I don't think anyone can relate to that "problem" but you

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3rd poster hear

glad to hear they're still doing FF omnibus' from the early age

>>144581431
Past two months:
>Nightwing Compendium
>Secret Six Omnibus
>Batman and Robin Adventures Omnibus
>Lobo Compendium
>Absolute Batman and Son

Then we have the Robin Compendium, Messner Loebs Flash Omnibus, and Hitman Omnibus soon, and then Peter David Aquman and Triangle Era omnis on the horizon. My wallet may hate it but this is the best output DC has had in forever. Now they just need to start publishing second volumes, I think Starman is the only one to get a continuation so far.

UKbros, does anyone know why Forbidden Planets sales are so fucking shite these days?
https://forbiddenplanet.com/catalog/comics-and-graphic-novels/?q=omnibus&sale=on&sort=relevance&page=1
Most of these "sales" are less than a pound off. The ""discount"" on Incredible Hulk Vol 2 is only 9p. FP used to do actual fucking sales on omnibuses, and now we just get this instead

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>>144608927
I don't get your complaint? Are you talking about the sale price compared to their usual price (which I have no idea what it might be), because 27.99 off the RRP seems fine?

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>>144608978
That price difference highlighted on the search page isn't the actual sale. I don't know if it's the same in other countries but here, pretty much everything sold online has a percentage knocked off the RRP. The actual standard price for an omnibus online is typically never the RRP, so you can ignore that. I'm not complaining about that (and I certainly don't want to come across as entitled about it).
The point I'm making is that most of the "sales" that Forbidden Planet have got going here are nothing at all. Looking at that Hulk omni, the original standard price (i.e., not the RRP) was £62.09, which is the middle number in pic related. What they're advertising as the new price on the left is really only 9 pence off, which is hardly a sale at all. This is the most extreme example, but it's a similar story with most of the others on "sale" here. There are a couple which DO have actually a significant discount on their original standard prices, like the Ben Reilly Omnibus and Phoenix Vol 2, but otherwise the majority of them are only discounted for a few quid at best. At worst, the "sale" is less than a pound. I just don't get why they'd even bother calling this a sale if most of their discounts are going to be so utterly negligible. That's what I'm complaining about.

>>144609158
marvel and DC are the biggest
they hope to sell it at 125
they usually sell it at like 99 for a few months
then like 80 bucks after that
if something is still 120$ and it's marvel that means it's rare

>>144608899
they need to continue the Silver/Bronze Age Legion.
I don't think that weird new line of books they plan to do will cover it

>>144606785
I'm this anon >>144591965
Is that basically the best way to get the Tintin series?

>>144609959
if you can't find some old set on Craigslist or whatever then yeah, it is.

>>144608899
are 90s Flash and aquaman neccesary?

I don't own anything related, was thinking of getting a aquaman paper back for like 20bucks but outside of that nothing really

>>144609959
Basically if you get that box set plus Tintin in the Congo you have the entire series. It was a bargain in the prime day sale.

>>144603793
>>144586987
weird I just noticed that the volumes 1 and 3 of TMNT I got had thick matte paper and volumes 2 and 4 have thin glossy paper, this wasn't mentioned anywhere on the store page and it makes volumes 2 and 4 look thinner than the others despite the same page count
I prefer the matte paper too, weird that they're mixing different printings in the same store pages

>>144610515
thanks

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>IHF Compendium arrives from IST
>spine is damaged
Should I keep it?

>>144611738
>>144611768
I say paint/draw over the crack at the top and just live with the bump at the bottom. I've seen worse damage

>>144611738
don't they have a damages section specifically for shit like this?
did you pay full price?

>>144611965
It's was 50% off last week.

>>144608140
You're really fucking hung up on that, huh? Who cares. Call Morrison whatever you want to.

>>144612179
NTA, but the confusion remains as long as you refer to a single individual as "they". There was an article about Chas Truog being snubbed by Morrison, and it was a clusterfuck with all the plural pronouns.

>>144612280
I get it. Going THEY every response when I'm trying to fill you in is pretty fucking stupid. I'm going off the info I had. I didn't know about the Truog situation. I have some reading to do apparently.

>>144612328
Chaz Truog, my bad.
>Here’s what happened. I arrived at the convention center, and met my Animal Man editor, Art Young, who said, “Grant is here signing autographs. You should go introduce yourself.” I walk over to where they're doing their signing. They're dressed all in black, wearing dark sunglasses, very pale. I introduce myself. They look up, and extend a limp white hand to shake. They say something that, because of their accent, the noise of the hall, and the fact that they weren't speaking very loud, took me a moment to translate: “At last we meet.” They withdrew their hand, and went back to their signing. That was all.
>“Oh wow, this is so cool, they’ve never met before!” remarked one of the autograph seekers. I stood there awkwardly for a moment, then I walked away. I was furious. The next day, we were seated next to each other for an hour at the DC table, signing autographs. They didn’t speak to me or acknowledge me in any way. As the convention went on, stories were circulating of how they seemed to be cultivating a “I’m a weird British writer” act, which the fans loved, but wasn’t impressing anyone else. So it went.

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It's been a while since I posted in a shelf thread

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>>144612707
The shelf that's gonna get the thread deleted kek

>>144612643
Thank you for posting it. Holy shit. I like Morrison but they can be a bit up their own ass. What a dick. I feel bad for Truog. I'd be fuming too.

>>144612676
Nice Archie stuff

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>>144612726
Oh and a few odd ends not kept on the comic shelf but with their cartoon counterparts

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>>144612804

>>144612643
>I was furious
Because the guy is a shy sperg? This dude sounds annoying.

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>>144612804
And that one DC published Supernatural comic is over here

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>>144612826
And looks like I forgot the newspaper and internet publisher shelf
I also got a box of "comic" comics, ?floppys? But why post a picture of a box

>>144612823
I'm reading the full TCJ interview now. There's more to it than that. It's interesting stuff. Morrison does come across as pretty pompous.

What are good oversized editions that aren't from Marvel/DC?
Like on par with the absolute editiopns form DC in terms of size
I'm mostly looking for art over amazing story

>>144612764
>their

>>144612643
>>144612764
>>144612883
Honestly, I'm unsurprised that Morrison could be a dismissive arse. I like a good deal of his work, but the man's made his name on being pretentious and mystifying.

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>>144613340
Do you live in the Matrix, anon?

>>144608580
Magazines like Weird Tales, Eerie, etc were how a lot of Sword and Sorcery titles were originally published.

>>144613389
We all do when we put a green LED in our closet for Halloween and just leave it

>>144611738
>>144611768
>Slight warehouse ding
>WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH my book is damaged

>>144612665
very interesting collection

>>144612643
>I stood there awkwardly for a moment, then I walked away. I was furious.
What the fuck do you want him to do, halt the autographing and make all the fans who have been standing in line wait so you can talk some more and become best con friends forever? What a whiny faggot.

>>144613444
>straight up peeling
>slight
In my day any bookseller deigning to sell such merchandise would have been horsewhipped.

>>144596378
Triangle Superman
Den 2-4
Savage Dragon Ultimate Collection v3
Marvel Godzilla
Micronauts v2
ASM 6
FF 5

>>144613476
I dunno. Maybe he expected him to not be a complete elusive asshole? They worked together on a great book and the guy acts above it all. They don't have to be best buds but he could have shown some common decency.

>>144613599
>elusive asshole
>and the guy acts above it all
There's really nothing in the text that suggests anything like that, except for projection from the whiner who felt embarrassed and turned the normal interaction into this huge slight being done on purpose, when Morrison probably didn't think twice about it because he was tired and/or in signing mode. I'm sure he would have exchanged some more pleasantries if the whiner didn't show up in the middle of an autograph line and do nothing but say hi and offer up his hand before getting upset at only having his handshake returned along with a jokey reply before the autograph-signing resumed.
When I'm at work, dealing with customers at that, I wouldn't just stop working and start chatting with some dude just because we'd once worked on the same project and somehow that means we simply must do more than shake hands. I'd shake his hand and move on, instead of wasting people's time. He'll have to find me when we're not both standing in front of a whole line of customers waiting for their turn if he wants to start chatting about life or whatever.

>>144592257
>Chester Brown
>Crumb
>Hernandez Bros
>Asterios Polyp

Nice taste.

>>144604982
kys

The Vampirella kickstarter is kinda lame and half-assed.

a tiny comics shop just opened where I live and I want to support them because the owner seems like a really nice guy, so I figured I'd subscribe to a few titles for the first time in years, but I'm having a hard time finding anything worthwhile. Can I get a few recommendations? is there anything that I can just pick up and enjoy?

>>144613848
superman and green lantern are good. can't recommend anything else.

>>144613848
I like the current Incredible Hulk run
Hickman's Ultimate Spider-Man is fairly decent, and The Ultimates seems to be shaping up well (at least, judging from the first two issues.