Thread 151121533

That time of month gang! New shelf thread! Talk new purchases, recommendations, new news about upcoming releases, and butch about OOP books and dream releases!

>>151121533 (OP)
Ghetto indeed

>>About a half dozen Millar books including freaking Wanted
>>Random Krakoa Era X-Men book
>>Azbats Batman
>>DC's Finest instead of Batman Year 1 Ten Nights of the Beast and Killing Joke as individual trades
>>John Stewart GL trade
>>Martin Plasko Swamp Thing
>>Shitty X-Men crossovers (mutant massacre, FOTM, Age of X)
>>Stormwatch compendium
>>Random Legion trades
>>Literal who book (terminal lance???)
>>Random Fox News tripe books
>>Fratbro book about the 2008 economy crash
>>Instagram gambling app tie-in novel (Fanhattan Sharks)

Only worthwhile book there is Providence and the rare Delano/Davis Captain Britain trade.

>>151121803
>he hates and/or has never read OMAC
you're a fag

been curating out stuff I don't care about/crap. I'm a lot happier with my collection than I used to be. its easier to pick from these days.

>>151121803
I'm not defending OP but...

>>About a half dozen Millar books including freaking Wanted
I only see 3. Hyperbole isn't warranted.

>>Azbats Batman
It's more peculiar to only see the final portion of a much longer storyline but I just assumed the rest was out of frame. Azbats was interesting from the perspective that DC editorial showing the fans a more edgy 90's Batman character during the heyday of these types of stories and "subtly" showing the audience why it doesn't work.

>>DC's Finest instead of Batman Year 1 Ten Nights of the Beast and Killing Joke as individual trades
How is this a criticism? DC Finest restored the original colors to "Killing Joke" and the last time "Ten Nights..." had a standalone trade was 1996. I'd prefer an omni but DC Finest is fine enough.

>>Shitty X-Men crossovers (mutant massacre, FOTM, Age of X)
Mutant Massacre was okay.

>>Random Legion trades
Yeah... odd to only have part 2.

That seems to be a theme with OP's collection... Legion 2, Swamp Thing 3, Crossing Iron Man, late stage Cap, Authority 2, Batman Knightquest, JLA Detroit, Ultimates 2 part 2.

Damn... is this rage bait? Start a fucking story OP!

>>151122191
Before the Darkness 1 pretty much sold out on its release so I would assume OP never got a chance to buy it and had to settle for part two, which is still in print.

>>151122191
The Millar books the poster sees are Big Game, Wanted, Authority Book 2, and Ultimates 2 V2. So technically the four books by Millar

Is the Plasko Swamp Thing run worth reading? Keep getting told that the last couple of issues are important to setting up the Moore run but nothing about the start of the run...

Given that the Masterwork line is now dead, will prices start going down on the secondary market? Been wanting to to get into it for several books but prices for some of the volumes are just to freaking insane...

>>151122681
It's not important at all.

>>151121533 (OP)
Why do you always make these threads when I'm between orders.

>>151122681
Plasko introduces Liz Tremayne (crappy spelling), who basically is "what if Sarah Jane Smith gets driven bat shit insane and turned into a lesbian by a MRA psycho". That and the last couple of issues set up the Moore run, with Matt and Abby returning, Matt's Psychic powers being established, and was the first person to write Arcane as being a big themed mad scientist. It's worth reading IMHO and a lot of the stuff from the Moore run will seen hollow without the context from the Plasko run

>>151122714
>Given that the Masterwork line is now dead, will prices start going down on the secondary market?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA, GOOD ONE!

Are any of the early X-Men crossovers any good? Any recommendations?

>>151122262
Just seems like OP only buys the follow up books to better series. If you miss the boat each time... maybe change your gameplan.

>>151122667
I must have missed one. Yeah, all mediocre books.

>>151122714
The opposite. When titles go OOP they only get more expensive.

>>151124083
>Are any crossovers any good?
No.

>>151124083
Mutant Massacre is the first and really only one of worth.

Fall of the Mutants had almost no structure, just a bunch of barely connected vignettes. Inferno was... interesting but kind of ruined Cyclops for a lot of fans. X-tinction Agenda was dull. Muir Island was a mess. X-Cutioner's Song was okay... better than it had any right to be. Fatal Attractions is really only memorable for the climax. Phalanx was awful.

>>151123447
Ive seen a few pop in at ollies

>>151122101
Cool

Yeah for superficial cosmetic damages and massive discounts. Just over 20 bucks

>>151122262
Man I wish I got into legion sooner. really hoping DC puts out more finests soon.

shelf

Please die.

>>151124083
Asgardian War and Xnticion Agenda are pretty good and have great artwork from Jim Lee, Paul Smith, and Art Adams

>>151121533 (OP)
Op, what floppies do you have on that shelf?

Some recent purchases.

Currently reading Swamp Thing by Moore for the first time, I heard about the return of Arcane years before, but it was still surprising to me, also I enjoyed the issues with Etrigan, always nice to see him pop up in books.
I am also reading the Bendis Ultimate Spider-Man, I got the urge to finally finish it after showing my nephew the video game. I'm still mad about how Gwen dies, she just moves in with May and Peter and doesn't really do much until the lead-up to her death. I think she could have replaced JJJ as the human antagonist after his slight change of heart in the second Kingpin arc.
Also, I have been reading Daredevil by Ann Nocenti, really loved that issue with Mephisto in the bar. If the second half of this run ends strong, I would place this run in my top 3 Daredevil runs.

>>151127608
more info on that spiderman pickup? I've been trying to find some spiderman stories to grab but it seems like he doesnt have many TPB sized storylines. I'm afraid to shoot for a random omnibus.

>>151127782
That one deals with Harry Osborn in a big way. I passed on it myself because I think I already have too many Spidey books but I heard it sold out really quickly because marvel is shit at printing enough stock.

>>151125636
Same boat. I'm actually having an easier time digging up old singles.

>>151127884
I think that's what makes a lot of this annoying. There's so many trades and epics I need to fill the gaps that go for sky high but are really cheap to just get the issues.

>>151127782
It's the famed DeMatties run with the death of Harry Osborn

Anyone got a reading order for 00s X-Men? Local thrift story recently got in a huge collection of 00s era Marvel shit that was donated from a local dead guy's collection including a ton of X-Men trades

>>151128618
The only thing you really need to know is that there is a MASSIVE (about four years worth of stories) that take between Astonishing X-Men #12 and #13. Pretty much everything from UXM #444/X-Men #157 through X-Men #203/UXM #490 and five major crossovers (House of M, Decimation, Civil War, Anhiliation, World War Hulk) take place between those two issues/V2-3 of Astonishing X-Men.

>>151121533 (OP)
>ordered vampire chevalier
>checked on the order and it's late, not sure if it will even come in, asked to confirm if i even still want it and clicked yes

wtf why

>>151121533 (OP)
Recent gets, mostly manga but PAD Supergirl wooo

>>151129123
I heard good things bout PAD Girl so I go it too. Always liked his marvel stuff. Though there is a part of me that's a disgusted with how he was treated then and that they're putting his work out NOW. Dude deserved better,

>>151129400
This applies to pretty much the entire industry, the companies fucked everyone over

>>151129447
Sometimes it's really hard to be a comics fan when you know just how awful the industry really is.

What's the best version of Crisis on Infinite Earth's to buy?

>>151129896
Probably the early printings; newer printings stuck the History of the DC Universe mini into the collection as an awkward epilogue to the whole thing

>>151128724
It's weird how those books just aren't easily available physically

>>151127608
Is The 'Nam a good read?

>>151129896
The absolute edition is getting a new printing next year if you want a big fancy version.

>>151130393
Not really.

I was going to ask when the Shade omnibus was coming out but apparently it's out. I know I've been busy but I still kept track of these threads... oh well. Gonna order it now.

>>151130738
Is that Shade stuff any good

>>151131439
Yeah, if you like that kind of stuff.

>>151130738
>>151131714
Is the interior art like the cover?

>>151131912
Only one issue is drawn by Brendan McCarthy. Chris Bachalo is the main arist and he develops his style aross the run so it's fun to see his evolution and starting around issue 20 it's the best it's ever looked. Most if the other fill ins are also good except for a handful but even those aren't awful.

People don't seem to be buying much.

>>151132938
There once was a crooked anon
who lived in a crooked house
and on his crooked shelves
all the books were crooked

>>151133005
There was was a crooked anon
Whose sense of balance was just gone
The collection was great
But warped from the weight
and is now just remembered in song

>>151131439
Not really. It's super early Peter Milligan, woke as fuck (one of the first arcs is about a woman getting crap for loving a black man), transgenderism heavily pitched as the future, and lots of "America is racist and evil" from a writer who only became famous due to American comic book fans. And that's not counting the ending controversy; where #50 is the real ending and Milligan being forced to undo said ending and churn out a half assed continuation that was so bad it got the book cancelled.

Did some dollar bin diving and got some good pulls. Very excited to read through the Kubert Green Beret books

>>151130393
The Michael Golden issues are golden

>>151133206
>super early Peter Milligan
He was writing comics for 15 years by then, retard

>>151133206
Not surprised to see such a bone headed, dimwitted take.

>>151130393
Starts out decent but the series quickly became stuck trying to keep popular characters around and alive and the G infamous Punisher the 'Nam years that were designed to try and boost sales.

The whole thing ultimately has no ending (it was supposed to wrap up with the fall of Saigon) and the writer infamous gave a huge rant in the 90s basically shitting all over Marvel for yanking it from the newstands and making it direct market only early in the run for while sales collapsed on it, as it was a huge seller in the early days

>>151129896
Zenith Phase 3

>>151129896
The DC Finest versions will probably be the most complete but I don't know how many volumes it will take and when they'll all be out

>>151133709
So are DC's Finest like Marvel's Epic collections that they'll be released pretty randomly instead of collecting one series in order one release after another? Like what's their tactic here?

Got a couple of new Big Greens for my /a/ shelf over the weekend, if that counts

>>151134242
yes though I think DC does it a bit better because they order by year rather than volume number. The thing about western comics is that very often you really don't need to read volume 1 to understand volume 27. Hell a lot of readers will probably have very different levels of nostalgia. So I think DC is a bit smarter this way were someone can go "I want Batman from 1985 because that's when I read it" and they won't have a giant volume number reminding them how incomplete things are

>>151132674
Last big purchase I got was Superman triangle 2 but for a lot of things I'm kind of wrapping up what I want to collect

>>151135123
I can't imagine what that feels like.

>>151135297
Feels nice. Not as perfect as I'd like it to be but I'm pretty comfortable with it.

Debating on getting the Superman World's at War prelude omnibus. I really wish they followed the Triangle mapping style instead of this headache event style.

im going to the 2nd hand book store and will post my buys if i find anything good, in about an hour

>>151136525
I wish I had a second hand book store

>>151132674
Not much to buy.

>>151136130
Doesn't the OWAS Prelude Omnibus have President Lex, Emperor Joker, and Brainiac 13 arcs in full?

>>151136525
Really debating on getting these 2 on top of my current stack

>>151137795
I'm mostly curious how it tracks with the recent City of Tomorrow compendium

>>151137858
39 box set collection, $200

>>151137858
I find Ware to be a total bore.

>>151138018
>One Book Free
I find that suspect

>>151136853
>>151138018
It's pretty comfy. The majority of the wall is all graphic novels from Marvel, DC, Image, Vertigo, Dynamite, IDW, Valiant, and miscellaneous stuff. Floppies are in the boxes at the corner Gotta go through everything to find the interesting stuff. I'll post my haul after I get home and eat
https://files.catbox.moe/yugxmk.jpg
https://files.catbox.moe/kape90.jpg

>>151132674
Doctor said I need to stop reading on the can so I switched to real books

>>151138314
>>151138033
This was my haul, I ended up going home with Chris Ware's Building Stories set, I'll get Art Speigelmin's 9/11 book next time
https://files.catbox.moe/mjk0wt.jpg
I have a newer copy of Understanding Comics already but coming across an older Kitchen Sink's print was a neat find
I was surprised to find anything from Joe Kubert so I felt pretty lucky
It might not be the 39 book collection but I got an Asterix omnibus
And the random find was in the Image section with "After works 2" a bunch of animator's short comics
https://files.catbox.moe/hf9j4k.jpg

I'll go again next month

>>151137946
It's the greatest hits version of post JOSS Superman for those just curious about the era. IIRC it only has the opening Loeb arc that introduces Inperialax, the Brainiac 2000 arc that introduces Brainiac 13 and sees Lex sell his daughter to him for future tech, the President Luthor arc, and everything OWAW related leading up to Kansas getting nuked. No Emperor Joker

shelf

I'm really hoping there's some decent black friday sales this year but I'm not holding my breath. I swear it's like deep discounts just stopped existing.

>>151129400
The only good stuff about PAD Supergirl was the first nine issues, which is the initial arc that OAD pitched when Supergirl was supposed to be a mini.

Everything after the first arc was PAD making shit up as he went along and it kept getting more and more convoluted until DiDio put his foot down, killed the book and ordered a version of Pre Crisis Supergirl introduced to end the farce of the various not Supergirls...

>>151141012
I never cared for pre crisis Super Girl

>>151135123
I’m not there, but I can see it from here and I have already really slowed down my buying quite a bit.

>>151139392
Man. I need to get Building Stories.

>>151121803
>freaking
You're a fucking faggot. Never weigh in on anything again.

>>151141012
I liked DC One Million. I liked most of the tie in comics. PAD’s Supergirl issue, however, was such shit that it was like 22 pages of the dude begging me to never read any of his comics ever again.
Challenge accepted

>>151141012
>>151141488
What did poor Peter David ever do to you

>>151138033
I like his comics well enough. I'd rather read Ware than someone like Tom King or Mark Waid. Now those are boring.

>>151121533 (OP)
Live, god damn it!
I can't post my haul until this weekend.

>>151144836
Weekend is a long time away my man

>>151133393
based floppiesanon.

>>151144836
You could have bumped my thread too >>151135026.
Please do next time. I spent a lot of time curating that.

What upcoming releases are you looking forward to?

>>151146422
Hitman Volume 2

>>151145813
NTA, sorry I missed that one. I’ve kinda given up on /co/. Every thread turns into something like Thanksgiving dinner when you have relatives who won’t stop arguing about something nobody else wants to talk about.
Fwiw, I am indifferent to the existence of comics like those in your OP, and, aside from the Corben stuff, BPRD is better than Hellboy. Kmhdx

>>151146422
Nexus Omnibus V1.
I got it through the KS, but I think you can still preorder it through Baron’s website.

>>151141901
I’d say the start of his Hulk run was a pretty egregious offense.
It’s my understanding that it gets better later, but it starts rough. Waiting 20 or so issues to wrap up the Ground Zero plot after the Hulk vanished, for instance, was a serious fumble.

>>151146660
Yeah, /co/ is all meat and potatoes capeshit these days.

>>151146660
That's alright. It's all my fault. I've been here a long time, so I should know when it's best to post certain threads and how to make them more appealing. I'm thinking of going away for a while and doing a bunch of research.
As for those comics, I don't like all of them, but appreciate the type. Post-Bronze Age, it's the direction I think all superhero comics should have gone. With a mainstream output that's somewhat at the level of those, we'd probably be reading some good non-cape stuff today, something I can't even imagine.

>>151121533 (OP)
Are we /k/ coded here?

>>151147096
And it’s mostly current stuff, which is better than nothing. I say that because there seems to be more interest in that stuff than there was a few years ago and it’s a base to build on… maybe.

>>151147142
>Good non-cape stuff.
I feel like there’s a lot of this out there, but that’s absolutely a matter of taste.

>>151147339
/co/ feels very apathetic compared to 10-12, 20 years ago.

>>151141901
The whole thing where he kept demanding Xfactor be an even shittier version of Xfactor that never interacted with the greater X-Men universe and where he would be allowed to hold Wolfsbane, Havok, Polaris, and Quicksilver hostage in a Chuck Austen tier hell of banality and beastiality jokes

>>151146772
I mean, it's Hulk, why would you expect quality.

>>151141901
The whole thing where he kept demanding Xfactor be an even shittier version of Excalibur that never interacted with the greater X-Men universe and where he would be allowed to hold Wolfsbane, Havok, Polaris, and Quicksilver hostage in a Chuck Austen tier hell of banality and beastiality jokes

>>151147643
Ignoring the greater X universe can only lead to improvement
>Wolfsbane, Havok, Polaris, and Quicksilver
Yeah because those characters were just overflowing with potential till he got at them. Seriously. Polaris.

>>151147578
I’ve only been here since 2009, so I’m a newfag, but it is definitely less interesting than it was then.
>>151147632
I was young and foolish; further, I thought Todd’s art was rad.

>>151147533
I couldn't disagree more.

>>151147726
>Green hair
>Big tits
>Magnets, how the fuck do they work?
There’s some potential there.

>>151147757
Totally understandable, as I said, it’s a matter of taste.
What sort of thing would you like to see?
That’s an actual question, btw, not a prelude to shit-flinging.

>>151147802
I see no other way to respond honestly other than "good comics".

>>151147777
>There’s some potential there.
Sure, sure but Lorna has basically been completely underutilized since she was introduced

>>151147533
Not enough. I like plenty of comics, but the reality is that we're still only scratching the surface.

>>151147533
>>151149432
>>151147142
Just read Conan already

bump fuckers
finally a shelf thread, I was about to make one myself
Will post once im out of the gym probably

>>151149533
I’m on it already

>>151149533
Don't like Conan.

>>151149910
How come the spine for that one Conan omnibus is different?

>>151150012
Titan has the rights now and they are continuing the line where Marvel left off. They wanted to make the transition as smooth as possible, so they kept all the logos and the format largely the same.

>>151147726
I think the issue is that one of the reasons people hate PAD is that they want Xfactor to be as important as X-Men and Xforce, Lorna and Alex as a power couple, Rhahne interacting with Xforce, and Quicksilver being a dad and interacting with Crystal, Wanda, and his fellow Avengers. Not having the team stick in limbo, garbage send ups to garbage writer Steve Gerbers garbage elf with a gun gag, and Rhahne being reduced to a horny wolf mutant that just wants to fuck Alex

>>151149533
I don't like Conan.

>>151137858
No way, is this the Book-Off in Riverside?

>>151149910
Nice.

>>151149946
>>151150521
Weak willed cowards and stygian dogs

>>151150100
based of them to do that.

I'm really happy with how this shelf looks now, but every time I pull out a book the rest fall over like dominos. So I have to do a fast switcharoo with a book of similar size. Oh well.

>>151138018
That looks nice, but I'm not paying 200 dollaridoos at a used bookstore.

>>151150999
Yeah, it's pretty cool. There's still mismatch and it bugs my OCD the way different labels would but its pretty snazzy when you see them all lined up.

>>151150733
Berserk is better.

>>151145813
I skipped your thread in the catalog, I thought it was a recommendation thread.

I picked up some n52 Justice League trades. They were okay I suppose. Pretty smash your toys together action focused and the whole thing got a real "Heroes Reborn" vibe that I do not care for. Jim Lee on art was nice but he didn't save Fantastic Four he ain't saving this.

>>151150733
Don't shitpost.

>>151121533 (OP)
Moomsday Clock.

>pre-order the Requiem: Vampire Knight Omni in early October. Can't fucking wait
>goes on sale October 28th. Hear nothing, Amazon still showing "Order Recieved"
>Get an email a couple of days ago how there's shipping issues and them wanting to know if I still want my order

It was already bad enough that Grell's The Warlord omni got delayed until after Christmas (was originally supposed to release around my birthday). Oh well, waited this long for Requiem to be back in print, what's a little while longer?

>>151152423
That's sad, I was expecting it this Nov.
Atleast, there's still Aparo's Artist Edition coming this month.

>>151152423
>Otto von Todt

>>151131439
It starts off decently enough, but after the second arc dealing with the "American Nightmare" (sans Cody), Milligan starts to lose the thread and just goes full on weird. And not the interesting kind, just boring.

And this is the same guy who penned a zero issue for the Red Lanterns with fucking Eldritch elements ala Clive Barker that might be one of the best single issue comics that I've ever read

I saw a bunch of comic books (TPBs) in a charity shop, Krakoa era X-Men, bought them all for a very cheap price. I've read most of the Claremont run, the Morrison and Whedon stuff, and that Messiah War event. I wanted to see where X-Men had gotten to, especially considering the amount of kvetching anons did over the Krakoa era. Boy was some of that stuff just weird.

>>151152534
I think it also got a page decrease? It was originally supposed to have the first fifty issues but now the page count is around 736 I think? If that was the case, why not just do it as a DC Finest or a compendium?

Problem is that they're still listing it was originally

>>151152858
Shrinkflation.

They might even release it with thin paper.

>>151152858
>Problem is that they're still listing it was originally
The original page count/number was just a rumour and not an official solicit. 736 is not a bad page count for an omni. Of course they will be bad on price because they always do that.
>Volume 1 collects 1st Issue Special #8 and The Warlord #1-36, with a brand-new introduction and painted, wraparound cover by Grell.
Although with 133 issues to collect (plus more if they want) I don't necessarily see this getting to the 4 volumes it might need.

I keep seeing pics of that Ostrander Spectre Omni and starting to think holding out for Finest was a mistake.

Same deal with the Question omnis

>>151153038
I think they're mainly collecting Grell's run (he announced roughly two omnis I think?). The book lasted long after he stopped writing it

>>151153038
The real issue is if they only collect the issues Grell actually wrote, as the last two years of his "run" wwre ghost written by his wife.

>>151152858
>It was originally supposed to have the first fifty issues but now the page count is around 736
Warlord was weird in that a part of the book had back up stories. If it's omitting those then a lower page count isn't weird.

>>151121533 (OP)
newest floppies

>>151153499
>>151153120
How much of Warlord is worth reading?

>>151153946
downright peculiar

>>151153946
This Anon likes Gay.

Live

Is Longshot worth reading and how relevant is it to the X-Men?

>>151154819
He's from the retarded TV dimension that retarded mojo lives in and has absolutely nothing to do with anything the retarded x-men have ever been about.

>>151149910
>no bends
Is it possible to learn this power?

>>151154884
Not from a /shelf/er

>>151154884
That's a kallax, son. Look at the shelves and were the cross the dividers.

>>151155471
Nta but I've had Kallax shelves bend

>>151155475
then you did something very, VERY wrong

>>151155496
>too many books

Can this thread stay up for about 9 hours so I post when I wake up thanks

>>151155849
'no'

>>151155982
Pretty please?

>>151156215
Maybe

>>151121533 (OP)
Live, god damn it! Live!

I'm here again. Are you guys tired of my shelf? I've had the 3 Invincible compendiums in softcover for years. Considering getting the hardcovers as a Christmas gift to upgrade. Worth it? But I also saw they're doing an omnibus in April that has the same material as the first compendium plus the Marvel Team Up issue with Spider-Man. Not sure if I should wait. I do have the trade that has that Team Up issue though. I also need to take a new pic. This is almost 2 years old.

>>151157075
As always, my top right shelf for those who want a closer look.

>>151157080
Poor, lonely Usagi...

>>151157254
I-I'll get the other soon! I do buy the issues when they come out!

>>151157272
>>151157254
>Still waiting for vol 9 to be reprinted

>>151157381
I know what I haven't isn't the start of Usagi. Is something that prints the beginning readily available?

>>151153038
NTA 736 is more or less the perfect page count for an omni, imo. The Master of Kung Fu omnis are all in that range and their a pleasure to read.

>>151153946
Wilbur is a tit man.

>>151157075
The HCs are nice. I don’t have the trades, though, so I can’t compare.

>>151157661
There was a box set of two volumes that contained the early early stuff. I don't know if it's still in print or how rare it is. I have it. It's nice. I guess there was a hardcover version but I missed on that.

And here's were I'd collect Saga 9. IF I HAD ONE! Or the legends one. Though I'm not too fussed over that one. It's all spinoffs. Which are good but not so pressing.

>>151154819
The mini doesn't feature any X-Men in it (Claremont only put him on the team as a favor to Nocenti due to her wanting to drum up support for a second mini) and it's moderately decent though, to be frank, it reeks of the sort of "comic that is a stealth movie pitch" shit you see from Image. And the ending is depressing as fuck given what we ultimately find out happened to poor Rita and Longshot

>>151129400
>Pad deserved better
He really didn't.

>>151132938
Ghetto? This looks like a top notch doomsday cellar/shelf

>>151149910
I'm so happy I got off the madman train. Solid book tho

>>151151304
On top of Anons /shelf

/closet

yes

>>151152423
That shit looks metal as fuck, and I've purchased a copy without context. I now pray that the fucking monkeys at Amazon package this paperback properly instead of throwing into a sack like dog shit on a walk.

Who hurt Rick Remender? Between the end of this and the last few issues of Deadly Class he comes across so bitter at something I the reader can't control. Has he got any comics that don't feel like he woke up on the wrong side of the bed and decided to end it all?

>>151157729
Still available on German amazon for 100 bucks.

>>151158166
>Behold a Pale Horse
Dangerously based. Is it the censored or the complete edition?

>>151160620
>being mad at the Rick-meister for keeping it real

>>151160620
Don't know because I don't like his writing so I don't read his comics but he always came off as a sensitive suzy.

>>151161309
I thought I was going to be a fan after Uncanny X-force but I really didn't like anything else he did.

>>151159133
It's a pretty good series

Man IST sales get worse every year

>>151160620
This would have been better as part of a bigger story.

>>151160953
Complete. I have the 500+ page book. Got it off eBay a few years back.

>The Spectre's new omni has a glow in the dark cover
Are those radioactive?

>>151163603
Noooo, it's just imbued with the sorrowful soul of the dammed

>>151160620
Bendis and Hickman fucked him over big time and then some when he wrote Uncanny Avengers and editoral IE Brevoort told him he deserved to be raped, due to the sin of Remender repudiating Avengers Disassembled

Normally I'd defend Remender, but then I also remember that Remender DESPISES Hank Pym and was responsible for the decade long hellish rape of the character that was Pymtron and everyone and their mother openly telling Pym how much they secretly always hated his guts and wished he would just die already. So I don't feel sorry for him.

>>151163625
That's good enough for me!

>>151146422
Flesk publishing is putting out a new Bruce Timm And a Darren Warren Johnson book I may look into.

>>151157743
I have volume 9 Why the fuck is dark horse not reprinting it?

>>151147172
Damn, anon. You're really gonna show your gae bolg on a blue board?

>>151164189
Lucky stiff. I don't know what the issue is. At first I assumed it got messy while changing from IDW back to DH but it's been a while. A few of the other volumes are starting to get rare too so get em while you can everyone else.

>>151164282
Do I just get volume 2 after the lone volume 1 on my shelf?

>>151165033
Usagi is pretty episodic a lot of the time. There's a strong sense of continuity and things mattering but you can also read generally anywhere so get em where and when you can.

It's interesting to me that Usagi is so popular. I found it a bit of a slog, but that's just my opinion, man.

>>151166018
Define "so popular". He has a niche, but he's not huge.

>>151166018
I feel like you need to have realistic expectations to enjoy comics as well as understanding the context of stuff. Things can seem like they are really popular and that can drive you to read it and bounce off of it. If you buy into hype you're gonna have a bad time.

>>151166649
I say this too often now but it really does feel like any time somethings gets the smallest amount of praise or popularity people rush into it expecting something that shatters genres and will blow their mind instead of just having a book thats you know, good.

>>151166579
He seems really popular on /co/, but that's not really a good sample I guess.
>>151166649
I generally go in with an open mind, Satan.

>>151166789
This is really putting a lot onto to the fact that it wasn't a book I enjoyed. I read it, I didn't;t think it was going to be the best thing ever going in.
You don't have to create some weird generalization to explain it away.

I'd like to read AMS starting from Issue 1 (and/or Amazing Fantasy 15), preferably in Omnibus or whatever the TPB equivalent of Ultimate Collections is these days. I see that there's an omnibus that has AMS 1-38 which is pretty much exactly what I want but even though it was most recently printed back in 2023 it's already quite expensive (300-ish leafbucks which is about 200% more expensive than what a current omnibus goes for). How often does Marvel reprint this stuff? I'm thinking of just waiting until they do yet another printing
>>151158166
Bradbury is based. Do you prefer his Americana/romance stories, suspense/horror stories, or sci-fi stuff? If you like his Americana stuff (which is my personal favorite) Dandelion Wine is the best thing he's written in my opinion. Something Wicked This Way Comes is also very good.

>>151166789
> expecting something that shatters genres and will blow their mind
Exectation and context matter almost as much as the thing itself. Nowadays it isn't this book vs that book, it is a battle for attention: doomscrolling social media vs podcasts vs video games vs movies vs book etc etc. Hype, virality, marketing, all are used to cut through this. People fall into ridiculous extremes: a thing is best thing ever or worst thing ever. People stumble into one thing or another with ridiculous high expectations that are never met. Or alternatively you get people that enjoy everything with no discernable eye towards curating taste or analysing why they like things. Then the endless online conversations of "thing is overrated," because they bought into the hype. I feel like comics has loads of this because every single comic youtuber talks in hyperbole about a comic.
>>151166866
Eh, they're just describing thing that happens, not necessarily something that may have happened to you.

>>151166808
It's not a good sample and even on /co/ its clear that he just has a niche, more people on /co/ never read any than people that love it.

>>151167317
/co/ barely reads any comics at all and is full of outrage tourists.

>>151166789
>instead of just having a book thats you know, good.
A comic becomes good when it's mindblowing, nothing less.
A good comic should make you go
>Holy shit, this isn't complete garbage!

>>151167265
>How often does Marvel reprint this stuff?
Last printing 2023, like you mentioned, reprint within 2-4 years most likely. Considering there is a new Spider-Man movie coming up next year it may be sooner (they sometimes reprint books around movies). If you don't want an omni the TPB you're looking for would be Spider-Man Epic Collection Great Power, which is also OOP. Depending on where you live you might be able to find stuff on various websites, eBay, Facebook marketplace or your LCS, sometimes you can find an errant book at your LCS.

>>151167340
Takes one to know one.

>>151167411
I'm not trolling or fooling, it is true. Collective edition anons ITT are some of the last true comic book readers her to be honest.

>>151167395
>A good comic should make you go
>>Holy shit, this isn't complete garbage!
And you wonder why this industry is in the gutter.

>>151167435
*here

>>151167437
NTA but eh, to be fair, comic books have for the most part been low profit margin disposable forms of entertainment, made in a very short creative turn around, the fact that any have been good or had staying power is a testament to the creators. The average comic is bad, a good comic is just about alright entertainment and a great comic is great for the medium of comics but probably wouldn't be thought of the same way in another medium.

Humanoids filed for bankruptcy a few weeks ago so if you're looking at any of their books, maybe get them sooner rather than later.

>>151167409
Noted. I'll keep an eye out at some of my LCS or something.
I started reading comics around 20 years ago and started with TPBs of the big stories (The Killing Joke, Miller's DD and Batman stuff, JMS' Spider-Man, etc...) and then just kept on buying trades since they were much cheaper overall and it usually wasn't too long a wait between the single issues and the collected editions.

It used to be possible to get a TPB from a decade ago without too much difficulty, to the point that mainstream bookstores would have them. I was really surprised to see that an omnibus from only two years ago is so difficult to get. I suppose omnis are printed in lower numbers but it still surprises me. I guess collected editions in general are printed less since the mid 2000s and early 2010s were the height of the MCU so comic sales were probably pretty high compared to today.

>>151167622
>I guess collected editions in general are printed less since the mid 2000s and early 2010s
I think it is the opposite, the collective edition market has exploded in recent years and I suspect there is a bubble. I don't think they are printed less at all. The omni market/collections have gone crazy. Just look at all the titles they have released over the last few years in omni format, not just big popular stuff, niche stuff, recent stuff.

>>151167748
Interesting. Do you feel like the shelf life on trades is lower then? Because I distinctly remember seeing various Hellblazer trades at my local big-name bookstore for literal years and now trades are available for MAYBE 18 months before they balloon in price.

>>151157075
Btw, I'm planning on selling my Joe Kelly Deadpool omnibus. Would anyone her have any interest in it?

>>151167616
Thanks Mark Waid.

>>151167797
I think a lot of people want quality in their collected editions.The omni market and hardcovers have kind of exploded but I suspect there is a bubble that will burst, people are spending more money but there isn't really an expansion of people in the market. People have limited shelf space, the prices have gone up so much and they are printing too much stuff. (I get printing say, old Spider-Man in omni format, but current runs are getting the omni treatment.) The Epic collection people were essentially promised a lot of long lines of TPB, but reprints are slow, books don't come out at the same pace.

>>151167265
Found a listing for USD $110 plus around $35 shipping since this dude decided to not use USPS Media Mail. I looked up what $110 USD to CAD was and that's about $155 CAD, if you want it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/317510710514

>>151167966
Thank you very much Anon. it looks like the seller only ships to the USA but I'll message him to confirm/see if he'd be willing. That price + shipping is acceptable to me, especially when compared to the alternatives I'm seeing.

>>151167437
Because people keep buying garbage.

>>151168024
Let me know. There's one that's $180 USD and free shipping, but that's $254 CAD for you. IDK why I'm hunting deals for a random anon, but Lee/Ditko Spider-Man is so good, so people should read it.

>>151168246
You know I understand that they can't everything evergreen but I wish they'd at least be better at their primary a list stuff. Even if it's just epics, which are frankly my preferred format anyways

>>151167797
>I distinctly remember seeing various Hellblazer trades at my local big-name bookstore for literal years
The majority of books sold in this market are preordered and go pretty quickly. The problem is there are all kinds of issues, like volume 1 drop off (a lot of people buy volume 1 but not more). Hellblazer is either: start from the beginning and keep going until you burn out OR buy the stuff you like. So of course they reprinted the whole series in newer trades and plenty of them languish. But then newer printed books and series go quickly.

>>151168294
I mean, producing thee books, supply chains/distribution. etc, is a lot. Especially in a huge country like America. I can only imagine keeping these perpetually in print is probably not worth it in the long run.

>>151168294
Epics really got fucked. They were meant to be a fully mapped out series with sporadic releases. But the first volumes get reprinted and others get ignored.

The BIG problem with collected editions is it is all done on faith. A few years ago DC kept cancelling books and created a feedback loop where, no one would order a volume 1 because DC would cancel series before they were completed so DC would cancel the books feeding into people's feeling they were unreliable.

The crazy thing is, crowdfunding, subscriptions and direct sales would probably solve a bunch of these issues because there would be much more precise reprinting numbers but they would never go for this. Because they can't transition to a new model whilst being reliant on the old.

>>151168529
>The crazy thing is, crowdfunding, subscriptions and direct sales would probably solve a bunch of these issues because there would be much more precise reprinting numbers but they would never go for this. Because they can't transition to a new model whilst being reliant on the old.
What's really crazy is, Marvel literally use a Youtuber like Omar from NMC to provide feedback or information on what series people want. These collected edition departments really have no one looking deeply at metrics and stuff and are relying on a guy doing strawpolls with his fans.

>>151168451
I'm sure it's all kinds of fucked but getting better distribution in general is a big part of what needs to change too. And while omnibuses must be hugely costly epics can't possibly be that bad.

>>151168529
It's a real headache. I love the format but so much of the runs being pushed in omnibus format it makes it so they're slow to double dip. I do collect both formats so for a few series I have nearly complete runs split between the formats but it does make a messy shelf and if omnis weren't such the glamor format I think we'd have wrapped up with epics ages ago.

>>151168569
I like Omar's videos. He's a shill these days but I get it and you can really tell when he likes something vs something he's told to plug. But yeah having one dude with his polls cannot be the best metric to judge this stuff. Would like to talk comics with the guy someday.

>>151168623
Omar is a nice guy so I can't call him a shill. He isn't hollow like an influencer shilling their wares. But he is a mostly a catalogue for selling books these days, that's his niche. And like you said, you can tell the difference.

But yeah, these departments must be skeleton crews because they really need to respond to this shit to judge what to print sometimes.

>>151167616
I just picked up the new Metal Hurlant yesterday.

>>151168803
How is it?

>>151168529
>The BIG problem with collected editions is it is all done on faith. A few years ago DC kept cancelling books and created a feedback loop where, no one would order a volume 1 because DC would cancel series before they were completed so DC would cancel the books feeding into people's feeling they were unreliable.

I really miss when comics were in their high numbers. Reboots are a real drag and it makes it hard to get invested into anything because you know they're gonna restart it with a new number 1 in a year or so. If you like the team it might be trade worthy but overall there's just not long term trust to keep coming back to anything.

>>151169784
The thing is, it has kind of always been that way for superhero ongoings. People have always gone in and out of series simply because creative teams change and things change. I dunno, sometimes I feel like people are too all or nothing now and when they stop reading something they really slam the door on it? Following creatives you enjoy has always been the better thing.

>>151170034
>The thing is, it has kind of always been that way for superhero ongoings. People have always gone in and out of series simply because creative teams change and things change.
yes of course but there's a difference between teams changing on a book that's several hundred issues and a book that can't go 12 without needing a reset. It's not about it being all or nothing, it's about showing that the book has legs and what you do will matter to some capacity. I didn't like huge chunks of a lot of book but knowing that the book lasts does give me confidence it might weather it. You should follow the creatives but there needs to be something to actually follow.

>>151170093
Just to clarify what I was specifically talking about before was collected editions. Like DC announced PAD Supergirl many years ago, vol. 1 preorders were low because people were waiting for vol. 2 to be announced before locking in an order because they wanted the whole run and knew DC liked to cancel series so the low orders for vol. 1 ended up making DC cancel the book at the time. Now finally this year we have PAD Supergirl in the DC finest collection.

>yes of course but there's a difference between teams changing on a book that's several hundred issues and a book that can't go 12 without needing a reset.
Anon, for everything that changes, plenty of stuff stays the same. Maybe it is just hindsight from reading comics for so long but I have seen so much retarded shit come and go and come back again. A lot of the resets now are just creative team changes and even in the past you had creative team changes completely change the direction of the book and throw shit at the wall. You had retarded deaths and retarded situations. A lot of the "book only going x number of issues" is not really that much different in my opinion.

I sincerly think people are far too doom and bloom about comics. There are things to follow but honestly trying to get people to try books is really difficult. Attitudes are killing this hobby/medium.

>>151170251
Look it's very simple. While none of this is especially NEW the problem is that they're not even making the attempt to pretend otherwise. A new writer might still change in the same amount of time but when it's through a new number 1 it just declares they don't care and they're making it too obvious. Even if a good team is picked out there's no reason to trust it will last.

>>151170577
>a new number 1 it just declares they don't care
You're putting far too much stake on numbering. A new number 1 isn't a declaration that they don't care. They do it because numbering issues persist and gimmicks still works. The real issue has nothing to do with numbering and everything to do with more serious entrenched issues in the industry as well as all the issues around the culture of comics.

>>151170719
It's endemic of their short term interests and general dismissive treatment of anything else.

>>151170755

but there are people like McKay's Moon Knight and Orlando's Scarlet Witch that have had consistent storytelling with the number 1s

>>151170755
So many of these issues are so entrenched that it becomes meaningless to pick on singular things like renumbering as actually mattering in the grand scheme of things. People complain about continuity being too much, creating a barrier to entry whilst paradoxically complaining that new series are too disconnected from continuity and feel like their own things. Having new series and new numbers isn't the problem as much as whether or not they are good. I feel like when people complain about overarching problems a lot of them are simply not actually trying many books and fell out of comics completely. Every east vs west thread or comics industry thread goes over the same problems, ad infinitum, and honestly I would rather people just buy and try some books.

>>151169321
Not read it yet. But I have the new Metal Hurlant and the new Heavy Metal, so will read both and see what I think, which is better etc.

>>151159133
Basic gist
>Nazi falls in love with a jewish woman
>dies in battle
>wakes up on a parallel world called "Resurrection" where people age backwards and are slaves to "black opium"
>people are reborn on Resurrection as a variety of different monsters, the noblest in their cruelty become vampires

>>151170895
Just FYI, the new Metal Hurlant is getting a second volume TPB and Heavy Metal is up to like 3 issues so far.

Has anyone been reading the new Conan series from Titan comics? Curious about giving them a go

>>151170822

>Every east vs west thread or comics industry thread goes over the same problems, ad infinitum, and honestly I would rather people just buy and try some books.

it's crazy to me how those threads also just ignore reading in general is going down.

>>151170995
A lot of things get lost in those threads. Like, people will say: comics should do x! And like, I have seen comics try a bunch of stuff people think they should do and people just ignore it or don't realise it has been tried. Marketing and culture is a big problem here. More people online talk about comics than read them. There is a serious disconnect based on perceptions of potential readership. Some of those perceptions are correct and some of them are wildly inaccurate but people don't want to put basic effort in to overcome them. DC currently have compact comics precisely because they are tankōbon size and are cheaper than usual trade paperbacks. That's something. They have printed many of their big sellers and were initially successful. But getting them into people's hands is a different story.

The discussion around the problem of comics is just a quagmire. Reading comics is easier than it has ever been while at the same time people perceive it as a big difficult thing. So why bother, when you can just doomscroll social media or watch Youtube.

>>151170965
I have. It's one of the main books I follow these days. It's good. The Savage Sword too. They even got Roy Thomas back for a story.

>>151170822
>People complain about continuity being too much, creating a barrier to entry

I honestly have no idea how this ever even happened because it sure as hell wasn't like that when I was getting into comics. Most anyone who did before the 2000s would have picked up their books somewhere in the high dozens to several hundreds depending on the title. You could pick up a comic, in the middle of an arc no less, and you wouldn't struggle with it. Having a long history was a sign of good health and gave the reader something to dive into. NOW it feels like nobody is even willing to try anything at all unless someone gives them a history lesson first and explains exactly what they should think and feel. It's like we all just quietly understood how this stuff worked but now the very implication of a comic having history, that's probably not even relevant to the current story, will completely paralyze people. How did any of this happen? Comics being impenetrable is only a recent problem.

>>151171148
On par with older stuff?

>>151171225
>I honestly have no idea how this ever even happened
It is just a weird mix of culture, technology, context, history and everything else. Comics aren't cool, they have cultural baggage all the way back to the CCA in ways manga does not. The market crashed in the 90s and it stopped being a great American pasttime, replaced by other mediums like video games. The type of stories people consume has changed from singular stories or smaller arcs to constant overarching plots pushing fear of missing out anxiety, hype bubbles, virality of media. People are anxious, stressed and burnt out because of the economy and technology, some getting stuck in constantly chasing trends and others falling back on guilty pleasure comfort viewing. Putting effort into your hobbies feels beyond a chore, it feels like work to people. People want to be spoon fed things, they expect the algorithm to put it up to their door. At the same time, identity politics combined with consumerism and people can claim identity by buying merchandise, watching a summary and never actually trying. And consumerism has people becoming collectors, amassing stuff they will never even read. But the simple fact is always there that like the Gordian Knot, there is a path through all this, if people had the right mentality and just chopped it, picked up some books to read, read a little bit of news.

>>151171340
Someone a while back here said "stop getting lost in the minutia" or something to that effect. Which I think is sound advice. Comics are strange because explaining them will have you in circles but if you just read it without worrying it would make sense. All this insane history didn't happen all at once and for good and bad it was stuff we rolled with as it happens. It's like getting fixated on the Vietnam War when you haven't even read about the Pilgrims.

>>151171416
The problem is, comics are connected to superheroes, people get blinded by continuity and decades of stories and can't seem to wrap themselves around the basic concept of "ongoing soap opera". It really doesn't matter but people make it seem like it absolutely matters, as if they have to start from the beginning and you never get that in other mediums. If someone likes comedy films, you have a clear path to recommend them something. But when it comes to comics, oh what genres do you like and other stuff with comics, they can't just do the easy thing.

>>151157080
How much could I get for selling all those post-OMD Spider-Man trades? I might just get rid of them all.

>>151171340
Fandom and hobbies have all become powder keg stress environments dictated and controlled by autists, outrage tourists, indifferent cunts, marketers and social media idiots. Just shooting the shit feels practically impossible. I have better luck striking comics talk with random people in my LCS, as well as the staff, than I ever do online.

>>151171467
I'd like to say they weren't worth much. Make a joke about tree fiddy, but time on r/ omnibus collectors made me painfully aware of how much people are willing to pay for crap.

>>151171535
They're trades, so like, if I sell them for $10 a pop, you think that may work? Maybe $20 for the two Big Time Ultimate Collections?

>>151171622
Trades can be a real crap shoot. I've seen some go for a song and others go for a lung. And I swear it's always a mix in any given series. Nothing worse than seeing a whole line of a series you like cheap and then ONE volume is 60 bucks.

>>151121533 (OP)
I also enjoy the Crossing

>>151121533 (OP)
>start selling my shit on ebay
>tfw getting fleeced on some of these prices

>>151171535
r/omnibus want to buy like King, Bendis, or Cates slop and I do NOT understand why

>>151171817
Marvel are currently printing Krakoa era omnis with every single series in them. Two so far. It'll take god knows how many books to cover the whole era. Who the fuck wants all that.

>>151171723
I've sold some of my stuff on ebay too and I've made some money but gods their cut is a bitch.

>>151171817
It's really annoying watching them and their complete lack of quality distinction. Oh sure they'll make fun of all the 90s books out there but say ONE thing about bendis and it's down vote central. They don't even really read their books either. They just blindly buy what the big hype thing is. It's honestly frustrating watching what should be your hobby community have absolutely zero sense of taste for quality. And I don't mean you can't have guilty pleasures but goddamn.

>>151171913
>their cut is a bitch
I thought it was free to sell on eBay these days?

>>151171936
It's free to post but they take like 15 percent last I sold anything.

>>151171817
I read Cates Thor run. And it was, alright I guess. I wouldn't buy it in omni format or whatever. It is just plain blockbuster comics, retarded big threats, non characters and stories. Sometimes I think it is just inoffensively fine. Standard sort of stuff not really worthy of intense praise of hatred. I don't think it is any better or worse than a lot of things. Now his retarded events stuff and symbiote lore, yeah that is shit.

>>151171938
>Starting Oct 1, 2024, it is free to sell for UK-based private sellers. Sellers do not pay transaction fees when the item sells. This applies to all categories, except motors (Cars, Motorcycles & Vehicles listings).
Oh I thought there weren't those fees either.

>>151171932
I tend to avoid it. But my friend goes on it and tells me the omnis he gets, he's gotten some F4 stuff, but I'll browse and I just get mad when someone is like "looking for King In Black omnibus" or "looking for Bendis Guardians" or some other shit. Like, please, read something better. I also do not understand events getting omnibus releases. Like my King In Black example. Why release it as an omnibus?

>>151172134
I don't mind going there to discuss wants, wish lists and see announcements but its annoying seeing the same "shelfies" and even more annoying complete neophytes blindly asking which books to buy in the most expensive way possible despite not knowing anything about them or to have people tell them their opinion. I don't want to turn new readers away but there are so many better ways to get started.
>Been collecting a month here's my collection

>>151172208
How would my shelf even do on there? I like my shelf, but I feel somehow some dumb redditor would pick it apart.

>>151172231
You'd probably get a token compliment then ignored while a far worse collection will get more attention

>>151172250
Those mfs don't have Calvin and Hobbes tho.

>>151171225
Yeah when I was a kid in the 90s I had hardly any consecutive issues of the stories I was reading and used my childish imagination to fill the gaps
Naturally an adult is less interested in doing so

>>151173218
Right? Once you got heavy into collecting things would line up but it was like if you missed an episode of an old tv show. You used your imagination to cover any details you needed or read from context what you needed to know. Your weren't so fixated on the non immediate details and were able to intuit from context why a villain might be back from revenge. It used to be the case that you might not even be able to read some older issues at all. Trades were pretty shitty only ever really covering major events or themes and some keys would go for pretty pennies. they occasionally did something to fill in gaps in the history but even those you had to go out of the way to get and often weren't very accurate. I used to have this old X-men guide book that "explained" a lot of the pre X-men 1 (90s) history and while It was something I almost always carried with me I wouldn't be shocked to learn it was complete garbo. But the point is you were more interested in the characters and the world and what they meant for your imagination.

You also had stuff like this because wikipedia wasn't a fucking thing yet. Star Trek and Wars put out guide books and it was honestly fun to have this stuff rather than just blindly asking other retards online.

May /shelf/ live a moment longer

>>151170920
>>151152423
Hey so did this series actually get finished and are these new collections going to collect the whole series?

>>151173322
>>151173337
With big two guys all you had to do was wait and their whole deal would be explained in a flashback or a double sized issue with a reprint of their origin.
I’m not even sure that I’d know what was worth going back and looking at if I hadn’t jumped in midstream and read whatever comics I could find for a few years.

>>151152423
How the fuck did I not hear about this

>>151175593
>whatever comics I could find for a few years.
Media overload seems to be one of the biggest culprits behind all of this. People have literally everything at their finger tips and then become paralyzed by choice.

>>151176467
Choice paralysis, too much content to choose from whilst simultaneously so much content feels samey because it chases algorithms, culture wars, whatever whims the producers think is the "mainstream". It's that weird psychological quirk that yes, it's super easy to find anything and everything but people are so stuck in their ways, despite everyone saying they like to try new things, that they never put themselves out there. We're just pulled in too many directions and people consider basic effort or passion to be a herculean task.

>>151176467
>>151177019
I’ve gone back to buying physical media for this reason. If I want something to read, I just grab something from my unread pile. If I want something to watch, I just a few DVDs or a set, like the Classic Dr. Who stuff. However, I basically have to be tied down or in a theatre to watch a full movie.
Speaking of which, have you guys seen Junk Head? See Junk Head.
https://youtu.be/O2ygfn-WqF8?si=MeR-egE7lgma4g_X

>>151177539
I do feel like it's easier to actually sit down and decide on what to watch/read when you actually see it on a shelf. It doesn't help that must online streaming search functions suck and only want to plug their own algorithms.

don't give up

Where do UK bros buy omnis from these days? The prices of my usual places are all RRP now with no discount.

>>151179617
>buying books

Having a lot of second thoughts about passing on JMD Spectacular

>>151180541
I bought all the remaining copies just to spite you

>>151181096
rude

>>151181149
Many years ago anon there was a book I wanted and you bought the last copy. You laughed as you bought it. Laughed!! I could have just let things slide but I put myself on a path of revenge. Learning about you. Waiting. Then I began to strike. Skewing aspects of your /shelf/ life. Moving books so you couldn't find them. Buying out books so you couldn't buy them. Changing your online wishlists so you'd forget some books and double dip on others. I've slowly damaged your shelves too, day by day pressing on the shelves, weakening them, slightly bending them.. and one day they will give way and snap.

>>151180541
Wow, those went fast.

Still, alive!

>>151181307
Diabolic.

>>151181738
What superman book is that

>>151181752
The omnibus is Triangle V1

>>151181752
The one standing up is Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow (New Printing, I passed the 2008 version) and the thick one is Triangle Era Vol. 1 (released last year, I got it recently on half the cover price).

>>151181738
>superman fuccs

That's all.
I'll be waiting for Aparo's Artist Edition for now.

>>151181307
I have a suspicion that this Anon is tinkering with my captcha images.

>>151181847
>I have a suspicion that this Anon is tinkering with my captcha images.
IT WAS ME, ANON!!!

>>151164266
Well, everyone else is whipping thiers out, figured you guys were cool...

>>151181800
Manlet is seething in the sideline

>>151181738
is that really a bottle of sweat?

>>151181883
Yes, made by thousands of Nipponese.

>>151181883
"Stay hydrated."
- Superman (ca 2025)

>>151157075
I guess my thoughts are either the 3 HC Invincible compendiums, JMD Spectacular omni, or Taschen Library Lee/Ditko ASM for my Christmas gift

>>151181732
yeah both it and the X-men gold and blue sold out like IMMEDIATELY. The latter is getting a second run but I haven't heard of anything for Spec.

>>151181738
I don't really collect a lot of floppies these days but a local place near me was having a sale and bought a bunch of Superman comics. I really wish I was more into DC when I was younger. I did read Supes here and there but never built up much of a collection. This isn't all of what I picked up but I managed to get around a hundred books between Superman and Man of Steel.

>>151121533 (OP)
Just arrived today. Keep on keeping on.

While I'm in a sharing mood, here's some more Superman stuff. The Johns absolutes an absolute beast. It's not quite omnibus big but damn is it close.

>>151182565
And the rest of my absolutes. New Frontier is my favorite.

>>151182445
Where did you get that zine?

>>151182405
Nice, do you have Silver-age Superman aka Asshole Superman floppies?

>Triangle Era Vol.2
DC will release an Absolute Doomsday this Nov, I bet your gonna double dip.

>>151182623
https://wrenmcdonald.com/Shop

>>151182579
This anon is my friend.

I also have those except for Absolute All-Star, I hate that image of long chin Superman.

>>151182675
Thanks, better see how much shipping would cost

>>151182445
>>151182456
I have some of Wren MacDonald's other riso zines (Akira, Jet Set Radio), they're pretty but ultimately empty like a piece of candy.

>>151182629
>Nice, do you have Silver-age Superman aka Asshole Superman floppies?
I do not, though I may have to see if I can't hunt some down.
>DC will release an Absolute Doomsday this Nov, I bet your gonna double dip.
Yes..... double... dip. *Quietly hides Death and Return trade versions.* Honestly though joking aside Absolutes are probably my favorite format so I'll likely get that and the Byrne man of steel one even though I do have the floppies and hardcover trades for those.

>>151182705
>This anon is my friend.
Back at you.
>I hate that image of long chin Superman.
That's only in the movie version, which I thought was fine but cut way too much important stuff from the comics and changed things around for the worse. Soundtrack guy was on point though. Highly recommend the comic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EphFQelYhp8

>>151182818
Yeah I'd previously got the Akira and Evangelion ones, they're like a poster/pinup collection sorta art jam. I think it's a pretty cool thing they've got going.

>>151182565
>Johns Superman
Opinion discarded

>>151182828
I wish they'd release a Superman by John Byrne omnibus instead of always coupling his run together with B-material

>>151181738
>>151182828
Why does Superman erasing memories of those women?

>>151183259
I heard there was an issue with the art and how they'd need to scan it or something but this was bullshit I heard on reddit so fuck if I know. It does feel like it's pretty overdue. It's an important part of the series. It's in high demand. They really should release it somehow. Do it as a Finest. I'm desperate here.
>>151183294
Bitches like mindwipes. Don't kink shame.

>>151183184
We all have our own guilty pleasures.

>>151183259
DC originally announced a John Bryne omni years ago. Then cancelled it and did those hardcovers.

>>151183415
I thought I heard they were doing one in Europe or the UK

>>151182828
Is Superman Fall of Camelot good? I saw a cheap copy of deluxe edition here.

>>151183424
So DC did announce one for US market, but then opted for hardcovers instead.

But yes, there is a panini John Bryne omni too, only in Italian I believe.

>>151183475
Forgot pic
Pages: 992

Contains: Man of Steel (1986) #1/6, Superman (1987) #1/8, #9 (I), #10/11, Action Comics (1938) #584/593, Adventures of Superman (1987) #424/435, Legion of Super-Heroes (1984) #37/38

>>151183474
I liked that era a lot. Depending on how much it is though I'd just as sooner suggest getting the two Busiek volumes.

>>151183495
Molto bene

>>151183495
Who is Di John Bryne

>>151183323
Yeah, mine are called comic books and manga.

>>151184217
>No no, it's Italian for The John Byrne The

>>151184217
Detective Inspector John Bryne

>>151181800
I remember buying that X-Men hardcover when it came out solely for the Proteus Saga, as for ages it was the only God damn way to read it in trade fornat

>>151183259
The Byrne run doesn't fucking function without the Wolfman run though. You have to read all three books to actually fucking understand the Byrne run as post Crisis Superman was triangle era incestuous day one before they finally came up with the triangle branding

>>151181800
Does that Wizard X-Men book only have 5 stories? I have the Spider-Man one that has the top 10 greatest Spider-Man stories, but it only has 5, but it's listed as volume 1, but has no volume 2.

>>151183322
They have to restore the artwork and while the guy who said that (disgraced editor Andi Khouri) is a known piece of shit, he legitimately came across as upset when he announced the reason that DC couldn't do Omnibuses of the Byrne Superman run being the fact that DC wouldn't front the cash to remaster the art.

>>151184217
In chemistry di- means two/double (e.g. dioxide, di-oxide). Di John Bryne is John's double from the mirror universe who happens to be beardless and an all around good guy.

>>151184665
>(disgraced editor Andi Khouri)
What happened?

>>151184681
He openly declared that he was abusing his power to ban conservatives from ever working at DC to the point that he forced Frank Miller to renounce his conservative views and shit on Trump publicly in order to be allowed to do more Dark Knight Returns, hired Zoe Quinn, even though she couldn't write a lock and forced Paul Jr kins to ghost write a book for her that was tied into the Year of the Villain crap (as Zoe's Vertigo book was ghost written by the artist who was one of her cronies), and basically single handedly killed Vertigo by staffing it with actual sexual predators that created such a scandal that the TPTB over DC forced them to retire the Vertigo name and create Black Label as it's replacement

>>151184665
What did Andi do? I thought he was pretty in deep with the social justice crowd?

>>151184730
>Paul Jr kins
Who?
>and basically single handedly killed Vertigo by staffing it with actual sexual predators
Like who?
>TPTB
The what?

>>151184730
Schizo posting has reached /shelf/

>>151121803
>Providence
>worthwhile
Wanted is a book you kinda have to have the right mindset for. It's an edgy shitpost comic about a what if world where villains won. I'm surprised he doesn't have more Millar books if he has Big Game.

I'm really upset Marvel is dropping the Masterworks line. It's been going for a very long time and I have too much invested in it.

>fell out of the collected edition game because prices were going up and too much stuff was being released
>start looking at stuff that got released over the years
>realise I missed out on a bunch of stuff I really wanted
AHHHHHHH

>>151171053
It's easier than ever to PIRATE comics. Not to collect them physically. There's more than a few comics I want that are out of print & won't come back into print because they're not under Marvel, DC, or an indie darling's personal project.

>>151184870
The thing is, comics aren't even pirated as much as manga etc, because barely anyone is reading comics. A lot of the people talking about comics on social media aren't pirating them either. Reading shit is just too much for a bunch of people.

>>151184734
Admitted to blacklisting conservatives, hired a BPD plagiarist, and filling Vertigo with rapists who all got outed around the same forcing DC to retire the Vertigo branding for over half a decade

>>151185105
I know I saw the other post..

>>151184893
I don't think that's entirely true. It's more that comics are mainly just uploaded to RCO while manga can be on cat site or any scantalation site that doesn't get taken down. Though those in comparison are policed a lot more.

>>151185204
In terms of popularity of the industries, it pretty much is true

>>151185310
Well yeah popularity wise.

>>151184589
I bought it because I hate the thin paper that Marvel use on their omnibus.

>>151184650
Yes, which composed by multiple issues totaling to 10 issues.

>>151184748
I think he means Paul Jerkins, a writer in Superman?

>>151186300
>I bought it because I hate the thin paper that Marvel use on their omnibus.
Good lord it can be really bad sometimes. Another reason I prefer epics, the bleed through can be astounding. I don't think DC's are nearly as bad, at least not to my immediate memory but good lord. And also the printer smell can be stunning sometimes. I got the Spidey 2099 one and I nearly got knocked out from the ink odor.

>>151186339
That smell will never leave.

>>151176457
Because Omar didn't talk about it?

>>151186396
Yeah I had it like a year and half now and boy is it ripe.

>>151184650
>>151186300
It really is annoying how it says STORIES instead of ISSUES.

>>151121533 (OP)
I am considering buying an allegedly first edition "Batman: Red Rain" paperback for my birthday next month. Its cover is picrel, not the b/w sketch of Batman's skull. 40 dollars for mint condition seems low so I am guessing this is some kind of reprint but I am not familiar with this stuff. Copyright on the book itself is 1991 but there is also a second copyright mentioned for the cover specifically, 1992. Any lorekeeper with insight on this?

Other than that, I will definitely get DC Finest - Red Skies. It was recently ripped and I have been enjoying it a lot.

>>151187642
That's a bit confusing.

>>151187642
Are you buying it just for the novelty or because you really wanna read the elseworld?

>>151186438
>>151186396
>>151186339
Have you tried putting it in a sealable plastic container, book open with some odour neutralisers? Stuff like cat litter, baking soda, in pots around the book.

>>151188541
Kind of a stupid question, don't you think?

>>151188869
Not really. It's not like the book will go up in significant value so there's no real reason to want a first printing for the sake of it.

>>151188869
Why do you need a first printing of it? You can just get the entire trilogy in that elseworlds tpb

>>151186400
I don't watch Omar in general, anon. Nothing against him. Just not enough time in the day to stay glued to comic YouTube

>>151188882
What do you mean not really? There's a newer edition he could buy but he would rather overpay for the first edition. Don't you think his actions alone answer your question?
>>151188909
I'm not him.

>>151179617
I haven't bought anything since the start of the year, but I tend to go for booksetc. Their dispatch and delivery take a while, but the packaging is solid and they've got the best prices around outside of sales.
>>151180541
I regret it too, but at the same time I've plenty of omnibuses still waiting to be read already.
And I'm also more than happy to blame Marvel for not printing a decent fucking number of copies. It's artificial scarcity FOMO-preying bullshit, trying to trick you into dropping the better part of a hundred quid the instant a new omni comes out.

>>151188953
The point is anon is wasting his money overpaying for it when he can get the entire trilogy for a better price. Novelty is not enough to justify the purchase.

>>151189043
Thanks, Captain Obvious.

>>151189058
Anon why are you bothering if you agree with me?

>>151172134
>>151171932
THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY THESE GUYS HAVE READ ALL OF THESE OMNIBUSES. FUCKING LEVEL 100 CONSUMERS

>>151189077
Why are you bothering? All I said is that your question is silly since his initial post provides the answer to your question.

>>151189346
No it doesn't. Stop being obtuse.

>>151188933
No one is "glued" to comic YouTube, it's background viewing.

>>151189399
You lack literacy.

>>151190215
Capeshitters often do. He probably needed a caption box from the start to explain exactly what the poster was thinking.

>>151188541
Novelty. I am not a collector, just happen to really like that particular story.

>>151187987
It's alright, I checked with chatgpt after my original post here. Turns out the book that is for sale is indeed a reprint. Typically goes for about 20 bucks mint, so 40 is really pushing it

>>151189964
You really wanna argue, don't you?

>>151191229
Not really. I was just sayin'

>>151190215
>>151190506
Morons.

>>151190999
Then you're wasting money. Just get the Elseworld collection volume instead. You get all 3 books.

>>151191784
Yes, I get that it is cheaper to get the trade. It is even moar cheap if you just download the rips. Nevertheless, I asked specifically about the first edition of that single story from the 90s. It is almost as if we are in a board dedicated to comic books or something

Btw I just read through the little back and forth that followed my original post. Where do you fucking people even come from?

>>151191925
A board dedicated to comics that's telling you to get more bang for your buck. Fuck me right?

>>151186438
My copy of the second Sandman Mystery Theatre smells weird as fuck.

>>151191925
How about you fuck the fuck off, faggot?

>>151191925
>paying $40 for some story that isn't worth $40
You do you, retard

I need to downsize my collection.

AAAAAAA
WHY IS THERE NO LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT TPB COLLECTION?!?!
It really annoys me that they only have a few story arcs (Gothic, Venom, Prey, etc...) rather than just doing a numbered series. Hellblazer used to be the same deal but then DC wisened up and rereleased it all in a numbered series.
I'd also be totally fine with an omnibus but god damn I just want my fun, street level, episodic adventures of Batman.

>>151194239
I could have sworn they were releasing an omni or something. Although maybe I dreamed it.

>>151194275
>>151194239
I suspect they'll do something. DC only just really started upping their collected edition game in the past few years so there's a lot of catch up to do for a lot of things.

>>151194275
I've had several collected edition dreams made true by literally the next set of solicits.

>>151194354
So it is confirmed them.

>>151194275
I posted my custom Omnis in previous /shelf/ threads... maybe you crossed wires?

>>151194275
It's not formally announced, but the director of DC's collected editions was in NMC's "most wanted omnibus" stream chat and said it was coming.

>>151194688
Didn't see your post. But usually when someone posts custom omnis a new official omni gets released. Some anon posted a custom bound Warlord omni then the Warlord omni got announced. It is the curse.
>>151194743
So the dream was right.

>>151194743
According to reddit (LOL) Omar is sitting on a big list of announcement. Really hoping to get Messner Loeb Flash 2.

>>151194866
It's coming.

I did a trip to the comic book store today

>>151196527
How is Void Rivals?

>>151196573
I've enjoyed it well enough, I see it has value beyond just being an add-on to Transformers
Biggest weakness in my opinion is failure to makes names stick to my brain and characters from the purple team can be hard to tell apart
This issue should be the end of the story arc before the advertised Quintesson War™

Gonna fly to Omar's house and make him tell me if we're finally getting Baxter Legion reprints

>>151196639
You will within the next year.

>>151194866
>sitting on a big list of announcement
So when is he getting off his ass and showing it to us? The list I mean, not his ass.

>>151198204
whenever who gives him it says he can, I don't imagine too long.

Since, I missed the Hostess thread. I will post this here.

New edition of Dreadstar coming out, maybe I should pull the trigger on that.

>>151199335
I regret missing the last version so I'm eager to jump on that

>>151182456
>List of characters
>Monster Energy

>>151196527
Look at the belly on that creature. Fuck.

>>151200211
Is it full of fish or fission?

>>151191784
Retarded capeshitter. Whoops, oxymoron.

>>151201552
So you’re saying capeshitters aren’t retarded?

>>151194866
>Pre-Waid Flash
Worthless.

>>151202284
Are we really this desperate to bump the thread?

>>151202375
You tell me after you posted such blatant bait.

I picked this and the first book up recently. They were both damaged on arrival so I’m waiting for replacements. I read them before I sent them back.
Pretty good, but very bleak. I dig the art.

>>151203012
What's it about?

>>151203667
it's about 160 pages

>>151203667
It's about beings born from the remains of a dead god.

>>151194239
Because there is a lot of dog shit in the series and to be frank, the last story with a damn was Going Sane, which was around the late #60s issue wise

>>151202284
So is Waid Flash.

>>151205947
Shit bait.

>>151206873
No, Waid Flash is garbage.

>>151207149
I do wish people would say why they like or hate something beyond, x is good or bad.

>>151207745
That's a good point; I like it.

>>151207745
It's just your regular contrived horseshit superhero comic, and the art is mediocre.

>>151207745
NTA, but I can't really say what I didn't like about it, none of it stuck with me. Maybe that's what I didn't like. I've never read a Waid comic that thrilled me.

>>151207879
>It's just your regular contrived horseshit superhero comic, and the art is mediocre.
How so?