Recent purchases thread?
Sure. Here's my most recent IST order. Plus I got Nextwave and Atomic Robo: Everything Explodes Collection for my birthday.
and here are my shelves. 1/2
2/2
3/2
plus my cartoons because why not
>>80841334
The Milligan story is so good. The Veitch issues suck though.
>>80842278
Yeah I heard good things about Milligan's run. It's pretty short but eh.
I love Animal Man after reading the Grant Morrison AM run.
>>80842416
Get the Delano trades next, his run is my favorite next to Morrison's
Impulse bought Batman: the Black Mirror when i was down at the LCS today, I'd been meaning to read it for a while and it was about 10 bucks cheaper than i expected it to be
I'd take a pic but everyone knows what that damn book looks like.
These arrived yesterday.
>>80842827
is that for a college class on "comics as literature" or some shit?
Only recent purchase was Loeb's Supergirl, posting shelf.
The recents are as follows
>Runaways
>X-Men: Asguardian Wars
>Harley Quinn and Power Girl
And I have a copy of Battleworld: Thors waitting for me at my lcs
>>80843796
>Spider-Gwen
>Nu52 Suicide Squad
I'd give you shit about this, but that Ostrander's Suicide Squad really balances things out.
>>80843796
is samus trained?
>>80843909
Oh, but don't give him shit for all the Bendis,
Just picked up this bad boy from a coheed concert. Signed by sanchez and everything.
>>80843909
Thanks I guess.
>>80843983
I don't know what that means.
>>80844053
I bought those many years ago when I started getting into comicsand I enjoyed them
>>80844119
>I don't know what that means.
It means (presumably) is she maxxed out for Smash?
>>80844053
That was back when Bendis was semi decent, nowhere near Ultimate Spider-Man good, but not as bad as his Guardians of the Galaxy, hell there was even a time that Slott was good anon.
So I was looking for a cheap copy of the Superior Foes Omni and found this. Is there a cheaper place to find it, cause it beats Amazon.
>http://m.ebay.com/itm/Superior-Foes-Of-Spider-Man-Omnibus-/322039651003
Recent Purchase / Shelf thread?
I incoming dump 1/4
2/4
>>80844397
>he's gunna get the omni
Muh nigga, I'd get it if I didn't already own the tradebacks
>>80844396
Anon, New Avengers was not good.
3/4
>>80841334
Why do you waste money?
4/4
>>80844517
Have you considered getting the Reminder collections of Venom, Anon?
>>80844514
Oh I didn't say good, I said decent, it's still better than Spider-Gwen and Nu52 Suicide Squad
>>80844634
I have, the way I got my hands on each volume of Venom is odd. I've been wanting to puck up the rest of Venom as well as Scarlet Spider, I've just been slacking, or distracted by something else I wanted, Ostrander's Suicide Squad getting reprinted is a good example.
>>80841334
Aaaaayyyyy
>>80842827
>Persepolis 2
Am I the only one who thought the first one was a lot better? Seeing the Iranian revolution through a child's eyes was a lot more interesting than her dicking around in Europe.
>>80845759
OP here, you're in for a ride. I just finished my AM onmi and I needed more.
>>80844514
It was good to a lot of people anon, just because /co/ not liking something doesnt directly translate to real world stuff.
>>80841334
Not really a comic, but I recently picked up a novel called The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, it's about two comic book writers before, during and after WWII. I heard good things about it, but I also just want to know what other anons who've read it thought about it.
>>80846191
I heard about it a long time ago and I'd always meant to read it but forgot all about it till now... thanks for the reminder.
theres also a movie or hbo show or something of it thats been in development hell for ages, that might be where i heard of it in the first place.
Latest. Also picked up Greys by Olivier Schrauwen.
>>80847101
I've been wondering for a while what Doom Patrol is like... i know what its *about* but does it get really ...."Morrisony"? Is it full of meta bullshit and his typical stuff? I don't mind his writing some of the time its just his weird stuff that kinda drives me up the wall.
anyone who's read it wanna chime in?
got the whole run of lucifer. pretty hype.
Ordered the Miller Daredevil omni yesterday, can't wait tore-readthe run.
How are Masterworks, by the way?
Not necessarily interested in getting one, just wondering how they compare to different kinds of collections. I mean, they seem a bit... pricey, for how many issues they contain.
>>80848588
the spines fucking blow but whatever (bot right)
>>80843796
>loeb supergurl
are the pages glossy or matte?
>>80848699
What are you going to when you run out of space on your shelf? New volumes of Doom Patrol and Hellblazer will be here soon.
>>80849503
i duno mang... i really don't have much space left. i certainly won't be able to seperate marvel/dc/indepdent if i get anything else
i may start figuring out what i want to sell and try to refine my collection a bit
>>80849227
Matte
Here's my reading stack. My 2 latest purchases are Johns Flash and the first volume of Grell's run on GA. Gonna re-read The Longbow Hunters before I start the main series. Haven't had a chance to post in one of these threads in a while, as I've be busy with work and stuff. I'll post the rest of my collection in just a bit.
Dunno if I posted these in the last one...
>>80850225
Please disregard timestamp faggotry
>>80850268
>>80850225
The comic next to Beverly is Crickets 5 by Sammy Harkham. Fucking Blood of the Virgin arc is the best thing he's ever done, if you like that kinda "literary" stripe of artcomix (like Clowes non-genre shorts, nonboring Tomine, even, I guess, stuff like Seth or even terry Laban's Unsupervised Existence), then you will love this comic. #3 has been reprinted recently so you won't hafta pay crazy prices for it any more and #4 is still available in the whatthingsdo shop.
Btw ave any of you homosexuals acquired a copy of Ganges #5 yet? Having a fuck of a time getting a copy
>>80850496
Crickets 3 and 4 are out of print again. At least in whatthingsdo. Next time they go back in print I'm definitely picking them up. I've heard too many good things about it to keep putting it off.
>>80850765
Fuck they went fast, it was only like 2 months ago when I saw they were reprinted! Got doubles of 3 (1st prints) and 4 (likewise), I would sell but I wouldn't wanna rip anyone off, y'know? Bought 'em as reading/"study" copies but they're still nm. Anyway, Harkham did say that BOTV will definitely be collected when finished, so there's that, /co/mrade....
Was buzzing I scored the new Keeping Two, I have the first two issues, great comic, only problem is Crane takes FUCKING AGES to send things out....last wo times I've ordered off him he sent me some cool free shit 'cause he was so tardy.
>>80850765
Also , you been buying Pope Hats? One of the best alt floppies of the alt floppy resurgence, no doubt. Not sure about printing status, my LCS still has 3 and 4 available though.
>>80851086
>>80851407
I might wait for the collection then. Well, depending on how long it is supposed to be. I don't want to wait too long. And no, I haven't bought any Pope Hats. I'm still pretty new when it comes to minicomics. Pic related is my current collection plus Greys by Olivier Schrauwen and Fiffe's art portfolio. I wish I had a good LCS near me that carried these types of comics.
>>80847240
To my recollection, it's not nearly as meta as say Animal Man or Flex Mentallo. I think there is some meta elements, but it's mostly just crazy shit. Someone correct me if I misremembered.
>>80851882
Aha I bought Greys a while back from Desert Island when I ordered a load of their Smoke Signal tabloid and was really impressed with it!Bought Mome from #1 and they printed a lot of Schwauren stuff, that became hs first fanta collection and I didn't like him much at first then learned to love him. I'm intruiged as to how he gets that weird "aged" look to his pages...know it's probably some digital trickery but his drawing is so organic.
Who's that Frontier dedicated to? I should buy one, one of those things I never got arond to getting, I hear the new Eleanor Davis "BDSM" issue is brilliant, and she rules anyway.
Bipolar is the Hanuka (?No, something like that, though) brothers thing from Alternative, rght? How is it? They're good artists no doubt, never read a long work by 'em, though.
>>80852220
My first foray into Schrauwen was Arsene Schrauwen which got me hooked. Amazing book. I'm trying to get everything available from him now. The Frontier is Jililan Tamaki's issue. It was pretty good. I like Tamaki's artwork. And yeah, Bipolar is by the Hanuka brothers. It's alright. Each issue is a collection of short stories. Most are one-shots, but some stories go a couple of issue. I much prefer Tomer's stories to Asaf's.
>>80852637
Will hafta get A.S at some point. He's very fucking good indeed, didja rate Greys or have you yet to read it? I thought it was very cool indeed.
Jillian Tamaki is, like you said, an extremely adept artist....that drybrush technique she has is just mint....haven't read That One Summer yet but Skim was great.
Wasn't it one of the Hanuka brothers who did the webcomic The Apartment? Kind of a weird deadpan horror setting? That was really good...actually maybe I'm thinking of that Israeli cartoonist who did the comic about sleeping with the girl who had her head seperated from her body but could talk and was fully cognizant...
>>80853016
Greys hasn't come in yet. I'll post it one of these threads when it does. I thought that This One Summer was worthwhile. Very comfy and nostalgic. The art was the highlight for me. Not sure if that webcomic was a Hanuka brother. Bipolar is the only thing I've read by them.
>>80850202 here. This is my entire collection thus far.
>>80853259
No, the guy had a comic in the Houghton-Mifflin Best American Comics 2011 (?), my shelves are like 4 feet away but i'm in bed and far too comfy to check!
It's pretty short but I think you will dig the hell outta Greys, Anon!
Oh it's The ABBADON not the Apartment, by Koren Shadmi. Is cool and weird. Nice as fuck art.
>>80841334
I told myself I wouldn't buy more comics until I finish reading all my stuff, but right now I have like 200 floppies, 10 trades and 15 hardcover that I have not read and I'm still going to my LCS to get more stuff...I need help guys.
>>80853708
Get off 4chan. Stop shitposting about comics and read some instead.
>>80841334
GREAT PURCHASE OP!
I have a shit-ton of older Vertigo and Milligan's run on Animal Man is so hopelessly depressing but I couldn't stop reading it. I liked all the Animal Man books except the Gerry Conway garbage.
So happy Steve Dillon got a crack at it too.
>>80854037
I agree, dunno who the fuck inked that, though...really hope it wasn't Dillon himself
>>80854077
Even Veitch's stuff was good. Each author went a little overboard with the "I lost my powers" though.
This is one of my 6 shelves of this stuff. I'm swimming in Hellblazer but Paul Jenkin's stuff is a chore to read so I keep going back to Carey, Milligan, Ennis and Delano's runs.
Nowadays Vertigo only seems to appeal to teenage females.
>>80854077
I blame the page.
A lot of these 300+ page reprints are posted on newspaper.
invincible, yes or no?
>>80854417
I'd like to know this too.
>>80854196
I've never heard anyone say anything nice about before watchmen Comedian/Rorschach, what do you think about it?
>>80854954
It's a nice little read, particularly the Comedian one, but it doesn't add much and it doesn't feel canon.
As an adult I've noticed some of us get caught up in our collecting. "I don't want this recolor version"
"I'd better buy this hardcover before it goes out of print" "glued binding.. yuck."
But I remember being a kid and getting my comics from the library or used book sales, thrift stores or anywhere I could get them and back then I didn't give a crap if the pages were matte or glossy. It didn't bother me if the trade was missing some inconsequential one-shot. I was just happy to own comics and read about characters I liked.
I feel like at some point the collector in me overshadowed the comic fan in me and I don't like it one bit.
>>80845931
Read Doom Patrol now.
>>80855354
I personally don't get it, mostly cause the stuff that's recolored is typically from before I was born or atleast before I could remember anyway. Is the new printing of Grell's Green Arrow recolored?
I've been reluctant on picking up any of the 52 arrow stuff cause I heard the first 3 volumes sucked, but Jeff lemire's run was apparently good. Thinking of picking up the kill machine. Also thinking of picking up bloodshot vol 1
>>80855423
Harbinger is pretty great. I just wish I would have waited for the HCs to come back in stock before I started buying it.
>>80853414
hunter's moon and longbow hunters are awesome
>>80855458
Yeah, I loved Longbow Hunters when I read it the first time. I'm just rereading it so I'm more familiar with the events when I go to read the ongoing.
>>80855354
While we're on the subject, is the issue of matte or glossy considered to be one of personal preference or is one objectively better, like in sown vs glued binding?
>>80855542
Matte is better. Less glare.
>>80855542
It depends. The colors on the new release of Grell's GA looks really nice on the paper they're using.
>>80855484
I love hunter's moon tho. especially the first bit about the child abuser
>>80855853
Yeah, when I say ongoing I mean Grell's ongoing starting with Hunter's Moon.
Is Empowered worth getting?
Also, what's a couple good Avengers or Spider-Man HC/TPB worth getting?(Just realized I own none, lol)
>>80858486
>asking if you should buy Empowered
virgin nerd detected
>>80858486
For Avengers:
The Celestial Madonna
The Korvac Saga
Defenders War
Avengers Forever (or the whole Busiek run, in my opinion)
For Spider-Man:
Kraven's Last Hunt
The Original Clone Saga (i.e., the 70s one)
Spider-Man: Blue
The Complete Alien Costume Saga (Vol. 1-2)
and there's a Roger Stern omni floating around that's the earliest stages of the Hobgoblin storyline.
>>80854289
NewsPRINT, or Baxter?
>>80854954
Only got the Dollar Bill one but that's solely because I am a Steve Rude stan.
>>80854037
Also is it just me (as an ol fart) or does Chas Truog's work look better nowadays than when it came out? Same with Richard Case, I bloody hated him at the time.
>>80858486
Empowered is pretty fun but while the first dozen or so chapters establish everything, it's also very repetitive since literally every episode is a 'Empowered gets captured, tied up by bad guys and humiliated' episode with the only real story being her relationship with her boyfriend progressing. Once Ninjette, the demon in the belt, and the superhero association come into play things pick up and you get actual story and character development
>>80862098
it's sad you know that much about that shit tier comic
literally a childs comic
Bought All Star Superman cause I've never bought a Supes comic.
Ordered Mowgli's Mirror by Olivier Schwauren, Uptight 5 by Jordan Crane and Agony by Mark Beyer--totally missed the fact it was back in print!
Okay, on the real--this is for the Anon's who know their contemporary capestuff/genrestuff--can anyone recommend a good miniseries or any comic, really, from Big Two or Image? I enjoyed The Vision comic, I REALLY liked the last Howard The Duck and am enjoying Paper Girls and the new Wein/Jones Swamp Thing a great deal. Oh and Southern Bastards was wicked. I tend to like clean, "classical"-looking art like Marcos Martin, of course Steve Rude, Paolo Rivera, the Paper Girls and Howard The Duck artists (soz forgotten names), no over-rendered, scratchy-inked Jim Lee style "why use three lines when three thousand will do?"-type of art...put I'm open to try owt, really. Noticing some really good work coming out of the big companies these days....I think it's 'cause there's more women in the creative side of the industry, personally.....
>>80863065
not really a mini but jeff lemire's prematurely cut short superboy run. it only ran for 11 issues and does finish an arc but he had a lot more planned out to do.
>>80844640
It really wasn't
>>80863065
Dial H and Omega Men.
>>80863517
Thanks a lot for taking the time to reply Anon but I really cannot stand Lemire. It's just his art, looks so rough and careless. Or is he writing the series? He's a legitimately dope writer definitely.
>>80863965
Again cheers for reply, I will investigate those titles. Anything else you can think of? Is Mike Allred doing anything at the moment that'd be easy to jump into?
>>80862678
you've made a considerably wise decision
am i the only memester reading gutter magic? just picked up #3 after i saw 10 cloverfield lane
>>80864499
he doesn't do the art yeah, just the writing, I don't even think he did a cover
March IST purchase. Apologies for potato quality.
>>80864499
>>80863517
Lemire's Superboy was the only actual loss from Nu52. That book was fantastic, 10/10
>>80864499
>Allred
Art Ops is 5(?) issues in right now, and would be your best bet for something ongoing. The iZombie omnibus is available and decently priced. His Silver Surfer series is technically on #2 right now, but it's pretty much issue #18 or something like that because it's just a continuation of the run he and Slott have been on since before Secret Wars.
Anyone bought the Atomic Robo collections? Probably going to buy next week to cheer myself the fuck up, but want to hear any thoughts people might have.
Is there anything I should cut from this order? The only one I'm not sure on is Howard.
>>80853016
Ordered Mowgli's Mirror by Schwauren today, I'd get on that one fast if you can, mate.
>>80855354
A true /co/mrade speaks! +5 internets to you for that closing sentiment, sir!
>>80866749
Oh okay that's cool then, thanks Anon. Will google series artist.
>>80866929
So, worth chasing up, then? Is it like the "cool" Superboy with the leather jacket and shades and that, or back to the classic "mini-Superman" costume? The former is so fucking 90's it hurts!!!
Also this newish Wein/Jones Swamp Thing is Nu52, innit? Or have DC rebooted their shit AGAIN?! My mate was telling me how much of a rough year they had...no wonder with how they've raped the fuck out of Batman, a once mighty symbol of dark justice reduced to a husk who barely knows whether he's coming or going...shit, I couldn't actually tell you who his alter-ego is at this point...
>tfw when perpetually stuck in '86-96 Batman title nostalgia that try as I might cannot be broken out of
>>80866932
Cheers Anon, some cool options there, heard good things about iZombie (didn't they make a TV program of it?), Allred draws the SHIT outta ol' Norrin and Art Ops sounds like a really intriguing title. Please know that I appreciate all your recommendations, and replies, /co/mrades. Solid. Gonna drop a storytime tomorrow in your honour. N, it's not gonna be some obscure Czechoslovakian depressing allegory with existential hedgehogs or some shit, just a cool (recent) SOL comic with great dialogue, setting, beautiful cartooning and stunning verisimilitude. That's all I'm saying. Gonna scan it now.
>>80869830
Fuck you! Not really, but that Howard The Duck was basically one of the two or three series that got me back into buying and collecting capes/genreshit! I fucking loved it! And don't forget I'm supposed to be Mr. "le pretentious hipster gahbage lel so patrician"! Uh, so, probably not the best recommendation, then...Hah, yeah, like anyone really gives a fuck about my bullshit! But no, it is GREAT
Hemuran do you like Patrick Gleason's art or is it too busy for you? His run on SoB has been pretty outstanding visually, and I enjoy the kind lf magical adventure vibe of the whole series.
We had civil unrest for about a week so the dock-workers went on strike, so my World's Finest isn't getting here til next week I guess. Along with Miss Don't Miss Me and Lucky Penny....
>>80869830
Howard The duck.
>>80870057
Miss Don't Miss Me? Not the amazing Miss Don't Touch Me? Or was that not a typo? I shall google Patrick Gleason now, Batgirl
>>80870090
See non-pretentious hipsters even like it, too! Please buy it Anon, it's so charming, your heart will thank you for it.
>>80848588
Are those hardcovers?
Here are my purchases for this year. Sorry for the shitty quality. I need to pick up my copy of The Goon Library volume 1 and Vampirella Archives volume 2.
>got Freaks Squeele #1 in the mail this weekend
>blitzed through it in a night
>gotta wait like three fucking weeks for another order to come in with the next volumes because I was too wishy-washy to just order the first three or four books all at once
One of these days I'm going to Montreal and just loading a suitcase full of BDs
>>80870403
Here is my first bookshelf. Sorry about the shitty quality.
>>80870441
And my last shelf. Amazingly enough, Crepax is the tallest book I own. I didn't know it would be this mammoth.
>>80870199
Yeah, I fucked up - Miss Don't Touch Me. I loved Beautiful Darkness and have heard nothing but good things.
After that taking a little break on buying to catch up on my shelf and my digital backlog. I fell behind on my DC monthlies and long term reading projects.
Am I the only one who loves capeds but doesn't really feel much desire to collect them? It's the worst part of my shelf, my DC/Marvel because it's just a sampling of what I want to keep - so more my favourite characters or runs I reference back to a lot rather than runs of quality.
>>80869964
it's superboy with black shirt and blue jeans, it takes place entirely in smallville.
>>80870282
they are tpbs
>>80842827
>Adrian Tomine
Fuck that guy.
>>80870057
Looking through this stuff http://comicvine.gamespot.com/articles/exclusive-preview-batman-and-robin-vol-3-death-of-/1100-147645/ and I gotta say, if I was 13 he'd probably be one of my favourite artists! Which is not a diss! He has a keen design sense, great compositions, use of spot blacks and chiaroscuro; also great "movement" to his characters. On the downside I find his character design and general style a little bland and "cookie-cutter" and having googled around a bit I feel like his stuff looks best with this Mick Gray dude inking him. He gives Gleason a nice edge of refinement "sweetening the form", whatever artschool bullshit you wanna call it...they work well together. So, yeah, if there's ANY possibility that a Bats comic will make me care about the character again (he was, like many, my first superheroic love) then I'll give it a fucking go! Last Bats title I really enjoyed wasn't even Batman, it was bloody Batgirl: Year One! So, thanks for the recommendation mate. If you think of owt else, keep 'em coming, please!
>>80870483
Ah, cool, impeccable taste /co/mrade! Kerascoet are SOOOO good and incredibly versatile.....MDTM is wicked. Are you getting the double-volume NBM deal? I know it was reprinted last year; 1st's were going for bonkers prices. And Beautiful Darkness; God, what a punch in the gut. But such impeccable technique.
Unfortunately my love for capes is long, long gone, I only keep my youthful loves around, stuff like Nexus (well, anything and everything Steve Rude ever layed a finger on!), my previously-mentioned "Bat-decade", odds n' sods of Vertigo stuff...but like I said my INTEREST in capes has been piqued again; I stopped following characters many years ago, just followed creators since and 95% of my collection is yer Fantagraphics/Drawn & Quarterly/Sparkplug/Nobrow/Koyama etc etc small/boutique/micro-press and self-pubb'd shit. Because I feel that's where most innovation and experimentation within the medium is happening.
>>80853414
Valiant is pretty great. If you haven't already, check out Divinity. It's amazing. Divinity II is starting in April. Pretty hyped
>>80870789
Oh, I have. Currently deciding if I want to pick up the HC or the trade for that.
>>80870727
Why?
>>80870736
I love his style to pieces, so I'm a little biased but I'm mostly impressed because I've been following him since he first took over on B&R and he's come a pretty long way in a short time art wise. I will 100% give you he's weak at character and world design though, but man, he is one of the few people in action comics right now who can actually put together a good action scene. It's bizarre but so many caped artists right now don't seem to actually be able to stage a fight to save their lives.
Robin: Son of Batman has little to do with Bruce/the whole Batworld. Damian's Robin, but being tied to the al Ghuls he's much more steeped in a mystic/fantasy background compared to the other more street-level approach to the Batman. If you're looking for an excellent street level book, I definitely suggest We are Robin. It under performed, but it actually had some teen heroes struggling in a way that read really legit. Plus Harvey James did a guest issue that was really incredible art wise.
What sort of tone/books do you like in general? Something fantastical? Classic beat'em up? Deeper elements? Fun light action?
>>80863065
Immortal Iron Fist by Brubaker, Fraction and Aja
Daredevil Yellow
>>80871502
No doubt he can drop a great action scene, his dynamics are fantastic. But just a little too slick-style-wise, that's why I think Mick Gray is a good pairing, he gives him a more...well, it just seems like the presence of the human hand is stronger, it strengthens his style.
Regarding tastes...you mean genre/capestuff, right?--I dig fun light action a lot...part of the problem as I see it with modern capes is they take themselves far too seriously...I mean, not even some of the most "literary" of alternative cartoonists take themselves as seriously as most cape creators, it seems! What with Morisson and his "manifesting our modern-day God's in reality BS"...though I can dig a classic beat 'em up, too...aside from the classic Baron/Rude Nexus arcs my fave capes of all time were the Wagner/Grant/Breyfogle 'Tec/Batman run and of course Year One and DKR...but the "grim n' gritty" stuff was done best first time around! Never cared for the O'Neill/Adams Bats, though. Also really enjoyed that dr.Strange mini The Oath, that was dope. Oh, Rachel Rising, I'm loving that as well (I know it's not big two though). A comic that sounded interesting to me was an Avatar book called Uber about superpowered humans changing the course of WWII, you familiar with that? It's Avatar so it'll be gnarly as hell, the concept intrigued me even though it's kinda a riff on the Zenith arc with Maximan and the Lloigor and that....btw did like Brubaker/Phillip's Sleeper, that was grim but had a nice twist to the "high concept". Oh holy shit Harvey James...does he go by James Harvey too, did Masterplasty?
>>80871948
I DO like Aja...recently won a cheap copy of Brubaker's autobio comic Lowlife, which he wrote AND drew himself for Fanta...remember reading a coupla issues when it came out, should be good.
>>80871948
PS Is Daredevil Yellow Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb? Quite partial to Sale's art, remember him way back when from his work on an old indie called Billi 99
>>80872806
I don't think low life was autobio since the main character kills somebody iirc
>>80872977
Well, it was semi-autobio and based on anecdotes n' sheeit.
Is this book worth picking up? It has a lot of recommended Supes stories in it.
>>80872887
yes, its part of the "color" series , its my second favorite DD book other than The Man Without Fear which i would have rec'd but JRjr has pretty scratchy art, which you said you didnt like.
>>80873366
I haven't heard any griping about the other books from this series in past threads, so i cant think of any reason why they'd suddenly screw the pooch on the Supes one
>>80873697
I wouldn't say scratchy, what I mean by that is the "inked with a sewing needle" look that Jim Lee's stuff has. But yeah JRJR stuff is a little over-rendered for my tastes. Enjoyed The Long Halloween and Superman For All Seasons, due to uh circumstances I din't have access to non cape comics and they were sequential art so I read 'em about three times each.
Have a great Sale interview from the print tcj where he talks about his Heroes work and stuff, his influences etc, seems like a cool guy. Is it just me or does he have a strong kind of Year One Mazz influence in his stuff?
bought elektra omnibus
less pages than lemire green arrow deluxe but double the price
sick of marvel going full jew. the miller daredevil omnibuses reprints all got 25 dollar mark ups.
>>80874348
Yup thats the marvel jew complex, I picked up Batman Black Mirror the other day for 20 bucks i was shocked, if it was a Marvel book it would have been 35
Finally they arrived
>>80875200
>>80874513
They also would have slapped the omnibus label on it because they know retards buy everything with that name on it.
>>80874348
Gonna be honest with you, thats the reason why I don't currently read marvel at all.
>>80841334
Wonder woman: Blood, Guts and Iron
Deathstroke: God killer
New suicide squad: Monsters
Black science
and picked up the descender as well it looked quite interesting to me
>>80875392
at one point i was picking up at least 6 marvel books but then there was fuckin secret wars which went on forever and after that it dropped to just spider-man 2099 and since PAD who i love was clearly just phoning it in and getting fucked with by editorial i dropped it.
I've picked up the two new power-man and iron fist books though just because i love IF and the art style is non-house and kinda cool.
>>80873866
>Is it just me or does he have a strong kind of Year One Mazz influence in his stuff?
I think he mentioned a fondness of it in his Inkstuds interview.
>>80869964
>Fuck you! Not really, but that Howard The Duck was basically one of the two or three series that got me back into buying and collecting capes/genreshit! I fucking loved it! And don't forget I'm supposed to be Mr. "le pretentious hipster gahbage lel so patrician"! Uh, so, probably not the best recommendation, then...Hah, yeah, like anyone really gives a fuck about my bullshit! But no, it is GREAT
That is Chip Zdarsky's Howard, not Gerber's
>>80876851
>>80876851
Uhm, yes, I am FULLY AWARE of that fact thank you, sir, I do own the bloody comics.
I'm talking in the past few months; Jesus, I'm not THAT fucking old, dude! Not the Gerber book, baka, Jeez I may be outta touch with cape/genrestuff but give me some fucking credit, willya?!
>>80875812
That art does look intersting, whasisname, some preppy-sounding name, summat Green? Got bit of a scratchier Paul Pope/Tony Salmonds sort of look going on? It DOES look interesting and fairly risky for marvel but in all the promo stuff I've seen the faces look a tad weird. Ah okay Sandford Greene. That is like the most WASPY name in the history of comix, possibly! But his characters have real fucking MASS behind them and for that I can forgive the weird faces.
>>80877332
>WASPY
The fuck is that?
Start watching Daredevil. Run down to Walgreens. Find Daredevil Yellow Marvel Legends figure. Go to thrift store down the street. Find a Toybiz Daredevil and a metal mini Kingpin, both on sale.
Went to another one and found a Corgi Batcoptor.
Twas a good day.
I got this a little while back, it even came with a record.
>>80877865
what the what? kek
>>80862311
Someone's triggered.
>>80877814
White anglo-Saxon protestant, dude.
>>80879622
Oh, that makes sense, I guess.
Never seen it as a acronym before, is that weird?
>>80879682
If you're an American it IS pretty weird. Y'hear it a lot less over here in the UK. 'S'no biggie mate!
>>80877982
Nice. I have that on a shelf with my Batman trades. Can't for the life of me remember if it was a book store or a record store I found it at.
>>80878367CAN'T WAKE UP
>>80863065
If you don't read Omega Men you're doing yourself a disservice.
>>80883381
I'm personally just waiting for the complete trade so I can read it in one go.
Bought and read the first Stumptown collection by Rucka. Book is really well put together, great quality, but man it sure is a disappointment. I felt like I was reading a worse version of Alias. I never thought I'd read something by Rucka and go "Bendis did this better."
>>80873366
>>80873828
one criticism I read was that the stories they pick reflect the dc's sort of ashamed of the character in a way. most of the stories collected are "sad superman" stories
"But thematically? There’s not a lot of variety. They focus overwhelmingly on one idea of how they want you to see Superman, and the Superman they present is a depressed sad sack who never wins.
That’s the Superman they want you to read about, and that is baffling."
http://comicsalliance.com/superman-a-celebration-of-75-years-review-dc/?trackback=tsmclip
>>80875812
It might not be "non-hosue style" but it's also sloppy and lazy. I'll take well drawn house style over half assed attempt at over stylization any day.
>>80883531
>I felt like I was reading a worse version of Alia
That's quite an insult. Alias was ass.
>>80875212
Why doesn't IST have most of Hellboy Library editions in stock? All of them are available nearly everywhere else.
Bumping https://youtu.be/cVRiADlDEig
>>80887023
>buying 4 floppies instead of a trade
Why
>>80889182
Only brought because my LCS was moving to Florida.
>>80844054
I really enjoyed this book, but i hate coheed
>>80883425
I hope they do a deluxe or Absolute down the line.
>>80890389
I hope
>>80890389
Tom King's DC exclusive which means they'll almost definitely do a deluxe. Absolute is unlikely though, it's doing well but not THAT well.
>>80892590
Deluxe is unlikely but if it sells well in trade then I can see an Absolute down the road. If it does REALLY well.
>>80892590
They only give absolutes to seminal works not by sales, batman year one's trade was a best seller since it got put out the first time like a decade ago and it is just barely getting an absolute. Whether Omega Men gets one is whether people care about it in a decade or so. Just look at Jeff Lemire's Animal Man, that was one of the highest praised books from the launch of the new 52 and it hasn't even gotten a deluxe. DC is picky as hell when it comes to certain collections.
>>80893581
Animal Man lost a lot of steam after the first several arcs, people kind of stopped caring about it.
>>80893838
*several issues
>>80893581
>32 issues
>deluxe edition
it'll have to be an omni
local con today, I'm sorry for the crappy pics
single issues galore!
>>80894251
I like to collect appearances (classic deadpool, terror inc, GLA, etc.)
>>80894283
I finally gave in and bought a funko
Birthday books finally came in from IST. Included are:
Uncanny X-Force by Remender Ultimate Collection Book 1
X-Men: X-Tinction Agenda HC
X-Men: Fatal Attractions Omni
Uncanny X-Men by Claremont Vol. 3 Omni
I did not expect to think as much, but that third volume of Claremont's X run is one of the most beautifully produced omnis I have ever seen. Can't wait to dig into it beyond a simple skim-glance.
>>80894251
Nice
>>80894296
>I finally gave in and bought a funko
they get alot of hate but that taskmaster is one of the good looking kind, its all the boring human funko's that are bland and stupid looking, anything with a non default head looks pretty good
>>80897706
This
Rise
>>80889182
I have frequently bought floppies AND the subsequent collections
>like the Anon ITT thread was saying about the fan in him being superceded by the collector and not liking it one bit
>>80899710
Bump
I recently bought the Animal Man omni, I haven't checked the thread and won't take a picture because there's going to be around 5 or 6 pictures in this thread of it already
Up
Was Ressurrection Man every collected after issue 19? I've been looking but i can't find anything
>the horror
>the horror
>WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?!?!
>i don't want to live in a world where chickens and frogs and skunks are breeding together!
>>80905407
>Must Save Money for TCAF
>Must Save Money for TCAF
>Must Save Money for TCAF
>>80905468
give in to the darkness
spend! spend! spend!
>>80905342
nope. there is no resurrection man vol 2 vol 3 trade.
Newest purchases from last week. Reading Gladstone's again made me want a volume 2 so much. And why didn't someone tell me Mesmo Delivery was batshit crazy and fun? Man, Grampa is an amazing artist.
Started reading the Dark Horse collection of The Mighty by Tomasi and Champagne. So far so good.
>>80870450
Super jealous of the Crepax book, I really want to get it.
>>80885964
I agree. Alias wasn't great, it had a lot of bad parts but there were at least some fun things about it. So yeah, it was that bad.
>>80858486
Kree/Skrull War
>>80905643
That sucks.
>>80874348
I was talking with a friend at the shop he works at about the prices of those books. He works there and was disgusted by the price. I joked it was the Frank Killer tax, though I also guess the Netflix show tax as well. Pretty sure my old traded were a fraction of that shit.
Then again he works on one of the city's more expensive streets for shopping, even if it is more toward the cheaper end of it and closer to college kids.
>>80841334
I really can't take Animal Man seriously after this stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdWyK2elOtQ
Thoughts on my recent purchase?
>>80921191
upside down picture
only two books have the title in view
if you only wanted us to see those two books you should lay them out and show the covers instead
>>80921248
Shit, how did that happen?
>>80921291
Not bad.
>>80922181
Thanks, I don't understand why everyone likes to shit on this She Hulk so much. The art isn't that bad apart from Wimberly's issues.
>>80923964 not mine
>>80921291
Gotham Academy is a personal favorite of mine. Never bothered with Shulk.
>>80841334
I bought a bunch of dredd comics, New Dredd 3 IDW, CyberHell #7, and Uprise 2/2 from 2000AD.
>>80925045
Is Ellis' Bond good?
Just this. It's an old edition, 1997, pre-Rebellion. No cover gallery, foreword or extra material, but on the flip side it's REALLY big. It's the tallest Dredd book I have save for my Ezquerra and Bolland hardcovers.
>>80905407
dude what the fuck is that?!?!
>>80928490
I'm really enjoying it. It is much more violent than I was expecting
>>80925113
Excuse my ignorance, what exactly is that picture from? Like what arc?
>>80921291
My favourite thing about GA is how shallow it seems, until you go back over it and realize there's all kinds of hints about characters being consistently peppered through. I was so happy when Karl Kerschl returned on a steady gig, I loved him ever since Teen Titans Year One and like, that one issue of Superboy did.
>>80928899
Judge Dredd: Mega City Two, by Wolk and Farinas. It was a five issue mini from IDW.
New shit. Got case files 2, some more IDW Dredd, and the Adventures of Dr Mcninja Omnibus on the way too. Looking forward to my Easter days off.
Not too bad for2 yearsof collecting.
>>80925113
>Stallone Megway 3
Can't wait to get to Mega City 2.
>>80929746
Built this Aquaman themed longbox too.
>>80929746
>2 years
It's pretty bad
>>80929790
Please tell me you didnt glue that thing to the top of that lovely looking box
>>80929991
Everyone has a different budget
>>80931288
That "thing" is actually a piece of coral that I dove and found, and was the inspiration for the box.
>>80929790
I'm currently working on an Ant Man inspired long box, the sides of it are going to be ant farms
>>80929131
I dunno anything about Dredd, could I start there?
>>80931801
Its not the most traditionally "Dredd" story there is. The most common advice is start with Complete Case Files 05, as it has some of the first truly essential Dredd stories collected in one place. If over 30 years of uninterrupted continuity seems too daunting you could Start at the Beginning of the IDW Dredd series, at Volume 1. Although IDW JD is considered by many to be inferior, the Year One mini, as well as the Anderson mini get a lot of praise
>>80931801
Sure. It's short, self-conclusive and fairly unconnected to the rest of the series, so there's no previous reading required or anything.
Though if you're intersted, you should also check out the original british material as well.
>>80921291
I wanted to like Gotham Academy but it's just not that good. She Hulk is awful. I hope you don't get mad and lose your shit, you did say "Thoughs opn my recent purchase?"
These should be coming in tomorrow or Tuesday.
1/3
>>80929746
Oh man, that crappy Jones Deadman series.
Not bad anon, some good stuff in there, some bad, but a good number of books for someone just starting out, only 2 years old.
>>80932688
Ordered these a few days ago.
2/3
>>80932727
Used a $25 Amazon gift card I got from a friend and paid $10 of actuall money for this.
>>80929746
Dust your shelves please.
>>80932688
mind MGMT is great
>>80855354
I hear you anon I buy so much stuff yet I barely have time to read anything my back log is huge yet if I skip anything I really want it goes out of print case in point uncanny xforce omni I'm still mad
>>80870403
Ayyyoh just bought oz and the goons aswell my back log is huge but i heard great things about both of those plus the look great on my shelf >>80925113
Nice you can't go wrong with dredd>>80928595
You are the only name fag I don't have filter anon you have great taste
>>80929790
OUTRAGES shit looks cash anon love the coral is it shape in the aquamans logo can't really tell but I love it
>>80935445
Same boat as you, anon. Exactly same boat. Missed out on Remender X-Force omni. Never again. I'm on top of my books now. However, I do need to find time to catch up on everything. IST is both an angel and a temptress devil.
>>80936822
>floppies on a shelf
For what purpose
>>80937254
They are a full run of a couple of things of mine and some golden age batman and superman stuff that I like to reread from time to time
>>80937254
At least he can read them if he wants to. I needed to make room so I have my long boxes tucked away behind my shelves. Won't be attempting to read them anytime soon.
>>80937397
You should look into custom binding
Animal Man Omnibus and Howard The Duck omnibus from C2E2.
>>80931726
Well it looks like jenkyass shit to be perfectly honest.
>>80931726
>Colorful coral
>black box
>>80937488
I know of it but I just don't feel like spending the cash for it if I really wanted something like that I would just pick up the tpb or omni of them and the golden age stuff are not being touch >>80936822
What I am currently reading
Girlfriend and I built this awhile back based off another image I saw in one of these threads. Came out pretty decent. I use it to store floppies of runs that I would have ended up wasting money rebuying in trade for convenience reasons.
I have a second bookshelf with a lot more trades and such to the side. Will try to update later.
>>80940084
Forgot image because I typed first like an idiot.
So, I'm re-reading my copy of The Longbow Hunters because I'm gonna start reading Grell's GA run soon, and I was just wondering. Is Jon Sable worth seeking out as well? I really like Grell's art and writing.
FUCK GRANT MORRISON
>>80870695
Bleh, not liking that art at all I'm afraid. Clean but bland IMHO. Nothing stands out about it. Actually prefer Lemire's art to that. But, you took time to recommend some stuff and I'm grateful for that, so thank you.
>>80883381
>Are they like a team of bad guys or summat? I like the look of the newest series' art, to be honest.
>>80942550
More like a team of freedom fighters. They're trying to take down the tyrannical leaders of the Vega system and they go to pretty extreme measures to do so.
I was only interested at first because of the covers, but it's been phenomenal so far.
>Morrison
wew lad
>>80943371
Thank yew will deffo check it
>>80943499
Might just want to wait for the trade/deluxe at this point. It's at issue 10 I believe and ends at 12.
What are some comics I can buy that'll give me instant hipster cred?
>>80946692
The Incal.
Just arrived.
>>80947264
Size comparison with a regular TPB. Almost manga-size.
I have to admit, I wasn't thrilled with their size after noticin the small Nexus omnis in the last thread.
But, now that I have the books, I have to admit, it's not so bad.
The art is still enjoyable. The text is not small at all. It doesn't strain my eyes.
Is PAD's Aquaman gonna get a trade release at some point?
