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What have you added to your collection recently?
Like I said before, I figured something was up. Last week I saw that the Wolverine Omnibus vol. 1 reprint was pushed back when I finally sat down to try to track all the upcoming releases this year I want. Plus the JMS Spider-man vol. 2 delay...once I saw the Black Widow release date change the writing was on the wall for me. I don’t think they’re gonna make those April releases to be perfectly frank...think we’ve got a bit of a drought ahead of us. Hopefully not too damaging to the industry. Anyway, really enjoying the Civil War event. I was cool to see how the events leading up to Planet Hulk were ever so lightly touched upon, and they even referenced the Nick Fury Secret War story leading partially causing Civil War, which was nice. That story was included in the Battleworld slipcase Marvel released in 2015, and it’s always seemed bizarre to me to be included; no complaints now!
But I just read through an issue where Peter Parker grapples with whether or not to reveal his true identity to the world to help the superhero registration act, and I gotta say, it was quite an emotional moment. Loving this storyline so far!
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Getting ready to start MMW Captain Marvel V3, the Starlin stuff. I've also got MMW She-Hulk and the latest Two-In-One.
Also have Avengers V4 omnibus as well as the entire Sixth Gun Series which is the main one to get through and the Lucifer omni. I think that's all the stuff I've never read. I have other books that are unopened but I've read the story previously or I'm waiting for the final volume.
i ordered Runaways Omnibus
Nightwing Deluxe HC, vol. 3
Batman: City of Crime Deluxe HC
Runaways is good fun!Still thinking of what I’m gonna order, open to suggestions as a non-DC reader but absorber of almost anything else.
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I post here only because it is the most active.
I assume with this hobby most of us share similar interest other than collected comic editions. In that vain, I’ve joined letterbox for movies. I’d be interested in some of the opinions from our tight group there too.
Hope to see you there; maybe we can create a goodreads groups there.
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I picked up Coates’ Cap HC, can’t imagine it’s not interesting at least. Also Motor Girl Omni and Abs Sandman 3.
I’ll be honest: I did a little panic shopping with omnibuses mid-March. There were some books I was waiting on that I feared would suddenly be OOP and I’d quickly have much higher costs ahead of me. Anyone see the current asking price for the X-Men Fatal Attractions Omnibus on eBay? Yeesh. And one just sold recently for $300. I bought a new copy for $80 to replace my original, beat up copy not too long ago...So now I have the Planet Hulk and World War Hulk omnis, which had been sitting on my want list for farrr too long, and also started a Daredevil collection with the Miller, Bendis and Brubaker books all here now (and the Waid volumes on the way).
Finally, got my copy of the Marvels 25th anniversary Ed., and I figured what the heck with the Marvel Comics #1000 OHC. Heard #1000 was a fun read, and I hung some special edition covers of it & 1001 back when they came out.
Erik wrote: "In short, I don’t believe this necessitates a new thread, but if there are other forums you would all like to participate in, I can create a new thread that shows other communities we all are invol..."Im more in Letterboxd than i am here and i read a decent bit. Movies are my jam though.
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https://www.newsarama.com/49694-juan-...
Gimenez was one of my favorites."
His art was very impressive. Sad to see him go. Hopefully we don't see other greats taken from us because of the pandemic.
Off topic: Hoping it doesn't take too long for John Gwynne's final book in his current trilogy (titled, A Time of Courage) to come in from England where it was released today. I read his first series and have the first two books waiting for the final book to come in before starting my read through. Gwynne is one of my favorite modern fantasy writers from the last few years. :)
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Blindzider wrote: "Bruno are those the paperback versions? I have both of those as well. Hoping to get started on C and H soon."Far Side and Calvin are both TPBs boxsets... got both for around 40€ in Amazon ES. Great deals!
Two questions:1) do people shelve their Absolutes slipcase or book side facing out?
2) am I right in that Absolute Transmetropolitan is very expensive and just on the secondary market?
Nickviola wrote: 1) do people shelve their Absolutes slipcase or book side facing out?"Currently i don't own any Absolutes, but when I did i kept the book side facing out... easier to get the book out.
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Yeah I'm the same, I have the back out unless the case doesn't have the title on it, in which case I flip it and have the book's spine out. I have almost every absolute so it helps with organization IMO.
This is so interesting. The majority of my absolutes are Preacher, Sandman, and Swamp Thing and in each case I prefer the book side. Plus I leave the shrink wrap on and just cut out the slot to slide the book in and out so the way I have it you don’t see the plastic wrap that would be on the slip case side.
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I‘m with Eric, most of them are slipcase out.
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I feel like IST is probably getting a lot of business right now with so many people purchasing thinking they need reading material during social distancing/stay at home/quarantine. I saw a comment from someone on FB saying they dropped $800 in four days with them. Probably why my order from last Wednesday isn't scanned and shipped yet.
It does look like IST will continue to list a handful of books at 50% off each week.
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I did an amazon order for school supplies (don’t get me started with running a practice and being forced to home school kids) and Amazon suggested some Image DLX HC I’ve never heard of for $35 so just threw the dice, I know it’s because I haven’t ordered from IST in more than a month.
Absolute addictive behavior as there is plenty on the shelf that still needs to be read.
My last order with IST took about a week and a half to ship. But I'm using this lull in publication to shorten up my wish list. I'm really bad about putting stuff on there and then never getting around to ordering only to have it go out of print. I'm really trying not to buy regular trades of ongoing series and just concentrate on reprints of older material and various HCs, omniscient, etc. Using the DC and Marvel apps I can read a lot of current comics eventually so not sure why I need to keep buying pb trades I'll read only once..
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I just read his first appearance in Captain Marvel then his appearance in Avengers annual and MTIO annual which came right afterwards. I like the escalation and emotional journey that justifies his actions.
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Iron man 55
Captain marvel 25-30
Marvel feature 12
Captain marvel 31-32
Avengers 125
Captain marvel 33
Strange tales 178-181
Warlock 9-11, 15
Avengers annual 7
MTIO annual 2
Death of captain marvel
Infinity gauntlet
Infinity war
Infinity crusade
For IST my last 2 orders in the last couple weeks, neither was ever scanned as picked and shipped. just arrived one day.
I had heard of the Wolverine Adamantium collection, but never thought too much of it (and thought the name was a little corny?). Randomly scrolling though eBay listings and saw the X-Men Adamantium collection. Ending up looking around and found it for 70 on eBay and thought it would be cool to just have some of my favorite stories in extra big print.Anyone else have this? Totally superfluous if you have the omnis?
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I too have the Marvels on. Found it on Amazon for $40 due to a pricing error. I smile every time I crack it open. If Wolverine is your guy I'm sure it will be money well spent.
Thanks, Eric. And Bane just to be clear, this is the X-Men Adamantium, not the Wolverine.
So it looks like there are a few of these 15 x 11 slipcase hardcovers - [1] Wolverine: the Adamantium Collection (2013); [2] the X-Men: the Adamantium Collection (2014); [3] Marvels: the Platinum Collection (2014); [4] the Avengers: the Vibranium Collection (2015); [5] Deadpool: the Adamantium CollectionSo many questions...
Doesn’t it seem like the X-Men could have been called something better than “Adamantium”.. like even the “mutation” edition?
Are there any other books in this format?
Anyone else have any commentary on the others?
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Those are the only ones I’m aware of. Except for Marvels, all of them are a mish mash of various appearances or selective issues which doesn’t really appeal to me because then you are just paying for the size. But for that low price point it’s not a bad buy.
My two cents...
Thanks! And looks like “King-sized Kirby” is also part of this line but TOTALLY randomly named - one of my biggest annoyances, they make these things too hard to find out.So are people planning to buy from CGN today? Are we expecting Wolverine Omni 1 and Astonishing X-Men reprints?
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Same, I’m not in a rush so probably will wait a few weeks to keep supporting IST if they start sending out new books.
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I just looked at CGN's site. They have the Hellblazer by Ennis Omnibus for special order and only about 35% off. Not sure I'll jump on that now. Oh well.
Was also planning to get the She-Hulk Omnibus...
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https://bleedingcool.com/comics/frida...
I like the concept: a teenage detective grows up and has to deal with adult problems. I was a fan of Encyclopedia Brown as a kid, so this piques my interest.
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https://bleedingcool.com/comics/frida...
I like the concep..."
I also read and enjoyed Encyclopedia Brown as a kid. :) I still have a pretty clear memory of some of those stories.
So, I had posted a few times about the Adamantium Collection books, I have since bought 2: King-Sized Kirby and X-Men.King-Sized Kirby arrived and I have to show some pictures and write about this beautiful monstrosity (which is not for everyone but is now one of my favorite books). It is a gigantic (see picture 1) book that is like 1.5 times an absolute that covers Kirbys whole career (minus DC obviously) including early romance and war books, his seminal issues of major Marvel characters that he created, then his return with Eternals and Devil Dinosaur, etc. So this is NOT sequential entire runs (which i prefer), but its just like the ultimate showcase of Kirby at Marvel.
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The pages are so thick that its like 30% thicker than omnibuses with the same page count (photo 2).
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The book comes in a slipcase, plus the cardboard on the outside that protects the slipcase even has the artwork on the front and back which (i admit being lame for loving this) is so cool and Im keeping the box. (photo 3)
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The binding is amazing, holding this ~20 pound book together (photo 4)
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Finally, the art is just gorgeous. Its crystal clear and on the thickest stock paper in any book I own (I think?) (photo 5) and you really get to feel how dynamic Kirbys art is, which I know is not universally beloved, but its just incredible to me.
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Pages do have these borders around them that signify the issue number you're reading, which i really like, because the book is too big to flip back and forth to the table of contents all the time, so you know exactly what you're look at, though I have seen people who found that distracting.
Anyway, kind of unusual book so sorry for the long post but hoped at least 1 or 2 of you may care...
Nickviola wrote: "So, I had posted a few times about the Adamantium Collection books, I have since bought 2: King-Sized Kirby and X-Men.King-Sized Kirby arrived and I have to show some pictures and write about thi..."
Really cool and beautiful pics, thanks for sharing Nick! I wouldn't mind owning something like that, never can shy away from Kirby's work, although like you I prefer more sequential runs. How are you storing it?
Think it's about the same size and heft of the TASCHEN 75 Years of Marvel Comics. I love it, but damn it's unwieldy, and I never want to store it upright so the book and it's slipcase takes up a lot more room than I'd like. Doubt I'd ever buy something this big again.
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Omega Men Deluxe
Hellblazer by Ennis Omnibus
Hellblazer still had 50% off, and it was free shipping on orders over $99 (and you had to group all items in one shipment.) If it gets delayed, I'm ok with that. Long as I get the price discount and the book arrives eventually.
We shall see...
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I am planning on picking up the Steranko volume later this year. :)
Also ordered Hellblazer and Omega Men from TOW - both are kind of on a whim as I haven’t read either but I like Ennius and loved the Constantine movie as a kid before I even knew it was a comic.
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You'll have to let me know what you think of Hellblazer. That hasn't been on my radar as something I want to read but I don't know much about it/haven't heard feedback on it.
I read Omega Men and thought it was ok. Which seems less enthusiastic than most folks as it is very well received. I read a lot of non-fiction military biography and memoir and perhaps the angle the author picked is more familiar to me from real life stories and didn't land with as much force for me as a result.
I added a new bookshelf over the weekend to expand my WWII/later history section of my library. Just a Better Homes and Gardens cube shelf from Walmart. Didn't seem to be the same quality as the Ikea cube shelf I have but once it was put together it seemed sturdy enough.
I finished reading Ubel Blatt. It was described as having some similarity to Berserk for those that like dark adult fantasy and want more in the genre to check out. I don't think that's a good description as it doesn't measure up in either story or art. It was fine as a one-time read but I feel like there are probably better things out there.
Read the second hardback volume and Drifting Classroom and felt like the series took a step back in the second volume. Too many crisis too quickly prioritizing action over characters, the things you thought you had figured out didn't make sense like you thought they did, so I'm more confused now than before as to what might be going on. I'll read the third and final volume to figure out the ending.
Enjoying The Promised Neverland and read volumes 9 thru 11 yesterday. I'm finding reading two volumes at a time helps as the books often end on some kind of cliffhanger though 9 thru 11 need to be read together because you won't want to pause in-between these books.
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Looking at my DCU collection, aside from absolutes my vertigo stuff outnumbers the regular DC stuff.
I feel like the shelves you bought are thicker and sturdier than ikeas. Did you get the metal support for it? I like how it raised it up a few inches.
Mignola omnibus' really are worth their weight in gold.Just quickly bought witchfinder and baltimore vol 2 omnibus.
First purchase's in a very long time and they've practically sold out already in the UK.
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Anyway, really enjoying the Civil War event. I was cool to see how the events leading up to Planet Hulk every so lightly we touched upon, and they even referenced the Nick Fury Secret War story leading partially causing Civil War, which was nice. That story was included in the Battleworld slipcase Marvel released in 2015, and it’s always seemed bizarre to me to be included; no complaints now! But I just read through an issue where Peter Parker grapples with whether or not to reveal his true identity to the world to help the superhero registration act, and I gotta say, it was quite an emotional moment. Loving this storyline so far!