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What have you added to your collection recently?
Just look at that beauty, i need the Akira box set so bad.
Eisnein wrote: "Black & white has been done by Dark Horse in English, but not right to left. It's worth it to me, and I already own the Dark Horse SC's and the Akira Club HC Artbook..."Nice, thanks!
Nickviola wrote: "Eisnein wrote: "Black & white has been done by Dark Horse in English, but not right to left. It's worth it to me, and I already own the Dark Horse SC's and the Akira Club HC Artbook..."Nice, thanks!"
No problem. :) It does look cool, and if any manga deserves it, it's Akira. I would've loved to see Domu included as well. That book is way too good to be OOP.
Looking forward to getting my hands on that Mondo hardcover!
If you don’t know manga you need to read lone wolf and cub.
Ooh_jim wrote: "Looking forward to getting my hands on that Mondo hardcover!"It's well worth the price-tag. Some of the early posters are hit or miss, but 320 out of 360 pages are just fantastic; they could probably put out an 'Art of Mondo II' in another year or so. I hope they do.
Cheese wrote: "If you don’t know manga you need to read lone wolf and cub."Yes. Lone Wolf & Cub's one of the essentials, along with Akira. It's hard to pick one above the other, but I'd personally give Akira a slight edge for Otomo's artwork.
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Akira keeps sounding interesting the more you guys talk about it...
I am getting a little warn down from the superhero genre, I feel like after Punisher, Runaways, and Simonson's Thor I have taken in some of the best of the ultra-violent/surrealist, YA, and classic superhero and need more "other" thats not Image or Jeff Lemire. Akira could be a gateway to different sequential storytelling options?...Or I have an addiction that has convinced me its essential and a never-to-be-seen again deal.
Its one or the other.
Akira is awesome, I really can't put it in words...I vê Just hanged my framed prints of Akira.You should get into it!
Relstuart wrote: "Thanks for those additional books Eisnein! I have some of those Mondo prints. I'm check out your review momentarily. :) Akira keeps sounding interesting the more you guys talk about it..."
I wish I had gotten into the Mondo thing early on, to grab one of those Aaron Horkey True Grit prints, or the Hitchcock editions by Taylor & Durieux. Hell, it could be the shittiest movie ever made; if one of those three does the poster, I want it. I'll be watching close for the next one in that vein, but the eBay secondary market prices are just crazy...
Nickviola wrote: "I am getting a little warn down from the superhero genre, I feel like after Punisher, Runaways, and Simonson's Thor I have taken in some of the best of the ultra-violent/surrealist, YA, and classic..."I've given up on trying to predict who might like one book based on their previous favorites, but Akira is a champ when it comes to reader approval, and it's one of the best comics ever created... I've read it through 5 times over the last 15 years, and I look forward to reading it backwards... and in hardcover... and crammed into a cool little box.
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Yeah way to go everyone, now I’m definitely buying the Akira boxset... and taking another baby step towards divorce.
LOLWell at least you'll divorce knowing that you've read one of the best manga/comics available, and I don't think that'll happen, your wife will love you more after knowing that you my friend have the knowledge of what Akira stands for!
gxvault wrote: "LOLWell at least you'll divorce knowing that you've read one of the best manga/comics available, and I don't think that'll happen, your wife will love you more after knowing that you my friend hav..."
CORRECT: There's a profound evolutionary logic behind the powerful unconscious female attraction to thirty-something men who still collect comic-books.
Comic-Book fans only follow LARP-ers & MineCraft champs when it comes to getting top dollar at Fertility Clinics for their primo Nerd-sperm.
Olympic athletes? One-trick ponies. MIT & Harvard Phd's? BOOORing. Billionaire entrpreneurs like Elon Musk? The Hyper-Loop is a quarter-billion dollar sinkhole with so many basic engineering problems, it's possible Elon Musk just plays a smart person on TV.
No, the ideal man for the woman of today is Kevin Smith.
Cultivate your inner 'Fatman', because the geeks & nerds & troglodytic neck-beards are the future. The terrifying future :)
Eisnein wrote: "gxvault wrote: "LOLWell at least you'll divorce knowing that you've read one of the best manga/comics available, and I don't think that'll happen, your wife will love you more after knowing that y..."
I've told girlfriends now ex's that my books are worth more than them and that my books would take precedent in a fire.
No point in lying to them :D
😂 Nice. Works a little different for my wife but the books are indeed important to me.
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I made a couple small orders from IST last week. They have yet to ship them though the tracking numbers have been created showing they are ready to go.
Ha! If anything comics are more expensive than hookers. But yes, safer indeed.
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Art is obviously subjective, but I'm pretty picky when it comes to Mondo posters. There are certain art styles (haven't narrowed down the names yet) that I just don't care for. I also prefer a little more innovation and creativity in the poster as opposed to just showing a scene from the movie or collage of images. Also don't care for when the movie is about a specific character, but that character is only 1% of the entire image.
I've still yet to get on their mailing list...
@Rel Sometimes they sit on them if they get really busy. They always have a few “processing” days unfortunately.
Relstuart wrote: "Eisnein, this list of someone's top 100 Mondo posters might interest you. He has some good descriptions for the prints: http://abfilmreview.com/top-100-mondo... I made a couple..."
Very nice, thanks Rel! That looks like a great site; I've already seen a good few that I don't recognize, perhaps newer ones... I think the last year cut-off for the book was 2015, and I'm not sure if they collected every poster from 2009-2015... but 7 years and 360 pages averages out to roughly one new poster every week, which sounds about right. The guy who made that list knows the history of Mondo well, and his taste in artists is pretty solid (I'm not a big Jay Shaw fan, but I must admit his Silence of the Lambs poster is great).
Well, i tried to imbed a picture but I can never get it to work, it always says "image error" or "description"... anyway...HOW AMAZING IS THE LOW DELUXE?!?! I made a collage to show how thick it is, but also just how fing gorgeous it is...
https://www.goodreads.com/photo/user/...
Nickviola wrote: "Well, i tried to imbed a picture but I can never get it to work, it always says "image error" or "description"... anyway...HOW AMAZING IS THE LOW DELUXE?!?! I made a collage to show how thick it ..."
But is it a good series? Ive not been a big fan of Remender.
Tocchinni art is incredible, I feel like I’m walking through a museum more than reading a book. Remender is also my favorite writer and Uncanny X-Men and Black Science are two of my favorite series ever.It’s a post-apocalyptic story focused on 1 family hiding in a civilization under water and their search for hope. It is one of my favorite stories ever - comics or otherwise - but again this falls neatly into a lot of my loves. If you don’t like Remender then our tastes may be far apart so flip through some images online and if you like the art pick up the first trade and see.
Nickviola wrote: "Tocchinni art is incredible, I feel like I’m walking through a museum more than reading a book. Remender is also my favorite writer and Uncanny X-Men and Black Science are two of my favorite series..."Yeah of his stuff Ive read Captain America, Uncanny Avengers, and Black Science. I just couldn't click with any of them. Though Uncanny Avengers started really well.
Yeah, I get it. There are things everyone loves that I don’t go crazy for. Sean Murphy art for example, I can’t distinguish his male faces so even though a lot of his linework is cool I don’t go out of my way for his stuff which is probably sacrilege.
All that excitement and then no Akira Box set today?
@Jesse I passed on Low Deluxe because I didn’t like the series all that much, couldn’t connect with the characters, and I can’t stand Tocchini’s artwork. It’s too vague/muddy and the series could’ve used far better coloring IMO. Also couldn’t get into Black Science which everyone loves. However I have loved Fear Agent, Tokyo Ghost, and Deadly Class.
Newest addition today. Absolute Batman Haunted Knight. Also ordered JLA A Midsummers Nightmare Deluxe by Waid.
Just ordered Luther strode and Hellboy in Hell Library edidtion and they're selling quickly in the UK.
Looking through great prints & portfolios on VACVVM, Posters & Toys, and MONDO, when I ran across this: A leatherbound book full of entire Mondo silkscreen posters... including sold-out runs like Durieux's 'Birds', Horkey's 'LOTR', Kevin Tong, et al. Amazing. It's 200$ USD, but this book was made for me, melding Mondo's best silk-screen prints into a leather book with a Mike Mignola cover. Hell yes. 
From Mondo:
Mondo Book Vol. 5: MondoCon Edition
By Mondo $200.00
Mondo Book Vol. 5 is a hand-assembled, White leather-bound book featuring posters from 2013 & 2014 from artists like Laurent Durieux, Aaron Horkey, Kevin Tong, Francisco Francavilla and many more! Cover Art by Mike Mignola. Originally released at MondoCon 2014. More information on this book here.
One Book per Person/Household.
This item will ship in Early 2015.
EDITION OF: 200
SIZE: 9" x 12"
Are Marvel doing a silver surfer omnibus for slotts’ run?
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Allred (or maybe Slott, can't remember) tweeted out a poll to see how many people would buy a Silver Surfer Omnibus. A lot of people responded, but who knows if Marvel will pay any attention to it.
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I’m guessing the Akira 35th boxset is delayed? It seems to be off IST altogether and Amazon lists it as out of stock.Can anyone confirm that? Or give update?
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IST has some Marvel Omnibus' on heavy discount this week:
Punisher Back to War (new cover) for 55% off
Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme for 60% off
Star War Marvel UK for 60% off
Deadly Hands of Kung Fu for 65% off!
Blindzider wrote: "Ordered Absolute World's Greatest Superheroes and Superman Secret Identity.IST has some Marvel Omnibus' on heavy discount this week:
Punisher Back to War (new cover) for 55% off
Doctor Strange So..."
Did they release a new edition of Secret Identity or just filling gaps?
Nickviola wrote: "I’m guessing the Akira 35th boxset is delayed? It seems to be off IST altogether and Amazon lists it as out of stock.Can anyone confirm that? Or give update?"
Yeah I've noticed that things get super confused around the time of the release.
It'd be nice if instocktrades actually utilized their twitter to make announcements on delays and whatnot. I keep planning on buying books around these tenuous schedules and then everything changes. I guess I'm just sore that I'm gonna miss out on the 2% discount haha
Checking random sites online shows they have them in stock, some sites even say that it went on sale last week, on the 24th.
I just ordered Thor omnibus Vol 3 with the Dauterman cover.
The LOW Super-OHC came in yesterday and my god its gorgeous. Also got the ODY-C OHC, if only for the Christian Ward insanity.
Ward is nuts on ODY-C. I need to pick that up ASAP. As a former Latin/mythology student, it’s a joy and quite an experiment they undertook to gender swap the odyssey and make it an acid trip.
Yeah its a fascinating book; I'd love to have posters of some of the panels. I'd also like to brush up on my Odyssey knowledge because I feel like I'm under-appreciating Fraction's efforts in the book. Apparently he's trying to write in some form of poetic meter, something I wasn't even cognizant of my first read-through.
FYI re: AKIRA 35th anniversary boxset...Available for order on barbers and noble and if you use the 20% “letsread” discount today and the baseline 42% off, it comes to $103.50 total including tax and shipping (listing is $200).
I can’t speak to how well they ship, but I went for it since I assume the IST price would be 100 at best and who knows why they don’t have it. I’ll update how it ships when/if it arrives.
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Black & white has been done by Dark Horse in English, but not right to left. It's worth it to me, and I already own the Dark Horse SC's and the Akira Club HC Artbook...