Wednesday Open Forum

One of my favorite things is the interaction on the site. Besides the contests, the open forum always has great conversations.
So as always, talk about whatever you want. But also, let’s hear your pick ups, what was sold out in your local comic shop, and what was sitting on the shelves unmoved.

24 thoughts on “Wednesday Open Forum”

  1. My intended pickups today:
    Manhattan Projects #25 (Still a great read, highly recommended)
    Ody-C #1 (New #1 from Fraction, we’ll certainly see)
    Rasputin #2 (This one won me over with it’s art story telling, even though I could have used some more narrative, still good)
    Sheltered #13 (Great read about those crazy end of the world people… err, kids)
    Trees #7 (Still has my attention and I know there’s character building but the whole bit about the kid finding himself, love, etc.. meh)
    Sidekick #9 (It’s gotten dark and I’m still reading it)
    Edge of Spiderverse #2 3rd Print (Duh)
    New Avengers #27 (Avengers Junkie)
    Superior Foes of Spider-Man #17 (Highly underrated)
    Enormous #5 (Duh)
    Letter 44 #12 (A little bit of politics, some sci-fi, aliens.. yeah)

    2. Apparently Austin Books and Comics also have their own ODY-C variant, so I snagged one of those as well. Not sure on ratio though.

  2. The rain here in Gotham did not stop the biggest line i seen at my LCS in a while ..Edge of Spiderverse 2 was what i was after as well as Enormous ..Toe Tag Riot has 2 covers looks like a interesting book ..the trains were screwed so i could not make my epic morning runs i hope there are Spiderverses left in the afternoon runs

    1. There was an actual line to get into an LCS? Awesome!!! Good luck on getting the EoSV #2’s

      2. i got 6 so far ..neeed more!!! lol .its always a line 8am ..its about 15-20 people deep before they goto work but today it had to be like close to 30 ..last time it was like that was when the dc 3d covers dropped early this year

      3. Holidays, more people off for Thanksgiving today. My local shop was a little more crowded as well this morning.
        I was able to pick up 2 x #2 EoSV 3rd Print. Only one shop out of the 3 nearest had them and their stack was short. Grab’em if you see them, they’ll be all gone before noon most likely.

    2. Midtown in Midtown still had a nice stack of EoSV #2 left. Picked up 2. Might go back for more if there’s any keft. 🙂

  3. Spider-Gwen!!! got my LCS to order 5 for me, so I should be good on that one. other than that, hope to snag enormous and gotta have my TMNT fix.

    1. I have been looking at getting some early first prints and reprints of the Mirage Turtles Series. I just never pull the trigger. Want to put together a run. Show my son the original stuff.
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      1. I have a ton of mirage turtles at my mom’s house (of course the early issues, maybe 1-5, arent first prints). TMNT First publishing trades may be a good way to go on the cheap. Books I-IV collect issues #1-11 + Leonardo #1. I have a couple of those and they are nice to read.
        But dont sleep on the IDW stuff; very well written!

      2. I’ve been lucky enough to find some Mirage TMNT at random places around the city. There’s a comic warehouse here people can go to by appointment and that’s usually where I find them.

      3. Hahaha I know what you mean. I’ve been doing my fair share of craigslist stalking. There are some pretty good listing ms around my area. It’s where I found that one Walking Dead post I mentioned to you.

  4. Did some damage again this week. Some notables:
    Edge of Spiderverse 3rd Print
    Enormous (both covers)
    Sheltered
    ODY-C
    Gotham by Midnight
    Futures End 29 (first female Firestorm)
    Toe Tag Riot
    Auteur (full run)
    Rasputin
    Dawn of The Planet of The Apes
    TMNT/Ghostbusters Blank Sketch variant
    Hunted down:
    Captain America 360
    The Humans CBDLF

  5. Light week for books. I wanted Gotham by midnight so bad the idea sounds fun and I love Ben Templesmiths art Got 3 regular Gotham by midnight and 1 variant, Toe Tag Riot 1, Ody-C 1, Dead Letters 6, shadow show 1, Aliens fire and stone 3 ( the whole new line from dark horse is so good if you love Zenomorphs and what happens after Prometheus) 2 blank sketch covers of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ghostbusters 2 and 2 sets of Enormous 5 both covers. I couldn’t find any edge of spiderverse 2 3rd printing at my lcs Newbury Comics seems they only got like 5 copies for the whole company so I jumped on ebay and got a few. I think this will be a hot variant I hope so lol. Also forgot Wayward came out have it on my pull list but never made it there so ill grab it next week.

  6. Today I picked up
    Edge of spider-verse #2 3rd print
    Ultimate spider-man web warrior #1 (for my kids)
    Angry birds transformers #1 (for my kids)
    Enormous #5 both copies ( very sick looking covers. In my opinion best ones they’ve done so far)
    Arkham manor #2
    So today I went driving around to other comic stores to find EOSV 3rd print cuz everyone else wanted $15 for them so I drove about 20mins away and got couple for cover. Anyways shot story long I found copies of wytches #1 1st print for cover price about 70 of them. I was very tempted to buy some. Should I? So I can go back and get some. Also found x-factor #6 for $35 in f-vf condition. Also found spider-woman manara variant for $100 and lastly I found wytches CBDLF for $150. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. And once again thanks Tony for all of your great info every week.

    1. “Anyways shot story long I found copies of wytches #1 1st print for cover price about 70 of them. I was very tempted to buy some. Should I?”
      I’d say it’s open. Honestly, I can still pick these up myself at several shops. I think the value will be long term so I’d say pick up some, hold onto them (unless of course you can flip them quickly and make your money back). If you already have some though, you have to weigh the costs of your time, gas, etc.

  7. One book that i forgot that I finally got after 7 months of long waiting for it is Deadpool vs carnage #1 DF signed by writer Cullen Bunn.

  9. LCS #1 on lunch break:
    Toe Tag Riot
    Rasputin #2
    ODY-C floor display variant (regular cover pre-ordered from Midtown)
    Battled the snow on my way home from work to pick up (the only time I’ve ever had the entire LCS #2 to myself for the entire time I was there… and I was there for a while):
    Enormous #5
    Roche Limit 3
    Trees 7
    Wayward 4 (both covers again, damn it)
    Evil Within #3
    Memtic #2
    Passed on Edward Scissorhands #2
    Didn’t see TMNT/Ghostbusters (#1 sold out locally real quick as well)
    Don’t think either shop got EoSV #2
    Happy Thanksgiving! I am thankful for this website among many other things…

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