Wednesday Open Forum

Wednesday

Wednesday, the best day of the week, new comic book day. It is like your birthday in the middle of each week (well, one where you buy your own presents.)

We open things up to hear from you. A free for all.

What are your pick ups?
What about back issue raids?
What was sold out at your store?
What was sitting one the shelves in piles?

Or anything else you want to talk about, here is where to do it!

52 thoughts on “Wednesday Open Forum”

  1. Though the picture is indeed legit and it did come out before New Mutants # 87,is anyone buying into this being the 1st app. of Cable in Marvel Age # 82? People are going nuts and copies have dried up and sales are 15.00 and up……

  2. I’m highly intrigued in Daredevil #18 due to the Previews description.

    The final chapter in the Autobiography of Matt Murdock is written by someone who may surprise you.
    β€’ Not everyone survives this phase in Daredevil’s life.
    β€’ Find out who lives, who dies…and who is changed forever.

  3. Age of Ultron vs. Marvel Zombies #4
    Dying and the Dead #3: if it comes out. Even then I don’t know because 4 onward are definitely canceled. Do we have a Nonplayer situation here?
    Future Imperfect #5
    Groot #4
    Silver Surfer #14
    This Damned Band #2
    Thors #3
    We Stand On Guard #3

      1. Yeah, I saw that this morning. After teetering between “pull” and “drop” for the past 48 hours
        Dying and the Dead will most definitely be pulled.

  4. We Stand On Guard, and maybe I’ll look for mighty avengers 13. My shop has it in back issues at cover price. I guess I’m just unsure of the role they will play in the marvel media-verse.

  5. Also, marvel-age is def. a first appearance for Cable and Stryfe. Look for the marvel-age with the first appearance of darkhawk too.

    I’d love to see a Cable comic where he looks young like that.

  6. Light week for me…

    Plutona #1 (high hopes for this!)
    We Stand on Guard #3
    Silk #7
    Bat-mite #4
    Hail Hydra #2 (for the cover)

  7. The definite pickups for me are:

    Detective Comics #44
    FBP #24
    Dying & The Dead #3
    We Stand on Guard #3
    Groot #4
    Silk #7
    Spider-Island #3
    Cluster #7
    John Flood #2
    X-O #40

    1. Small week.. ughh.. I always end up with way more, especially if I land variants at cover.

      So I was able to snag these:

      Figment #2 Cover C Incentive X
      DangerGirl #1 Cover B Incentive Black and White
      Toil And Trouble #1 Virgin Cover

  8. This week’s picks are

    Plutona #1( it looked good in previews)
    We stand on guard #3( great book)
    Silk #7( for the wife)
    Deadpool vs Thanos #1 ( hopefully I can find the action figure variant. By far one of the best)
    Figment 2 #1
    Bob’s burgers ongoing #3 (for the wife. She’s injoying it. And it’s a must to do the Tina voice when you read it lol)
    John flood #2 ( 1st issue was good)
    Adventures of superman bubble trouble and magic monsters ( for my little one)
    Harley Quinn mopeez ( for the wife)

    Nothing for the oldest one this week. But I will get him some back issues ??

  9. only pickup this week is age of ultron v marvel zombies 4. and a story to share. its kind of a braggy tale, so feel free to skip over it. but I wanted to share and this site is the best place for it.

    so when We Can Never Go Home 1 came out, I called my comic shop and had them put a copy in my box, even though the premise didn’t look that interesting to me. prior to picking it up, I decided I had been buying too many issue 1’s just for speculation purposes, and was ending up with a lot of uninteresting and worthless books. for every Lady Killer and Divinity you get, you get a bunch of Intersect and Empty. so I decided to cut back and only get stuff I really wanted to read (and if they heated up, its a win win). Im still picking up about 10 books a week. so when I went to my LCS, I handed back my copy of WCNGH. I saw sales for the comic were hovering only around $10 bucks on ebay for a while, so I forgot all about it.

    then one day as I was reading the articles on this site (as I do daily), I saw the article about BUY, KEEP, or SELL, and I saw that WCNGH1 was selling for about $60 bucks on ebay. oof. that hurt. it was in my hands, and I let it go. I even posted my sadness in the forum section, which Anthony responded to. I immediately called my LCS and asked if they had any copies left, and of course they said no. However, they said they were super behind in restocking books people had given back, and if they found any copies, theyd put them in my box (this shop doesn’t mark up books just because they get hot. they sell you them for cover until they’re gone). and to my complete surprise, when I showed up at my shop last Wednesday, there were TWO first print, NM copies of WCNGH 1 sitting in my box. wow. what a feeling. I bought them both (and bought the only available copy of issues 3-4 as well), and put one up on ebay (and its doing great).

    So yea, just a great experience. im sure we’ve all been on both sides of that situation. and obviously big thanks to this site for proving me endless hours of entertainment (and procrastination) as well as solid spec advice.

    1. Very nice. I was in the same boat.. I passed up We Can Never Go Home as well.. I too end up with so many #1 like Empty and Intersect that just kind of don’t do it for me where I never look back, with no desire to read beyond the first issue..

      I went back and got WCNGH 2nd print and was hooked…

  10. First let me say, I was surprised and a little thrilled when I found two copies of the xxx sex criminals #11 still bagged at cover at my lcs πŸ™‚

    My other grabs were:
    Ultron vs zombies
    Deadpool vs thanos
    Detective comics
    Bat mite
    Shield mockingbird
    Silk
    Spider island
    Thors
    We stand on guard

  11. Rachael Rising
    8House (Brandon Graham)
    Pultona (my daughter is a fan of Emi Lenox’s Emitown and there is a signing near me on Friday)
    We Stand On Guard
    DP vs Thanos
    Miracleman (Neil Gaiman’s run finally)

    maybe: Mike Mignola’s Alien Salvation HC

  12. Barb Wire #3….I’ll probably be dropping this very soon
    Dark Corridor #2
    Dying and the Dead #3 if it actually shipped
    We Stand on Guard #3

    I’ve been traveling for work so I still have last weeks books to buy today. Then I’m gone for the next 2 Weeks so no new comic book day for me for awhile.

  13. I bought CHEW # 1 RI variant signed.

    Anyone else find these at the LCS ? Guy at the store said these were given to retailers who ordered the board game.

      1. You know, I’m surprised I didn’t see the game even at Dragon’s Lair unless it was in a totally different location. Dragon’s Lair is pretty much 60% board games. Hmmm..

              1. You can totally have my soul.. been saving it for such a day (It’s about as imaginary as our fiat monetary system we use to buy all these goodies at the comic book store each week)! I’ll even sacrifice a goat in your name while signing over my soul.

      1. Yeah, please don’t tell your shops about this “eBay”… I already pay enough each week for comics at cover price. πŸ˜‰

  14. Light week for this collector.

    I got 2 copies Mockingbird 1. Including the non- action figure variant. ( hopefully I can buy some Christmas gifts for my kids next year with those puppies!)

    Wanted -we stand on guard 3, however each LCS was SoLD OUT!

    I bought a shelf copy of Beauty 1 Frison cover. I am impressed with the story and like this artist

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