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.

The 56th edition of the open forum!

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!

45 thoughts on “Wednesday Open Forum”

  1. Has anyone heard anything about Deadpools daughter Eleanor “Ellie” Comacho? I figured she would come into play later on but I can’t find a definitive first appearance of her. Can anyone help with this

      1. Thank you. I have read that however it seems that they mention her and show what appears to be a female shadow pushing a stroller but didn’t know if that counted as first appearance.

  2. Small week (thank God!)

    -Doctor Strange #2: I can’t wait to see where Aaron takes this character. Loved BKV’s “The Oath” from Halloween Comic Fest.
    -Howard the Duck #1 (Lim Variant): Glad I ordered mine at cover before everybody freaked the F&k out!
    -The Humans #9: This series is my personal baby. This is pure, unadulterated comic madness.
    -Invincible Iron Man #3
    Klaus #1
    -Ninjak #9: Man, I look forward to this book EVERY SINGLE MONTH without fail.
    -Paper Girls #2: This is a maybe. I grabbed #1 and I’m intrigued, but I’ve been enjoying Image books in TPB more than singles.
    -Star Wars #11: The reason I started reading comics. A must pull every month, every week.
    We Stand on Guard #5: BKV’s awesome out-of-left-field Canadian Epic is wrapping up! Love it.

    1. For the same problems that were in Uncanny inhumans which didn’t get recalled…..weird. I pointed this out when it came out and no one cared

    2. I’m still hoping to get one. I kinda have a thing for recalled comics.
      I have a pretty good relationship with my lcs, so it’s a pretty good shot at getting one.

  4. I unfortunately did not get the Howard The Duck Lim variant for cover, but I did buy two.
    Also
    We Stand On Guard 5
    Paper Girls 2
    And that sweet Rob Liefeld Deadpool #1 variant.

  5. Hitting the shops before they open, hoping to score a few Gwenpool variants.
    Picking up the new Deadpool series, Nailbiter, The Humans, maybe a couple others when I look through this week’s list again in the morning.
    Dollar bin pickups of the week were a GOTG #1 1:100 variant, and Fight Club 2 #1 Bermejo variant.
    Good hunting!

  6. This week’s picks:

    Deadpool
    Detective comics
    Howard the duck – love Zdarsky. Local boy.
    Darkseid war superman and flash
    Midnighter
    Nailbiter
    Rasputin
    Star wars
    Spiderman
    We stand on guard

  8. Grabbed Extraordinary X-men 1 Campbell at a great price. Should hold its own just fine.
    Paper Girls and We Stand on Guard for reading, maybe Unfollow.

  9. This week’s list;

    Harley Quinn & Power Girl #5 ( for the wife)
    Paper Girls #2
    We stand on guard #5
    Marvel univ. GOTG #2 ( for my boy)
    Bob’s burgers #5 ( for the wife)
    Howard the duck #1
    Deadpool #1

  10. Pre-ordered most of my November pulls so another week of having no idea what I ordered. I know I missed out on Niobe #1 and could not get my hands on HTD #1 Lim Variant. It strikes me as odd that you can get all the other incentive variants HTD relatively easy and I wonder if there is some artificial scarcity been created – like when a toy shop doesn’t have many of the must have Christmas toy because they ‘under-ordered’.

    Anyway I know I continue on acquiring the Marvel Hip Hop Variants
    Also with Deadpool there will be the secret comic variant for about 5 or so issues that will create its own self contained story.
    My favourite artist is Francavilla so Hangman #1 and James Bond #1 covers
    Aja variant for Howard the Duck #1
    Paper Girls #2
    Star Wars
    and there probably are a few more that I have forgotten to mention

  11. Howard the duck – Lim variant… Everyone is going to say flip these but I don’t know… Might hold for a bit, see what happens.
    Star Wars 11 – action figure.
    Humans 9
    James Bond 1 – no francavella covers where I went.
    Lazarus – still one of my favourites.
    Paper girls 2
    We stand on guard 5
    Citizen Jack 1b – looks interesting.
    Velvet 12 – awesome.
    Unfollow 1
    Stray bullets 9 – also awesome.

    Quite a decent week that, with lots of good stuff to read.

    2. If you like Gwen Pool, collect, then keep and hold, perhap sell later but it’s going to peak and it’ll peak now. You can find EOSV #2 and Deadpool Secret Secret War #2 for less than they peaked at, both are falling back to real world prices as I think the Gwen-Whatever hype is starting to fade a bit.

        1. Yeah, one shop didn’t get any Niobe, another had about 10 copies. The hard to get one was ExMortis, one shop had around 5, another about the same and were sold out before I even got there.

          Of course every shop was out of the Gwen Pool variant.. oh well, if I got one I was going to sell immediately anyways.

  12. My most likely pickups:

    Detective Comics #46 – One of the few DC titles I still read.
    Unfollow #1 – A pick of the week, gotta check it out, story seems interesting and has potential.
    Bond #1 – I’m not a huge Bond (I do like Daniel Craig as Bond though) fan but gotta check out anyways.
    Black Science #17 – Yay
    Humans #9 – This is just a fun read, highly entertaining.
    Monstress #1 – Image #1, seems interesting but we’ll see.
    Nailbiter #17 – Yes, one of my favorite reads.
    Paper Girls #2 – Duh!
    Velvet #12 – It’s Brubaker.. of course I’m going to read it.
    We Stand On Guard #5 – BKV the master story teller.
    ASM #3 – I have yet to read the new volume but I’m getting closer.. I think I’m only around 100 issues behind on all my Marvel pickups with the Secret Wars crap that went on over the summer.
    Dr. Strange #2 – See above.
    Drax #1 – Gotta check out.
    Iron Man #3 – I’ve actually read 1 & 2 so far and must say it’s good so far.
    Star Wars #11 – Duh!
    Vision #1 – I love Vision but from the description, not sure how this is going to pan out.. kind of comes off being cheesy.
    Ninjak #9 – One of Valiants best titles.
    ExMortis #1 – Pick of the week, 451 Media hitting them out of the ballpark.
    Hangman #1 – Get that Black Hood vibe, hope it’s just as good.
    Niobe She Is Life #1 – Everyone is picking this one up or going to try.

    1. My bank account is hollering at me, “You planning on retiring one day? You gonna end up a Walmart greeter until you die if you keep up this habit!”

  14. 3 stores and only 1 had Niobe…the one that did had 1 copy of the 1:5 and 2 copies of the regular. One guy who orders heavy on everything had never heard of it.

  15. Was at 2 shops well before they opened and no Gwenpools. One shop said they didn’t get any but had the 1:50 so it must have went right up on ebay. Picked up the HTD 1:50 for $20 to slab. None of the shops had Niobe 1:5 so it was very underordered around here.
    Hangman looks like it will sell out, got the Francavilla and the Deadpool hip hop at cover. Not a great day but not horrible either.

  16. Dark Corridor #4: The arts really grown on me and I like the story.
    Deadpool #1: I usually don’t buy anything superhero, but the trailer was hilarious so we’ll see.
    The Hangman #1: Love the premise and think this will be a good one.
    The Humans #9: Absolutely love this wild ride of a comic
    Paper Girls #2: Are they aliens? Time travelers? WHAT?!? Solid start to this series
    Unfollow #1: This could be a really good story. I hope it doesn’t disappoint.
    We stand on Gaurd #5: May have been better with more time to tell the story but it’s still solid.

      1. Same here. I’m buying big in the beginning for these. I picked up 4 copies of #2. Both shops had smaller stacks, we all know how #2 goes, they always drop dramatically and if it stays popular starts to gain on later issues.

  17. Picked these up today:
    Howard the Duck #1 – Regular Cover and Gwenpool variant ($12) – Mainly Howard the Duck fan but Gwenpool seems very cool.
    ExMortis #1 – Liked both Sunflower and Self Storage
    Paper Girls #2 – Liked #1, also picked up the midtown signed copy.
    Harley Quinn and Power Girl #5 – Harley
    Justice League Darkseid War Superman and Flash – Huge fan of the Darkseid War.
    James Bond VARGR #1 – Bond, James Bond.
    Batman and Robin Eternal #5 – Weekly Batman fix.

      2. Just read Monstress last night. I thought it was Saga/Rat Queens good. Gave it to my daughter to read. She was immediately taken in by the art. She has a limited allowance and is dropping Wayward for Monstress.

    2. Sadly I was not that impressed with Niobe. The dialogue and narrative needed some help. The art was okay but it could of been better. This type of book I like seeing more details in the art.

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