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 69th edition of the open forum!
Anyone catch Lucifer on Fox last night? Sitting here watching it on DVR now. First two minutes in not so bad.
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!
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My definite pickups are:
Batman Europa #4 – I’m digging it..
Detective Comics #49 – I’m not too happy with this series but I’m a big Batman fan so probably going after the Neal Adams variant.
Unfollow #4 – A great read and is setting itself up to only get better.
Nailbiter #20 – A great read, still loving it.
Paper Girls #5 – Duh
Velvet #13 – Duh, it’s Brubaker
Walking Dead #151 – Duh
ASM #7 – Long time ASM fan.. but this new arc just hasn’t been the same for me.
Cap America Sam W #6 – I like it so far..
Doctor Strange #5 – One of Marvel’s current best reads I think.
Iron Man #6 – Has not been too bad but it is Bendis, I hope he doesn’t get all soft and gooey with the soap opera crap he likes to pull..
Obi Wan Anakin #2 – Haven’t read but a must for any Star Wars fan.
Rocket Groot #2 – Haven’t read but some of my favorites from the Guardians gang.
Scarlet Witch #3 – Still haven’t read but seems promising from what I’ve skimmed.
Spider-Man #1 – It’s a #1, with Miles Morales, has his own following.
Spidey #3 – I’ve been totally digging the cover art for these, especially #2 and now #3
Uncanny Avengers #5 – Just started reading these, not sure how I feel about them yet.
Uncanny X-Men #3 – Haven’t read, only picking up to give X-Men another go.. since Bendis ruined it for me with All New X-Men in the last volume.
Klaus #3 – A great read, wish it came out sooner to be more around the holidays.
X-O Manowar #44 – Teaming up with Ninjak to take out some Vine aliens leading up to Commander Trill.. still one of my favorite Valiant characters.
Batman Europa 4 1:25 Variant – Check out the covers listed on ebay. Joker’s face looks alot more sinister on the real cover than the picture that is going around. They significantly changed the ink.
Paper Girls 5
Batman Robin Eternal 18
Spider-Man 1 Cho Variant if I can get it for 3.99
I’ll pick up the Tec Neal Adams at cover if I can get it at cover.
Walking Dead 151
Nail biter 20. This comic is so good. Why is issue 1 so cheap?
Pre ordering some MMPR 0 2nd prints.
going searching for more Vampirella issues as well.
Which Vampi series you looking for Nicc?
Original Warren series. Hey I have something to send you. I need your address. …again… Haha
Lol to Vampirella my pick ups this week……..
Vampirella #1 1969 this has been on my radar for years, finally the eBay gods dropped one in a f/vf range for a decent price in my lap. Besides being Vampi’s 1st appearance this book has even more to offer. This book is a genre introducing book( much like super mans 1st appearance is to superhero books, spawning generations of masked and caped crusaders.) Vampirella brought upon the big breasted barely dressed women of comics for generations to come. You could say Vampirella #1 is responsible for making female comic characters sexy you could even go as far as saying Vampirella is responsible for changing female Halloween costumes from the norm to sexy over the last 40years. This book is starting to get the respect it deserves price wise.
Tales to Astonish #49 1st giantman Antman becomes Giantman. This too has been on my radar for over a year. Had to pick it up now before it gets to pricey as the book has hit a heat wave due to some Funko Pop speculation. I guess there’s a giantman in the civil war pops making people speculate Antman uses the giantman suit in upcoming civil war movie. Last time there was Funko pop speculation it was grey hulk in avengers 2. Didn’t happen caused a heat wave for the grey hulk books. So I wouldn’t look to far into the civil war speculation but still a must for my collection as giant and 1st appearance.
Avenging Spider-Man #9. Some other speculating sites have been heating this book of late, 1st Carol Danvers as New Captain Marvel. I have every key Ms Marvel Captain Marvel book I never found this as a must have. To me Ms Marvel and Captain Marvel may as well be the same thing, so having Carol Danvers 1st as Ms Marvel would be the book you would want, but found this stupid cheap double signed NM free shipping $13.50 so couldn’t pass on picking it up as its selling for double or triple that.
Thor #133. Ego the Living Planet 1st full and cover. Mentioned last week that it’s rumored Ego is the villain in Guardians otg2. I picked up Thor #132 last week which is 1st ego cameo and thanks to all the helpful people here and their vast comic book knowledge picked this up after finding out this would be the first full appearance. Found a f-/vg+ for .99 +3.00 shipping
Thunderbolts #1 Hastings variant Amazing cover with venom hulk, venom Deadpool, venom everybody. Love it
Avengers Arena #1 Perkins variant My daughter loves Deathlocket from the Lego Avengers game. This is her 1st appearance and the variant has her on the cover. Lego Avengers has a lot of not so known heroes gives me some new 1st appearances to hunt down.
Marvel super heroes #18 First appearance of Guardians of the Galaxy. Got a good deal on this and this book isn’t going to be cheap forever. This book will soon get the respect it deserves, it blows my mind that people shell out big bucks for Inhumans 1st appearance and not guardians 1st appearance. Guardians is in filming of second movie, Inhumans rumor of possibly canning the future Inhumans movie.
Vampi is awesome. I have issue one, had it for a while. I’m a huge fan of all horror comics. Vampirella is my focus for now, but I tend to go after pre code horror books. As long as the cover is attached and it’s in decent condition I’m happy. I’ve also been buying some art prints.
There is also a small print run vampire book that comes out this week called Queen of Vampires from ARH Studios,might be worth a look
Thanks for the heads up! Love the horror genre! It gives me tingles. In the good way
Is there a bad way to get the tingles? I have never found one.
Howard the Duck #4: I have found myself become a Galactus fan recently. With the Ultimates and Howard the Duck, it seems I’ll be well taken care of in this fandom.
Invincible Iron Man #6: There is a lot of Bendis hate that goes around. This series has been pretty awesome, though. I like the clean, crisp art inside. We’ll see if they jump the shark with International Iron Man.
Klaus #3: Christmas being over hasn’t killed my buzz on this one yet. Great, vivid art in here.
Paper Girls #5: The solicit promises a big cliff-hanger. It must be big if BKV is pointing the cliff-hanger out. Ole’ Cliff-Hanger McGee thinks this cliff-hanger is worth a special mention.
Obi-Wan and Anakin #2 #1 pleasantly surprised me.
The Vision #4 At issue 2, this teetered on the border of being dropped from my pull, but 3 pulled me back in.
Kennel Block Blues #1: this looks fun. As an avid animal adopter, this might tug some heart strings.
Peek the First #1: with a solicit like that, you’re just locked into checking it out. I can’t wait to be offended!
Somehow I totally looked over Kennel Block Blues.. but I was able to snag the Pitarra variant at cover. So that was a win for me.. 🙂
Early in-person reviews are raving about Kennel Block Blues right now.
I haven’t read it yet but I’m still wondering how it flew under my radar when sorting through my picks.. I love animals (some days more than most people)… Like Garth Ennis’s “Rover Red Charlie” was an awesome book.. anyone who owns a dog gets that book..
Also, I can’t wait to read Peek the First. What is it about small-format books that get me so excited!? I just love holding a little ashcan size book.
I picked it up too. Passed over the variant but was the only one picking up the book could always go back and get more.
sony’s film adaptation of lemire and nguyen’s “descender” now has a screenwriter. it certainly seems like a different comic gets optioned every other day even though many of them don’t pan out but this news seems like a pretty solid sign for the descender movie.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/sonys-descender-adaptation-finds-writer-860429
first print #1’s can still be picked up on ebay really cheap.
Putting this comment on hold Snackbar as I was working on a post on it last night before I fell asleep. Will have it up shortly.
finally i’ll be able to move my Four Colour Grails variant!
Im still pissed at Lemire for skipping the sat of fan expo and thus not being there to sign my books. I have two of three sigs on All New Hawkeye #1 and nothing on Descender 🙁
I sold mine a long time ago and recently bought one back for way less than I sold my 4CG variant.
I still saw some #1 var. at Books a Million may have to go back this weekend and grab a couple more.
I have to see if I still have one. May have sold them all. I know my local Books a Million still has them.
NYC Books in my Area are delayed ..also hearing delays in Manhattan as well as Brooklyn ..more news as i receive it
Ok here is the scoop ..The UPS truck that delivers comics to the New York area broke down somewhere in the middle of the country ,Books should be on shelves sometime this afternoon
I was told this effects NY State as a whole
Jock Europa Variant
Siya Oum Scarlett Witch 4
Flippers gonna flip!
My LCS had 2 Jocks on the shelf, I am going back this afternoon and will snag it if available.
Is this proper etiquiette?
I am in theory giving others a crack at it.
If they had 2 and you left one.. you did good sir. I’d say if its there still at the end of the day, I’d have no problem with you nabbing it but I’m sure it’ll be gone before noon.
One LCS for me had just one, I grabbed it for sure. My other shop had one but at the inflated $9.99 price (which still isn’t bad price, I just don’t buy variants above cover).
Siya Oum Scarlett Witch…. Great pick up ..A 1:25 ..i mean really…how many stores are going to order a ton of Scarlett witch
Yeah, I looked for Scarlet Witch variants.. one shop got none.. the other had a few at the inflated prices so I passed.
Light week for me.
Definite pick ups:
Giant Days
Swamp Thing
Maybe:
Tuki (I love Jeff Smith but am not enjoying this)
The Incredible Hulk #377 first professor/hulk
Batman #436 first Tim Drake
The Flash #76 first Max Mercury
Good back issue pick ups!
My for sure pickups this week are as follows:
Action Comics – just waiting to see supes get repowered then i’ll likely drop for a bit
Deadpool and the Mercs for Money – because its DP duh
Detective comics – was going to drop, but now that Snyder is taking over after batman #52, i”ll likely just move from batman to this
Midnighter – my fave recently
Nailbiter – its good, but was moving slowly and just recently started to pick up
Spider man – interested in seeing how miles fits into his new universe
Spidey – loving this series, actually feels like a spiderman title
ASM – im with poyo here, ever since ANAD, this series has really shit the bed. If if wasn’t a spiderman title, I’d drop it.
Walking Dead – because duh, its WD
Uncanny Avengers – will probably drop after this arc
Got a message from my friend, got a Suicide Squad and BvS movie swag package on the way! Hopefully there’s some gear that’s insider, not just the usual promo materials
I hope you get a crew jacket. You know the vinyl jacket with the logo on it. That would be rad.
Haha it’s so funny that you mention that because the first thing I said to my gf ‘I freaking hope it’s a crew jacket’
A crew jacket would just be bad assed.
Everybody should run to Hastings! All variants are 70% off!
Here’s what I grabbed–
Superman Lois & Clark #1 (Tony Daniel) $3.00
Rocket Racoon & Groot #1 (Superlog) $2.70
Deadpool & the Mercs #1 (hip-hop) $1.20
Detective #49 (Neal Adams) $1.20
Obi-Wan & Anakin #1 (Action Figure) $1.20
Wonder Woman #48 (Coloring book) $1.20
Superman #48 (Coloring book) $1.20
Spider-man (Miles Morales, Scottie Young Variant) $1.20
and a couple other Coloring book variants.
Totally worth it to get them under cover price!
On a side note, I just read Allen, Son of Hellcock #1 last night and it was hilarious.
I was rather impressed. Happy Wednesday!
Man, I wish there was a Hastings near me. Looking at their site, looks like they only have the black and white Neal Adams books… at full price
Under my £20 limit for the first time in ages, that actually feels genuinely good.. Then blew it by ordering 1-4 of Henry and Glenn forever after hearing about it on Kevin smiths fatman on batman pod cast, how did I miss that?! Sounds genuinely mental. Anyway…
Dec comics 49 – Adams
Waking dead 151
Paper girls 5
Unfollow 4
Batman Europa 4
Faith 1 2nd print
Velvet 13
No thrills, all for reading. Except Dec 49, that’s just cos it’s an awesome cover.
Henry and Glenn Forever is great. A buddy of mine got Henry Rollins to sign a copy at one of his spoken word shows in DC. Also, Henry Rollins sang along side Glenn Danzig on a live version of We Are 138 on a live recording. He was a fan of the Misfits.
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Ha, yeah I know your into your punk, should have known you’d be into this!
Lol. Yeah. It’s a classic series. I do love indie comics as well and it’s done by Tom Neely who does humans
I really enjoyed Mirror #1. It is like a mashup of Princess Mononoke, the Secret of Nimh, and Lewis Carroll done in watercolor.
yeah i really like it, too. i enjoy the writing.
didnt know where to say this, but i saw a early screening for deadpool tonight. Anyone who might have been worried , dont be. It WAS AMAZING!!!! Oh and Funny!!! looks like im keeping my new mutants 98, cant bring myself to sell it lol.
Any spoilers you want to email? Wolverine appearance?
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It’s too good to spoil but I can if you want. Nothing major just a really good movie that resembles it’s source material.
Ok. Cool. So no big surprises?
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Deadpool #6 getting a second printing
Yeah I think I mentioned that a few days ago. New cover for the reprint I think.
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I have 10 copies of first print 9regular and 1 secrect comic variant
Also all the signed Deadpool #7 both regular signature and blood red signature limited books have disappeared from midtown
If you wanna know about the only two cameos worth mentioning what’s ur email? I’m at work but will get back to you on lunch
Apopcomics@gmail.com
Cheers
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Ugggghhh……
Those are Dynamic Forces exclusives. More can be found on their website: http://dynamicforces.com/htmlfiles/search3.html?KMPP=deadpool+7&Submit.x=0&Submit.y=0
The thing that cracks me up about the Dynamic Forces signed variant is you are paying a set price, their sale price, which is an arbitrary charge based on a year that the original character was introduced. That is unless you want it signed with a red sharpie and then it is $10 more.