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 116th edition of the open forum!
Let’s hear those comic book related Christmas Gifts
“Don’t mess with my Wednesdays”.
As always we also want to hear about your weekly pickups.
So, What were your pick ups?
What had disappeared off the shelves?
What was sitting on the shelves?
What back issue deals did you grab?
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Detective 850 has disappeared from the longboxes. I think I cleared out the area shops pretty good in the last week
yeah I have seen. Congrats on the pick ups. I need to get out hunting!
I’ve been looking, but no luck on an 850 so far..they are scarce!
I am hoping I have it already as I collected Detective around that time
So sad to hear about Carrie Fisher. On a more positive note, I hope the holidays were good to everyone. We just went out today and bought a sweet new christmas tree on sale 60% off for next year.
Tommorow morning I’ll go grab:
Action comics
AD
All star Batman
Civil war
DK III
Detective comics
Extraordinary XMen
Image +
JL v SS
Spiderman/deadpool
Autumnlands
Flash
Hellblazer
Thor
Uncanny avengers
Uncanny Inhumans
I will then proceed to play dead rising 4 for another week and a half before I return to work.
Somehow my wife talked me into buying the biggest and best tree the store had on display this year. That sucker better last me a lifetime after what we paid for it. I wish I would have waited for the 60% off sales.
Lol. We can’t convince the kids to let us get an artificial tree.
I asked my kids if they would be willing to pick up the pine needles, clean up the sap, and ensure the tree is watered. They gave me an honest answer of no and we ended up with another fake tree. We had a basement flood earlier this year and it ruined our old tree. So we were forced into an upgrade this year. The tree looks nice…my bank account doesn’t lol.
Don’t worry Tony, they’ll get to an age where they don’t care about a real one anymore. Makes life so much easier.
This week’s picks are;
All-Star Batman #5
DKIII #7
Harley’s little black book #5
Scooby-Doo Team-Up #21
Super powers #2
Supergirl being super #1
AD #2
Spider-Man/ Deadpool #12
For pops and AF, going to get Harley Quinn New Animated Advance AF, and 2- Batman animated adventures POP!
Also on a good news but sad for me, Brian Woods is in town doing a signing at my comic shop, but I won’t be able to make it. ( going to work up in LA). Was really hoping to get my Briggs Land books signed. But won’t happen this time. Tried to talk to the owner so see if he can get then signed for me, but it was a no go. He said that he does these signing for a meet and greet style of event so it’s understandable, but it still sucks.
I forgot about Scooby Doo Team Up #21
I have stopped going to my LCS, the owner is a bit of a dick so can’t be doing with him!
So all online stuff for me, some pre-orders and the usual that I see people post here that I forgot to order and will go scrabbling after lol
AD #2
All Star Batman #5 jock Variant
Seven to Eternity #4 both covers
Flash #13 Johnson variant, what a great Christmas cover!
Supergirl Being Super #1
Justice league vs Suicide Squad #2 Conner variant
Saga #41 but I assume this will be late due to recall? Unlikely to get the mis-coloured version I reckon.
Grimm Fairy Tales #1 cover A
Scooby Doo Team Up #21. Just for the fun of it, if it specs well that’s just an added bonus!
My Ghost Rider #1 Frankie’s Dell’otto variants eventually turned up today. Should I take them out of the bags they were sealed up in at printers or leave them? Advice appreciated as usual guys.
I don’t get the dick LCS owner in the year 2016. The markup is so low and everyone knows you can get your books cheaper on the internet. You have to give your customers a reason to choose you.
I like the guys who own my shop and I like the idea of having a local shop so I support them even though I could get my comics cheaper elsewhere. Seems so simple yet you hear over and over again about jerk owners.
As we say here, nowt queer as folk! But yeah in this tough economic market customer service should be key.
Forgot I had pre-ordered Trinity #4 variant. So important I told you all :op
Batman All Star #5
Dark Knight#7 It’s amazing how far behind this series got.
James Bond #12
I’ll see if Saga is waiting for me but the guys who run my LCS are usually on top of these things.
Hulk #1 Store Variant at cover price, we’ll see if does anything more than the Ghost Rider one I got last month
Extraordinary X-Men 17
Civil War 2 Cho Variant, now have the set of them, LOVE his style on these
Flash 13
AD #2
JL vs SS #2 – never been a DC reader but this series has me interested so far
Totally Awesome Hulk #3 which has the 1st appearance of the kid behind the upcoming “Monsters Unleashed” thing that Marvel is going to release–maybe it turns into something, maybe not
Saga 41 recalled version x3
AD #1
That’s it for me. My shop put out all of their recalled Saga’s. I could have bought more if I wanted to.
Got three Saga’s myself.
I only got one. My shop is pretty on top of not putting out recalled books, but unless they have to return them all to get replacements, a single copy somehow finds it way into my pull box 😉
So my wife text me today and she went to the comic shop for me and got the Briggs land books signed and sent out to CGC. Am I lucky or what? LOL
Wow. That’s pretty rad of her to do.
Heck yeah. Specially cuz she had to go with the kids lol
Finally got my hands on the marvel legends deadpool figure at regular retail price. Apparently they are now going to be available for retailers to order on its own as opposed to one in a set. Good for me, sucks for the people who forked over $100 for one.
I bought myself a few after Christmas presents for myself this week. My local online store had a 50% off sale so I picked up about 40 or so ASM back issues to help build my ASM legacy collection. I also picked up a 1 per store Dr. Aphra #1 for $30 CDN. My LCS was also having 50% off back issues today, they don’t have much, but have a box of some key books marked up. I picked up True Believers Deadpool for .75, Vader #1 for $2.50, TWD #115 NYCC exclusive for $3, TWD #127 for $7.50, Harley Black Book #1 B&W J.Scott Campbell cover for $5, TWD #130 for $5, TWD #132 for $5, TWD FCBD for $2.50, Barman #40 for $2.50. I also got my 2nd comic nerd block today and it had a WW 77 meets The Bionic Woman #1 exclusive (it sold in like 5 minutes on eBay), a Star Trek Green Lanterns Exclusive and a Hook Jaw #1 exclusive. It also had a Ninjak Tee, a Deadpool Calender, and a Lil DC Bombshells Harley Exclusive and a 10″ Harley Print. I’m not keeping any of it, lol. My weekly pulls were:
DK III #7, 1:15 variant
Civil War #8
Carnage #15
7 to Eternity #4
All Star Bats #5, Jock variant
Detective
And one of my two copies of Atoll #1 came in today. I will be picking it up tomorrow as I didn’t visit that particular store today. I usually hit 3-5 stores on Wednesdays, but I only went to 2 today as one shop had just gotten there books 5 minutes before I arrived and the other had not gotten their books at all. This was all around noon. I went home after that as I figured all the stores up here were getting late deliveries due to Christmas. I’ll be out tomorrow to see what else I can find.
LCS
Harley’s Little Black Book 5
Image + 9
A.D. 2
No Sagas 🙁
Online
Action Comics Vol 2 #968 Cover B Variant Gary Frank Cover
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 Annual #1 Cover C Variant Raul Valdes Cover
Atoll #1 Midtown has some!
Black Monday Murders #4
Bloodshot USA #2 Cover A Regular Doug Braithwaite Cover
Briggs Land #3
Cage Vol 3 #2 Cover A Regular Genndy Tartakovsky Cover
Cinema Purgatorio #7 Cover D Code Pru Cover
Civil War II #7 Cover B Variant Michael Cho Cover
Comic Shop News #1542 – FREE – Limit 1 Per Customer
Crossed #8 Convention Edition
Death Of X #4 Cover C Variant Classic Cover
Deathstroke Vol 4 #7 Cover B Variant Shane Davis Cover
Dept H #8
Detective Comics Vol 2 #945 Cover B Variant Rafael Albuquerque Cover
Empress #7 Cover B Variant Stuart Immonen Character Cover
Flash Vol 5 #11 Cover B Variant Dave Johnson Cover
Frostbite #3
Goddamned #5 Cover A RM Guera
Godzilla Rage Across Time #3 Cover A Regular Bob Eggleton Cover
Godzilla Rage Across Time #4 Cover A Regular Bob Eggleton Cover
Godzilla Rage Across Time #5 Cover A Regular Bob Eggleton Cover
Great Divide #3 Cover B Variant Ben Dale Homage Cover
Harrow County #18
Hellblazer Vol 2 #4 Cover B Variant Yasmine Putri Cover
Jeff Steinberg Champion Of Earth #4
Lake Of Fire #4 Cover B Tom Fowler & Nathan Fairbairn
Mighty Thor Vol 2 #13
Ninjak Vol 3 #21 Cover B Variant Ryan Bodenheim Cover
Outcast By Kirkman & Azaceta #23
Snotgirl #4 Cover B Bryan Lee O Malley
Spider-Gwen Vol 2 #14 Cover A Regular Robbi Rodriguez Cover
Spirit Hunters #1 Cover C Gregbo Watson
Star Wars Han Solo #5 Cover A Regular Kamome Shirahama Cover
Star Wars Vol 4 #25 Cover B Variant John Tyler Christopher IG-88 Action Figure Cover
Super Powers Vol 4 #1 Cover B Variant Franco Cover
Superman Adventures #52
Titans Vol 3 #5 Cover B Variant Mike Choi Cover
Venom Vol 3 #1 Cover C Variant Marvel Hip-Hop Cover (Marvel Now Tie-In)
Wonder Woman Vol 5 #11 Cover B Variant Jenny Frison Cover
Nothing ground-breaking for me next week so I didn’t pre-order anything.
Happy New Year!
That is a very impressive pick up list! It is as bad as mine!
Going to get to a couple of shops today. I called my main Shop yesterday and they said they got Saga in, so since I already have it in my pullbox I told them to put an extra copy in my pullbox.
One of my lcs’s shipment was delayed until today. I was able to snag two Saga 41s before they pulled them off the shelf five minutes later. Many in the stack had spine ticks on that dark cover.