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 153rd edition of the open forum!
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?
I finally listed a ton of exclusives I have extras of, cheap. Trying to raise more funds for Baltimore this weekend and NYCC next weekend. you can see my $5 or less sale here.
And you can see all my comics for sale here.
And here is my new comic haul:
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Now that I’ve seen some other poison characters, I believe What if? The other. is 1st Poison. Not all the Poison characters are white example Poison Deadpool.
I picked up a NM copy of What if…the Other #1 about two weeks ago for cover price at a LCS.
Baltimore Comic Con around the corner ,, can’t wait!!
Just read the Realm #1…loved it! It’s going to be a great series!
Going to Baltimore Comic Con for the CGC onsite, hoping there’s exclusives that are worth picking up. Haven’t seen a full list anywhere
I got one of my boxes of comics I pre-ordered, and guess what one of the comics I got was? TWD #171 pink signature, I lucked out there. The only thing I’m really looking for tomorrow is anything Metal. I did pick up another set of Realm #1a and b over the weekend. I hope you guys are watching Rick and Morty this is the best season yet.
I started watching the show. Trying to catch up. However, I have been hung up on watching American Vandal.
Oooooohh, been wanting to check out American Vandal.
RICKY TICKY TAFFEYYYYYY
Does this week’s Invincible #140 have a secret signature variant? I’m curious since its a Kirkman title with the same variant cover artist.
I was going to ask the same thing about Gasolina.
I got the Gasolina b cover and none at my shop had a different coloured signature. For what it’s worth. I have asked my LCS to pull any image titles they get with a different coloured signature.
so I know midtown comic tend to have some signed comics up for cover price at times. What’s the best way to find out what new ones they offer for cover?
I know I got the All-new wolverine #16 for cover or well under due to their discount plus shipping when it was mentioned in article posted here before.
I always look on the weekly lists for books. But you can search by “signed” and sort by newest. From there , you have to scroll down past all the pre-order status ones until you get to the listed ones. Those are the newest.
ah sounds good thank you!
Power Pack #1 is heating up. Looks like the movie is on
I bought one on Amazon said New NM+ condition.
Honestly think I already have it, but cheaper to buy then take the time to search for it and risk not having it.
I think my LCS has one….. well off to the store I go.
Looks like we’re getting Phoenix variants coming in December from Marvel.
http://imgur.com/3ydkTSp
This Spider-Gwen one is the one that pops out to me most so far.
Like that one! Nice
Richard, where did you find that? I checked Diamond and it wasn’t showing. Can you email me at apopcomics@gmail.com?
Sent you an email just now
http://comicbook.com/marvel/2017/09/19/marvel-phoenix-variants/
Not sure if my email sent so just incase it didn’t but here you go. There’s 10 covers revealed so far and the listing of other issues with the Phoenix covers are up on there.
Thanks man.
That is nice.
Hope it’s been a good week for everyone!
I have not yet touched my books from last week, but I’m sure I’ll eventually get to them!
Pretty busy last week getting ready for the wedding but that’s over now! It went super well. She actually showed up and our guests had a great time! Pretty sure we cost the venue money due to the flat rate open bar…our families can really put it away!
So now that I’m married there are no books this week….JUST KIDDING!! HEHEHEE
This week I am getting:
Batman #31
The Red Death #1
Green Lanterns #31
Invincible #140
Justice League #29
Nightwing #29
Spectacular Spiderman #4
Royals #8
Shirtless Bear Fighter #4
Star Wars Annual (UGHH) #3
Superman #31
Renew Your Vows #11
Wild Storm #7
Venomverse #3
Take it easy everyone!
You think you’re kidding but just wait….?
Lool
Nah, she’s good for my comic addiction. It’s my only hobby expense really, and it’s still cheaper than golf. Her brother is a big collector as well so she gets it.
Worst case scenario I’ll have to cut it back to my favourite titles, but I’ll never have to stop unless I choose to.
Keeping the basement all to myself….that likely has a short shelf life.
Why the ugh for Star Wars Annual #3?
Lol
Ok so I email my LCS in the am to set aside books I may not have on my pull, and I just copy pasta’d it this week. I have this running gag with them about annuals. I hate them. They’re usually a waste of money and rarely does anything to advance the series. Im not crazy about cute little quickies by guest artists etc. BUT… if I don’t get it then there’s a hole in my collection.
Now, I don’t mind out of continuity stories as long as it’s like a one shot (one story per book!) And not some cutesy pointless waste of time.
Just my opinion.
Aquaman Middleton variant was non-existent in my area.. Even Austin Books didn’t have any.. Misbeggoten was hard to come by as well. One shop had them and only 1 x Cover C variant, had about a dozen of the others.
Also one shop had zero Bloodshot Salvation.. I found that odd one shop was completely out, only had enough for subscribers.
Also out of both shops, there was only 1 x Phil Hester cover available (which of course I grabbed).
Phil Hester Dark Ark that is..
Picked up Totally Awesome Hulk 23 x2 (my shop had 4 of these), TAH 22 2nd print, and Invincible 140
What’s up with TAH #23, saw it sold out online at most shops but when I skimmed it, seemed like a whole lot of nothing special going on..
Lol
It’s because it says weapon x in the description. People probably stopped reading there and assumed it’s more weapon h stuff.
Either that or they figure since 22 was valuable 23 must be as well.
Aahhh sheeple.
Gotta love em.
Perhaps we can make a quick buck flipping these tonight before it dies.
The only thing special about TAH 23 is it has a classic Hulk cover swipe by Cho.
Pick ups this week:
Captain Phasma (1:15 variant)
Star Wars Annual 3 (variant)
TAH #23 (love that homage cover by Cho)
TAH #22 2nd print
Cool finds for the week:
The Realm #1 Tony Moore variant X 2 for cover
Ordered The Realm #1 (Castlevania variant X 3)-loved Castlevania when I was younger and really dig the artwork
Good hunting everyone!
Not picking anything up this week.
I picked up Grrl Scouts Magic Socks 1-4 last week from Jim Mahfood himself. Once I read them, I may pick up #5 out this week. I read the Realm 1 and was not impressed enough to continue the series; I may be in the minority on this one. Berke Breathed is releasing a signed complete Bloom County set for $99 on his website for those of us old enough to remember reading Opus and Bill in the papers. RIP Harry Dean Stanton. My local theater is putting on a HDS festival starting with Repo Man on Saturday.
Long list, didn’t miss out on much. No Dark Ark, but wasn’t really interested in that one, anyway. The damage so far:
WORLD OF ANIMOSITY #1 CVR A RAFAEL DE LATORRE
UNHOLY GRAIL #3
SIMPSONS TREEHOUSE OF HORROR #23
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA OLD MAN JACK #1 MAIN & MIX
BLACK HAMMER #13 MAIN
DEPT H #18
AQUAMAN #28 VAR ED x2
BATMAN #31 VAR ED
BATMAN THE RED DEATH #1 (METAL) – damaged, but a couple on the way from Midtown
BATWOMAN #7 VAR ED
CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE #12 VAR ED (MR)
GREEN ARROW #31 VAR ED
GREEN LANTERNS #31 VAR ED
HARLEY QUINN #28 VAR ED
INJUSTICE 2 #10
JUSTICE LEAGUE #29 VAR ED
NIGHTWING #29 (METAL) Got Cover A, B is in the mail
SUPER SONS #8 VAR ED
SUPERMAN #31 VAR ED
TRINITY #13 VAR ED
WILD STORM #7
WONDER WOMAN CONAN #1 (OF 6)
BUG THE ADVENTURES OF FORAGER #4 (OF 6) (MR)
BUG THE ADVENTURES OF FORAGER #4 (OF 6) VAR ED
GAME OF THRONES CLASH OF KINGS #4 CVR A MILLER
STAR WARS ADVENTURES #2 CVR A CHARM
STAR WARS ADVENTURES #2 CVR B CHARRETIER
SAMURAI JACK QUANTUM JACK #1 (OF 5) CVR A OEMING
STAR TREK BOLDLY GO #11 CVR A CALTSOUDAS
DESCENDER #24 CVR A NGUYEN
GASOLINA #1 CVR A
GENERATION GONE #3
HORIZON #14
INVINCIBLE #140
US AVENGERS #10 SE
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN RENEW YOUR VOWS #11
AVENGERS #11 SE
JOURNEY STAR WARS LAST JEDI CAPT PHASMA #2 (OF 4)
PETER PARKER SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #4
STAR WARS ANNUAL #3
STAR WARS POE DAMERON #19
STAR WARS POE DAMERON #19 25th Anniversary Cover
VENOM #154
VENOMVERSE #3 (OF 5)
X-MEN GOLD #12
BLOODSHOT SALVATION #1 CVR A ROCAFORT
SECRET WEAPONS #4 (OF 4) CVR A ALLEN
My pickups:
https://youtu.be/EmfYu4CFUBU
Give me your Shirtless Bear Fighter Rivera cover.. none of my shops got them..
Also, the Misbegotten Monroe homage cover was plentiful out of the ones at the shop that had them. It was the Cover C that they only got 1 in out of them all.
Bloodshot Salvation – Pre-order Variant
Invincible 140
Star Wars Annual
Dark Ark #1 – Cover A x2
Bloodshot Salvation #1 Pre-Order Variant x7
My pickups from the local shop today:
https://youtu.be/Tv1BG1WBapE
Look at you Agentpoyo. Keeping your identity a secret. To bad you forgot to put on the gloves lol.
Those were my removable hands..
If you want to find out what I look like, you have to meet me at NYCC.. but I warn everyone, it’s quite frightening. 🙂
Unbearable actually. Didn’t know one man could have so many deformities
Hehe.. I’m not that bad, am I? 😛
After last week, I took it easy today…….
Dark Arc #1a
All 3 Metal comics
Rose #6b still had one left over from last week
LCS
Totally Awesome Hulk 23
Generations Thor 2nd print
Batman 31 reg cvr
Harley Quinn 28 var cvr
Online
Amazing Spider-Man Renew Your Vows Vol 2 #10
American Gods Shadows #6 Cover A Regular Glenn Fabry Cover
Aquaman Vol 6 #27 Cover A Regular Stjepan Sejic Cover
Astonishing X-Men Vol 4 #2 Cover A Regular Mike Deodato Jr Cover
Batwoman Vol 2 #6 Cover B Variant Michael Cho Cover
Bitch Planet Triple Feature #3
Black Magick #8 Cover B Variant Jenny Frison Cover NEXT WEEK
Briggs Land Lone Wolves #3 Cover B Variant Jeffrey G Jones Cover
Comic Shop News #1580
Dark Nights Metal #1 Cover C Variant Jim Lee Cover
Descender #23 Cover B Variant Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen Interlocking Cover
Divinity Vol 4 #0 Cover A Regular Juan Jose Ryp Cover
FOOM Magazine NEXT WEEK
Generation X Vol 2 #5
Generations Phoenix & Jean Grey #1 Cover A 1st Ptg Regular Stephanie Hans Cover
Graveland #1 NEXT WEEK
Grimm Fairy Tales Presents Grimm Tales Of Terror Vol 3 #8 Cover A Eric J
Hammer Comics Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter #1 Cover B Variant Caroline Munroe Hammer Glamour Cover NEXT WEEK
Horizon #13
I Hate Fairyland #15 Cover B Variant Skottie Young F*ck Fairyland Cover
John Carpenters Tales Of Science Fiction Vault #3 NEXT WEEK
Kill The Minotaur #3
Luke Cage #4
Malefic #1 NEXT WEEK
Mighty Thor Vol 2 #22 Cover A Regular Russell Dauterman Cover
Noir Alley Promo Comic NEXT WEEK
Regression #4
Secret Weapons Vol 2 #3 Cover B Variant Afua Richardson Cover
Shadow Vol 7 #1 Cover B Variant Michael Kaluta Cover
Sheena Vol 4 #0 Cover A Regular Emanuela Lupacchino Cover
Silver Surfer Vol 7 #13
Southern Bastards #17 Cover B Cliff Chiang
Spider-Men II #2 Cover B Variant Jesus Saiz Connecting B Cover
Star Wars Rogue One Cassian & K-2SO Special #1 Cover A Regular Julian Totino Tedesco Cover
Star Wars Vol 4 #34 Cover B Variant Daniel Acuna Star Wars 40th Anniversary Cover
Superman Vol 5 #29 Cover B Variant Doug Mahnke Cover
Winnebago Graveyard #3 Cover B Variant Emi Lenox Cover
Wonder Woman Vol 5 #31 Cover B Variant Jenny Frison Cover NEXT WEEK
Sabrina The Teenage Witch is going to get a CW show.
https://twitter.com/ArchieComics/status/910590498653577218
Question for everyone. When starting to fill a new long/shortbox how do you keep your comics standing when there’s not enough to keep them up?
Buy more comics 🙂
Lol of course ?
I’ve filled mine with POP! figure boxes before. Small boxes work great for me though, just empty boxes that almost take up the space but leave a little wiggle room.
That sounds smart but I gave away most if not all my pops not too long ago lol
Gasolina – 2 x ashcan and a bunch of a and b covers.
Dark ark – 1 retailer appreciation and then a few of the a and b covers.
Now have 6 copies of Sink cover A and 3 copies of cover b (all at face value). At the moment the market seems to be flooded with them so I’m going to hold them for a short while.
I’ve sold a few Realm #1 sets but again thinking of holding onto the remainder to see if you does a Calexit. I have 5 copies of the comic quest transilvania cover… again holding those as they were limited to 500 copies.
My pick-ups yesterday included…
Aquaman – B x 3
Batman – A (not a fan of the B variants for this title)
Batman The Red Death
Harley Quinn – B
Nightwing – A + B
Super Sons – A + B
Superman – A
Trinity – B
Avengers – Venomized Loki
Captain Phasma – 1:15 and 1:25 variants
Invincible Iron Man – Venomized Dr. Doom
Jean Grey – Venomized Phoenix
Poe Dameron
Totally Awesome Hulk
Venomverse – Poison variant
Star Wars Annual – B
WW Meets Bionic Woman – Staggs virgin variant
Star Wars Adventures – 1:10 x 2
Gasolina A + B
Shirtless Bear Fighter – B
Black Eyed Kids
Dark Ark – A + retailer variant
Bloodshot Salvation (pre-order edition) – an unexpected surprise…came bagged with a separate black + white “not for individual sale” version of just the main story and a few xtra pages on history/biology of Bloodshot + one page editor interview. The reg. color book has a Ninjak # 1 preview and 8 design/commentary pages that the B+W version doesn’t have. Since it was two books for the price of one, I thought it was a no-brainer.
I saw no copies of the Peter Parker – Venomized Aunt May at 4 different shops. I wish I had requested another Shirtless B – great cover. One shop already had the Batman Day HQ books out so I grabbed 2 of each. Two of the stores (same chain) had about 12 copies of the Dark Ark retailer variant…almost more than total A + B covers…I thought it would be more scarce…maybe that’s why Midtown’s price was cover…? Not happy with the condition of some of the DC books lately…lotsa spine dents…especially Flash and TT last week…prefer not to chase minty books!
Check this out Lady Death: Killers #1 – Amazing Edition go to lady death store.Limited to 199 serially numbered copies.Pretty neat cover .Had to get one Went on sale today.