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 156th 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?
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get your MISPRINTED mighty thor 700 tomorrow….i wonder if marvel will recall these??
you heard it here first. period.
Meh, it has Spider-Gwen as the misprint.. no thanks.
I only want it if it’s recalled. I have a small but growing collection of recalled comics.
Even if it wasn’t Spider-Gwen as the error… I have zero desire in collecting error books. I know some love them… Just not for me.
I have a bunch of error and recalled books. I love them.
Yeah you do….
How do you recognize them? Asking for a friend 😉
It’s the zdarsky variant.
i wonder if it is on all copies. doubt it.
I think it is.
Its not special unless Marvel recalls them though. If they don’t and its all of them, then its called extra free advertising for that shop. 😉
What are you talking about misprinted Thor #700 ????
The zdarsky how to draw mjolnir variant has a special back cover intended for a specific store variant.
Yes, I have seen it and will be picking one up.
My shops got none.. zilch.. nadda.. but then again, I would have passed on it unless Anthony couldn’t find one.
None at my shop either.
Went to my main shop today and I dropped Grass Kings and Batman. I’m going to drop a couple more titles next time I go, that stack today was way too big.
Dude. My stack of shame (unread comics) is about a long box now.
Yeah, I’m not to that point yet, but it will eventually get there. Every week there are a few books I can’t get to before the new ones come out and my unread pile is starting to grow. I am beginning the culling of titles this week starting with Gwar and Green Lanterns.
Besides the long box and a half I have of comics I’m behind on.. I logged into my Marvel account and it says I have 350 or so books that are unread still.. 🙁
You guys are really making me feel better. Thank you. This adulting stuff is busy.
So much adulting.. my wife is working again (I think it’s safe to say it now, but she’s Executive Producer’s Assistant on Fear The Walking Dead)… so I will likely only see her on the weekends, until June or July.. something like that. So my days are spent working from couch, then sometimes I go onsite to a client, have to pick up kids from school and uber them around to dance or kung fu classes while trying to work more from whatever Wifi is available.. then I get home to usually work more while trying to cook dinner, make sure they’re doing their home work, cleaning rooms, doing chores… aorund 8:30 they kids going to bed, wife has been home for about an hour but I’m usually passed out on the couch or soon enough passed out on couch while watching some MLB playoffs and or now NBA…
The worst thing about all this adulting.. my kids don’t even tip me for driving them around and picking them up from school… sigh!
It’s a wonder you have any time for this stuff at all!
Oh and let the Mrs know they did a bang up job with this last season of fear. It’s better than regular walking dead now.
Heh, well, she just started on next season theyre about to air. I stopped watching like after the episode where Travis dies…. Not sure if that was season 2 or 3….
In that case, tell her not to mess it up!
Grass Kings is so good…
I dropped it to pick up TPB’s.. I’m starting to do that with a bunch of books. Pick up #1 and or #2, stop picking up and wait for Trades.. saves me money and I get more reading in one sitting. But yeah, I enjoyed Grass Kings #1… looking forward to reading the rest… one day!
I like it too, but I have got to cut some fat.
Did you all see DC Is coming out with vertical fold out covers in December for some of the New Age of Heroes stuff? Wonder how long until we see more of these type of covers. Think it’s pretty neat.
We mentioned it a while back for the book Damage. https://comicsheatingup.net/2017/09/22/dcs-damage-1-cover-by-tony-daniel-features-interesting-gimmick/
Ah totally missed that! Looks like a neat concept. I wanna see what someone like Jenny Frison, Hughes, etc can do with a vertical cover
Hello for the week!
Looks like it’s already busier around here this week so that’s good!
Trying to cut back some titles starting this week, it is never an easy decision for me but it must be done. It’s getting to be too expensive most weeks and I can’t even get to all of them in the week before the new ones come out. I am cutting out the titles that haven’t been as good and I have only been continuing them for the collection’s sake…..I gotta quit that!
This week I am getting:
Batman #33
Batman:The Drowned
Cable #150
Deadpool v Old Man Logan #1
Invincible #141
Justice League #31
NIghtwing #31
Spectacular Spider Man #5
Shirtless Bear Fighter #5
Superman #33
The Mighty Thor #700 – Zdarsky Variant if it is cover price, regular if it is not 🙂
The Wild Storm #8
On the weekend I grabbed:
Seven to Eternity #3 and #4
The Autumnlands: Tooth and Claw #3 Skottie Young Variant
The Red Death T- Shirt
Dropping:
Green Lanterns
Gwar
I got pleasantly surprised by my shop’s manager with a Deadpool lenticular today. Woohoo!
I know the quality sucks on these but I have a thing for lenticular covers and have been getting all the ones I can. Grabbed up a bunch of this week’s as well.
Anybody know anything about Kid Lobotomy #1? I got the gold variant for cover just for fun, but hadn’t heard any chatter about it from a speculation POV…
I passed on it myself after skimming it. IDW is hit or miss.. it seems if there is a spec hit for an IDW book, it doesn’t last long.
I saw it at NYCC and wasn’t overly interested
Great but costly week.
Grabbed Thor 700 Hughes. Luckily grabbed 1/3 at my LCS
Batman 33 a and b
Spider Gwen 25
Hulk 709
Deadpool vs Old Man Logan 1:25 variant.
Maestros 1 (sadly no gold logos to be found)
In mail…
Various lenticulars
Realm 2 all variants
Kill the Minotaur back issues
And my gem…Midtown had a few Spider Gwen 1 Hughes variants do picked that one up for the PC.
Very light week for me in terms of pick kups:
Realm #2 (X2 B&W Walking Dead tribute)
Captain Phasma (1:25 variant)
Kill or Be Killed
Spec Picks for the week:
Was able to get about 7 copies of Darth Vader (volume 2) #2 1st prints for less than cover last week as well as Darth Vader #3 (only 4 copies). Can’t believe how fast all of these sold! All in the $9-$11 range with only 1 or each left. If you are not reading this series, it is very good! Darth Vader Year One! One of my favorite series to read right now.
Good hunting everyone!
Also, didn’t see any of the misprint Thors…will be interesting to see if that was pulled this morning. Not one single copy of Infernoct was available at my LCS…going to have to go to ebay for that one it seems.
Better find and buy before any price hikes.. for Infernoct that is. 🙂
Hah, I’m looking. Had only seen one listing on eBay earlier today, $40 for the set. It’s no longer there. I didn’t buy it, though.
$40 already?
Looking forward to November when my pull list is a little shorter. No copies of Batman: The Drowned to be had, even though it was on my pull list. Apparently people are waiting at the door when the store opens to scarf up whatever hot items are coming out for the week. No Maestros, Dead of Winter or Made Men, either. But, it isn’t like I didn’t spend any money, so here’s the list:
ANIMOSITY EVOLUTION #1 CVR A GAPSTUR
ANIMOSITY #10
SHERLOCK FRANKENSTEIN & LEGION OF EVIL #1 (OF 4) MAIN
DEPT H #19
AQUAMAN #29 VAR ED
ASTRO CITY #48
BATMAN #33 VAR ED
BATWOMAN #8 VAR ED
GREEN ARROW #33 VAR ED
GREEN LANTERNS #33 VAR ED
HARLEY QUINN #30 VAR ED
INJUSTICE 2 #12
JUSTICE LEAGUE #31 VAR ED
NIGHTWING #31 VAR ED
SUPER SONS #9 VAR ED
SUPERMAN #33 VAR ED
TITANS #16 VAR ED
TRINITY #14 VAR ED
WILD STORM #8
WILD STORM #8 VAR ED
WONDER WOMAN CONAN #2 (OF 6) VAR ED
WONDER WOMAN CONAN #2 (OF 6)
DARK NIGHTS METAL #2 (OF 6) 2nd Printing
BATMAN THE RED DEATH #1 (METAL) 2nd Printing
GAME OF THRONES CLASH OF KINGS #5 CVR A MILLER
CURSE WORDS #9 CVR A BROWNE
CURSE WORDS #9 CVR B SEELEY
CURSE WORDS #9 CVR C WALKING DEAD #6 TRIBUTE VAR
GHOST STATION ZERO #3 (OF 4) CVR A CHANKHAMMA
HORIZON #15 CVR A HOWARD
INVINCIBLE #141
KILL OR BE KILLED #13
MAGE HERO DENIED #3 (OF 15)
REALM #2 CVR A HAUN & FILARDI
SPY SEAL #3 CVR A TOMMASO
MIGHTY THOR #700 LEG
DEADPOOL VS OLD MAN LOGAN #1 (OF 5)
JOURNEY SW LAST JEDI CAPT PHASMA #4 (OF 4)
PETER PARKER SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #5
STAR WARS POE DAMERON #20
VENOM #156 LEG
X-MEN GOLD #14 LEG
SPIDER-GWEN #25 LEG
WAR MOTHER #3 CVR A MACK
Damn that’s one hell of a list for a week!!
Nice! How has Captain Phasma been? was considering picking those up
It’s been a good read, maybe not the best of the Star Wars minis that Marvel has released, but still good.
You should just open up your own Diamond account to order with a list that big. 😉
I get a decent discount from the LCS, so that works for me for now. My lists will be a little shorter starting next month.
None of my local shops offer discounts for pulls and subs, so that’s always a nice touch when they do. Capstone was the only one that did that and they closed up shop. I now order from previews off Midtown, can’t beat 35% to 50% off.
Invader Zim 24
I’m on a wait-list for a book I saw pop-up on a store’s FB feed. Currently, someone else has it on layaway, but that person ran into $ problems so may possibly back out of the deal. The store is suggesting I front that person’s 15% retail restocking fee to speed up the process, but that sounds pretty shady to me.
Retail restocking fee on a comic book? I get having to pay to put it back after you reserved it but if the guy never pays you should not have to pay a 15% premium
Ah, the good old we don’t want you as our customer fee.
You either accept returns or you don’t. You either hold books or you don’t.
Reshelving fee, how about my kiss my ass fee?
My LCS does payment plans as well, but the downpayment which is 20% is non refundable. So that should cover their fee, and you pay the retail price. Seems shady.
Not to sound shady but if you have to layaway comic books, perhaps you should rethink your spending habits and finances.
If I suddenly found myself broke, poor, no income.. you better bet the first thing I do is stop buying comic books.
Hear hear!
*sigh* millennials.
I’m consistently finding myself in that same place lately. Something goes out on the car or a kid wants to go to Disney with their school and I’m avoiding the comic shop like the plague.
Baseball. Daycare. After school programs. I get it man.
For me it is rum or comic books. Some higher end rums are $100+ per bottle.
Both of those options can cure sadness.. 😉
I’d go with $25 rum because whatever I’m getting drunk and then spend the rest on comics. Or cheeseburgers.
Midtown still has the Zdarsky Thor 700 and with no limit on number you can by. Any guesses as to what this means? Could be their’s don’t have an error? Or maybe that it isn’t as big an error as expected?
My pickups from the LCS –
SpiderGwen 25 A+B
Cable 150
Batman 33B
Slots 1A
Realm 2A
Crosswind 1A
Ragman Vol 1 #4 and 5 to finish the set
Web of Spidey 97
Online
Thor 700 Zdarsky x3
Dark Days Forge
If Marvel did no recall on the Thor misprint, then honestly we can treat is as no big deal more than likely. Until there’s a recall (which is probably too late now), then it’s just a Thor book with a particular store getting a little extra advertising they didn’t have to pay for. 🙂
Amazing Spider-Man #789 Lenticular
Spider-Gwen #25 regx3 & lenticular
Infernoct #1 reg
Maestros #1 reg
Harley #30 Cho
Batman White Knight 1A & 1B
skipped Archies & Rugrats because Poyo said they’re no good lol
Haha.. I don’t know.. Rugrats, I semi enjoyed that cartoon long ago but I was also a little older at the time. It just seems like if they did a comic say, two decades ago. Just don’t think they’ll be much movement on this book. Pick it up to read if you’re a die hard fan.
As for Archies new original size toilet bowl readers digest type book.. meh, by the time it’s worth anything, we’ll all be dead already. Like Sheldon says from Big Bang when asked where are the Archies.. “In the bedrooms of 10 year old girls where they belong!”
I read Archie’s Digest Magazines when I was younger. I recently sold my childhood stash of about 80 books for $100 on feebay. ?
Nice..
True I’m just kidding with you. I’ve picked up some of the Archie stuff like the reboot #1, Riverdale, and Betty & Veronica, but yea at some point can only spec too much on them..I think you’re right, years down the road Riverdale may be worth something too.
Haven’t stopped at my Pull List LCS, but did stop at another one, and found to Kill the Minotaur #1s First Print at cover price. Sweet!
Yeah, I have a shop that still has a few.. I passed them up, no real movement yet on secondary market despite the news of the option media deal.
The only in store pickup for me today was The Drowned. When I got home after cleaning out that monster I call my pullbox, I had an email from TFAW saying that they were getting ready to ship me a package of wait for it……………. “61” comics I pre-ordered. What am I doing?
lol, I recommend switching to older keys instead of buying $200 worth of new comics every week. When that gets boring move to sending your comics to graders with your weekly comic money that’s where I’m at these days.
I’ve been thinking about that as well. Been thinking about cutting down new modern books, even reads to start collecting the older books.. 80s and prior..
I’m there now. Just sent some books to CBCS. Cut back on new books. Picking up older books.
I don’t spend that much in a week…….in a month yeah.
Seeing how much I’ve spent the last few months, I think I’m reaching the point where I need to stop picking up everything I want because I can. I like the idea of a few number 1s then keys/variants that I may want. Everything else, not necessary since they are just taking up space. I do have a few titles that I’d like monthly, however.
Picked up Batman, Realm 2 (B&W cover) and the Dark Hammer Spin-off (both covers… Mignola nailed it!). Some bad news from The Comic Mint though … sounds like their shipment of Dark Nights 3 Mattina variants had printer blemishes (B&W and Virgin only) so the shipment of these variants will be delayed as The Comic Mint works with DC and Diamond to get replacements… wondering if Sad Lemon and other shops who offered these variants are in the same boat?
Oh, but I did get a confirmation that my Dark Nights Metal 1 Mattina Ultimate is getting shipped… yay!
I saw that email too. That’s nice of them to send them back to get replaced. From the pics they provided, most shops would not have cared and still sold them as NM. Those Comic Mint people are great guys and gals.
100% agree… they’ve been awesome! Sad Lemon Comics has also been amazing to deal with. I received a set of Babyteeth 3 Torque variants that were damaged in shipping… sent Simon some pics and a note and within minutes got a response that a fresh shipment was on the way… replaced the entire set for free.
I just noticed that Midtown has the first and second prints for the Merciless listed for sale next week, and the second print of the Drowned.
Those orders second prints on those comics came out super early. It was really weird because the first prints didn’t even come out at the time but stores already had to place orders for the second print.
When this occurs, that means the book sold out at Diamond before it was even shipped from Diamond. So the demand caused a second printing and that’s why and how you can get second prints being shipped the week after or the week of the first printings.
LCS
They’re Not Like Us 16
Harley Quinn 30 var
Batman 33 var
Realm 2 B & W Walking Dead cvr
Online
Action Comics Vol 2 #987 Cover A Regular Nick Bradshaw Lenticular Cover
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 #32 Cover A Regular Alex Ross Cover
American Gods Shadows #7 Cover A Regular Glenn Fabry Cover
Babyteeth #4
Birthright #26 Cover B Variant Lorenzo De Felici Cover
Black Science #31 Cover B Variant Kaare Andrews Cover
Briggs Land Lone Wolves #4 Cover B Variant Robert Sammelin Cover
Clue #4 Cover C Variant Sara Richard Cover
Comic Shop News #1584
Dark Nights Metal #2 Cover A 1st Ptg Regular Greg Capullo & Jonathan Glapion Foil-Stamped Cover
Defenders Vol 5 #5 Cover A Regular David Marquez Cover
Divided States Of Hysteria #4
Eleague Injustice 2 #1 Promo Comic – NEXT WEEK
Flash Vol 5 #30 Cover B Variant Howard Porter Cover
Hack Slash Resurrection #1 Cover D Variant Jim Rugg Walking Dead 23 Tribute Black & White Cover NEXT WEEK
Hammer Comics Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter #2 Cover B Variant Hammer Glamour Cover NEXT WEEK
Harley Quinn 25th Anniversary Special #1 Cover C Variant Terry Dodson & Rachel Dodson Cover
Harrow County #25
Hulk Vol 4 #10
John Carpenters Tales Of Science Fiction Vortex #1 NEXT WEEK
Jughead The Hunger #1 Cover A Regular Francesco Francavilla Cover NEXT WEEK
Kill Or Be Killed #12
Marvel Previews Vol 4 #4 November 2017 NEXT WEEK
Ninjak Vol 3 #0 Cover C Variant Yama Orce Cover
Old Man Logan Vol 2 #28 Cover B Variant Razzah Venomized Ashley Barton Cover
Pestilence #4
Redlands #2
Riverdale #6 Cover B Variant Francesco Francavilla Cover
Runaways Vol 5 #1 Cover D Adrian Alphona Variant Venomized Pride Cover
Sacred Creatures #3 Cover B Variant Klaus Janson Cover
Scooby Apocalypse #17 Cover B Variant David Finch Cover
Secret Empire Omega #1 Cover B Variant Michael Cho Cover (Secret Empire Epilogue)
Shadow Vol 7 #2 Cover A Regular Tyler Kirkham Cover
Shadows On The Grave #8
Sheena Vol 4 #1 Cover G Variant Ryan Sook Jungle Green Cover
Shirtless Bear-Fighter #5 Cover B Variant Jerome Opena Cover
Sisters Of Sorrow #2 Cover B Andre De Freitas
Star Wars Vol 4 #36 Cover A Regular Mike Mayhew Cover
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Sampler NEXT WEEK
Valiant Icons Sneak Preview NEXT WEEK
Venomverse #2 Cover B Variant Clayton Crain Connecting Cover
Weapon X Vol 3 #10 NEXT WEEK
Winnebago Graveyard #4 Cover A Regular Alison Sampson Cover
Wonder Woman Vol 5 #33 Cover B Variant Jenny Frison Cover NEXT WEEK
Not sure if it was mentioned here at all, but it looks like DC’s The Signal series has been cancelled, or postponed at least. The second and third issues show as being cancelled at Midtown, I didn’t look for the first issue, though. I think this was a Metal tie-in, but too sure on that.
Hmm. Didn’t catch that. Very interesting.