It’s tax day.. err.. new comic book day, the best day of the week. For those that owe taxes, my sympathies go out to you as I know you’d rather spend that hard earned cash buying more comic books. For those that got returns, splurge a little and buy more than you usually buy this Wednesday.
Anyways, this weeks picks are slim.. nothing really stands out as a spec hit but you know how this game goes, anything could surprise us by the end of the day or week…
Here’s my own picks this week though, mostly what I think will be good reads or just must haves…
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Comics picks of the Week for Delivery 4/15/15
Each week hundreds of new comics hit the stands, each one with potential. Some live up to that potential. We pick the ones we think have the best shot at heating up.
Here are our picks of the week for delivery Tax day, April 15, 2015: (If you have money left over)
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Trade Waiting: Enormous
If you have had problems getting copies, or were just trade waiting, your chance to read this incredible series finally seems to have come to an end. Continue reading “Trade Waiting: Enormous”
Amadeus Cho in Marvel Movie rumor surfaces again
We covered this here way back on January 6, 2015. Amadeus Cho could end up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now, Bleeding Cool has picked up on it, which could lead to even bigger movement in the price of the books. Continue reading “Amadeus Cho in Marvel Movie rumor surfaces again”
Slipknot cast in Suicide Squad movie.
No not the band Slipknot, but an obscure villain from Firestorm, Slipknot has been cast in the Suicide Squad movie.
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Agent Poyo's picks of the week for delivery 4/8/15
Wednesdays, the best day of the week because it’s the day I get to make it to work a little later because my LCS are my first stops of the day.
So what’s the picks this week? Nothing really stands out, anything can heat up at a moments notice.. what you think is just another regular boring monthly issue could hold a surprise that everyone on the interwebs goes crazy for and pays at super inflated eBay prices..
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Hoknes Comics hot new comics for release 4.2.14
Each week, Terry of Hoknescomics.com releases a video spotlight hot new comics, here is this weeks.
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‘Jupiters Legacy’: Kills any speculation chance
‘Jupiters Legacy’ is the new Mark Millar and Frank Quitely superhero comic book coming out from Image Comics soon. There was much hype on this book and it was even featured highly on the Diamond Comics Advance Reorder List for 4/7/13.
http://comicsheatingup.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/diamond-comics-advance-reorder-4713/
The combination pre-release buzz and advanced reorders usually lead to speculation gold (or at least silver or bronze), but Image has killed any chances of this getting big on the secondary market. Sure, the publishers, artists and writers, do not care about books becoming big money makers on the secondary market, but the heat it can generate can lead to more people picking up future issues. Books like ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘Chew’, ‘Saga’ and ‘Peter Panzerfaust’ all benefited from new readers picking up the books on the secondary market.
‘Jupiters Legacy’ probably will not reap the same rewards because of the distribution plan that they are using. The plan is this, retailers can order as many copies of the book as they like and return ones that do not sell as long as their order is above their ‘The Walking Dead’ 106 order. In other words, a retailer can order hundreds of copies, get all the variants, sell them at the inflated variant price, and return all the regular copies that do not sell. The total print run for ‘The Walking Dead’ 107 was in the 75,000 unit range. The total orders for ‘Jupiters Legacy’ is in the 150,00 range. This effectively kills the secondary market value on the regular covers, in fact this helps kill the variant market as stores who normally wouldn’t order so high on a new book have done so to get the variants, after all, they can return the unsold ones.
Über #0 from Avatar pick of the week
So my pick of the week is Über #0 from Avatar Comics. It is an alternate history super hero book from Kieron Gillen that comes out tomorrow.
The other important thing to know is it is sold out on the Distributor level. This means shops cannot get additional copies and once they sell out they are out. Prices on the 1 in 4 variant are up to $25 already and the three regular cover sets are going for $20.
Walking Dead 108 King Ezekial (and his tiger)
So we all know Walking Dead back issues equal money. No surprise there. It usually takes a few issues before you start to see a spike in price on the newer issues. Well, Walking Dead 108 is breaking that trend with the introduction of Ezekial and his tiger. Not sure how this character is going to play out, but his first appearance is already spiking in the 2 weeks since the book came out. Currently, the book is selling on average for $6.99-$9.99, with a few exceptions of one that sold for $1.99 (???) and one that sold for $16.99. The price increase started happening over the last three days (March 25-28.) Before March 25th, the book was selling for +/- cover price.
With the introduction of a character who could be a key player (speculation is fun) and the fact the book has already picked up steam on the secondary market, it could be time to visit your LCS and pick up a few extra copies.
East of West Jonathan Hickman
So our pick of the week, seems to be everyone’s pick of the week.
Why is this the pick of the week? It is a new Image book. It is written by fan favorite Jonathan Hickman (Manhattan Projects.) There has not been a lot of press on this book, but it did make the cover of previews.
There is a down side. Hickman stated in a recent interview the print run of this one would be 3x his largest Image book. That book was Manhattan Projects which had a print run of 18,000 books. That would place this book at roughly 54,000 copies if you take what he said literally.
Still, Saga was promoted more, and had a print run of 37,000 books. People still say “I wish I had gotten more copies of Saga.”
I, myself plan on picking up a couple of copies and holding a few in reserve.