It wouldn't be such an investment if you bought them as they came out like smart guy Freeza.
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COMICS!!! |OT| March 2020 | According to Ireland, St. Patrick threw all the snakes out of ComicERA. He missed some.
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did you know they'd be great beforehand? or were you just hoping they'd be something special?
It was more like "oh, I've never experienced the OG Gundam story. I'mma read it."
ok, Quantum and Woody v1 was hilarious and I am super impressed by Kibblesmith's comedic timing and skill at making Woody a likeable asshole. I also loved the dynamic between Eric and Woody. And both Kano and Portela were really really good with the comedy and action sequences. Already requested for v2 and Loki and Valiant high.
The pot shots takenI'm reading Marvel #1000 on MU and this made me laugh way more than it should have
Anybody read the Kamandi Challenge issue by Tom King, Kevin Eastman, and Freddie E. Williams II? Any good?
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Wait, Crisis on Infinite Earths was done by Wolfman and Pérez too? That's cool! I should pick up their New Teen Titans, but there's like 4 Omnis for it lol.BIG HAUL TODAY
Got a great deal on Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 and the full Crisis on Infinite Earths set!
I also see a Gundam The Origin HC in there!
Outside of the Golden Age books, Teen Titans has to have the most omnibi of anything at DC, huh? Teen Titans is low on my priority list, but I'm always impressed by how comprehensive the collection is for it.
I got a bunch of the Gundam HCs during RightStufAnime's big sale over the holidays, which made the investment much easier. Still have like 4 left to get.
but there is a site that's been uploading the entire run digitally for free, and it's legal lol. Think every page is colored there too.
Wonder Woman has been getting alot of Omni love lately too, heck they've even released the 60's Secret Agent Diana WW run! Hoping they can omni Ruckas run sometime now that all the trades for it came out.
That's the way it seems, but I just don't get why. Do they not sell well? I'd have thought they do.
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I'd think the audience for boom skews much younger and they can't afford hcs of these things.
Ya gotta read the whole series. The point is seeing the deathtraps creators set up for each other and how the next person gets out of it. I enjoyed it.
I doubt it is that tbh. Their trades and HC prices are rather comparable.
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I meant more like their trades are $16 for 4 issues and HCs are $35 for 8 issues. Larger collections usually have a lower cost per issue. (But Marvel/DC are also moving away from that slowly - wonder how it'll affect their sales.)
I had no idea that's how they did it. That sounds super fun!
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It's based on an 80's event that did the same thing. I wish they'd reprint that, or just put it on CMX.
I can't speak for the Kamandi Challenge but Tom King's one-offs are outstanding. The Swamp Thing issue with Fabok and Green Lantern with Shaner absolutely own.
Why do trade-sized HCs even exist anymore to be quite honest?
Wow.
To make us annoyed when we accidentally buy them only to find out a deluxe/OHC etc is releasing later.
100% agree. Feels like a medium that cuts into both the TBP and the OHC market without offering strengths over either.
I wonder if they were historically released as a more sturdy option for libraries. Now that we have deluxe OHCs and omnis, they are definitely superfluous.
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Money. They know a percentage of collectors can't help themselves and they know they will double and triple dip.
So, I've been going through my comic collection, browsing and reading, to get rid of some that I really hate, and I came across this:
So fucking bad. It's obvious Liefeld wrote this too, it's very middle school/late elementary level humor.
Looking through a lot of my mid to late 90's comics, it seems like a fair number of them learned how to draw by trying to copy Jim Lee, McFarline, and Silvestri, rather than learn how to draw actual human beings first. And then some more learned by copying the copiers, leading to even more distorted messes.
I know it's been talked about many many times... but Liefeld sucked so fucking much.
And yet he brought Deadpool, Cable, and Supreme to the comic book world. It gives me very mixed feelings about the guy as a creator lol.
So fucking bad. It's obvious Liefeld wrote this too, it's very middle school/late elementary level humor.
Looking through a lot of my mid to late 90's comics, it seems like a fair number of them learned how to draw by trying to copy Jim Lee, McFarline, and Silvestri, rather than learn how to draw actual human beings first. And then some more learned by copying the copiers, leading to even more distorted messes.
I know it's been talked about many many times... but Liefeld sucked so fucking much.
And yet he brought Deadpool, Cable, and Supreme to the comic book world. It gives me very mixed feelings about the guy as a creator lol.
So, I've been going through my comic collection, browsing and reading, to get rid of some that I really hate, and I came across this:
So fucking bad. It's obvious Liefeld wrote this too, it's very middle school/late elementary level humor.
Looking through a lot of my mid to late 90's comics, it seems like a fair number of them learned how to draw by trying to copy Jim Lee, McFarline, and Silvestri, rather than learn how to draw actual human beings first. And then some more learned by copying the copiers, leading to even more distorted messes.
I know it's been talked about many many times... but Liefeld sucked so fucking much.
And yet he brought Deadpool, Cable, and Supreme to the comic book world. It gives me very mixed feelings about the guy as a creator lol.
I thought this was showing Liefeld putting Cable in his own comic before I remembered that was Battlestone who is literally just Cable with braids.
Anyway Rob didn't make those characters, not really. He drew a thing and it got popular so other people with talent made it what it is today.
Let me tell you about red skies and tie-ins...so many tie-ins...all featuring a red sky! Because something big was afoot!
FUCK! I literally just bought 3 omnis in the past month from them.
It's a shame that there doesn't appear to be a hardcover version of Dark Knight Returns without the sequel series, I heard that's not nearly as good, and that also makes it more expensive too!
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