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[JLateralus]

Based upon some recommendations here, I've selected a few books and gotten back into comics after a long hiatus.

How do you guys determine what you buy physical versus digital? I told myself I'd buy single issues on Comixology instead of floppies and collections physically (a rule which I've already broken.) I much prefer reading physical but don't have a bunch of room to be collecting.

 

[Supermanisdead]

even when i was getting physical floppies, i just threw them out when i read them. they're ad-filled, flimsy wastes of space. go digital and get the collections of your favourite arcs.

 

[GrandHarrier]

Based upon some recommendations here, I've selected a few books and gotten back into comics after a long hiatus.

How do you guys determine what you buy physical versus digital? I told myself I'd buy single issues on Comixology instead of floppies and collections physically (a rule which I've already broken.) I much prefer reading physical but don't have a bunch of room to be collecting.

If you want a physical presence to your books you could always set yourself a limit, say, a number of long boxes and keep your collection within that confines. When you start to get too much, curate your collection and sell off the stuff you don't want/need. This will have the added benefit of subsidizing your hobby. Another practice is to replace floppies with trades over time.

 

[ThyMusicMan]

Lissst:

[U]DARKHORSE:[/U]
Tomb Raider #2 (maybe)

[U]DC OMICS:[/U]
Beware The Batman #6
Sandman Overture #2
Wake #7

[U]IMAGE COMICS:[/U]
Bounce #11
Deadly Class #3

[U]MARVEL:[/U]
All-New Ghost Rider #1
Amazing X-men #5
Hawkeye #18
Marvel Knights: X-Men #5 of 5
Silver Surfer #1
Superior Spider-Man #30

 

[GrandHarrier]

Huh, looks like this week is the Amanda Waller one shot. Consider me interested. It'll likely be in my box irregardless cause of the Suicide Squad tag.

 

[Serpentine]

Ghost Rider #1
Silver Surfer #1
Empowered Special #6

maybe Blackout #1 and Real Heroes #1. despite how fucking generic RH looks, i kinda wanna see just how generic it could be

 

[Mindwipe]

How do you guys determine what you buy physical versus digital? I told myself I'd buy single issues on Comixology instead of floppies and collections physically (a rule which I've already broken.) I much prefer reading physical but don't have a bunch of room to be collecting.

I do what your rule is, by and large. Though I buy some collections virtually too now, if they're dirt cheap.

I just don't have the storage room for any other way.

 

[JLateralus]

If you want a physical presence to your books you could always set yourself a limit, say, a number of long boxes and keep your collection within that confines. When you start to get too much, curate your collection and sell off the stuff you don't want/need. This will have the added benefit of subsidizing your hobby. Another practice is to replace floppies with trades over time.

I like this idea... I think I'll try to do this.

Speaking of which, is there a good place other than your local comic shops to buy recent back issues?

 

[GrandHarrier]

I like this idea... I think I'll try to do this.

Speaking of which, is there a good place other than your local comic shops to buy recent back issues?

If you do go the route of selling runs of stuff you don't want to keep just keep in mind that you'll usually sell at a loss, say 1-2 dollars an issue instead of cover price. Sometimes you get lucky and break even.

As for back issues I've had good luck with "MyComicShop".

 

[JLateralus]

If you do go the route of selling runs of stuff you don't want to keep just keep in mind that you'll usually sell at a loss, say 1-2 dollars an issue instead of cover price. Sometimes you get lucky and break even.

As for back issues I've had good luck with "MyComicShop".

Yeah I figured as much... There is very little out there that fully retains value. Better than gettin nothing back out of it!

Thanks!

 

[ElNarez]

I've been on a Mad Men kick lately and this has nothing to do with it because it's LIST:

All-Star Western #29
Aquaman #29
Red Lanterns #29
The Wake #7

Deadly Class #3
Manhattan Projects #19
Satellite Sam #7
Uber Special #1

Amazing X-Men #5 (Most likely dropping after Aaron leaves)
Avengers #27
Deadpool #26
Hawkeye #18
Iron Patriot #1 (Get on the Ales Kot hype train CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKERS)
Miracleman #4
New Avengers #16 (Rags Morales might not be the best artist but holy shit all I want is for something that's less fucking confusing that Bianchi at this point)
Origin II #4 (Why aren't we talking about that? It's good comics.)
Revolutionary War: Omega #1
Uncanny Avengers #18

-So I just remembered that I kinda sorta did not care for Venditti on Green Lantern, so instead of packing up the fill-ins I'm just gonna drop Flash
-Putting it in writing right here, for the record: Even with Allred drawing, Silver Surfer #1 is gonna be a turd. A steaming hot turd; because that's all Dan Slott can do now. And his She-Hulk was way overrated. Buy better comics. Get yourself Iron Patriot #1.

 

[Deleted member 13876]

You're predicting you're not gonna like a Slott book? Heavens to Betsy, I'm shocked.

 

[GrandHarrier]

Wait so Amazing X-Men is a drop now?

 

[Palette Swap]

There's a brand new day sale of 100 issues on Comixology, are there any particular arcs or issues that are worth reading?

 

[slightconfuse]

There's a brand new day sale of 100 issues on Comixology, are there any particular arcs or issues that are worth reading?

The gauntlet stuff.

Especially the sandman arc, Lizard arc(shed) and grim hunt

Joe Kelly deadpool issue

New ways to die and the ice queen arc were good as well.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

There's a brand new day sale of 100 issues on Comixology, are there any particular arcs or issues that are worth reading?

I recently reread the whole thing, the issues/stories that held up for me:

546-548
555-557
559-561
574
575-576
577
578-579
580
ASM Extra 2(is this on sale? There's a great Spidey/Wolverine story here by Wells and Rivera)
583
589
592-594
595-599
600
602-604
611
615-616
617/625(they're basically one story)
618-620
630-633

 

[Mumei]

I was recently looking at buying something from Instocktrades, and I was wondering how their shipping quality is. I really like the prices, but I plan on getting some of the larger collections and I don't want to receive it damaged or bent or whatever. Is this something I need to worry about with them? If something is damaged, will they replace it?

 

[ViewtifulJC]

I was recently looking at buying something from Instocktrades, and I was wondering how their shipping quality is. I really like the prices, but I plan on getting some of the larger collections and I don't want to receive it damaged or bent or whatever. Is this something I need to worry about with them? If something is damaged, will they replace it?

Instocktrades has by far the best shipping quality of anybody I've done business with. Unlike random Amazon vendors or eBay, you can tell they give a damn about these books, and they ship them in these great packages with the protective bubbles and shit. Never got a bent corner or ugly sticker you try(and fail) to peel off or earmarked pages or anything.

 

[Filthy Slug]

I was recently looking at buying something from Instocktrades, and I was wondering how their shipping quality is. I really like the prices, but I plan on getting some of the larger collections and I don't want to receive it damaged or bent or whatever. Is this something I need to worry about with them? If something is damaged, will they replace it?

They ship your package like Baby Kal-El from exploding-ass Krypton. They hug the books, seal them with a tight plastic blanket, and put them atop a foam-pillow (if you're buying superior omnibus editions) before firing them off. Shit is super legit, don't you dare buy from shit-ass Amazon books.

 

[tim1138]

Has anyone (re)read the X-Men X-Tinction Agenda story recently? I've been revisiting 90s X-Men stories over the past few months, but haven't gotten to this one yet. I'm kind of afraid to, to 7th grade me this story was awesome, just a notch below Claremont's more seminal 70s and 80s stuff (hell, I still have the original tpb from 1992 on my shelf).
Is it worth another go, or should I let it live forever in the annals of my mind?

 

[Messi]

I was recently looking at buying something from Instocktrades, and I was wondering how their shipping quality is. I really like the prices, but I plan on getting some of the larger collections and I don't want to receive it damaged or bent or whatever. Is this something I need to worry about with them? If something is damaged, will they replace it?

They are amazing

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Has anyone (re)read the X-Men X-Tinction Agenda story recently? I've been revisiting 90s X-Men stories over the past few months, but haven't gotten to this one yet. I'm kind of afraid to, to 7th grade me this story was awesome, just a notch below Claremont's more seminal 70s and 80s stuff (hell, I still have the original tpb from 1992 on my shelf).
Is it worth another go, or should I let it live forever in the annals of my mind?

the Claremont/Lee issues with Tom Orz lettering are quality, the other ones...nah

If you still want to revisit Genosha and its all its South Africa apartheid metaphors, I'd recommend Uncanny X-Men 235-238. That was the original story by Claremont/Silvestri/Leonardi, its a much tighter tale. The bad guys/Genosha have a bit more layered complexity to them as well, compared to the more one dimensional supervilliany of Agenda's Cameron Hodge

 

[dan2026]

I looked on InStocktrades to see how their shipping was to the UK.

It was fucking awful, twice the price of the item I wanted to buy.

I'm still looking for cheap places to get trades in the UK if anyone has any ideas.

 

[tim1138]

the Claremont/Lee issues with Tom Orz lettering are quality, the other ones...nah

If you still want to revisit Genosha and its all its South Africa apartheid metaphors, I'd recommend Uncanny X-Men 235-238. That was the original story by Claremont/Silvestri/Leonardi, its a much tighter tale. The bad guys/Genosha have a bit more layered complexity to them as well, compared to the more one dimensional supervilliany of Agenda's Cameron Hodge

That's kind of what I figured, even as a kid I thought Hodge was lame, but I loved the stuff with Havok and Archangel's fight with Logan.

UXM 235-238 is a good suggestion, I may actually have those issues boxed away somewhere.

I still have Age of Apocalypse to read and I'm debating Fatal Attractions since it was relatively short (and I know where those floppies are). I think I must hate myself a little for doing this.

 

[Freezasaurus]

I was recently looking at buying something from Instocktrades, and I was wondering how their shipping quality is. I really like the prices, but I plan on getting some of the larger collections and I don't want to receive it damaged or bent or whatever. Is this something I need to worry about with them? If something is damaged, will they replace it?

Do it. You'll be amazed at how securely they package everything. I've been using them since '08 and they've never failed me.

 

[Sir Garbageman]

They ship your package like Baby Kal-El from exploding-ass Krypton. They hug the books, seal them with a tight plastic blanket, and put them atop a foam-pillow (if you're buying superior omnibus editions) before firing them off. Shit is super legit, don't you dare buy from shit-ass Amazon books.

This is a perfect description lol.

 

[ReAxion]

ALEX + ADA #5
DEADLY CLASS #3
HAWKEYE #18
CHEW TP VOL 08 FAMILY RECIPES

small list this week, will probably catch up on some Green Arrow or give a shot to Ghost Rider or Silver Surfer.

 

[Palette Swap]

The gauntlet stuff.

Especially the sandman arc, Lizard arc(shed) and grim hunt

Joe Kelly deadpool issue

New ways to die and the ice queen arc were good as well.

I recently reread the whole thing, the issues/stories that held up for me:

546-548
555-557
559-561
574
575-576
577
578-579
580
ASM Extra 2(is this on sale? There's a great Spidey/Wolverine story here by Wells and Rivera)
583
589
592-594
595-599
600
602-604
611
615-616
617/625(they're basically one story)
618-620
630-633

Thanks for the advice, guys, I'll get on that stuff. When I started looking at arcs and saw the Gauntlet was 30 issues long, it kind of worried me TBH.

Has anyone (re)read the X-Men X-Tinction Agenda story recently? I've been revisiting 90s X-Men stories over the past few months, but haven't gotten to this one yet. I'm kind of afraid to, to 7th grade me this story was awesome, just a notch below Claremont's more seminal 70s and 80s stuff (hell, I still have the original tpb from 1992 on my shelf).
Is it worth another go, or should I let it live forever in the annals of my mind?

I reread it recently and yeah, while the UXM issues are okay mostly thanks to Lee's art, the rest is really forgettable.
Also, there's what you guys were mentioning earlier: all that stuff blew my mind when I was 13, the mutant massacre, the X-Men sacrificing themselves in front of cameras, Genosha, all that kind of stuff but retreading it 20+ years later, it's really verbose and on the nose, without IMO that retro charm you'd find in seminal 60s/70s comics. Still, I'll reread Claremont over Lobdell any day.

 

[echoshifting]

Leest:

Deadly Class 3
Hawkeye 18
Rachel Rising 24
The Wake 7
The Walking Dead 124

Dropping: Dead Boy Detectives, Dead Body Road, The Bunker
Maybe: All-New Ghost Rider, Silver Surfer

 

[phazedplasma]

Does anyone have a good hellboy/bprd trade reading order?

 

[Mindwipe]

I'm still looking for cheap places to get trades in the UK if anyone has any ideas.

Me too, as Amazon seem to have bumped their UK trade prices quite significantly this week.

 

[Toa TAK]

This week:
Superior Spider-Man #30
Superior Spider-Man Team Up#11
Survive #1

 

[Tragicomedy]

I was recently looking at buying something from Instocktrades, and I was wondering how their shipping quality is. I really like the prices, but I plan on getting some of the larger collections and I don't want to receive it damaged or bent or whatever. Is this something I need to worry about with them? If something is damaged, will they replace it?

Insanely good. Easily the best in the industry, but honestly they may be the best online seller period in terms of shipping quality. I would trust them to ship anything I own.

 

[ReAxion]

oh yeah, Bunker #2 is out this week. getting that.

 

[tim1138]

Thanks for the advice, guys, I'll get on that stuff. When I started looking at arcs and saw the Gauntlet was 30 issues long, it kind of worried me TBH.



I reread it recently and yeah, while the UXM issues are okay mostly thanks to Lee's art, the rest is really forgettable.
Also, there's what you guys were mentioning earlier: all that stuff blew my mind when I was 13, the mutant massacre, the X-Men sacrificing themselves in front of cameras, Genosha, all that kind of stuff but retreading it 20+ years later, it's really verbose and on the nose, without IMO that retro charm you'd find in seminal 60s/70s comics. Still, I'll reread Claremont over Lobdell any day.

I think I would be concerned if someone said they favored Lobdell over Claremont. In the end, I think the 90s era X-Men comics just tried too hard to be important. If something like the Dark Phoenix Saga would have been made then (and hell now for that matter), it'd be a 18 part summer event that crossed over into all the X books had three tie in series. Days of Future Past would have gone from a neat little two issue story to a Flashpoint style and sized event. The old Claremont books became important because they were good, not because it was mandated by the publisher that they were important and nothing would ever be the same!!!

 

[Mumei]

Insanely good. Easily the best in the industry, but honestly they may be the best online seller period in terms of shipping quality. I would trust them to ship anything I own.

Do it. You'll be amazed at how securely they package everything. I've been using them since '08 and they've never failed me.

They are amazing

They ship your package like Baby Kal-El from exploding-ass Krypton. They hug the books, seal them with a tight plastic blanket, and put them atop a foam-pillow (if you're buying superior omnibus editions) before firing them off. Shit is super legit, don't you dare buy from shit-ass Amazon books.

Instocktrades has by far the best shipping quality of anybody I've done business with. Unlike random Amazon vendors or eBay, you can tell they give a damn about these books, and they ship them in these great packages with the protective bubbles and shit. Never got a bent corner or ugly sticker you try(and fail) to peel off or earmarked pages or anything.

Well!

Those are ringing endorsements. I wish I'd known about them when I was buying Absolute Sandman. It wouldn't have saved me that much money, since Amazon was selling them for ~$60 - $65 when I bought them, but it would have saved me quite a few headaches in shipping issues.

Spoiler

Then again, DC should have used sewn binding instead of glue. Cheap bastards.

 

[Supermanisdead]

Wait so Amazing X-Men is a drop now?

yes because those hacks kyle and yost are going to take over and turn it into their torture porn/monkey fanfic. worst writers in the industry.

 

[creationtheory]

New Avengers. I can't take this Simone Bianchi art. Bring on Rags.

 

[GrandHarrier]

yes because those hacks kyle and yost are going to take over and turn it into their torture porn/monkey fanfic. worst writers in the industry.

Well then. Marvel really doesn't want me reading an X-Men book it seems.

Time to start looking for a replacement.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

How long ago was that bus massacre, anyway?

 

[arkon]

Me too, as Amazon seem to have bumped their UK trade prices quite significantly this week.

Just noticed the article about this on bleedingcool. Doom Patrol omnibus at £110 now. Fuck.

Looks like I'll be cutting down on those omnibus purchases unless I can find a cheaper alternative..

 

[Filthy Slug]

yes because those hacks kyle and yost are going to take over and turn it into their torture porn/monkey fanfic. worst writers in the industry.

Please, allow me to introduce you to Scott Lobdell and Ann Noncenti. It's like those fuckers hate words and stories and all intelligent life.

 

[tim1138]

Does anyone have a link to that fan edit of UXM with Cyke"s broken powers that ends in him yelling JEEEAAAAAAAAAN! Its been posted here a few times.

 

[Quake1028]

DC COMICS
Aquaman #29

IMAGE COMICS
Deadly Class #3

MARVEL COMICS
All-New Ghost Rider #1
Amazing X-Men #5
Avengers #27
Avengers Assemble #25
New Avengers #16.NOW
Silver Surfer #1
Uncanny Avengers #18.NOW

 

[SoilBreak]

Dan Slott Unveils "Spider-Verse,"

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Dan Slott Unveils "Spider-Verse,"

Sony just came.

 

[TetraxShards]

Dare I hope for a Ben Reilly return?

 

[Filthy Slug]

Dan Slott Unveils "Spider-Verse,"

Ben Reilly trash-vest hoodie--I'm in for that issue.

 

[echoshifting]

The preview cycle is just getting out of control in comics, especially with Marvel. We're talking about the events of the ninth issue of a book that hasn't launched yet. Ridiculous. And this is something like the third time already this year that they've done something like this.

Care to take to twitter to bitch at Rich Johnston about spoilers again, Dan?

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Finally

The return of 90s silver armor Spidey