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Gah, I was wondering if there was a thread this month. I kept typing in "August Comicbooks" and nothing. Now I do and I see the thread is here.

Anyways, I picked up the new Daredevil last week and was blown away. I wasn't really a fan of his but between there wasn't a single thing I didn't like about it.

Edit: And am I the only one who just really doesn't like the Flashpoint Batman mini but really enjoys the main Flashpoint? This mini series I found ridiculous. It's not something I would want to re-read. It seems like it was just set up to have this Joker.
 
This is going to sound like a dumb question, but where do you buy .cbr comics? I got some comic reading app and it doesn't have a store and I realized I don't even know where you can buy digital comics with that .cbr format (or any format for that matter :p).
 
Okay comic GAF.

In case you don't read the B/S/T thread, I've pulled the trigger and listed my first batch of trade paperback on ebay.

Have at it.

Edit: Added more trades!

Thor Vikings
Supreme Power Vol. 1 (HC)
Supreme Power Vol. 2 (HC)
Young Avengers & Runaways: Civil War
Superman: Last Son
Hickman FF: vol.1 (HC)
Hickman FF: vol.2 (HC)
Catwoman: The Dark End of the Street
Catwoman: Selina's Big Score (HC)
Batman Hush Vol.1
Hitman Vol.1
Human Target: Final Cut (HC)
Resident Evil: Code Veronica

Free shipping on all of it.
 
VanWinkle said:
This is going to sound like a dumb question, but where do you buy .cbr comics? I got some comic reading app and it doesn't have a store and I realized I don't even know where you can buy digital comics with that .cbr format (or any format for that matter :p).
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First thing's first - what's the name of the app?
 
Should be interesting to see how the comic war plays out in the next year. Fear Itself and the X-books are not selling well, and that's allowed DC to catch up to Marvel. DC will pass Marvel with the relaunch, but will they be able to hold onto that after 6 months?

I think it's extremely disappointing that Walking Dead is the only "other" to crack the top 100. There are so many good books being ignored for superhero tripe, and the dominance of 2 companies can't be good for the industry.
 
Yo comic GAF.

Comic noob here. I've decided to start reading comics thanks to Marvel vs. Capcom 3. I'm gonna start with Spiderman, and I'd like to read everything from start to finish.

Now when I say "everything"... well, I don't really know what I'm saying. I know "The Amazing Spiderman" is the main Spidey comic. But Spiderman started in Amazing Fantasy #15. And I know there are crossovers and spin off comics that are part of the canon of the story, like "Secret Wars", "Maximum Carnage" and "Civil War".

So I guess my question is, "Is there a list of what comics I should read, in order, to get the entire Spiderman story?"

I'm going to a huge convention this month where I should be able to find every comic ever (Fan Expo in Toronto!)... what should I start with? This omnibus looks pretty awesome, but I'm almost certain that it's only "Amazing Spiderman" and doesn't include any crossovers/spinoffs:

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Would I be missing out on any content if I were to pick this up?

Thanks in advance.
 
Can you subscribe to Marvel Digital Comics in the Great White North? That would be a better and more affordable option.

When you're at Fan Expo walk the vendor floor first. Price things out and do comparative shopping. One mistake I make at shows is hitting the first table with issues I'm looking for and then walk over two tables and find stuff I just bought for a reduced price due to competition. :P

If you're going for the full show then wait until Sunday to buy. Vendors will be more inclined to give deals and mark downs because they don't want to haul all that sh*t back home.
 
Snyder's Severed #1 is getting a second printing.

Story here

Should I pre-order Swamp Thing? I don't really care about the character but it seems like everything Snyder touches turns to gold.
 
Garryk said:
Snyder's Severed #1 is getting a second printing.

Story here

Should I pre-order Swamp Thing? I don't really care about the character but it seems like everything Snyder touches turns to gold.
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i havent read it yet. still sitting in my backpack.

Also i think i will be subbing to Warlords of Mars.
 
Just read the Flash Point Batman series.

Fun stuff. Eduardo Risso is one of the best story tellers working in comics.

Question:
How is Thomas aware of a possibility to change history?

I'm not reading any of the other crap in my usual nutter fashion, just the stuff that interests me and that sort of came out of nowhere in the context of what is otherwise an Elseworlds style story.

I can't possibly imagine what Azzarello is going to do with Wonder Woman.
 
The Take Out Bandit said:
Just read the Flash Point Batman series.

Fun stuff. Eduardo Risso is one of the best story tellers working in comics.

Question:
How is Thomas aware of a possibility to change history?

I'm not reading any of the other crap in my usual nutter fashion, just the stuff that interests me and that sort of came out of nowhere in the context of what is otherwise an Elseworlds style story.

I can't possibly imagine what Azzarello is going to do with Wonder Woman.
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The Flash told him in the main FP book. Thomas Wayne, The Flash and Cyborg are basically the main characters.
 
That Flashpoint Batman series is so fucking awesome, it's the first thing in forever* where i felt compelled to start telling random people I know about a comic book plot.

*Forever being since Nikola Tesla fought Isaac Newton in SHIELD.


Garryk said:
Snyder's Severed #1 is getting a second printing.

Story here

Should I pre-order Swamp Thing? I don't really care about the character but it seems like everything Snyder touches turns to gold.
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I don't care either but I'm going to check it out on that basis.
 
VanWinkle said:
Komik Reader, for android tablets.
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Okay, I did some reading for you, and well... here's the thing.

.cbz and .cbr file formats are basically .zip and .rar archives that contain .jpgs of the covers and pages of an entire comic book. .cbrs and .cbzs are like .pdfs, just tailored specifically to the book format.

The comics industry doesn't really use those formats to digitally distribute comics, so what you're going to want to get is the Comixology app. It's free, so no worries there.

The largest digital comics store and best reader comes to Android!

The largest digital comic library (over 6,000 comics, over 300 free) & store with Guided View™ Technology, which Wired.com says "solves the problem of reading comics on the small screen."

Publishers include DC Comics, Image, IDW, Archie & many more!

Purchases made here can be read on the web, too, at comics.comixology.com!
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From there, you can either start buying comics, or read some of the free comics available to see what's right for you! Marvel and Dark Horse don't currently have digital distribution on Android devices. According to the Dark Horse website, they've got one coming soon, so sit tight!

I hope that helps!
 
Anth0ny said:
Yo comic GAF.

Comic noob here. I've decided to start reading comics thanks to Marvel vs. Capcom 3. I'm gonna start with Spiderman, and I'd like to read everything from start to finish.

Now when I say "everything"... well, I don't really know what I'm saying. I know "The Amazing Spiderman" is the main Spidey comic. But Spiderman started in Amazing Fantasy #15. And I know there are crossovers and spin off comics that are part of the canon of the story, like "Secret Wars", "Maximum Carnage" and "Civil War".

So I guess my question is, "Is there a list of what comics I should read, in order, to get the entire Spiderman story?"

I'm going to a huge convention this month where I should be able to find every comic ever (Fan Expo in Toronto!)... what should I start with? This omnibus looks pretty awesome, but I'm almost certain that it's only "Amazing Spiderman" and doesn't include any crossovers/spinoffs:

omni_asm01_reg_b.jpg


Would I be missing out on any content if I were to pick this up?

Thanks in advance.
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Amazing Spider-Man itself should be more than enough for a while. Later on other books alternate with Amazing as the main title, but you are talking about A LOT of comics before you get there.

As for the crossover stuff, those won't appear until much later, and you should be able to manage for a while/

lReading all of Spider-man is a pretty big undertaking it has to be said.
 
Satchwar said:
Okay, I did some reading for you, and well... here's the thing.

.cbz and .cbr file formats are basically .zip and .rar archives that contain .jpgs of the covers and pages of an entire comic book. .cbrs and .cbzs are like .pdfs, just tailored specifically to the book format.

The comics industry doesn't really use those formats to digitally distribute comics, so what you're going to want to get is the Comixology app. It's free, so no worries there.



From there, you can either start buying comics, or read some of the free comics available to see what's right for you! Marvel and Dark Horse don't currently have digital distribution on Android devices. According to the Dark Horse website, they've got one coming soon, so sit tight!

I hope that helps!
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I really appreciate it. I do have Comixology and it's pretty decent, but is unfortunately not hardware accelerated or optimized for tablets. It's still pretty good, so I guess I'll just stick with that, and hope they update it for Tegra 2 devices. I'm really new to digital comics so I just assumed you could buy cbr comics from Marvel and all of them but I guess that's not the case.

Thank you again!
 
Anth0ny said:
So I guess my question is, "Is there a list of what comics I should read, in order, to get the entire Spiderman story?"
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You do realize that there have been anywhere between one and four Spider-Man comics published each month for the last forty-eight years, right? Amazing Spider-Man alone is nearly at issue 700, and that's not even getting into the long running OTHER Spider-Man comics issues, like Marvel Team-Up, Spectacular Spider-Man, Web of Spider-Man, and Spider-Man, not to mention the crossovers he's been part of and the last six years of Avengers stories.

And that's all just the MAIN UNIVERSE Peter Parker. That's not even getting into the alternate universe Spideys, like the 160+ issue Ultimate Spider-Man series, and other offshoots like Spider-Man 2099 or whatever.

Don't let me discourage you from getting that Omnibus, because those early stories are the basis for everything else, and they're really awesome, but I wouldn't commit to reading every Spider-Man comic.

Best thing to do with these older characters (yeah I said it, Spider-Man is nearly 50 years old) is to find out what the best writer/artist runs on the character were, and then read those in order.
 
Gotta love how much DC has backtracked on this reboot.

First it was EVERYTHING you knew was going bye bye

now it's alot of what you knew will remain.
 
If you want to read Spider-Man I personally would start with Stan Lee's start and finish with him. Then start from Brand New Day. That's pretty much what I did. I read as much of the first Spider-Man as a kid and when I came back to comics a little over a year ago I just started with Brand New Day. Go back and fill in whatever gaps you want with some of the best stories but there really is no need to read it all. Just reading "The Amazing Spider-Man" would take a ridiculously long time. Trying to read all the other series like Spectacular is borderline crazy.
 
Didn't get any reply in the other thread so maybe this would be a better place to ask.
Recently I've picked up the first two volumes of Sandman from a bookstore and think it's pretty darn good. I bought the recolored edition and want to know how to tell the difference between them and the old ones in online stores such as amazon.
 
Angelus Errare said:
Gotta love how much DC has backtracked on this reboot.

First it was EVERYTHING you knew was going bye bye

now it's alot of what you knew will remain.
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And is all crammed together like sardines in a can to boot... I remember reading somewhere of a Kyle Higgins twitter response, that Dick Grayson is maybe 21yo now. How is THAT?
 
NEO0MJ said:
Didn't get any reply in the other thread so maybe this would be a better place to ask.
Recently I've picked up the first two volumes of Sandman from a bookstore and think it's pretty darn good. I bought the recolored edition and want to know how to tell the difference between them and the old ones in online stores such as amazon.
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Amazon will say New Edition most likely. Sort of think I should have waited for these as I have the Absolute Editions but they're so big and bulky it makes reading them uncomfortable after awhile. :P
 
VGChampion said:
Amazon will say New Edition most likely. Sort of think I should have waited for these as I have the Absolute Editions but they're so big and bulky it makes reading them uncomfortable after awhile. :P
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Thanks. Was worried because the cover pics on the site omitted the "recolored edition" comment at the bottom.
 
DC is doing something that works.

Folks can't stop talking about it, and just like that Spiderman Devil story - people are b*tching about it; but will not be able to stop themselves from buying the crap like a bunch of suckers.

The nice thing about this industry having a rich history and tanking is I can now spend money I would have wasted on modern garbage on classic stuff. :D
 
so i picked up the 100 bullets trades. such a good series... depressing, but good.
 
As far as Spider Island goes, I think you can jump on at Big Time and just read from there. Most of the BND stuff is just about how Spiderman is now in the friend zone with MJ. Everything else remains roughly the same. In fact, you could just start with issue 666 because it's a prologue.

As for Flash Point, I have some serious issues with that series, but them more I read what other people say, the more it seems like I'm just not getting it.
 
Parallax said:
so i picked up the 100 bullets trades. such a good series... depressing, but good.
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Yep.

I still cannot wrap my brain around what in the hell Brian Azzarello is going to do with Wonder Woman. Unless he's been bottling up THE ONLY OPTIMISTIC STORY HE KNOWS for it.
 
The Take Out Bandit said:
DC is doing something that works.

Folks can't stop talking about it, and just like that Spiderman Devil story - people are b*tching about it; but will not be able to stop themselves from buying the crap like a bunch of suckers.

The nice thing about this industry having a rich history and tanking is I can now spend money I would have wasted on modern garbage on classic stuff. :D
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Just because we are talking about it now doesn't mean we are going to buy some of these new ridiculous ideas.
 
imoTEP12 said:
Just because we are talking about it now doesn't mean we are going to buy some of these new ridiculous ideas.
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Yeah, yeah.

I've heard this before.

Digital is pretty good using Marvel Digital Unlimited as the yardstick. I've been collecting comics for 30 years, and it adds up. It adds up and you get an attic full of sh*t you just wanted to read.

There's very little I need to own, so I'm going to cull my collection and sell off more than a few boxes. Get hosed in the process. Oh well.
 
VanWinkle said:
I really appreciate it. I do have Comixology and it's pretty decent, but is unfortunately not hardware accelerated or optimized for tablets. It's still pretty good, so I guess I'll just stick with that, and hope they update it for Tegra 2 devices. I'm really new to digital comics so I just assumed you could buy cbr comics from Marvel and all of them but I guess that's not the case.

Thank you again!
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Whaaat? ComiXology runs great on my Asus transformer.
 
Oh man I would slay a dragon for Snyder and/or Brian Q Miller on a Black Bat/Spoiler book with Trevor McCarthy on pencils.

Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown deserve to be seen. I was way late to Cassie's Bargirl run and it was spectacular throughout just about the whole run. And the latest Batgirl run by Brian Q Miller is one of my favorite books with such a great feel (especially the team ups with Klarion the Witch Boy and Squire!)

I'm glad Gail Simone has made it her mission to see that the girls are well represented somewhere down the line. I would have loved to see a pseudo-Batgirls Incorporated with Babs, Cassie & Steph, and maybe that's in the cards for her Batgirl book?
 
Satchwar said:
Does anybody here plan to make the digital jump?
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Gonna probably do mostly digital, but if I really like the art on something, I'll be getting physical. I'm signed up for Marvel's digital service and I love it, but I do sometimes wish I had physical copies of stuff.
 
Sanjuro Tsubaki said:
When is IDW's TMNT supposed to be released? I haven't been to the comic store in months. :'(
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. . .

You better change your avatar to the God Damn Robin if you're not going to spend 30 seconds prep time Googling. :P

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #1 ($3.99, 32 pages, full color) will be available in comic stores throughout North America in August 2011. Diamond order code JUN11 0370.
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http://www.idwpublishing.com/news/article/1780/
 
Satchwar said:
Does anybody here plan to make the digital jump?
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Not me. I tried buying some comics and scanned a few of mine myself but I found the iPad just slightly too small for the two-page spreads. And if I'm going to pay full price I would rather something physical. If they were .99 I would be pretty tempted though.
 
Sanjuro Tsubaki said:
They have said August for the last three months with no talk whatsoever of what week it may ship. :/
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Some time between August 1 and August 31 if you're lucky!

Then you can start whinging over when the next issue comes out.

Let's just hope they get some competent talent working on it. IDW reprints a lot of good stuff, but man - a lot of the licensed stuff just sells because of the license and not quality product.

Also if anybody buys any of my funnybooks off ebay and puts their gaf handle in the paypal payment - I'LL THROW IN A SPECIAL SECRET GIFT! :O
 
The Take Out Bandit said:
Some time between August 1 and August 31 if you're lucky!

Then you can start whinging over when the next issue comes out.

Let's just hope they get some competent talent working on it. IDW reprints a lot of good stuff, but man - a lot of the licensed stuff just sells because of the license and not quality product.

Also if anybody buys any of my funnybooks off ebay and puts their gaf handle in the paypal payment - I'LL THROW IN A SPECIAL SECRET GIFT! :O
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I'm excited. Just seeing Eastman involved a bit is pretty neat.
 
killer_clank said:
Amazing Spider-Man itself should be more than enough for a while. Later on other books alternate with Amazing as the main title, but you are talking about A LOT of comics before you get there.

As for the crossover stuff, those won't appear until much later, and you should be able to manage for a while/

lReading all of Spider-man is a pretty big undertaking it has to be said.
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Cool. So I guess I'll let you guys know once I've reached the 80s Spidey comics :lol

Htown said:
You do realize that there have been anywhere between one and four Spider-Man comics published each month for the last forty-eight years, right? Amazing Spider-Man alone is nearly at issue 700, and that's not even getting into the long running OTHER Spider-Man comics issues, like Marvel Team-Up, Spectacular Spider-Man, Web of Spider-Man, and Spider-Man, not to mention the crossovers he's been part of and the last six years of Avengers stories.

And that's all just the MAIN UNIVERSE Peter Parker. That's not even getting into the alternate universe Spideys, like the 160+ issue Ultimate Spider-Man series, and other offshoots like Spider-Man 2099 or whatever.

Don't let me discourage you from getting that Omnibus, because those early stories are the basis for everything else, and they're really awesome, but I wouldn't commit to reading every Spider-Man comic.

Best thing to do with these older characters (yeah I said it, Spider-Man is nearly 50 years old) is to find out what the best writer/artist runs on the character were, and then read those in order.
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Yeah, I totally understand that. But honestly, I have no problem at all with long running series. I'm a huge One Piece fan, and although it doesn't even come close to the running length of Spiderman comics, the manga is 14 years old and has 634 chapters. It took a while but I've read all of those chapters (the earlier stuff multiple times) and own 50+ English language volumes.

I'm really in no rush. I'd rather take a long ass time and read the whole thing then skip certain issues/stories. I'm OCD like that =)
 
Alright guys so I was planning on jumping in to the world of comics with Batman and Detective Comics #1 coming out, but now I'm seeing that Batman isn't getting a complete revamp. Will I be completely lost? I know a ton about the character but have only read a few graphic novels like The Long Halloween, TDKR etc.
 
PushTheButtonMax said:
Alright guys so I was planning on jumping in to the world of comics with Batman and Detective Comics #1 coming out, but now I'm seeing that Batman isn't getting a complete revamp. Will I be completely lost? I know a ton about the character but have only read a few graphic novels like The Long Halloween, TDKR etc.
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Probably a little lost. I'd recommend you read Batman RIP, Morrison's run on Batman and Robin and Batman Inc. if you wanna get catch up a little.
 
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