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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2014 5:25:01 GMT -5
Anybody reading Lemire's Green Arrow? I like what Lemire does and have heard good things about GA but am reluctant to add another title to my pull until something a few more titles end. It was the last new52 book I was reading. It was good, but the Villain's month nonsense last Sept interrupting stories and such was the last straw for DC for me, and I dropped it. It was good, not good enough to deal with DC's need to constantly tie all their books together. Lemire is good, but his mainstream work feels more soulless and paint by number than his creator owned stuff. Trillium was head and shoulders above anything he has done for mainstream DC for instance. He seems to invest much more of himself in the work when he is writing and drawing it, but seems content to connect the editorial dots when writing only. -M |
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Post by maddog1981 on Jun 8, 2014 5:54:13 GMT -5
The culling of my pull list continues. I've managed to drop from $110 a month to $80.
This month Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corp., New Warriors and Silver Surfer were among the victims. I really liked the Silver Surfer but I'm just spending more money than I want to on comics every month. The Green Lantern books finally broke me. I was reading the description and it sounded like another crossover was coming. Seriously? None of the Lantern books have had a chance to breathe in years and it's getting beyond tired at this point.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2014 20:10:10 GMT -5
I remember not too long ago I was spending $20-$25 a week on comics. Now it's maybe $5-$10 a month.
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Post by impulse on Jun 9, 2014 11:09:32 GMT -5
Yeah, I've whittled down my pull list substantially. I had been losing interesting in most Big Two stuff for a while, and I've felt the X-line was bloated and directionless for too long, but the whole AvX thing and the prospect of Bendis writing the X-Men was the straw that broke the camel's back. I've dropped pretty much everything except The Walking Dead, Invincible and Invincible Universe (Image), any current Punisher series, and a few limited series by Ellis, Ennis, etc. I'm tempted to just drop everything except the Image/Kirkman books and just subscribe to Marvel Unlimited. That will require a tablet purchase, though, and I'm cheap.  Oh, I'm also reading Fables in TPB form, but that's ending soon. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 9, 2014 11:44:52 GMT -5
Yesterday I went to a local Comic book show and picked up 44 comics for .50 each. Among them were recent Avengers titles( Mighty, Avengers, Secret). I'm blown away how cheap these issues can be had in the secondary market. The Mighty Avengers was bleh and Secret Avengers was kind of annoying. The plot for that book was Black Widow and Hawkeye do missions for Shield but were injected with a chemical that makes them forget the missions afterwards. Nice Luke Ross art, though.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 9, 2014 12:49:45 GMT -5
I've been enjoying Mighty Avengers... it's nice to see Monica Rambeau again, and it's a cool concept. The 2nd story line (with White Tiger) was the best one so far.. the 1st couple issues get stuck being Infinity tie-ins.
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Post by the4thpip on Jun 9, 2014 13:11:47 GMT -5
Yeah, Mighty Avemgers is one of my favorite books whenever Land is not doing the art.
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Post by DubipR on Jun 9, 2014 16:26:04 GMT -5
I've been enjoying Mighty Avengers... it's nice to see Monica Rambeau again, and it's a cool concept. The 2nd story line (with White Tiger) was the best one so far.. the 1st couple issues get stuck being Infinity tie-ins. Yeah, Mighty Avemgers is one of my favorite books whenever Land is not doing the art. But its Land..old Land that's brought his game to the book. it's not Greg Land and his amazing porno tracing light box. |
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Post by The Captain on Jun 9, 2014 22:07:07 GMT -5
Yesterday I went to a local Comic book show and picked up 44 comics for .50 each. Among them were recent Avengers titles( Mighty, Avengers, Secret). I'm blown away how cheap these issues can be had in the secondary market. The Mighty Avengers was bleh and Secret Avengers was kind of annoying. The plot for that book was Black Widow and Hawkeye do missions for Shield but were injected with a chemical that makes them forget the missions afterwards. Nice Luke Ross art, though. I pick up a lot of recent comics (4-6 months old) at this little shop in downtown Pittsburgh, where the owner empties the "new" comics rack every few weeks and puts the extra issues in the back room for $1 apiece. I've been doing this for about 4 years now, which enables me to read books that don't matter to me if they get cancelled, because I don't care enough to pay full price. It's mostly Avengers stuff, along with the current Uncanny X-Men by Bendis and some other things here and there.
I think so many of those issues (particularly Avengers) are available so cheaply because the stores order enough copies to cover their pull lists and regular customers as well as to make sure they have sufficient copies available on the shelves in case some one just happens to stop by who wants to start reading comics and may be familiar with the Avengers characters. Problem is, this rarely happens and they are stuck with way more copies than they could ever sell at even cover price, so they deep discount them to the point that they are making back some of the money they initially laid out so they can cover next week's shipment of new books, at which point the cycle begins anew.
I'm enjoying Mighty Avengers and am trying to pick up the entire series of Secret Avengers, but I've actually stopped buying New Avengers for even $1; I liked Hickman's Fantastic Four, but this book hasn't moved an inch storyline wise since issue #1 and I just lost patience with it. At $.50, maybe, but even $1 is more than I am willing to pay for it right now.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 9, 2014 22:12:40 GMT -5
I've been enjoying Mighty Avengers... it's nice to see Monica Rambeau again, and it's a cool concept. The 2nd story line (with White Tiger) was the best one so far.. the 1st couple issues get stuck being Infinity tie-ins. Yeah, Mighty Avemgers is one of my favorite books whenever Land is not doing the art. But its Land..old Land that's brought his game to the book. it's not Greg Land and his amazing porno tracing light box. yeah, I didn't have an issue with Lands art. |
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 9, 2014 22:22:16 GMT -5
My list for Wednesday June 11
DARK HORSE
Star Wars #18
DC COMICS
Batgirl #32
Detective Comics #32
Green Lantern Corps #32
Justice League United #2
Superboy #32
Superman/ Wonder Woman #9
Worlds' Finest #24
Astro City #13
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2014 22:44:52 GMT -5
Yesterday I went to a local Comic book show and picked up 44 comics for .50 each. Among them were recent Avengers titles( Mighty, Avengers, Secret). I'm blown away how cheap these issues can be had in the secondary market. The Mighty Avengers was bleh and Secret Avengers was kind of annoying. The plot for that book was Black Widow and Hawkeye do missions for Shield but were injected with a chemical that makes them forget the missions afterwards. Nice Luke Ross art, though. I pick up a lot of recent comics (4-6 months old) at this little shop in downtown Pittsburgh, where the owner empties the "new" comics rack every few weeks and puts the extra issues in the back room for $1 apiece. I've been doing this for about 4 years now, which enables me to read books that don't matter to me if they get cancelled, because I don't care enough to pay full price. It's mostly Avengers stuff, along with the current Uncanny X-Men by Bendis and some other things here and there.
I think so many of those issues (particularly Avengers) are available so cheaply because the stores order enough copies to cover their pull lists and regular customers as well as to make sure they have sufficient copies available on the shelves in case some one just happens to stop by who wants to start reading comics and may be familiar with the Avengers characters. Problem is, this rarely happens and they are stuck with way more copies than they could ever sell at even cover price, so they deep discount them to the point that they are making back some of the money they initially laid out so they can cover next week's shipment of new books, at which point the cycle begins anew.
I'm enjoying Mighty Avengers and am trying to pick up the entire series of Secret Avengers, but I've actually stopped buying New Avengers for even $1; I liked Hickman's Fantastic Four, but this book hasn't moved an inch storyline wise since issue #1 and I just lost patience with it. At $.50, maybe, but even $1 is more than I am willing to pay for it right now.
They may have also ordered extras to meet minimum orders to qualify for some of the variants, and sold the variants at a higher price to already cover their extra expenditure, so those copies are already paid for and selling them at $1 is just extra revenue from them....a lot of shops who do well with variants do this. Our local shop does terribly with variants, so we rarely order them even when we qualify to do so. -M |
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Post by the4thpip on Jun 10, 2014 0:40:38 GMT -5
I've been enjoying Mighty Avengers... it's nice to see Monica Rambeau again, and it's a cool concept. The 2nd story line (with White Tiger) was the best one so far.. the 1st couple issues get stuck being Infinity tie-ins. Yeah, Mighty Avemgers is one of my favorite books whenever Land is not doing the art. But its Land..old Land that's brought his game to the book. it's not Greg Land and his amazing porno tracing light box. He still gives us those freaky frozen smiles, Monica with white-woman-hair (something the writer actually addressed later on in a not too flattering way) and made Luke and Jessica's baby male. |
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Post by maddog1981 on Jun 10, 2014 5:53:29 GMT -5
Justice League Dark survived another list culling. I think it might have the record for the longest I've ever had a title on the bubble without dropping it. 16 issues and counting so far. The problem is I always feel like the book is on the verge of being great but it just never gets there.
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Post by The Captain on Jun 10, 2014 7:31:32 GMT -5
I pick up a lot of recent comics (4-6 months old) at this little shop in downtown Pittsburgh, where the owner empties the "new" comics rack every few weeks and puts the extra issues in the back room for $1 apiece. I've been doing this for about 4 years now, which enables me to read books that don't matter to me if they get cancelled, because I don't care enough to pay full price. It's mostly Avengers stuff, along with the current Uncanny X-Men by Bendis and some other things here and there.
I think so many of those issues (particularly Avengers) are available so cheaply because the stores order enough copies to cover their pull lists and regular customers as well as to make sure they have sufficient copies available on the shelves in case some one just happens to stop by who wants to start reading comics and may be familiar with the Avengers characters. Problem is, this rarely happens and they are stuck with way more copies than they could ever sell at even cover price, so they deep discount them to the point that they are making back some of the money they initially laid out so they can cover next week's shipment of new books, at which point the cycle begins anew.
I'm enjoying Mighty Avengers and am trying to pick up the entire series of Secret Avengers, but I've actually stopped buying New Avengers for even $1; I liked Hickman's Fantastic Four, but this book hasn't moved an inch storyline wise since issue #1 and I just lost patience with it. At $.50, maybe, but even $1 is more than I am willing to pay for it right now.
They may have also ordered extras to meet minimum orders to qualify for some of the variants, and sold the variants at a higher price to already cover their extra expenditure, so those copies are already paid for and selling them at $1 is just extra revenue from them....a lot of shops who do well with variants do this. Our local shop does terribly with variants, so we rarely order them even when we qualify to do so. -M I hadn't thought about that, but it makes sense. I know that my regular LCS doesn't buy huge numbers in order to get things like the 1:75 variants (like the Sienkiewicz cover for Moon Knight #1, which I am going to have to splurge on and get from eBay so that I can get him to sign it at Pittsburgh Comicon this fall), but one of the other LCS chains in the area has 5 stores to support, so they probably buy large quantities to stock shelves, fill lists and also get the big variants to sell to suckers like me.  |
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