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Don't know where to buy? Try these:

[YOUR LOCAL COMIC SHOP]

>International stores
https://www.amazon.com (damaged books)
https://www.bookdepository.com (damaged books)
https://www.ebay.com
https://www.alibris.com/

>US/Canada-oriented stores:
https://www.instocktrades.com/
https://cheapgraphicnovels.com/
https://organicpricedbooks.com/
https://www.dcbservice.com/
https://www.mycomicshop.com
https://www.tfaw.com

>Europe-oriented stores:
https://www.books-etc.com/
https://blackwells.co.uk/
https://www.reedcomics.com/
https://forbiddenplanet.com/
https://www.speedyhen.com/
https://www.cheap-comics.com/
https://waltscomicshop.com/

>Australia/NZ-oriented stores:
https://www.booktopia.com.au
https://australia.kinokuniya.com/
https://www.thenile.com.au/

>Price Comparison website(s):
https://www.cheapestbookprice.com/
https://booko.us/
https://booko.com.au/

>Upcoming releases:
https://www.comicreleases.com/2021/12/all-upcoming-collected-editions/
https://www.comiclist.com/index.php/newreleases/next-week
https://blog.gocollect.com/category/comiclist/next-week/
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_folder/305597

>Try before you buy:
https://readcomiconline.li/
https://getcomics.info/

it's been 2 weeks.

>What are you currently reading?
>List your white whale(s)
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>>136624373 (OP)
newest acquisitions
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>>136624407
and forgot the pic of course.
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Some new stuff.
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>>136624572
that's some good shit. and I still need to pick up that omni, but next months are filled with Judge Dredd case files and my regular pre-orders,
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Any Harleyfags here? She's my guilty pleasure
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>>136625480
back when she got popular I almost bought that first Harley omni but thankfully didn't.
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I'm going to buy a book!
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>>136626300
fool
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>Rosa confirms some of his stories will be edited or completely removed
Glad I jumped and got the deluxed life and times and have the complete library box sets. People may also wanna grab Carl Barks vol 7 Lost in the Andes if they can cos that also has a Bombie story and will be banned as well.

Anyone know if any of the other currently out or upcoming Barks books have bannable stuff? I've been collecting the box sets so am a few volumes behind and would hate for something to suddenly be removed in the box sets/reprints like the flying farm hand was last year.
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>>136626309
Okay I'll buy a video game instead
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>>136626826
no idea, man. post pics though, interested how that looks on a shelf
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we're up early boys
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>>136627080
from a little while ago after just getting this bookcase and initially filling it. deluxe isn't there cos it's too big to fit and is currently in my new pile of books while I wait to get another bookcase to immediately fill.
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>>136625480
nope but i ain't mad at people who are. i still have a soft spot for Lady Death
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>>136624572
legendary pick ups right here. I'm literally waiting on a $200 order from fat jacks comics out of Jersey
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>>136624429
is this Curt Swans run with superman?
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>>136627337
Oh, I'm jealous of those Nancy books. You going to get the Bushmiller biography Griffith is putting out?
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>>136627337
im a decade younger then you but this is top level collecting. congrats Anon
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>>136627291
it's fine

>>136627337
you're a credit to your people.
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>>136627428
Oh I had no idea that was a thing. I'll definitely be picking it up. I'm a big fan of both Bushmiller and Stanley Nancy. I'm still mad Fantagraphics only did 3 volumes.

>>136627429
>>136627512
Cheers. I've actually also got two other full shelves of random books/manga as well and a bunch of new stuff in an ever growing pile but I'm waiting till I get the last shelf I can fit in my entire house that my gf will allow me before sorting those ones properly. This shelf will get rearranged as well with stuff like the Urasawa collection going to the manga bookcase.
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>>136627401
it's the newspaper dailies, he did a couple of those, yeah, but most it's Jerry Siegel + artist only. haven't looked into it yet.there are silver age sunday strips, atomic age dailies, atomic age sunday strips, golden age dailies and golden age sunday strips and all of that shit aside of the silver age dailies is out of print.
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>>136627337
Ducks are gay but I respect the commitment.
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>>136627634
that's actually pretty cool. i wouldn't mind checking out some of those old cape dailies. i've seen the raw art for a bunch of them and they always look great.
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>>136628409
The Golden Age ones are pretty cool. The Superman and Wonder Woman strips are by the original creators (and maybe Batman, but I'm not sure).
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Did IST lower their Marvel discount amount? I feel like it used to be forty something percent?
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Has anyone got their Nova omni yet? I thought it was supposed to release at the end of march but mine hasn't even shipped.
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>>136627361
Is the core Lady Death mini or any of the Evil Ernie stuff any good? 

I finally tracked down a trade for the original Evil Ernie mini-series and it was pretty good. Was wondering if the rest of the character's stuff and the Lady Death stuff is worth tracking down.
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>>136625480
Only Harley book I've got is Harleen, and that's mostly because I adore Sejic's work.
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>>136625480
Dogshit character.
Dogshit comics.
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>>136627634
>>136627401
A first Superman Silver Age omnibus should come out later this year, I'm looking forward to that.
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>>136627337
>Bagging tanks
>Bagging slipcased hardcovers
Very gay
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Shelfanons, does anyone here have the kodansha box set of Akira? Is there any point to replacing my dark horse paperbacks with them? I already have Akira Club so that's not a consideration
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>>136633762
 Did you come from this thread ?

>>>/a/251299941
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>>136633927
No, don't spend much time on /a/. I do have a few of the berk deluxe editions, but I think I just prefer reading the digitals so I might get rid of them. Unfortunately digitals aren't an option for Akira.
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>>136634093
>I do have a few of the berk deluxe editions,

 send them to me ;)
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>>136624373 (OP)
A waste of time and energy, truly unnatural and many steps away from health.
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>>136634510
Thanks, I do my best.
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>>136634093
I could never grok digital. Even shit posting online is starting to hurt my eyes after a while.
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>>136633762
The boxed books read right to left and have the unedited Japanese sound effects, plus the format is a bit larger.
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>>136634785
I've never had an issue with eye strain, but I've worn glasses since I was 10 or so, maybe they're already fucked.

I still like a good oversized hardcover, but reading on a tablet is just really comfy for me, I find it easier to zoom in on a panel rather than bring my face in real close. But I suppose the main advantages are space and expense. I can get a lot of comics free through piracy and if not they are often cheaper and I like to keep quite a small collection, around 2-3 Ikea Billy's worth, if I have a digital book it doesn't take up that space.
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>>136634800
I'm still on the fence, it seems like a marginal improvement. The flipping is not so bad, didn't Otomo redo some of the artwork for it anyway? And sound effects are neither here nor there to me, I usually just gloss over them and imagine my own sounds anyway.
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Bump. Updated my shelf with Punk Rock Jesus deluxe, Monstress Book 2, and the rest of Gantz. Currently waiting for Tokyo Ghost and Jurassic League. Pretty much done this year with only a few releases more in the coming months
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>>136634942
then don't do it if you don't want to and buy something else. I was worried that the box might go out of print when I bought it last year but there has been a fresh batch out so apparently they hold it in perpetuity.
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>>136635024
Where's the Journey figurine from? Also
>all that shrink wrap
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>>136633695
the ones that are bagged are the ones i had stored in a wardrobe in the spare room for like 2 years and one day found a few silver fish so panicked and bagged them. once i get my final bookcase and do a huge rearrange of everything i'll be taking them all out
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>>136635146
Okay fine, you're a hetero again.
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>>136635421
you'd never see a gay man with that many duck books. absolute pussy magnet.
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>>136635126
It’s from GSC’s Pop Up Parade line.
I read online for the most part. Not pictured is a bunch of manga and novels hidden in the bottom compartment. Going through them as well atm.
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>>136635881
If you're not reading them, maybe you should think a bit harder about what you buy. Buying just to consoom and have stuff on your shelf is a bit sad imho.
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>>136635907
I’m fully aware of that. Still prefer a physical book collection though, most of the shelf I’ve read before.
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>>136627337
This is quite possibly the most different collection to anything I own that I've ever seen in a /shelf/ thread. Very little crossover with anything I own. BUT... I think I would have a great fucking time reading it all.
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I made the mistake of pre-ordering Top 10 Compendium from Amazon
I don't think I'm ever getting it
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>>136634093
>I do have a few of the berk deluxe editions
I think that might be the next Series I focus on getting.
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>>136636552
>Jens Harder
Nice. Did you go German or French for Beta part 1? You know part 2 is out now as well. Look forward to reading Gamma in 10 or so years.
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>>136636629
>Nice. Did you go German or French for Beta part 1? You know part 2 is out now as well.
French, I have a few BDs in the level below. 
Crap, I have to get part2 then! Thanks for the heads up!
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>>136636661
I think I'm blind I don't see the BDs, what do you have? Unless they're on a shelf not pictured?
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Only major purchase recently has been the 4th One Piece box. Still skint from buying all these fucking Kallaxs. Close ups in the link because my camera is too shit to take legible wide shots.

https://imgchest.com/p/qb4zjmllyjm
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>>136636694
>I think I'm blind I don't see the BDs, what do you have? Unless they're on a shelf not pictured?
Yeah, you don't see the BDs in the pic unfortunately.
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>>136637127
What do you have? Can you do us a picture?
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I need a new bookshelf.
Actually, in all honesty I think I need two bookshelves.
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>>136637188
OK, I'll get a picture after work.
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Good morning/shelf 

>What are you currently reading?
I'm almost finished with Deadenders and it is a solid read
>List your white whale(s)
There are a couple V art books I want but I've stopped whale hunting a while back. As it's kind of surprising how often I can find books random books that are amazing but oop
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>>136637609
I know this hustle. I recently had to box up an entire shelf for storage. As my wife and I had to convert our office into a nursery.
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>>136635024
I still haven't checked Chew out. I have been meaning to tho
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>>136637961
Deadenders is solid. I found it in a used bookstore and picked it up based on Brubaker. I don't think I've seen anyone else ever bring it up though.
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>>136627337
That's a good system for storing manga so it takes up less space. I didn't think of that one
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>>136632696
It's really good, I love the coloring. Definitely check out Lady Death
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>>136638013
It's pretty good and funny, I recommend.
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>>136632696
not really. Chaos never collected and of their series except for one in Youth Gone Wild. So the entire series is in floppies. I have seen one European release of all of the one shots in one collection in Facebook but I've never seen it for sale
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>>136636391
I canceled that order and bought it from cheap-comics instead, together with the shit you see in 
>>136624429
even with my preorder lowest price guarantee shit it was cheaper than from amazon and it all arrived undamaged.
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There were some anons interested in that Super Sons omni reprint announcement from last thread and were asking if there was gonna be new stuff on it; there is going to be, with a new cover.
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>>136638339
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>>136638059
>>136638059
Yeah, I don't know why I picked up the series either. Deadenders is the only book I ever bought from my comic shop online. As they had the entire series trade over the issue one through four trade and the book really picks up in issue 6.
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>>136638339
Just give me a new 52 supergirl Omni and a collected works of Ed Benes and I will be a happy Anon.
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When are they gonna reprint this?
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>>136638339
Challenged sucked so I'm ok...
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>>136638660
missed out on that Absolute on ebay kleinanzeigen for 50€ a couple months ago
>yeah it'll surely be there tomorrow as well, no sweat
>forget it
>check again week after
>gone
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>>136638339
that's funny as shit
maybe this will make the very first super sons Omni cheap as shit because even that Omni went up in price 
i only want the stuff drawn by jiminez
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>>136638660
I'm waiting for Final Crisis, All-Star Superman and Ellis Authority Absolutes to get a reprint. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany day now...
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>>136638660
I have never seen this before and to be honest I am not much of a Paul Dini guy.
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>>136639046
You should read it. If you're not a Paul Dini guy, then Alex Ross' art makes up for it.
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>>136637961
>What are you currently reading?
Was reading some Fables, but working through a Japanese mystery novel now.
>List your white whale(s)
I always miss the fucking Remender X-Force omni and then it goes OOP. Someday.
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>>136638339
Is Rebirth stuff in this?
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>>136639413
I'm very confident that it will get a reprint soon, it was really high up (4th or 5th) on Omar's reprint vote.
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>>136624373 (OP)
>What are you currently reading?
I just finished Beowulf. Not sure what to read next, I'm trying to decide between Top 10, 100 Bullets, and Baltimore. 
>List your white whale(s)
Probably Veitch Swamp Thing, Lone Wolf & Cub, and the Miller Daredevil Omni Companion. For those first two I wish they would get an omni and deluxe editions respectively. I'm also hoping that one day we get a Delano Hellblazer omni and BPRD Library Editions.
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I grew up in/spent all my free time reading Star Wars books at Borders. How much would it cost to get all of the Omnibuses?
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>>136640146
You grew up in Star Wars books at Borders?
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>>136640112
create a random number from 1-3 on google, that helps me a lot if I can't decide.
>Miller Daredevil Omni Companion.
available on cheap-comics.com for €159.50. was tempted to buy it when it was "only" €125 but now I am just sitting here and waiting for a reprint. which will probably have super-thin paper and will cost €125 as well and come damaged from amazon...
>>136640146
if you ignore all the recent trash that was dished out since Disney bought LucasFilm, dunno, probably still a couple hundred dollaridoos since they only reprinted most of the old shit as omnis and epic collections and never re-reprinted them as far as I remember. but I am not into Star Wars so better wait for someone who is to tell you more.
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>>136640112
I'd go for 100 bullets, that at least has a real ending.
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>>136640341
>>136640378
I rolled and got 2 so 100 Bullets it is I guess.
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>>136639803
I'm gonna miss it again and turn into that anon that Whatever Happened to Baby Jane's at the Shazam hardcover.
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>>136638339
>dc keeps claiming nobody cared about kid jon
>super sons omni gets a reprint with new content every year
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>>136624373 (OP)
This is my comic shelf 1/3
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>>136641341
Close-up 2/3
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>>136641363
Extras under my manga shelf 3/3
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>>136641272
It's wild, I don't think I've ever seen an omni that gets upgraded with each reprint.
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>>136640112
Top 10 is great.
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>what are you reading
Batman
>white whale
Battle royale ultimate edition volume 5, since 2012. Prices are retarded for it and it just gets worse.
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>>136637961
>>136638059
>>136638607
I still haven't read it myself, though I've always been somewhat interested in it despite not caring about Brubaker that much. It's a sci-fi title, which is a rarity from him. It has been pretty rarely discussed despite being his first long running series but it was not collected for over a decade except for the first arc and it was before Brubaker got hot. DC/Vertigo should have tried to cache in with his status by fully collecting it sooner.
>>136627337
>>136627610
Did you get the How to Read Nancy book?
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I got this for the ABC sketchbook.
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And here is my /shelf/
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>>136629955
It's definitely less now than it was before. I swear everything on their site used to be like ~40% across the board for just about everything, with a few exceptions. Wonder if they're not getting as good of a deal at the distributor/retailer level and therefore can't offer as much of a discount anymore?

>>136631187
Haven't gotten mine yet but it's definitely shipped out from IST. Saw one of my LCS got a copy as well so they're definitely out there
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>>136642508
I found the sketchbook in a second hand book store for a couple of quid before christmas, was gonna take it apart to scan but someone else has done it already so it's staying on my shelf for now.
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>>136642554
>>136629955
The change happened near the end of 2021.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dcbs-and-instocktrades-reduce-marvel-discounts-available/#:~:text=As%20a%20result%2C%20DCBS%20has,of%2042%25%20to%2038%25.
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>>136640191
I was half awake when I typed that out, it's not my fault. (It is my fault)

>>136640341
>probably still a couple hundred dollaridoos since they only reprinted most of the old shit as omnis and epic collections
How much worse would it be if I want 1st edition Omnibuses?
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>>136642538
wish I had that much room left on my shelves
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>>136643330
I don't think there are first edition omnis? dark horse just released those as issues and then as paperbacks I believe. not sure though
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>>136643330
>1st edition Omnibuses
I don't think editions really matter when it comes to collected edition, unless they add content or fix errors.

Here's a list of the Star Wars omniboos printed by Marvel. This should help you to get the stories you want.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Marvel_Omnibus

I personally go for the Epic Collections. You can find those breakdowns here: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Epic_Collection
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Got this great hardcover of Warren era war comics, written by Archie Goodwin with art by John Severin, Russ Heath, Alex Toth, Gene Colan, Angelo Torres and others! Can’t wait to read it.
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>>136643945
thought that was some long OOP book but apparently it's still available, even on amazon. might hit it next month.
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>>136641272
And it keeps selling the fuck out.
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>all these guys with nice collections full of hard covers and good books, or at least relatively consistent collections
>vs me buying tpbs of whatever slop Image and similar companies put out
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>>136624373 (OP)
How was the Dark Horse Conan run compered to the old marvel series
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>>136637609
If you live in or near a college town, start cruising the off campus housing in a week or two as the undergrads leave. You will score shelves. They just throw them out.
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>>136637961
What are you reading?
DNA GotG
Madman lib. 3
Thing Omni.
Prose? 
The Dark Decent 70’s horror anthology
An HPL anthology
American Gothic by Robert Bloch

I skip around a lot.
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>>136644556
That’s a matter for some debate, but My own opinion is that it’s not really in the same league as Savage Sword. But I don’t like Buisick or painted comics.
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Picked these up recently. I've been really into REH lately. Picked up a bunch of the Del Ray story collections to.
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>>136644556
it was pretty good in my opinion. modernized dialogue and it worked with all the original Howard stories and connected them together in a meaninful way, working as one continuous story or you could read the different arcs as solo stories as well.
still haven't read the old comics so dunno how it compares to each other.
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>>136645257
How would you know they modernized the dialogue if you haven’t read the old comics.
Are you saying that he rewrote REH’s dialogue. Fuck that.
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>>136645398
I've read the original Howard pulp stories
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>>136645257
>modernized dialogue
That's rarely a plus
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>>136645211
I have the complete works in /lit/ for conan I'm working to get Solomon kane next.
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>>136645615
Kane is fun. I really like the poems.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BXd7nuJkPQ [Embed]
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There's not a single good Conan comic.
I also think this applies to Red Sonja and Vampirella.
I'm not saying they're all bad, they're just not good.
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>>136646143
Morrison/Millar/Conner Vampirella is good.
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>>136646143
If you don't think Frank Thorne Red Sonja is good, you just have shit taste
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>>136646320
Frank Thorne? 
More like, Frankly, I'm snorin'.

>>136646287
No.
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>>136638339
>3 different omnis in like 3 years 
>each adding more material 
oh for fucks fucking sake this is an actual joke at this point
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>>136636285
Thanks man. Carl Barks is peak comfy for me.

>>136638075
I've actually got the back row of manga sitting on vhs tapes. They're the perfect thickness and toughness plus it freed up room elsewhere by storing the vhs tapes there.

>>136642072
>Did you get the How to Read Nancy book?
Yeah, it's there next to the 3 Fanta Nancy books and the Olivia one.
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I hate shelves so much it's unreal
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Don't die before the weekend starts /shelf/

Never read any of the Valiant stuff so picked up the first wave of series from the relaunch to see what's what, except for the initial Shadowman series which I heard wasn't all too great. Also managed to get the second volume of Byrne's FF from IST when it was briefly on sale for a lower price
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i need a second shelf and also need to sell some stuff
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>>136648766
recently added to collection
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>>136648807
I also have those. I don’t have that cover, but if that’s the third Wolverine omni, you should unwrap it and take the dust jacket off. The actual cover is really cool.
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>>136646143
I agree.
>>136646320
The art is good a lot of the time.
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>>136648766
No Road to No Man's Land?
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>>136648807
I really like the omnis but I just wish they weren't so bloody expensive. I know you can usually get them for well off MSRB price but still.
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>>136641408
The art looks cool, what's/how's the story?
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>>136649323
i figured no mans land 1&2 was all i needed
is road really necessary?
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>>136649845
It sets up No Man's Land and I think has some good stories. Try reading some of the Cataclysm stories online.
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jeez
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>>136649323
>Road to
Not worth it. Anything that requires this is not worth it.
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>>136650743
elaborate please
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>>136649845
You need Cataclysm AND Road to No Man's Land to truly appreciate the scope and scale of No Man's Land. 

Basically for like three years, Batman was one huge mega arc about the fall of Gotham and it's rebirth.
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>>136624373 (OP)
Thinking about culling my trade collection but my library doesn't take donations and none of my local thrift shops want comics. Does anyone know if there is a program/system in place where I can ship my unwanted trades to soldiers serving overseas for them to gain custody of my unwanted trades ala care packages?
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>>136650897
www.operationpaperback.org
google "donating books to american soldiers" next time
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>>136650897
They used to have something like that for a few years and then after Covid they stopped doing it. Used to be in partnership with the organization "Operation Gratitude" so I guess you could try reaching out to them and see if they still take them. 

You could also see if any local shops will just take them, I know some by me have dedicated stuff for kids they give out or sell on the cheap.
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>>136651080
nah, they're back, see
>>136651035
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>>136650766
Self-explanatory.
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>>136636951
Holy fuck?
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>>136651306
I like the Frank Teran issues.
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>>136651306
sorry, woman, I can't read minds.
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>>136624572
Incredibly based how you liking that Budd root book anon
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fucking sucks bookdepository is shutting down. anyone know any other places besides amazon and blackwells that do free/cheap international shipping?
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>>136642538
It’s been filling up quick anon almost time for more shelf’s 
>>136643402
Kek What a great backhanded compliment anon
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Is there any nice edition of will eisner's the spirit like https://www.ebay.com/itm/165949677102?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=165949677102&targetid=1263094003426&device=m&mktype=&googleloc=9016852&poi=&campaignid=14859008593&mkgroupid=130497710760&rlsatarget=pla-1263094003426&abcId=9300678&merchantid=586215680&gclid=CjwKCAjw8-OhBhB5EiwADyoY1fxidNl4ZybuW-bniAfUrCXgATg8hPhUrNktSO1xB6-MYiaOS3gCbRoCAl8QAvD_BwE?
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Cool story bro. But imma an Avenger nao.
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>>136652352
Jesus, not that nice, there's too much of The Spirit for that, but if you look around you can find some hardbacks.
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>>136639003
I just sold my Final Crisis absolute on ebay.
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>>136650897
Go around your town and put them in those little lending libraries.
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Looking at a few "damaged" items on places like Instocktrades and Cheapgraphicnovels and It's not so much that I don't mind buying dinged up books but I really wish they were more specific with how damaged DAMAGED means. It could be anything from a tear in the dust jacket to being completed gashed.
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>>136651749
comicsbugle if you're in Europe and like capeshit
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>>136651749
I'd honestly just sooner pay the extra for shipping then ever deal with amazon again.
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>>136655174
The 2big Dredd books in >>136624429
are "damaged". So far I have discovered a tiny bump on one coner on one of them. Amazon's books in turn come normally like that.
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>>136624572
What's Byrne's Thing series like?
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>>136655470
Last bookdepository delivery for me and OF COURSE something is fucked about the book again, the spine is ripped. Every bookdepository order I ever did came in damaged. I gave them one last chance and they blew it, now I'm glad that shit place is gone. Good riddance!
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>>136655670
Didn't mean to quote.
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>>136655470
Byrne only worked on the first 22 issues. The rest of the series (#23-36) had different writers, IIRC mainly Carlin and DeFalco. 

And it fucking sucks. 

Byrne hated Thing and shitted on him constantly in his 22 issue run, culminating in Johnny stealing Alicia from him and no one having the balls to call him out on it because She-Hulk was too star struck and Reed/Sue had fucked off to the suburbs. 

The Carlin/DeFalco run is pure damage control but even when Byrne left, no one had the balls to undo his shit or make Johnny pay for his bullshit until DeFalco came along and revealed Johnny married a Skrull and made his life pure hell at long last.
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So why isn't bookdepository having a big fuck off sale? I have a handful of things in my basket I was hoping to pick up for cheap
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>>136655757
they were already folded into amazon for years. shit came from the same warehouses, just different labels.
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>>136655420
Seriously. Amazon's service has been absolutely dreadful. They just throw things in the worst padded envelopes I think I've seen and that's not even considering what damage they suffer in the warehouse.
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>>136655316
>>136655342
In Aus so shipping from most places is extra expensive. Amazon is always a coin toss but it's sometimes the only reasonable option. Blackwells is now my number one though. They're basically a slightly slower bookdep.
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>>136655670
That's fucking crazy. I've been buying regular from them for like 10 years and never had any damage to a single book.
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>>136656133
they used that envelope type of packaging for a book that is as big as a postcard. of course it's fucked. I am just mad that I paid them one last time and I will probably not be able to get a refund so I'll have to buy it again.
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My latest gets
Eightball is really weird so far and I like it a lot, thanks for recommending it /shelf/bros because I don't think I'd have been aware of it otherwise.
Captain Britain is decent but formulaic, though I'm still only a little ways into it. The early stuff is very much just riffing on Spider-Man and I kinda get the sense Claremont didn't care much for it. But the art is fantastic: these early issues have been reprinted here with the classic garish British comic colours and print dots and it makes it look amazing. Marvel should be doing this for all their old stuff. I've flicked through some of the later colour issues in the omni to compare and that style isn't done for those, so I wonder why they've only used it for the early issues.
I picked up Swamp Thing from the post office just now. It was wrapped in that simple plastic envelope and had come all the way from America for some reason, so I was expecting it to be banged up but when I unwrapped it, it turned out to be absolutely fine which was nice.
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>>136656434
I found early Captain Britain really boring, especially the b&w Black Knight stories. It only gets interesting once Alan Davis gets on the book.
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>>136656210
>I will probably not be able to get a refund
they said they're staying open until june or something to deal with stuff like this. it's only new orders they're stopping this month
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>>136657155
Too lazy
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>>136656799
The Black Knight has always been pretty lame desu
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Picked up the first appearance of power girl along with another cummer book
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>>136657994
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>>136658059
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>>136658422
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>>136657994
>>136658059
>>136658422
>>136658593
>JLA vol. 1 and JLA by Morrison omnibus
>Lucifer trades and omniboos
>vol. 5 of Berserk missing
>vol. 2 of JLI upside down
>only one volume of Usagi Yojimbo and it's not the Fantagraphics special edition

A lot of "hmm..." going on with these shelves.
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>>136658593
>those Golden/Silver Age DC omnis
I really wish they stayed with that cover and spine design, looks much nicer than the dark blue style they're doing now
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>>136659568
Isn't this the guy that just buys shit because the omniboos look good, rather than any desire to read them?
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>>136659929
Probably not
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>>136655174
Most of them are so minor you wouldn't even notice they were damaged.
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>>136638279
I cancelled it too this morning, got it for £13 cheaper on bookdepository (RIP)
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>>136658422
All that weight on a sideways Kallax is making me nervous. When they're the right way up they have the short shelves supporting the long ones, like this all the weight is on the wooden pegs.
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Just came in!
Also grabbed Many Deaths of Laila Starr but that's not as exciting
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>>136659568
Didn’t like Usagi Yojimbo, what’s wrong with Morrison run on JLA I loved it as it was coming out and reread it recently, I flip those larger books because of the sag in the spine to not stress it
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>>136663188
More the JLA double dipping I was curious about. I wasn't the biggest JLA fan, but there are some gems. Issue 5 I like a lot and Earth 2 with Quitely.
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>>136661801
That's what I thought when I got my brother a Spider-Man omni for christmas, then he found out someone glued the dust cover on upside down.

A little hint would be nice.
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>>136657994
>>136658059
>>136658422
>>136658593
welcome back Anon. You were missed
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>>136664009
False.
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>>136664553
now that's a hot take
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>>136663188
>Didn’t like Usagi Yojimbo
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>>136624429
Thought the Top 10 Compendium wasn't due out until next month?
>>136625480
At least you aren't a Vampblade fag anon, because I am
>>136636951
That Claymore box was a tempting purchase. Always loved the series and thought that it was very under rated. Remember reading the preview in Shonen Jump. Luckily a good chunk of the volumes showed up at goodwill (love it when someone donates their collection) and I scooped them up
>>136648632
Justin Jordan Shadowman was good (not as great as the Bob Hall 90's run, but what else was), but Milligan will forever get my hate for royally fucking over the series to the point where Kindt had to come in with Ninjak to save it's legacy
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>>136656434
Eightball has to be the most nihilistic boomer shit I've read in my life.
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>>136665045
NTA, I haven't read it, but I'm pretty sure I'm not going to like it.
I've read oodles of samurai manga, so I don't see the point of reading one with a cartoon rabbit.
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>>136665690
Because most samurai manga are fantasy stories.
Even Rorouni Kenshin leans towards the fantastical.
Usagi Yojimbo is more like Vagabond witten by someone enamored with Talking Animal comics.
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>>136665690
There's a thread up right now sharing it. You should read some.
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>>136661932
Funny enough one of the pegs fail and found it before the other did aswell. I had to reinforce it with this L brackets
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>>136664009
Thanks anon 
>>136664553
Love you too anon unless your overweight 
>>136665045
I tried but the art just put me off and I couldn’t get into the story.
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Any anons who sold books trough ebay can tell me if they bother to shrink-wrap their books or do they only ship them as they are ?
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>>136666096
>art just put me
Stan is one of the best panelists and cartoonists in the biz. You have no eye for quality.
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>>136666130
Been buying a ton lately and they do for the most part just check their reviews. Most of the time they package it in a bubble wrap bag then stuff into a priority box with peanuts.
>>136666218
Ever heard of assholes and opinions baby girl
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>>136657994
Why two In the Dark?
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>>136666313
Fiancé works for a library and they were throwing a couple out books out to beat up so I picked it up
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It's not a white whale but why the FUCK aren't they keeping the Witchblade compendiums in print?
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>>136666514
Also is the guy who made '68 dead or something? Why have those been OOP for so long.
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>>136666591
I just checked his Facebook and the last post was from early 2019.
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>>136624373 (OP)
I don't buy physical media.
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>>136667570
Thanks for sharing.
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>>136665787
There are shit tons of historical samurai manga
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>>136668158
And how many of them are going to get picked up by a guy who disregards Usagi Yojimbo?
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>>136667570
Enjoy the day when the Sun decides "Fuck that guy in particular" and sends a single photon off a solar flare down into your computer to change a 1 into a 0 and fry the entire thing.
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>>136643945
How is it? Thats a great lineup
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>>136644556
Busiek and Truman's runs are my favorite comics ever. But there absolutely is fair debate on its quality vs Savage Sword. Its just a matter of preference.

Very little of the works outside of those two writers are good though. The contents of Conan Reader are great as is Midnight Gods. Otherwise it's rough.
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Books from last month
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Books from this month
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>>136668698
What's the forever maps about?
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>DC reprinted the Power Girl collection

NOOOOO I SHOULD HAVE SOLD MINE AIIIIEEEEEEE MY SHELF VALUE JUST PLUMMETED
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>>136668657
>>136668698
Damn this is some good taste, very surprising to see such good taste in this thread.
Also you spend like twice to three times as much on comics in a month as I do comics + books + video games.
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>>136668895
Its a sort of Twilight Zoney fantasy story. More sad than scary but the art is fantastic. A guy finds maps to treasures but each find just provides him with new maps and he spends his whole life chasing them.
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>>136668942
I dont collect anything else which helps. And I find a lot of good deals.
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>>136655670
Damn that sucks, I've used them for a long time with no problem but never individual copies so maybe that's why.
I will miss the free shipping.
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>>136668657
Nice haul
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Is there a good app for tracking what's in your collection and what you're looking for? Using Sheets right now but figuring there's got to be a better way.
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>>136670765
I use clz comics. It's great but its a yearly subscription app
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>>136665050
>That Claymore box was a tempting purchase.
I got it relatively cheap. Had been eyeing it for a while and spotted it for a good bit less than RRP not too long ago.

Wish more comics did boxsets like manga does, honestly. You see it now and again but we're lumbered with omnis instead. A nice box set looks just as nice on the shelf and is much more comfortable to read than a massive omni.
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>still no Renew Your Vows Omni
>still no Yost Scarlet Spider omni (?)

Damn how the fuck?
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>>136671352
Oh man I'd love a Yost Scarlet Spider omni. Wonder if they'd bundle in New Warriors too.
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>>136671352
>Renew Your Vows
only the Conway issues were any good
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>>136668657
who signed those New Super-Man trades?
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>>136665787
Most? The ones I know are fantasy are Blade of the Immortal and Samurai Deeper Kyo, which I don't like. 
I thought Usagi had fantasy elements in it, like ghosts and shit.
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>>136671577
Actually forgot about Gintama, which I don't like.
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>>136671481
That might be true but I want Spinnerette to sit on my face.
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>>136671577
>I thought Usagi had fantasy elements in it, like ghosts and shit.
Some stories yeah.
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My Recent pick ups. Finally got punisher max vol 1
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Did the Mighty Marvel Masterworks line die?
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>>136671492
Gene Luen Yang and Bernard Chang. Super cool dudes.
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>>136672868
Ive never read Priest's Black Panther. How good is it?
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>>136673021
It's cool if you like Priest. I wasn't a fan of black panther until this run. I actually picked it up back the day due to the Teixeira art because I'm a huge ghost rider fan.
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>>136673102
Texeira is great. Met him at a Con last year and he's super chill. Just loves drawing cool shit.

I do like Priest so ill need to give it a read
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>>136673129
He signed my Conan reader and did a quick sketch for free just because it was Conan
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>>136636951
Fucking hell anon......I really hope you get laid showing chicks that collection, because I'd demand you take me the second I saw that. Excellent taste too, you're top tier with just Red Dwarf. I'd ask why the fuck I can't find guys like you in the wild, but then I remember we're all on 4chan
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>>136673021
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>>136636951
I'll be honest. I just really like this whole arrangement.
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>>136673429
Has basically nobody written Black Panther well besides Priest?
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>>136673824
I liked Kirby and mcgregor
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>>136673824
not on that level, no. every modern iteration of Black Panther is based on Hudlin's trash, including the MCU version
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Bump with recent Rogues Gallery commission. Clayface by Matthew Allison
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>>136674424
Professor Pyg by Jason Shawn Alexander.
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>>136674453
last one for now. Scarecrow by Troy Nixey
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>>136674424
>>136674453
>>136674472
kickass
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>>136674472
Are you going to venture out to other dc hero’s/villains or strictly Batman circle of influence?………….. what I’m asking what’s the chance you get a mommy milkers Power Girl?
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>>136674472
that one is the best out of those 3 I think
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>>136674534
Im just going with Batman. Too expensive to keep going beyond that but I may get some one off DC characters like Etrigan or Creeper or something down the road. Closest Ill get to any good mommy milkers will be my Poison Ivy whenever I find the right artist.
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>>136674576
The only downside is its really small. Its an insane amount of detail for only A4.
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>>136665050
Admittedly, I randomly picked up the first trade of the newest Shadowman run by Bunn and went from there. Very tempted to pick up the Classic Omni of the 90s series
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What's up with Dynamite? It feels like their TPBs are super far behind?
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>>136675910
I find Dynamite very vexing as a company in the first place. Their whole MO basically seems to revolve around variant covers but some of their IP acquisitions just strike me as odd.
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>>136674608
my guy, you need to lose some weight
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>>136636951
that curtain ruins the whole room
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>>136635146
how do you prevent silverfish and destroy them so they never come near you precious books?


FUCK SILVERFISH
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>>136639003
the disgusting brothers... ON COMIC BOOK COLLECTING TOUR

your never getting your books
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>>136678572
Have you tried not living in squalor?
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>>136678697
your dad's bussy is called a squalor?

no seriously, are silverfish attracted to dirt?

there's a few holes in the wall in my house, they keep coming from there
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>>136624373 (OP)
what do you mean by damaged books on amazon?

are there some sellers who do that?
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>>136672868
Really can't buy the Cable/Deadpool books after finding out that the abysmal early 00s X-Force mini that Liefeld wrote/drew is required reading for the series in terms of being #6.1-6.6 and the fact that IIRC, the story was never fucking reprinted in a trade format. So you can't just buy the old C/DP trades and stick it inbetween. 

>>136672964
Still ongoing but it's like one or two volumes per month.

Still wish they would have done the digest size MWs as a box set initiative. Would have been way better if you could get 3-5 volumes at a time rather than making you have to wait an eternity for them to come out.
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>>136680785
He means Amazon fucking sucks and sends their shit out in crappy packaging so it arrives all banged up if it wasn't already mangled in the warehouse.
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>>136678572
I mean, it wasn't an infestation I had or anything, just a few odd ones because they were being stored in a clothes wardrobe in the spare room along with actual clothes and a bunch of other random crap. I went through every book, bagged them up and put a shit ton of mothballs in there, you'd almost get high just from walking in the room. Every few weeks I'd also give the floor/perimeter of the wardrobe and room a spray with long life surface bug spray. When I moved all the books out about a year later onto the bookcase I found maybe 2 dead ones on the shelves the books were on.
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>>136666007
>you are the best tea ceremony ever
No, this is a fucking lie. It's a tea ceremony of pain.
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>>136677985
Look at it again, it's not bowing under it's own weight, it curves around a bay window.
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>>136637890
Where's that pic broski?
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>>136678572
Long time? A dry environment. Silverdish are still kinda aquatic, they need a slightly moist or damp environment to dip into since they actually have gills (I kid you not, you can read that up), so any kind of moisture near your books will keep them there. Heating piping in an otherwise cold room where air moisture gathers for example. Do something about that by better isolating the piping or look for leaks etc and they can't survive there any more and will eventually be gone.
Besides, it prevents mold as well.
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>>136681698
It looks ugly though
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>>136677985
Look, it was get a slightly ugly black out curtain or board up the windows. I must have total darkness.
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>>136683563
venetian blinds
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>>136683563
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Blackwell's seems to have forgotten to send Dredd Case Files 8, the shipping info stated that both 5 and 8 were supposed to be sent together in 1 package and that it arrived yesterday, but it was only case files 5. I contacted them, let's see how that turns out, but I don't really expect a fast answer.
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>>136683966
Insufficient darkness. I've done blackout blinds + normal curtains before and it's okay but nothing like these. Other than a small crack at the top it's like having the window bricked up. Perfection.
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>>136684198
Never mind, their customer service reacted super fast and told me a different tracking number, which hasn't arrived yet. Apparently they are unable to provide more than one tracking number in the same order.
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>>136666096
>Love you too anon unless your overweight
Dang me and my love for Chicken Parmesan
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>>136662537
Love. Love. Love me some new 52. It is to the point I didn't know how good I had it until it was taken away from me.
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>>136665050
I'm about to start reading the Dynamite comics biography of Gonzo Mayo. I am very late to the Vampirella train.
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>>136665050
>>136686773
Dang it. I read this has Vampirella and not Vampblade. I read Vampblade online and I liked it.
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>>136675951
>I find Dynamite very vexing as a company in the first place. Their whole MO basically seems to revolve around variant covers but some of their IP acquisitions just strike me as odd.
I've always found the owner of Dynamite comics to be more of a Super fan than a businessman. It seems like he will publish whatever as long as he can keep talent working. On a side note the owner of Dynamite comics has a psychotically amazing original art collection. He literally owns the prelims to Daredevil 7 drawn by wally wood.
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sunday morning bump
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>>136686870
living the dream