Shelf thread

Clearly it's a bootleg.

I was disappointed to be honest. I got it because everyone here and Reddit was raving about it, but meh... It was drawn out and boring.

Read it and find out.

Thinking about finishing off my Love & Rockets library collection. And then working on some image titles.

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What’s the plebbiest/patricianist comic on my shelf?

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Plebbiest is Supreme Power

Paper is the right texture, as is the size.

>The Borgias
[Spoiler]Patrician Level[/spoiler]Pervert

god I love Stokoe

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>TFW you'll never read the end of orc stain ;_;

So does this one really confirm that there won't be any more Orc Stain?

Not really, there's stuff in it that goes beyond the unpublished issue he's already posted online.
He could still continue it but if he doesn't all the art is out there now.
He's got a patreon now too I think.

It's likely a blank variant with the blank cover ripped off. When I go to my LCS I'll check some of those to see if they have the barcode on the cover under it.

See I thought that too but I can’t see any indication of tearing. Could be

I really dug it. Met the author at comic con last year too and she's super friendly and humbled by the attention it got

How's black hammer? Also, did you read all the spin-offs, like doctor star and whatever?

What are the essential omnibuses that everyone should own?

How come none of you assholes told me that the second BatMorrison omni was out?

Love me some Black Hammer but the only spinoff worth it so far is Doc Starr. Maybe Hammer '45

There aren't any really, it's more a question of what do you like, and what omnis should you avoid?
Like the first printing Fourth World omnis.

Marvel solicitations are out for September
bleedingcool.com/2019/06/20/j-j-abrams-marvel-september-2019-solicitations/

Highlights include reprints of Annihilation omni, and both Bendis Daredevil omnis. Also a new Peter David hulk omni (although we already knew about these from rumors.)
There's also a rumor floating around for an Ultimates omnibus reprint, and since these rumors are true 99% of the time, we can book it.

I think it's arguably the decade's best comic.

redpill me on Alpha and Beta please

>plebian
>killing joke because it's shit

>patrician
>ASS

supreme power is great, fuck you

Got it after work today. Will probably read it over the weekend. Any idea when Volume 2 will be released?

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September 2020

So does that mean it's not as good as a regular first print?

>what omnis should you avoid?
Easy. Literally every DC one. Not a single one has no errors

>and what omnis should you avoid?
Any DC omnibus from before this decade. They have glued binding, and gutter loss like you wouldn't believe.

Damn, I just started buying the Hulk Visionaries.

Also, does anyone have any experience with placing floppies on shelves? Any tips?

>Also, does anyone have any experience with placing floppies on shelves? Any tips?
I mean, you'd just bag/board them and put them on a shelf the same way you'd do a book. Personally if that's the route you're going down, I would just put your floppies into a shortbox (such as pic related), and put the box itself on the shelf. Would just look better.

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No, ALL DC omnis. No one is talking about the second morrison one because the first one was too fucked up

eh, I can live with a page out of place or a speech bubble missing text. Glued binding I cannot.
But yeah. DC is a disaster.

My girlfriend's dad just made her a cool rotating shelf / side table that holds most of her shit so she have me most of her shelf right next door, so i have a ton of extra room now. Can't wait to start filling it out.

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Bonus, any OP fags on Yea Forums?

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I don't have any space for One Piece, but one day when I do, I'll scoop the whole series. Ditto Hunter x Hunter. Manga just takes up so much space

I suppose one could call me that.

I started buying in middleschool when it was like 4 columes deep into the US release and didn't know what I was getting myself into, ha ha.

My latest haul

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How is Road to Perdition? I really like the movie.

I like the anime tough I stopped watching around 200~. I would like to read the manga but no way that i'm paying for it, too much volumes.

>first 3 Monstress trades
sorry user, just got announced that those are being collected in a HC
>Pleb
Batman
>patrician
The Borgias and Witchblade Absolute, I'm still jealous. actually, how is the quality, is the binding good?

If you have a tablet, the shonen jump app has every chapter and a bunch of other series for 2 bucks a month, if I wasn't already in so deep with it that's what I'd do.

I really like prohibition era crime stuff so I enjoyed it a lot. The art is unique and suited the comic well. It's in black and white but it does a lot of crosshatching which is a style I enjoy. I liked that it was written from the perspective of the son. It's not too long but not unsatisfying short. I would recommend giving it a read.

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did you get those off ebay......

The Black Beetle finally came in. Then yesterday I went to my lcs and got those floppies, and also check out a used books store that had some nice comics, ended up getting the hellboy companion book, killing and dying, and Dagon by Ben Templesmith. Templesmith's name is misprinted on the cover and there was a print by him of lovecraft

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I got JSA from my LCS. The others I got used from Amazon. I have a shipment of new comics coming from InStockTrades. I just find buying used is more affordable.

Nothing to show, I'm just waiting for the postman. There were two holidays this week, that delays everything here.

>sorry user, just got announced that those are being collected in a HC

It was known since months ago tho.

Prediction: Marvel ends the Epic line next year

What makes you say this

Excellent stuff! You get this for the art, it is gorgeous (text is minimal). Alpha is about the creation of the univers to the apparition of the first hominidae. Beta deals with the first half of the exustence of human kind.

He juxtaposes art illustrating the creation of the universe from a scientific point of view (with superficial scientific facts explaining everything) with art illustrating the same subject, i.e. the creation of the universe, from a mythological/religious/folklore/legends/"human mind" point of view. Google the art to see samples. It's great, a bit pricey, but totally worth it.

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From Alpha

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Besides finishing my Hitman collection, what should I get next? I'm thinking maybe that Hank Fletcher collection or the next two KSBD trades.

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It seems like they are printing smaller and smaller print runs of each book, so it must not be making them much money.

Seems like conjecture to me

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welp, I'm sold

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not the user that asked, but this jumped up on my must buy list. That is amazing and I love some good /sci/ in comics

>so it must not be making them much money.
anything they make is profit after print costs (and some have been pretty fucking cheap lately) because they don't have to give money to leeches

I'm not done yet!

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author/artist name so I can find it online please

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Well yes, it is, but it definitely doesn't show they have any faith in the line at all when they're printing so few copies.

How do you know that's what's happening? How do you know the volumes just aren't more popular now? Or more people are buying because of FOMO? I just think you're doing some mental gymnastics. Saying the line will be "cancelled next year" is so silly that I doubt you believe it yourself.

>the first one was too fucked up
What was wrong with it?

look at first picture

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Conway's game of life reference :)

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ah, so only Alpha is in english and is pricey as fuck. well then looks like I will just have to pirate

I'd say the binding is on par with a DC Absolute.

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I found Alpha for 50 Canadian on Amazon. Wouldn't exactly call that pricey as fuck

That looks great

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Ah, don't bother with the langugage, get it in an other language (one you might like to learn someday? perhaps?), and focus on the art.

The text is ultra light and superficial explanations of science (astrophysics, geology, biology, paleontology, etc.). I honelstly learned maybe only 2 things from the book (to be faire, I've read a few books on those subjects).

page count is higher than I thought, so ya.
ok, Maybe I'll try and download the french version to see if it is prohibitive to me.

I got excited for a moment because I thought you meant Ewing's Ultimates. Here's hoping, though.

Also there's two other highlights from the solicits that you neglected to mention:
>Doctor Strange Epic Collection: Triumph and Torment
>Black Bolt HC

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The Sorcerer Supreme Epic is a bit superfluous if you already own the omnis, but T&T being put back into print is great news. It's good too since it means that Into Shamballa (which goes for at least $60 on eBay) will probably get bundled into the second one.

It's something fun to buy once a week or two and build it up. something to look forward to and enjoy see grow slowly on your shelf

The Joe Quesada artbook is getting a reissue with extra content come September, too. Say what you will about the man's editorial stint, but he's a pretty beastly artist.

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>The Sorcerer Supreme Epic is a bit superfluous if you already own the omnis
Well that's the thing, I don't (and they're expensive at the moment), and I've been saving to buy pure Epic Collections too, so that's one that will be on my list.

BTW Yea Forums, do you think I should get the five Swamp Thing trades, or wait until this Absolute Collection comes out? I've read plenty of negative opinions regarding DC omnibuses but maybe this will be better?

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I remember reading about this years ago, thanks for reminding me

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>or wait until this Absolute Collection comes out?
KEK, they MIGHT be able to get the first one out, but they will never get them all out.

Not worth it, then? Plus it's very pricey compared to the trades. Maybe I'll just get that instead.

ya get the trades, the Absolutes would be a HUGE gamble. Especially if you want the Veitch run that came after

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its a miracle lads, my order from instocktrades arrived 2 days early, so my collection of justice league is almost complete.

whats a good conan trade or collection i should get?

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imagine being an artist and drawing the creation of the universe, top tier comics.

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No arguments here

ok boys what are some good ant-man or The Atom trades?

spencer's ant-man was alright

are you saying it was just a little bit good

yeah. 7/10

is it the same spencer as hydracap?

t. drunk user

yes

thanks

>ant-man

>Hank Pym
Slott Mighty Avengers (just got collected)
Avengers Academy
Rage of Ultron
Ultron Unbound
Ultron Unlimited
Ant-Man and The Wasp (with O'Grady)
Avengers AI

Scott Lang
Ant-Man and the Wasp (with Nadia)
Spencer's Ant-Man

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thanks

How do you feel about this Ant-Man & The Wasp Epic Collection?

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Don't the trades skip Loose Ends?

eh, even as a by Hank Pym fan the silver age stuff wasn't that good. It had it's charm but it wasn't anything near as good as the other Marvel stuff at the time. My local library has them though, so I mean to check them out and give them a full read some day

Read Doll Man from Quality comics. The original shrinker, better than those low-effort knockoffs. More imaginative, with better art. Lou Fine, Reed Crandall.

Do The Invisibles Deluxe Editions have letters pages, or do I need to get the omnibus for that?

Noted. I'm not the person you originally recommended to, but I'm taking your advice because I've been wanting to read some Ant-Man. I already have the full Spencer run.

Is that something to expect? The only books I know with letter columns are Silver/Bronze Age Marvel omnis

wait for rightstuf to have a sale on manga and buy the boxsets, i think they're 24 or 25 volumes per box

I've actually not gotten any omnis other than Marvel, at least not any from books with letters pages. Or at least not any that I've read. I have about a half dozen modern ones that are still in the plastic.

Test

It was in The Invisibles, because that was where Morrison taught everyone when and how to masturbate to properly charge the sigil to keep the series from ending early.
I'm not even exaggerating, this is a thing that happened, and it worked.

DC doesn't publish letters in omnis

Well damn. I guess I've gotta track down the floppies.

I didn't think anyone here read letters pages. There are very few that are worth it...my fav is Sex Criminals and Murder Falcon/Extremity letters, cause they both have a great balance of people writing in weird humor and of people being deeply open and personal about their troubles. Extremity had a bunch of people writing in stories of losing limbs, Murder Falcon was full of stories of cancer.

letters are fun as hell, especially in old comics where they printed negative letters. nowadays letters are all hugboxes

I'm especially interested in this because I just read Supergods and Morrison mentions using those letters pages to build up the persona of the person he wanted to be as part of his hypersigil.

>almost missed this thread because the OP was titled wrong

I read the first 200 chapters and dropped it. I don't get it I guess.

I don't think they have an archive of letters, or rather film of the letters pages at all.
And they stopped accepting letters at all in 2005.
Because they can't do anything fucking right.

Despite how popular this shit is, I couldn't find a single place to read it online. So, no.

There are actually six Moore ST trades.

Also, the Absolute is going to be recolored from scratch so there is a good chance it will be blasphemous in how it looks ala Sandman, Killing Joke, and Flex Metallo's recoloring.

So you may want to buy the six Moore ST trades now, before they become $100+ books each as DC most definitely will make the recoloring in the Absolute ST volume the only version they'll sell the same way that you can no longer buy Sandman with it's original coloring in TPB.

Also, for the Strange Epic; the T&T graphic novel isn't in the Sorcerer Supreme graphic novels. And it's stand-alone release is OOP and goes for nearly $100. So it's an appealing option for those who want T&T or who did't buy the omnibus

>That Sandman order.

Don't give me aneurysm.

this is so stupid and fun that I have to have one

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Back in the day Marvel would test prospective new writers by giving them four pages of unlettered art and having them write a script for it. That makes me want one too. And scans, I bet we could get some fun threads out of it.

I'm gonna do it this weekend then, don't want to delay it until it's too late. I got plans for that and a few epic collections and lesser known trades, if IST is helpful with that. Got my sights on some New Universe stuff too.

>And scans, I bet we could get some fun threads out of it.
oh fuck yeah

Newest Marvel solicitations have

Annihilation Omnibus reprint
Bendis Daredevil Omnibus 1 and 2 reprints
Peter David Incredible Hulk Omnibus vol 1

All in the span of about 5 weeks, gonna be hurtin my wallet but I need them for my shelf.

Oh shit, I can finally get the Annihilation omni without paying rape prices. Definitely getting that one.

What are the essential P Craig Russell comics /shelf/? I almost have all of his Operas but what else should i get? I honestly think he is the best comic storyteller there is out there. His panel to panel work is just flawless.

>tfw looking up a copy of the Half-Century War trade and it's stupidly expensive now

Just checked and you're right lmao wow that's nuts, 80 dollars for an OOP trade. Good time to be alive. Imagine being some wrong generation 15 year old boomer from the year 2050 and for some reason you just love books and old comics and want to own physical copies of them. That guy is so fucked.

No photo, but recently salvation army buys were 4 random Asterix omnibuses, Invincible 2 and 6 and a Jimmy Corrigan book I'm still trying to figure out. And a photo book that felt similar to what I did back in my college Photo class.

That Absolute Top 10 is so pretty.

>spine decals not aligning throughout the series
WHY IN THE FUCK

Ever seen the three Miller-era Daredevil trade paperbacks?

No.
But why won't you look on the fucking Lazarus in the OP? The fuck is going on? Why? And it's not only Image. The fucking Shaolin is all over the place too. Yet Chew is OK?
What were they thinking?!

bruh I don't even fucking know. it's all so tiresome

Don't worry, it annoys me too.

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Sorry, just came back to this thread. Love Black Hammer. And I've read everything released so far for the series.

The only time they could (and did) get away with it was the Monk DVD collection.

>TFW when looking through the Kamandi omni for errors and you just end up reading Kamandi instead.
Feels good.

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They're all great, but there's something special about "Kanga-Rat Murder Society" and how it flows off the tongue easier than the rest.

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Is the new Love and Rockets stuff any good? What's like "the essential"? I only own Maggie the Mechanic.

ow fuck off already
f

Does anyone on this board own comics from before the 2000s?

what are those Star Trek HC's?
just look at some /shelves/, what a stupid question

sorry that was my brother posting im back now

>108281848

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Don't like the series but I admire the dedication.

I also own 90 volumes of it but I just moved last weekend and won't have my shelves in order until next week.

The new Marvel omnis are the best Conan stuff.

Picked up.
Dave Sim and Osamu Tezuka did it pretty okay.

What's that fancy book to the left of The Incal?

Arsene Schrauwen

Just keep reading it in order and see where you feel like dropping off.
So what's that like? Big pretty books attract me.

From what I've read, it's only getting better, but I'm only on the fourth book.
>So what's that like? Big pretty books attract me.
It's an odd one. There isn't much text to read, but it will take you several weeks to finish.

Vertigo is officially kill, all reprints cancelled

>all reprints cancelled
Why you be like this DC
My Sandman Mystery Theatre...

not enough people bought SMT, even when it was running. I just picked a random month on comichron (September 1998), and saw that
>Sandman Mystery Theatre 67 13,067
That's why it was never fully collected two different times. It's a great series, but didn't take off in the bookstore market
For comparison, Hellblazer that month was at 21,102, and Books of Magic was at 19,412. BoM was at issue 53, and I don't think the trades went that far.
Hellblazer didn't really get collected that much until the complete 2012 line, which might not finish now (up to 250 now)

I was just reading Ostrander's afterword to his original Suicide Squad run and even that was ended because of low sales.
Why it be like this Vladimir?

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Welp, now cue the scramble to collect older TPBs seeing as future Vertigo collections will likely have a new spine/trade dress

Who knows, the new ones might be better? At least we'll get a new logo.

it won't be as good as the old one

>what are those Star Trek HC's?
They're softbacks, but they're the IDW TOS and TNG omnibus collections, IDW Trek/Planet of the Apes crossover and an old DC OGN called Debt of Honor.

This month's purchases. Reading through Ronin right now. Pretty good. Miller loves those long vertical panels. I definitely prefer his art a few years later though.

That Eightball collection is gorgeous.

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I also picked up some back issues for the first time in forever. Been watching a bunch of Cartoonist Kayfabe, and they got me in the mood. My local comic shops are terrible for non-Marvel/DC stuff though.

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RBF is a trip, I picked up the three trades because of Kayfabe. I actually bought vol 2 straight from Veitch's website and he threw in Shiny Beasts , the collection of his Epic and Heavy Metal shorts, for free writing " a gift" above his signature.

How do we feel about ironic waifu pillows?

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Here is my shelf currently after all the books I have bought in the past 7 days. I'm running out of room and will have to combine the second shelf with the first, move my non Yea Forums books, trade some books for non Yea Forums related stuff, and eventually buy another small shelf.

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Nobody gets Makoto ironically, you're fooling no one but have good taste

That's awesome. I haven't read very much Veitch yet. Maybe I'll grab Maximortal and Brat Pack from him directly.

thanks

I can see the cumstains

You cannot see cumstains

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I can't see the cumstains. Move along

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So only came out about three weeks ago, so I can't find any reviews or anything on it. Anyone have it and able to comment on the quality of the paper and binding?

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tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/shazam-worlds-mightiest-mortal-hc-t34780.html

Thank you!

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always check on that subforum, especially for HC releases. They usually point out when something is missing pages, or if a restored page is shit

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Awesome, I'd never heard of it before but I'll make sure to bookmark it. Thanks again.

ya, but they're girlcum stains. lesbo's gunna hump pillows, what can ya do?

I really need to unbag my books to make them more presentable for the thread.

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>bagging trades

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I don't bag them, they come bagged.

So all of that is unread?

Oooh, I know it isn't Yea Forums but I spot House of Leaves on that shelf. That is a damn good book I don't think gets enough recognition

it's the website that former DC collected editions editor (and regular editor in the 1980s) Bob Greenberger used to post on.
After getting fired from his job for messing up a Hawkman archive, he continued to post there about news he heard. People like PAD were pissed that he was fired.
peterdavid.net/archives/003689.html
He proudly announced that Suicide Squad was going to get a Showcase Presents (he was the editor for the first year of it) years ago, then they hit royalty issues.
After months of silence, he announced that the project was cancelled, but they would be getting full-color trades instead!

I've read through them multiple times.

Meaning you put them back in the bags

>bagging trades

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I can't bring myself to throw the bags away. There's so many of them

I knew a man who couldn't bring himself to throw out his cardboard boxes. Don't be like that guy.

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yeah, but he was a weirdo and was using the boxes as shelves.

It's a slippery slope.

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we'll, before I become a meme I guess I have to.

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*well

That "Spider-Man" font sure brings back memories.

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Abrams is so slimey for this. Glad to see some writers hitting him hard for it
bleedingcool.com/2019/06/21/some-comic-creators-werent-amused-by-marvel-hiring-j-j-abrams-son-to-write-spider-man/

I'm sure all those writers got into the industry by "knowing" someone too. That's the entertainment industry in a nutshell: know somebody. This time it's just blatantly obvious.

Wish they wouldn't waste Pichelli on this shit though.

Layman? No, he was a huge gamble for Image, he was unknown to everyone there.

You talking about Chew? That was way into his career already. I'm just saying that he probably entered the industry in the first place by knowing someone (or knowing someone who knew someone), or a fortuitous chance encounter of some sort. Every interview I've ever heard or wiki I've ever read about anyone in the entertainment industry, be it music, comedy, film, or whatever, it's crazy how similar all their stories are.

JJ Abrams son simply represents the very extreme of the nepotism scale. He would have been better off adopting a pen name so people didn't make the connection or forgot who his dad is, kind of like Nicolas Coppola becoming Nicolas Cage. But it's clear this kid is fucking useless because not only does he have to use his own name, but he has to staple it beside his father's name. I'd be shocked if JJ did anything more than a rough plot outline for this, but maybe his name is enough to trick people into buying it and jumpstarting his son's career.

There's also the sour grapes component. This literal who's first comic is Spider-Man. 99% of current writers have never had that opportunity and 99% would jump at the opportunity. This is a tasty bit of drama if I do say so myself and wish it would come by more often.

lol I didn't adhere to his time rules, but it was just OK.

.

His work on Sandman is pretty great

>shelf thread
>it's only comics
Do you guys not collect DVDs and BDs?

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>digital media
Why?

>why do collectors collect stuff

How do I display floppies, any ideas? Are boxes the only way? They're too huge for even a writer's whole run on a title

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We're not all revolting little thieves, user

A revolting pirate? Nah

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I want someone to invent a bag and board that'll hold twelve issues, I'm considering wrapping floppies in a ribbon 12 at a time and writing the title on it

Well, there are wider comic bags that hold many issues.

...

I've looked for them, where can I find them?

Look at Bagman...use those find out where he lives and take all his trades out of bags please

I can't actually answer that. I only know they exist because on occasions when I bought long runs on eBay they would come in these really wide bags that held anywhere from 10-20 issues. So they're out there, I guess.

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It'll take some money and ingenuity on your part, but you can make custom 'sleeves'/holders for floppies of a particular run with some crafting board and printed paper. It might not be your thing, but it'll look better on yourselves.

Or you can buy some of those magazine holders you see at libraries.

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If you have room it's not a bad idea to flatten them and store them desu, it would make moving easy

>having space
>not filling it with books

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how did you make these

Is this yours? If so, tell me about it

Fuck my life. Got the shittiest luck. Had another thing stolen today. In the past i have had comics stolen as well....when i first started collecting i bought Hellblazer, Death and Witchblade and all it has been stolen or lost through the years. Now with my collection and my luck i am starting to worry.

Have you ever had horror stories of losing your collections?

Is someone stealing your mail or something?

Sorry this happened bro. Not cool.
>Have you ever had horror stories of losing your collections?
Personally no, but my dad has one. When he went away to university my grandma threw out his entire collection of baseball cards and comic books. The way he describes it, it would have been worth 10+ million. That's a shame.

Where do you live? Suburban Brazil?

Anyways, I used to leave my TPB's and shit all around my messy room as a kid and one day my dog peed on 15+ books when I was gone on vacation, so I had to throw away the majority of my 'collection'. I still have a WWH hardcover from back then as a reminder.

>stolen
wtf how

Cats love cardboard boxes so I've never thrown one away either. I just wait for them to be shredded fingernail-sized bits and then throw away the pieces.

I wish we'd get more posst like this but it's not 2007 anymore

I have my absolute favorites on blue-ray and nothing else

The two Nocenti/JRJR-era Daredevil Epics look like they're on their way out. In the last couple months they've got up in just about all stores by about thirty bucks.

"Friends" saying they lost them. People who i had been trading with and i give the benefit of the doubt to and then vanish, people who i lent it to and then never said they had it, and a house party that i ended up with a Hellblazer short.

I wasn't into collecting then so it wasn't so big a deal but now it kinda frustrates me cause i am rebuying stuff

Honestly, I just make a point of never lending stuff to people anymore after too many movies, games, CDs etc. people had borrowed "disappeared" over the years.

You'll never get my bags. This I swear!

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Man /shelf/ is the only place on this shithole where people can really talk about comics, just let us have these threads to ourselves.

You fucked up.

Need some graphic novel reccs

Anything Lemire. Seriously. All his own drawn comics are amazing and cheep

The only Lemire GN I haven't read is the one he did with Gord Downie. Can you vouch for it?

I haven't read it yet but yes. I know the story and if anyone can pull it off it is Lemire.

From the Amazon description
>Chanie’s story is Canada’s story. We are not the country we thought we were. History will be re-written. We are all accountable. Secret Path acknowledges a dark part of Canada’s history—the long suppressed mistreatment of Indigenous children and families by the residential school system—with the hope of starting our country on a road to reconciliation. Every year as we remember Chanie Wenjack, the hope for Secret Path is that it educates all Canadians young and old on this omitted part of our history, urging our entire nation to play an active role in the preservation of Indigenous lives and culture in Canada.

Eh, this turns me off. I'm not a racist or anything, but I'm getting sick of hearing about Native this and Native that everytime I turn on the radio. The CBC literally can't do a news segment without mentioning something about it.

No.
I hoard those.

Fair enough. But it is real. But Lemire can somehow take tired conversations and make them drag you in

Roughneck was very much this style of press

So..who would suck dick for comics?

People post videoegame artbooks somewhat often in these threads. Probably is vaguely relevant since a lot of them are put out by Dark Horse and Udon.

Something you want to tell us, anonymous?

So Epic Collections will go out of print too? Lame.

If one BJ can get me Colossal King Conan? Yes I would.

It would have to be a lot of comics and I'm not swallowing.

W-which comics? Whose dick?

I've decided I want to buy all of the pre-52 Birds of Prey. Wish me luck.

>ironic

you guys missed the last shelf thread discussion, we were talking about these stor-folio binders that you can print out your own spine and covers for custom shit

Ah yes, my favourite One Piece character.
Deku.

It doesn't help that VIZ Media's volumes overall are just bigger and thicker than other language versions. Here in Poland most mangas are the same size they are in Japan. Nice and compact. They're also printed on high-quality white paper.

Did One Piece really need to be this long? Why couldn't it be the length of Fullmetal Alchemist or Assassination Classroom?

Is Akira worth reading? Some people claim it's much better than the movie.

>manga just takes up so much space
Yup and from what I have seen omnibuses are rare as fuck.
I haven't read it but from the looks of it, world building.

Have you read it? OP makes that length work. You literally cannot have all the stories it's telling without the buildup of the previous ones.
Akira's story is a little meh but it looks so good you won't care.

Get Ostrander's Suicide Squad.

>Have you read it? OP makes that length work. You literally cannot have all the stories it's telling without the buildup of the previous ones.

Pretty sure it uses the stock cartoon plot structure - a bunch of independent stories with their own sets of characters that all come together to play a role in the big climax season finale. Oda did that with Marineford and he's going to do that again with the final arc.

I mean, even Avatar used that structure. All the characters from Season 1&2 didn't come together in the actual finale but still. The Day of the Black Sun was still a thing.

Okay. So which arcs would you like to cut out?

Ask someone who has spent $1200 on Donald Duck comic books anything.

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dolan pls

Would you a Magica?

No
Yes

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I thought this book was still on "pre-order" now status

Why do some comics have a bunch of little circles on colored pages?

Are you friends with Omar?

M-maybe.

How long have you been colecting Duck comics?

Not cut out.
Shortened.

It's a shame they are all OOP. Good luck finding them

Which content would you cut out to shorten the arcs?

Few pics incoming 1/6

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2/6

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3/6

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4/6

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6/6 except for the Shakespeare

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'08, but have been reading them well before that. I played Magic the Gathering a bunch in middle school and would read duck comics between rounds. I bought the first one, then just rolled into this mess of a shelf.

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what do I do if I have a lot of comics but I have no place put a shelf in my place? is my only option is to be a box fag? Any suggestions?

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Yeah, or throw out some furniture you don't need.

Put a shelf sticking out of the wall sideways. You lose some floor space but gain a shelf

get rid of some furniture and crap, and then get a shelf from a thrift store. At worst, you can place a couple books on an upright piano or similar table surface (with bookends). Are you living in a small apartment, or do you mean you just have to much stuff?

you're a demon, just store them in a portal

It pisses me off that Marvel does 500 Star Wars epics a year but keeps Spider-Man at 2 per year.

What's the best way to collect Marston's Wonder Woman? A comment on Amazon says the first omnibus has some censorship plus there's the usual issue of DC omnis, but as far as I can tell there aren't many other options.

Nice shelf, I will read some Donald Duck comics tonight. Anything specific you would recomend to somebody that has never read anything Duck related?

y-you can get comics for that? Why has no one told me this before?

huh? take a photo I have no clue what you are talking about
how is Phonogram. I want to expand my music comics collection but Gillen is very hit or miss for me

Start with Carl Barks, whatever you can get your hands on. After that, read some Don Rosa, which gives more backstory to some of Bark's pieces. From there, whatever you want. Have fun user!

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Read the book Only a Poor Old Man from Fantagraphics' Barks collection, it has many of Barks' best stories.

I love phonogram a lot. I relate to it a lot because I worked in a record store for a long time and did some work as a freelance music critic. Music has been a huge part of my life so the comic resonates with me. It's a v existential kind of story.

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Read in this order
>Only a Poor Old Man
>Lost in the Andes
>The Universal Solvent by Don Rosa
>Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa
>Duck Avenger or Italian comics

oh, that's just the paper comic artists buy, I forget what it is called, but they buy it and cut and paste it into the comic. At least they did until they went digital, and once they went digital some artists took it way to far and it looks lazy (Deodato, looking at you). But what you are showing is a good proper use of it.

Anyone know some good anthologies of really short comics? Stuff like Future Shocks.

Eerie and Creepy

Nice, thanks a lot anons. It seems this weekend I will be reading a lot of Duck comics

Is this what it's going to take to get Dark Horse to continue their Moebius Library?

would you recommend getting beta in french even though i dont speak it?

how's sullivan's sluggers?

The Fantagraphics EC Artist Libraries are great

great

>>would you recommend getting beta in french even though i dont speak it?

I would say you loose like 10 to 20% of the experience without the text maybe?
The text is very superficial, but it does have interesting tidbits that might teach you some things you didn't know, so it's nice have for sure.

On the other hand, you can also see it as an opportunity to learn a new language. The science is the same in all languages, you would already undertand the meaning of what you're reading :)

I really want to get Sullivan's Sluggers at some point for the Stokoe art, but the writer can suck a fat dick so I don't want to get any money to him. I keep hoping I'll see a used one turn up somewhere for cheap.

>Copra volume 2 doesn't match
Damnit user, you fucked up.

boxfag here, just box em lol

Er, no. That's not screentone. I believe what he's talking about is the cheap four color printing used in older comics in which the dots were so big they were visible with the naked eye.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model
4cp.posthaven.com/in-defense-of-dots-the-lost-art-of-comic-book

Bought the German edition of a wordless Italian comic. Though it says it contains an introduction in both German and English, publishing is weird in Europe I guess

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Serpieri is a fucking godsend. we don't deserve him

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What's wrong with the writer? I wanted to get that book for the same reason, the art is great. Is the story pretty bad?

Just post 'em up, user. No one is keeping you, after all this is /shelf/ as long as it is Yea Forums related you should be okay.

Is IST dragging ass about shipping for anyone else?
I ordered a book on Wednesday and I still haven't gotten a tracking number, usually I'll get one the same day.

Kek, I guess this is this your first time ordering from IST

>Guess I should update this
Shelf thread:
Post/discuss recent purchases, shelves, collections, current reading, etc.

Don't know where to buy? Try these:
amazon.com/ (known to manhandle books with bad packaging)
instocktrades.com/ (worldwide shipping, big sales, 2-3 week+ wait with heavy packing)
mycomicshop.com (worldwide shipping)
cheapgraphicnovels.com/
ebay.com/
[your local comic shop here]

Are you Euro or UK and don't know where you should buy? Try these:
cheap-comics.com (EU)
booksetc.co.uk/ (EU)
speedyhen.com (UK, hefty fees if delivery address outside of UK)
bookdepository.com (free worldwide shipping but known to manhandle books)
tfaw.com (worldwide shipping)
booktopia.com.au (AUS/NZ, free shipping if referral by Booko)

Price Comparison website(s):
booko.us/
booko.com.au/

New list of things out next week:
comiclist.com/index.php/newreleases/next-week
Upcoming Omnibus/Hardcovers:
goodreads.com/topic/group_folder/305597

almost ready to build shelves and upgrade my shit.

Closer to a dozen now and it's always been the next day at the latest.
Hell, sometimes I'd have gotten my book by now.

post old shelves and new shelves

yeah me too

sometimes IST is extremely fast. They're just inconsistent.

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I read the first Rosa Box set. I haven’t read any more. I guess I’m just a Barks guy.

Have you ever had sex? Serious question

I do, but they're in a /box/ and I'm on a hiatus from collecting them while I'm selling off stuff on my /shelf/s.

Considering how badly rightsowners fuck up releases (see Netflix Evangelion), owning a copy of something yourself that has everything you remember can save you from being disappointed later.

This
And zero browsing fatigue.

Recents.
The potlatch is getting old. I’m going to shake things up and talk about these comics.

Thanos Wars is solid start to finish

IW is a good event and the FF crossovers and few others are kind of necessary, but it’s not worth the unreasonable bulk of the book. And I don’t mind the Doom Patrol omni- because it is worth the weight and you don’t have to flip around to figure out what to read.

Marvel had a lot of garbage art in this period and crossovers bring it all out. Also there was an inadequate amount of Spider-Man. This event really needed some of that. Nobody cracks a joke. Ever.
ASM Norman’s ultimate fate is one of my favorite moments in comics. Ross Andru is one of my favorite Spider-Man artists. It’s a great book.

Durr

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is there any way to find out for certain if some cardboard is acid free? noticed some of my HC books starting to drop forward at the top so i want to put some cardboard under the page area to stop it from getting any worse

Didn't even know Alex Ross had a youtube channel

youtube.com/channel/UCTPXeCUinfh6RDdmcn1co9g

Feel free to share good comic book youtube channels my dudes

Seen Artisia praised a lot on Yea Forums so found it for half price and grabbed it. And finally got Planetary. Been meaning to get it for a while. Missing the slipcase cover but i like the hardback cover more anyway

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>that logo on the Planetary omni
When the fuck did that get a reprint?

>worldwide shipping
Eh...IST shipping rates are fucking terrible. They charge around another 50% of the price just for shipping

I don't have the room/space or really even the money but IST says there's an Absolute Swamp Thing By Alan Moore coming next week and that shit is TEMPTING

Yeah, unless you're American just stay away from that website

wait until people report on the recoloring. It might be a disaster

>Absolute Swamp Thing By Alan Moore coming next week
Bullshit . It's not slated until the fall, if it comes out at all.

Huh? I don't understand. What is wrong?

I'm just surprised that the Planetary omni got a reprinting in the last three years (that logo launched right before Rebirth).
Usually those just go OOP

Oh i had no clue. Says 5th printing 2016 on the inside

Is this worth getting? I'm a harley/ivy fag, but I also have some standards.

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Mine has the toilet seat logo.

>Infinite Dark
Very well. This series doesn't get enough love on Yea Forums.
I use IST and CGN even though I'm not American. I just take advantage of their flat rate/free shipping then use a courier to ship them from the US to my country. I just have to look for the weight, but I'm about to switch to maritime shipping so it should be much cheaper.
IST has the issue (already acknowledged) of overstuffing the packages, so even a few trades will weigh almost twice the actual content, it's ridiculous. Not sure why they do that but it's a waste. CGN uses newspapers which is already good enough.

Also see the replies to my post here .

Just came back from picking up the items in my box, and saw this omnibus in the store. I've never grabbed something so quickly.

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>Infinite Dark
>Very well. This series doesn't get enough love on Yea Forums.
To be fair, it has some very sloppy moments and some of the characters are very interchangeable. But i really like the concept and how he is going about it and the art is doing s good job of making things bleak.

Ya i live too far from the US border to do that, i live about 6 hours from the US and about 8 hours from any city in the US. Trust me i thought about that too but it just doesn't work for me

Finally an answer! Thanks user!

Second part

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My thing with Infinite Dark is that it pretty much reads like a proper hard sci-fi novel from any novelist, and not just a stylish comic book. As someone who reads a lot of that sort, it's weirdly refreshing. I do agree that sometimes some characters are unrecognizable until you read their names, but overall it's well written.

I agree it has the proper balance of some hard sci-fi with a splash of pulp. The concept is very refreshing, it builds on Asimovs The Last Question in a really good way. I also like the essays at the end of every issue. Not everyone can make those good (Ryan Cady has failed at those many times before, like when he was trying to do it for Witchblade) but he gotten some really essays from people for this

Here we go, no bags this time. 1/8

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I volunteered for a Anime Matsuri 4-day pass last weekend, thus not many purchases to properly save up for the eventual spending there. I didn't go over my budget too much and managed to cross what I wanted off of my list, so it was overall good. This was the only recent comic purchase so far.

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2/8

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3/8
that's a neat blanket

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4/8

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A couple of Venom finds were a pleasent and welcome suprise. Friggin bolted when I saw this cutie amungst a wall of Miku and Alpaca plushes. They don't fit on my Venom shrine, thus they're expanding the Venom presence on my bed as well. They're perfectly made for hugging but I don't want to wear the plush down.

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5/8
Gonna try to condense these for future threads

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But yeah, the Venom "Kawaii Marvel" plushie was definitely my best find the whole weekend haha.

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6/8

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Grachias, found it at Marshalls and had to snatch it up. Not my main blanket, but it adds warmth to my poor easily cold self (dad loves the house stupid cold).

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7/8
almost done

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>Six by Suess
Hey, I have that too.

not enough garfield

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8/8

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Anything in pic related. Savage Sword is my favorite.

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Rest of the mangoo
I may pick up some more down the line if I see another one of those "3 in ones" for a good deal.

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Girls sexualizing Venom is....hot as fuck

My Venom shrine expands a little more since I found this pretty cool Venom parody at Matsuri.

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Hell yeah!!! The damned!! Hope you enjoy it user

>the complete clone saga
for what purpose

I bought it used for $2

>for what purpose
I can't really think of one.

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Venom fujo is a MtF tranny I hope you realize

>Road to Watchmen: Blue Beetle and The Question HC has been cancelled

Flip them upside down every six months. Can't help with the cardboard.

Married. Have moved this shelf twice after changing apartments and buying a house.

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Bark's stories are way more "down to earth" and tend to be my favorite too user. I'm just autistic.

>DC cancels something
In other news water is wet.

The next one drops on wednesday.

I just moved, so I haven't gotten to organize the shelves yet

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doyou hate the 3rd Sandman or something?

Nah, like I said: I just haven't had time to really organize yet. All of Akira wound up upside down somehow, along with a couple others.

Solid List, would add 'Avengers: The Trial of Yellowjacket' if you can find it.
This was arguably Marvel's weakest title from the Lee/Kirby days.
It has some fun moments when Hank Pym is Ant-Man, but once the Giant Man change occurs, it becomes forgettable, and the only fun moments are seeing how lazy the writing gets.

fag

People weren't kidding when they told me Fantastic Four gets really good when the Frightful Four show up. I'm glad I stuck with it.

Man, I can't believe the All-Star Superman Black Label reprint didn't get a hardcover version. Should I get the paperback?

As long as you're careful paperbacks stay in good shape forever. Weirdly enough most hardcovers I see are already fucked up when I see them in the shop.

I was going to start collecting all hardcovers since they started doing the really nice printed artwork on the covers (under the dust jackets) but it seems like they went back to the ugly black boards.

Hardcovers are awful

it depends supersons, wonder woman batman omnibuses had nice wrap around boards and then some others don't.. i wish they were consistent but its DC

The only reason to get one is to have a book that lays flat, but maybe 10% of hardcover books achieve that due to cheap binding