The Epics price hike is killing me

After one hell of a week news wise (I really hope DC doesn't get worse) I've got delays for my packages because of the snow. This is an awful February for trades.
>>152659398
I've given up on them for now. DC Finests I've been reading and picking up new ones every week as I go in for my floppies. I'm hoping they continue the Ultimate Universe box sets

>>152659445
I've got most of what I think I want to collect already. At this point it's just basically gap filling and the more time passes the more I think I can even live with those blanks spots.

im going to dine and after post my shelf for the first time ever here. gimme half a hour

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All I've bought recently. Went to a small con today and dug through the cheap boxes so I'll post some of what I found later tonight or tomorrow.

>>152659852
I haven't been to a con in forever.

>>152659398
Yeah probably not buying anymore

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2/2

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>>152659398
Agreed. Especially because they're doing one of my favorite eras for Cap (post Kirby return) because of how much of a wonderful mess it is (like the creation of Ameridroid)

Here's my recents

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Ladies and gentlemen of /co/, it is with the utmost honor that I present to you for the first time my SHELF, which arrived earlier this month. I've been reading comics for about 8 months and this is what I got. On the left I got non-capeshit/actual books, on the middle the capeshit, and on the right manga. Hopefully by the end of the year I will fill it out more! I do have one question thought: how do you guys place your floppies? I got a bunch of them from the absolute line but they look ugly as fuck laying down like that. Any tips for that and shelfing in general are appreciated (especially for cleaning it cause I'm a lazy fuck)!

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>>152660916
also posting last purchase

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>>152659398
I saw this a lot in the EPICS VS OMNIS thread but... can't you just wait five months?
I just picked up To Hunt the Hulk for $27.

>>152660947
I don't buy things the second they come out normally but with marvel there's as much chance of things going through the roof by short print runs

>>152660997
I've only been collecting Epics for like two years and from what I see that's never been the case. Only that new Frank Miller Daredevil Epic went out of stock on Amazon as soon as it was released from what I've seen
Is it because you don't want to support Amazon so you're buying from comic book shops?

>>152661073
>Frank Miller Daredevil Epic
That's back in stock btw

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Rereading this is just bliss...Marvel unironically peaked here. Thank you Hama for the memories.

>>152661142
Would be nice if they did one for ROM and Micronauts, but oh well

>>152661174
Just get the epics

>X-factor 2 already out of print

>>152661174
They did. And unlike with MOKF and Conan, they rushed out the soft over Epics rather than drag their feet after putting out the omnibuses

>>152661191
>>152661367
I was talking more about ACTUAL Compendiums and not just the Epics

>>152660619
>>152660587
Looks good man, you got a nice Batman collection

>>152660925
Romita's Spider-Man is great, ASM 50-53 is one of the best stories of all time.
>>152659852
Taschen? I'm envious anon.

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Latest grabs. Flash was one of the big ones. If they collect Messner-Loebs Volume 2 that's almost the entire Wally run. I don't know how they'd cap off the end issues though. Maybe another deluxe like they did Millar and Morrison? Doom patrol was really good and Bishop Crossing was a reprint I wanted for a long time. I trade wait the new Conan. Spidey and Avengers were a birthday gift.

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My haul.
>>152659187
My haul.

>>152661823
What are the stories like in that Doom Patrol volume? Mind doing a mini review?

>>152662074
I haven't finished reading it yet though I do have experience with the series from a ways back so off the bat I would strongly recommend it. Despite the title I don't want to give out any major spoilers, but it's a very strong development on the first volume. Personalities are more defined and characters like Beast Boy and Mento show up more. And they fight a lot of cooky weird crap and Rita gets big to wrestle stuff.

>>152661521
Epics are better quality than these particular compendiums, it is nostalgic having them printed on newsprint but not the best obviously for archival purposes

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>>152660916
I place mine in this.

>>152662551
I got a couple of those for some books but my larger collection is just the traditional white short box

>>152661733
>I'm envious anon
Yeah its very nice. I was hesitant but it was on sale so I decided to splurge. Love the texture of the paper.

Feels like we're overdue to find out what DC Finests are coming out in the second half of the year. We only have announcements out to July

>>152663724
Yeah what the fuck
WHAT THE FUCK
WHERE'S TEEN TITANS

>>152663724
I heard it's with the next week or two.
>>152663789
hopefully next to some more legion

How do you guys have time to read so much
I can barely follow one current publication at a time

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>>152663795
>>152663724
>>152663789
I unironically want more original Superman. This stuff is great, I love Superman now

>>152663724
This really fucks my ass, we need to make Epics feel like they're competing with something and for that we need MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS

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>>152659398
I don't like how they slowed down on the reprints. Feels like it was a bait and switch to get people back into the line

>>152663823
How do you not? It's not heavy reading. It's comics. I'm reading right now even.

>>152663877
Maybe im just a slow reader

>>152663912
Just don't let any bugs fly into your mouth

>>152663823
I read five issues a night and it takes about an hour because I'm a slow reader

>>152663981
Same, but honestly i think my issue is more that i read online (finding physical comics that arent recent shit here is almost impossible)
I have a similar issue reading on Kindle

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Recents:
The Transformers book is part of the Kick Starter set. The others are on my shelf.
Shit nobody gaf about:
I’m pretty wrapped up in the fate of robots who turn into cars these days. Fwiw, I like that the ‘86 movie is part of the continuity.
Rat God was good, but I feel that Dimwood, which is in a similar vein, is much better.
Marvel Team Up is a favorite of mine and comes from a period before the Marvel universe was bloated as fuck.
I’m enjoying Jurgens’ action.
It will be quite some time before I get to the Savage Sword omni.
I hope you are all doing well.

>>152664000
I largely prefer physical books for a lot of reasons. I don't get distracted so much but it is easier to focus or keep at it with a book in hand.

>>152664036
Yeah I used to read stuff online all the time like 15 years ago but now I much prefer physical books.
>>152664029
I still have to start reading my Transformers volumes from that

>>152664127
>Transformers set
What version did you get, anon? I got the integrated UK/US version.

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A little batch of books. Will post another one later

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>>152665130
And here it is. FREEBOOTERS! MAGE: THE HERO DEFINED!
Amazin'

>>152662074
The high point of it is the death of Doom Patrol story.

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>>152665709
Man they didn't fuck around

Amethyst Omnibus never

got watchmen a few weeks back, was bigger than i had imaged
just to need to finish reading game of thrones first

>>152664786
That was like the only option as far as I was concerned

>>152659187
I just came from fleahmarket I got:

Savage six tpb volume one softcover 3$
conan savage sword marvel 2019 floppie 1$
x-force (2019) issue 1 and 2 floppies =1$
Silver surfer (first apparence) big floppie fascimile 1$
Thor hardcover Thor 394-400 USA = 5$
F1 2002 ps2 = 4$
Juiced ps2 = 1$

>>152661870
What's Witzend like? It's an anthology, right?

>>152666332
You're right it's an anthology.

The art are good of course and I enjoyed reading Ditko's Mr A.

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Ah, /shelf/. The one place where I assume I can actually shill the Tyrant kickstarter succesfully.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/comicslighthouse/bissette-tyrant-deluxe-editions

That's right kids, Steve Bissette's Tyrant is getting collected and rereleased! But wait! There's more! Two different editions, one a regular collection of the issues and backmatter, the other a massively oversized artist's edition, or so the interviews tell me, the campaign hasn't launched yet. But it will launch this MARCH. And what month is it now? That's right, it's March.
So maybe follow the campaign and get notified when it launches or something, I dunno I'm not your mom just do what you want

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>>152666422
I realized a while ago that Freaks' Squeele had one, too. I see one for Fathom too but I don't know enough about it to see if it's for me.

>>152666465
Mike Grell has also been getting those nice hardcover volumes of Jon Sable Freelance made through kickstarter. We're in a whole new age for comics, I guess.

>>152665130
Is OPM still worth checking out? Heard the art fell off.

>>152665727
According to Arnold Drake, who wrote that story, it was supposed to be Drake's face in the foreground, but editor Murray Boltinoff changed the script before he sent it to Bruno Premani to put himself in the picture.

>>152661733
I've really liked Ditkos run minus a few filler villains of the week issues but I've heard nothing but praise for Romita, really hyped for it

>>152666682
There's a lot more white flahses depicting impacts so Murata has to draw less, but what he does draw does still look pretty good to me in this volume.

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>>152663724
I NEED MORE PLASTIC MAN, STAT!!

>>152663823
Comics really don't take that much time for me to read personally. I can probably read about 5-10 issues without even thinking about it

>>152663912
Anon, as long as you're reading and enjoying yourself, that's all that really matters

>>152660916
>Ladies

>>152667064
>Whee!! I'm a killer!!
I love it

>>152666797
I personally liked more Ditko's run, it's my favorite run. But Romita's run is also remarkable, very fun and good characterization

I ordered me a copy of the Nexus Deluxe Omnibus vol 1
Yes sir I'm going to read about a man in tights travelling through space and stopping tyranny wherever he finds it

Anyone here ever order from comicsbugle? Experiences?

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>>152663823
I’ve got a toddler at home, and another kid on the way, so it’s pretty hard to find time. I try to do 2-4 issues a night, or read until I fall sleep, but a lot of the current stuff I’m reading is Silver Age Marvel, which are much slower reads due to the word count. I finished The Dark Knight Strikes Again most recently, and after finishing the second book, I was ready to hop right into the third one, each 80 or so pages. Meanwhile, I was already exhausted after a single issue of Ditko’s Tales to Astonish Hulk, which was only 10 pages.

>>152667446
I’m also waiting for Nexus. If you haven’t read it before, you won’t be disappointed

>>152667446
Is there somewhere to order this from? I remember I heard about the Kickstarter or whatever the day after it ended.

>>152667890
I think you can still get it from Mike Baron's website?

>>152667890
>>152667929
Right here. Book's on sale right now too

https://baroncomics.com/shop/

>>152660619
Be real with me, is Invincible good all the way through?

>>152667765
I generally just ignore the yellow text boxes in old comics like these

>>152660812
Hmm, Crumb. There's a new release of Art & Beauty coming in April

>>152668457
nta. no. 2 last arcs suck cock.

>>152663912
>>152663823
I wonder the same thing, but I recognize that it's partially my fault. Whenever I really like something, I immerse a lot and take my time appreciating the art, dialogue, charactets and plot. And I really like what I usually read, it feels like a sin to read them fast. And when I try to read old issues in less than 5 minutes its because I really hate them

>>152668457
The stuff covered in the first two compendiums is really good. Third didn't need to happen but it's not terrible. Think of it as the Majin Buu arc

>>152667765
A modern kid would die trying to read this

>>152669044
>A modern kid would die trying to read*
FTFY

>>152666527
It's a nice option if nobody else wants to work on it, at least.

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>>152659187
>Comic Rack Edition

>>152669703
Oh hey, the rack was carrying Peter Bagge all the way back in the 1952!

>>152669703
>>152668286
I always forget Peanuts is good

>>152666744
Drake had already quit, no?

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>>152667446
>>152667859
Hopefully you gents got your copies, mine came in late Saturday night. Very sharp design, I love it.

>>152669888
That's probably why he did it.

>>152670136
What are those big Batman books? Haven't seen those

I bought the sarah scribbles collection and another volume of usagi yojimbo

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>>152663724
Hope Elongated Man gets a Finest soon so I can upgrade from my Showcase Presents paperback.

>>152670363
Custom omnis. I didn't like the way DC collected... or, more often than not, didn't collect Batman.

>>152670401
oh, but you see, the comic was released here in Brazil a few years back and they print only a couple of volumes each year. I am on the waiting list for all of them so whenever a new volume is launched I get it with a cool protective cover as well.

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>>152670378
>>152670401
>>152670600
adding pic

>>152670573
What do you think of the Finests? I'm thinking of buying them up

>>152670694
Not him but they're terrific. They're basically Marvel Epics but a bit thicker. They are fast becoming my favorite format.

>>152670694
I've got about 7 so far (Flash, Catwoman, Green Arrow, Legion, Plastic Man & The 2 GL ones) and I love them! I also love how affordable they are when compared to Epics. Absolutely fantastic value for the money

>>152670694
I like them. The only downside is that they're softcover, but that's just down to preferences. I like them as a cheap, portable option to omnis.

My issue with Batman collections in hardcover was that DC collected it by artist or writer and not sequentially. The bronze age is a mess and until the recent Bronze Age omni was announced there was simply no feasible way to collect Batman in a reliable format... not that the omnis in my Pic are publication order. Was going more for narrative order starting with Year One and leading all the way up to Knightfall.

Regardless, the DC Finest is arguably a superior version of Marvel Epics. Just a little late to the game.

>>152670636
/co/ has really ruined that artist for me thanks to all the dog fucking edits that were posted back in the day

>>152670694
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPuIP_IW4fQ
They're exactly what you want except for like four of them are missing issues I guess but they're uncensored. You get Plastic Man killing Chinese people and calling them Yellow demons, you get Green Arrow penis.

>>152665589
The Hero Discovered. How are the colors in that version? The very first iteration had great colors.

>>152667765
It’s less the word count, more the repetition. There are entire pages dedicated to recounting shit you just read if you’re trying to read Silver Age stuff sequentially. It’s exhausting

https://x.com/SudduthPhillip/status/2028201851988943280

Huh, so the Masterworks might have kept the breasts...

>>152671197
sad it was cancelled

>>152671030
fucking kek

>>152671030
Now im curious, which one

DC upping their trade game really makes me wish I was more of a DC kid growing up.

>>152667765
That's brutal.
>>152669044
My eyes glaze over when I get to a comic like this, and I read an average of 20 pages of non-work-related prose per day.

>>152672565
>>152667765
The first DC Finest Wonder Woman collection is nothing but pages like this
As someone who reads actual books this isn't really that bad though...

>>152672565
Just wait till you try reading real books. retard.

>>152672795
>>152672830
Yeah this is kinda... like if you read actual books >>152667765 this isn't really anything

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>>152659852
Here's some of my dollar bin grabs

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>>152667765
This used to be considered an embarrassingly small amount of reading to the point where adults said if you were reading comics it wasn't real reading

>>152672857
Tell me about the first two

>>152672844
For a lot of kids my age and in my class reading wordy comics was a chief reason we learned to like reading in the first place.

>>152672795
>>152672844
It's bad because the words aren't great, and it's doubling up on images without synergizing with them.
>>152672830
That's literally what I said. I read real books every day, but comics like this put me to sleep.
Apparently you have trouble reading a brief comment.

>>152673083
You're an idiot. You're an illiterate retard talking out of your ass.

>>152673112
Are you angry because you know that I'm right and you've already spent a lot of money on these types of comics, or are you just a bot?

>>152673172
>>152673083
Attacking the book itself in a shelf thread will just make everyone think you're mad and wrong even if you might have had a point. Just ignore what one person said to you.

>>152671050
Which 4? I watched the whole video but didn't hear about issues being missing. I know some people online complain about stories being missing but those were for books that are inbetween other ones and the issues will be covered in the book before or after it.

>>152673386
I only know the Spector is missing issues

>>152673386
Apparently the Blue Beatle is missing issues which that video doesn't address

>>152673336
That's fine. I'm not afraid of pushback.
I'm in favor of making comics as good as they can be, not in believing a lie just because the consensus tells me to.
I once overheard a comic writer or artist visiting a shop stating how a particular Silver Age Marvel book is the best, a masterpiece, that he spent so much money securing a copy of one of its issues recently. Then he expressed that it's not his absolute favorite to revisit, saying it in a way that countered all that praise. To me, that seems silly.

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Got the city of tomorrow compendium and mullet superman figure as a birthday gift. I don't normally get a lot of action figures. They cost a lot and I'd rather get the actual comics but this was nice. I may pick up some more. Be nice to have at least a league line up.

>>152673756
Does Ed McGuinness still draw, I don't know anything recent they do

>>152673881

He did a bunch of Zeb Wells Spider-Man semi-recently

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>>152673881
Yeah, he just did some spidey. I'm not seeing a lot beyond that though. Which is a shame. I always liked his Superman.

>>152671055
Digital recolors...

>>152674995
Fuck.

>>152673756
Happy birthday

>>152672795
I have all of Marston’s Wonder Woman in the old Archive Editions. It reads a lot smoother than anything by Stan Lee, because as >>152673083 says, it’s not compelling writing, and super repetitive. The artist is the primary creative force in anything by Stan Lee, he just slaps words in the bubbles after the fact.

>>152666330
>>152666330
flea markets are actually the best this was my haul
a bunch of Almalgm
>Lobo the Duck
>Speed Demon
>Thorion
>Amazon
>Assassins
>Spider-Boy Team Up #1

>Madman #3
>Cerebus: Mothers & Daughters 17
>Ghost Machine (Image one shot)
>Ultimate Wolverine vs Hulk Director's Cut

the guy had so much more but i hit my budget buy some desserts in the next stall...

https://goodokbad.com/bestof/2025.php
How many of these have you read?

>>152677153
>Legend of Kamui
>A Bride's Story
>Short Game
>They Were 11
>Stop Hibari-kun
I read more than just manga I swear

>>152676538
Good hunt anon, great treasures.

>>152673756
love me some compendiums

>>152677153
Not a terrific year for new comics.
>Tongues - MEDIOCRE, probably won't pick up v2
>Land of the Lustrous - GREAT, want more manga like this
>Drome - MEDIOCRE, neat art but not interested in the creation myth exploration
>A Bride's Story - GOOD, but I dropped it a long time ago, lost interest
>Solitary Gourmet - GOOD, need to revisit
>A Ballad for Sophie - MEDIOCRE, full of cliche
>They Were 11! - GOOD, brief but exciting
>>152677224
I'm looking forward to reading Legend of Kamui the most.

>>152678497
Let me tell you, life in feudal Japan fucking sucked. What surprised me most about Kamui though was how much focus it gave to stories about animals, like the absolute balls Shirato had to have to just linger for pages and pages on scenes with no humans in them, just relying on his ability to keep you engaged with it. I have immense admiration for Legend of Kamui.

>>152678497
I like Jesse Lonergan's art but Hedra is the only comic of his I particularly liked. Arca was pretty mediocre too.

>>152676047
thank you

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Got delayed as fuck but at least it arrived and Deniz Camp reposted it on his xitter

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>>152679057
>Let me tell you, life in feudal Japan fucking sucked.
Aibo, you ain't just whistling Kyoto

>>152679200
>CACADOR

Too fast.

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remember the /shelf/ motto

>>152679225
caçador*

>>152679225
jajaja

>>152679818
Is that like a cholesterol thing

>>152679818
Tiny skull or large body?

>>152680942
yes

>>152679057
That sounds cool.
>>152679112
I felt similarly about Hedra, but I did enjoy that one more.

>>152669780
We can't have Peanuts threads anymore.

>>152682639
Why not?

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oh shelf, nice.

most recent since last /shelf/ is just Savage Sword of Conan Omnibus vol 11.

also amazon canceled my Gunsmith Cats Burst Vol 1. they did the same with Gunsmith Cats vol 1-3 and I had to re-order them from marketplace vendors at a price-hike. really really really REALLY love the company and I would NEVER want to switch to others but for products like that I really have no other choice.

>>152664000
>>152664036
I'm reading shitloads of web novels for over a year now which takes up most of my free time, basically only reading them on my cell phone, which works nicely. I don't think I could read comics on kindle or whatever though.

Where are the Legion of Super Heroes announcements? Where is my Silver Age Omni vol 4? (or make it Bronze Age vol 1)

>>152666011
glad I snatched up the Showcase.

>>152682792
Conan Deluxe has me confused. I like it but at the same time, part of me wants to maybe wait for an omnibus style release or to see if they'll make more in that deluxe size. Still feel it was a mistake to not make them 2 tpbs in size at least so they aren't rivaling the trades directly.

>>152682792
I still need to grab Savage Sword 11. I wasn't gonna keep going with them but then said fuck it

>>152682879
I like the regular trades fine

>>152676425
There's always like a asterisk next to Stan Lee shit because of how much the artist actually wrote in secret
Spider-man, Thor and Fantastic Four all read better than Captain America and I don't know why

>>152659852
>>152661733
didn't even know that Taschen started out as a comic shop, kinda interesting

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>>152679057
I've got a few issues of the 80's version in Floppies, always been super curious about it

>>152684037
pretty much invented all the ninja bullshit we still see today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGXnwT53_Xc