Comic Books

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/32940243

Just saw the notes in the books this week. :( Guice was a great artist, did fantastic work on Micronauts.

From the official AWA Studios Instagram and Facebook:

"Due to an unexpected misprint, all copies of THEY CHOOSE VIOLENCE #1 are being pulled from shelves ahead of tomorrow’s planned release.

Retailers and readers: we are asking that all copies be destroyed — violently, of course.

A corrected reprint is in process, and we’ll share the new release timeline as soon as it’s locked. We’re just as eager as you are to get this bold new series into your hands — thank you for your patience, your support, and your understanding."

I just started reading comics a few months ago, so I'm fairly new to this.

I enjoyed the Injustice video games, and I've heard the comics were great, so I figure I should read them. The comic book store near me has the individual volumes for Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3. But they also have the Injustice Compendium, which has everything in one book. And the compendium is absolutely gigantic: literally like a phonebook. It just seems like it would be unpleasant to read, impossible to carry around, and most of the pages would have a severe curve when they're open from the inflexible spine.

Have you bought one of these before? Did you prefer it over having individual volumes?

List is up! Let's see here..

Minor Arcana #8

From The World Of Minor Threats Welcome To Twilight #4

Assorted Crisis Events #4

Hyde Street #7

Seasons #5

Well that's all for me this week, what're you pulling?

The headline doesn't really tell you why this is important... so here you go!

To promote the first "live action" appearance of Krypto the Super Dog in the new Superman movie, D.C. is re-printing Krypto's first appearance, Adventure Comics #210. 3 copies contain a "Golden Biscuit" ticket for admission to a Superman premier in Los Angeles.

Because this is a special promo, D.C. made it available to retailers for $0.75 per copy. Retailers could decide if they wanted to sell them for the $3.99 cover price, give them away, whatever.

BUT - Retailers found out AFTER the books arrived, that each copy also includes a free one month trial to DCs online service.

Retailers essentially paid $0.75 a copy to advertise an online competitor to their own physical stores.

Some retailers reacted predictably, refusing to sell their reprint stock, some even choosing to destroy them instead.

BUT - NOW it turns out, this special polybagged edition ALSO contains a misprint of the original book.

A book already in limited distribution because retailers are destroying them.

List is up! Let's see here..

Toxie Team-Up #1 - I thought I got this last week?

Exquisite Corpses #2 - #1 was pretty damn good! Picked it up sight unseen based on the name, which itself is based off an old Surrealist/Dadaist game called Exquisite Corpse, in which three artists take turns drawing sections of a dead body. In this game however, the premise is there's 13 wealthy families that control america representing the 13 colonies, they shut down a small town, release a killer each in town, and whoever's killer is last standing wins. Looks like they'll be making a card game out of it too, IRL. Neat concept, great first issue, I'm in.

Well that's it for me! Good week though, I'm excited about both (one more than the other but who's counting?) What're y'all pulling?

List is up! Let's see here...

Toxie Team-Up #1 - actually been digging the Toxic Avenger stuff but then again I'm a fan of the OG which probably clouds my already questionable judgement.

Falling In Love On The Path To Hell #8 - This is one of the best things running right now I think.

Geiger #15

I Hate Fairyland #41

Lost Fantasy #2 - still behind on the first one..

w0rldtr33 #15

Well that's it for me, what're y'all pulling?

Written by George Takei, Steven Scott, Justin Eisinger
Art by Harmony Becker
Published by IDW Publishing

It Rhymes with Takei fills in the massive blanks George left in his bestselling autobiography of the 1990s by sharing the story of his being a secretly gay man. It’s a book about love, not sex, a book about the pain of hiding one’s true self. It’s a book about fear, about ambition, about shame, about hollow success, and, most of all, it’s a book about growth.

Here's one I've only seen in meat space, worth checking out. "The Future is F******"

Proposed 5 year, 60 issue run. 100 page first issue, 1st printing at $13.37 (yellow text), intro printing at $4.04 (blue text).

Pitched as "Transmetropolitan meets Trainspotting."

I’m so pumped to show this off! My wonderful wife got this for me as a gift. Core childhood memories unlocked. I’m actually kinda nervous to be the steward of something so special and cool.

This comic came out in the year 2000. I guess back then GPS was so unused in the general public, they felt the need to explain what that meant.

It's just funny to me. Seeing it explicitly explained with an editors note what GPS is.

New list is up! Let's see what I'm getting..

Let This One Be A Devil #4 - Tbh haven't started reading this yet, but the Jersey Devil rules.

Moon Is Following Us #10

Well that's it for me, what're y'all pulling?

Hello!

I'm trying to get into comics and I'm looking for something that's almost entirely visual if possible. I don't hate reading, I love it actually, but I am coming from the perspective that the unique aspect of comics is their ability to show things that are hard to describe in writing. Visual flair is really important to me and I appreciate things that take a meaningful/stylistic approach to illustration rather than a strictly narrative one. Any recommendations?

So, what is the point of Annuals? If a story comes in monthly issue form, and they're numbered as such, how would you know where an annual fits in with the story? If you're buying in real time, you might know "Ok, Issue 64 came out last month, issue 65 comes out in a week, and the annual came out today. Therefore, the annual comes out between 64 and 65."

But what if you're only discovering a series years later? And what would an annual do that they couldn't just cover in the main series?

I'm not much of a comic book guy, but I do like them. I dabble here and there, but it's VERY overwhelming, which is why I stick mostly to batman. At least with batman, they nuke the whole thing every few years, so you can start over, and follow a series through.

With spiderman, it's like "Ok, he's a high school nerd, who has super powers. And the whole series is all canon to each other, and it all fits in a series. But also, Peter Parker has been in high school since the 1940s. But also the world around him ages, and now J Jameson has a podcast, and other modern day reflections are shown in the comic.....but also the series was very much set in modern day 1940s when the series originally began."

THAT'S CONFUSING AS FUCK!!!

And so now, I'm seeing a Harley Quinn series that started in 2021, but there's annuals. I haven't read the series, but.....why do those exist? I don't understand!

New list is up! Let's see here..

Minor Arcana #7 - Missing #6, gotta grab that.

Black Hammer Spiral City #6

Assorted Crisis Events #3

Hyde Street #6

Detective Kaiju #1 - This looks hilarious lol, Gojira P.I.

Well that's it for me, what're y'all pulling?

If you aren't familiar with his work, he had an absolutely LEGENDARY TWELVE-YEAR run on the Incredible Hulk (#331 to #466) and an equally good run on X-Factor (#70 to #89, vol. 3 #1-50, 200-262, All New X-Factor #1-20).

He was also responsible for the Star Trek: The Next Generation novel "Q In Law".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-in-Law

I just learned little nemo adventures in slumberland is based off a comic. Loved that feverdream movie as a kid, doesn't really holdup as an adult because of the annoying side characters sadly.

Went 20 years not knowing it was based off a comic book.