NEXUS OMNIBUS: Now that I’ve had a chance to read the solicitation, I’m less thrilled than I was when I initially heard about this publication, mainly because it’s a tpb and I already have all the archives. OTOH, if you don’t, this is a 416 page reprint of the three black & white issues plus the first eleven of one of the best ongoing series of the eighties for only 25 bucks.
MARKED MAN: A hardcover reprint of Howard Chaykin’s recent serial from DHP. Not bad for only 15 bucks.
ALSO FROM DARK HORSE: I’m always pleased to see new Archie (V7) and Crime Does Not Pay (V3) archives.
FROM DC: Zero issues? Barely a year into the “New 52”? Are you kidding me? I know it’s just a marketing ploy, but it smacks of rolling out the line before they had all there ducks in a row.
IDW is quickly becoming my favorite publisher, not only of archival material but periodical comics as well. This month we have…
WOODWORK: A retrospective of Wally Wood’s career.
BARON BEAN: I am unsure about this early strip by Krazy Kat creator George Herriman. Still, for only 20 bucks, it will certainly be worth a look.
GASOLINE ALLEY: I am most excited about this comprehensive reprinting of the Dick Moores years, starting in 1964. Volumes of the wonderful Walt & Skeezix (collecting Frank King’s work starting with the introduction of Skeezix in 1921) may be few and far between, but this series from IDW will help fill the gaps.
PS ARTBOOKS: New volumes of classic series Adventures into the Unknown, Planet Comics, Out of the Night and Skeleton Hand. Wow! (Not to mention a career retrospective of the life and art of Frank Hampson.)
THE SIMON & KIRBY LIBRARY: SCIENCE FICTION: ‘Nuff said.
A couple of other things that caught my eye: a Mort Drucker retrospective; Marvel Comics: TheUntold Story; Spider-Man Chronicle: A Year-By-Year Visual History.
Yours?
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I mentioned my thoughts for the September solicitations (Previews #286) in the previous thread for the August ones.
Like you, I'm excited about Nexus Omnibus especially as I don't have the earlier archives.
A number of Baron Bean strips were included in the book The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics. It's twenty years since I read the volume, but I found them genuinely funny at the time.
The thing that caught my attention is that the same page that solicits Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation 2 #5 of 8 ALSO the TPB of the series ???
Isn't the trade just the first 4 issues?
Okay, my go.
1. Shouldn't the Halloween comics come out in September? Maybe it's just me.
2. And the ones the spotlight don't even have prices listed. (I would really like to know the price of the EC reprint one).
3. Phil Noto may not be Adam Hughes, but he sure draws some purty women. I am in on Ghost, it being a mini helped.
4. I dunno Talon seems like an Azrael redux to me.
5. Zero Issues. Wow it is 1994 all over again.
6. DC Couldn't find anyone else besides DiDio to write Phantom Stranger? Pass.
7. Read DC Universe Presents #0! A collection of stories from a bunch of series we just cancelled!
8. I like that DC is doing an Amanda Conner spotlight.
9. I haven't bought any yet, but I like the treasury sized books IDW is doing.
10. A new Dr. Who series for all of you fans. Whovians or something like that?
11. Alright I am forking over the cash for Woodwork. The monstrous Wally Wood thingie.
12. Figs and Jeff Carter! A new Grant Morrison series at Image!
13. Am I the only one who thinks it is funny that it took Youngblood 20 years to get to issue 75?
14. I don't think I ever noticed that Brian Wood is writing Ultimate X-Men.
15. I freaking love that Paolo River Daredevil cover. I might just make that my new wallpaper.
16. I really like that Marvel is including a digital copy on that huge 528 AvX book, like they do with a lot of their regular comics.
17. Is Damsels Dynamites answer to Fairest?
18. Groovy a new Stumptown series.
19. You sure can spend a pretty penny on a costume. Up to $1,300 if you so desire.
I think so, Doc. It is only 104 pages.
Doc Beechler (mod-MD) said:
Travis Herrick said:
Zero issues? Barely a year into the “New 52”? Are you kidding me? I know it’s just a marketing ploy, but it smacks of rolling out the line before they had all there ducks in a row.
It didn't strike me that way. I figured they'd told a couple stories and got us interested in the characters, and now they're going back and filling in the details so we know what we know. It's always what we think we know but don't that hurts us.
I think if every title had started with an origin issue, we'd have been snoozing. So this makes sense to me, and it's important to have that information as fast and painlessly as possible. And if we don't care, we can skip the issue and still keep our numbering.
I know, anyone concerned about their numbering isn't going to pass up #0 anyway, so we either have to file it out of numerical or chronological order. I'm not sure #0s as regular periodicals is a good idea. Better to just have a special origin issue and keep it in the regular numbering.
Messing with numbering has a whiff of marketing. But so do all the retailer incentive covers around. They don't affect me, but they give me bad flashbacks.
-- MSA