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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #506 on: Apr 26th, 2010, 03:45am » |
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Damn it! I just read latest Green Arrow/Black Canary TPB, which I mentioned previously, and it ends with a cliffhanger! Some bad guy makes everyone deaf and then "to be continued". It's a damn TPB! It's supposed to collect the whole story! Now I have to either wait until June for the next volume, or just buy the single issues. We were just talking about this! And come to think of it, the previous two GA/BC paperbacks were consecutive as well. It's a conspiracy, I tell you! They intentionally have the TPB collection end on an issue that doesn't finish the story so people will be more inclined to buy the next volume. 
I suppose the simple solution here is to just buy the single issues, which are already available, but being the TPB collector that I am, I know I will just buy the TPB when it comes out, even if I already have the single issues, and that's just a waste of money. So this is my dilemma. I guess I'm just going to have to wait two months before I can finish the story. And by then I will have mostly forgotten what was going on and won't really care what happens next... Why can't they do anything right these days? 
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #507 on: Apr 26th, 2010, 4:09pm » |
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on Apr 26th, 2010, 03:45am, TurkeyMoose wrote:Damn it! I just read latest Green Arrow/Black Canary TPB, which I mentioned previously, and it ends with a cliffhanger! Some bad guy makes everyone deaf and then "to be continued". It's a damn TPB! It's supposed to collect the whole story! Now I have to either wait until June for the next volume, or just buy the single issues. We were just talking about this! And come to think of it, the previous two GA/BC paperbacks were consecutive as well. It's a conspiracy, I tell you! They intentionally have the TPB collection end on an issue that doesn't finish the story so people will be more inclined to buy the next volume.
I suppose the simple solution here is to just buy the single issues, which are already available, but being the TPB collector that I am, I know I will just buy the TPB when it comes out, even if I already have the single issues, and that's just a waste of money. So this is my dilemma. I guess I'm just going to have to wait two months before I can finish the story. And by then I will have mostly forgotten what was going on and won't really care what happens next... Why can't they do anything right these days? |
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This is why I started buying monthlies in the first place. It wasn't really a problem when I was a child, as I had no money of my own I only got TPBs for Christmas, birthdays, or other special occasions. I remember as a teenager I got all five No Mans Land trades for one Christmas and so I could read it all... But then that year I had to wait 6 months between the Cataclysm trade and the NML anyway so perhaps it wasn't really all that different.
As we're all complaining (ha ha) I may as well mention another thing that irritates me: And that is a problem I first noticed with Loeb & Lee's Hush. That is a 12 issue arc being split into two slim TPBs. Up until that point we regularly had TPBs of 12 issues, but ever since Hush it seems DC like to split complete stories into two volumes to make more money. Conversely though I have heard the argument that they are starting to back-pedal on this move because Part One's always vastly outsell Part Two's so they're starting to move back into the complete packages. I suppose Green Lantern is much like Devin Grayson's Nightwing run, or currently Morrison's Batman & Robin in which it is one massive run so there isn't really any clear place to cut off the Trades and keep them a managable size. Personally I think the first Batman & Robin HC (and future TPB) has been rushed out because it's only the first 6 issues, where within the context the first 9 would have made much more sense - or even wait and publish the full 15 issue arc in one large book as that would be the complete Chapter 4 for Morrison's epic Batman story!
My other issue with the Trades is how in England the prices in Forbidden Planet (the main sci-fi chain) have literally doubled over the last 4-5 years, and the actual physical quality of the books has vastly declined. I look at my Continuity shelf and all the books Post Face To Face are all so slim you can barely make out the titles on the spines, and the cover and paper quality is so cheap they feel like they could fall apart at any moment - Yet they are charging double what they did for the better quality books?! A prime example of early 90s quality vs late 2000s: Batman Prey is 5 issues long and is seriously twice as thick as Nightwing The Great Leap which is 7! I know that Prey is abnormally high quality compared to most of my others, but still, everything since 2006 has seen a shocking decline in the cover and paper quality of the books. 
I bought The Great Leap off Forbidden Planet's website so it was a bit cheaper, but it still had their shop price tag on it: £14.99 they were selling it for! Back in 2005 I would pick up a 6-7 issue trade for £6.99-£7.99. Likewise the 12 issue trades used to be £9.99 and I've seen them retailing for £18.99 in recent months! I swear it's cheaper to buy the monthlies these days than the overpriced 6 issue TPBs.
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #508 on: Apr 26th, 2010, 6:48pm » |
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yeah, I was wondering about that. Is it just cause of thinner paper? or is it also a smaller page count (in the original issues and then also the trade?)
I haven't paid too much attention to counting pages yet, but I'm going through and updating page numbers on my site and I got curious about that.
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #509 on: Jun 13th, 2010, 07:10am » |
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I finished up the Bone Handbook last night. It's kinda cool. Like a Secret Files and Origins thing - has some comic content, but mostly bios on the characters, history of the land, etc.
I haven't decided yet what I'm reading next. Either Brubaker's Daredevil (I just got the second omnibus) or Ultimate Spider-man (hc vol 11 just came out).
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #510 on: Jun 13th, 2010, 3:22pm » |
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So, I decided on Ultimate Spider-Man. It was the 11th HC, which was the end of his series plus the two Requiem issues. It was USM. As good as anything else on the shelf.
Next up for me is Ultimatum and the other Ultimate Requiem stuff.
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #511 on: Jun 15th, 2010, 6:19pm » |
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Last night I finished off The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes. I love Spaceman Spiff and Stupendous Man 
Heading back into Ultimate Marvel tonight with the last X-men arc and the final annuals pre-Ultimatum.
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #512 on: Jun 19th, 2010, 6:19pm » |
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I read Ultimate Origins and Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk today. WvH was fun, I enjoyed it quite a bit. Origins kind of left the reader hanging. Has anything happened with the Watchers' Herald yet?
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #513 on: Jun 27th, 2010, 09:11am » |
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I finished The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes last night and my weeklies today. I just started Brubaker's DD run with the first Omnibus.
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #514 on: Jun 27th, 2010, 10:17am » |
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I've been reading a lot of pre-crisis stuff lately, but I think I'm gonna get into Jonah Hex next. I'm just waiting for the showcase trade to show up in the mail since I want to read it before the modern books.
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #515 on: Jun 27th, 2010, 8:38pm » |
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Wow, that read really fast. I don't think I've ever read a book of that size in a day. I'll be starting on the second volume of Brubaker's DD tonight or tomorrow.
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #516 on: Jul 3rd, 2010, 8:20pm » |
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Finished the second Brubaker DD omnibus today. I enjoyed it quite a bit - not as much as other Brubaker stuff I've read. Not downplaying it at all, I simply liked Gotham Central much better. I have the three Death of Captain America trades coming in next week, so more Brubaker goodness on the way.
Anyone know if the DD stuff after him is any good? Diggle I think?
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #517 on: Jul 4th, 2010, 01:26am » |
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I only read Kevin Smith's and Bendis' Daredevil stuff. Not even all of it. I liked it, though. I did read Brubaker's Captain America trades (the first six) and I thought those were good. Not mind-blowingly good but good nonetheless.
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #518 on: Jul 4th, 2010, 06:08am » |
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The Smith stuff was ho-hum to me, nothing special. The Bendis stuff got better and better the longer he was on the book. I think I like it better than the Frank Miller DD stuff.
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #519 on: Jul 4th, 2010, 3:02pm » |
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I guess I'm in a Marvel mood. I just read the first Black Widow tpb which featuring the two minis that introduced Yelena. I'm now reading BW: Homecoming and I'll follow that up with The Things They Say about Her.
The first one is good. I like it quite a bit. The Rucka story was superb.
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Re: So... what are we currently reading?
« Reply #520 on: Jul 7th, 2010, 2:52pm » |
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I didn't care much for the Black Widow stuff. I'm not a big Bill Sienkiewicz fan. Tomorrow, I start either the Death of Captain America or Morrison's New X-Men run.
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