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So what comics did yall get for the holidays?
dubbat138
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I got
Maximortal trade
Bratpack Trade
The three trades of Roaring Rick's Rarebit Fiends
Judgement Day trade by Alan Moore
Plus got that Limited edition tin set of the Warriors of Plasm card set.
Maximortal trade
Bratpack Trade
The three trades of Roaring Rick's Rarebit Fiends
Judgement Day trade by Alan Moore
Plus got that Limited edition tin set of the Warriors of Plasm card set.
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Ghostbusters vols 7-9
The Wake HC
Batman Killing Joke (I know! It's a hole I've had in my collection for too long!!)
Avengers The Final Threat Epic Collection
Avengers Judgement Day Epic Collection
Also got the 1970's Comic Book Chronicle from Twomorrows publishing. Really good looking book. Can see why Chris of @wildpigcomics raves about there books.
Invincible Compendium 1 & 2
Doctor Solar, Man Of The Atom #15 (Gold Key)
Doctor Solar, Man Of The Atom Vol. 1 (Dark Horse reprinting of Gold Key issues #1-7)
Lastly, not comics per se but still comic-related, my wife bought me the first DVD set of The New Adventures Of Superman and a Milk And Cheese Lunchbox from Dark Horse that has been collecting dust at my LCS for over a decade.
DC Showcase: Elongated Man #1
Marvel Essentials Godzilla
Geeky things in that group of items:
DC Deck Building Crisis Expansion Pack 1
Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the Worlds Most Famous Heroine
American Comic Book Chronicles: 1965-1969
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
A homemade Green Lantern window decoration
(not pictured because I'm wearing it when I took this picture)
I also got DVDs of the Guardians Of The Galaxy and Captain America: Winter Soldier films, which gets me up-to-date on the Marvel Studio films.
And I have a gift card for Barnes and Noble, which will allow me to hunt for a copy of either the new Blacksad book (Amarillo) or the new Grandville book (Noel). Only one or the other, unfortunately, but either is more than worth it.
Looking forward to having time to start reading through this stuff as I know very little about Kirby's romance work.
I bought vol.1 and was really pleased with the book.
Baltimore Volume 4: Chapel of Bones
Afterlife With Archie Volume 1
Pretty cool read so far.
Once the wrapping paper settled down he was curled up on the couch reading the Spidey TPB. Also gave him #4, 6, & 7 of the Ofiicial Handbook of the Marvel Universe tpbs from the mid-80's. He likes to browse through the OHOTMU books, but the reading isn't as light as the Spidey stories. I think I may download all of @Adam_Murdough's episodes and give those to him when his OHOTMU collection is complete (as mine is :) )
Black Adam:Dark Age
Crisis On Infinite Earth book
This trade from Checker Books reprints the last year or so of the second series of Aien Legion.
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Every year since I spend the X-mas holiday 4 hours from my girlfriend,she will mail a stocking full of small gifts to one of my relatives homes. Last year she stuffed it with as mayy Pez dispensers as she could fit in it. This year I got the above pictured Archie digest and three envelopes. Each one had a store name printed on the outside,then money inside them. I love to go bargain shopping in stores like Dollar General,Family Dollar,Dollar Tree and other stores of similar ilk. But almost always afterwards I feel bad cause the money I spent ,which is usually spent on books or dvds I won't watch/read for sometimes many years. So with the envelopes was a note. Telling me that she would come down and take me to one of the stores on the envelopes and I have to try my best to spend all the money in there. The Archie Digest is pretty good. Maybe someone can answer this for me,when did Archie start giving credit to who created the comics? Most of the stories in this digest at least list who wrote them and who did the pencils. One other neat thing is very early on in the background you get to see Chuck's girlfriend taking a selfie with the hispanic lady they introduced a few years back. Now if you have read Afterlife with Archie you will know in that series these two have a secret relationship. I am wondering if the writer of Afterlife saw this panel and got the idea from it.
I mentioned in my first post in this thread that I got the limited edition tin set of the Warriors of Plasm trading card set that makes up issue 0 of the comic book. I opened it up and was getting ready to sort them all before putting them into my trading card album. Well I am missing 6 cards. So if anyone out there has some extra Warriors of Plasm cards please message me and I will gladly pay you for the cards I need,shipping and even throw in some comics for your time.
One of the envelopes with money said Dirt Cheap on it. Dirt Cheap is a chain of stores that is mostly in the Southeast area. They buy up stock from stores that close or get major damage. Imagine a dingy,slightly smelly,not organized at all version of Big Lots. I love the store cause I never know what I am going to find when I go there. Plus they always got huge bins of ex-rental DVDS or Blu Rays from Blockbuster. I rarely buy toys at Dirt Cheap. Because the stock comes from closed down stores,plus to keep costs down they don't have many employees watching the customers most packages are opened up and sometimes stuff is missing. Add in that all sales are final,I kind of avoid buying stuff like Legos or jigsaw puzzles.
Got this Construct Bots Predaking set for 80% off 25 bucks. I had never bought any of the toys from this line. But I like Legos and had been wanting something new to put up on display on my shelves.Before I put it together I figured it would be hard to get together. It would have almost no articulation. And transforming it wouldn't work that well. I was totally wrong. It was simple to build it in robot and dragon form. It has more articulation than the G-1 Transformers I had as a kid. And it was super easy to Transform. I might go back in a few days and see if they got any more in.This is much better than the K-Reo Optimus Prime Lego ripoff set I got a few years back.
Got both these novels from my favorite Aunt. I had read Kryptonite Kid years ago. And just re-read it recently as part of my doubletsblogofreviews.blogspot.com/2015/01/2015-reading-challenge-book-001.html. The Wild Cards novel is one of the newer ones I haven't read. Found out that my Uncle had picked out the Wild Cards novel. He saw it on my Amazon wishlist and wanted to read it. So got my Aunt to grab it as one of my X-mas gifts.
I have loved the Wild Card series since I got the first volume from my local library when I was maybe a bit to young to be reading it. I used an Amazon giftcard to get this volume.Mostly because it cost way more than I am willing to spend on a paperback book.
Not really a comic book related item,but the film had Hugh "Wolverine" Jackman in it.I have been meaning to read some fiction from Richard Matheson. Another of my "spending spree" envelopes was for Dollar General. For some reason my tiny town has 5 Dollar Generals. And all of them have 2 spinner racks of cheap paperback books. This collection has 15 short stories. The first one is what the film Real Steel was based on.I haven't seen the film,but did read the story the other night before bed. From talking to a friend that has seen the film,it seems the first 20 minutes of the film adapt the short story and the rest of the film is all new stuff. Another of the stories in the collection was made into an episode of Family Guy. I am not a fan of Family guy but who knows the story might be good.
Got this the same day as I got the Richard Matheson collection. Not a huge Superman fan,but I have enjoyed the Kevin J Anderson books I have read.And $3 for a paperback is decent.And I like the noise the cover makes when I scratch my nail over the lenticular animation cover.
Wow I rambled for a bit. But that is all my comic book related holidays gifts.
I love those trades of OHOTMU. When the deluxe editon of OHOTMU started coming out my Uncle found them and started buying each issue for him and I.It was thanks to that series that he got back into comics. He had started reading comics around the time of Fantastic Four #2. At one time he had a decent collection of early Silver Age Marvel comics. Then one day in the early 80s he loaned them all to a friend that he had served in the Navy with. He never saw that guy again. And while the comics were not in the best shape it still would have been nice to get to read his copies of the classic beginnings of the Marvel universe. I think I might go right now and add all those OHOTMU trades to my Amazon wishlist.
a Rocket Racoon & an Avengers T-shirts
and Marvel Invaders Classic Vol 1
My daughter got a $25 gift certificate to my LCS
and the massive Marvel Encyclopedia (Revised edition)
Ho Ho Ho!
I read a random issue of Terry Leban's Cud Comics years ago. I love his Archie homage artstyle. Been wanting to read more from him. And this trade as a buck plus shipping. YAY cheap trades.
Dark Horse Presents is one of those comics that if I find an issue for a buck or under I am gonna buy it. Found this trade for $1.50 plus shipping. Might end up tracking down volumes 1 and 2.
I have really enjoyed the issue of Nexus I have read. So finding this hardcover archive for 90 cents plus shipping I had to get it. I hope I can find the first volume for cheap soon.
I still got over 30 bucks in credit at Amazon. So gonna search for more cheap trades.
Blackest Night Trade- I like this trade, and picked it up mostly because I was very interested about the other lantern cores. The problem was I'm more of a marvel guy, and I haven't read much DC at all, let alone the build up for this event, so there was a lot of prior knowledge that would of helped to have.
Jason Aaron's Thor God of Thunder Vol 1 Trade- I love this book. Thor is a character that I haven't read a whole lot of, and after reading this trade I am very much so looking forward to remedying that.