Recent Shelf/Buy Thread

From Marvel's May solicits
Mighty Thor Vol. 3 Omnibus
Punisher Back to the War Omnibus
Punisher By Ennis Omnibus (reprint)
Planet Hulk Omnibus
Star Wars Marvel UK Omnibus
Star Wars Darth Vader by Gillen and Larrocca Omnibus
Amazing Spider-Man Worldwide Vol. 2 OHC

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Hyped for the planet hulk omni

>Mighty Thor Vol. 3 Omnibus
Excellent.

I am going to put my two JSA omnis and my Simonson Thor up for sale later this week.
I dislike the JSA books, and while I like Simonson, the omni has a fuckload of Sal Buscema and a less than optimal recolor.

Whoa! A dying shelfporn thread. Is this the end of paper reading Sup Forums?

That Mazzucchelli Black & White statue is the only comic statue I own. Good taste OP

I ordered Hellboy Library Editions 3 and 5 (already have 4)
Volumes 6 and 7 of Berserk
All three volumes of Phantom Blood
I'm probably going to get this too now that I think about it.

The Manapal flash omnibus is mediocre as fuck

>Punisher Back to the War Omnibus
What is this? Looking up Back to the War all I see is the title of the second issue of the original mini, so are we finally getting a collection of classic 80's Punisher?

PUNISHER: BACK TO THE WAR OMNIBUS HC

Written by GERRY CONWAY, LEN WEIN & STEVEN GRANT with ARCHIE GOODWIN, MARV WOLFMAN, DENNIS O'NEIL, FRANK MILLER, ROGER MCKENZIE, MIKE BARR, BILL MANTLO & JO DUFFY Penciled by ROSS ANDRU, TONY DEZUNIGA, FRANK MILLER & MIKE ZECK with KEITH POLLARD, FRANK SPRINGER, AL MILGROM, GREG LAROCQUE & MIKE VOSBURG Cover by DECLAN SHALVEY Variant Cover by MIKE ZECK

Frank Castle's war begins here! From his debut in Amazing Spider-Man to his hit 1986 Circle of Blood miniseries, the first entries in the Punisher's war journal are collected in this can't-miss Omnibus. In 1973, the Punisher set his sights on the criminal underworld. Comic books were never the same. A grim figure willing to achieve justice by any means, the Punisher shook the black-and-white world of heroes and villains off its foundation. Top creators, from Frank Miller to Mike Zeck, brought a striking depth and moral resonance to the Punisher, and each of their character-defining stories is collected here. Featuring a massive trove of original art, sketches, posters and more, this is the definitive edition for every Punisher fan.Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #129, #134-135, #161-162, #174-175, #201-202 & ANNUAL (1964) #15; GIANT-SIZE SPIDER-MAN (1974) #4; MARVEL PREVIEW (1975) 2; MARVEL SUPER ACTION (1976) #1; CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #241; DAREDEVIL (1964) #182-184; SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN (1976) #81-83; and PUNISHER (1986) #1-5.

696 pages, $100.

Yeah thats what it is.

Okay, I was hoping it was an omni with the Grant/Zeck mini plus some Mike Baron issues

>Mighty Thor Vol. 3 Omnibus
but what about that Vol. 1? Am I expected to sell a kidney for that?

>Punisher By Ennis Omnibus (reprint)
why did they make me buy the complete collections? REEEE

looks like it is almost Spider-man omni. but im happy anyway.

Me, too. But I hope its just the beginning

Anyone out there own the super huge omnibus for BLACKEST NIGHT?

I kinda want to hunt one down, and wanna know if it collects ALL of Blackest Night or just main issues and most direct connectors like GL and GLC.

Buy more floppies you fucking bums.

Why?

Posted in last thread. Got a second undamaged copy of Sir Alfred from Spit-And-A-Half (or, my LCS did). Probably gonna frame the print or maybe even the coaster. Plus it's so good it needs a "reading copy". Dunno if any Sup Forumsmrades noticed how many people's "Best of 2016" lists it made it on on TCJ.com. Masterpiece. The Box Brown comics is a kind of alternate universe Trump parody where his proxy never goes into politics...really great. Enjoying Highbone Theatre a lot, currently residing in my beach community which really adds to the enjoyment. And I bought the first two Diary Comics directly from Harbin, signed and sketched, but wanted the collection for those later strips with the beautiful inkwash work, where he's taking a lot more time over them.

You don't put them on the shelf though user, they go in the long box.

Long boxes aren't located in some alt dimension.

Nobody posts pictures of floppies cause Sup Forums is full of pirates and trade waiters.

In my defense I don't wait for trades, I just have so much shit to go through from the past I haven't picked up a single ongoing series.

Realistically though there aren't many floppies worth buying, unless you're only into cape/genreshit...and most of them aren't even worth pirating, let alone actually purchasing

they collect different things though?

most recent I also just ordered starseeds and the neat stuff collection

>aren't many floppies worth buying, unless you're only into cape/genreshit
I'll give you that. I've been bested.

I respect that.

More just talking some shit but it is sad that we don't see floppies bagged and boarded more than we do.

Oops. Didn't realize that since I'm not that into Marvel.
Which is the recommended run between the two? Or are both good?

The MAX stuff is the best.

Most prefer the Max run that's collected in the complete collections but both are considered good. Tonally different runs. The Marvel Knights run is more humourous than Max.

Recent acquisitions.
Disappointed with Cowboy Wally's size. The older DC edition had bigger dimensions but hopefully Baker got some money out of me buying the new edition.

he self published it, doing a traditional album style dimension like it was initally done would probably cost way too much for him
iirc he also self publishes Why I Hate Saturn in floppies to save money

The stuff I want hasn't been available as a floppy for decades in most cases.
I have a lot of Kirby floppies, and all and all I prefer the omnis.

thnx bbs

Oh, I'm aware. I had found the Piranha edition of Why I Hate Saturn in an used book store and hoped I'd find more of his stuff and they eventually wounded with more of his works, an old Cowboy Wally edition but the new edition was cheaper online so I got it instead. I would have bought the new edition of it anyway to support Baker.

Fucking jealous, I really want that book. What didja think to Band For life? And do you enjoy the work of her paramour, Lane Milborn (who did 12 Emeralds (title?!))?
Holy shit you're only the second person apart from myself I've ever seen with a copy of Asthma--that's since I started lurking, which woulda been around 2009, I believe. Great comic. Great cartoonist. Did you see any of Hankiewicz's MOME work? There was a particularly good short bio comic of an old female jazz singer, forgotten her name, will check. His Kramers #7 piece was great, too. Anyway kudos for excellent taste (Baker isn't fucking bad either!!!).
Oh and I don't suppose you know but Jog mentioned that Reich has been put out by Alternative Comics--I asked on TCJ.com if they were actually REPRINTING it or merely selling old Sparkplug stock but I haven't had an answer yet. You know, Reich, Elijah Brubakers bio comic about Wilhelm Reich? I'm missing the last two issues so thi was good news to me and it's one of the best biographical comics I've ever read.
Lel, I wasn't trying to "best" you, Sup Forumsmrade, it's just I'm pretentious hipster scum who despises most contemporary corporate comics with very few exceptions!

>finally order some bags and boards for cerebus
>a portion of the issues are not modern era size
welp

BFL was all over the place, seemed more like she just winged most of it, it also has a very abrupt ending mid conversation. Lovers did too but it seemed well more thought out and proper to end that way. I've heard of Lane but never read anything of his.

Does any of you have Green Lantern collection shelves?
Would love to see if there is any trade I missed. Thanks.

Planet Hulk Omnibus is gonna be nice

I've ordered BFL, my LCS has your book in stock and they send the mail order out tomorrow so I'm gonna phone first thing and add a copy. Never followed BFL when it was on Vice but her comics just interest the hell out of me, her use of genre tropes etc and her general bad-assery as a person. Also her process and drawing tools fascinate me. She's no zak Sally but has an interesting way of making her pages. If you enjoy alt-sci-fi-outer-space-heist comics you might like 12 Gems. I really like his drawing--lots of rendering and cross-hatching--kind of like Crumb if he was solely influenced by "off-brand" space opera sci-fi comics and the same stuff his whole career and used just the cheesiest tropes from the genre he could find...it just fucking works, though. I dunno, maybe give it a go, user. Cheers for the reply!

Sorry, I obviously meant Lane Milborn in reference to 12 Gems

I haven't read Hankiewicz's work before, bought Asthma because it was on Sean T. Collins' Top 33 Graphic Novels list, Education was #2 on TCJ's best comics list two years ago and I could only get Asthma locally.
I haven't read Elijah Brubaker's work but I've heard good things. I do know that the Alternative Comics Reich issues are new reprints. The pricing for some of the issues are cheaper compared to the old ones.

The price of that should be illegal

This all I got, gonna add Defenders 3-6 and a Deadpool Omnibus

Hey man you made a great buy! His comics are poetry and TRULY pushing the form (even though it's an old-ish book...I got mine straight from Sparkplug, Dylan Williams was such a fucking bro and is sadly missed...SPB put out so much good stuff. The Trevor Alixopolus book Hot Breath of War is great, as is his first with Sparkplug which I forget the name of...he used to write a little note every time I ordered from them and chuck in loads of promo stuff like postcards and stickers, then started sending me free stuff...such a generous soul). Another great book from SP is Inkweed by Chris Wright, who went on to do Black Lung for Fanta, which is an amazing, amazing, brutal book...the evil twin of Drew Weing's Set To Sea, in my opinion.
You can still get the MOME's for cover price, if you want a list with the issues with Hanciewicz's stuff I'd be happy to sort you out. Sean T. Collins, along with Rob Clough and a coupla others are the few comics journalists whom I "trust". Any rec from them is 90% of the time rock-solid.
And yeah, I HIGHLY recommend Reich. Such an overlooked comic. Thanks so much for the info regarding that, user! I hope one day it gets collected--it fucking deserves to be!

Why are DC reducing the content in the reprint of New Teen Titans omnibus vol 1?

>This omnibus edition collects the team’s debut in DC COMICS PRESENTS #26, plus the first sixteen issues of their smash-hit monthly series, including the first appearances of foes including Deathstroke and Trigon, as well as a confrontation with the Justice League of America.
>On sale AUGUST 30 • 688 pg, FC, $75.00 US

Got these in today. Ghost in the Shell is a lot bigger than I expected. I think I'm going to pass on 1.5 & 2 though. I don't like Shirow's weird CG artstyle.

Also, anybody else see the listing for the Akira Deluxe edition? All six books in hardcover and as well the Akira Club artbook. I'm really excited.

I'm not sure I get the appeal of Sir Alfred. What I've seen of it hasn't really made me interested. Looks like solid cartooning, but nothing earth-shattering. I'm not familiar with Hitchcock nor the newspaper cartoons that I'm assuming Hensley is emulating, so I might just be not learned enough.

It's more influenced cartooning-wise by Stanley's Little Lulu stuff. It reprints some of the newspaper-style strips that originally appeared in MOME but apart from that is all original work, consisting or real stories, anecdotes and a few apocryphal stories about Hitch. A few bits won't give you the full picture of how amazing it is. It's packed with weird film-buff in jokes and ends with a short chapter where Francois Truffaut is recounting Hitch'c influence on other directors, using the device Hensley occasionally employs of having highly "cartoony" images next to fairly naturalistic depictions. It's a fractured biography...the closest I can think to compare it to, even though it's really nothing like it, is that Peter Sellers biopic starring Geoffrey Rush. Sir Alfred, like the aforementioned film, delights in playing with it's medium and Hensley's trademarked wordplay is excellently highlighted by this beautiful double-page splash. I have an A3 scanner now so I may storytime it sometime. Just out of interest what is it you've seen, the aforementioned newspaper-style strips that appeard in MOME and Smoke Signal? The rest of the book is not in that format at all. And as for solid cartooning, phew, Tim Hensley is a master craftsman. I remember first being blown away by his Duplex Planet work but he's just gotten better and better and better. Did you read Wally Gropius or even Ticket Stub? His thought processes are entirely unlike any other cartoonists...his way with language is completely sublime. I really recommend you giving it a go, Fanta still have some "lightly damaged" copies for sale. Plus, it's just an absolutely beautifully-presented art object. I really think Hensley is, as Mailer said about W. S. Burroughs, "possessed by genius". Like, Gropius is the closest thing comics have to Joyce's Ulysses, in terms of the palpable joy of playing around with the form. But Hensley's not doing it to show off and he's funnier than Joyce anyday!

Hm. So basically a better version of Essential Punisher vol. 1.

Stoked for reprint of Ennis and NTT and finally getting a Planet Hulk omni.

Sheeeiiit, that new GITS looks good. Recommend it? Lesbian orgy or no?

I picked up Fever Closing last year but still haven't read it

Last comment was too long but I went to the Breakdown panel at Thought Bubble last year and spoke with a couple of their cartoonists at their table. The publishers seem a little too much like trust fund snooty public school boys but Tom Kessler (?), the guy who does Windowpane, was really nice but pretty quiet. I bought nearly all of their Antoine Cosse books (which are great), I think they're an ace outfit, one that makes me proud to be British, but by God they didn't half come across as elitist cunts. What's the Luke Cobb stuff like? He's a Brit, isn't he? I think some of their stuff is too self-consciously trying to re-invent the wheel, like you get the impression their company bible is Kramers 4 (not in itself a bad thing!) but the reason I like Cosse so much is that he doesn't seem to have eschewed "straight-up" narrative as much of some of the cartoonists on their roster.

I just realized that DC haven't solicited a second Vigilante collection yet, and vol.1 was announced several months ago. Are they gonna gauge the interest for its continuation off the back of vol.1?

I missed the panel, sounds like it was for the better. They weren't at their table either when I was picking up shit but the dude selling his wares to the left of them was filling in for them, lovely chap.

Apparently Treasure Island book one went OOP recently, thank fuck I have all three. Imagine they'll do a bigger trade collection down the line but I love that one-colour risograph format

the bs thing about that is the first volume is just Wolfman's run and it doesn't get badass until Kuppenberg takes over

Which is what, halfway through IIRC? It'll take at least another 3 volumes for them to get to that point in its 50 issue (plus 2 annual and one Showcase) run, and I seriously doubt it'll get that far

Yeah I preordered the Akira box set. Does the GITS in your pic contain the lesbian orgy? Or did they censor it?

Yeah we got there really early, the panel was at, like, 10:30 I think?
Was Treasure Island originally the webcomic or am I thinking of a different Connor Willumsen work? If it's the same thing what I saw of it was fucking great, I have one of his early minis but no Breakdown stuff of his. Have you ever been to The Lakes Comic Festival? The Page 45 crew (who I basically buy all my comic from) go there every year and Willumsen and the Comics Workbook posse were there last year, Jonathan (from Page 45) said he got to chat briefly to Frank Santoro who was really nice and sorted out a deal with John Porcellino's Spit-And-A-Half to obtain stock from him, which'll expand their amazing selection even more. Page 45 rule, they recently scored me an OOP copy of Jean-Pierre Filieu and David B's Best of Enemies volume 2 straight from the publisher "on the off chance they had any spare copies about". And they got me a copy of Gabby Schulz's Sick, which I insist is one of the best comics of 2016...it's like being dragged through an emotional sewer. It was originally a webcomic but Secret Acres made Schulz re-draw it and I'm so glad they did, instead of flat PS colours it was re-rendered in watercolour and a little coloured ink (over the b & w linework) and is as beautiful-looking as it is harrowing. God, I fucking love Ken Dahl/Gabby Schulz....

around issue 18 I think and he continues till the end

DC stays soliciting and canceling shit. I hate their trade department

Looks like they removed that page. Fuckers.

See, most of that doesn't persuade me because I don't really care about Hitchcock. The only pages I've seen of the work are from reviewers or previews. Everything seems pretty standard. I didn't see anything that jumped out at me as new or interesting ways to do comics. But maybe the parts I've seen don't represent the whole. It's just making me scratch my head because usually I'm onboard with what people are raving about. Maybe this just isn't for me. If you storytime it, I'll certainly give it a chance and pick it up if I like it (and if I still can).

I like the books that have put aside "straight-up" narrative. I'm not really concerned with narrative in comics for the most part. I come for the art. I don't know if I'm able to describe him as an artist yet because I've only read one book by him so far, but I will say that certain elements of his style (coloring, word bubbles, figure drawing at times) remind me of Arsene Schrauwen which is what made me check him out in the first place.

is $100 for 25 single issues on ebay a good deal?
t. new to comic collection

I do, my pull list is about 10 issues a month, but you can't really display them on a shelf (I try to but it doesnt always look good)

depends a lot on what the comics actually are

heres a small portion for the non believers, all recent stuff

conan the cimmerian

thats above cover price per issue even now let alone when those came out.... don't do it.

Hah, I don't particularly care about Hitchcock myself! I mean Rope is one of my favourite films but...I dunno, the subject matter isn't really the point, more a jumping off point for Hensley's imagination. I would definitely argue that you don't have to be interested in Hitchcock in the slightest to enjoy Sir Alfred.

I guess I'm fairly old fashioned in that however "far out" the comics I like are, I still like to have a narrative element. I mean, Schrauwen's a strongly narrative cartoonist, isn't he? Mowgli's Mirror is telling a traditional narrative, same as grave, Arsene, the MOME aka man Who Grew His Beard stuff...in fact apart from abstract comics (and some of Hankiewicz's stuff) I can't think of any comic that totally disregards narrative...they're just presenting it in a very very fresh and interesting way. I guess you could even include some of Panter's work in there too...oh there are people like Jason Overby and Aidan Koch who just present a series of unconnected drawings, they're the only ones I can think of who've more-or-less totally abandoned narrative. I'm all for pulling the medium apart and stretching it's limits. I just prefer stuff with at least a semblance of story.

I meant Greys, not grave, by the way!

>not building this
youtube.com/watch?v=98mwFVsdvr0&t=18s

My modest yet rapidly growing collection

all that really is, is a bunch of stacked longboxes with one cover on the front. it looks good but its just storage...

you didn't ask for rec's but..

DD Man without Fear
Simonson Thor
Hellboy

they're all out in cheap tpb's, also finish the series you have that you liked if any.

Yeah I've been looking for a cheap copy of the next Hickman New Avengers and my LCS sold out of vision v2 instantly so I'm definitely still working on that.
About Thor, I've always preferred Loki-Centric stories like Gillen's Journey into Mystery, but I'll look into it.
In terms of Hellboy, my instinct would tell me to get larger collected editions for a series so extensive, but what do you recommend?

Schrauwen is definitely still very narrative in his comics, but that's not why I like him. I like the art and panel layouts and colors more than the narrative. Narrative often makes these elements better by giving them meaning, but the general art of the comic is the meat & potatoes to me.

I think there is also a difference between a narrative created to tell a story and a narrative created to draw around. I feel like some of the Breakdown Press authors like Lando, have a narrative in their stories only for the purpose of connecting their drawings. Sure, there is a narrative, but barely. As for authors that have completely forgone narrative, that's a smaller few. I can really only think of alt-mangaka for that. People like Sasaki Maki or Koike Keiichi (sometimes at least). I can't really think of any western creators off the top of my head. Maybe the "comics as poetry" crowd (Sarah Ferrick, for example)?

what about Anders Nilsen? I read Big Questions and really enjoyed it

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>mfw I can't post my recent purchases
>mfw I have no face

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The omnibus basically is the first Essential Punisher book, which goes for a pretty penny on the secondary market since, until the omnibus was announced, it was the only way to read those early Punisher books (which sell for huge bucks on the secondary market).

If they ever start collecting the ongoing, I really hope we get a deal where they collect EVERYTHING (Punisher, War Journal, Warzone) in chronological publication order.

Also, for the Marvel UK Star Wars stuff, isn't that stuff already available in the third Marvel SW omnibus?

The omnibus collects the main Blackest Night mini, the GL tie-ins but only one issue of GLC (the Katmai Tui/John Stewart on Xanshii issue)

>tfw about to spend 50 on 2 batbooks

what have i become

>have the first punisher essential
>just now find this out

ffffffuck

wish i knew how to sell stuff anyway

>which sell for huge bucks on the secondary market

The mini can be big bucks, but you can find #1 of the ongoing series for less than $20. Which I understand is still way more than most people want to spend on a single issue

What batbooks?

have you read Sam Zabel? I really like Horrocks

The original NTT omnibuses were infamous for fucking up the issue count (they had to drop #38, Who is Donna Troy, from the second volume because they had originally forgot to add the Batman and the Outsider issue that crossed over with NTT #37 and the bean counters told them that adding an extra issue would mean changing the price point, which they would not allow; not to mention the clusterfuck of fail and AIDS that was volume 3).

That said, they are just combining the most recent TPB series it looks like, which creates it's own issues since the current TPB series fucked up too, omitting the DC Digest story that takes place after issue #16).

Which issues?

The original mini basically has little to do with the ongoing actually. It wrapped up plot threads from the last couple of guest spots in Spider-Man, mainly Bill Mantlo's subplot where Punisher's mental state had started collapsing and he was trying people for littering and jaywalking and crap, along with the thread from Daredevil where it was implied that there was a bunch of people in high places who liked the Punisher and wanted to use him as a tool for their own agendas....

I mostly just love the Mike Zeck art

The original Punisher mini has been reprinted a couple of times. It was never the selling point.

The chief selling point for Essential Punisher has always been the fact that it's the only COMPLETE collection of his early appearances, the bulk of which go for huge bucks on the secondary market, along with the fact that it has the two magazine stories (including the original origin story) that have never been reprinted in any format.

For ages, you either had to pay out the ass for the original ASM/PPSM issues or buy the Marvel Tales reprints (they literally spent a year reprinting all of Punisher's Spider-Man book early appearances in 1989) to get those stories.

Omnibuses are generally a good deal; basically the most bang for your buck.

not yet, first book by horrocks for me, but ill keep it added to my wishlist

What books?

>Which issues?
From issue 26 to around 70
first 25 are reprints

why are your books backwards? (vol 3, vol 2, vol 1 etc)
nice collection. a lot of stuff here I would like to read
i have never heard of Sir Alfred
idk what this is but it looks wild
hey man, we all gotta start somewhere. this is a good start. Are you excited about the upcoming Defenders Netflix show?
I cant stand those "Essential" books. Nothing is colored!
Why do you have Essential volumes 1 and 2 but then MM vol 2 of the same series?
never read Ghost in the Shell but the girl looks cute. Ive heard it is a great manga
i buy floppies but not really any recent stuff. If I buy floppies at all, its going to be #1s or key issues
>mad
>calvin and hobbes
>the far side
>ultimate Fantastic Four
these are all good books and I enjoy them a lot
What the heck is Jew Gangster?

>Looks like they removed that page. Fuckers.
It's not their fault. kodanshacomics.tumblr.com/post/153363763286/hi-kodansha-will-the-ghost-in-the-shell-deluxe

if anyone has Panther by Brecht Evens could you spoil it for me? my copy never came after so long of waiting and Amazon is sending me another copy but it won't even ship for another two weeks? I'm pretty pissed and might just cancel the order
I don't even like cats

>What the heck is Jew Gangster?
Some little GN I picked up from a bargain bin for like $3. It's about a Jewish kid in Manhattan during the 20s whose father tells him not to grow up to be a gangster. Surprise! He does and Surprise! It has unforseen consequences. It's overall meh and I found it predictable.

New weebshit arrived today.

That's weird. Definitely doesn't seem like something Shirow would do, considering his recent works.

are we back? nice.
whatcha going to order from the Marvel sale?
Fantastic 4 voö 1-3 (the Kirby stuff) and Annihilation Conquest here

Europeans take heed, cheap-comics.com participates in the sale, haven't found anyone else doing it yet, at least no one's announcing it.

Not posting pic since I only have non updated shelf

But recent purchases, finished off the Chew and New 52 Superman and pic related, not too sure where to start reading next

>captcha was select all the shelves

Read some Superman/Action Comics from between Infinite Crisis and Flashpoint. That stuff is almost universally good to excellent, with a few exceptions (JMS' run of Superman, 3,2,1 Action, that Death of the New Gods tie-in and a few of Fabian Nicieza's filler issues, plus overall the Camelot Falls arc wasn't really good at all), all in all around 100 issues, combined with the New Krypton crossovers into Supergirl and the other special issues you're looking at a whooping 150 issues at the very least.

I'd be more excited if the new Defenders had Dr Strange