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Post by The Doctor on Sept 24, 2018 9:12:49 GMT
Do we know if there is a cut-off point? I had assumed Epics could run forever for as long as each series survives to be collected.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 24, 2018 9:20:28 GMT
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Post by Jim on Sept 24, 2018 11:13:03 GMT
The post-Onslaught Hulk run, up to the end of PAD on writing at least, is really good stuff. Adam Kubert on top form, mostly sticking rigorously to four panel pages. There's even an issue where Joe Kubert steps in to help out when Adam is ill, possibly with assists from Andy IIRC.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 24, 2018 11:18:01 GMT
The other important point about Onslaught is that after that most titles have been extensively collected from that point on.
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Post by Kingoji on Sept 24, 2018 14:50:27 GMT
The post-Onslaught Hulk run, up to the end of PAD on writing at least, is really good stuff. Adam Kubert on top form, mostly sticking rigorously to four panel pages. There's even an issue where Joe Kubert steps in to help out when Adam is ill, possibly with assists from Andy IIRC. I guess PD's final issue from the "possible" future would be a fairly decent place for the Epic to end... But at the same time I have my fingers crossed for the post Heroes Return FF as well. I really enjoyed that Clairemont run.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 24, 2018 15:26:43 GMT
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Post by Kingoji on Sept 24, 2018 17:21:05 GMT
Sold!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 24, 2018 18:02:50 GMT
Hang on. That FF book was advertised as September this year in the True Believers reprints!!!
-Ralph
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Post by tomwe on Sept 28, 2018 11:20:16 GMT
The post-Onslaught Hulk run, up to the end of PAD on writing at least, is really good stuff. Adam Kubert on top form, mostly sticking rigorously to four panel pages. There's even an issue where Joe Kubert steps in to help out when Adam is ill, possibly with assists from Andy IIRC. I guess PD's final issue from the "possible" future would be a fairly decent place for the Epic to end... But at the same time I have my fingers crossed for the post Heroes Return FF as well. I really enjoyed that Clairemont run. I remember a glaring Doctor Who error from early in that run, where Sal Larocca drew a red phonebooth instead of the proper Tardis.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 1, 2018 8:35:21 GMT
More Wolverine: www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4083&page=galleryFinished off Epic Collection v1 Madripoor Nights. Issue 10 is an oddity, reading it now I'm wondering if Claremont intended the events depicted to be flashback or if they were some sort of false memory implant all along. Gehenna Stone, 11-16, is a bit of a runaround but at least it does away with the idea of everyone not knowing it's Wolverine. Was this Claremont's plan all along? Of course by this time the X-Men had been seen in New York in Inferno so the secret was out and the premise they were dead no longer really served a purpose. I do wonder what the circumstances were behind Claremont's departure from the title. Wolverine was very much his character at the time..... 17-30, which make up the bulk of the forthcoming Epic Collection v2 Back to Basics I haven't got digitally. 17-23 are a Goodwin written story drawn by Byrne and inked by Janson. Byrne & Janson is not a match made in heaven from what I recall. 24-30 are a blank, ought to get the Epic out to look at those. Not got & never read Wolverine/Nick Fury: The Scorpio Connection, which is also in Epic 2, but it was a very nice surprise to find the Walt Simonson written & Mignola drawn Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure opening Wolverine by Larry Hama & Marc Silvestri - Volume 1 The Hama & Silvestri stuff (31 onwards) is where the title comes to life for me, a pure joy to read and I devoured the first two volumes super quick. Once again 50, in what is effectively volume 3 Wolverine: Weapon X Unbound feels a real bump in the road as we have one of the character's periodic "everything you thought you knew was wrong" moments, including exposing the flashbacks in 10 as an implanted memory. That sort of thing still gets me cross today but a few issues after that things feel better again. You're looking at Epics 3 & 4 for this material, so 2020 & 2021 at the Earliest.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 1, 2018 10:27:12 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 1, 2018 11:18:29 GMT
What have they done?
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 1, 2018 11:27:25 GMT
Transposed the months and days on the release date *AGAIN*.
Harder to spot here as the Amazon UK release dates have been moving forward a week of recent...... So it should be 12th March (12/03) instead of 3rd December (03/12)
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Post by legios on Oct 2, 2018 20:51:15 GMT
Someone is taking the raw dates, and inputting them into the UK stock system, without checking what format the data is in and what format it _should_ be in. Always a foolish thing to do, not verifying the data before you upload it. Can cause all sorts of trouble.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 12, 2018 12:04:49 GMT
Did the West Coast Avengers epic come out when it was meant to? Anyone seen a copy with their own eyes? Online availability is poor, let alone finding a cheap one!
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Post by Jaymz on Oct 12, 2018 20:12:51 GMT
Did the West Coast Avengers epic come out when it was meant to? Anyone seen a copy with their own eyes? Online availability is poor, let alone finding a cheap one! Yeah, came out 26th Sept in comic shops, so UK supplier should be getting them soon.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 15, 2018 18:23:10 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 20, 2018 16:10:34 GMT
Finished Wolverine Epic Collection v12 Shadow of Apocalypse last night so we can cross that off my unread list.
Most of this I'd never read before: Great Escape 133-138 was a lot of fun. 142-144 I should have read before now, as there's Alpha Flight content that filled in a gap in my knowledge there. 147 I had read before, and possibly 146, in Paninivision as part of The Twelve. Pretty sure I'd read Wolverine/Cable before too, though I'm not sure how as it's right in the middle of my X-Men dark age.
Onto v13 Blood Debt ....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 20, 2018 16:52:38 GMT
Somewhere someone asked how many of the Epic Collections I'd read. The answer is 42: 1 Amazing Spider-Man v15 Ghosts of the Past 2 Amazing Spider-Man v17 Kraven's Last Hunt 3 Amazing Spider-Man v18 Venom 4 Amazing Spider-Man v20 Cosmic Adventures 5 Avengers v7 The Avengers/Defenders War 6 Avengers v9 The Final Threat 7 Avengers v16 Under Siege 8 Avengers v17 Judgment Day 9 Captain America v9 Dawn's Early Light 10 Captain America v12 Society of Serpents 11 Captain America v13 Justice is Served 12 Captain America v15 The Bloodstone Hunt 13 Captain America v16 Streets of Poison 14 Captain America v22 Man Without a Country 15 Defenders v8 The New Defenders 16 Excalibur v1 The Sword is Drawn 17 Excalibur v2 The Cross-Time Caper 18 Fantastic Four v17 All in the Family 19 Fantastic Four v20 Into the Time Stream 20 Fantastic Four v21 The New Fantastic Four 21 Incredible Hulk v19 Ghost of the Past 22 Incredible Hulk v20 Future Imperfect 23 Incredible Hulk v21 Fall of the Pantheon 24 Iron Fist v1 The Fury of Iron Fist 25 Iron Man v10 The Enemy Within 26 Iron Man v11 Duel of Iron 27 Iron Man v13 Stark Wars 28 Iron Man v15 Doom 29 Iron Man v16 War Games 30 Marvel Two-In-One v1 Cry Monster 31 New Mutants v1 Renewal 32 New Mutants v6 Curse of the Valkyries 33 Silver Surfer v3 Freedom 34 Wolverine v1 Madripoor Nights 35 Wolverine v8 The Dying Game 36 Wolverine v12 Shadow of Apocalypse 37 X-Factor v1 Genesis & Apocalypse 38 X-Force v1 Under the Gun 39 X-Men v2 Lonely Are The Hunted 40 X-Men v5 Second Genesis 41 X-Men v12 The Gift 42 X-Men v19 Mutant Genesis In addition I have previously read another 21 in other formats: 1 Amazing Spider-Man v1 Great Power - Essential 2 Amazing Spider-Man v2 Great Responsibility - Essential 3 Amazing Spider-Man v3 Spider-Man No More - Essential 4 Amazing Spider-Man v7 The Goblin's Last Stand - Essential 5 Amazing Spider-Man v21 Return of the Sinister Six - Issues 6 Amazing Spider-Man v22 Round Robin - Issues 7 Avengers v1 Earth's Mightiest Heroes - Essential 8 Avengers v2 Once an Avenger - Essential 9 Avengers v3 Masters of Evil - Essential 10 Avengers v4 Behold... The Vision - Essential 11 Defenders v6 The Six Fingered Hand Saga - Essential 12 Defenders v7 Ashes, Ashes - Essential 13 Fantastic Four v1 The World's Greatest Comic Magazine - Essential 14 Fantastic Four v2 The Master Plan of Doctor Doom - Essential 15 Fantastic Four v3 The Coming of Galactus - Essential 16 Power Man & Iron Fist v1 Heroes for Hire - Essential 17 Power Man & Iron Fist v2 Revenge - Essential 18 Silver Surfer v1 When Calls Galactus - Essential 19 Thor v16 War of the Pantheons - issues 20 West Coast Avengers v1 How The West Was Won - Issues & Previous Trade 21 X-Men v1 Children of the Atom - Essential 2 more I have mostly read in other formats 1 Silver Surfer v7 The Infinity Gauntlet - Previous Trade 2 Wolverine v13 Blood Debt - Issues & Previous Trade Leaving 37 unread: 1 Ant-Man/Giant-Man v1 The Man in the Ant Hill 2 Avengers v21 The Collection Obsession 3 Avengers v22 Operation: Galactic Storm 4 Black Panther v1 Panther's Rage 5 Captain America v1 Captain America Lives Again 6 Captain America v2 The Coming Of... The Falcon 7 Captain America v3 Bucky Reborn 8 Captain America v4 Hero or Hoax? 9 Daredevil v1 The Man Without Fear 10 Daredevil v2 Mike Murdock Must Die! 11 Daredevil v3 Brother, Take My Hand 12 Daredevil v13 A Touch of Typhoid 13 Daredevil v14 Heart of Darkness 14 Daredevil v18 Fall From Grace 15 Daredevil v19 Root of Evil 16 Daredevil v21 Widow's Kiss 17 Doctor Strange v3 A Separate Reality 18 Doctor Strange v13 Afterlife 19 Fantastic Four v25 Strange Days 20 Incredible Hulk v1 Man or Monster? 21 Incredible Hulk v2 The Hulk Must Die 22 Iron Man v1 The Golden Avenger 23 Iron Man v2 By Force of Arms 24 Master of Kung Fu v1 Weapon of the Soul 25 Moon Knight v1 Bad Moon Rising 26 Moon Knight v2 Shadows of the Moon 27 Punisher v7 Capital Punishment 28 Silver Surfer v6 Thanos Quest 29 Thor v1 The God of Thunder 30 Thor v2 When Titans Clash 31 Thor v3 The Wrath of Odin 32 Thor v4 To Wake the Mangog 33 Thor v5 The Fall of Asgard 34 Thor v11 A Kingdom Lost 35 Thor v12 Runequest 36 Thor v17 In Mortal Flesh 37 Thor v23 Worldengine
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 20, 2018 19:13:51 GMT
And what is wrong with Thor? Hmm?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 20, 2018 19:36:09 GMT
Nowt. It's just that most of the Thor I want to read isn't Epic Collected yet. Ditto Daredevil, but I hauled most of his Epics in digital form yesterday so I'm more likely to read them.
Thor, like Avengers, X-Men, FF, Cap & Iron Man, doesn't have his first Epic volume available digitally yet. As I've said before I'm increasingly finding I'm reading comics digitally.....
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 20, 2018 20:44:10 GMT
Whereas I went the other way. Got quite into digital comics for a few years but have moved entirely back to physical comics!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 20, 2018 20:50:35 GMT
Amongst everything else turning, and separating, the pages of books & comics is getting very difficult for me.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 21, 2018 6:11:30 GMT
As I've said before I'm increasingly finding I'm reading comics digitally..... Then why on Earth... Never mind, at least I'm benefiting from (a few of) them. I have only ever read non-fanfiction on the printed page, and hope to continue to do so. Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 22, 2018 6:56:35 GMT
Lots of reasons....
Firstly the only things I'm buying paper copies of are the Epic Collections, with very few other Marvel trades and the occasional TF and Dredd trade. Actual floppies are just the Panini collected editions - currently 4 titles: X-Men, Avengers, MWOM and Marvel Legends. Readers of the Panini Collected Editions thread know this is under review on an ongoing basis.
I do still like owning the physical books even if I have trouble handling & using them.
Almost all my digital purchases have been at sale price, the exceptions being MTMTE/Lost Light and 2000ad & Judge Dredd megazine. The latter two are sold in a format that lets me make my own compilations of the material. The trades have exclusively been sale price purchases with a mad 69p per Epic Collection sale earlier this year really pushing me over the edge.
I have some concerns going forward about the permanence of the digital comics supply which makes me want my favourite material in a solid format.
The Epic Collection series, the main focus of my book buying, also suffers from having not all of it's editions available digitally. 14 of the first 22 releases are unavailable in any digital format:As you can see that's a LARGE number of volume 1's. Similarly there's no digital copy of Alien Costume Saga v1.
Despite that I now have over half the Epic Collections in digital format.
I can quite easily see a time when physical trade releases are a thing of the past. Some way off yet but ....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 27, 2018 19:13:11 GMT
NEW EPIC INFO, THANK YOU LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.hachettebookgroup.biz/search/?group_by_isbn=on&q=epic+collection
May 7, 2019 Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Empire Vol. 5 www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/star-wars-legends-epic-collection-the-empire-vol-5/9781302918095/
May 14, 2019 Ms. Marvel Epic Collection: The Woman Who Fell to Earth www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/ms-marvel-epic-collection-the-woman-who-fell-to-earth/9781302918026/v2. Milk that Movie!
V1 was 1-14, plus extras. This will be 15-23, 23's title being the title of the volume. Masterworks also included Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #10-11; Avengers (1963) #200, Avengers Annual (1967) #10 and material from Avengers (1963) #197-199 and Marvel Fanfare (1982) #24, all of which I expect to be present. Possibly Uncanny X-Men 159 and some/all of the 162-167 Brood story and maybe 171
May 28, 2019 Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Assassin Nation www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/amazing-spider-man-epic-collection-assassin-nation/9781302918118/The title refers to the story in 320-325 so this is v19 with issues 311-325 and Annual 23 in.
www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=3985
Second McFarlane volume and it takes ASM to the first volume with SIX consecutive Epic Collections: 17 (starts 289) to 22 (end 360). If they release v16 he'll be the first to 8.
July 2, 2019 Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: The Goblin Lives www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/amazing-spider-man-epic-collection-the-goblin-lives/9781302917807/The Goblin Lives is this issue of Spectacular Spider-Man magazine
www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/story.php?storyid=105351
Same month as ASM 66 & Annual 5.
www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=11&year=1968&sort=alpha
Since v3 ended on issue 52, this Looks like ASM Epic v4
July 16, 2019 Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Newspaper Strips Vol. 2 www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/star-wars-legends-epic-collection-the-newspaper-strips-vol-2/9781302917371/
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 27, 2018 19:20:01 GMT
Where's the June Epics??????
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 27, 2018 20:42:00 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 27, 2018 21:59:42 GMT
That ASM volume has really pleased me, the filling the gapness of it and right in a period I read and wanted traded.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 29, 2018 13:31:48 GMT
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