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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 9, 2011 8:32:30 GMT
The Book Depository mail me to say my copy of Captain America: No Escape is now in stock. Amazon still think the tpb of it has been cancelled. Their loss.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 9, 2011 11:27:49 GMT
The long awaited X-Men: Prelude to the Age of Apocalypse has just tumbled onto the door mat. The paper quality is <insert expletive> shocking. Worse than the original stock used for the comics, quite horrid. Paper quality for Marvel reprint paperbacks has been on a downward trend all year but this is the pits. I have raised the issue with Marvel on Twitter. I await their response. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 9, 2011 16:41:19 GMT
The Book Depository mail me to say my copy of Captain America: No Escape is now in stock. Amazon still think the tpb of it has been cancelled. Their loss. I saw it in FP, so it does exist. Amazon are a waste of time if you want a trade week of release. -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 9, 2011 17:21:53 GMT
I know it's not Amazon's fault, it's their suppliers..... Usually. Who they changed to about a year ago and have been shocking since. Book Depository use the same people.
However on this occasion Amazon cancelled my order and marked the item "No longer available for order".......... just as it appeared on Marvel's solicitations for this month (or last, I forget) and have never bought it back again.
Slightly dreading this volume as it's meant to turn Zemo into an outright villain again.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 12, 2011 20:33:47 GMT
If the adverts in the back of issues 11 and (I think) 16 aren't reprinted in Alpha Flight Classic v2 I will be cross. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 14, 2011 20:55:38 GMT
If the adverts in the back of issues 11 and (I think) 16 aren't reprinted in Alpha Flight Classic v2 I will be cross. ALPHA FLIGHT CLASSIC VOL. 2 TPB
Written by JOHN BYRNE & CHRIS CLAREMONT
Penciled by JOHN BYRNE
Cover by JOHN BYRNE
John Byrne writes and draws Alpha Flight’s early adventures! See such unlikely heroes as Puck, Sasquatch, Northstar
and Guardian take on the threats of the Super-Skrull, Omega Flight, the Master of the World and the Plodex! Plus: Alpha
Flight origins, Marrina falls in love with Namor, and a team
member’s death! And not one, but two takes on the classic
X-Men adventure in which Weapon Alpha tried to take Wolverine back to Canada! Collecting ALPHA FLIGHT (1983) #9-19 and X-MEN (1963) #109.
296 PGS./All Ages ...$29.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3125-0 Using AF#12's cover with new colours |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 14, 2011 20:57:13 GMT
Also OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z VOL. 1 TPB
Written by VARIOUS
Cover by TOM GRUMMETT
AT LAST! The landmark encyclopedia-style OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE hardcover series finally is reprinted in softcover format! Each volume has corrected any errors in all profiles — and features an all-new, 16-page “Where Are They Now?†update addendum with text and art! An indispensable resource for all true Marvel fans! VOL. 1 spotlights hundreds of characters beginning with A and B — including Absorbing Man, Armadillo, Alpha Flight, the Avengers, two Baron Zemos, Beyonder, Black Knight (Whitman) and Beta Ray Bill!
256 PGS./Rated T+ ...$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-5803-5
ENLARGE
ESSENTIAL DEFENDERS VOL. 6 TPB
Written by J.M. DEMATTEIS, MARK GRUENWALD, STEVEN GRANT & DON PERLIN
Penciled by DON PERLIN, SAL BUSCEMA, AL MILGROM & KERRY GAMMILL
Cover by SANDY PLUNKETT
The Hulk! Dr. Strange! Namor! The Silver Surfer! The Beast! Valkyrie! Gargoyle! Along with their offbeat allies Daimon Hellstrom, Hellcat, Overmind, Iceman and Moondragon, they are Defenders all — but which heroes will stay, and which ones will go? And why? Witness the dynamic non-team’s amazing adventures in Asgard, against all-powerful aliens, in Hell and in a dimension of rhyming aliens! Plus: the secret origins of Valkyrie and the truth behind the Elf with a Gun! Collecting DEFENDERS (1972) #107-124, NEW DEFENDERS #125, AVENGERS ANNUAL #11 and MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #119.
498 PGS./Rated A ...$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-5754-0 |
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 15, 2011 18:07:17 GMT
Handbooks in softcover: huzzah.
I will believe Alpha Flight vol 2 exists when I have it in my hands.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 15, 2011 18:29:19 GMT
Then you can finally read the issues that Marvel UK, in their wisdom, never reprinted!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 17, 2011 11:09:46 GMT
If the adverts in the back of issues 11 and (I think) 16 aren't reprinted in Alpha Flight Classic v2 I will be cross. ALPHA FLIGHT CLASSIC VOL. 2 TPB
Written by JOHN BYRNE & CHRIS CLAREMONT
Penciled by JOHN BYRNE
Cover by JOHN BYRNE
John Byrne writes and draws Alpha Flight’s early adventures! See such unlikely heroes as Puck, Sasquatch, Northstar
and Guardian take on the threats of the Super-Skrull, Omega Flight, the Master of the World and the Plodex! Plus: Alpha
Flight origins, Marrina falls in love with Namor, and a team
member’s death! And not one, but two takes on the classic
X-Men adventure in which Weapon Alpha tried to take Wolverine back to Canada! Collecting ALPHA FLIGHT (1983) #9-19 and X-MEN (1963) #109.
296 PGS./All Ages ...$29.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3125-0 Using AF#12's cover with new coloursAlpha Flight Classic v2: If this has crappy paper quality I will be livid! Sorry to keep going on about this trade but I've been waiting years to see Alpha Flight done and want to see it done properly. Captain America: No Escape: More od the same from Brubaker, but when the same is at a consistant high quality who can argue. Here Baron Zemo seeks to put Cap through the mill for surviving when his father didn't. It's made me want to go back and read Zemo's later Thunderbolts appearances to see what his motivation really is here. By the end of this volume Cap's past as a Russian Assasin stands exposed.... Chaos War: X-Men or as it should be called Chaos War: All the rubbish we can't find a home for elsewhere. CW X-Men is present and correct, all 2 issues of it. CW: Alpha Flight is in there too, and you can't argue with that as there's strong connections between the two teams. But the rest? Oh dear. Horrible stuff, I couldn't finish it. Anyone who draws the Silver Surfer with an oddly angled head should be shot! X-Force/Cable: Messiah War: I'd held off on this because I thought the asking price was too much for the Messiah War story. But espying a copy for a couple of quid on Amazon I snatched it up and was pleased to discover a couple of bonus Cable issues plus a Bishop limited series that plays with his origin a bit. That's one hole in my X-Force trades filled. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 25, 2011 15:55:33 GMT
Deadpool Classic 5 is here and the paper is much better.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 12, 2011 11:29:33 GMT
The Age of X HC has just arrived. Been looking forward to this, was getting a good write up while in progress.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 13, 2011 17:39:36 GMT
So...... X-Men: Age of X HC: any good? To be honest, yes, probably the best X-Men story since Morrison went back to DC. "alternate reality" of sorts, think Age of Apocalypse & House of M, but done well with the mystery of what's happened built in to the story. You're dropped in and haven't a clue how they got there unlike the other tales. The answer in the end makes sense. Looks good and written well. Yeah, well worth a look.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 22, 2011 10:57:51 GMT
My first Essential of the year is packing at Amazon! E Amazing Spiderman 10, or as my Amazon order is still calling it, Essential X-Men 10, is Dispatching Soon!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 24, 2011 20:38:43 GMT
Our amazon crystal ball shows us Essential Marvel Two in One volume 4 in January. Huzzah!
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 24, 2011 21:24:18 GMT
Hooray, Cap America: No Escape is on Blackwells 3 for 2. I hope it is still there after the next day of pay. I saw the new paperback reprints of Morrison's X-Men, but the strange size has put me right off them. Balls.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 24, 2011 21:25:15 GMT
What size are they?
Get the Ultimate Collections
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 24, 2011 21:28:07 GMT
A strange size between digest and standard. I didn't mind it for the Langridge Thor series as I imagine it was made with that size in mind but otherwise it's a huge turn-off unless it's a big fat omnibus. Just the way my mind works.
I had planned to pick up these new editions as my single issues are long gone but I'll pass and the Ultimate Collections are hugely expensive. Proper size, please!
-Ralph
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Post by jameso on Jul 24, 2011 22:16:34 GMT
Well, with New X-Men you've got the original trades, the hardbacks, the ultimate collection trades, an omnibus and now these weird little things, so plenty of options, albeit in some cases very expensive options. I've got the hardbacks, and wouldn't mind the omnibus as it has an extra Wizard magazine article in there somewhere I think, but not unless I find it mega cheap.
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Post by blueshift on Jul 24, 2011 22:20:32 GMT
Well, with New X-Men you've got the original trades, the hardbacks, the ultimate collection trades, an omnibus and now these weird little things, so plenty of options, albeit in some cases very expensive options. I've got the hardbacks, and wouldn't mind the omnibus as it has an extra Wizard magazine article in there somewhere I think, but not unless I find it mega cheap. The Omnibus goes for mad cash for some reason. I don't understand why, given how often it has been released. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 25, 2011 0:09:30 GMT
The Ultimate Collections are two of the normal trades each
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 25, 2011 18:38:51 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 29, 2011 14:04:18 GMT
Weeps.
There is a trade of that horseshit and we still don't have trades of Cosmic Jim's 70's Warlock, Valentino's much under appreciated Guardians of the Galaxy run. (uber expensive HC's don't count)
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 29, 2011 14:46:41 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 2, 2011 9:48:34 GMT
Essential Amazing Spider-Man 10 (contains ASM 211-230 & Annual 15): A game of two halves. The Denny O'Neill scripted issues at the start are a little pedestrian but the writing picks up when Roger Stern takes over towards the end giving us the return of the Black Cat and Spidey's famed battle with the Juggernaut. All through the book is John Romita Jr's art which still in it's early stages here but you can start to see the emergence of the little touches that would make his X-Men run so good and set him aside from a traditional "Marvel style" artist.
And in the middle of this we have Annual 15 where O'Neill, allied with Frank Miller on art knocks one out the park as Doc Ok tries to poison New York city and Spider-Man & the Punisher try to stop him. I've raved about this before, I love it. Reading it against the other O'Neill issues convinces me that Miller must have had some writing input, indeed it was around the time that he started to write Daredevil. I first read it years ago in a UK Amazing Spider-Man Winter Special (1982) and loved it there. Here I find included the back up material that was also in the winter special: a guide to the strength levels of prominant Marvel characters and where Spidey stands in that, villain profiles and plans for Peter's appartment. It's a fab issue and well worth a read. I've bought it three times now (the winter special, Essential Punisher and here) and am yet to read it in colour!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 2, 2011 10:16:12 GMT
<checks The Trade Paperback List> Blimey it looks like it's never been reprinted in colour! And originals go for a penny or 3! |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 2, 2011 10:42:12 GMT
It was reprinted in colour. Boxtree did a trade of Spider-Man team ups and the Frank Miller one is in that, along with his other Spidey team up which debuted Karma.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 2, 2011 12:55:41 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 2, 2011 13:04:26 GMT
Used to have it, long since lost.
Also has the Lee/Ditko - Spider-Man/Dr Strange and the Erik Larsen Spider-Man/Beast team up from Spider-Man #15. Can't remember what else though.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 2, 2011 13:14:35 GMT
Some of those Boxtree trades were class, reprinting stuff that's still yet to have a US floppy tpb reprint like the Jim Lee Uncanny X-Men and New Mutants Annual 2 & X-Men Annual 10 (Danger Room Battles).
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