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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 1, 2012 11:10:33 GMT
Amazon.com has issue numbers: 286-300 and annual 12. Not 286-295, 297-300. They think issue 296 in here. I await developments with interest.... Amazon.com also draws my attention to Hulk: Pardoned www.amazon.co.uk/Incredible-Hulk-Pardoned-Bill-Mantlo/dp/0785162089/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325416049&sr=8-1 collecting issues 269-285. How did this one get under our radar? COLLECTING: THING (1983) 11-22, FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) 274 Yup, the entirity of Rocky Grimm. There's also a Trial of Yellowjacket trade on the pre orders. Happy as a pig in ****. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 1, 2012 11:24:09 GMT
www.newsarama.com/comics/marvel-january-2012-solicitations-111021.htmlSTRIKEFORCE: MORITURI VOL. 1 TPB
Written by PETER B. GILLIS
Penciled by BRENT ANDERSON & WHILCE PORTACIO
Cover by BRENT ANDERSON
A savage alien race called the Horde has invaded Earth, enslaving its people and plundering its resources.
Scientists have devised a method of fighting back — the Morituri Process, which grants enhanced abilities to a select few compatible humans — but the transformation is fatal within a year. Now, a handful of brave volunteers make up Strikeforce: Morituri — an elite, experimental and highly effective fighting force against the depredations of the Horde. But the heat of every battle, the celebration of every victory and every quiet moment alone is tainted by the inescapable knowledge that — win or lose — their fate is sealed. Collecting STRIKEFORCE: MORITURI #1-13.
328 PGS./Rated T ...$34.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-6471-5 SOLD! Volume 2 in Feb! www.newsarama.com/comics/marvel-bebruary-2012-solicitations-111121.htmlMORITURI VOL. 2 TPB
Written BY PETER B. GILLIS & JAMES HUDNALL
PENCILED BY BRENT ANDERSON, WHILCE
PORTACIO, HUW THOMAS, JOHN CALIMEE & MARK BAGLEY
COVER BY BRENT ANDERSON
As the first generations of Strikeforce: Morituri are lost one by one - either killed in battle or violent in-fighting, or perishing from the Morituri Effect itself - a group of scientists undertake a dangerous and unauthorized experiment to create more. Unfortunately, things don’t go exactly as planned. Enter: the Morituri Monsters! Then, an alien virus is discovered that offers a glimmer of hope for the Strikeforce - but has it come too late? Plus: The war against the Horde takes an unexpected and shocking twist! Collecting STRIKEFORCE: MORITURI #14-26.
336 PGS./Rated T ... $34.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-6473-9 V3 in June www.amazon.co.uk/Strikeforce-Morituri-3-James-Hudnall/dp/078516474X/ref=sr_1_72?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325316037&sr=1-72COLLECTING: STRIKEFORCE: MORITURI 27-31, STRIKEFORCE: MORITURI - ELECTRIC UNDERTOW 1-5 |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 2, 2012 11:52:06 GMT
Some more contents from Amazon.com: Essential Warlock - Volume 1: COLLECTING: MARVEL PREMIERE 1-2, WARLOCK 1-15, INCREDIBLE HULK 176-178, STRANGE TALES 178-181, MARVEL TEAM-UP 55, AVENGERS ANNUAL 7, MARVEL TEAM-UP ANNUAL 2 Oh that looks a fine volume. All the Cosmic Jim issues, plus the Mantlo/Byrne MTU, PLUS the two annuals rounding the Warlock story off. Essential Web of Spider-Man - Volume 2: COLLECTING: WEB OF SPIDERMAN 19-32, ANNUAL 3; AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 293-294; PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN 131-132 Kraven's last hunt in B&W. Be interesting to see how it looks without the rubbish recolouring. Essential Spider-Man - Volume 11: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) 231-248, ANNUALS 16-17 This one looks a little slim. 248's an interesting point to stop: 3 more issues and you'd have got to the point where Spidey leaves for the Secret Wars: 252 is his return and the intro of the black costume. But for me the last issue is a significant number: The first issues of ASM I read was 249 and with this trade I'll have read *EVERY* issue of ASM up to that point. Actually to someway after that point, I've got the next 10 or so issues (all Hobgoblin and Black Costume related) in colour trades on my shelves. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 2, 2012 16:34:09 GMT
Only seen it in FP so far, which rather defeats the point! -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 2, 2012 16:34:51 GMT
It's a nice idea, but I think that the sort of people who would want to drop a tenner on a hardback trade of random Marvel stories would own them anyway. Might have been wiser to do paperbacks and make them cheaper. Who knows though, I could be wrong! £10 HC's still cheaper than most paperback though. -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 2, 2012 16:40:45 GMT
Only seen it in FP so far, which rather defeats the point! -Ralph Apparently WHS stocking it |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 3, 2012 20:02:54 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 8, 2012 11:56:26 GMT
I fear this will bomb due to shit distribution. Edinburgh is a Capital City and it's thin on the ground here. FP had it, but this really is aimed at folk outwith comic shops. I tried 2 TESCO's, Sainsburys, Co-Op, several newsagents and 2 ASDA's. Only one of the ASDA's carried it....and they had it in the 'local interest' section, not the comics bit! I personally can't be arsed (or usually have the time) to hunt for a publication to that extent on a regular basis. -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 8, 2012 12:05:01 GMT
Unless it has just sold like hotcakes.
After all £2.99 for a big hardbacked comic is a steal.
Andy
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Post by legios on Jan 8, 2012 20:16:21 GMT
No, it isn't sales I don't think, because it is hard to find through on Planet Falkirk too. The first issue is only available in one place in the entire town, which does not augur well.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 8, 2012 20:18:04 GMT
Bizarre seeing as how it's been given some hefty airtime in terms of promotion.
Andy
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Post by Benn on Jan 8, 2012 20:23:55 GMT
It seems to exist only in the WH Smiths in Derby. Not spotted it in Tesco or Sainsburys as yet...
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 11, 2012 18:51:24 GMT
I found a random #2 lying in the middle of an isle in RS McColls today. Picked it up.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jan 11, 2012 20:23:37 GMT
The local independent newsagent seems to have picked it up with ish 2 for some reason. Not bought it yet but I suspect that I will end up doing so (there is a crushing inevitability to it)
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 13, 2012 18:09:58 GMT
Seen 2 twice, but never laid eyes on 1!
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 13, 2012 18:37:56 GMT
It's worth it. Lovely HC X-Men Phoenix for £6.
I saw the regular oversized Marvel HC for it in FPE. They wanted £56 for it.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 14, 2012 0:06:41 GMT
No real contest!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 14, 2012 13:00:29 GMT
Speaking of trades, I fear my days of picking them up from shops is drawing to a close. Waterstone's * don't do 3 for 2 anymore and alas I have noticed of late that Blackwell's previously good stock has turned into the usual badly maintained small pile of crap found in most comic sections in bookshops. This does not please me. I'd already given up buying trades regularly due to the stupidly high prices of them. And the postal service isn't reliable enough for tinterweb purchases.
Ah well, more digital.
This does mean Andu has become my dealer for trades now. He is my collected editions pusher. I am in his control. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
-Ralph
*And **** you, Waterstone's for trying to lose your apostrophe. A bookstore really should adhere to proper grammar.
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Post by legios on Jan 14, 2012 19:28:24 GMT
I can't remember the last softcover trade I bought in a bookshop. It is rare that I do these days, due to the problem of them being pre-trashed. I don't mind if my softcover trades deteriorate through wear - I just want to be the one putting the wear on them. This does mean Andu has become my dealer for trades now. He is my collected editions pusher. I am in his control. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Andy is a comics pusher.... Should someone notify Judge Dredd? Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 14, 2012 19:56:02 GMT
He is the law!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 25, 2012 9:35:42 GMT
New Defenders 1 So we get the set up issues for New Defenders, from the end of the original cast as the three original X-Men get back together. Beast has been in Defenders since 103, roughly 6 months after he left the Avengers but Iceman & Angel have been off of a team for sometime. Angel's had 2 spells in Uncanny, but Iceman had effectively been unused since the Champions ended. (GS X-Men 1, Champions 1 & The Beast's first appearance in Avengers are roughly contempary to each other: The last issue of The Champions appears the same month as Avengers 167, between UXM 108 & 109 (Byrne's first two issues) Beast leaves Avenegers in 210 (same month as X-men 148) and joins the Defenders in 103 (UXM 153 Avengers 215)) At the time Iceman's celebrity was high due to his appearances in the Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends cartoon so it makes perfect sense for Marvel to get him back in a regular book. And since X-Men's popularity was huge at the time (Defenders 122 came out the same month as UXM 172) it makes sense to start getting old X-Men characters back in circulation. The majority of the trade is somewhat pedestrian but issue 130 is well worth a look. Guest pencils from the superb Mike Zeck and plenty of action. This was the first issue of the Defenders I got in US format and I was mystified by it. Where were the characters I had read about in the UK Defenders & Rampage? Valkyrie was the only one I recognised. But over the next few years I grew to love the title before it got taken out to make X-Factor happen. Lots of white pages at the back of the issue which is a little bit of a disapointment as there's several contempary adverts ( this springs to mind, but This is elsewhere in the book) or Marvel Universe entries that could have been used. So: buy if you want to know what Angel, Beast & Iceman did before X-Factor. Otherwise....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 26, 2012 21:03:03 GMT
First Essential of what looks like being a bumper year is on the way: Marvel Two In One 4. Also Secret Avengers v2
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 27, 2012 14:15:22 GMT
Burns claims The Works has a f***ton of Marvel Trades & Essentials.
Swindon was bare.
However my E MTIO 4 has arrived. A quick flick reveals Xemnu the titan in the first issue within. Oh yeah, that's the stuff we're looking for.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 27, 2012 19:40:33 GMT
Yep. The Edinburger store had piles and piles of Marvel softcovers, HC's, digests and Essentials. Mostly at £3, a few at £2. Only Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters was £5.
Picked up Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil, Essential Two-In-One vol 3, Star Brand vol 1, Classic Power Pack, vol 2. Will likely return another day for The Iron Manual and the trade of the 'lost' Stan and Jack FF issue.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jan 27, 2012 20:57:22 GMT
I snagged a pile of trades from the Edinburger works this afternoon as well - the Omega Flight Trade, the Warren Ellis X-Man run, Power Pack Classic, one of the Dan Slott Avengers trades. Some of it was because I really wanted it, and some (X-man for example) from morbid curiosity but at three quid a pop it was hard to argue with.
Karl
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 27, 2012 23:48:50 GMT
Six trades snagged for me. Thanks to go to Ralph for the heads up. Only a couple of Essentials left and no Doom. Think I may make some return trips.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 28, 2012 14:50:19 GMT
Secret Avengers volume 2: Like Captain America, but a team book. These first two volumes are well worth a buy if you've liked Brubaker's Cap and are a far better effort than his X-Men was. Sadly I see that's the last of his issues collected :-(
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 1, 2012 18:11:45 GMT
No convenient Works near me (unless you count the one on the Old Kent Road. Alas my stab vest is in the laundry), but Greenwich Book Time has something similar going on with a bunch of recent Marvel TPBs / HCs / digests at £3 - £6. The Hawkeye and Mockingbird collection is tempting me. |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Feb 1, 2012 19:59:49 GMT
Still plenty of stock in the Edinburgh The Works, but no new titles.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 4, 2012 22:07:44 GMT
Where is Hulk Visionaries Mantlo, damn it?! -Ralph You'd need more than one volume and I'd certainly welcome it, maybe they will do that when they finish the PAD run of Hulk books. Andy And on that day, the Universe will crumble. -Ralph The Universe appears to still be here. But there again the book ain't actually out yet.... |
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