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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 19, 2018 11:32:26 GMT
Just re-read the majority of New Mutants courtesy of a recent Comixology sale. A combination of want and timing came together: I'd seen the New Mutants Classic Legion volume in the Legion sale earlier in the year and thought "I'd like that but not without the other volumes" and then the other volumes came up! Read to the end of the Claremont run, and it's generally good stuff. Got the first 10 or so of the Simonson/Blevins run in digital singles which takes me to Fall of the Mutants, must check under the bed to see what's there between that and and Inferno, which is where the forthcoming Epic Collection starts.
I sense an Avengers read in the near future thanks to getting the majority of the Mastrworks in the current Black Panther Avengers sale. What isn't there I have in trades.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 21, 2018 20:50:29 GMT
Re-reading the early Simonson/Blevins New Mutants didn't go well.
The art was actually better than I remembered, but I have a vague recollection of it going down hill as Blevin's time on the book continued.
My real problem was the writing: Louise Simonson's New Mutants feel like whiney brats, parodies of the Claremont written characters. Karma's gone before Simonson arrives and then she wastes little time getting rid of first Magma, who I admit I'm rather fond of due to her starring in the first issue of the book I read (11), and then Cypher. Cypher's death is just gratuitous and felt in poor taste at the time. I could perhaps see how Simonson could have thought he didn't have a useful power and, by contrast, Magma was too powerful but.....
Not looking great for that forthcoming Epic collection....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 21, 2018 20:53:37 GMT
Started on the Avengers issues from the recent Comixology sale. Masters of Evil was ok and the intro of The Vision was good but the rest was a struggle. I seem to recall from the Essentials, odd issues aside, it doesn't really hit it's stride till The Beast turns up.
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Post by Jim on Feb 21, 2018 21:34:31 GMT
I think that's fair, but I remember enjoying the epic collection with the issues introducing the Vision a lot, so I think there was a bit of a general peak there. Maybe it was just Buscema's art that was lifting it, I don't remember it well.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 17, 2018 11:38:34 GMT
Avengers: Read from 51-177 courtesy of Masterworks in recent sales. Gets better as it goes on. Real good patch post 150 but still can't get on with the Korvac story.
FF: the recent sale gave me the latest FF Masterwork which advances my FF reading from 207, where the Essentials finished, to 218. Annoyed 219 isn't there as I've got 220 & 221 in FF Byrne v0. So that leaves 219 and 222-231 plus Annual 15 as the only FF issues I've not read prior to 307, where the All In The Family epic ends.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 17, 2018 11:56:41 GMT
That is a lot of Avengers!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 17, 2018 12:28:06 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 17, 2018 12:29:37 GMT
Wow. I was proud of myself for reading last week's Panini X-men last night, plus Cap's bit in Legends. But four issues is nothing compared to that!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 17, 2018 12:54:13 GMT
Has taken a month or so though! |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 17, 2018 18:05:35 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 18, 2018 22:20:36 GMT
Some fiend has dumped a load of Howard the Duck issues on me.
I HATE Howard the Duck.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 18, 2018 23:22:28 GMT
To be fair they were not dumped upon you.
Issues were delivered at key points throughout the weekend.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 25, 2018 9:02:24 GMT
We had a dive into the back issue boxes last night.
It's slim pickings on The Epic Collection Front in terms of what I could purge. I new I had some of The Defenders issues from the one due in August, the first few having gone when the sole New Defenders Classic was published. I was rather surprised to find I had the Beauty & The Beast limited series too, also in that volume.
The big surprise was discovering I had every issue of X-Factor in their trade due after Christmas. Now that might be worth them going on eBay's altar!
While I was there I took note of which New Mutants issues I didn't have in floppy or trades - just 3 (63, 65 & 70) and ordered them this morning.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 27, 2018 14:52:02 GMT
And here. Slotted into my New Mutants floppy run - a mere 62-70 + the summer special - which makes up all the uncollected issues.
A fiver says, now I've bought them, that it'll be New Mutants Epic 5, containing them, next year!
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Post by The Doctor on May 6, 2018 13:17:17 GMT
One of our number has spent A Lot on a back issue. This has lead me to think of the most I spent on an old comic. Sone later Marvel UK TF cost me a fiver. I've tended to more of a cheap back issue bin diver (and job lots back when ebay was great for cheap back issues).
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on May 6, 2018 14:01:33 GMT
Good question that. Although I was lucky enough to score the first ten issues of 2000AD for pennies at a jumble sale in the late 80s, I had to share them with a friend. So when I went for a complete run a few years ago I had to buy Prog 2 from eBay. I can't remember what I paid, but it's in good nick so it wouldn't have been cheap.
Can't think of anything else that would come close to that.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 6, 2018 14:50:08 GMT
One of our number has spent A Lot on a back issue. This has lead me to think of the most I spent on an old comic. Sone later Marvel UK TF cost me a fiver. I've tended to more of a cheap back issue bin diver (and job lots back when ebay was great for cheap back issues). -Ralph The copy of X-Men 121 I bought in the late 80s/early 90s. We're talking in the £25-£40ish band, it was a long long time ago! I hesitate to spend more than £2-£3 on a back issue now..... Which is why my Marvel Team Up run has holes in the untraded issues and it took me so long to get that UK Team Up special. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 6, 2018 14:52:34 GMT
One of our number has spent A Lot on a back issue. This has lead me to think of the most I spent on an old comic. Sone later Marvel UK TF cost me a fiver. I've tended to more of a cheap back issue bin diver (and job lots back when ebay was great for cheap back issues). -Ralph It is a convention comic with some exclusive work in it. However I would not have paid that much! |
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Post by The Doctor on May 6, 2018 17:59:12 GMT
I understand why it is pricey (and genuinely rare: I have never read it as a result) but I did choke when I heard the price! I hope it is printed on gold leaf paper!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on May 6, 2018 18:02:24 GMT
One of our number has spent A Lot on a back issue. This has lead me to think of the most I spent on an old comic. Sone later Marvel UK TF cost me a fiver. I've tended to more of a cheap back issue bin diver (and job lots back when ebay was great for cheap back issues). -Ralph The copy of X-Men 121 I bought in the late 80s/early 90s. We're talking in the £25-£40ish band, it was a long long time ago! I hesitate to spend more than £2-£3 on a back issue now..... Same. My back issue buying is usually confined to Oxfam bookstores (they tend to be gold for them) and at comic marts/cons though less and less with the latter due to the slow death of the back issue market at such events. The rise of good trade programs means that I am more inclined to pay big bucks for older material only when it is nicely presented in collected form. Which reminds me...with Chris Ryall gone from IDW my hope for ROM trades has died. I used to have the complete run including guest appearances and annuals but they were lost due to the Great Garage Incident of 2009. Ralph needs ROM again. -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 6, 2018 18:15:23 GMT
I understand why it is pricey (and genuinely rare: I have never read it as a result) but I did choke when I heard the price! I hope it is printed on gold leaf paper! -Ralph Will let you know when it arrives... |
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Post by Pinwig on May 6, 2018 18:27:10 GMT
Right.
What?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 6, 2018 18:30:12 GMT
It was the Botcon 97 Tales of the Beast Wars Comic.
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on May 6, 2018 18:55:28 GMT
*does a bit of wiki reading*
Oh wow, I see the importance there. First ever Botcon comic, and by Furman, Wildman and Baskerville. Blimey. No wonder that's pricy.
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Post by The Doctor on May 6, 2018 20:38:57 GMT
Can you guess how much?
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on May 6, 2018 20:43:35 GMT
The internet has no secrets. Especially if it was the one that sold on eBay yesterday!
I must check my accounts to see if I noted what my Prog 2 cost.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 27, 2018 18:39:58 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 27, 2018 22:10:04 GMT
Is that all? I will have two!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 29, 2018 18:02:43 GMT
Picked up some Grant/Breyfogle Batman cheap at the Stirling Comic Con yesterday.
Still my favourite Batman team.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 7, 2018 15:48:23 GMT
Rather amusingly I saw today an issue of 90's Silver Surfer with an asking price of £30 today in a charity shop. For context they are usually to be found in 50p bins at marts.
-Ralph
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