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Post by The Doctor on Dec 23, 2021 12:27:01 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 17, 2022 14:40:58 GMT
Panini continue to send me free comics! The Morbious bookazine surprisingly turned up today. Did I order it? Nope! Did I pay for it? Nope!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 21, 2022 12:54:41 GMT
Another random free comic has arrived from Panini! #9 of their now dead X-Men title from last November. Er. Um?
Panini have now sent me the first 9 issues of X-Men, the first 10 of their Marvel Universe and a Morbius bookazine for...nowt. Not paid a penny.
I can only assume it's because I am still on their system as a pre-Covid times subscriber...but I got all the titles I paid for back in the day!
Oh well, I'll get to now see what the current New Mutants title is like before the x-comic gets chucked in the pile of stuff to go to charity shop.
The contents page asks readers to write in. Er, no, you're cancelled next issue!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 21, 2022 22:32:54 GMT
Most of the bookazines are read once and charity shopped, but keeping Eternals: Only Death Is Eternal. That was bloody brilliant.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 26, 2022 14:24:08 GMT
An email from Panini saying they have dispatched:
Description
ISSUE 20 - magazine
AVENGERS - book
MARVEL BOOKAZINE - magazine
Um. What are these? The only thing I have on order with them is the Doctor Who Chronicles 2007 bookazine!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 31, 2022 13:13:34 GMT
The mystery package has arrived.
It is...Marvel Essential #10. Previously reported as ending with #12 in March, the editorial reveals it is canned as of this issue. Golly.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 13, 2022 10:46:08 GMT
I HAVE BEEN TEABAGGED BY PANINI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They sent me a ******* Deadpool book!!!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 19, 2022 22:29:49 GMT
One wonders if the Batman title has quietly expired. Should have been #11 last week but not in WH Smiths and nor is it on Panini's site.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 19, 2022 22:53:34 GMT
I see Hachette are reheating their marvel graphic novel collection with another relaunch. Wasn't much space in Smiths for the panini stuff with that cuckoo in the nest.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 19, 2022 23:02:16 GMT
I...bought it.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 19, 2022 23:10:37 GMT
As did I.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 19, 2022 23:39:48 GMT
I had a flicker of interest at it being the first of a partwork, but knowing it's Hachette put me off. Never again.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2022 9:43:29 GMT
I have been programmed since birth to always pick up #1 of a newsstand comic series.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 20, 2022 11:07:32 GMT
I am the same.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2022 16:35:36 GMT
I might have subsribed so I can get the badge.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2022 16:36:07 GMT
I see Hachette are reheating their marvel graphic novel collection with another relaunch. Wasn't much space in Smiths for the panini stuff with that cuckoo in the nest. Though Panini do produce this partwork series for Hachette. -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 20, 2022 16:37:13 GMT
Yeah but I bet they don't do their customer service.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2022 17:11:51 GMT
Only previously subsribed to one Hachette series for a bit (their first Marvel one) and had no problems.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 22, 2022 9:52:51 GMT
One wonders if the Batman title has quietly expired. Should have been #11 last week but not in WH Smiths and nor is it on Panini's site. -Ralph It appears to still exist. Newsstand's site has it and it appeared on Panini's site 10 days after publication date. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 26, 2022 14:41:52 GMT
I might have subsribed so I can get the badge. -Ralph Issues 2 and 3 arrived today in a knackered envelope. Books were fine. Not shrink wrapped so I guess they are cutting down on plastic waste. Next delivery is when the badge comes!!! -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 27, 2022 21:15:15 GMT
Was the Spider-Man one always 4 weeks, I thought it had gone fortnightly?
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 27, 2022 21:20:47 GMT
It had been fortnightly for several years until all Panini newsstand titles were cancelled during lockdown. When it came back it was a 4-weekly title. Given that and the Batman title have survived while the more expensive Marvel Essentials and X-Men titles died I would not be surprised if it was to increase frequency if the sales are there.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 27, 2022 21:30:32 GMT
Maybe that's the price point they should stick with, and leave the higher end stuff for the bookazine and partworks.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 27, 2022 21:35:11 GMT
I think so. It was worthwhile trying the £8 format but the market said no.
Panini's Selects line of bookazines is now monthly with a subscription option so seems to have replaced the latter. Panini calls them bookazines but they're trades.
It appears that the newsstand audience will support £3 floppies or £10 trades of a complete story so at least there's that.
Partworks tend to vanish from many newsagents after the initial issues.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 27, 2022 21:40:02 GMT
Yup.
Only thing is X-Men is a bit convoluted now, would be say doing a Classic X-Men would be the way to go. Run the X-Men Adventures stuff, along with that X-Men 92 series for a bit, makes sense especially given that Disney are doing the sequel cartoon.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 27, 2022 21:45:35 GMT
Panini's monthly Selects books tend to tie in to whatever Marvel show or movie is out and they feature material from different eras. It would not surprise me if a bookazine or two of that X-Men material were pumped out when the animated show revival airs.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 28, 2022 22:38:56 GMT
True, but X-Men have been a fixture since the Essentials began and it would seem to be money on the table keeping them going, but a relaunch mid HOX/POX/WHATTHEFOX wouldn't make sense.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 10, 2022 18:27:14 GMT
Very surprised to see the current Batman issue in the local Tescopolis. Their periodical section is small and they usually just have plastic crap comics rather than 'real' ones.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 9, 2022 21:24:39 GMT
Seemed to be a 1-issue thing! The next issue did not appear there!
Meanwhile, this month's bookazine is New Avengers: Everything Dies. It's very good.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on May 7, 2022 20:52:56 GMT
This month's bookazine is the Mark Waid and Kev Walker Dr Strange series #1-6.
-Ralph
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