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Post by Pinwig on Jan 12, 2019 22:08:15 GMT
I did flick through that one, there didn't seem to be a lot of space content in it.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 12, 2019 22:14:17 GMT
That's because the Soldier is...FROM SPACE.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 13, 2019 20:54:07 GMT
Another Napoleonic era story in one of this week's Commando issues. I'll be enjoying that one tonight! A ripping tale of a self-serving colonel and his stout and put-upon privates in the French army during the retreat from Moscow! Great stuff. Commando should do these stories more often. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 13, 2019 21:08:11 GMT
I ignored that one.
PHANTOM VIKING and SOLDIER FROM SPACE procured!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 3, 2019 19:36:44 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 3, 2019 20:43:06 GMT
Great news, but like that Commando book last year they're doing it wrong. £13 for two back issues!? Do a cheap digest of three issues the original size for £5.99 and I'm in.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 4, 2019 12:05:13 GMT
Further details: downthetubes.net/?p=111419Morrison and McMahon having work in it will help it sell beyond those who remember Starblazer. Gives it a better chance of more to follow, I'd say. -Ralph |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 4, 2019 14:24:12 GMT
A mad price for only two issues worth but I cannot say no!!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 4, 2019 15:43:53 GMT
Mick McMahon - SOLD!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 1, 2019 18:02:06 GMT
My copy of the Starblazer trade came today.
The stories are not much to write home about, but some lovely Mick McMahon art is never going to be turned down. Not in this house.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 2, 2019 16:35:49 GMT
Copies in WH Smiths today. Stocked on the newsstand with the comics rather than the books section, for anyone looking for it.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 2, 2019 18:57:24 GMT
Damn you. You've already tricked me into wanting to go to a Smiths once today. I see your plan.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 4, 2020 11:10:22 GMT
Almost bought the Starblazer book in Smiths today, but stalled when I checked the back and remembered it was £13. I had it in mind it was £10.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 4, 2020 11:23:18 GMT
Buy it! Buy it!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 4, 2020 11:26:32 GMT
I feel I ought to to support the endeavour, and because if there is a volume 2 I'll be annoyed I didn't get the first one. I just wish they'd gone a cheaper route on the reproduction. Commando is £4.50 for two issues, how did we get to £13 for two reprints?
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 4, 2020 12:54:55 GMT
These are reproduced from original art and film rather than scanned and has new cover art so I imagine that pushes the price up?
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 28, 2022 19:11:56 GMT
Finally got around to picking up the Ian Kennedy art book, in light of his recent passing. It's very nice.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 28, 2022 19:23:38 GMT
Which book is this? I love his art and was saddened to hear he'd died. Was disappointed by the recent Thrillcast on him though; it spent 45 minutes repeating the point that he was a lovely bloke but didn't actually talk about his work. The interview with him from a couple of years back is very good though www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds70aGDgFXk |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 28, 2022 21:20:18 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 28, 2022 22:39:41 GMT
Picked that up at Kirkcaldy Comic Con last year from DC Thomson's table.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 4, 2022 22:31:41 GMT
Cripes. 3 years ago. I guess the lack of a volume 2 indicates how it sold. -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 4, 2022 23:26:53 GMT
Shame. I'd buy a monthly reprint title for Starblazer. Do it retro on newsprint with a colour cover, two old issues in one book, £5.99. sold.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 5, 2022 9:02:20 GMT
I'm with you there, but the newsstand market has shrunk further after the lockdowns.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 5, 2022 13:12:05 GMT
Very probably. I just think that particular publication was misjudged. They were thinking, we've got a thirty year old McMahon strip here - Rebellion do 96 page books for £12.99 through the Treasury imprint, let's put this with something else and sell it like that. But then they sold it in a newsagent, not considering that something like the Megazine puts out more content than that for £5.99 and is st on the shelf next to it.
That is a bit weird now I think about it - take the recent Major Eazy book: 128 pages of (meticulously) cleaned up material soft cover, £15 from the 2000AD shop. Megazine, 60 pages of new material (minus adverts), 46 of which is new strip content, plus the bagged reprint book which frequently now gives you 48 pages from the same source as the Major Eazy book for £5.99. The difference in value there is amazing. The Major Eazy book (or any other Treasury book) sells on the basis that people want to read it so are willing to pay the price.
When you look at it like that, without something like the Treasury reputation behind it, that Starblazer book was on a hiding to nothing sat in a newsagent. I'd never really thought about it like that.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 5, 2022 17:05:14 GMT
One wonders if aiming a Starblazer collection at the book market rather than newsstand would have helped.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 5, 2022 18:50:13 GMT
Yes, oddly I'd have bought that without even thinking. Weird isn't it.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 8, 2022 13:03:41 GMT
Commando has had a 25p price increase. Now £2.50. I think it's still the cheapest comic on the market so a fiver can still buy two comics.
-Ralph
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