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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 25, 2017 16:45:10 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 25, 2017 20:03:40 GMT
Interesting.
I wonder what happened to the Spider-Man partwork. Edinburger was in the test area and it's been quite some time since I saw it.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 25, 2017 20:04:08 GMT
Surely they're going to reach saturation point soon. There has to be some crossover in the target audience for all these.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 25, 2017 20:06:51 GMT
If there is a market for all these comic partworks it shows a certain resurgence and change in the UK comic market. Maybe chunky hardbacks is the way to sell comics to a general audience in the UK. It wasn't that long ago that most of the Uk newsstand seemed to be poorly made polybagged crap.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Sept 25, 2017 20:11:18 GMT
If there is a market for all these comic partworks it shows a certain resurgence and change in the UK comic market. Maybe chunky hardbacks is the way to sell comics to a general audience in the UK. It wasn't that long ago that most of the Uk newsstand seemed to be poorly made polybagged crap. -Ralph Well let's be blunt. One big chunky hardback is the same price as what, 2 1/2 comics on the shelf? |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 25, 2017 20:13:22 GMT
And significantly cheaper than thinner imported paperback trades in comic shops.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 25, 2017 20:25:44 GMT
Interesting point that. A paninivision book is £4 and has three and a half US issues in, so a £10 equivalent is 8.75 US comic issues, which would equate to one of the bigger hachette books.
I do think there's an appeal in buying something that has a complete story in it.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 25, 2017 20:41:06 GMT
Yup. I also wonder that as comics have become so much more expensive I wonder if a chunky £10 hardback book with a complete story in it might be something a parent will buy a kid rather than a couple of £4-5 polybagged things with not much reading in them. A hardback book will also last longer than a flimsy rag which once removed from the polybag may be binned a week later.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 4, 2017 17:24:39 GMT
I appear to be in a test area! For though I never saw issue 1 I did come across an issue 2 in a newsagent. £9. The higher price for a #2 of a partwork is justified for the book is much larger in dimensions than any other comic partwork series. Significantly taller and wider: more treasury size than usual GN size. Very high production values. Parts of the cover and back are on a shinier effect so really pop against the card covers. Lovely trade dress. Feels and looks like a high quality product: suddenly other partworks look cheap and shoddy by comparison.
I hope issue 3 appears locally: I could do with a copy of The Infinity Gauntlet in this quality.
Very very interesting to see a different size comic be trialled.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 4, 2017 19:11:16 GMT
Ooh that does sound nice. £13 regular price though, which makes all last week's waffle about equivalents to paninivision pointless.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 4, 2017 20:30:48 GMT
The much larger print size is worth the extra few quid though. There is literally more physical book for the higher price, so I don't mind.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Oct 4, 2017 20:32:48 GMT
The much larger print size is worth the extra few quid though. There is literally more physical book for the higher price, so I don't mind. -Ralph If only the UK comic reprints were a larger size! |
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 4, 2017 20:33:41 GMT
Are the book dimensions in proportion with US comic page sizes? No big white page borders?
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 5, 2017 7:16:21 GMT
The pages are in proportion. It's properly produced for this size. Shinier paper stock too. The book is larger than a US comic.
-Ralph
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Post by primenova on Oct 5, 2017 11:29:16 GMT
How is this going to go with the other series also out? They could end up printing the same stuff. Just seen they are going heavy on Bendis - he is the on I stopped buying Marvel
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 5, 2017 18:19:46 GMT
I have subscribed online.
I need oversized Infinity Gauntlet.
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 5, 2017 18:55:35 GMT
Ooh that does sound tempting. But I'll need a second mortgage to fund my hachette habit at this rate.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 5, 2017 18:57:50 GMT
I know. currently sixty quid a month they get from me, with the Dredd, Tooth and TF partworks.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 6, 2017 8:59:41 GMT
I have subscribed online. I need oversized Infinity Gauntlet. Andy So does Ralph. He will be on the lookout for it and also for M. The Quest is The Quest. -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 6, 2017 9:14:53 GMT
Can't wait for some oversized Wonder Man goodness.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 6, 2017 9:18:25 GMT
I have never read it so will be good to have a nice shiny copy.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 6, 2017 9:33:00 GMT
You have never read THE INFINITY GAUNTLET???
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 6, 2017 9:38:45 GMT
Nope. Don't fail me.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 6, 2017 9:58:33 GMT
I amazed you got away with this considering how long certain Hubbers have known you.
It is AMAZING.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 6, 2017 10:13:10 GMT
I'm almost as angry with us as I am at M.
Andy
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 9, 2017 22:27:47 GMT
I believe a copy was passed from Burns to Turnbull in the pub once. I watched intrigued. .. hopeful... and yet.. yet... no.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 9, 2017 22:36:55 GMT
Nope.
Both Turn and Burn own their own copies of The Infinity Gauntlet.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 10, 2017 7:13:30 GMT
There was definitely a copy in a pub with you guys once. While everyone else got IG I was gifted the Beast Wars IDW profile books.
*rising above average anger*
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 10, 2017 7:16:57 GMT
I gifted you those fine volumes!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 10, 2017 9:55:33 GMT
I've just found them again. Hence the pain is fresh. My righteous anger burns. Who knows how it might spill out?
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