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JackDarko posted:Is the Parker Martini Edition out of print? I can't buy it at amazon and i'd just like to know before I spend more to get somewhere else. How much are you willing to pay for it? It's at my local Hastings superstore.
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jimcunningham posted:How much are you willing to pay for it? It's at my local Hastings superstore. Well I can always buy it on another website at a pretty reduced price, but amazon has the best deal. I really do appreciate your offer however, if the others sell out I may have to take you up on it.
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jimcunningham posted:Hastings superstore. These still exist? Ours went out of business nearly a decade ago and I just assumed it was the whole franchise, considering they always felt like a crappy version of Borders.
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All the Borders closed. Hastings in Oklahoma and Texas are still going strong. They have a good selection of comics now.
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Huh, weird. So, does anyone else get annoyed looking at their Iron Man hardcovers next to each other? (I don't have a picture handy, but the Marvel logos at the top are inversions of each other)
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bairfanx posted:Huh, weird. Marvel recently changed their spine logo to the inverse of what it was. Brace yourself for lots of annoyance.
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bairfanx posted:Huh, weird. I always grumble at my Daredevil Vol 2 HC because the Marvel logo and the writing down the side are completely different than the rest.
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Glenn Danzig posted:Marvel recently changed their spine logo to the inverse of what it was. Brace yourself for lots of annoyance. I just feel it isn't too much to ask for them to be uniform across a title. How hard is that?
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People in the know, when will I get an Uncanny X-Force OSHC? Don't say never.
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Glenn Danzig posted:Marvel recently changed their spine logo to the inverse of what it was. Brace yourself for lots of annoyance. I love the nerds who collect MMW raging after 189 titles the spine changes 
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wildlele posted:I love the nerds who collect MMW raging after 189 titles the spine changes Hey, the MMW fans bitched so much it made Marvel offer them in 2 covers.
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People actually give a poo poo what the spine looks like? Seriously? Huh. I always thought what was inside the book mattered more, but I guess not.
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enigmahfc posted:People actually give a poo poo what the spine looks like? Seriously? Huh. I always thought what was inside the book mattered more, but I guess not. Now that I think about it, I may buy Liefeld/Loebs X-Bullshit if it had an awesome spine with a hologram or two.
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enigmahfc posted:People actually give a poo poo what the spine looks like? Seriously? Huh. I always thought what was inside the book mattered more, but I guess not. This isn't the story thread, this is the "We fetishize giant comic books" thread.
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It's nothing to nerd rage about but it is rather ridiculous and frustrating that they change their spine-dress the way they do. I like a nice, uniform look to my books on my shelf and they gently caress it up when it would be the textbook definition of easy to just keep it the same.
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enigmahfc posted:People actually give a poo poo what the spine looks like? Seriously? Huh. I always thought what was inside the book mattered more, but I guess not. I sold a guy a book on Amazon and it was the direct market version instead of mass market. He was so pissed he filed for a wage garnishment.
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Rhyno posted:I sold a guy a book on Amazon and it was the direct market version instead of mass market. He was so pissed he filed for a wage garnishment. I dunno man, if I ordered a direct market cover and got the mass market cover instead, I would be upset. 90% of those mass market covers are pure loving evil.
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Glenn Danzig posted:I dunno man, if I ordered a direct market cover and got the mass market cover instead, I would be upset. 90% of those mass market covers are pure loving evil. Until about a year ago Amazon used the same listing for both versions of Marvel premier hardcovers so it didn't matter on my end.
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I didn't even know there was two version of Marvel's Premier hardcovers. I really don't pay attention, it seems.
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Rhyno posted:I sold a guy a book on Amazon and it was the direct market version instead of mass market. He was so pissed he filed for a wage garnishment. If the guy was prepared to get so angry about that I wonder why he didn't just contact you before buying the book to find out which cover it had. 
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Starsnostars posted:If the guy was prepared to get so angry about that I wonder why he didn't just contact you before buying the book to find out which cover it had. You think you're confused? I'm seriously close to closing my Amazon store because of the psychos who shop on the marketplace. I sold a copy of the Pride & Prejudice HC from Marvel and the buyer is flipping her poo poo. She's never been into comics before and doesn't understand the collected edition. It's probably not a good idea to make physical threats via Amazon's messaging system but it hasn't stopped her.
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^burtle posted:This isn't the story thread, this is the "We fetishize giant comic books" thread. It's mostly that it just doesn't make sense to me how whoever designs the dust jackets and/or spines for their collected editions isn't told "make these look uniform." From the Marvel logo change to the bizarre decision to switch font sizes on the Ultimate FF hardcovers, I don't flip my poo poo about it, but I just shake my head and ask how hard it is to be consistent. DC does it too, with little things (like which version of the DC logo goes on the bottom of the spine)
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You know you have too many hardcovers when a friend says your bookcase has more comics than the local library. Thus, shelf porn time! Bookcase #1: The majority of my DC and indie stuff. They get transferred here when my other case fills up.     Bookcase #2: Slipcases, Absolutes & Marvel.      Piles of books I haven't read/re-read yet. I blame my backlog on the Amazon/Diamond fiasco from a few years back and stupidly good deals at flea markets and shows. $3 trades? B.P.R.D. and Marvel Omnibus for 75% off? Yes,please!   Thank/drat you BSS for my hardcover addiction. Though, I still need to get that Devil Dinosaur omnibus. Moai Ou fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Jan 10, 2012 |
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What are the two books next to your complete Calvin and Hobbes set?
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JackDarko posted:What are the two books next to your complete Calvin and Hobbes set?
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drat, that Marvel bookcase you've got going on there is sick.
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krut posted:drat, that Marvel bookcase you've got going on there is sick. Thanks! I wish I knew who made the case itself (I inherited it a few years back), because I'd love to get another one. The only thing is that any similar ones I've found have been a bit out of my price range. Again, most of the books I got good deals on. Nearly all the Ultimate books in there I got for around $7 from Edward R. Hamilton, an overstock bookseller. I got that Don Martin set from there for $15 two years ago. Check it out every now and then and you'll find some nice hardcover prices. There is one book in there, though, that was a giant pain-in-the-rear end to get. I bought Vol. 2 of New X-Men off a third-party seller on Amazon, where it was listed as "Like New." When it arrived two weeks later, the dust jacket was torn up, pages were missing and stuck together, the back cover was bent in half, and it had "Multinoma Public Library" stamped on the top of the pages. When I complained, the seller claimed that it was new when she sent it out, and that the damage must have happened during shipping. After I told her that I doubted that my book fell into a time warp during shipping and spent years as a library book, she sent me threatening e-mails. I contacted Amazon, who refunded my money, let me keep the book, AND banned her marketplace account. I finally found another new copy for $50 that was *gasp* actually new!
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Endless Mike posted:If you click the pictures, you can see them in full size. They're "The Completely MAD Don Martin." Ah thank you Mike, I was right click open image in new tab.
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Matt Fraction's twitter says a Grendel omnibus is forthcoming.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Matt Fraction's twitter says a Grendel omnibus is forthcoming. It was solicited the other day. It's one of those smaller-sized Dark Horse paperback Omnibuses, not an HC. I'll still probably get it though, I've been meaning to try Grendel for ages and this looks like a decent was to dip my toe in.
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Shameless posted:It was solicited the other day. It's one of those smaller-sized Dark Horse paperback Omnibuses, not an HC. A few years ago I found a pile of the old Grendel trades at a book sale for $2 each. Now I wish I'd kept them, I hate the smaller DH Omni format.
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Shameless posted:It was solicited the other day. It's one of those smaller-sized Dark Horse paperback Omnibuses, not an HC. drat. I assume this means I'll never get HC versions of "God and the Devil" or "Devil's Reign" to finish out my collection. I've got HC versions of nearly everything in the Omnibus, but I'll probably buy it anyway, just to have a convenient single-volume "reading copy".
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Anybody watching their Flex Mentallo advent calendar, I got an email from Amazon pushing it back to 3/22.
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Moai Ou posted:I finally found another new copy for $50 that was *gasp* actually new! If I were to pay fifty bucks for a volume of New X-Men I wouldn't only take it for granted that it was new but for that price I would also expect a signed nude photo of Grant Morrison to be included in the price because that's a huge amount of money to spend on one hardback.
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Alhazred posted:If I were to pay fifty bucks for a volume of New X-Men I wouldn't only take it for granted that it was new but for that price I would also expect a signed nude photo of Grant Morrison to be included in the price because that's a huge amount of money to spend on one hardback. redbackground fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Jan 12, 2012 |
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Alhazred posted:If I were to pay fifty bucks for a volume of New X-Men I wouldn't only take it for granted that it was new but for that price I would also expect a signed nude photo of Grant Morrison to be included in the price because that's a huge amount of money to spend on one hardback. Volumes 2 and 3 of that hardcover series have neared or passed $100 before. The omnibus isn't cheap either (but someone found an amazon fish that implied it was getting reprinted, didn't they?)
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Alhazred posted:If I were to pay fifty bucks for a volume of New X-Men I wouldn't only take it for granted that it was new but for that price I would also expect a signed nude photo of Grant Morrison to be included in the price because that's a huge amount of money to spend on one hardback. You're not from around here, are you? Honest answer is: That volume isn't a TPB, it's an over-sized hardcover that is no longer printed. Also, collectors
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Moai Ou posted:Thanks! I wish I knew who made the case itself (I inherited it a few years back), because I'd love to get another one. The only thing is that any similar ones I've found have been a bit out of my price range. I hope that she was banking on using "it says "new" in the title" as a defense
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bairfanx posted:Anybody watching their Flex Mentallo advent calendar, I got an email from Amazon pushing it back to 3/22. It is like the 6th one or something, I won't care until I'm holding it.
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