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Joe Fisto posted:Probably. What’s “limited” anyway? 1000? 10,000? 500,000? 7000 according to this article.
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catlord posted:7000 according to this article. gently caress, there's no way I'm gonna be able to get one.
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Feb 17, 2022 00:17
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Is it shops only? I didn't read the article.
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Feb 17, 2022 00:22
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Rhyno posted:Is it shops only? I didn't read the article. Sounds like yes, it's being distributed solely by Diamond.
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Feb 17, 2022 00:25
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Forbidden Planet had a pre-order available earlier but it became unavailable pretty quickly.
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Feb 17, 2022 00:29
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It sounds like my comicshop is doing a waitlist for it but I am not sure how many copies they are ordering. The price isn't too bad either which is pretty nice to see considering that with such a limited run they could have probably charged double or more for it.
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Feb 17, 2022 00:33
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Endless Mike posted:Maybe do that!!!!! What? Neither DC nor Marvel use Diamond anymore. Actually, maybe that's why, neither would let the other's distributor get that money.
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Feb 17, 2022 00:34
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catlord posted:7000 according to this article. Cool. Won't be getting one of those then.
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Feb 17, 2022 00:56
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Skwirl posted:What? Neither DC nor Marvel use Diamond anymore. Well, that's what the Polygon article says. quote:The reprint of JLA/Avengers will run 288 pages, including 64 pages of extra content, reprinted introductions from Stan Lee and DC editor Julius Schwartz, and a new afterword by Kurt Busiek. This new limited edition reprinting will be limited to 7000 copies, with each book selling for $29.99. The book, distributed by Diamond, is expected to hit the shelves of participating comic shops in March.
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Feb 17, 2022 00:59
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Marvel is still distributed through Diamond, just at a lesser discount rate than through Penguin/Random House. But all of that is immaterial because the Hero Initiative is printing this limited edition volume (like all of their 100 Project and other limited-run books that feature Marvel/DC/etc. characters) and last I checked they still distribute their stuff through Diamond. And you know, on their site directly too. All that said, haven't read any of the articles or clicked the links, has anyone explained why Hero Initiative is reprinting a brand new JLA/Avengers crossover rather than the original one that Busiek and Perez did that no one can reprint? Seems like a real dumb move, can't believe they're being so stupid.
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Feb 17, 2022 01:28
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Edge & Christian posted:I may be forgetting the precise details but the big connecting plot theme of the early 2000s Batman comics (in the lead up to INFINITE CRISIS, which Winick's Red Hood storyline dovetails directly into in its final pages) is that Batman Needs to Learn to Love and Trust Again, despite every story leading into that revelation being about a shocking betrayal or ally turned enemy. Just wanna say thanks for this effortpost. 2000s was a sad time to be Batman in a lot of ways it seems.
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Feb 17, 2022 02:23
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I would argue that the 2000s were a great time to be a Batman fan. Brubaker's Batman run was so so but Rucka was solid. Morrison had a great long and influential run on Batman. Dini had a great fun run on Detective. Tomasi's Batman and Robin was really solid. Snyder's Batman run was a bit dividing but really bombastic and mostly fun when he wasn't writing Joker stories.
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Feb 17, 2022 05:12
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Edge & Christian posted:Marvel is still distributed through Diamond, just at a lesser discount rate than through Penguin/Random House. Cause all the profits are going to charity not dc/marvel, and Perez helped fund the hero initiative
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Feb 17, 2022 11:34
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Madkal posted:I would argue that the 2000s were a great time to be a Batman fan. Brubaker's Batman run was so so but Rucka was solid. Morrison had a great long and influential run on Batman. Dini had a great fun run on Detective. Tomasi's Batman and Robin was really solid. Snyder's Batman run was a bit dividing but really bombastic and mostly fun when he wasn't writing Joker stories. I just meant Batman's life was particularly miserable. Which brings me to a thought I'm having as I continue reading Under the Red Hood.. I haven't read too many Batman stories but my impression from reading posts and reviews from people who have is that The Dark Knight Returns is a particularly brutal Batman. Not to get into the same old talk about Frank Miller's politics but my point is just that his focus on how Batman is at "war" and he and the Robins are "soldiers" was something I took to be peculiar to Millers interpretation. But that language is all over this comic, too. Jason was a casualty of war. Batman lives on to fight alone. This kind of violent rhetoric sets the same tone as TDKR even in this main continuity comic far away from Miller. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it.
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Feb 17, 2022 16:43
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Madkal posted:I would argue that the 2000s were a great time to be a Batman fan. Brubaker's Batman run was so so but Rucka was solid. Morrison had a great long and influential run on Batman. Dini had a great fun run on Detective. Tomasi's Batman and Robin was really solid. Snyder's Batman run was a bit dividing but really bombastic and mostly fun when he wasn't writing Joker stories. Morrison' run was damaged by The New 52. Batman Incorporated, the intended big finish of his Batman story, was cancelled at issue 8 and the final 2 issues were reformatted into (non-canon) the Leviathan Strikes one-shot.
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Feb 17, 2022 20:03
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That was only the first volume of Batman Inc. There was twelve issues of volume two after that.
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Feb 17, 2022 20:43
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Today's Batman Family Adventures had a scene to rival the best Batman/Catwoman stuff.
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Dawgstar posted:Today's Batman Family Adventures had a scene to rival the best Batman/Catwoman stuff. Indeed 
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Feb 17, 2022 22:43
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Such a wholesome series and I wish for it to be animated.
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Feb 17, 2022 23:52
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So I should have posted this earlier, but last week John Allison (Scary-Go-Round, Bad Machinery, Giant Days), started posting his Giant Days/Batman crossover here. It will be running M-Th till the end of March or until DC sends him a C+D order. I'm also posting it in the newspaper comic strip thread.
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Feb 18, 2022 00:01
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Xelkelvos posted:Such a wholesome series and I wish for it to be animated. It would have been a delightful addition to the DC Nation shorts.
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Feb 18, 2022 05:43
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We almost got that live action version but apparently the people behind it didn't actually ask DC for permission.
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https://twitter.com/DCComics/status/1494673072204439561quote:Best-selling writer Tom King continues to plumb the depths of the DC universe, with an all-new DC Black Label comic, Danger Street. This 12-issue maxiseries reunites King with his fellow Rorschach collaborators, artist Jorge Fornés and colorist Dave Stewart in a deeply layered crime drama featuring reimagined and updated versions of some of DC’s most obscure and offbeat superheroes, from the DC 1st Issue Special series from the mid-1970’s. they're not specifically mentioned in the description, but given the title I assume the Dingbats of Danger Street will be part of this, which... is not a reboot I saw coming
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Feb 18, 2022 16:42
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We’ll probably also see Lady Cop, and Code Name: Assassin. Jack Kirby’s Atlas, and the Green Team have been confirmed, I think.
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Just wanted to say I’ve been reading The Other History of the DC Universe on the DC app and man this shits the real deal. It’s better than watchmen. Keep in mind I’m someone for years who has criticized forced diversity and editorial gimmicks so from me this is saying something.
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Noob Saibot posted:Just wanted to say I’ve been reading The Other History of the DC Universe on the DC app and man this shits the real deal. It’s better than watchmen. It goes extremely hard and it's fantastic. The weakest part is definitely the one with Vox and Bumblebee, but idk who else they'd have for that era that would be appropriate.
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Feb 20, 2022 03:15
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That Larry David meme of standing between two heated crowds, with one labeled "The Other History of the DC Universe gives multiple overlooked DC characters some much-needed prestige exposure through a Black Label miniseries that lets minority characters talk some poo poo out and claim their weird comics identities, warts contradictions and all" and the other labeled "But it's not perfect." I would be in the middle (pre-crypto-shilling-David) willing to acknowledge both sides, but I'm also a comics nerd so yeah I gulped that series down out of a 32 oz big gulp and went back for refills.
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Xelkelvos posted:It goes extremely hard and it's fantastic. The weakest part is definitely the one with Vox and Bumblebee, but idk who else they'd have for that era that would be appropriate. Yeah it was weird to see the comic tear apart the Teen Titans as a bunch of racists when...it was the only comic of the era to intentionally use black characters and even address the issues of racism in the superheroing community. Also just make up poo poo about Garth, though that's only because I've read those comics and know. I'm sure there's other liberties taken with the other stories in Other History that I am not read on so don't know what they skewed. It gets by by hiding behind the "unreliable narrator" trope but, frankly, they're not presented as being in the wrong about what they're saying so that falls flat. All that said it's still a really interesting read and the characters have a compelling voice in the story.
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Feb 20, 2022 15:36
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Other History sounds neat book, but I've been avoiding it because the pages I've seen have been blocks of text next to pictures, and that tends to not work for me. Is it done well here or should I avoid it? Also, just curious, is there a central plot to it, or is it vignettes around a theme? Does reading order really matter?
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Feb 20, 2022 16:39
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StumblyWumbly posted:Other History sounds neat book, but I've been avoiding it because the pages I've seen have been blocks of text next to pictures, and that tends to not work for me. Is it done well here or should I avoid it? Vignettes, so no reading order doesn't matter except for the fact that the first issue is from Black Lightning's perspective and the last is from his daughter Thunder's perspective and it reframes some stuff from BL's issue through a different lens
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Did anyone read Far Sector, by N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell? I'm about halfway through the trade paperback, and every page blows me away. It reminds me more of Saga than any Green Lantern comic ever -- this complicated, beautiful, weird setting that feels fully fleshed-out and lived-in, with the human GL, Jo Mullein, as a perfect audience POV character. The art is stunningly gorgeous. I don't know if I've ever seen its equal. I've never read any of Jemisin's novels or seen Campbell's art before, but this science fiction/political drama/murder mystery is fabulous so far.
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Space Fish posted:Far Sector is a wrap and loving ruled, don't sleep on the hardcover when it comes out. Lord_Hambrose posted:Best Green Lantern book in years, and it isn't even close. Grant Morrison might have dared to ask "What if GL was a cop?" but Far Sector dared to ask "What if GL was actually a science fiction story?" My friend circle is discovering Far Sector one person at a time, slowly. They all love N.K. Jemisin's novels and Jamal Campbell's art elsewhere. Maybe my raving to them about it was a red flag? Too many people have been sleeping on a knockout that does a lot of things people want from the GL premise*, but they're waking up. *"actually a science fiction story," not a bunch of house style barrel-chested men making laser beams and bubbles, unique alien setting with genuine worldbuilding and details beyond "fight this person to avenge that one"
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Space Fish posted:My friend circle is discovering Far Sector one person at a time, slowly. They all love N.K. Jemisin's novels and Jamal Campbell's art elsewhere. Maybe my raving to them about it was a red flag? Too many people have been sleeping on a knockout that does a lot of things people want from the GL premise*, but they're waking up. I missed those posts because I've been waiting for my library to get the TPB this entire time. I have to admit I'm not a fan of the Green Lanterns in general, especially Geoff Johns' rainbow Lanterns (smashing the action figures together) and everyone's insistence that Hal Jordan is the greatest guy ever. So this was a breath of fresh air for me, on every level. I think I'm going to cross-post in the Comic Recommendations thread!
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I missed those posts because I've been waiting for my library to get the TPB this entire time. I have to admit I'm not a fan of the Green Lanterns in general, especially Geoff Johns' rainbow Lanterns (smashing the action figures together) and everyone's insistence that Hal Jordan is the greatest guy ever. So this was a breath of fresh air for me, on every level. As somebody who's just OK with Green Lantern stuff most of the time, Far Sector was wonderful. Even without the story, which is *great*, the artwork itself is just filled with stunning pages after stunning page. Will absolutely be one of the all-time great runs of the decade.
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The first issue of Far Sector didn't do much for me but I'm glad I stuck with it because the rest was really great
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Far Sector is loving awesome and I was trying to get all my friends to ready it. An actual GL comic where they're allowed to be a space , the ring isn't the deus ex win button, and the aliens are really alien?
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Adnor posted:drat, getting one is going to be basically impossible as a chilean. Why? Don't you want to pay over 3 times the price in pesos to a grubby guy in a comic store in Providencia o on Instagram?
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Vincent posted:Why? Don't you want to pay over 3 times the price in pesos to a grubby guy in a comic store in Providencia o on Instagram? I'm also from La Araucanía, not Santiago, so even more!
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