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Hey, I have a silly question. I put in an order on instocktrades on the 6th on the recommendation of a few goons, and it still says "waiting to be processed." Is this normal? I'm ok being patient in terms of it actually getting here-- I'm doing a slow reread of Claremont's X-Men and I ordered the first Lee/Claremont omnibus, so it's all stuff I'll be getting to in a few months most likely-- but I just want to know if this is de rigeur or what? I know it seems to be a popular site for goon collectors?
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Cool, thank you. I know the publishing industry is really being rocked by shortages and supply chain issues right now all across the board, I just wanted to get a second opinion.
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Sep 16, 2021 03:13
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FrumpleOrz posted:I put in my first order with them on the 1st and am still waiting for it to ship. I sent them an e-mail and they basically said they're super swamped right now with a bunch of orders they didn't expect, along with having low staff but stuff is moving as much as it can. I did just check my order and the graphic under the items changed from "waiting to ship" to this new little icon under it: Oh at least you have one of the absolute best Jaime stories to look forward to though, The Love Bunglers is astonishing.
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Sep 16, 2021 05:04
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JordanKai posted:Every day I have to wait for Uncanny 5 is another day I can prepare myself for the fact that it's going to look like this: I have bad news for you about the upcoming new printings of the older UXM omnis:   (courtesy of Nearmintcondition) Edit: Also, honestly the Marvel Conan stuff is extremely fun and very much worth checking out. I don't think I'm committed to the character enough to want to buy the omnis, but they're a blast. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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Nov 2, 2021 18:30
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Trying this in the right thread this time:How Wonderful! posted:I ordered the second Uncanny X-Men omnibus from the Cheapgraphicnovels scratch and dent sale and honestly I never would have registered it as scratched or dented if I hadn't been actively looking.
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Nov 5, 2021 08:07
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obi_ant posted:I don’t need to read that dawn of x stuff? The "Dawn of X" and "Reign of X" trades are basically an experiment in doing a sort of vaguely manga-inspired organizational principle, in which instead of, say, buying a trade including X-Men #1-6, one including X-Force #1-6, one including Excalibur #1-6, etc., you can just buy a cheap monthly digest including issue #1 of each book, then another including issue #2, and so on and so forth, although as some books end and others begin the actual organization begins to get a bit staggered (although as far as I can tell pretty intuitively ordered). It's an alternative to the single-title trades, not a supplement.
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Dec 3, 2021 05:41
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Yeah I have like.... one? Two? Paper bylines in 2021? A lot of journals just aren't even bothering right now, especially indie and small press lit journals. Anyway yeah as for comics-- my wife has saved a lot of money because originally the Hellfire Gala HC was supposed to be my bday present, and then it was supposed to be my holiday present, but first it got bumped from October to December and now our LCS just didn't get any of the copies it ordered with the outlook for getting copies fairly dim. Maybe by Valentine's Day she'll be able to pick it up.
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Dec 17, 2021 09:06
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Congratulations! One or two academic bylines in a year is no small task. Since my first and only law journal article came out in 2019, and probably due in part to COVID and paper shortage issues, a lot of law schools have suspended publication of hard copies (are law journals the only ones that call those "reprints"?) and shifted their format to online-only. I'm so glad I got a stack of reprints of my article before it was too late. Oh not academic, just creative, but I also teach creative writing so they're still part of the hustle. I told my diss committee that I'm just taking a one year hiatus from academic writing to get my thoughts back together, but I'd been chit-chatting about co-authoring a thing with one of them right before COVID so we'll see-- and since it would revolve around kind of a cluster of New England-based 19th c. authors I'm definitely better placed for scooting around for research/archival work than I was in 2019.
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Dec 17, 2021 19:38
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I don't want to commit but I'm curious how much you'd want to ask for the Fantastic Four volumes?
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Dec 19, 2021 23:09
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I have a hunch that instead of Uncanny X-Men vol. 5 it'll be something like Prelude to the Mutant Massacre or something, because the chunk of UXM issues between vol. 4 and the MM omni is really quite small and they have to put that first stint of X-Factor SOMEWHERE.
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Jan 19, 2022 20:06
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There's a lot going on but I think that whole era is really enjoyable, plus the very loose structure of Mutant Massacre and Fall of the Mutants keeps it from feeling as bloated as some later big events. I'm up to early 1990 in my big reread of every mutant comic and I have to say I've even come to appreciate the Bret Blevins era of New Mutants-- he's cartoony in a way that gives plenty of space for the grotesque, which is just what the NM chunk of Inferno demanded.
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Jan 21, 2022 23:04
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I've had good experiences with cheapgraphicnovels!
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Jan 27, 2022 00:50
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In my mind it starts off strong and Bachalo does some wonderful work but it gets bogged down in arcs that start off fun and brisk but just drag on a bit too long, or mired in ideas that are just not very good (eg an early arc that interweaves very fun scenes of Logan and Quentin Quire robbing a space casino with very tedious scenes of Kate Pryde being fake pregnant with a bunch of nano-Broo, or a very meandering arc about an evil circus). But it is usually brisk and has at least one fun little thing going on-- I'd say give it a test drive before committing to the omnibus, but it's very much not BAD even if it wasn't my favorite thing on the stands at the time.
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Feb 2, 2022 01:59
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Right now for Claremont omnibuses you have: 1)Uncanny X-Men Omnibus vol. 1 which covers Giant-Sized X-Men #1, then UXM #94-131 and Annual 3 2) Uncanny X-Men Omnibus vol. 2 which covers #132-153 along with Annuals #4 & #5 and some sprinkled in extra appearances like Avengers Annual #10, Marvel Fanfare #1-4, Bizarre Adventures #27, etc. 3) Uncanny X-Men Omnibus vol. 3 which covers #154-175 along with Annuals #6-7, God Loves Man Kills, Wolverine #1-4, and Magik #1-4 (these last two are also in the Wolverine and NM omnibuses respectively) 4) Uncanny X-Men Omnibus vol. 4 which covers UXM #176-193, Annual #8, Kitty Pryde & Wolverine #1-6, the Art Adams X-Men & Alpha Flight two parter, and Marvel Fanfare #40. And as a supplement, 5) X-Men Classic Omnibus which includes the backup stories and revised pages from Classic X-Men #1-44. From there things get a little screwy for a bit as the format shifts to covering the whole mutant line rather than just UXM for a bit before dovetailing back. 6) The Mutant Massacre omni covers UXM #210-219, Annual #11, X-Factor #9-17 and Annual #2, New Mutants #46, a bunch of crossovers, the Roger Stern(ish) written X-Men v. Avengers #1-4 and the Claremont written Fantastic Four v. X-Men #1-4. 7) Fall of the Mutants covers UXM #220-227, New Mutants #55-61, X-Factor #18-26 and some other stuff. 8) Inferno Prologue covers UXM #228-238 and Annual #12, X-Factor #27-32 and Annual #3, New Mutants #62-70 and Annual #4, and a bit more bonus stuff. 9) Inferno in omnibus format actually squashes together the old Inferno HC and the old Inferno Crossovers HC so you wind up with an odd split between the actual X-centric crossover and then the back half of the book being a whole mess of Marvel Universe arcs, some of them better than others. But if you're simply reading for X-stuff, that will include UXM #239-243, X-Factor #33-40, New Mutants #71-73, and X-Terminators #1-4. So those four big event omnis cover a fairly big stretch of Claremont's run, but are also very much Simonson collections too. Which ymmv on, I like Weezie's 80s work a lot, even the fairly meandering New Mutants stuff, but you are paying for a lot of non-Claremont material. From THERE we dovetail back a bit as the parade of crossovers eases up a bit. This has an odd side-effect-- it means that X-Tinction Agenda is not currently around in an omnibus. 10) X-Men by Chris Claremont & Jim Lee vol. 1 covers UXM #244-269 and Annual #13 11) X-Men by Chris Claremont & JIm Lee vol. 2 covers UXM #273-280, X-Factor #63-70, X-Men #1-11, and Ghost Rider #26-27. This is also a bit wonky because while Claremont wrote some of those X-Factor issues, others were written by Simonson on one end and Peter David on the other, he only wrote the first three issues of X-Men, and he famously stops writing UXM mid-issue in #279. There is also a hell of a lot in these two omnis that is not drawn by Lee but I get why his name is on the covers. So that gets you up through his early 90s departure from Marvel. The big elephants in the room are of course X-Tinction Agenda which should fall neatly between the two Claremont/Lee omnis, and UXM #193-210. People have mapped out this latter gap in all sorts of persuasive ways, some including the first chunk of X-Factor, the Ice-Man mini, Beauty & the Beast, the Cockrum Nightcrawler mini, etc., but we won't know anything for sure until Marvel makes an announcement.
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JordanKai posted:Seeing a lot of people ITT pretending the Xtreme X-Men omnibus isn't coming out later this year. Oh right, there is that. And the Revolution omni, and I THINK the stuff he ghost-wrote just prior to that is in The Twelve.
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Volume 5 is set to include a lot of bric-a-brac outside of his extended run-- eg. the brief period when he came back in the aughts, a bunch of What Ifs and one-shots, a few minis, etc.. It looks pretty inessential imo but maybe hardcore PAD fans will disagree.
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Fallen Angels is in the second New Mutants omni, right up against the Firestar mini, two very weird stories I like very much.I AM GRANDO posted:What’s the justification for going beyond, other than money? Maybe Mutant Massacre works with just the X-Men issues, but the other stories probably don’t. Oh yeah, I should also say, Fall of the Mutants was three almost entirely separate stories tied together thematically rather than by plot, so it should be fine. Inferno will be a wild mess without NM and X-Factor though, ditto X-Tinction Agenda. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Aug 29, 2022 |
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