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redbackground posted:I got one of my brothers the two hardcover Snowpiercer volumes (I didn't actually know if he had already seen the movie yet, but he had and loved it) I had no idea there was a Snowpiercer comic. I assume that's what this means. How is it? I just googled and the art style looks pretty cool but how's the pacing/writing/etc hold up in adaptation?
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Jan 2, 2015 19:55
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I got How to Be Happy, the first Corto Maltese, and Wrenchies, but they're waiting for me back at the dorms.
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A Tin Of Beans posted:I had no idea there was a Snowpiercer comic. I assume that's what this means. How is it? I just googled and the art style looks pretty cool but how's the pacing/writing/etc hold up in adaptation? I haven't actually read them myself; reviews were very positive, and they seemed like a good gift he wasn't expecting. I do know that the movie plot is quite different, as in Volume 2, we learn there is a second train living in perpetual fear of crashing into the first one. redbackground fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Jan 2, 2015 |
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Jan 2, 2015 20:00
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Endless Mike posted:If he was having sex with her, sure. I don't know if that was implied since I never read anything other than Death during that era. I'm not very well-read in that era of Superman but I think it was and I think she reacted fairly appropriately when the bomb was finally dropped.
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Jan 2, 2015 20:16
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McSpanky posted:I'm not very well-read in that era of Superman but I think it was and I think she reacted fairly appropriately when the bomb was finally dropped.
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Jan 2, 2015 20:29
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redbackground posted:I do know that the movie plot is quite different, as in Volume 2, we learn there is a second train living in perpetual fear of crashing into the first one. The film is a (imo, better) adaptation of "Volume 1"... which was actually the only intended volume. The second was written by an entirely different writer years after the original had died, and it feels really fanfictiony.
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I never thought to check it out until today, but it turns out there's a recording of "This Vicious Cabaret" from that one chapter of V For Vendetta. It's a pretty good melody and it absolutely fits the comic. It's a pity it feels so rushed, though, those are good lyrics and it would have been nice if the singer had more time to get through them.
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qntm posted:I never thought to check it out until today, but it turns out there's a recording of "This Vicious Cabaret" from that one chapter of V For Vendetta. David J is from Bauhaus and is a friend of Moore's, so he had the benefit of consulting the writer. Man I wish someone recorded the paraphrased version of Sympathy for the Devil that he did in League 1969. Moore loves doing songs in his comics, but it is never a good idea unless your name is Adam Warren.
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Jan 3, 2015 00:31
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I got JSA Omnibus Vol. 2 for Christmas after checking its quality by you goons and so far the book does not disappoint!
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I pre-ordered the second JSA omnibus in the summer (when it was cheaper), and I got the X-Men Inferno Prologue for my birthday, so the only comics-related Christmas gift I asked for from anyone was the first volume of the new series of New Teen Titans paperback reprints. Hopefully they won't completely arse it up like they did with the omnibus. I got a whole bunch of other really dorky stuff, but it wasn't really comics-related.
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DARKSEID DICK PICS posted:The film is a (imo, better) adaptation of "Volume 1"... which was actually the only intended volume. The second was written by an entirely different writer years after the original had died, and it feels really fanfictiony. I liked the 2nd book better, I thought that the first was done much better as the movie. The second expands the world just a bit. Both books are great examples of really bleak post-apocalyptic sci fi, but I found it a bit much.
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To me, the book was a logical endpoint if we looked at it "realistically"? But the film was a better story using that device. Vol. 2 just sort of killed my suspension of disbelief about the whole concept.
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I got Battling Boy and now I can join the chorus of people asking when the next Battling Boy is coming out. Should I bother with the prequel Pope didn't actually draw and is lumbered with a bunch of bad reviews on Amazon because of that? tenniseveryone fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Jan 3, 2015 |
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Jan 3, 2015 11:33
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I know this is probably old news but I just came across a copy of Spider-Man: Ends of the Earth at the library and I can't stop laughing at the title
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tenniseveryone posted:I got Battling Boy and now I can join the chorus of people asking when the next Battling Boy is coming out. I didn't think Aurora West was bad or anything. If I was expecting another full color Pope book though I might have been disappointed.
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So a serious question, if your local comic shop offered an incentive to buy trades from them, like a "BUY 4 GET 1 FREE" would it entice you to shop there more often over the internet?
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Rhyno posted:So a serious question, if your local comic shop offered an incentive to buy trades from them, like a "BUY 4 GET 1 FREE" would it entice you to shop there more often over the internet? Yes. The main reason I get my trades off Amazon is they are CHEAPER by a long shot.
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Was Taters posted:Yes. The main reason I get my trades off Amazon is they are CHEAPER by a long shot. And what if it was a rolling program that allowed you to buy them one at a time instead of all at once?
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Rhyno posted:And what if it was a rolling program that allowed you to buy them one at a time instead of all at once? Without doubt.
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I'm probably going to to start a "Help me make my shop better" thread soon but I appreciate the feedback thus far. Now that I'm I charge of all the comic related nonsense I want to make the most of it.
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Rhyno posted:I'm probably going to to start a "Help me make my shop better" thread soon but I appreciate the feedback thus far. Now that I'm I charge of all the comic related nonsense I want to make the most of it. Well just so you know, I'd shop at my local comic book shop more if they burned their building to the ground and sold books by throwing them onto the road. Haha, I'm kidding, I don't have a local comic book shop.
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Rhyno posted:So a serious question, if your local comic shop offered an incentive to buy trades from them, like a "BUY 4 GET 1 FREE" would it entice you to shop there more often over the internet? Definitely. It probably wouldn't make me come to the store more often, but when I was in the store it'd definitely encourage me to buy more. Especially with a stamp program or whatever, because I rarely have it in my budget to purchase 4 trades in addition to whatever I was there to buy in the first place, but an extra trade every week or two certainly. One thing a store I visited when I was a kid used to do, every visit they would write down how much you spent, and then after your tenth visit they would average that out and give you that much store credit (i.e if you spend an average of 10 bucks every trip, after a hundred bucks you get 10 bucks credit). Making it credit based on spending instead of just a flat 10% discount screws with people's heads in a way that encourages them to spend more (or at least it did with 10 year old me) even though they're almost exactly the same thing.
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Rhyno posted:So a serious question, if your local comic shop offered an incentive to buy trades from them, like a "BUY 4 GET 1 FREE" would it entice you to shop there more often over the internet? This is actually the only reason I buy stuff from the local shop. They have a customer rewards program where every 11th purchase gets a discount based on the total value of the previous 10 purchases; I think it's a 10% discount, so bigger ticket items in those first ten purchases leads to a better discount. It usually amounts to a free HeroClix booster or comic every few months since I don't buy a lot, but my friend with pull lists and lots of preorders gets pretty deep discounts while the store is still raking in hundreds. The program is also split into comics/trades and games/toys, so there's actually two separate tallies being run for each person's account, but the games and toys have to be over $10 (to prevent the cheaper games like Magic from abusing the system). There's still times I buy online because even that program can't make up for half off of something, but it's put way more money into the shop than I would've otherwise spent there.
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My local chain of LCSs has a stamp card program, where you get a stamp for every $10 you spend, and after you fill a card with ten stamps, you get a $10 discount on anything in the store. They have similar cards for gaming stuff and for comic subscribers, but I just use the one where you can get stamps for anything. They also have a "March Madness" or the less-catchy "April Madness" sale month every year, with a different sale on every day of the month. I look forward all year to the days with "Buy One Marvel (or Independent, or DC) TPB and Get One Free," or "Bring in up to four comics with a cover price (so no FCBD or other promotional issues) to get $2 in back issue credit per comic," to clear out unwanted back issues and pick up stuff I missed for free. They always do a fun comic trivia day during that month as well, where you get rewarded with stamps for your useless knowledge.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:My local chain of LCSs has a stamp card program, where you get a stamp for every $10 you spend, and after you fill a card with ten stamps, you get a $10 discount on anything in the store. They have similar cards for gaming stuff and for comic subscribers, but I just use the one where you can get stamps for anything. Clearly it should be 'April Foolishness'.
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Rhyno posted:So a serious question, if your local comic shop offered an incentive to buy trades from them, like a "BUY 4 GET 1 FREE" would it entice you to shop there more often over the internet? There's a store near me that has had a seemingly indefinite 20% discount on all trades that keeps me coming and keeps me buying a lot.
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I think a lot of places do free cash for spending cash instead of a free book for buying books because it is pretty important to the program to be able to buy shut over time instead of all at once, but that means someone could get 4 $12 image trades, and then a $20 marvel trade for the free one. It's something to keep in mind, but I'm sure you can think of ways around it
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Rhyno posted:So a serious question, if your local comic shop offered an incentive to buy trades from them, like a "BUY 4 GET 1 FREE" would it entice you to shop there more often over the internet? Yes. Although you may want to have it be a dollar amount so someone doesn't only get counted once buying an absolute or, conversely, try to get an absolute as their free one. The place I shop at does this thing called back issue bucks where for every $50 you spend, you get a $5 coupon toward their back issues/sets of comics. I've yet to cash any in yet, as they can be combined and I don't go diving for comics too often, but I like the program.
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We currently have a Gaming Rewards Program in the store, it's buy any four games at $19.99 or more each and receive a 5th game for free. If the four games are wildly different prices we average the price and you can get a game at that price point for free or take that amount off a more expensive game. There's also no time limit, you can take a year between purchases if you like. I'm thinking the same sort of program for TPBs but I don't know what my starting price point should be yet.
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I was violently ill for the entire weekend, this is no way to start the new year.
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Lurdiak posted:I was violently ill for the entire weekend, this is no way to start the new year. drat, I hope you're feeling better. :c
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Lurdiak posted:I was violently ill for the entire weekend, this is no way to start the new year. Feel better! My mother in law just got out of the hospital today, after being admitted on Christmas Day (it has been an intense week and a half with her), we recently found out my aunt has terminal cancer, another friend is in the hospital but just found out he won't need surgery, and now my wife has a cold or something. Take care of yourselves, folks. Eat well, get plenty of rest, and use hand sanitizer like it's going out of style.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Feel better! My mother in law just got out of the hospital today, after being admitted on Christmas Day (it has been an intense week and a half with her), we recently found out my aunt has terminal cancer, another friend is in the hospital but just found out he won't need surgery, and now my wife has a cold or something. Yo man I wasn't trying to start a contest.
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So I started doing a podcast with a few like-minded folks a short while ago, which I've resisted talking about here because it felt a bit too much like shameless self-promotion. But that's all changed now, because Charles Soule retweeted us, and I can't not talk about that. Admittedly, we kind of kissed his rear end a bit, but how could we not? It's Soule.
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Chaos Hippy posted:Admittedly, we kind of kissed his rear end a bit, but how could we not? It's Soule. Am I the only one who's not a big fan of Soule? Like, I've never actively disliked anything of his I've read, but none of it has ever really impressed me either.
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Chaos Hippy posted:So I started doing a podcast with a few like-minded folks a short while ago, which I've resisted talking about here because it felt a bit too much like shameless self-promotion. But that's all changed now, because Charles Soule retweeted us, and I can't not talk about that. Well thanks spoilering that.
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bairfanx posted:Am I the only one who's not a big fan of Soule? Like, I've never actively disliked anything of his I've read, but none of it has ever really impressed me either. I don't think he has any kind of unique voice, he is just a competent, inoffensive author. I like his She-Hulk a lot but mainly out of the lawyer solidarity.
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bairfanx posted:Am I the only one who's not a big fan of Soule? Like, I've never actively disliked anything of his I've read, but none of it has ever really impressed me either. Nah, I'm the same. Thought She-Hulk was better than his average but everything else I've read of his has been very middle-of-the-road. Like you say, not particularly bad but not particularly good either.
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