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Sorry that was clickbait there's not any. It's May! Comics!
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Aunt May's wheatcakes station.
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May 3, 2017 05:24
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MAY IS FREE COMIC BOOK DAY MONTH
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May 3, 2017 05:28
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Rhyno posted:MAY IS FREE COMIC BOOK DAY MONTH So you're saying that all the comics at your store are free the entire month?
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May 3, 2017 05:39
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max landis
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May 3, 2017 05:40
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Roth posted:So you're saying that all the comics at your store are free the entire month? It'd be funny if we didn't have to tell a bunch of people that is not the case every FCBD.
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May 3, 2017 05:50
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Open Marriage Night posted:It'd be funny if we didn't have to tell a bunch of people that is not the case every FCBD. We had a major clusterfuck one year and ended up with like 250+ missing comics.
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May 3, 2017 05:55
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My local comic shop always has a big sale the weekend after Free Comic Book Day. So people who come in for FCBD see the fliers for the sale. I always thought that was pretty clever
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May 3, 2017 06:08
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Alaois posted:max landis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmbUEYYMZG4
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May 3, 2017 06:09
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Guy Goodbody posted:My local comic shop always has a big sale the weekend after Free Comic Book Day. So people who come in for FCBD see the fliers for the sale. I always thought that was pretty clever I petition for this every year but the owners think having sales on FCBD is the way to go.
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May 3, 2017 06:10
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Rhyno posted:I petition for this every year but the owners think having sales on FCBD is the way to go. I don't know anything about retail or psychology, but it seems kinda obvious to me that if you get someone to come to your store twice in quick succession, it's way more likely that they'll come back a third time
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May 3, 2017 06:12
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Guy Goodbody posted:I don't know anything about retail or psychology, but it seems kinda obvious to me that if you get someone to come to your store twice in quick succession, it's way more likely that they'll come back a third time It's a question of whether they'll come back a second time at all. Like a good chunk of people might come in on FCD and then buy some sale items also, but if there was just ads for a sale next week they'll come in, take some free comics then leave and not think about it again.
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May 3, 2017 06:18
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Skwirl posted:It's a question of whether they'll come back a second time at all. Like a good chunk of people might come in on FCD and then buy some sale items also, but if there was just ads for a sale next week they'll come in, take some free comics then leave and not think about it again. It seems to work for the store, They're always super packed during the sale, and with a wider variety of people than the typical comic crowd
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May 3, 2017 06:51
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FCBD is nutso. I'm dressed as Batman, we have the Detroit Ghostbusters, and we're located on a busy street, so we pull in a ton of people wanting pictures. The kids are so cute my mouth hurts from smiling so much. Couple of them kindly reminded me that Batman doesn't smile.
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May 3, 2017 06:56
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Open Marriage Night posted:FCBD is nutso. I'm dressed as Batman, we have the Detroit Ghostbusters, and we're located on a busy street, so we pull in a ton of people wanting pictures. The kids are so cute my mouth hurts from smiling so much. Couple of them kindly reminded me that Batman doesn't smile. Just say you're the Dick Grayson Batman. Problem solved!
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May 3, 2017 07:35
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Joker gas
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May 3, 2017 07:52
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I've never been to FCBD because I'm usually busy on Saturdays.
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May 3, 2017 10:00
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Also I feel somewhat like it's not aimed at me.
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May 3, 2017 10:02
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Yvonmukluk posted:Just say you're the Dick Grayson Batman. Problem solved! "Don't worry kids, I'm DickBats" could be interpreted really poorly
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May 3, 2017 11:54
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quote:I ama huge Grant Morrison fan and I can't imagine ever in a million years wanting to go to Morrison con. Turns out it was actually a neo-Nazi conference. Boy was Uzi surprised!
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May 3, 2017 14:26
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So with Comics Alliance down apparently for good this time, what's the best comic news site to put in my feed? I realize that actual journalism is an impossible ask; I'll settle for recaps of big event comics and "in case you missed it" call-outs of interesting shock endings to random comics. Basically who's gonna tell me the two sentences I need to know before they impact the comics I care about so that I don't have to actually read bullshit like The Button or Secret Empire?
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May 3, 2017 18:14
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CapnAndy posted:So with Comics Alliance down apparently for good this time, what's the best comic news site to put in my feed? I realize that actual journalism is an impossible ask; I'll settle for recaps of big event comics and "in case you missed it" call-outs of interesting shock endings to random comics. Basically who's gonna tell me the two sentences I need to know before they impact the comics I care about so that I don't have to actually read bullshit like The Button or Secret Empire? previewsworld dot com
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May 3, 2017 18:26
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CapnAndy posted:So with Comics Alliance down apparently for good this time, what's the best comic news site to put in my feed? I realize that actual journalism is an impossible ask; I'll settle for recaps of big event comics and "in case you missed it" call-outs of interesting shock endings to random comics. Basically who's gonna tell me the two sentences I need to know before they impact the comics I care about so that I don't have to actually read bullshit like The Button or Secret Empire? I think you can just ask BSS probably.
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May 3, 2017 18:45
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Love Is Love was added on to the Eisner Best Anthology nominations after everyone told them that basing release dates on Amazon listings is pretty dumb. https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/05/03/love-love-now-added-2017-eisner-awards-nominations/
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May 3, 2017 23:08
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I used to read Comics Alliance for Ask Chris, are there any other blogs/columns that fill the same niche? I really enjoyed all the stuff that he wrote.
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May 4, 2017 09:18
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Guys, I'm gonna have coffee and bagels with Stan Lee.
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May 4, 2017 15:12
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Endless Mike posted:Guys, I'm gonna have coffee and bagels with Stan Lee. ...ask him if The Thing's dork is made out of orange rock like the rest of his body.
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May 4, 2017 15:21
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Endless Mike posted:Guys, I'm gonna have coffee and bagels with Stan Lee. Is it real Stan Lee or some guy named Stan Lee? If real ask him how much blow did he do in the 70s
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May 4, 2017 15:30
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Endless Mike posted:Guys, I'm gonna have coffee and bagels with Stan Lee. Careful, before you know it, he'll be telling everyone he wrote all your forum posts
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May 4, 2017 15:32
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Endless Mike posted:Guys, I'm gonna have coffee and bagels with Stan Lee. Is this an Awesome Con thing?
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May 4, 2017 15:38
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Murder him, it's what jack kerby would want or something!
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May 4, 2017 15:47
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Mr Hootington posted:Is it real Stan Lee or some guy named Stan Lee? purple death ray posted:Careful, before you know it, he'll be telling everyone he wrote all your forum posts joehonkie posted:Is this an Awesome Con thing?
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May 4, 2017 15:51
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Endless Mike posted:Yeah. He's no Adam West but that sounds pretty cool.
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May 4, 2017 17:09
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Shinsuke Nakamura is also appearing. Oh what a day! What a glorious day!
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May 4, 2017 17:48
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Nursing home-bound Bill Mantlo is moving out to a new home of his own thanks to a Marvel re-negotiation.
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May 4, 2017 19:50
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So the Barnes & Noble by me has a pretty awesome and huge used book section. It's always been a great source for comics - tons of TPBs and a whole mess of individual issues, even. Lately, though, they apparently hired a new guy to price all the used stuff, and his source is apparently eBay or Amazon or something. It's lead to some really annoying/disappointing finds. Last week I found the original Preacher TPBs, volumes 5-8. Prices were $8 for vol. 8, $8 for vol. 7, $35 for vol. 6 and $18 for vol. 5. I get that they reprinted them, but the total lack of consistency is really annoying. Sometimes they have Sandman TPBs from the original run and they're priced at $50+. Hell, I found a very slim Flash TPB from the 2005-2012 DC logo era that was marked at $65. I lucked out the other day and got one of the reprinted Y: the Last Man omnibus TPBs for $5, and one of the Dark Horse Tales of the Jedi TPBs for like $4. They have a whole bunch of Star Wars stuff ranging from the older Dark Horse stuff to the later DH stuff like Old Republic, but the pricing is all over the drat place, and not enough of a single series to justify trying to start the collection midway through. On the upside, a lot of the stuff in there goes on 25%/50%/$1 markdown pretty often. The Y: the Last Man I got was $10 originally. That $65 Flash TPB was 50% off, but even $32 is pretty ridiculous for what looked like a <5-issue collection.
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May 4, 2017 20:23
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redbackground posted:Nursing home-bound Bill Mantlo is moving out to a new home of his own thanks to a Marvel re-negotiation.
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May 4, 2017 21:01
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redbackground posted:Nursing home-bound Bill Mantlo is moving out to a new home of his own thanks to a Marvel re-negotiation. Another article, this one written by his brother http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/guardians-galaxy-how-rocket-raccoon-rescued-my-brother-bill-mantlo-999096 I want to say it's a touching story, and I guess eventually it is, but it makes me more sad and angry than anything that his career was cut short that way.
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May 4, 2017 21:35
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Lol I have to quit buying new comics because America is good.
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May 4, 2017 21:39
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I wanna read more books! Any recommendations for books/novels written by comic book writers. I have already read all of Gaiman's stuff, as well as Ellis's Crooked Little Vein and Machine Gun.
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